wrap it up in something, and bury it at the foot of a tree, in a private corner of the place. "Harris turned pale at this information. He would give no direct answer as to the circumstances of the money. A constable was dispatched with the girl, and the cash to the amount of upwards of thirty pounds was found! The accused acknowledged the hiding of the money, but he acknowledged it with so many hesitations, and answered every question with such an unwillingness, such an apparent unopenness, that all doubts of his guilt was done away, and the magistrate.committed him for trial. Harris was brought to the bar at the York Summer Assises, which happened about a week after his commitment, 1642. Morgan deposed the same as when before the justice. The maid servant and constable deposed to the circumstance of the money; the first, as to the prisoner's hiding, and both as to the finding it; and the magistrate gave testimony to the confusion and hesitation of Harris on the discovery of, and being questioned about, the hiding of the money. "Harris, on his defence, endeavoured to invalidate the charge by assertions, that the whole of Morgan's evidence was false; that the money which he had buried was his own property, honestly come by, and buried there for his better security, and that his behaviour before the magis trate on this particular, arose from the shame of acknowledging his natural covetousness,not from any consciousness of guilt. The Judge then summed up the evidence, remarking strongly on the circumstance of the hiding of the money, and the weakness of the prisoner's reasons for his so hiding of it; and the jury just consulting toge ther for two minutes, brought in their verdict Guilty. "Harris was executed pursuant to his sentence, persevering in his declarations of innocence, but desiring all persons to guard against the effects of an avaricious disposition: for it was that sordidness of temper which had led him, he said, into general distrustfulness, and that into the expedient of hiding his money; which circumstance had alone furnished the means to his enemies, (for what reason they were, he said, he knew not, but whom he forgave,) for bringing him to an igno minious death. "The truth of the fact at last came out: Harris was, indeed, entirely innocent! Morgan and the maid were not only fellow-servants but sweethearts. Harris's suspecting covetous temper was well-known to both, and the girl once, by accident, perceiving her master burying something, discovered the circumstance to Morgan; he, act ing as gardener, took an opportunity when at work, to dig for it; it proved to be five guineas; he left it, and informed the girl of it. They settled it not to touch the money, but to keep watching their master, as they had no doubt but he would add to it; and when it arose to a good sum, they agreed to plunder the hiding-place together, marry, and with the spoil, set up in some way of business. As they imagined, so it happened; they got several occasions to see the stock increasing, but (equally covetous with their master,) the golden harvest was not yet ripe. "One day in a quarrel, Harris strikes his man, Morgan, several times. Morgan determines on revenge; at this fatal period arrives James Gray; Morgan finds him next morning dead in his bed, a diabolical thought strikes Morgan, of first charging Harris with the murdering and robbing of Gray, and then of plundering his master's hidingplace, whilst he, the master, should be in prison. Morgan communicates this intention to the maid; she approves of it; they consult, and fix upon the plan, and Morgan gives the information to the magistrate, as before related. The girl, unexpectedly, finds the accusation not sufficiently supported, and fearing that her sweetheart, of whom she is fond, will be punished for perjury if her master is released, who, indeed, unfortunately had just hinted as much before the justice, the expedient, in a moment, strikes her to sacrifice the hidden money, with her master, to the safety of her paramour; and the idea, as the reader already knows, fatally succeeds. The whole of this stupendous piece of wickedness came to light in the beginning of the year 1643, on a quarrel between Morgan and the girl, who, after the death of Harris, had lived together as man and wife. They were taken up in consequence, and committed to prison; but escaped the public punishment due to their crime, by both of them dying of a jail disease. "Harris's innocence became afterwards further illustrated, by its being found out, that James Gray, the supposed murdered person, had had two attacks of an apoplexy, some months previous to his death, and that he was never master of five pounds at one time in his life." (Theory of Presumptive Proof.) OUTRAGEOUS ATTACK UPON LORD CHANCELLOR CLARENDON. After Lord Clarendon's disgrace, he retired to France, where he was very coldly received by the government. During his journey to the waters of Bourbon, a most outrageous attempt was made his life, which he has related in the following words : upon "There happened to be at that time quartered there a foot company of English seamen, who had been raised and were entertained to serve the French in attending upon their artillery, some of them being gunners; and none of them had the language, but were attended by a Dutch conductor, who spake ill English, for their interpreter. Their behaviour there was so rude and barbarous, in being always drunk, and quarrelling and fighting with the townsmen, who would not give them any thing they demanded, that the city had sent to the court their complaints, and expected orders that night for their remove. They quickly heard of the chancellor's being come to the town, and calling their company together, declared, That there were many months' pay due to them in England, and that they would make him pay it before he got out of the town.' "He was scarce got into his ill ground lodging when many of them flocked about the house upon which the gates of the inn were shut, they mak ing a great noise, and swearing they would speak with the chancellor, and being about the number of fifty, they threatened to break open the gate, or pull down the house. The mutiny was notorious to all the street; but they had not courage to appear against them. The magistrates were sert to, but there was a difference between them upon the point of jurisdiction, this uproar being in the suburbs. In short, they broke open the door of the inn: and when they were entered into the court, they quickly found which was the chan |