on a charge of having lid one Burton, who, hearing that the king had said he would sooner pardon rebels than those who harboured them, accused his benefactress of having saved his life. She was burned at the stake. The excellent William Penn, the Quaker, saw her die, and related the manner of her death to Burnet. She laid the straw about her for her burning speedily, and behaved herself so heroically, that all melted into tears. Six men were hanged at Tyburn, on the like charge without trial. At length, the bloody and barbarous executions were so numerous, that they spread horror throughout the nation. England was an aceldama; the country, for sixty miles together, from Bristol to Exeter, had a new and terrible sort of sign-posts or gibbets, bearing the heads and limbs of its butchered inhabitants. Every soul was sunk in anguish and terror, sighing by day and by night for deliverance, but shut out of all hope, till the arrival of the prince of Orange, on whom the two houses of parliament bestowed the crown Jefferies had attained under James II. to the high
office of lord chancellor.
DICK AND THE MERMAID,
An Irish Tale.
On the shore of the Smerwick harbour, one fine summer's morning, just at day-break, stood Dick Fitzgerald “shoghing the dudeen." which may be translated, smoking his pipe. The sun was gradually rising behind the lofty Brandon, the dark sea was getting green in the light, and the mists
