Determined on retaliation, the people of the coast assembled to the number of 500. Obtaining an English commission, they embarked on board a frigate from Nantes, and a number of small craft--De L'Isle being their commander, and Adam, Lormel, and Anne le Roux their lieutenants. They landed at Puerto de Plata, "le Dimanche des Rameaux," and marched upon St. Jago at daybreak. Passing over the bodies of the guards, they rushed to the governor's house, and surprised him in bed. He, knowing French, threw himself on his knees, and told them that peace was about to be declared between the two nations. They replied, that they carried an English commission, and, reproaching him for his cruelties, bade him either prepare for death, or pay down 60,000 crowns. Part of this ransom he instantly paid in hides. The pillage of the town lasted twenty-four hours, and nothing was spared; the very bells were carried from the churches, and the altars stripped of their plate. No violence, however, we are glad to record, was offered to the women, the Brotherhood having agreed, that any such offender should lose his share of the spoil. END OF VOL. I. LONDON: SERCOMBE AND JACK, 16 GREAT WINDMILL STREET. INTERESTING NEW WORKS. * * * * * MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD LALOR SHEIL. By TORRENS M'CULLAGH, Esq. 2 vols. post 8vo. "We feel assured that Mr. M'Cullagh's Work will be received with general satisfaction."--_Literary Gazette._ "Such a man as Sheil eminently deserved a biography, and Mr. M'Cullagh has, we think, proved himself an exceedingly proper person to undertake it. His narrative is lucid and pleasant, sound and hearty in sentiment, and sensible in dissertation; altogether we may emphatically call this an excellent biography."--_Daily News._ * * * * * SKETCHES, LEGAL AND POLITICAL, BY THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD LALOR SHEIL. 2 vols. post 8vo. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ATHENÆUM. "We cordially recommend these sketches as interesting in matter and brilliant in composition. Their literary merit is very great." MESSENGER. "These volumes will delight the student and charm the general reader." DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. "These volumes contain more matter of high and enduring interest to all classes of readers than any publication of equal extent, professing to illustrate the social and literary position or treat of the domestic manners and history of our country." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. "Of the great power and brilliancy of these papers there can be no second opinion. In the British senate, as in his own native land, the name of Richard Lalor Sheil will be long remembered in connexion with eloquence and learning and with genius. In these volumes he has left a memorial of all the gems of his rich and varied intellect--every phase and line of his versatile and prolific mind." * * * * * _Also, just ready,_