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ample, he says, "From their depositions [viz., of Brussels, which was one of the ambassador's resting witnesses], if they are to be credited, it seems to places. have been the plan of conspirators," &c. But accord- "The queen," says he, "went from mass to dinner; ing to our author, when Dr. Lingard wrote his history, I followed her; and because we were gentlemen of no real depositions of any of the witnesses had been England, I and another was admitted to come inte discovered; and up to the present hour, the only de- her chamber, where she sat at dinner. She is served positions brought to light are two, which Mr. Tytler with no women, as great states are there in England; has for the first time published in this volume, and but altogether with men, having their caps on their which, instead of supporting the Doctor's opinion, heads whilst they come into the chamber where she strongly indicate the innocence of Somerset. The sits, and there one takes off all their caps. I stood error of the Roman catholic historian perhaps arose very near the table, and saw all. Men, as I said, from the inaccurate language used by Carte and by served; only two women 'stood by the fire-side not the compiler of Howell's State Trials, the latter of far from the table, for the chamber was little, and whom speaks of Palmer's, Hammond's and Crane's talked very loud and lewdly with whom they would examinations as if these had been regular depositions as methought. This Queen's service compared of witnesses against Somerset, the delusiveness of with my Lady Elizabeth's my mistress, is not so which Mr. Tytler amply shows. prince-like nor honourably handled. Her first course If any doubt can still exist about Somerset's non- was apples, pears, plums, grapes, nuts, and with this delinquency, as to the imputed crimes for which he meat she began. Then she had bacon; and chickens, afterwards suffered, at all events none can be started almost covered with sale onions, that all the chamber respecting the character of the young king Edward smelt of it. She had a roast caponet, and a pasty of VI., as evinced by his own expressions on this oc- wild boar; and I thus marking all the behaviour, was casion, viz. by those passages in his autograph diary content to lose the second course, lest I should have which relate to the last days of his uncle. In Mr. lost mine own dinner at home."-Vol. ii. p. 125. Tytler's words, "nothing can exceed the cold heart- Soon afterwards we derive some amusement from lessness" wherewith his majesty tells the story, the appearance in England of the afterwards renownwhich he laconically winds up as follows: "Jan. ed Scottish worthy John Knocks (such is Northum22nd. [1552.] The Duke of Somerset had his head berland's orthography.) At one time it appears that cut off on Tower-hill between eight and nine o'clock the duke zealously wished to get Knox appointed in the morning."-Vol. ii. p. 11. Apropos of this bishop of Rochester; but on their becoming better amiable young monarch's brief statement, we may acquainted, and finding that this reformer was by no remark that the calmness demonstrated by Somerset means an implement suited for his purposes, the after his sentence, affords in some points a striking dictator backed out of the scrape with ludicrous excontrast to the conduct under similar circumstances pedition, and the notion was wholly abandoned. of his now-flourishing enemy, who suffered a like fate We come now to the concluding events in the on the same spot about eighteen months afterwards. second period, namely the ultimate plots of NorthHerewith we may dismiss this exquisite specimen of umberland, and his deserved overthrow. As a human nature. remarkable illustration of this man's detestable The next twenty-eight pages of Vol. II. are occu- character, may be noticed a letter which he wrote pied with some good and entertaining letters respect- precisely at the time when he was maturing or had ing affairs in France and Germany, after which we matured his inordinately ambitious plans. It is an fall again into consideration of the more leading and exquisite specimen of hypocrisy and cunning. In elevated persons of the drama. We before remarked this epistle, which is addressed to Cecil, he describes that the celebrated Cecil had by some means contriv- himself as a man worn out with and wearied of the ed to keep in the back ground, when Somerset in the world and its iniquities, wishing only for a quiet, irst instance was betrayed into the hands of his ene- humble, and not dishonourable retirement. mies at Windsor Castle; and this cunning parvenu "What comfort, think you, may I have," says he, now stood in high favour as Northumberland's secre-"that seeth myself in this case, after my long travail tary. But the weeping lord Paget, he who in order and troublesome life, and towards the end of my days? o bask in the light of the rising sun so abominably And yet, so long as health would give me leave, I sacrificed his friend, and who there is reason to think did as seldom fail mine attendance as any others did; contributed not a little, though indirectly, to Somer-yea, and with such health as, when others went to set's final condemnation, this Paget, we say, met at their sups and pastimes after their travail, I went to last with the treatment he deserved, being in 1552 bed with a careful heart and weary body; and yet tried in the Star Chamber for malversation in his abroad, no man scarcely had any good opinion of office of chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, sub- me. And now by extreme sickness and otherwise jected to a heavy fine, and degraded from the order of constrained to seek some health and quietness, I am the Garter. not without a new evil imagination of men. What The next portion of Vol. II. which attracts our should I wish any longer this life, that seeth such notice (principally for its humour and facetiousness) frailty in it?"

consists of memoranda of a diplomatic tour on the The conclusion is remarkable :continent, made in 1550 by sir Richard Morosyne "But if God would be so merciful to mankind as and the celebrated Roger Ascham. Mr. Tytler pre- to take from them their wicked imaginations, and sents us with an extract of various passages from leave them with a simple judgment, men should Ascham's journal which have never before been here live angels' lives; which may not be, for the fall printed. Take, for example, his description of the of Adam our forefather procured this continual plague, queen of France's dinner, her majesty being then at that the one should be affliction to the other whilst

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we be in this circle, out of which God grant us all his grace to depart in his mercy.”—Vol. ii. p. 155.

schemes of his patron, the dominant duke, and, to avoid taking any active part therein, was seized with a very convenient fit of illness, which John lord Audley (evidently an old woman) thought himself called upon to cure. So he commences a letter to the right honourable Secretary, as follows:

This production, it is true, may have been written under the irritation of temporary disappointment, or perhaps with a headache. Nevertheless it seems to us the letter of a deliberate, systematic, sermonizing "Good Mr. Cecil, be of good comfort, and pluck hypocrite, who had not the remotest wish to lead an angel's life," or to avoid cherishing "wicked up a lusty merry heart, and thus shall ye overcome imaginations;" but who at the end seems inclined to all diseases; and because it pleased my good Lord throw all the blame of his own mischievous plots Admiral lately to praise my physic, I have written (which doubtless were on his mind at the time) on to you such medicines as I wrote unto him, which I the fall of our forefather Adam," though a much have in my book of my wife's haud, proved upon nearer cause might have been assigned. This herself and me both." ambitious premier, as Mr. Tytler says, was "not contented with the possession of the greatest power which perhaps was ever enjoyed by any English "No. 1. Take a sow-pig of nine days old, and flea subject. He aimed yet higher; tottered on the him and quarter him, and put him in a stillatory highest step of the ladder, lost his balance in grasp with a handful of spearmint, a handful of red fennel, ing at the crown, and brought upon himself swift a handful of liverwort, half a handful of red nepe, a and utter ruin. Yet his plan, as far as human fore-handful of celery, nine dates clean picked and pared, sight could reach, seemed artfully and strongly laid. a handful of great raisins, and pick out the stones, It is well known."-Vol. ii. p. 164.

The" such medicines" are as follows:

and a quarter of an ounce of mace, and two sticks of
good cinnamon, bruised in a mortar; and distil it to-
gether, with a fair fire; and put it in a glass and set
in the sun nine days; and drink nine spoonfuls of it
"No. 2. Take a porpin,
at once when ye list."
him in pieces, and put the said beast in a still with
otherwise called an English hedgehog, and quarter
these ingredients: item, a quart of red wine, a pint
of rose water, a quart of sugar. cinnamon and great
raisins, one date, twelve nepe."

"Cecil's disease, however, was deeper fixed than to be cured by soup, formed from the distillation of sow-pig, boiled with cinnamon and raisins, or a compost of a porpin, or hedgehog, stewed in red wine or rose-water. It was Northumberland's plot that troubled his digestion."—Vol. ii. p. 170.

Yes, in one sense it is well known, but we must briefly retrace it notwithstanding. Edward, for whose moral defects the readiest excuse is that he was a weakling in body, became extremely ill in January, 1553; and Northumberland, knowing that his majesty entertained a sort of horror at the notion of the Roman catholic party being re-established in England, rightly thought that this was a fitting time to effect all his plans. These, be it remembered, involved the disinheriting of Mary, the acknowledged This pleasant preparation we presume was to be heiress of the crown, the setting aside of Elizabeth eaten ad libitum, no dose being specified. and of Mary queen of Scots, the lineal descendant of the eldest sister of Henry VIII., and getting the crown fixed by royal will and prerogative on his own ward, lady Jane Grey, descended by the mother's side from the youngest sister of Henry VIII. This promising scheme would be further supported by the marriage of lady Jane Grey to his fourth son, lord Guildford Dudley; whilst at the same time his In those days, as now, it appears that there were a daughter, Catherine Dudley, was married to lord very few men in office who would make a fashion of Hastings, eldest son of the earl of Huntingdon; and stickling for right and justice, but, if skilfully atlord Herbert, the earl of Pembroke's second son, a tacked, their firmest resolves soon gave way. On nobleman entirely devoted to the duke, was united to the 11th of June, 1553, the lord chief-justice Monlady Catherine Grey. Such alliances were fitted to tague received a letter summoning him to attend at promote great strength, and the council were mostly court, and to bring with him Sir John Baker and Mr. his creatures. In May, 1553, when the king got a Justice Bromley, also Gosnold and Griffin, who were little better, Northumberland artfully proposed his then attorney and solicitor-general. plans, to which Edward conformed with the utmost The old chief-justice was then informed by the alacrity, as if the assertion of his prerogative in king of his determination that the crown should not defiance of acts of parliament had afforded him go to the lady Mary, who might alter the religion. especial pleasure. The judge immediately replied that such a decision

This, no doubt, was a notable and deep-laid would be illegal, and contrary to act of parliament, scheme, though its author, even without any gift of by which the succession had been irrevocably fixed. second sight, might have perceived that success But his lordship's remonstrances and qualms of conwould be of short duration, and that it involved his science were in vain. He asked time to reflect on own ruin. But quem Deus vult perdere prius demen- the matter, and was allowed one day; but delay tat, and Northumberland was blinded. For the availed him not. He, like all the rest of the counsecond time, Jane Grey, that most unworldly, pure, cil, with the solitary exception of Sir James Hale, modest and retiring of all female Greek scholars, she, became at length convinced that "it was better to who of all women least wished for an earthly crown, keep their heads on their shoulders, and their places, was fixed upon as the implement of a parasitical, than to be executed as traitors, or at least degraded heartless, jobbing politician! There is an intermezzo from their stations." So they at last all signed the of the farcical kind during the progress of this plot, articles which Northumberland and the king had namely in the conduct of Mr. Secretary Cecil, who prepared, Cecil also included, Sir James Hale alone perceived clearly enough the risk attending the grand refusing to the last.

We have next a few letters about foreign affairs, troubled therewith, misliking the matter, I dissemand then comes the finale, the catastrophe to North-bled the taking of my horse, and the rising of Linamberland's deeply-woven plot. Edward died, and colnshire and Northamptonshire, and avowed the the premier and his party proposed to keep this event pardonable lie, where it was suspected to my danconcealed for a week, within which time they would ger. I practised with the L. Treasurer to win the imprison the ladies Mary and Elizabeth; and there- L. Privy Seal, that I might by the L. Russell's after, by mere force, (law was out of the question,) they meaus cause Windsor Castle to serve the queen; would manage the government as they chose. Mary, and they two to levy the west parts for the queen's however, was privately informed both of Edward's service. I purposed to have stolen down to the death and of the snares laid for herself, and she re- queen's highness, as Mr. Gosnold can tell, who ofsolved to keep personally out of harm's way, until fered to lead me thither, as I knew not the wav. sufficient forces had mustered for her defence. She Finally,' says he, I beseech her highness that in wrote however, expressing her astonishment at not her grace I may feel some difference from others that having been proclaimed queen, and demanding her have more plainly offended.' "-Vol. ii. p. 194. rights; to which Northumberland replied, that she Truly if the establishment of his own reputation had better submit with a good grace to acknowledge as an unprincipled and mendacious truckler could lady Jane Grey as her lawful sovereign. The infatuated duke had meanwhile taken posses- have been amply sufficient. procure him the queen's favour, this defence must "Such little beings," sion of the Tower, with all its arms and munition, observes Mr. Tytler," are our greatest men!" In and therein lodged lady Jane Grey, who had been other words, such are the materials which have too duly proclaimed queen. Never on earth was a state often composed the characters of successful politiplot so rapidly developed and ended. On the 6th of cians, whom the world is pleased to call great. We July Edward died. Within ten short days (that is, forget not the alacrity with which this eminent and on the 16th) Mary saw herself at the head of 30,000 belaurelled statesman, on a future day, carried into armed men. Northumberland had set out from Lon-effect Elizabeth's order for the execution of Mary at don with the intention to annihilate this force; but Fotheringay, a duty from which others had recoiled. on learning its extent and position, for which his But he was on safe ground then; and it was only own troops were not a match, he moved slowly, wa- when personal risk threatened, that his lordship of vered, recoiled; and as nothing but a rapid and des- Burleigh wished to back out from the support of perate advance could have afforded him any chance, any proceeding, however iniquitous and abominable. on his side all was irredeemably lost. We have already contemplated with extreme disNo weathercock in a storm could whirl about more gust the gross deception and falsehood which were rapidly than Northumberland's party when they saw practised by Northumberland and his adherents in that his doom was fixed; and their subsequent at- order to get rid of Somerset. Precisely similar and tempts to recover from the effects of the blunder, by equally repulsive was the scene exhibited now. On pleading the most abject recantation, are truly ludi- the departure of Northumberland with his troops, to crous. He himself, who if not bereft of reason must annihilate those of queen Mary, the council kept up have seen there was no hope, yet endeavoured to to the last the appearance of perfect confidence and make his peace by forth with proclaiming Queen attachment. The last of them that he spoke with Mary! He might have spared himself this unwilling was the earl of Arundel, who "prayed God to be demonstration of loyalty, for he and his associates with his grace, saying he felt sorry it was not his were forthwith imprisoned in the Tower, whilst the chance to go with him and bear him company, in blameless lady Jane Grey was at first permitted to whose presence he could find in his heart to spend his blood, even at his feet." This was on the 12th Amid such tempestuons confusion the actors had of July. But no sooner had Northumberland disapof course no time for writing, and the most remarka-peared, than "good Mr. Cecil" began most actively ble paper which Mr. Tytler gives us as connected to plot for his demolition, and immediately prevailed with these events is a corrected copy of Cecil's de- on this eloquent and life-despising earl of Arundel to fence, entitled "Brief note of my submission, and of join him. By the 19th of the month, all those memmy doings," the original of which is in the Lans-bers of the council who had so solemnly engaged to downe collection at the British Museum. As an ex- support Northumberland's plot were most busy in hibition of duplicity, selfishness, cunning and effron- proclaiming queen Mary at Charing Cross. From tery, the contents of this precious document could this diabolical farce we shall take the following scarcely be excelled by any of the confessions exscene. On the 21st of July

retire from thence to Sion House.

tracted by cross-examination at the Old Bailey. He

was implicated in Northumberland's plot; this could "came the Earl of Arundel from the Queen to the not be denied; but forsooth he "misliked it all the Duke into his chamber, who went out to meet him, while;" and his drift now is to prove, that whilst and as soon as he saw the Earl of Arundel he fell on apparently working for Northumberland, he used his knees, and desired him to be good to him: For every practicable means to betray and break up the cause which he ostensibly supported!

"First, my submission with all lowliness that any heart can conceive.

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the love of God, consider,' saith he, I have done nothing but by the consents of you and all the whole Council! My Lord,' quoth the Earl of Arundel, I am sent hither by the Queen's Majesty, and in her name 1 do arrest you.' And I obey it, my Lord,' My mistaking of the matter when I heard it quoth he. I beseech you, my Lord of Arundel,' secretly; whereupon I made conveyance away of quoth the Duke, use mercy towards me, knowing my lands, part of my goods, leases and raiment. I the case as it is. My Lord,' quoth the Earl, ye refused to make a proclamation, and turned the labour should have sought for mercy sooner. I must do acto Mr. Throckmorton, whose conscience I saw was cording to my commandment.' And therewith be

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committed the charge of him and of other to the the vast store of unpublished letters and memoranda guard and gentlemen that stood by. Such," Mr. affords admirable scope for the exercise of this Tytler adds, "was the conduct of this noble earl, author's talents and industry.

who but a few days before had assured Northumber-
land, in the name of the whole Council, not only of
their inviolable resolution to keep their oaths to
Queen Jane, but of his own particular anxiety to shed
his blood at his Grace's feet!"-Vol. ii. p. 208.
And thus terminates period the second.

From the Spectator.

MR. THORNTON'S MODERN BRITISH INDIA.

So full have been our notices of these first and THIS is a very able work, the result of much second parts, that we have not left room to analyze knowledge and much thought; containing considerthe concluding section, which contains the reign of able matter, and displaying throughout an animated, Mary. But the trial of Northumberland must not be and, so far as the gravity of the subjects admits, a passed over in silence. This took place in West- not ungraceful style. The reflections of the author minster Hall on the 18th of August, 1553, when the are judicious, and his opinions upon men and events duke of Norfolk sat as high steward. On leading unprejudiced and impartial.

points the prisoner's guilt was incontestable, but The peculiar character of the production is indicawith great reverence to the judges he requested their ted by its title-Chapters of the Modern History of opinion upon two specialties. First, whether a British India. Instead of attempting to narrate the man doing any act by authority of the Prince and public proceedings of the last thirty years, Mr. Council, and by warrant of the great seal of Eng-Thornton selects such of them as are capable of inland, and doing nothing without the same, may be dependent exhibition and are important from the magcharged with treason for any thing he might do by nitude of the events-as the Burmese War; or conwarrant thereof?" Secondly, "Whether any such tain an illustration of some principle-as the Mutiny persons as were equally culpable in that crime, and of Vellore; or display the peculiar character of Indian those by whose letters and commandment he was governments and society-as the striking account of directed in all his doings, might be his judges, or the Pindarries and their destruction; or furnish the pass upon his trial as his peers?" Alluding as he author with a text on which to write commentaries did, to the last will, duly signed and sealed, of king on the true policy of Britain towards India, conEdward as his warrant, the duke well knew that these trasted with our practice-as in the narrative of the questions, if duly weighed were both pertinent and grand Whig job of 1807, when a Governor-General puzzling. But the judges were not under any abso- was forced on the Company by stretching the prerolute necessity to perplex themselves about the matter. gative of the Crown.

They could evade the questions, and they did so. This plan has great advantages. It enables the Hereupon he saw there was no hope from any legal author to select those subjects with which he is most defence, and he could only sue for mercy, which he familiar, and to which he is most inclined; whilst it afterwards did in various ways, and at last in the permits a completeness of treatment, and anecdotical most abject manuer, praying for life, only for life, detail, incompatible with general history. Each 66 yea the life of a dog, if he might but live to kiss the subject is, moreover, a complete whole-more maQueen's feet, and spend both life and all in her honour- nageable, and perhaps to many readers more attracable service!"-Vol. ii. p. 229. It is superfluous to tive, than a larger and comprehensive history would add, that this appeal, however affecting, did not ex- have been. It has also the advantage of variety and cite even the remotest symptoms of mercy, and the relief,--policy and war, narrative and disquisition, law took its course. alternating with each new question treated. On the In the third period our author has purposely other hand, the completeness with which a subject abstained from entering on the subject of the Marian can be grasped is apt to tempt the author into too martyrs, which is so voluminously treated by his minute an exposition; the interest it possesses for precursors; but he has thrown much new light on himself and persons of kindred pursuits being concircumstances attending and following the queen's sidered, rather than its attraction for the general marriage with Philip, her miserable weaknesses both reader. The long account of the Nepaulese War is mental and bodily, and malgre cela her highly spirited of this character, and seems written to bring out the conduct on occasion of sir Thomas Wyatt's con- weak points of the Marquis of Hastings as much as spiracy. There are passages, too, regarding that any thing; for though the war was badly conducted, most innocent of victims lady Jane Grey, and that disastrous in most of its actions, and only brought to model for politicians (so the crafty parvenu has a successful close by the ability of Sir David Ochteractually been styled,) Mr. Secretary Cecil, whieh lony, the end was not large in itself, whatever disaswe should willingly have extracted, but the object trous results failure might have led to. The paper which we proposed at the commencement has already on the renewal of the Company's Charter in 1813 is been fulfilled. According to an obsolete though of a similar nature, though the topic is so different; sometimes useful fashion among reviewers, we have but here a principle is at least discussed, if it be not "given an account of the book," thus apprizing our contained in the subject-the cowardly tendency of readers what they may expect from Mr. Tytler's new men of all parties to yield that to clamour and agitamode of treating old papers, and from his present tion which they either believe to be wrong or are too volumes in particular, which, recollecting his other lazy to investigate.

historical undertakings, we may liken to minor orna- Another, though different test of the minuteness ments devised and executed during the progress of spoken of, may be found in the paucity of general an extensive building. We trust that these will be conclusions which the reader can draw from so large followed up by illustrations, in a similar style, of the a volume, abounding as it does in matter, and affordreigns of Elizabeth and James I., respecting which ing a conclusion that the work is the product of book

study rather than original observation. One of these purpose of extracting from the unhappy victims inconclusions, however, is very important. From the formation of the treasures they were supposed to intrigues or conspiracies so frequently detected in the have concealed. Red-hot irons were applied to the courts of native princes against our power, and the soles of their feet; a bag filled with hot ashes was confederacies which every temporary check tends to tied over the mouth and nostrils of the victim, who call into existence, the Indian empire appears to be was then beaten on the back to make him inhale the held on the same condition as the Imperial crown of ingredients; large stones were placed on the head NAPOLEON-uninterrupted success. The first great or chest; or, the sufferer being laid on his back, a failure, though not fatal in itself, might prove an plank or beam was placed across his chest, on which Oriental Moscow, by hanging the greater part of India two men pressed with their whole weight; oil was about our ears. thrown on the clothes, which were then set on fire; One of the most generally interesting chapters in these, with many other modes of torture equally the volumes before us is the account of the Pindar- frightful, were resorted to. Neither sex nor age afries-a class of robbers spread over the greater part forded immunity. The hands of children would freof India till the Marquis of HASTINGS destroyed quently be cut off as the shortest way of obtaining them. They had some resemblance to the free com- the bracelets which adorned them; while women panions of the middle ages, in obeying a recognized were subjected to outrages compared with which commander and regular officers, as well as in selling torture and death were mercy. To escape these, their military services occasionally; but the men of numbers rushed upon self-destruction. It is not one our olden time did not profess plunder, and had not of the least revolting features in the economy of the characteristics of a tribe. In their indiscriminate these murderous adventurers, that their women freplunderings and devastations the Pindarries bore a quently accompanied their male associates in their sort of likeness to the Scottish Highland or Border excursions. They were mounted on small horses thieves, but they wanted their local habitation and national character.

THE PINDARRIES

or camels, and are said to have exceeded the other sex in rapacity and cruelty. This may readily be believed; for when woman has once overcome the restraints which nature and universal feeling have imposed upon her, her progress downward is made with fearful rapidity.

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Were not composed of any peculiar people or tribe, but of a variety of the refuse of all tribes, denomiWhen the work of ruin was completed, the Pinnations, and creeds. They were generally armed darries withdrew, like wild beasts, to their lairs. with spears, in the use of which they were very ex-Then a change of scene took place: the operation of pert; a proportion of them were provided with plunder was exchanged for that of huckstering. The matchlocks; and all were mounted. A party gene- claim of the chief had first to be satisfied; but it is rally consisted of two or three thousand. Each man not very clear how far this claim extended. provided himself with a few cakes for his subsistence, some, his share has been fixed at a fourth part of the and few feeds of grain for his horse; trusting much entire booty. By others, it has been alleged that the to the chance of plunder for the means of supplying mode of apportionment was uncertain; but that elethe wants of both. They frequently marched thirty phants, palanquins, and umbrellas, were heriots apor forty miles a day; and in cases of extraordinary pertaining to the lord. After his claim was satisfied emergency they were capable of accomplishing fifty came that of the Lubharee, or actual leader of the exmiles in that period. To effect these extraordinary pedition; then the payment of advances made by exertions, they were accustomed to sustain the vigour merchants; for, like more civilized nations, these of their horses by spices and stimulants. people occasionally contracted a national debt. The The celerity of their marches was not more re-fact of such a confederacy being able to borrow momarkable than their secrecy. It was scarcely possi-ney is remarkable.

ble to gain information of their movements till they These preliminaries being disposed of, the scene had completed them. They proceeded at once to that followed resembled a fair. Every man's share the place of their destination; and, unencumbered of the plunder was exposed for sale: purchasers with tents and baggage, they soon reached it. Here flocked from all quarters, proximate and remote; the they divided into smaller parties, and commenced business of sale being principally conducted by the their career of plunder and devastation. Articles of women. Whether this arose from the indolence of the greatest value were disposed about their persons; the men, or that the women had the reputation of cattle afforded the means of their own transport. making better bargains, does not appear; but such But the atrocious propensities of these ruffians were was the custom. In the mean time, the men gave not to be satisfied by what they could carry away. themselves up to amusement, of which intoxication What was not removed they destroyed; and wher-constituted a considerable portion. The remainder ever they marched villages were seen in flames, with was worthy of the association in which it was found. the houseless and often wounded inhabitants flying This lasted until the produce of the expedition was in dismay to seek a shelter, which not unfrequently exhausted, and it became necessary to seek in fresh they were unable to attain. When they had laid the outrages renewed means of gratification. Thus country completely waste, they appointed the fron- passed the life of the Pindarrie robber, in an alternatier distant from that by which they had entered, tion of brutal exertion and sensual abandonment. and, uniting again into a compact body, returned home.

BURMESE DIPLOMATIC WIT.

The horrors attending these visitations were such The treaty signed by the British and Burmese as could not be credited were the evidence less com-commanders was also found in the lines of Mellon. plete and conclusive. Despatch being indispensa-This Sir Archibald Campbell despatched by a mesble, every variety of torture was resorted to for the senger to the Kee Woongee, accompanying it by a

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