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Having, in sill things seculariserved the crown with zeal and fidelity, they. had incur. re thtfoyal' displeasure by iefusing to b6WPglojo-d- as tools for the (dstruction o . wiown religion. Both of them had'learned by experience how soon Jainestfbgot obligations, And how bitter l1y $e mbeied what it pleased him *to consider." as wrongs. The pre late had, by an illegal sentence, been suspended from his episcopal fune tionisAP. The admiral had, in one hour,'been reduced from opulence to penunry. The situation of Churchill was nfferent. ie had been raised byth rayal.bounty from obscurity to .emmnenee, aud from poverty to wealth. jIig.arted in life a needy ensigcn, 10 wi3vnow;in his thirty-seventh year, a major-general, a peer of Scotland, a peer-of.England; he commanded a troop oiftguards; he had been appointed to *ibvcil horahble and lucrative offices; and, as yet, there was.no sign that lie lid')stin ahi prt of the favor to which hieIWye~o 'inuch He was bound to Jamaesenotonly by the common obliga tions of allegiance but by military hon bpersonal gratitude, and, as ap peprd to. superficial observers, by the strongestities of interest. But Churchill nwa o~ sOTiperficelobserver. Ho knew acttlWhat hisi nterest was. If his eqr iere once at fullliberty to em ployapists, -not a single Protestant would- be erployed. For a time, a few highly faicrdd servants of the crown mightpossibly be exempted from the general proscription, in the hope that th'o woulId he induced to change their religion.^ "t even these would, after a short reslite, fall one by one, as Ro chester had already fallen. Churchill might indeed, secure himself from this danIer, and might raise himself still lig the i intli6royal favor by conforming Woth&htich of Rome; and it might scom thaV one who was not less distin guished by 'ayrico and baseness, than by cipat nd valoir, was not likely to be shocked at tghought of hearing a mass. Bit e6 inconsistent is human nature, that~ there are tender spot8 even in seageod consciences, And thus this men, who. had owed his rise in life to his sister'srshameo,:who bad been kept by the most profuse, imperious, and shame less :of harlots, and whose public life, to tihose'who' look' steadily through the dazzling haze of genius and glory,,will appenrt a pirodigy 'df torpitude, believed implicitly in the religon which lie had leariiegi.as a boy, and shuddered at the tithoght of forirally, ab ig it. A ter rible aternative was before him-The '1Ijyfl eijichil h mot dreaded was pov~r,ty. - The one crime from which his hieartrecolebas apostacy. And, ifethdgignsoftheo .gourt succeeded, 'e could not doubt that between p over t~pnaimd:postacy he iusr soon make hMs 'choice. Hoeihrofdre (determined to :cin aliege desik.ris; and it soon appear od: thttferonv'df no guilt'and no dis grace whi~ch he was not ready to incur, in oi'derto'escape frorn the necessity of patingeilhei- with his'- places or with ,Jis pIape~ prayith withhis religion. It was not only as a military comn mi~nder, high ini rank, and distinguished by skilf and copurage, that Churchill wvas abfo to render servies~ to the Opposi tion. fwasif~not abelutely essential, yet moSt important, to 'the success of William's plans, that 'his sister-in-law, whoi.in the. order of ,succession to the Enlishu throne, stood between his wife an:d hanself, should act in-cordial union . with' him All his difficulties would : have been greatly augmented if Anne had declared herself favorable to the Indulgetico. Which side she might 1 take depended on the will of otheis; for i her understanding was sluggish; nd . though there was latent in her character ' an hereditary willfulness and stubbor ness which many years later,- great pow or and great provocation developod, she wasi us yet, amwilling slave to nature 1 far more vivacious and imperious than 1 her own. The person by whom she was absolutely governed was the wife of f Churchill, a woman who afterwards ox ercised a great influence on the fate of England and of Europe. The name of this celebrated favorite i 'was Sarah Jennings. Her elder sister, I Frances, had been distinguished by - beauty and levity even among thb crowd 1 of beautiful faces and light characters which adorned and disgraced Witehall. during the wild carnival of the Restor ation. On one occasion Frances dres ted herself likean orange girl, and cried fruit about the streets. Sober people predicted that a girl of so little discre tion and delicacy would not easily find a husband. She was, however, twice married, and was now the wife of Tyr connel. Sarah, less regularly beauti ful, was perhaps more attractive. Her face was expressive; her form wanted no feminine charm; and the profusion of her fine hair, not yet disguised by powder) according to that barbarous fashion which she lived to see introduc cod, )vas the delight of numerous ad mirers. Among the gallants who sued for her favor, Churchill, young, hand some, graceful, insinuating, eloquent, and brave, obtained the preference. He must have been enamored indeed; for he had little property except the annuity which he had bought with the infamous wages, bestowed on him by the Duchess of Cleveland; he was insa tiable'of riches; Sarah was poor; and a plain girl with a large fortune was pro posed to him. His love, after a strug gle, prevailed over his avarice; marri age only strengthened his passion; and to the last hour of his life, Sarah en joyed the pleasure and distinction of be ing the one human being who was able to mislead that far-sighted and . sure food judgment, who was fervently loved by that cold heart, and who was servile ly feared by thaLintrepid spirit. In a worldly sense, the fidelity of Churchill's love was amply rewarded. His bride, though slenderly proportion ed, brought with her a dowry which judiciously employed made him at length a duke of England, a sovereign prince of the empire, the captain gene ral of a great coalition, the arbiter be tween mighty princes, and, what he va lued more, tho wealthiest subject in Eu rope. She had been brought up from childhood with the Princes Anne; and a close friendship had arisen between the girls. In character they resembled each other very little. Anne was slow and taciturn. To those whom she loved she was meek. The form which her anger assumed was sulliness. She had a strongsense of religion, and was at tached even with bigotry to the rites and government of the Church- of Eng land. Sarah w~as lively andI voluble, dominecred over those whom she regar dod with most kindness, and, when she was offended vented her rage in tears and tempestous reproaches. To sanc tity she made no pretence, and, indeed, narrowly escaped the imputation of ir religion. She wvas not yet what she became wvhen one class of vices had been fully devekfped in her by prosperity, and another by adversity, wvheni her brain had been turned by success and flattery, when her heart had been ulce rated by disasters and mortifications. She lived to be that most odious and miserable of human beings, an ancient crone at war with her whole kind, at wvar with own children and grand-chil dren, great indeed and rich, but valu ing greatness and riches chiefly because they enabled her to brave public opinion, and to indulge without restraint her ha tred to lhe living and the dead. In the reign of James she was regarded as no thing worse than a fine high spirited young woman, who could.not then be cross and arbitrary, but whose flaws of temper might well be pardoned in "con sideration of her charms. It is a common observation that diff erence of taste, understanding, and dis position, are no impediments to friend ship, and that the closest intimacies of ten exist between minds each of which sup plies what is wanting to the other. Lady Churchill was loved and even worshipped by Armne. The princes could not live apart from the object of heri romnantic fondness She maned, udwars'affaithffand even a etidn ttemwife; but Prince George, a dull mai vhoe, bhief pledie s were derivi< rwhis di iaandhis otle, acquire< eir no 'inUri-e aco arable to tha telcised Vye me rienid, e.a oon gave himself up ith stupid pati ine to the dominion of that vehemen Lod commanding spirit by which hi vife was goveried. Children wer )orn tq the royal, pair, and Anno wa >y no means without the feelings of i nother; but the tenderness which sh altkoi her offspring was languid whe .ompared with her devotion to the com )anon of her early years. At lengtl he princess became impitient of thi estraint which etiquette imposed oi icr. She could not bear to hear thi vords Madam and Royal Highness fron he lips of one who was more to he: ban asister. Such words were indee< iecessary in the gallery or the drawinj oom, but they were disused in thi loset. Anne was Mrs. Morley; Ladi Dhnichill was Mrs. Freeman; and ur ler theie childish names was carried on luring twenty years, a correspondenci mn which at last the fate of adminstra ion and dynasties depended. But a Fet Anne had no political ; power an( ittle patronage. Her friend attende< ier as first lady of the bed chambe vith a salary of only four hundret pounds a year. There is'reason, how ever, to believe that, even at this time Churchill was able to gratify his rulinj passionlby means of his wife's influence l'ho princess, thought her income wa arge and her tastes sinaple, contracte< lebts which her father, not withou tome murmurs, discharged; and it wa mored that her embarrassments ha ben caused by her prodigal bounty t her favorite. . WOMAN IN AFFLICTroN.-If ther be a situation wherein woman may b leemed to appropriate angelic attribul 1s, it is when she ministers, as only w< man can, to the wants and th~ weal aess of th6 invalid! Whose hand lik ters can smooth his pillow? Whos voice can so effectually silence the quei ulousness of his temper, or soothe th inguish of his disease? Proffered b ier, the viand hath an added zest, an iven the nauseous medicine is diveste Df its loathsomeness. WOMAN's LIFE.-How beautifull has the poet portrayed the life and ir [luence of woman in the following e2 riuisites linev: "At home-abroad-thy constant love, With influence divine, Like to a flume from heaven above, Will still around met shine. Oh! should a cloud of sorrow rise, To shade life's blissful day, Thy love will brighten all tho skies, And drive the storm away. The master of an American vessel shortly after the independence of th American colonies was acknowledged being in London, fell in with som 3harpers, who persuaded him to joi them in drinking a bottle or two of poi Ler. After they had all drank ver Freely, the rogues dropped off, one b ane, till the Yankee was left alone l'he publican coming in, said to him: "I suppose you are not much acquain ted with our Englih blades." "I am not," replied the American. "Well," said the publican, "the reel aning falls on you ?" "D)oes it !" exclaimed the other a Fecting surprise, and putting his han Li his pocket, as if to pay-but p~ausing be said. "Wedll, if that's the case, giv me arother bottle before I go." The publican stepped out to get ii [a the meantime the American wrot an the table, "I leave you America: bandies for English blade, and walla ed off in his turn, LoaAN's LAsT.--The wits abon town are amused by the following iii promptu, perpetrated by "old Logan, the other night in Louisville. On going on the stage in a dros tyhuich precluded the possibility of hi 3aryimng his watch, he requested a wel known beauty in the green room, ti ivear the chronometor for the evening When she returned it to him, it we Found to have stopped from the momn the took charge of it. The last hin lisplays a most dlelicate fancy. EPIGRAM. IJy watch, my lovely friend, you say. Stopped on your breast-you' r vexed I ace, rho trinket on your bosom lay, And held its breath in estacy. The human brain is twenty-eighth c he body, but the brain of the horse bum i four-hundre THE NERVOUS GENTLEMAN'T In the fall of 1846 I wa tra'O lniestward in i stage coah 4fioi Pittsbergh over the moubtas.y fellow passengers were two ogent and a lady. e lder gentlem pearance interested ie exceed y In ycrs he semed aboutfhirtV n air and -manner he .was calm, digno d 6 and polished; and the contour o features was singularly intellectual. He conversed freely on general topics, until the road became mor6 abipt tna precipitous;'but on mv di-ectind :Dis attention to the great altitude.of apre-I cipice, on the verge of which our coaci Swheels were leisurely rolling, there came.a marked change over his coun r tenade. His eyes, so lately 6116d&ith the light of mild intelligence,- beamed wild restless and anxious; the monti twiohed spasmodically, and thd fore head was beaded with a cold perspira. tion With a sharp, convulsive shud der ho-turned his paze from the giddy ' height, and clutching my arm tightly with both hands, he clung to me like 'a drowng man. 'Use this cologne'' said the lady, I handing me a bottle, with the instinct r iVO goidness of her sex. 1 I sprinkled a little on his face, And he soon became somewhat more con posed; hut it was not until we had en tirely traversed the mountains and de scended to the country beneath, that his fine features relaxed from their I perturbed look, and assumed the pla t cid, quiet dignity I had first noticed. . 1' owe an apology to the lIdy,' said 3 he with a bland smile and gentle incli nation of head, to our fair companion, 'and some explanation to my fellow travelleis also: and perhaps I cannot a better acquit myself of the double debt than by recounting the cause of my re cent agitation. 'I may pain your feelings,' delicate ly urged the lady. e 'On the contrary, it will relieve them,' was the respectful reply. Having signified our several desires D to hear more, the traveller thus pro. ceeded: 'At the age of eighteen, I was light of heart, and light of foot, and, I fear, (here he smiled,) light of head. A fine property on the right bank of the Ohio acknowledged me as sole owner. I was hastening home to enjoy it, and delighted to got free from a college life. The month was October, the air bracing, and the mcde of conveyance a stage coach like this, only more cum brous. The other passengers were few -but three in all-an old gray-headed planter of Louisiana, his daughter, a joyous, bewitching creature about sev enteen, and his son about ten years of age. They were just returning from France, of which country the young lady discoured in terms so eloquent as to absorb my entire attention. 'The father was taciturn, but the daughter was vivacious by nature; and we soon became so mutually pleased with each other-she as a listener that it was not until a sudden flash of lighting and a heavy dash of rain against the coach windows elicited an exclama Stion from my charming companiorh, that I noticed how night us. Presently there was a low rumbling sound, and then several tremendous peals of thun .der, accompanied by successive flashes of lightning. The rain descended in torrents, and an angry wind began to howl and moan by turns through the forest trees. 'I looked from the window of our ve hicle. The night was dark as ebony, but the lightning revealed the danger of our road. We weore on the edge of a frightful precipice. I could see at intervals, huge jutting rocks far away tdown its side, and the sight made me solicitous for tihe safety of my fair com panion. I thought of the mere hairs breadth that were between us and Seternity; a single little rock in the track of our coach-wheels-a tiny billet of nood-a stray rooofatmetor tree-a rsiehorse, or a careless Sdriver-any of these might hurl us from our sublunary existence with the Sspeed of thought. e 'Tia a perfect tempest,' observed the lady, as I withdrewv my head from the wind~ow. 'H-ow I love a sudden storm! there is soinething so grand about the B wid hen fairly looso among the hills. I never encounter a night like this, but Byron's magnificent descr'ip tion of a thunder storm in the Jura re curs to my mind. But we are on the ,f mountains yet?' t 'Yes, we have begun the assent.'. 'It in not sad to be dlangerous? overed k vr.fi she. otaikat h rugged i derig t41 mnoaning ef an siinhl iaffaird4ie.du agony breaking upnm afs, ini that the coach d n to a d half eW ell bellm as tie anxious dreandt or, herriedly resath 'ih fIst~~t v throughthe Wirndows an tiled e driver, but thes'dnly -abwe tas the heavy 'n 6f andag sedaiial doai * i ti'eAf6th i iiastsdnta "1; yedajtM fhiftN 6 O1 J e6f" cold hndormine, and heard Louise' voice faintly articulating in my arthe appahing words.- - 'God in Heaen ierositfdr get the fiee6ao tii Ih:fIend gd at' that oaeh'e dobr -and'eledori the driverin tons'thst, .a, -tiic force of the blast, whil convictini s burninig ny .winp 8li coach~ was being miovi elowti bdc wards! 'What followed was of sneh swift'oc currence that it seems -to me liko ja frightful dream. T rt 'I rushd againsed all e i ii forc, but it mocked mny utierob elf6t One side'of onn' ehicle *as ~s ing do i, down, down The' the a dgofih'ne nimai-b end pe~ dp deeper, and I knew fromthe , rat plunges againsthis traces that rw'i one of our horses.Crasigupon ciish of hoarse thunder rolled over the taodi tain, and vivid shectsof lightning play' d around our devted carnae .as if a glee at our misery. By its liet Icoui see for a momnet--ony fora niment the old planter' standing erect, with i hands on his son and-daztihter, his eyet raised to heaven, and his lips movib; like those of one in prayer. . ceuk 800 Louise turn* her ashy, cheeks ,ni superb eyes towas mo is if limlornj my protectiowand I ould o hi bdit glance ofthe youngboy flashingl Idg nant defiance at th6 descen ean age, the war of'eletnnta, aridite awfg danger that awaied r T rewas roli-a desperteoihnge, as if of *ai mal in the lane thro-thfedisolnUioni4 harsh, grading jaras sha , piercing scream of mortal terror,.an I hdbui time to clasp Iuiso fiidrly withy i hand around ti wist, and, sied . <ai leather fastonigs ched to thlcolc roof with the other, when we were ' pri cipated over the precipie'' 'T con distinctly recollect preserying consciousned s for a few seoonds -ov'time how rapidly my beath 'was' bemg e hausted; but of that ter'midos desce.i I soon lent further individualsh kn ledg by a coneussion so ifiolent that ifial instantly deprived of sense in~danotiog. The traveller paused . his featg worked for a minute or two as 'thoigi while we were on the m.ountqinho hr sed his hand across his forehead asi1 pain, and then resumed his interesti story: 'On alow couch,;in an humblq toon of a small country house, I ne aen my eyes.in this wooi" ,ligo t ar6qlde and poy anld sorrow or ,n .an - ness. 'Gentle han.d smoothed 4y1 low, gentle feet' idsd adiosuy hbat ber, anfa gen iooihushed-for4 timo alla -yqustioning v wia kind ly tended by a "' ,young girl aboutA teen, who refused, for' eer da.sic hold any discourse with nie At leigth one morning, finedin olecf suidient recovered to sit up, Imisisted onelenn ing the result of the accident. . "You were discovered,' said she,'sit ting on the edge of ~a roek, ami4dt tly branches of a shttei-ed'etiee;" cliiiii to a part of the' roof *'f "ybd"b'6c coach with one hand; and to the inson sible form of~a ladyarith th-4:othor%c "And theilady! ig~spd,t ea the girl's, face with on 9,rnstnee hal caused her to, draw jack ad.a bluh; means that sfved you-the 'frie'udly tree.' : in ; ,' "A,4 her father and brothor?'3 impatiently demanand. V, OV, deta~pia IL* O fbib I orsl "n~Or 4 A' 8 ~b tN" precipice. am i. ;'#hOftiod .il P"?~i WAr h gieame 1~ Shor rfe *iw r e~h t4.i road at~o~ht ft 'ftfct ercyh Andwt Bgi on iac ad agtcot iSh Mal'ct~r om .wI im 4 I wpd n Mecu a w i, ,un. ed. The daugter5 heprin fthfb g6?dcn hic~h~ hb rmj,4% 4R gra coa Iit~~ 11 h 61i6i ,d u larn mber-f il - -''. athd in olYosItecla d u anan one thousan0 tWi ve'rinu W ' OAue b0~ and~~~pyn oq thu th~ ~L~b hadr VW ybii'hotFqN fdo vd~v great tiie1awil ftl Tu h'1 ~A->dnti s nho ei~ or vanIdtMf ,td-mR thiswh-- feliiou ' do$$t . mamP b0h a&p14fitr t'