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THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER
4fjn THE JUDGE.
BY CAPTAIN MARRY AT.
It was the land-of poetry and song the
land peopled with the memories of the
mighty past the land over which the sha
dows of a long renown rested more glow
ingly than a present glory. It was beauti
ful Italy; the air, like a sweet odor, was to
the senses as soft thoughts are to the mincl,
or tender feelings to the heart, breathing
serenity arid peace. That-sweet air swept
balmily over the worn brow of an invalid,
giving in the pallid hue of his countenance
the faint dawn of returning. health.
The eye of the Invalid was fixed on the
dark characters of a book in cumbrous bind
ing and massive clasps, which, the Rox
burgh club would now consider an invalua
ble black letter; and so absorbed was he in
its perusal, that he heard not the approach
ing steps of visiters, until the sound of their
greetings roused him from his meditations.
The saints have you in their keeping!"
said his elder visiter, a man whose brow
bore traces of age, though time had dealt
leniently with him.
'The dear Madonna bless you!" ejacula
ted his other visiter, a young girl with the
large flashing eye, the pure oval face, and
the classic contour of Italy.
The invalid bowed his head to each of
these salutations.
"And now," said the merchant, for such
was the elder visiter, "that your wounds
are healing and your' strength returning,
may we not inquire of your kin and coun
try ?"
A slight flush passed over the pale face
ot the sick man; he was silent lor a mo
ment, as if communing with himself, and
then replied, "I am of England, and a sol
dier albeit of the lowest rank."
uOf England !" hastily responded the
merchant; 4of England! of hereticEngland!
He crossed himself devoutly, and started"
back as if afraid of contamination.
I may not deny home and country,'
replied the soldier mildly. J
"But I should incur the church's censure
for harboring theel" exclaimed the mer
chant. "Thou knowest not what pains and
penalties may be mine for doing thee this
service 1" ; . .
"Then let me forth," replied the soldier;
"j'ou have been to me the good Samaritan,
and I would not requite you with evil; let
me go on my way, and may the blessing of
Heaven be upon you in the hour of your
own need." I ' :
"Nay, nay, I said not jso. Thou hast not
yet strength for the travel, and, besides,
England was once one of the brightest jew
els in our holy father's crown, and she
might reconcile herself again; but I fear me
she will not, for your, master Henry is a
violent, hot-blooded man, and he hath torn
away the kingdom from apostolic care -
Know you not that jour land is under in
terdict, and that I, as a true son of the holy
mother church, ought not now to be chang
ing words with thee!"
"Even so," replied the soldier, 'but
there are many that think the king's grace
hardly dealt by .7.-.
"The shepherd: knoweth best how to
keep his fold," replied the merchant, hasti
ly. "But you are the king's soldier; you
take his pay, you eat his bread, and doubt-
Uess ought to hope best for him, and even
so 4o I. I would that he might repent and
humble himself, and then our holy father
would again receive him into the fold; but,
, new I bethink me thou wert reading, what
! were thy studies ?"
I The brow of the soldier clouded; he hesi-
tated a moment, but then? gathering up his
resolution, replied, "In the din ofbattlethis
book wag breaslplate, in the hotrr of
i m .
sickness m)T best balm," and he laid the o
pen volume before the merchant.
. "Holy saint !" exclaimed the merchant,
crossing himself, and drawing back as he
beheld the volume which his church had
closed against the layman, " Thau art
among the heretics who bring down a curse
upon thy land ! Nay, thy sojourn liere may
bring down ma!ediclionsupon me and mine!
upon my house and home! But thou shalt
go forth! I will not harbor thee! I will de
liver thee over to the church, that she mac
cbasten thee! Away from him, my chiltf !
away from him J
The; soldier sat sad and solitary, watch
ing th6 dy ing light of the sun as he passed
majestically on!, the shrinein other lands.
One ray rested' on the thoughtful brow of
the lonely man its he sat bracing up his cour
age to meet the perilous future. As he thus
mused, a soft voice broke upon his revery.
" iou are inmKing oi your own lar-on
home, j said the Italianigirl; "how I wished
that all I love had but one home; it is a grief
to have so many homes !
" There is such a home, replied the sol
dier.
"Ah!" replied Emilia, "but they say that
heretics come not there! Promise me that
you will not be a heretic any longer."
The soldier smiled, and sighed.
"You guess why 1 1 am here to-night,"
resumed the Italian girl. ' "I know it by
that smile and sigh. You think that I come
to tell you to seek your own land and home,
and therefore you smile
Land you just breathe
one little sigh because
sun and me."
you leave the bright
"Am I then to leave you, perhaps to be
delivered over to your implacable church?"
Emilia crossed herself. "No, no, go to
your own land and be happy. Here is mo
ney; m father could not deny me when I
begged it of him with -kisses and tears.
Go and be happy, and forget us.
"Never! exclaimed the soldier, earnest
ly; "never! And you, my kind and gentle
nurse,mygood angel youwho have brought
hope to my pillow, and beguiled the sad
hours of sickness in a foreign land words
are but poor things to thank thee with.'
"I shall sec you no more ! said the
young Italian ; "andwhat shall make me
happy when you are gone! Who will tell
me tales of floods and fields? I have been
happy while you were here, and yet we met
very sadly. My heart stood still when we
first found you covered with blood, on our
way back to Milan after the battle. You
had crept under a hedge, as we thought, to
die. But I took courage to lay my hand
upon your heart, and it still beat ; so we
brought you home ; and never has a morn
ing passed but I gathered the sweetest flow
ers to freshen vour sick pillow; and while
vou were insensible in that terrible fever I
used to steal into your chamber and kneel
at your bed foot, and pray for the Madon
na's care. And when you revived you smiled
at my flowers, and, when you had voice to
speak, thanked me."
Emilia's voice was lost in sobs; and what
wonder if one from man's sterner nature
mingled with them?
The morrow came. The Italian girl
gathered a last flower, and gave it in tearful
silence to the soldier. He kissed the fra
grant gift, and then, with a momentary
boldness, the fair hand that gave it, and de
parted. The young girl watched his foot
steps till they were lost to sight, listening
to them till thev were lost to sound, and
then abandoned herself to weeping.
"Thou art sad, dear daughter," said
venerable father to his child,as they travers
ed that once countrified expanse through
which we jostle on our way from the citv
to Westminister. " Thou art sad, dear
daughter."
"Nav, my father," replied the maiden.
"I would not be so; but it is hard always to
wear a cheerful countenance when '
"The heart is sad, thou wouldst say
"Nay; I mean it not
"I have scarce seen thee smile since we
entered this England I may not say this
heretic England.
"Hush! dear father, hush! the winds may
whisper it ; see you not that we are sur
rounded by a multitude W
"They are running madly to some re
relry."
Let us leave the path, then," said the
eirl; "it suits not our fallen fortunes, or our
dishonored faith, to seem to mingle in this
stream of follv. Doubtless the Kinff hath
some new pageantry
"Well, and if it be so, replied me lath
er, "happily the gewgaw and the show
mirht brine; back the truant smile to thy
Ho, and lost lustre to thine eye. Thou art
too young to be thus moodily sad See bow
anxious, how eager, how happy seem this
multitude! 4iot one care-worn brow ! -thou
mavest catch their cheerfulness." We will
go with the stream
The girl offered no further resistance.-
They were strangers in the land; poor, al
most penniless. They had come from their
own country to reclaidra debt which one
of the nobles of the court had incurred in
more prosperous days, when the merchant
was rich in silver, and gold, and merchan
dise. The vast throng poured on, swelling un
til it became a mighty tide; the bells pealed
out, the cannons bellowed, human voices
augmented the din. The Thames was lin
ed on either bank; every building ori its
margin, and its surface peopled... Every
sort of aquatic vessel covered its bosom, so
that the flowing river seemed rather some
broad road teeming with life. Galley after
galley, glittering with the gold and the pur
ple, came on laden with the wealth, and the
pride, and the beauty of the land, and pres
ently the acclamation of a thousand, voices
rent the skies, "The King I the King!
long live the King!" He came Henry
VIII came, in all the regal dignity and gor
geous splendor in which he so much de
lighted. And theu began the pageant, contrived
to throw odium on Rome, and to degrade
the pretensions of the Pope. Two gal
leys, one bearing the arms of England, and
the other marked by the papal insignia,
advanced towards each other, and the fic-
titous contest commenced.
Borne on by the crowd, our . merchant
and his daughter had been forced intoa con
spicuous situation. J he peculiar dress, the
braided hair, the beauty and foreign as
pect of the girl, had maiked her out to the
rude gallantry of the crowd ; so that the
father and the daughter were themselves
objects of interest and curiosity.
1 he two vessels joined, and thjs mimic
contest was begun. Of course the English
. . . ' 1
colors triumphed over the Papal. AJp to
this point the merchant bore his pangs in
silence; but-when the English galley had
assumed the victory, then came the trial of
patience. Effigies of the cardinals were!
hurled into the stream amidst the shouts
and derisions of the mob. At each plunge
groans issued from his tortured breast. It
was in vain that Emilia clung to his arm,
and implored him, by every fear, to res
train himself. His religious zeal overcame
his prudence ; and when, as the figure of
the Pope, dressod in his pontifical robes,
was hurled into the tide, the loud exclama
tion of agony and horror burst from his lips.
Uli, monstrous impiety of an accursed
and sacrilegeous king!" sounded loudly a-
oove tne uin ol the mob.
It was enough ; the unhappy merchant
was immediately consigned over to the se-
cular.arm.
Oh, sad were those prison hours ! The
girl told her beads, the father prayed to all
the 6aints, and then came the vain consola
tions by which each endeavored to cheat
the other. They thought of their own
sunny land, its balmy air, its living beauty,
and that thought was home.
November came with all its gloom the
month that should have been the grave of
the year, coming, as it does, with shroud
and cerecloth, foggy, dark, and dreary; the
father's brow numbered more wrinkles, the
once black hair was more nearly bleached,
the features more attenuated.
And the daughter ah ! vouth is the
transparent lamp of hope but in her the!
light was dim.
In fear and trembling the unhappy for
eigners waited the day of doom. The
merchant s offence was one little likely to
meet with mercv. Henry was jealous of
his title of Head of the Church. He had
drawn up a code of articles of belief, which
his subjects were desired to subscribe to,
and he had instituted a court of which he
had made Lord Cromwell vicar-general, for
the express trial of those whose orthodoxy
in the king's creed was called in question.
Neither could the unhappy merchant
hope to find favor with the judge, for it
was known that Cromwell was strongly
attached to the growing Reformation; and
from the acts of severity with which
he had lately visited some of the adherents
of the Romish creed, in his new character
of vicar-general, it was scarcely probable
that he would show mercy to one attached,
by lineage and love to the papal Rome.
Strangers as they were, poor, unknowing
and unknown, what had they not to fear,
and what was left for hope !
The, morning of trial came. The fogs
of that dismal month spread like a dark
veil over our earth. There was no beauty
in the landscape, no light in the heavens,
and no hope in the heart.
The Judges took their places ; a crowd
of wretched delinquents came to receive
their doom. We suppose it to be a refine
ment of modern days, that men are not
punished for their crimes, but only to de
ter others from committing them. This
court of Henry's seemed to think other
wise ; there was all the array of human
passions in the Judges as well as in the
judged. On one hand, recreant fear ab
jured his creed ; on another, heroism brav
ed all contingencies, courting the, pile and
the stake, with even passionate dssire, and
the pile and the stake were given with
stern and unrelenting cruelty.
1 At length there stood at the bar an aged
man and a beautiful girl ; the long white
hair of the one fell loosely over the ; shoul
ders, and left unshaded a face wrinkled as
much by care as by age : the dark locks of
the other were braided over a countenance
clouded by sorrow, and wet with tears.
The mockery of trial went on. It was
easy to prove what even the criminal did
not attempt to gainsay. The aged mer
chant avowed his fidelity to the Pope as a
true son of the church; denied the snprtma
cy of Henry over any part of the fold, and
thus sealed his doom.
There was an awful stillness through
the court stillness the precursor of doom
broken only, by the sobs of the weeping
girl, as she clung to her father's arm.
Howbeit, the expected sentence was inter
rupted ; there came a sudden rush, fresh
attendants thronged the court. "Room
for Lord Gromwell !" and the vicar general
came in his pomp and his state, with all
the insignia of Office, to assume the place
of pre-eminence at that .tribunal. Notes
of the proceedings were 'laid before Lord
Cromwell. He was told of the intended
sentence, and he made a gesture of appro
bation. A gleam of hope had dawned up
on the mind of the Italian girl as Lord
Cromwell entered. She watched his coun
tenance while he read ; it was stern, indi
cative of cafm determination ; but there
were lines in it that spoke more of mistak
en duty than of innate cruelty. Yet when,
the vicar general gave his token of assent?
the steel entered Emilia's soul,. and a sob,
the veriest accent of despair, rang through
that court, and, where it' met with a human
heart, pierced through all the cruelty and
oppression that armed it, and struck upon
some of the natural feelings that divide men
from monsters. That sound struck upon
Lord Cromwell's ear; his eye sought the
place whence it proceeded it rested on
Emilia and her father. A strange emotion
passed over the face of the stern judge a
perfect stillness followed.
,-Lord Cromwell broke the silence. He
glanced over the notes that had been hand
ed to him, speaking in a low voice, appa
rently to himself " From Italy a mer
chant Milan ruined by . the wars ay,
those Milan wars were owing to Clement's
ambition and Charles's knavery the loss
of substance to England to reclaim an old
indebtedment."
Jjiord Cromwell's eye rested once more
upon the merchant and his daughter. "Ye
are of Italy from Milan; is that your
birthplace?"
" We are Tuscans," replied the merch
ant, " of Lucca ; and oh! noble lord, if there
is mercy in this land, show it now to this
unhappy girl." .
" To both, or to neither !" exclaimed the
girl ; "we will live or we will die together!"
The vicar-general made answer to nei
ther. He rose abruptly, at a sign given by
him, the proper officer declared the court
adjourned the sufferers were hurried back
to their cells some went whither they
would, others whither they would not; but
all dispersed.
A faint and solitary light glanced through
a chink, of the prison walls it came from
the narrow cell of the Italian merchant and
his d .ughter.
' The girl slept ay, slept. Sleep does
not always leave the wretched, to light on
lids unsullied with a tear. Reader, hast
thrm known intffnsff miprv. and panet tVinn
i not remember how thou hast felt and went.
and ngonized, untinhe very excitement of
thy misery wore out the body's power Of
endurance, and sleep, like a torpor, a leth
argy, bound thee in its chains ? Into such
a sleep 4iad Emilia fallen ; she was lying
on that prison floor, her face pale as if ready
for the grave, the tears yet resting on her
cheek, and over her sat the merchant lean
ing, asking himself whether, treasure that
she was, and had ever been to him, he could
wish that sleep to be the sleep of death. I
The clanking of a key caught the merch
ant's ear ; a gentle step entered their prison.
The father's first thought was for his child.
He made a motion to enjoin silence; it was
obeyed ; his visiter advanced with a quletf
tread ; the merchant looked upon him with
wonder. Snrely no and yet could it be?
that his judge, LBrd Cromwell, the vicar
general, stood before him and stood, not
with threatening in his eye, not with denun
ciation on his lips, but took histand on the
other side of poor Emilia, gazing on her
Iwith an eye in which tenderness and com
passion were conspicuous.
Amazement bound up the faculties of the
merchant. He seemed to himself as one
that dreameth.
"Awake, gentle girl, awake," said Lord
Cromwell, he stooped over Emilia. "Let
me hear thy voice once more as it sounded
in mine ears in other days."
The gentle accents fell too lightly to break
the spell of that heavy slumber ; and the
merchant, whose fears, feelings, and con
fusion formed a perfect chaos, stooping over
his child, suddenly awoke her with the cry
of "Emilia! Emilia! awake, and behold
our judge!"
" Nay, nay, not thus roughly," said Lord
Cromwell, but the sound had already recall
ed Emilia to a sense of wretchedness. She
half raised herself from her recumbent posi
tion into a kneeling one, shadowing her
dazzled eyes with her hand, her streaming
hair falling in wild disorder over her, and
thus rested at the feet of her judge.,
Xook on me, Emilia," said Lord Crom
well. And encouraged by the gentle accents,
she raised her tear-swollen, eyes to his face.
As she did so, the vicar general lifted from
his brow his plumed cap, and revealed the
perfect outline of his features. And Emilia
gazed as if spell-bound, until gradually shades
of doubt, of wonder, if recognition, came
struggling over her countenance- and in'
voice of passionate amazement she exclaim
ed, " it is the same ! it is Our sick soldier
guest!" - - ' "...
Even so, said Lord Crdwelt,.jeTen
so, my dear and gentle nurse. He who wa
then the poo dependent on your, bounty,
receiving from your charity his daily bread
as an alms, hath this day presided over the
issues of life and death as your judge i but
fear not, Emilia; the sight of thse, gentle
girl, comes like the memory of youth and $
kindly thoughts across the sterner mood that '
hath lately- darkened over me. They
whose voice may influence the destiny of a
nation gradually lose the memory of gentler
thoughts. It may be Providence haUj sent
thee to melt me back again into i softer na
ture. Many a heart shall be gladdened that,
but for my sight of thee, had been sad unto
death I bethink me, gentle girl, of the
flowers laden with de w,and rich iff fragrance,
which thou used to lay upon my pillow,
while this head throbbed with agonjof pain
upon it, fondly thinking that their sweet
ness would be a balm ; and how1 thou, wert
used to steal into my chamber and listen to
tales of this the land of ray home ! Thou
art here : and how hast thou been welcom
ed? To a prison, and well nigli to death.
But the poor soldier hath a home t come
Uhou and thy father, and share it." . -
, An hour ! who dare prophesy its events r
At the beginning of that hour, the merchant
and his daughter had been the sorrowful
captives of a prison ; at its close, Ihey were
the treasured guests of a palace. ;
LoCO'-Foc.o regard for the Pe0ple.-ThB
regard of the Loco Foco party for the peo
ple, may be estimated by a fact which we
developed at the North: Carolina elections.
An effort has long been making in.Caroli
na to , afford the people of that Slate ithe
blessings of a good education by means of
a judicious system of free schools. - This
question was submitted to the people at the
last election, and they were called on to a
dopt or reject the plan. The ' Aristocrat"
ic Whigs,'' " who grind the people to dust
for their own selfish ' purposes," generally
sustained the plan, while the Democratic
Loco Focos, the especial friends, and pat
rons of the people, who think of their in
terest by day and dream of it by night, re
jected it- We are a little puzzled to know
why a party who are par excellence the
people's champions, should wish to deprive
them of the greatest earthly blessing. Do
they think it is their interest to keep the
people in the dark. ' Do .they fear to sub-
mit the doctrines of their parly to the lest'
of an intelligent and enlightened examina
tion ? -"Petersburg Intelligencers .
Modern definition of a Lad v. " A fmale in thrf
shape of a pair of saddle bags, small in the middle,
and large at both ends." ' ' . .
IUorns IVliil ti can lis.
QTnHE Subscriber offers for sale from Tirrnr.it lor
IL TWENTY THOUSAND JtlorUS JTJul
ticauliS Trees, very thrifty and in fine conJi
lion, ranging from three to seven feet high.
ELEAZAR COLBURN
Raleigh, Augnst29, 183S. . 6w--p.
$crJLootc Herein
BEING desirous of moving to the West, J, 'offer
for Sale my Tract of Land lying on the waters of
New Light Creek, about 20 miles north of Raleigh.
& about 8 miles Trora Wake Forest Cpllege i. Rait
Road Depot containing about 450 Acres a Farm
sufficient to work 6 or 7 hands to advantage well
watered, and adapted to the culture of Corn,, Wheat.
Cotton and Tobacco; a considerable qasnlity of
fresh Land and a good deal of low grounds well im
proved, with a comfortable Dwelling: House, and all
necessary out houses. The above Mentioned Land
will be sold on liberal terms by early application 1mm
ing inade to the Subscriber on the premises, r
J AS. HICKS.
Acgust 27th. 1839. 44 9t'
SHERIFFS SALE.
I WILL SELL at the Court House, in the Town
of Rockingham, Richmond County, on the 3rd
Monday of October next, the following TRACTS
OP LAND, or so much thereof as will satisfy; the.
Taxes due thereon for the years 1836, '37 and '39 "
and costs, viz :
33 J Acres, known as tbe Heirs of John Mc- -Inis,
dee'd., lying on the waters of Niked '
.Creek. Tax .... X) 50
Matthew Drigers, 250 Acres. Tax $1 70
Zachariah Skipper, 100 Aerea on Falling ,
Creek. Tax ....................... 8 00
The Pierce Place, said to contain 73 Acres.
Tax . . 4. ;;$ si
u sam'l: tbrrt, svjt,
Richmond County, August t9, 1 39.' 44
(Pr. Adv. $3.50.) .
. FaycttevilU, jr. C. -
THIS Establishment will be open after tba 'sl of
August, under the management 'and direction
of the Subscriber. The House hat been thorough
ly repaired, and wil in a few days; be well faroieh
ed; and every effort will be made lo render it worthy
f patronage. . - . , i ED.-iTARBROtJGH.
July 30, 18S0, ' r ;,403mi
HAVE JUST RECEIVED Urn faahleaaVk
8TRAW:& NtN3 .BONNETS, .
Raleigh, Jnly 1 1, lip. ; 87
EXECUTED at this Office, with neatnew asi
despatch.
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