the ftroke of the axe, and falls fenfc-lefs on 
the ground. The tragedy might very 
well have ended here, but the poet was of 
opinion, that poetical juftice ought to be 
fully executed. For this reafon, we are 
again tran{ported to London. The Earl 
of Shrewfbury announces to Queen Eliza- 
beth, that Nau and Carke, who are con- 
fined in the Tower, had retraéted their 
former confeffions. The Queen tien or- 
ders Shrewfbury to prevent the execution 
of the fentence pronounced againft Mary, 
but Burleigh enters with the news of Ma- 
ry’sdeath. Elizabeth, ftruck with appa- 
rent terror, banifh-s Burleigh from her 
fight, and commits Davifon to prifin: 
the Earl of Shrewibury Jays down the 
great feal, exclaiming, ‘¢ I will nox feai 
henceforward your great deeds ;*" he leaves 
her alone; fhe makes a gefture of unfeign- 
ed dittrefs, and the curtain drops. 
It cannot be denied, that the laft aét 
has many fituations, in which the foaring 
genius of Schiller {preads his wings totheir 
fulleft extent. He will not brirg before 
our eyes the fcaffold itfelf, but he aggran- 
dizes the terror of it, firft by the relation 
of poor Kennedy, who tells Melvil that in 
the dead of midnight they heard on a fud- 
den a great noife below ftairs; that they 
imagined at the beginning Mortimer was 
come in order to refcue her from prifon, but 
that they were cruelly undeceived, heaiing 
that carpenters and upholiterers were pre- 
paring the {caffold in the great halJ. Dur- 
Correl? Lift of New Publications. 
[ Sept. 1, 
ing their relation, all the handmaids and 
women of Mary are gathering, when 
one of them comes with a ghaftly look, 
telling the forrowful tale, that in paffing 
by the great hall the faw the {caffold co- 
vered with black, the people furrounding - 
it, the block laid ready, and even the fa- 
tal inftrument of execution. All this ts 
well contrived to fill the foul with difmal 
images. But it freezes and harrows up 
the foul with terror, when Leicefter is feen 
in a ftate of madnefs, ftruggling in vain 
to efcape the affaulting terrors of the lonely 
chamber left by Mary; now liftening to 
the founds below, hearing the voice of the 
exhcrting Dean, and the {weet accents of 
the lat prayer of Mary, catching with 
greedy ear the murmuring of the people, 
and, when hearing at laft the tumbling of 
the block by the tatal blow, falls fat on 
the ground thunderftruck and motionle(s, 
the back curtain dropping at the fame mo- 
ment. This is fkilfully done indeed, and 
much better conduéted than it could be 
done by the interference of any meflenger 
in the old Greek or modern French trage- 
dy. Itis picturefque and affecting, when 
Mary is adminiflering the comfort to the 
kneeling multitude of her fe:vants melting 
in tears; and the whole audience was fob- 
bing, when fhe kneeled herfelf to confefs 
to Melvil, and to receive on her anointed 
head the comfort of abfolution he beftows 
upon her. 


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An impzrtial Statement of the Difcoveries 
made in the Coldbath-fields Prifon, by the 
Grandand Traverfe Juries for the County of 
Middlefex, and reported in the Houfe of 
Commons by Sir Francis Burdett, in June, 
3800; alfo the Debate on that occafion. To 
which are added a Letter to R. B, Sheridan, 
Efq. by Christopher Munnings. And an in- 
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