The religious foldiers reply with fighs and tears: they fwear to die for their God at the feet of their adored queen. They invoke the Almighty, blefs the name of Ifa-, bella, and, infpired with new courage, eagerly call to be led against the enemy. Each foldier anxiously feeks a bro-juries done to his faints to pafs ther or a friend among the flin, unrevenged. but finds only a headless trunk. He beholds on a fhining lance the head of him he loved, and turns away his eyes in horror and dify. Ferdinand, Lara, and the rest of the chiefs, look on each other, but dare not come to any determination A palen. fs overspreads the cheek of the anguft l'abeila. The inti- Ferdinand reftrains their ardour, midated Caftilians obferve a fa ful but fkilfully turns it to his advan filence; confufion fpreads throughtage. Half of the troops remain their ranks; they tremble and are under arms, while the reft are emready to fly; but Ifabella, well ac-ployed in giving affittance to the quainted with the manners and cha-wounded and burying the dead. racter of the Spaniards, calls religion The queen honours their funerals to the aid of their haif extinguified courage. Accompanied by two venerable priests, and preceded by the great cross, the facred fandard of the army, the paffes through the, ranks. Friends, excl ims fhe, let us adore the hand that fimites us; the fame hand fall again raife us up. The God of battles is with us; can he give the victory to enemies who in fult him?. He wishes to try his foldiers; he wishes to make you merit the reward he defigns for you. Thofe you mourn are already in poffeffion of i. Those whom the fword has deftroyed in this disastrous might, furvey you from heaven's height, and hold out to you that immortal palm which angels has placed in their hands. Ah! ceafe to water their afhes with your tears of thofe they have no need; but we have need of your affiftance. Let us invoke them, let us turn our eyes with respect, with confidence, towards thofe bleeding pails you feem only to view with difmay. Thofe are the remains of martyrs, the fa red relics to which we fhall owe our fuccefs. They enfure the infallible destruction of those barbarous muffulmen; they draw on those impious wretches the anger of the Amighty, who never fufters the in with her prefence. In the mean time, Lara traces, beyond the deftroyed camp, a wide encofure, which he furrounds with a deep ditch. The army, exhausted with fa igue, only quit their arms to labour; but the inceffant perfeverance, obedience, and frugality of the Caftilians, make them endure 'every thing without a murmur. They retire with the night to the middle of the entrenchments, while a chofen guard is placed at the entrance. The foldiers, retling their heads on their bucklers, fleep without quiring their arms, ready to engage at the firft fignal. Their officers rep fe near them; but their fovereigns, fill more to be pitied than their unfortunate fubjects, dare not clofe their eyes in fleep. A END of BOK V. (To be continued.) ANECDOTE. Remarkable hard drinker, who his friends who was at his bed-fide, was expiring, begged one of to bring him a goblet of water, tel ling him, "On our death-beds we must be reconciled with our enemies? On the Unhappy Reverfe of Fortune of the Queen of France. 623. OBSERVATIONS on the unhappy REVERSE of FORTUNE experienced by the late QUEEN of FRANCE. (From Dr. Moore's Journal during a Refidence in Franc, Vol. II. lately published for Mrs. Robinjon.) 1 WENT laft Sunday, in compa ny with an English gentleman, to St. Cloud. This was the fummer refidence of the Orleans family from the time that Monfieur, brother to Louis XIV. built the chateau, till lately. From the houfe itself, as well as from many parts of the delicious park, there is an extenfive view, comprehending Paris, all the villas around it, a rich landfcape of hills, woods, and meadows, through which the Seine flows in many graceful windings. The cafcade is greatly admired, and the park has been confidered as the happiest effort of the genius of Le Nofire, who has made a delightful ufe of all the variety of furface it contains, as well as of the Seine which flows by it. S. Cloud, in the opinion of many, was preferable to any of the royal villas before it became one of them: it was purchased by the queen from the duke of Orleans about five or fix years ago, fince which time, the apartments within the chateau have been altered at a great expence, and much improved. Nothing can be conceived more commodiuos. Not withstanding the richnefs and magnificence of fome of the apartments, this palace, with all its fplendid furniture, has remained hitherto undefpoiled and unsullied. plate the fplendour of St. Cloud through a very gloomy medium. The whole manner of the man who conducted us through the apartments, fufficiently evinced that his thoughts fprang from the fame fource, and flowed in the fame channel with ours. Those who have had the curiosity' to vifit the houfes of princes and vil las of nobility, may have remarked with what oftentation and pride the housekeeper and fervants conduct ftrangers through magnificent apartments they enjoy the admiration of the visitors, and fwell with felfimportance in proportion to the richness of the furniture. They are not, however, more grofsly mistaken than thofe proprietors, who, deriv. ing all their importance from the fame quarter, think it amounts to a great deal. Nothing of this kind, but all that is oppofite, appeared in the demeanor of the man who attended us through the palace of St. Cloud: his mind evidently borrowed no pride from the magnificence he had under his care, but feemed rather to be engroffed with the fad fate of the owners, and the folicitudes laqueata circum tecta volantes. The annals of the unfortunate do not record any fituation more dread. ful than that of the unhappy queen of France. Any woman in her fituation would be extremely miferable; but we cannot help thinking that the muft be more miferable than, any other woman in the fame fituation. The distance at which her rank feemed to have placed her from the The contrast between the magni- reach of the mitery which now furficence we were beholding, and the rounds and threatens to overwhelm wretched apartment in which the her, renders her fufferings more perfon for whom that magnificence acute. This circumftance, indepen, was prepared, is confined, naturally dent of any abfurd prejudice in favour prefented itfelf to our minds. This of rank, muft increase the fympathy idea, with that of the various aggra- of every feeling heart. Although the vating circumstances which attend is the daughter of an emprefs, the her confinement, made us contemfiter of emperors, and the wife of a king who was lately confidered the molt powerfu' in Europe, the feem now more pre-eminent in wretched ness than ever he was in rank and fplendor. the imagination of the tragic poet invented any thing more dreadfully affecting than the misfortunes and #ferings of Marie Antoinette queen of France; and for ages to come, She was not only a queen, but is her name will never be pronounced a beautiful woman; not only accuf unaccompanied with execrations atomed to the interested and oftenta-gaiatt the unmanly and unrelenting tipus fubmiffion that attends power, wretches who have treated her, and bur to that more pleating attention fuffered her to be treated in the and obenience which are paid to manner he has been. beauty. Fortune accompanied her friendship, and happiness her fimiles. She found her wifes anticipated, and faw her very looks obeyed. How painful muft now be the dreadful reverfe! Shut up in a prifon, furrounded with barbarians, wretches who rejoice in her calamity and infult her forrow, with what affecting, impropriety might this unfortunat quen adopt the pathetic complain of Job! He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pafs, and he hath fet darkness in my paths. "He hath tripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. ACCOUNT of NEWSTEAD-ABERY, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE., [With an elegant Engraving.] N JEWSTEAD-Abbey was founded hy king Henry 11. tor ca nons regular, of the order of St. Aagutine, and which was handtfomely endowed. It was given by King Henry VIII. to Sir John Byron, one of whofe defcendants. having fignalifed himself very re markably in favour of king Charles was created a baron. "He hath deftroyed me on every. fide, and I am gone: and nine hope hath he removed like a tree. "He hath put my brethren far from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my friends have forgotten me." It is retiredly fituated, in the midst of an extenfive park, finely planted. The houfe is ancient, and has on each fide two noble pieces of water; the beauty of thef lakes is greatly afined by a twenty-gun hip, and feveral yachts and boats lying at anchor; the banks on one What has this mot unforinnate of women already fuffered? what is yet referved for her to endure ? She ha-fide covered with fine woods; on the been shocked by the cruel murder of many of her fervants and friends, fome of them for no other reafon than their fidelity to her. She now fuffers all the agonies of fufpenfe her heart throbbing from recent wounds, and her mind terrified, no for her own fate only, but for thofe of her fitter, her husband, and her children --No! the anna's of the unfortunate do not record, nor has other, fcatered groves and a park. On the afcent of the hill is a Gothic building, from whence is a noble view of the lak s, the abbey, its fine arch, the plintation and the park, &c. Two caftles are walked by the waters of the lakes, furnished with a fniali battery: the corners (to make ufe of Mr. Young's words are unfortunately levelled at the parlour-windows. A SENTI |