The Royal Regiment, and Other NovelettesGrant, James
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The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes
Grant, James
Scotland -- Fiction; Scotland -- History, Military -- Fiction
A cry that had escaped Cochrane alarmed the rest of the crew, who
were all dispatched in the same manner as they rushed on deck in
succession. This slaughter and the din it occasioned, roused Captain
Glass, who was below in bed; but he soon discovered what was
occurring, and, after giving one glance on deck, hurried away to get
his sword. M'Kulie, imagining the cause of his going back, went down
the steps leading to the cabin, and stood in the dark, expecting
Glass's return, and suddenly seized his arms from behind; but the
captain, being a man of great strength, wrenched his sword-arm free,
and on being assailed by the three other assassins, plunged his
weapon into the arm of Zekerman, when the blade became wedged or
entangled. It was at length wrenched forth, and Glass was slain by
repeated stabs of his own weapon, while his dying cries were heard by
his wife and daughter--two unhappy beings who were ruthlessly thrown
overboard and drowned.
Besides these four victims, James Pincent, the mate, and three
others, lost their lives. The mutineers now loaded one of the boats
with the money, chests, and so forth, and then scuttled the
_Sandwich_, and landed at Ross on the coast of Ireland. But
suspicion speedily attached to them; they were apprehended, and,
confessing the crimes of which they had been guilty, were tried
before the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, and sentenced to death.
They were accordingly executed in St. Stephen's Green, on the 10th of
October, 1765.
THE STORY OF RENÉE OF ANGERS.
Though it occurred so long ago as the time of Henry IV. of France,
the story we are about to relate formed one of the most remarkable
_causes célèbres_ before the Parliament of Paris, when Renée Corbeau,
a young demoiselle of Angers, in Normandy, by her eloquence in a
court of justice, and by her singular self-sacrifice, saved the life
of a false and dastardly lover, to whom she was devotedly attached.
In the year 1594, when Henry IV., justly surnamed the Great (though
his passions betrayed him into errors and involved him in
difficulties), was on the throne of France, a young man named M.
Pousset, a native of Tees, an old episcopal city of Normandy, was
studying the Civil and Canon Law at the University of Angers, in
those days a famous seat of learning. While thus engaged, M. Pousset
was introduced to Mademoiselle Renée Corbeau, the daughter of a
citizen. She is described as having been a girl of great beauty of
person and with great modesty of manner, though witty and lively in
spirit, _folatré et caressante_, and full of nameless graces.
Everyone loved and admired Renée, and when but a youth Pousset sighed
for her. He soon learned to love her passionately, and we are told
"that he no longer lived but to see and converse with her."
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