royal mind. Cary's brother was marshal of Ber-were unattended to, and in despair Cary boldly wick, and King James had desired an interview determined to quit his post without leave, and with him, at the boundary road between the two confront the Queen in person. Mr. Secretary kingdoms, in order to send a communication to Cecil, and his own brother, who was Chamberlain, his sister of England. It would have been no gave him the cold shoulder, and would have great matter for the Berwick functionary to have nothing to do with him; but "it pleased God to stepped to the Scotch border, but simple as it send Mr. William Killigrew, one of the privy was, he dared not do it without the express sanc-chamber, to pass by where I was walking, who tion of his sovereign. "My brother," says the saluted me very kindly, and bade me welcome. I exile, "sent notice to my father, of the king's de- answered him very kindly, and he perceiving me sire. My father showed the letter to the queen. very sad and something troubled, asked me why I She was not willing that my brother should stir was so. I told him the reason." Killigrew promout of Berwick; but knowing, though she would ised to plead his cause, and he evinced considernot know, that I was in court, she said, 'I hearable dexterity in his management of Elizabeth. your fine son that has lately married so worthily, is hereabouts; send him, if y you will, to know the king's pleasure.' My father answered, he knew I would be glad to obey her commands.' But Elizabeth was not to be so caught; No,' said she, do you bid him go, for I have nothing to do with him.""

"Away went Killigrew, and I stayed for his return. He told the Queen that she was more beholden to one man than to many others that made greater show of their love and service. She was desirous to know who it was. He told her it was myself, who not having seen her for a twelvemonth and more, could no longer endure to Thus, then, John Cary, who might have cross-be deprived of so great a happiness; but took ed the street in order to meet the Scotch mon- post with all speed to come up to see your arch, was ordered to remain at home, while Rob- Majesty, and to kiss your hand, and so to return ert, who was upwards of three hundred miles instantly again. She presently sent him back from the scene of action, had to do duty in his for me, and received me with more grace and stead. Most men would have revolted from a favor than ever she had done before; and after I mistress so capricious; but the supple Robert had been with her a pretty while, she was called bent like a twig before the storm, and in due sea- for to go to her sports. She arose, I took her by son was raised again. It is not stated on what the arm and led her to her standing. My brother business he was sent to James; but he went to and Mr. Secretary, seeing this, thought it more the Border and met him according to arrange- than a miracle. She continued her favor to me ment; and returned again with all possible de- the time I stayed, which was not long; for she spatch to Hampton Court. Elizabeth refused to took order that I should have five hundred pounds see him; but as he firmly persisted in deliver-out of the Exchequer for the time I had served; ing his message and letters to none but the and I had a patent given me under the great seal, Queen in person. her majesty was reluctantly obliged to grant him an audience.

"With much ado I was called for in; and I was left alone with her. Our first encounter was stormy and terrible, which I passed over with silence. After she had spoken her pleasure of me and my wife, I told her that she herself was the fault of my marriage, and that if she had but graced me with the least of her favors, I had never left her, nor her court, and seeing she was the chief cause of my misfortune, I would never off my knees till I had kissed her hand, and obtained my pardon. She was not displeased with my excuse; and so having her princely word that she had pardoned and forgotten all my faults, I kissed her hand and came forth to the presence, and was in the court as I ever was before. Thus God did for me to bring me in favor with my sovereign; for if this occasion had been slipped, it may be I should never, never have seen her face more."

Cary returned to the north, and acted as his father's substitute as warden of the Eastern March, and performed great feats in capturing and slaying Scotch robbers. His father died, and he was allowed to succeed him, but unfortunately without any salary being allowed him, "until the Queen's pleasure should be known;" and as by this time he had two children, he did not at all relish the terms on which he held office. "I continued so about a twelvemonth, and lived at my own charge, which impaired my poor estate very much." All application to head quarters

to be her warden of the East March. And thus was I preserved by a pretty jest, when wise men thought I had wrought my own wrack. For out of weakness God can show strength, and his goodness was never wanting to me in any extremity."

He was subsequently transferred to the Middle March, and after an absence of five years he again visited Court. Elizabeth's end was now at hand, and possibly this induced her to be tolerant of old favorites. "I found the Queen ill-disposed, and she kept her inner lodging; yet she hearing of my arrival, sent for me. I found her sitting in one of her withdrawing chambers, sitting low upon her cushions. She called me to her, I kissed her hand and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety and in health (!) which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand and wrung it hard, and said, No, Robin, I am not well,' and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days; and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. I was grieved at the first to see her in this plight; for in all my lifetime before, I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded. Then upon my knowledge she shed many tears and sighs, manifesting her innocence that she never gave consent to the death of that Queen." This was on a Saturday. Next day she was to go to chapel; but she was found too weak for that, and service was ordered in the private closet, but

that also was too much for the dying Queen, and she had cushions laid for her, hard by the private c'oset, and there she heard service. From that day forward she grew worse and worse. She remained upon her cushions four days and nights at the least. All about her could not persuade her either to take any sustenance or go to bed." Cary's wardenship was dependent on the life of Elizabeth, and seeing clearly, notwithstanding his lying flattery to the monarch herself, that she had not long to live, he bethought him of propitiating her successor. He accordingly sent a letter to his old friend James, acquainting him with the exact state of affairs, and told him that "if his majesty would not stir from Edinburgh, and if of that sickness she should die, he would be the first man that should bring him news of it." As usual in all similar undertakings, Cary, while in process of executing his vulture task, consoles himself with a rag of piety. "I did assure myself it was neither unjust nor unhonest for me to do for myself, if God at that time should call her to his mercy."

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Cary rode to Charing Cross to the lodging of the Knight-marshal, and remained there till nine o'clock, by which time the council had returned to Whitehall. Through the marshal he made offer of his services to proceed to Scotland, and the council professed to accept them. Cary hastened to receive his orders, but meanwhile one of the lords whispered to the marshal that if Cary came "they would stay him, and send some other in his stead." The victim was "between the two gates," when this gratifying intelligence was communicated, and he had barely time to make his escape. He started immediately for the north, and reached Doncaster on the same night (Thursday). On Friday he reached his own house at Withrington, and, as it appears to us, he somewhat presumptuously ordered that James should be proclaimed at Morpeth and Alnwick. Continuing his journey, he reached Norham on Saturday at twelve, and he might at the same rate have reached James before suppertime; but his horse disliking his break-neck speed first cast him and then "struck him a great blow on the head that made him shed much blood." This necessitated a slacker gallop, and the king was in bed before the self-constituted envoy "knocked at the gate" of Holyrood. "I was quickly let in and carried up to the king's bed-chamber. I kneeled by him and saluted him by his title of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland. He gave me his hand to kiss, and bade me welcome. After he had long discoursed of the manner of the queen's sickness and of her death, he asked what letters I had from the council? I told him, none: and acquainted him how narrowly I escaped from them. And yet I had brought him a blue ring from a fair lady, that I hoped would give him assurance of the truth that I had reported. He took it and looked upon it, and said, "It is enough: I know by this you are a trusty messenger."

When Elizabeth became speechless, and made signs for the archbishop and her chaplains to come to her, Cary "went in with them and sat upon his knees full of tears to see that heavy sight." After detailing the length and fervency of the Archbishop's intercessions, Cary goes on to state, "I went to my lodging and left word with one in the cofferer's chamber to call me, if that night it was thought she would die, and gave the porter an angel to let me in at any time when I called. Between one and two of the clock on Thursday morning, he that I left in the cofferer's chamber brought me word the queen was dead." Cary rushed to the palace, but the lords of the council were there before him, and had given orders that no one should be admitted; but by favor of the comptroller, he was after some delay allowed to enter. After passing through the cofferer's chamber, where "all the Thus did our hero, with great effort and at the ladies were weeping bitterly," he was shown into risk of his life, perform, in three days, a service the privy chamber, where the council was as- which the electric telegraph would now do in as sembled. This body evidently had penetrated many minutes. James promised to reward him, Cary's intentions, as he mentions that he "was and possibly intended to do so, but alas for the caught hold of and assured that he should not go favor of princes! it was not to be depended on, for Scotland till their pleasures were further exposed as it was not only to the royal caprice, known." His answer as given by himself is but also to the opposition of interested courequivocal. "I told them I came of purpose to tiers. Next morning James, in the fulness of his that end." It is not likely that he would have heart, sent Lord Hume to inquire how his courier bearded the whole council, and he probably would like to be rewarded. With his usual wished them to believe that he came to obtain smoothness, Cary began on a low scale. "I detheir sanction" to that end." Be this as it may, sired my lord to say to his majesty from me that the council gave strict injunctions that none I had no reason to importune him for any suite, should be allowed to leave except their own ser- for that as yet I had not done him any service; vants, to prepare their equipages, and Cary was but my humble request to his majesty was to adleft in one of the lobbies, to follow out his own mit me a gentleman of his bedchamber; and meditations. His brother, who had had little hereafter I knew if his majesty saw me worthy, sleep during the queen's illness, was in bed. "II should not want to taste of his bounty." Cary, got him up," says our author, "with all speed, from his experience of Elizabeth, knew that a and when the council's men were going out of thriving courtier should always be near the perthe gate, my brother thrust to the gate. The porter knowing him to be a great officer, let him out. I pressed after him and was stayed by the porter. My brother said angrily to the porter, 'Let him out, I will answer for him.' Whereupon I was suffered to pass, which I was not a little glad of."

son of the sovereign, and there was, therefore, good policy in his mock-humility. James complied with his request. He was sworn one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber, and that same evening assisted at the royal toilette. But when James went to England, the appointment was not confirmed, and worse still, "whereas I was

promised one hundred pounds in fee farm, it was cut down to one hundred marks."

wife got me a suite of the king that was worth to me afterwards four or five thousand pounds. I had the charge given me of the duke's household, and none allowed to his service but such as I gave way to; by which means I preferred to him a number of my own servants. *** My daughter Princess Elizabeth, afterwards the unfortunate Queen of Bohemia). ***My wife had four hundred pounds a-year pension during her life, and by being in the privy lodgings of the duke, got better esteem of the king and queen."

The truth is, the council were mortally incensed at him for having anticipated them in the tidings of Elizabeth's death. Their address to James contains two topics; the first congratulating him on his accession, and the second bitterly accusing was brought up with the king's daughter (the Cary for his waht of "all decency, good manners, and respect," in not waiting for an authorized report of the death of "the bright occidental star.". The document was signed by the lord mayor and thirty-three members of the council, amongst whom was Cary's own brother, Lord Hunsdon, who was irritated at having been made the instrument of his escape.

Lady Cary (her husband had received military knighthood from Essex) found more favor from the new queen than her lord from his majesty, she having obtained the office of mistress of her "sweet coffers," an appointment corresponding to the post now held by the mistress of the robes. But as a set off against this, Cary lost his war denship. Still even at this low ebb his habitual composure did not desert him, and his after success affords a good lesson to courtiers, as well as to others, never to despair, even when encompassed by the darkest clouds. Our courtier went down to Norham to arrange for the transfer of his wardenship (for which he was to receive compensation), when, as he rather profanely alleges, "God put it into my mind to go to Dunfermline to see the king's second son. I found him a very weak child." This was the then Duke of York, and afterwards Charles the First. Next season the young duke was to be removed from Scotland to England, and Cary exerted himself that his wife should become custodier of his royal highness. "There were many great ladies, suitors for the keeping of the duke; but when they did see how weak a child he was, and not likely to live, their hearts were down, and none of them was desirous to take charge of him." Lady Cary obtained the appointment. "Those who wished me no good were glad of it, thinking that if the duke should die in our charge (his weakness being such as gave them great cause to suspect it), then it would not be thought fit that we should remain in court after." Here follows some more profane garrulity on the subject of the convalescence of the duke, wherein Master Cary would have it to appear that Providence preserved the life of Charles the First in order that the enemies of Cary might be disappointed! What a commentary does the after-history of England throw on this wretched hypothesis! Nevertheless Cary and his wife did run a serious risk in undertaking the charge of a child so rickety as Charles was at the time. He was above four years of age when entrusted to their keeping, and yet he could not speak or walk; and in fact, from excessive weakness in the ankle joints, he could not even stand upright without assistance. James, in his impatience, wished an operation to be performed on the tongue, and to have the limbs encased in iron boots; but Lady Cary had more faith in nature than in surgical art, and being at length permitted to have her own way, the child became strong before he attained his eleventh year. For the care of the duke, "my

So far all was sunshine for Master Cary; but a storm was at hand. For at eleven years of age it was judged expedient that the duke should have a formal establishment; and Prince Henry, the heir-apparent, who had begun public life, undertook the ordering of the arrangements. Be ing probably of opinion that the Carys, while very good nurses, were not the fittest persons to form the mind of a prince of the blood-royal, he resolved that a Scotch gentleman, whom Cary admits to have been "of great learning and very good worth," should be sent for "out of Ireland from his service there," and placed at the head of the new household, while Cary should be reduced to the rank of "second violin." Of course, Providence again interfered on behalf of its especial favorite: the king in council was about to ratify the Prince's plan, when Lord Chamberlain Suffolk interposed on behalf of Cary, and the facile monarch consented that the arrangement should be exactly reversed; Cary to be first, and the Caledonian gentleman from the Emerald Isle to be second in authority. The Prince endeavored to upset this decision; but the utmost that he could accomplish was to obtain permission from the king, that no alterations should be made except such as Cary would consent to. The alteration of offices proposed by the Prince would have made the "Scots gentleman" chief of the bedchamber and master of the robes; and Cary master of the privy-purse and surveyor-general of his lands. Our hero, very adroitly, and with assumed humility, protested that his objection to the arrangement of his royal highness proceeded from his inability to survey lands, while "if he had skill in anything, he thought he could tell how to make good clothes," and by this manœuvre he carried his point, even with the prince.

Shortly after this transaction Prince Henry died, and then a new disappointment was in store for Cary. We have seen that he was at the head of the bed-chamber in the household of Charles while Duke of York; but when Henry died, Charles, of course, became Prince, and the chief in the Prince of Wales's establishment was a chamberlain, and not a gentleman of the bed. chamber. Master Cary's parasites, like the weird sisters in Macbeth, had prophesied that he should be chamberlain; but Master Cary was not content with this; he wished to retain the bedchamber appointment in addition: in other words, to be a pluralist. When the vacancy took place, Cary urged the precedent of Lord Somerset, who was the king's chamberlain, and yet kept the bedchamber. True," replied the opposition, "but he is a favorite, and never any before had them both." "But there is the Scots gentleman,"

nature."

pleaded our friend, "he is surveyor-general, and and my wife was forced to keep house and family, yet holds his place in the bed-chamber." "True which was out of our way a thousand pounds again," retorted the opposition, "but his is a a-year that we saved before." But meanwhile petty office, and the chamberlain's is of a high Cary was securing good marriages for his sons and daughters, and thrusting them into every By stratagem Cary was induced to declare be- orifice of court-preferment that chanced to be fore the prince that he would not give up the open. In 1661, he was created Baron of Pepbed-chamber for the chamberlainship; then the pington, and accompanied Charles to Spain, on king was got over to the opinion that one man the occasion of his fruitless love-expedition to should not hold both offices; and ultimately, but that country. Two years afterwards, James died, in a secret manner, Lord Roxburgh was appointed chamberlain. Cary having got scent of the foul deed, went to the queen, and excited her majesty's jealousy by insisting largely on the secrecy of the election. This was a happy conception, as at first the queen would not believe that such an imporant office could have been filled up by the king and the prince without her knowledge and consent. "But when, by Roxburgh's wife, she was assured of it, she sent for me again, and told me it was true that I had said; but bade me trouble myself no further: her wrong was more than mine, and she would right both herself and me.' Her majesty was graciously pleased to keep her royal word. Roxburgh was ingloriously sent back to his native north, and Cary was made chamberlain; a consummation which is duly and devoutly acknowledged as a special act of Divine interference "on my part."

Lady Cary waited on the queen till the death of her majesty "her house was then dissolved,

and Charles reigned in his stead, and Cary anew lifted his eyes in expectation of promotion, but now his hopes were crushed effectually. Charles broke up his own establishment, and adopted the household of his father with scarcely any change Cary was allowed to retain his connection with the bed-chamber, and in lieu of other offices, abolished and prospective, he received a pension of five hundred a-year, and obtained a further rise in the peerage, under the title of the Earl of Monmouth. He pre-deceased his last master, otherwise it is just possible that we might have seen him submerged during a portion of the civil wars, and then again floating on the surface as a functionary in the suite of Old Noll. His title became extinct in his direct male line, and was revived again in the person of the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth. The peerage of his father, Lord Hunsdon, has been longer-lived, and is still perpetuated in an existing noble house.

From the Evening Post.

THE OLD CHIMNEY-PLACE.

A stack of stones, a dingy wall,

O'er which the brambles cling and creep, A path on which no shadows fall,

A door-step where long dock-leaves sleep,
A broken rafter in the grass,

A sunken hearth-stone, stained and cold,
Nought left but these, fair home, alas!
And the dear memories of old.

Around this hearth, this sacred place,
All humble household virtues grew,-
The grandsire's lore, the maiden's grace,
The matron's instincts deep and true.
Here first sweet words were lisped: here broke
Life's morning dream, and yet more dear,
The love that life's best impulse woke,
Grew warmer, gentler, year by year.

How cheerful, while the storm without
Muffled the earth and iced the night,
The ruddy glow gushed laughing out
On merry groups and faces bright;
How chimed the crackling freakish flame
With rosy mirth or thoughtful ease,
Or, may be, syllabled the name

Of one rocked o'er the shivering seas.

What fairy scenes, what golden lands,
What pageants of romantic pride,
In the weird deep of glowing brands,

Saw the fair boy, the dreamy-eyed,
Till musing here, his spirit drew
Strong inspiration, and his years,
By Beauty's subtle nurture, knew
The paths of Nature's inner spheres.
Here, as the swooning embers lent
A faint flush to the quiet gloom,

In the warm hush have lovers blent
The fragrance of their heart's fresh bloom;
And, veiling in soft-drooping eyes

Her tremulous joy, here blushed the bride;
Here, o'er pale forms in funeral guise,

Farewells from broken hearts were sighed.

This spot the pilgrim 'neath strange skies,
Saw in his wayside dream; here stood
Old friends with gladness in their eyes;
Here grew the beautiful and good
Sweet friendships-faith serene and sure-
Manhood's strong purpose, warm and bold —
Courage to labor and endure,

And household feelings never cold.

Here, leaning in the twilight dim,
All round me seems a haunted air;

I hear the old familiar hymn,

My heart goes upward in the prayer
That made the night so full of peace;

Kind lips are on my brow-my ear
Hums with sweet sounds-they faint- they

cease

And night o'er all broods calm and clear.
H. N. POWERS.

"Spects it grow'd," would be no sufficient re-do you contrive that? ply from the imprisoned Pierce.

"But how do you cultivate so useful a fruit? My anxiety," the Emperor would say, "is to get rid of the exact opposite the yearly deficit: and I see that your Chancellor of the Exchequer is anxious only to diminish your surplus. Could I but for a single month feel that blessed anxiety, nay, could I for a day know what it is to wish to diminish a surplus in the exchequer, I should be relieved of a great weight which presses upon the hereditary mind of this throne."

"I do not know," Pierce would say; we do