. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . wn, but the not rejecting it with sufficient constancy ;that she had less erred through ambition than throughreverence to her parents, whom she had been taught torespect and obey; that she willingly received death, asthe only satisfaction which she could now make to theinjured state; and though her infringement of the lawshad been constrained, she would show, by her voluntarysubmission to their sentence,
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . wn, but the not rejecting it with sufficient constancy ;that she had less erred through ambition than throughreverence to her parents, whom she had been taught torespect and obey; that she willingly received death, asthe only satisfaction which she could now make to theinjured state; and though her infringement of the lawshad been constrained, she would show, by her voluntarysubmission to their sentence, that she was desirous toatone for that disobedience into which too much filialpiety had betrayed her; that she had justly deservedthis punishment for being made the instrument, thoughthe imwilling instrument, of the ambition of others ;and that the story of her life, she hoped, might atleast be usefid, by proving that innocence excuses not LADY JANE GREY. 239 great misdeeds, if they tend anywise to the destruc-tion of the commonwealth. After uttering these words,she caused herself to be disrobed by her women; and witha steady, serene countenance, submitted herself to the 1^ pa i QUEEN PHILIPPA AND THE BURGESSES OF CALAIS. The beautiful eugraving at the head of this article illus-trates a memorable event in history. The date of theoccurrence was 1346-47. The scene, the personages, andthe occasion are full of historic interest. The scene wasthe city of Calais, in France. Of the personages, one Avasan angry monarch incensed against a city of rebellioussubjects; another was his beautiful and heroic Queen onher bended knees, pleading for the lives of offending men;the others were six brave and heroic nobles, who had vol-imteered to offer their lives to appease the anger of awrathful sovereign. The occasion was the surrender of acity whose inhabitants were perishing with famine. Thefeelings developed on the occasion, and the facts recordedby the pen of the historian,
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