a deep groan in the adjoining chamber, and this being re peated, he softly awaked his friend. They listened togeth er, and the groans increasing, as of one dying, they both instantly arose, and proceeded silently to the door of the next chamber, from whence they heard the groans; and the door being ajar, saw a light in the room; they entered, but it is impossible to paint their consternation, on perceiving a person weltering in his blood in the bed, and a man standing over him, with a dark lantern in one hand, and a knife in the other. The man seemed as petrified as themselves, but his terror carried with it all the terror of guilt! The gentlemen soon discovered the person was the stranger with whom they had that night supped, and that the man who was standing over him was their host. They seized Bradford directly, disarmed him of his knife, and charged him with being the murderer. He assumed by this time the air of innocence, positively denied the crime, and asserted that he came there with the same humane intentions as themselves; for that, hearing a noise, which was succeeded by a groaning, he got out of bed, struck a light, armed himself with a knife for his defence, and had but that minute entered the room before them.

These assertions were of little avail; he was kept in close custody till the morning, and then taken before a neighboring justice of the peace Bradford still denied the murder, but nevertheless, with such an apparent indication of guilt, that the justice hesitated not to make use of this extraordinary expression, on writing out his mittimus, "Mr. Bradford, either you or myself committed this murder."

This extraordinary affair was the conversation of the whole county. Bradford was tried and condemned over and over again, in every company. In the midst of all this predetermination came on the assizes at Oxford. Bradford was brought to trial -he pleaded not guilty. Nothing could be more strong than the evidence of the two gentlemen they testified to the finding Mr. Hayes murdered in his bed; Bradford at the side of the body with a light and a knife; the knife, and the hand which held it bloody; that on entering the room he betrayed all the signs of a guilty man, and that a few moments preceding, they had heard the groans of the deceased.

Bradford's defence on his trial was the same as before the gentlemen. He had heard a noise; suspected some villainy transacting; he struck a light,-he snatched a knife, (the only weapon near him,) to defend himself; and the terrors he discovered were merely the terrors of humanity, the natural effects of innocence as well as guilt, on beholding such a horrid scene.

This defence, however, could be considered but as weak, contrasted with several powerful circumstances against him. Never was circumstantial evidence more strong. There was little need of comment from the judge in summing up the evidence. No room appeared for extenuation and the jury brought in the prisoner guilty, even without going out of the box. Bradford was executed shortly after, still declaring he was not the murderer, nor privy to the murder of Mr. Hayes, but he died disbelieved by all.

Yet were those assertions not untrue! The murder was actually committed by Mr. Hayes' footman; who, immediately on stabbing his master, rifled his breeches of his money, gold watch and snuff-box, and escaped to his own room; which could have been, from the after circumstances, scarcely two seconds before Bradford's entering the unfortunate gentleman's chamber. The world owes this knowledge to a remorse of conscience in the footman, (eighteen months after the execution of Bradford,) on a bed of sickness; it was a death-bed repentance, and by that death the law lost its victim.

It is much to be wished that this account could close here; but it cannot. Bradford, though innocent, and not privy to the murder, was, nevertheless, the murderer in design. He had heard, as well as the footman, what Mr. Hayes had declared at supper, as to his having a large sum of money about him, and he went to the chamber with the same diabolical intentions as the servant. He was struck with amazement!-he could not believe his senses !—and in turning back the bed clothes, to assure himself of the fact, he in his agitation, dropped his knife on th: bleeding body, by which both his hand and the knife became bloody. These circumstances Bradford acknowledged to the clergyman who attended him after his sentence.

COMBATS WITH WILD BEASTS.

JEAN ALBERT de MandelSLO, a native of Holstein, who travelled in the east about the years 1638-9, gives the following account of some combats between wild beasts exhibited before the Grand Mogul, on his son's birth-day.

This monarch first made a savage bull fight a lion; and then ordered a battle between a lion and tiger. As soon as the tiger perceived the lion, he went directly to him, and struggling with all his might, overthrew him. Every one thought the tiger would have little trouble in killing his adversary; but the lion rose immediately, and seized the tiger so forcibly by the throat, that it was believed he was dead. He disengaged himself, however, and the combat was renewed with as much fury as ever, until fatigue separated them. They were both wounded, but not mortally.

After this combat, Alla Merdy Khan, governor of Cachemir, who was near the king's person, stepped forward, and said, that Shah Choram (the Mogul) wished to see if there was a person bold enough among his subjects to face one of these beasts with the scimetar and small round shield (rondache) alone: and that any one who had the courage to make the experiment might declare himself, so that the Great Mogul having witnessed proofs of his courage, force and address, might reward him, by not only honoring him with his favor, but likewise with the rank of Khan. Upon this, three Hindoos offered themselves; and Alla Merdy Khan repeated that the king's intention was, that the battle should be fought with the scimetar and shield alone, and that those who had coats of mail must take them off, so that the contest might be fair.

A furious lion was immediately let out, which seeing his enemy enter, ran directly at him. The Hindoo defended himself valiantly, until being unable longer to sustain the weight of the animal, which chiefly fell upon his right arm, he began to lower the shield, which the lion tried to tear from him, while with the left paw he seized upon the right arm of his enemy, intending to leap upon his throat; when the man applying his left hand to a dagger which he had

concealed in his girdle, he buried it in the lion's gullet, who was obliged to let go his hold and retire. The man followed him, cut him down with a blow of his scimetar, killed him, and cut hiin in pieces.

The people at first shouted a victory; but as soon as the clamors subsided, the Mogul, directing the Hindoo to approach said to him with a sarcastic smile, "I must allow you are a brave fellow, and that you fought boldly. But did I not forbid you to take any unfair advantage, and did I not prescribe the weapons to be employed? Nevertheless, you have used others, and have overcome my lion dishonorably you surprised him with secret weapons,-you killed him like an assassin, not like an open enemy." Hereupon he commanded two men to descend into the area and rip up his belly, which was done, and the body was placed upon an elephant, to be led through the city by the way of example.

The second Hindoo who appeared upon the theatre after this bloody tragedy, advanced with great spirit towards the tiger, which they let out against him, so that to look at his face one might be assured that the victory was certain; but the tiger more active than he was, leaped in a moment upon his neck, killed him, and tore him to pieces.

The third Hindoo, far from being terrified at the wretched fate of his two companions, gaily entered the area, and went straight to the tiger, who, heated with the former combat, advanced to the man, intending to strike him down at the first blow; but the Hindoo, though small and of bad figure, cut his two fore paws with a single stroke, and having thus disabled him, killed him at his leisure.

The king ordered the man to come near him, and inquired his name. He answered that it was Geily. At the same moment an officer approached him with a vest of brocade, which he presented to him on behalf of the Mogul, saying, "Geily take this vest from my hands as a mark of the king's favor." Geily, making three low reverences, and lifting the vest in the air, loudly exclaimed, after a short prayer, "God grant that the glory of the Great Mogul may equal that of Tamerlane from whom he sprang," &c. Two eunuchs conducted him to the king's chamber, at the entrance of which two Khans led him between them

to the king's feet, who addressed him as Geily Khan, and gave him the stipulated rank, and promised to be his friend. Wretched, indeed, must have been the condition of a people subjected to the caprices of such a thoughtless, brutal tyrant, as this Shah Choram.

INHUMAN PROSECUTION OF MONSIEUR D'ANGLADE AND HIS

FAMILY.

THE Count of Montgomery rented a part of a hotel in the Rue Royale, at Paris. The ground floor and first floor were occupied by him; the second and third by the Sieur d'Anglade. The Count and the Countess de Montgomery had an establishment suited to their rank. They kept an almoner, and several male and female servants, and their horses and equipage were numerous in proportion. Monsieur d'Anglade (who was a gentleman, though of an inferior rank to the Count,) and his wife, lived with less splendor, but yet with elegance and decency suitable to their situation in life. They had a carriage, and were admitted into the best companies, where probably M. d'Anglade increased his income by play; but, on the strictest inquiry, it did not appear that any dishonorable actions could be imputed to him. The Count and Countess de Montgomery lived on a footing of neighborly civility with Monsieur and Madame d'Anglade, and without being very intimate, were always on friendly terms. Some time in September, 1687, the Count and Countess proposed passing a few days at Villebousin, one of their country houses. They informed Monsieur and Madame d'Anglade of their design, and invited them to be of the party. They accepted it; but the evening before they were to go, they, for some reason or other, (probably because Madame d'Anglade was not very well,) begged leave to decline the honor, and the Count and Countess set out without them, leaving in their lodgings one of the Countess' women, four girls, whom she employed to work for her in embroidery, and a boy who was kept to help the footman. They took