ber-" she was led forth. Yet a new trial awaited her; an aged female burst through the guard, and with loud and passionate lamentations, threw herself at Beatrice's feet, who raised her with tears and embraces. "ye know full well that from yon crouching frame | and solemn, announced that her hour was come; the your racks have expelled the spirit of a man! Me- next moment her prison doors were thrown open, and thinks the plea hath been urged before in vain--yet methinks the testimony of my maidens, who were with me on that night, might be sufficient to outweigh" "It hath been determined by his highness and our council," said Albizzi, "that the evidence of those so closely attached to your person--so devoted to your service--is not to be received." "Then God be gracious to me !" said the duchess, meekly folding her arms; "to Him I appeal from your most unrighteous sentence. But one moment will I trespass on your patience; this pacquet is for the eyes of Philip; he will best know its purport." "Ha! Bona! mine aged nurse! How fares it with thee? Alas! thou wilt grieve for thine age, that sees in such strait the child of thy loving care!" But the next moment the stern soldiers tore the faithful servant from the arms of her mistress, and the procession passed on. Far differently had Philip passed the night. Haunted by remorse--agitated by vain terrors, the tyrant had not slept--but continued during the silent hours of darkness to pace his apartments--now exulting at the accomplishment of his wishes-now filled with vindictive rage against the being whose spirit his power could not subdue--and now trembling with vague apprehension of the popular vengeance for his relentless immo She drew a folded paper from her bosom, and while a smile scarcely perceptible, played on her pale lips, reached it to one of the lords, who presented it to the duke. Beatrice well knew that the letter could avail her nought in that assemblage of subservient ministers; but it may be she hoped somewhat from her lord's consciousness that his perfidy was known--or it may belation of his benefactress. He watched the morning she wished him to feel her contempt. "Away with her!" cried the tyrant, as he tore the paper into fragments, and stamped upon it in his fury. Away with her! let her perish with the base-hearted partner of her crimes! We have done her too much grace to accord her this trial--she would repay our clemency by contumely! Away with her!" POSTSCRIPT TO PROFESSOR LIEBER'S LETTER. dawn-he heard the pealing of the bells-the dull mournful music that accompanied the sentenced on her last journey; the busy tread of men and soldiers; and finally, confused murmurs gathering from many quarters; an increasing tumult, mingled with shouts and shrieks, that seemed approaching the palace. Then the measured tramp of the soldiery; the tumult preThe smile of superior scorn yet lingered on the lips sently decreased, but the fears of the prince were unalof Beatrice, as the sentence of death, to be executed layed; and even when his minions entering, announced on the morrow, was read; from the mockery of a trial that all was over, and the city at peace, his paleness she was hurried back to her prison, to spend the few and the forced smile with which he welcomed the tidhours of life remaining to her. On this, the last nightings, showed little of the triumph of successful villainy. of her existence, her spirit was at peace with her mur-Nor did he escape the vengeance of heaven, which derers. Not one feeling of resentment for her unpa-though long delayed, most surely falls on the offender; ralleled injuries--not one wish for vengeance on the in many an after calamity-in many a day of anxiety destroyers of her life and fame, disturbed the heavenly and fear, was the deed visited on the head of the serenity of her soul. As she slumbered on her prison destroyer. couch, overcome by fatigue and suffering, her countenance was so calm and lovely in its repose, that she looked rather like one delivered from some heavy sorrow, than one about to perish ignominiously on a scaffold. Before the east had begun to redden, the doomed Columbia, S. C. March 15, 1837. princess arose, and with the aid of her single attendant, It was only to-day, my dear sir, that I received Volume II of attired herself for her execution, as if she donned her the Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian robes for some princely banquet! With resignation Society (Cambridge, Mass. 1836), which you had the kindness unmingled with a shade of anxiety, save that natural of sending to me, and for which I beg you to accept my sincerest awe inseparable from a near contemplation of death, thanks. I have had but an hour's leisure to glance at your Syeven when disrobed of his terrors, she waited the ap- hasty view has sufficed to make me regret that this full ethnonopsis of the Indian Tribes of North America, but even this pointed dawn. The events of her past life crowded graphic account from your pen came to hand long after the M.S. before her; her conscience found little to condemn, but of my Remarks on Comparative Philology had been sent to a it reproached her for the fatal haste of her marriage place at a great distance from my residence. It would be in vain with Philip, when the grave had but just closed over at present, to attempt adding to them some farther reflections her husband. Nor were the circumstances, or her de- from them. For myself, I expect much instruction from your founded upon your researches, or some niore illustrations drawn sire to procure peace for her country by her union with Synopsis, and know that I express but the feelings of all who the heir of the throne, then regarded by her as excuses feel interested in the advancement of general philology, if I for her ill-omened precipitancy. "Woe is me," she thank you most cordially for this scientific production, which said; "in the deceitfulness of my ambitious heart I would do great honor to a scholar, yeɩ “nel mezzo del cammin,” and who had spent his life exclusively in the service of science, violated the reverence due to the sacred dead!" When not like yourself in the busiest scenes of politics and war, of her confessor was announced, joyful was the greeting the financial cares of your country and of high diplomacy, until with which she received the minister of heaven's mercy; at last you were allowed to make for a port, and there you found dismissing her attendant, and kneeling before the holy only the quiet of Roscoe. May we see yet many such proofs man, she poured out the emotions of an innocent and of your energy exerted so successfully, though in the evening of pious heart, and received the last consolations of reli-your life, to the honor of our country. Once more My dear sir, most faithfully yours, gion. Then the hoarse peal of the bells, deep, slow To the Hon. Albert Gallatin. FRANCIS LIEBER. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, From the 3d to the 24th March, 1837. 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