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It was about eleven 0! the clock on a bright frosty morning, that Cromwell with his small life guard reached Ware. Causmg his trumc pets to sound through the streets. be summoned all the regiments to get themselves together orderly upon the green, to hear a proclamation from the lord-general: and ere this sum- mons had been well delivered, they turned out, not indeed orderly, or in good discipline, but in loud and tumultuous disarray. They were all under arms, although expressly contrary to or- ders; two regiments, especially, of musketeers, who had their caps adorned with ribands “inscri- bed, as a motto of insubordination, With the words, " For the people's freedom, and the soldier’s right," were observed to be in full field order, with their bandoleers slung round them, 'and the matches of the arquebuses lighted. Among these, as CromWell advanced slowly toward them, accompanied by Ardenne only, and followed at a little distance by acaptain's guard, with drawn swords, but no fire-armsfthe remainder ofthe regiment halting in line a little further in the rear—a wild disorganizing shout arose, “Equality of rights! Equality of rights! No king! No coalition! Down with the false graiidees!” But when with his long sturdy strides, and his stern features perfectly calm, but resolute and hard, as iftliey liatl'been cast in iron, he had closed with them, the shouts ceased suddenly. Slowly he walked along the front, looking each private full and firmly in the eye; and few were there who dared to meet with an unblenching brow his concentrated glare of anger and defiance. Halting at length directly opposite to the two regiments of iiiusketeers, he drew out. the proclamation. “I havea paper here," he said, “ to read to ye, froin the lord- general. Not to mutinecrs, however, but to so!- diers was I sent! Extingttish instantly,” he added, in a tone somewhat louder, yetso severe and pas-

‘ iiionless that one battalion obeyed on the moment.

“those tnatches! How dare ye muster thus"! Out of your caps with those unsoldierly and villain mottoes—out with them ! Nay! but ye shall trampel them beneath your feet !" And awed by his immoveable determination, that tumultuous assembly looked on in abashed wonder, and ordering as rapidly as possible their unmilitary and ill-dressed front, assumed an air of perfect discipline and a right soldierly demeanour. Not so the second regiment—for, brandishing their arms aloft, they raised a deep and scornful murmur, increasing gradually into

a shout ofabsolute defiance. Nay, some brought down their arquebuses to the ready movement, and ester) cocked them; but not one man re- moved the motto of rebellion. It was a moment of anxiety, if not of real peril; for though the great mass of the men were quiet, they yet wore an air of sullen, and almost savage discontent, which clearly showed their temper, and made it but too probable that any overt action ofone troop, even, would kindle the whole body into a blaze of fury. "Heard ye not!" Oliver pro- ceeded, in a voice pitched several notes below his usual key, but so full of intense resolve, of ‘quiet and indomitable spirit, that it thrilled to the hearts of all who heard it, even oftliose who still resisted. “ Or do ye dare to disobey me’! You sir,” he continued, stepping close up to the ranks,-wbich now began to waver somewhat, and confronting a gigantic lance-pesade— “ground your arms!” and the man overawed by his demeanour, slowly and sulkily obeyed. “ Shame! shame!” cried several voices front the rear—“ thou braggart, that would’st do so much, to shrink at the first word !"—“Silence there in the ranks!" Oliver cried fiercely, and at his

" word again the murmurs ceased; but, brief and trivia! as they were, those murmurs had yet roused anew a spirit of resistance in the bosom of the half-terrified ringleader. Silent he stood, indeed, but his motith worked convulsively, a red flush overspread his countenance, and his hand quirered as he grasped the barrel of his musket. “ Soh! thou art then a soldier,” con- tinued Cromwell, once more confronting the delinquent. “ Now, pull forth that rascal riband from thy cap! cast it, I say, into the dust, and set thy foot upon it !” The man spoke not, but hit his lip until the blood spirted forth; moving, however, no limb or muscle ofhis body, whether to execute or to resist his officer’s command. "Do as I bid thee, dog !”——-and with a flash of durious and ungovernable ire lighting up every eature of his face, Cromwell stamped his bee! on the turf, as though he was in the act of trampling down a living foeman. “ No dog of thine at least,” answered the fellow; “though if thou had’st thy will, all Englishmen would be as slaves and dogs beneath thee.” “ Ha !—this to me !"--and seizing the gigantic trooper by the throat, he shook him to and fro as though he were an infant, and cast him, almost as it seemed without an effort, to the earth behind him. “ Seize him, guards! Ho! yc answer for him with your lives—He is a ring-leader, and, as the Lord of earth and heaven liveth, verily he shall die the death !” And as he spoke his handful of assistants dragged 011‘ the prisoner, struggling and shouting for a rescue, and placed him in security among their mounted comrades. But, quickly as they did his bidding, yet quicker was the movement of the captive’s right-hand man to succour or avenge him; who, at the very point of time when Cromwell seized the lance~pesade, levelled his arquebuse right at his head, within six feet. 'Avdenne dashed forward, sword. in hand, follow? by six or eight qf,his ,ve men, whileJus lieutenant shout“ to ' _,n in the rear to charge. Yet, had i been needed? the career of Oliver had concluded on that ‘day in a paltry riot— but it was not needed; for in the very act of capturing the one, “1*: "‘ en-eyed and quick- witted leader observedt :motion of the other

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armour of the first clanged ‘as he fell Wasended, his broadsword gleained aloft in the bright sun- shine—down it came whistling through the air —down like a flash oflightning, and, with his skull cleft through his headpiece to the chin. the Second plunged head foremost, dead man ere he touched the earth, his arquebuse discharged, though harmlessly, by the convulsed and quiver- ing fingers after the life had left the body: Crom- well paused not for a second’s space to suffer them to rally or recover from the consternation which had fallen on them with all the chilling influence of panic terror, but, “Charge!” he shouted in a voice like thunder—“ Charge the rebellious dogs! Kill! kill! spare none who dare resist !" With the word, Ardenne rushed in, and faithfully his gallant men reqnited the trust placed in their allegiance. . Firmly, as though they had outnumbered their opponents, that little handful dashed into the breach which Cromwell's energy had made already in the re- bellious ranks; and at a full trot, with their rapiers levelled tothe charge, up swept the horse- men. But the fall of the ringleaders, and the undaunted bearing of their officers, were too much for their nerves ; and, ere the guard was on them, their musket-butts rang heavily as they were grounded simultaneously, and the obnoxious badges, torn with quick hands from every head- piece, flnttered on all sides in the air, oflstrewed the turf before their feet. “ Halt! ho! halt. Colonel Ardenne!” shouted Oliver, perceiving instantly, and profiling by 'his advantage. But scarcely was his second cry in time; font-though they curbed their chargers as the word reached their ears, the cavalry stopped not until the liorses’ chests were close upon the wavering ranks, and their long rapiers waving o'er their heads —“ Draw ofi'your horse. Lieutenant Win- throp,” he continued, “ advance two files ofin- fantry, arrest each tenth man ofthe lance-pe- sades throughout this battalion—verily they shall learn, and that right speedily, what he the fruits of mutiny. Officers to the front—call a drum- head court-martial !” Not a man stirred, and not a weapon Was advanced, as one by one the decimated prisoners were arrested. Before five minutes had passed over, ten or a dozen officers had assembled to perform the saddest and most painful duty that ever falls even to a soldier’s lot. The crime had been too flagrant—the proof too evident-—the peril too immediate to admit of lenity; and without one dissenting voice the fatal sentence Was pronounced on all the wretch- ed criminals, some five or six in number, who, now disarmed and bound, stood awaiting the award in speechless agony. "‘ A file for execus rion !" Oliver exclaimed, in the most harsh and grating tones; “draw otit a file for execution from that same regiment! Lead forth that fel- low whom I seized myself—he was the very foremost ofthem all, and may not look for mer- cy! This grace will I accord the rest—they shall cast lots among them; btit one must expiate his sins before his country and his God, ere the world be ten minutes older; and may the Lord have mercy on their souls! The rest I will re- fer unto parliament.” ’l‘he lots were speedily prepared. and with an air ofthe most agonizing terror and anxiety, hope and fear blended into a fierce excitement, which it was truly awful-e- ven to look upon, the miserable wretches plunged their hands into the helmet. which contained the scraps of paper on which their mortal exis- tence depended. It was a moment of intense and shuddering pain, even to those who, in comparative indifference, were mere spectators of the scene; what must it then have been to those, of whom one certainly was destined to be sent, from the fair face ofthe bright laughing earth, unhouselled and unshriven into the pre- sence of his Maker, with scarce a moment even to prepare the spirit for endurance ofthe fearful shock which should disjoin it froin the body.— The lottery of death was ended! The soldier whose hard fate had been thus chance-decided, was a small, delicate, pale-looking man—of a weak frame, and a countenance effeminate, and betokening anything save energy of mind or resoltition. Yet was this frail and nerveless being perfectly cool and self-collected; while his companion, taken in the very fact—linibed like a Herculeshwiih high, bold features, and a brilliant eye—a man who would have ridden fearlessly, although alone, upon a stand of love!- led pikes, or rushed upon a cannon’s month just as the limstock was applied-shook like art as- pen-leaf through all his powerful frame—his brow, his cheek, his lip grew white as asbes— his eye was dim and senseless—be sobbed, he wept aloud, struggling violently with the troop- ers, who conducted him to his last stand upon earth, and pleading frantically for mercy. With an air perfectly composed and fearless, the other threw asule his cossack and his vest, unbound the kerchief from his neck, giving it as a token to a favourite fellow-soldier, and having, in a clear unfaltering voice, confessed the jusli- ness of his sentence, and exhorted his cum. panions to take warning from his fate, he bowed respectfully to those who had condemned him, and stepped as lightly to the place of execution as though it were his choice to die. There they stood side by side—full of strong health and intellect, and life and passion, in one short moment to be mere clods of bodies and uncon- scious clay—«and there With their death weapons levelled, paler themselves, and far more agitated, than even those on whotn they were to do the work of blood, the firing party chosen from the ranks of their own regtmentL—composed Lper- haps ofinessmates, of familiar friends, ofpmved associates in many a scene of peril and of glory ---perhaps of comrade plotters, instigators to the very crime Which they were destined to avenue, their friends. to expinte, their partners withfiut doubt in this. last fatal deed of guilt, and now their executioners ! The regiments were drawn up, forming three sides of a great hollow

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e criminals upon the fourth, the execu- tioners already facing them at scarce ten. gag—e: distant. There was 90! a VOICE—3 ‘Slg‘ a movement, in that mighty concourse, not h weapon clashed, not a f'ootrustled on the earth . But the sun shone in, glorious beauty upgntti e burnished pike heads and the wavu‘ig start “M s, and the whole earth looked gay and smiilling— more gay, more smiling, as it seemed to ft e pox criminals, than ever it had been be are. h

short exteinporaneous prayer was uttered by tr: captain of their own battalion—a sad and dole ud hymn was chaunted by the now “penitent an

terrified assemblage, with a sound inexpressibly and strangely doleful. The fatal Sign ' was given—a bright flash—a sharp report as of a stngle piece—and when the smoke cleared ofi', there lay the bodies on the sod, lifeless and motionless, their sins and sorrows thus simultaneously and suddenly concluded. There was no need 0 more severity, and the quick eye of Crorrywell saw it. With the yet warm and palpitating bodies in full view. he read aloud the general’s message, the soldiery listening to'every word With a respectful and a sincere attention,that.denoted all the force of the example they had Witnessed. As he concluded, every regiment presented and then grounded arms; the agitators humbly. ad- vanced from the crest-fallen ranks, and Willie deferential air expressed their complete satis- faction at the lord-general’s exposition, their sense of their own past misconduct. and their gratitude to Cromwell _for'the mercy he had shown thorn in taking but two lives Where all so

righteonsly were fbrfe' . After a feiv more -words of reprimand , d wrth commenda-

tions of their former’ ices, and’exhortations never to offend in the like sort hereafter, Oliver, whose point w” openly gained, dismissed the soltlisrs; and the bands striking up in therm- pressive tiotes of a dead march, with colours trailed and,_arms reversed, they filed off to their several quarters, well convinced now that how- soever their conintanders might connive at dis- obedience to thefparliament, they would in no sort tolerate or wink at the most trivial mutiny against their own authority. In fact, by his undaunted resolution in suppressing, and his inflexible severity in punishing, the present dis- affection, joined to the partial lenity he had extended to his prisoners, Cromwell had more than regained all that he had temporarily lost in the opinions of the army—From the new novel of “ Oliver Cromwell.”

Mrssron PRIZE Essie—Many of our readers Will remember that three years ago two prizes of two hundred guineas and of fifty guineas respect~ ively, were offered by a body of Christians asso- ciated for the purpose. for the two best essays that should be produced before 1st June, 1839, on the “ Duty, Privilege, and Encouragement of Christians to send the Gospel to the Heathen.” The prospectus was issued under the signatures of Dr. Chalmers, of the late respected Dr. M‘Gill, Professor of Theology in the Glasgow University, and of Dr. Duff, the eminent Super- intendent ofthe General Assembly’s Missionary and Educational Institution at Calcutta. The adjudicators were chosen to represent the different churches, who have practically acknow- ledged the obligation to engage in the, sacred enterprise ofChristianising the world—viz., for the Church ofEngland, the Rev. Henry Melville, of Camberwell; for the Church of Scotland, the Rev. Dr..Welsh, Professor of Church History in the University of Edinburgh , for the Independ- ents, the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, of Glasgow; for the Baptists, the Rev. Thomas S. Crisp, of the Baptist College, Bristol ; and for the Wesleyans, the Rev. Dr. Bunting. These. names are a guarantee for an impartial and eflicient discharge of the difficult task of deciding on the merits of the difl'erent essays lodged, which were more than forty in number. The award was expected some months ago, but circumstances have made a postponement necessary. We trust, however, that very shortly the Christians ofour own coun- try and throughout the world—for the interest ofthe scheme is not local or national—will be gratified by the publication oftwo works which may. become eminently useful in extending a missmnary spirit. It is an encouraging and delightful fact, that the desire tojoin in the noble competition, was, apparently, as vivid in the United States as here. More than one powerfit‘ ‘ 1! application came from clergymen in the Union for the extension ofthe time allowed to furnish essays, bitt theterms of the original prospectus reluctantly forced the offerers ofthe

. prizes to refuse. There is, however, reason to hope the other stde ofthe Atlantic has, notwithstanding,

furnished a quota of the array oftalent just mentioned.

AN OLD Newssaesu.—There is nothing more beneficial to the reflecting mind than the perusal of an old newspaper. Thouoh a silent preacher, it is one which conveys a lignoral more palpable and forcible than the most elaborate discourse. As the eye runs down the diminutive and old-fashioned columns, and peruses its quaint advertisements and by-gone paragraphs the question forces itself on the mind—Where are now the busy multitudes Whose names appear on these pages !—where is now the puffing auction- eer. the pushing tradesman, and bustling mer- chant, the. calculatinglawyer, who each occupies a space in such chronicle of departed time? Alas, they have passed away like their fore- fathers, and are no more seen! From these consrderations the mind naturally turns to the period when we, who may enjoy our little span of eitistence in this chequered scene, shall have gone down into the dust, and shall’ furnish the same moral to our children that our fathers do to us! I‘he_sun will then shine as bright the thymus 'ivrll bloom as fair, the face of Niiture Will be as pleasing asever; While we are reposino in our narrow cells, headless of every thing thai.

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the said Debts. . CHARLES YOUNG, Solicitor Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, October 12, 1840.

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