ned to torture, imprisonment, or death, so many thousands of her
subjects. Strange that this very lady, whom sufferings so exquisite
could not move, should have been the constant and successful advocate of
the Moors, whenever any town or fortress was taken by storm.

To Isabel must be ascribed the glory of the enterprise of Columbus in
his discovery of America. At first she received with natural coldness
the proposals of this wonderful man; but overcome at length by the
representation of a monk, the friend of Columbus, and still more by the
resistless reasoning of the navigator himself, whom she admitted to her
presence, she borrowed the sum of money necessary for the armament, and
bade him depart.

* * * * *

THE GATHERER.

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_Garratt Election.--Proclamation issued by the Mayor of
Garratt_.--Whereas _his_ Majesty, the King and Queen, _is_ expected to
honour this ancient Corporation with _his_ presence, in their tour to
Coxheath; in order to prevent his Majesty from no impediment in his
journey, the worshipful the Mayor and Bailiff, has thought proper the
following regulations should be prohibited as following:--Nobody must
not leave no dirt, nor any thing in that shape, before the doors nor
shops. And all wheelbarrows, carts, dunghills, oyster-shells,
cabbage-stalks, and other four-wheeled carriages, must be swept out of
the streets. Any one who shall fail of offending in any article, shall
be dealt with according to law.

J. DUNSTAN, _Mayor_.

_Punishment of Death._--The _Morning Herald_ of the 14th states--"We
have it on the authority of one who heard the fact from a member of the
Privy Council, (at present a Cabinet Minister,) that he frequently saw
George the Fourth in a state of extraordinary agitation at the meeting
of the Council, when the fate of a criminal was under consideration. He
would contend the matter with the ministers and leave the table, and
lean sometimes on the chimney-piece, advocating the cause of mercy,
until overruled by his responsible advisers."

_Erratum in the Washington "Globe."_--For "Bumbleton's storm destroying
porringers," read "Hamilton's worm-destroying lozenges."

_Plain Sermons._--Bishop Heber has the following sensible remark in his
Journal of Travels:--"I am, on the whole, more and more confirmed in the
opinion which Horsley has expressed in one of his Sermons, that a
theological argument, cle