EDWARD GLENDINNING TO THE SUB-PRIOR OF HALIDOME, ON TAKING INTO CUSTODY SIR PIERCIE SHAFTON, THE SUPPOSED MURDERER OF HIS BROTHER. Extract from the Monastery.-Scott. THAT I may obey your commands, Reverend Sir, I will not again offer myself to this person's presence; for shame it were to me, to break the peace of the Halidome-but not less shame, to leave my brother's death unavenged. Fear nothing, my Reverend Father, (for so in a hundred senses may I term you), fear not, that I will in anything diminish the respect which I owe to the venerable community, by whom we have so long been protected; far less, that I will do aught, which can be personally less than respectful to you. But the blood of my brother must not cry for vengeance in vain.-Your Reverence knows our Border creed. Father-Father to me you have been in every sense. You know that my hand grasped more readily to the book than to the sword; and, that I lacked utterly the ready and bold spirit which distinguished-I would say, that I was unequal to Halbert in promptitude of heart and of hand;but Halbert is gone, and I stand his representative, and that of my father-his successor in all his rights, and bound to assert and maintain them, as he would have done-therefore I am a changed man, increased in courage, as in my rights and pretensions. And, Revevend Father, respectfully, but plainly and firmly do I say, his blood, if it has been shed by this man, shall be atoned. Halbert shall not sleep neglected in his lonely grave, as if with him the spirit of my father had ceased forever. His blood flows in my veins, and while his has been poured forth unrequited, mine will permit me no rest. My poverty and meanness of rank shall not be his protection. My calm nature and peaceful studies shall not be his protection. Even the obligations, Holy Father, which I owe to you, shall not be his protection. I wait with patience the judgment of the Abbot and Chapter, for the slaughter of one of their most anciently descended vassals. If they do right to my brother's memory, it is well. But mark me, if they shall fail in rendering me that justice, I bear a heart and a hand, which, though I love not such extremities, are capable of remedying such an errour. He, who takes my brother's succession, must avenge his death. I will do nothing rashly; that, my better than Father, I surely will not. But, the blood of my brother-the tears of my mother, and of Mary Avenel, shall not be shed in vain. I will not deceive you, Father-if this Piercie Shaf ton have slain my brother, he dies, if the whole blood of the whole house of Piercie were in his veins. CONSCIENCE.- -Gisborne. 'THERE-lie forever there-' the murderer said, No terrors haunt the well-concerting mind! Sayest thou, when March unchains the midnight wind, No terrors haunt thee!—sayest thou, when the storm Bids all its horrours, each in wildest form, As though the shattered fabric of the sky Still art thou proof?—In sleep I see thee laid : Couched in the brake, a ruffian from his den Thou wakest, and smilest in scorn!-Has heaven no dart Potent to reach that adamantine heart? Yes. He, whose viewless gales the forest bend, Where conscience lurks, and slumbering horrors dwell. BATTLE OF WARSAW.- -Campbell. WHEN leagued Oppression poured to northern wars Warsaw's last champion, from her height surveyed, He said, and on the rampart-heights arrayed In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, The sun went down, nor ceased the carnage there; Hark! as the smouldering piles with thunder fall, Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 JUSTIFIED.-Ed. Review. THE principles of the Revolution have often been grossly misrepresented, and never more than in the course of the present year. There is a certain class of men, who, while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times, never look at them for any other purpose, than in order to find in them some excuse for existing abuses. In every venerable precedent, they pass by what is essential, and take only what is accidental: they keep out of sight what is beneficial, and hold up to public imitation all that is defective. If, in any part of any great example, there be anything unsound, these flesh-flies detect it with an unerring instinct, and dart upon it with a ravenous delight. They cannot always prevent the advocates of a good measure from compassing their end; but they feel, with their prototype, that 'Their labours must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil.' To the blessings which England has derived from the Revolution, these people are utterly insensible. The expulsion of a tyrant, the solemn recognition of popular rights, liberty, security, toleration, all go for nothing with them. One sect there was, which, from unfortunate temporary causes, it was thought necessary to keep under close restraint. One part of the empire there was, so unhappily |