 surprize you, but he shall only be known when with conscious pride he presents her to you and claims his reward.
The profound policy Elizabeth has al∣ways preserved with respect to Lord Lei∣cester since his flight, is far from being satisfactory to his friends. She speaks of him only in an indifferent light, and as if employed by herself; while all that passed between them almost every body under∣stands, though no one dares to say so. It seems indeed as if her rage had been di∣verted

from him by another object. I need not name her here. Alas, how se∣verely are you both revenged on the Queen! The galling chain from which she has at last enfranchised Mary, writhes round her own heart; and if it would gra∣tify you to see her tremble, believe me you need only see her. Obliged to avow remorse, to give an example in the severity of her mourning, for a deed only her own will could have authorised, she has the misery of knowing her murdered royal prisoner enthroned in Heaven, and em∣balmed in the tears of even her own peo∣ple. Never more will Elizabeth taste of peace, for that indeed can only dwell with innocence."
The full conviction Elizabeth had in∣curred the abhorrence of all the world, by this horrible infraction of the rights of royalty, society, and sex, a little gra∣tified my exquisite resentment. Yes, sighed I, Heaven has invented a punish∣ment proportionable to her crime. Coun∣teracting by one stroke the policy of her whole life, she has permitted herself to be

known, and of consequence execrated. Destined to survive her youth, her virtue, her fame, and her happiness; although encircled with a diadem, her weary head shall vainly seek one faithful tender bosom to repose on. Those fiery passions, so often destructive to others, wanting now an object, must prey upon the heart that conceals them; till envying the glorious end, as she ever did the distinguished bloom of Mary Stuart, her fate is wound up in fears of her offspring. In vain her cruel care would extirpate them; every crime will but give birth to a new fear, and the martyrdom of the Queen of Scots will multiply the causes of her terror, since she now knows more than one child survives her.
As the evening closed, this billet was given me from my Lord:—
"The heart which has long bled by anticipation for your sorrow, demands to partake it with you. Oh! my sole love, deny me not a share in your compassion. Fearful every moment I should lose the daughter, the fate of the mother struggled
