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Show Specimen of Tullidge's ''Cromwell." We give to our readers, for tho benefit of the author, the following speech from the great trial of Charles . It brings the controversy between the King and the Commonwealth into in-to a nutshell, and ailords a specimen of the rugged strength of tho Crom-wellian Crom-wellian character. Lady Fairfax having protested that Charles was not on trial before the people, but only a military faction, wire a response res-ponse from the gilleries, which she affirms to be the people's voice. This shapes the climax of the most famous trial on historic record, rendered thus by our dramatist: ' Ornm : Then let it srok njtin thnt wo niiclit hoar ti ireli pronounced. Mvtnink. nt lira!, iuilJ But wbiii or out iho People's iimjiiat nil;. (Crosses to tho Ironsidra and nddreses rharn do! men oFFns'nnd: hn ! Snxoa Knc'nnd: -ons of our franklins wlm no?sesscd too lund Ero foot orXnrmnn WillUm trod on l; now S rak yo io this groat c-iuo a i-sne !uro. Vo'ir Saxon eire. with royal AlT'-d retrod A Kinely Corom mvpa th and lofl it jo blessed horic-tRo; b.ittbii urnid I'ricca Claim Englind as hi? va?Bl and our.-'uh,o' As serfs. hit royal injnds.laihion'd and made Fir bis most siiccial uao. IJoro, in ih is court, Tc-d&y, Ho hath doni.'d tho People's met. Well, trust trm cot again to lionain betrayed, For, mark ye, sirs, tno rcourd of his li'er Ho met your rarliiuieni with England's crown, BlafphaaiiDK. on hi nnrtnimintod hoad EroKnglund Rave it him a- though 't hud boon A bauble loft by hi? srandaiu. and he I Tho will all-absol' to. A nd look yo, sirs, I Uow bis uncovered h"nd still i;ibo-- and mocks In England's august presence, whii'ti binvs. us E'en to th-ivery dust. As to tho churge, Whereofbo hath so much r. He-tod here, tie did make war against your l'urliiimout. And yo haro brought him thus to judgment ! Speak, men of Enpland, now, inr I have done, Is Charles Stuart Kiulty. or not uullty, ni' treason 'gaioft the -lute? ""ironside: thund.T liuilty I Crom: The tentenco ? Iron: Pcath ! fPicTUtr. |