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shew his powers, and we refuse not to treat; and we shall lay down our arms to treat, provided that he also lay down his. Thou hast my answer.'--'It is a perfectly hopeless case,' said Burley, while he called after the flag-bearer.-- 'Let me add one word by your leave, General. Get thee up to that bloody dragoon, Clavers, and tell him, that we will spare his life, and the lives of his troops, on condition that he, your Clavers, lay down his arms, and the arms of these troops. We will do more, as we have no prisoners on these wild mountains, we will even let him go on his parole, on condition that he swear never to lift arms against the religion and the liberties of his eountry. A loud burst of applause re-echoed from the ranks; and after a long pause in deep silence, the army sung the following verses of a psalm:-
'The arrows of the bow he brake :
The shield, the sword, the war.
More glorious thou than hills of prey,
More excellent art far.
Those that were stout of heart are spoil'd,
They sleep their sleep outright;
And none of these their hands did find,
That were the men of might.
When the report was made to Claverhouse, he gave word with a savage ferocity, 'Their blood be on their own heads. Be--no quarter--the word this day.' His fierce dragoons raised a yell, and 'No quarter,' re-echoed from rank to rank, while they galloped down the mountain side. It is stated, that Burleigh was heard to say, 'Then be it so, even let there be 'no quarter'—at least in my wing of the host. So God send me a meeting,' eried he aloud, 'with that ehief under the white plume.-My country would bless my memory, could my sword give his villainous earease to the crows.
Our raw troops beheld with firmness the approach of the foemen; aud at the moment when the enemy halted to fire, the whole of our foot dropped on the heath.
