shattered-that he had avoided a public ignominious death. That is no decease which promises to give me back the husband of my youth; which, renewing the bold, clear intellect, the pure, benevolent heart, that first won my love, will transfer them to the sky to await our second bridal."

"Away with her!" cried the judge—“ she raves. She is spotted all over with treasonaway with her!" With these words he broke up the court, apparently in great dudgeon, at having been disappointed of his victim; and Jocelyn, as well as the other spectators, slowly retired out of the hall, many of the latter recalling to one another such passages as they recollected of Walton's early history.*

* Valentine Walton, "the Bashaw of the Isle of Ely,” as Heath calls him in his Chronicle, was made governor of King's Lynn and Croyland, with all the level of Ely. Walker, in his History of the Independents, says, that Boston, King's Lynn, &c. were able to support forty thousand men, besides the island's native inhabitants, and that it might be laid under water at pleasure. He adds

"there are but three paths to enter it, over three bridges, upon which they have or may build forts for their defence, and may from thence invade the adjacent country at pleasure, being themselves free from incursions; or they may, if they list, break down the said bridges. These places, already strong by nature, they daily fortify by art; for which purpose great sums of money have been sent to him, (Walton) and much arms, powder, ammunition and ordnance from Windsor Castle. Here, when all other helps fail, the godly mean to take sanctuary: this shall be their retreat from whence they draw the whole kingdom to parley upon articles of treaty, and enforce their peace from them at last.-These are the stratagems of the godly."

CHAPTER VIII.

"Cases and deprecations are in vain :

The sun will shine and all things have their course,
When we, the curse and burden of the earth,
Shall be absorb'd, and mingled with its dust;
Our guilt and desolation must be told
From age to age, to teach desponding mortals,
How far beyond the reach of human thought,
Heav'n, when incens'd, can punish."

LILLO'S "Fatal Curiosity."

OUR hero's feelings at the scene we have just been describing, would have been of a still more painful and harrowing nature, had he been aware that he was in some degree instrumental, however unintentionally, in procuring the arrest and trial of the unfortunate prisoner. It will be recollected that at the time Mark Walton had borrowed money from him, he had declared his

ntention of appropriating it to a purpose in which, if successful, his fortune would be made for life. This nefarious project was no other than the discovery and capture of his uncle, by whom, as had truly been stated at the trial, he had been originally adopted, fed, and nurtured; although the uncle's compulsory flight from England at the period of the Restoration, had of course broken off the intimacy, and severed all communication between them. By his acquaintance with the friends and agents whom his uncle still retained, and who were in the habit of occasional intercourse with him through the medium of the Burgomaster of Rotterdam, Mark had contrived to possess himself of his place of concealment, a secret of which the heartless ingrate immediately saw the value, and as instantly resolved to turn it to account. Dissolute in his habits and involved in debt, he saw within his grasp the means of present relief and future gratification; others, by a similar exercise of treachery towards the late King's Judges, had made their fortunes,

and were well received at Court; and he could gloss over the atrocity, as they had done, by giving it the name of loyalty and public duty.

Reconciled to his projected enormity by these arguments, nothing remained but to provide the means of its execution. His pecuniary distresses offered an insurmountable obstacle, until the loan from Jocelyn removed this difficulty, when nothing remained but to make the best bargain in his power with Government, as to the remuneration he was to receive by way of bloodmoney; and to get instructions from some competent person, as to the most eligible method of proceeding. For this purpose he applied to Sir George Downing,* who from his long resi

This fellow, whom Wood calls a sider in all times and changes, had been originally a chaplain to Colonel Okey's regiment, by whose recommendation Cromwell sent him as his Agent to Holland, where he distinguished himself by his virulence and insolence towards the King, and procured his expulsion from the territory of the States. Towards the close of the Commonwealth he obtained an interview with the Marquess of Ormond, when he offered himself as a secret spy to the King, was