Show sui stuart queen of scotland ml orical sketch by laio ill but faatoa woofs were intricate the preparations for the destruction of her cious husband she meets the raati jhc is destined again to rekindle her love wanting heart and to lydd her into deo lation and misery it is count bothwell a reformed gentle man clever bold crafty but also violent ambitious coarse and sensual the queen gives him her most ardent affection and in her lovo madness she forgets or disregards all restraint although but recently married to another lady bothwell yields to her unhesitatingly and in imp harmony they are scheming how to accomplish their complete union th ebs lacle on hia side is easily re moved on tho ground of alleged consanguinity he is able to act a legal divorce from his wife he is free but mary she was clia ined to n idiotic weakling to whom ehe had but a hort time ago born an heir at which the father betra yedo little satisfaction that ho did not even attend his christening an in tolerable union an unlocked for accident occurs darnley is taken down with smallpox this occur renca helpa to mature a ions madi bated plan it is who executes the infernal scheme but mary knows agitates and promotes it dissimulation in which art ehe is a complete mistress thanks the excellent instructions eho received on tho court of medicis at paris is of especial advantage to her in spite of her embittered acel ings and the loathing she realizes towards darnley she hastens loais sickbed sick bed feigns the deepest thy and induces him to be removed from glasgow to edinburgh where she quarters him in an boutot house outside the city wall and tho nurse most admirably one evening however it is ath of feb 1567 she takes leave and renders herself afdera matt tender parting from her husband to castle of to honor with her presence according to an old promise so she ad the wadding of one of her ladies ef honor in mean time bothwell has sacks of powder brought into the kings apartments and at midnight tha building is blown up to the clouds in the morning they find the bo lios darnley and his page under ruins in the garden with signs of strangulation the explosion was preceded by tha assassins the queen as well as bothwell have bean saen at the wedding feast they therefore consider beyond the reach of all suspicion but the peoples voice is not silent for all these cunning precautions jroud and louder it designates dots well as the assassin of darnley for while he closes his ear to tie in crimination whereby ho only aggra vates ahe suspicion at last io can no longer resist the challenge chal lengo and ho goes before the judges bit the royal ic of ills cams has sham proceedings arranged aal the defendant is unanimously acquitted now the guilty couple indulge in the vain belief that they are oliver ed of all further and can rejoice in each others adis possession scarcely three months after queen mary and are joined in holy matrimony with the spectre of tho murdered husband holdring hol ering behind them but now the alood gates of popular indignation are opened and torrent of not all unmerited is poured over the newly married pair cial acquittal had acted on tadia contest of the people like oil apon troubled water the bold and incubi tri al lianca acted like oil ito names of fire loud wore precisions ions condemnations and reproaches pro aches the protestant nobility concluded a confederation for hie protection of the dynasty and tie right they enlisted troops marced to edinburgh and took tho capit without a sword thrust terrified v the midst of their honeymoon felic ty the bowly married couple li ke wise prepared for defense on th of june me iu a bloody ec counter at corbera hill the war was brief but fabj treacherously abandoned by hei hireling troops mary no othe rescue irem her desperate situation than to rive up bothwell her evi genius and to render herself in per son into he hostile camp forlis bussing cussing the treaty while th coward bothwell made an ignominious escape for the north the queen had to endure the galling humiliation of being conducted as a prisoner by her triumphant adversaries to edinburgh where the vulgar rabble overwhelmed her with the vilest abuse and in the open streets readers of walter scott will remember with whit touching truth falness the illustrious scotch novelist depicts this bad period in his monastery and abbot the queen was taken to tho castle of whore sh was treated with regardless severity in the usual manner of the presbyterian spirit of persecution and oppression tho lords had usurped all powers of the state and outlawed and prescribed bothwell who had in the menn timo escaped to denmark oliero he carried on filibustering for a time until he was captured he ended as insane in captivity on the ath of june mary was compelled to abdicate her throne in favoron favo bar infant son afterwards I of england as whose guardian her brother jumps count murray was with the regency was dono by the puritan party the catholic however intervened ter and induced young douglas a brother of the master of loch le ven castle to aid the unfortunate queen in her flight it succeeded and mary was able to gather up few thousand men with at tempt the forcible recovery of her rights and dominion but murray di sported undisciplined the anor bands and mary had again to look for her lafety in light g cape into france wa impossible and thus the ill fated ex queen saw her self compelled to appeal cpr refuge and asylum to her hated rival on tho english throne that tame elizabeth n whose legitimate birth sha had sa aften cat ignoble aspersions and whose very position she hod claimed for years although eho had never been able to her claims defus lo men of power are seldom wordy or they indulge not in decorative trappings gg of rhetoric but by a few bold masterstrokes master strokes give deter mined expression to tho essential and central idea to which all minor thoughts anre subordinate sir J mackintosh asked a ceaf and dumb pupil in paris doth god reason ue replied tarea son i to hesitate to doubt to inquire it Ss tho highest attribute of limited god foes all i foreen all knows alt therefore bod doth not ra tt t t a a r |