CONCLUSION.

Blake was respected by those who could not conscientiously revere it. Now that party prejudice and sectarian bigotry have yielded to the tolerant spirit of the age, none of the illustrious unforgotten dead is more universally regarded with admiration than the redoubtable Republican Admiral, ROBERT BLAKE.

"ENGLAND! I love thee, and with pride I see

My dear, my native land, so great, so free:
Then can I fail to venerate also

Those who have helped to make and keep thee so,-
Those willing instruments by GOD ordained
To see thy freedom and thy right maintained?
No! whate'er his politics or creed may be,
I love the Man who proves his love for thee."

JOHN FREDERIC,

THE MAGNANIMOUS YET IRRESOLUTE MONARCH.

army

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

"Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, may take heart again."

On the evening of the 23rd of April, 1547, a large arrived on the banks of the Elbe, opposite the town of Mühlberg, in Saxony. The river at that place is three hundred paces in breadth, about four feet in depth, its current rapid, and, on this occasion, its high bank on the Mühlberg side was possessed by a strong body of men, ready to oppose the invaders of their country. These were great obstacles; but they were as nothing in the sight of the bold and resolute leader of that army-the Emperor Charles the Fifth. Undismayed, he called together his general officers,