purpose; and when he, the witness, said for what purpose, she rapt him on the fingers with her fan, called him a dull fellow, and said it was designed to kill the King with." Here Sir Geoffrey Peveril could no longer refrain his indignation and surprise. "Mercy of Heaven!" he said, " did ever one hear of ladies of quality carrying butchering knives about them, and telling every scurvy companion she meant to kill the King with them?-Gentlemen of the Jury, do but think if this is reasonable--though, if the villain could prove by any honest evidence, that my Lady of Derby ever let such a scum as himself come to speech of her, I would believe all he can say.” "Sir Geoffrey," said the Judge, "rest you quiet-You must not fly out-passion helps you not here-the Doctor must be suffered to proceed." Doctor Oates went on to state, how the lady complained of the wrongs the House of Derby had sustained from the King, and the oppression of her religion, and boasted of the schemes of the Jesuits and seminary priests; and how they would be furthered by her noble kinsman of the House of Stanley. He finally averred that both the Countess and the Fathers of the seminary abroad, founded much upon the talents and courage of Sir Geoffrey Peveril and his son-the latter of whom was a member of her family. Of Hudson he only recollected of having heard one of the Fathers say, "that though but a dwarf in stature, he would prove a giant in the cause of the Church." When he had ended his evidence, there was a pause, until the Judge, as if the thought had suddenly occurred to him, demanded of Dr. Oates, whether he had ever mentioned the name of the Countess of Derby in any of the previous informations which he had lodged before the Privy Council, and elsewhere, upon this affair? Oates seemed rather surprised at the question, and coloured with anger, as he answered, in his peculiar mode of pronunciation, "Whoy, no, maay laard." 66 And, pray, Doctor," said the Judge, "how came so great a revealer of mysteries as you have lately proved, to have suffered so material a circumstance as the accession of this powerful family to the Plot to have remained undiscovered?" 66 Maay laard," said Oates, with much effrontery, "aye do not come here to have my evidence questioned as touching the Plaat." "I do not question your evidence, Doctor," said Scroggs, for the time was not arrived that he dared treat him roughly; "nor do I doubt the existence of the Plaat, since it is your pleasure to swear to it. I would only have you, for your own sake, and the satisfaction of all good Protestants, to explain why you have kept back such a weighty point of information from the King and country." Maay laard," said Oates, "I will tell you a pretty fable." "I hope," answered the Judge, "it may be the first and last which you shall tell in this place." "Maay laard," continued Oates, "there was one a faux, who having to caarry a goose aver a frazen river, and being afraid the aice would not bear him and his booty, did caarry aver a staane, maay laard, in the first instance, to prove the strength of the aice." "So your former evidence was but the stone, and now, for the first time, you have brought us the goose?" said Sir William Scroggs; "to tell us this, Doctor, is to make geese of the Court and Jury." desoire your laardsb'p's honed const, union,” said Cates, wee current hingga,air & biz, 1 was deronpit, d to pay h it what cost and ploties I have ein: Di set hit sta mis - my vidence, tha 1.is bros 1.ways, unor Gra *his peor na dien to the cape dus st re kay thr have been 96. ed to tillert the Plecay Farists. It was rad have benght all • story out at aanc.. d pa 21 .m rv isc to b Ou me to direct you in believe) a of not; and as for oth-tue Jery have heard your the witness Fox redd ring leanis 1, one to ally unused to have s 1 9 bore the courts of ju trec hongst the counse n's of luv thae pro The, afs orable to 'ne character of t d the path of OPs, with, L. del rerce to bis superio vn, and ace th own fictio s vat les, as well as their alenis & ma at no time received the full c den ་ r criminality, they meeting with Jalan Peveres, a nit Martindale Castle. It was in vein they 280 1 crements which they r tended to have scored ys posssion; and thi, they gave a most drea sare of the younger event fiera Moultras ie-Holl, be mica foac.. Peace-thin the who rande a trade of ris, overs new researches lv ir ventica--and tha, v 《་ be unfortunate persons at the bir, he w of a rave and worthy magistrate, known |