issioners, on the 25th of November, 1605.

_Francis Tresam._--From his examination relative to the book on
Equivocation. Tresam escaped being hanged by dying in the Tower, on the
23rd of December, 1605.

_Sir Everard Digby_.--From an original examination. He was related to John
Digby, subsequently created Baron Digby and Earl of Bristol, and was a
young man of considerable talent. He was in the twenty-fourth year of his
age when executed.

_To the Right Hon. the Lord Mounteagle_.--The superscription to the
anonymous letter that led to the discovery of the plot. By whom it was
written still remains a mystery.

All the principal conspirators were married and had families; several of
them possessed considerable property, and were highly, and, in some
instances, nobly related.

L.

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THE SKETCH BOOK

No. XLIX.

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THE AUBERGE.

_(For the Mirror.)_

"Tais-toi, Louise," exclaimed the landlady of a small but neat auberge at
------ to her daughter, a sweet child, about seven years of age, who,
playing with a little curly French dog, was sitting on a three-legged
stool, humming a trifling _chanson_ which she had gleaned from a collection
of ditties pertaining to an old woman, who, when the landlady might be
busily engaged, attended the infant steps and movements of Louise.
"Tais-toi, ecoutez, la diligence s'approche;" the truth of the good woman's
remark being vouched for by the heavy rumbling of that ponderous machine,
the "Vite, vite" of the postilion, and the "crack, crack" of his huge whip.
This was shortly after the battle of Waterloo, when our troops, crowned
with laurels, were hastily leaving the continent, burning with anxiety to
revisit _their native soil_, and their countrymen of the peace department
were as hastily leaving it, fired with curiosity to behold the spot where
such laurels had been so hardly earned. At least such was undoubtedly the
most prevalent cause of the great influx of continental visiters at that
period; but there were, by way of contrast to these votaries of curiosity,
too many whose contracted brow and thoughtful melancholy cast of visage
betrayed forcibly their owners' curiosity to be otherwise and more
feelingly worked upon; 'twas the anxiety, the wish to gather information
respecting relatives or friends, killed or wounded in the late dire
struggle, which had caused those appearances. But to