At these dangers. I abode with the vinedresser fifteen days, and Minier betook himself back to Paris. I had trouble almost as soon as I arrived at this place, called the Bouchet. The Queen's Swiss troops came ransacking all the villages to find some poor Huguenot, but it pleased God that they entered not the house wherein I lay concealed. The presence of these Swiss served me as an excuse for not going out of the house, and prevented the vine-dresser from pressing me to go to mass. This poor man deplored the hard fate of several Huguenot gentlemen who had lived in his neighbourhood, and who had been killed and massacred on the St. Bartholomew, declaring that in all the country there were no better men or men more charitable than they had been. He always permitted me to say my prayers in French, and really took me to be the servant of Made. Tambonneau, even as Minier had told him. the end of the fifteen days I was anxious to get to the village of La Brye, where I might better concert what to do for the future. I borrowed an ass from the vinedresser, and begged him to be my guide on the road. He agreeing, we set out, and soon crossed the river Seine between Corbeil and Melun, at a place called. St. Port, and then we made for Esprunes, a mansion belonging to my grandmother. As soon as we arrived there, the serving women of the house knew me, and they all came forth to salute me, skipping with joy, and crying out, Madame, ah Madame, we thought that you had been killed !' My poor vine-dresser was greatly astonished and perplexed. He asked me if I was indeed a great lady? He offered me his house again, he offered to conceal me as long as I chose, and to prevent my being forced by his family to go to mass; and many excuses did he make for not having given me his best bed while I was lodging with him. And so the poor man returned to his home, and I stayed at Esprunes two whole weeks. I must not forget to remark that a certain priest, a chaplain of Esprunes, who lived at Melun, came to see me, and to console me, told me, among other things, that "Since the judgments of the Almighty have begun to declare themselves, the wicked and ungodly ought My to be in great fear." At the end of fifteen days I mounted another ass, and so travelled four leagues to Messire de la Borde, my eldest brother, who was in great trouble and perplexity of mind, having been constrained, in order to preserve his life, to go to mass, and being constantly beset by men who called upon him to abjure the reformed faith. Our friends of Paris, learning that I was in his house, and fearing that I might prevail upon him not to make the abjuration, sent to warn him that his ruin was certain if he kept me in his house and I still refused to go to mass. Being thus moved, my brother on the following Sunday led me into his chapel, where a Catholic priest was ready to officiate. As soon as I saw the priest, I turned my back upon him, and went away in great affliction. brother then regretted what he had done. I took the resolution to stay there no longer. I employed a whole week in seeking out some waggoner that would convey me to Sedan.* Out of fifteen hundred francs that were owing to me at La Borde, I received forty crowns; and during my sojourn there one of my chamber-women and one of my menservants came and joined me. My brother found my resolution very hazardous. Nevertheless he assisted me in procuring a waggoner, begging me, however, not to let my mother and our other friends know that he had willingly consented to my dangerous journey. In bidding me farewell, he said that he felt assured that, on account of my zeal and fidelity in serving God, God would bless my journey and protect my person, and this, by the heavenly grace, happened to me. I arrived at Sedan on the day of All Saints, being the first day of November, without having met with any hindrance, disturbance, or trouble on the way. So soon as I arrived I found many friends who offered *The Lordship of Sedan was, at this time, an independent principality, possessed by the Duke of Bouillon, who, together with all his family, inclined to the reformed faith. The city of Sedan was a stronghold of the French Protestants. The house of Bouillon were afterwards obliged to cede the principality to Henri IV., and it was formally united to the crown of France in the reign of Louis XIII. me all that they had. I was not one hour at Sedan ere I was properly attired as a lady of rank, everybody hastening to give me whatsoever I wanted. I received also much honour and friendship from the duke and duchess of Bouillon. And I resided quietly at Sedan until the time of my marriage with Duplessis-Mornay." Duplessis-Mornay, who had escaped with the greatest difficulty, fled over to England almost immediately after the massacre. He was received with much honour and kindness by Queen Elizabeth and her court. He returned to France in the following year, 1573, and joined a league of Huguenots who had taken up arms against the Papists. As this league was very unsuccessful he withdrew to Sedan, where he became acquainted with the fair young Huguenot widow, whom he married in 1575. The 'Mémoires of Madame Duplessis-Mornay' were written in the year 1595 for the instruction and edification of her only son, who was then setting out on his travels. This son, being in the service of the Protestant Prince of Orange, was killed at the siege of Wesel in 1606. His body was brought to France, and in the course of the following year his mother was laid by his side in a tomb which she had built for him with great care and expense. Duplessis-Mornay survived until the end of the year 1623. THE CARICATURIST'S PORTRAIT GALLERY. PORTRAIT II.-CHARLES CHURCHILL. BY HOGARTH. THE quarrel of Hogarth with Wilkes produced, as we have mentioned, a quarrel between Hogarth and Churchill. Horace Walpole gives this account of the affair: "In September, 1762, Mr. Hogarth published his print of The Times.' It was answered by Mr. Wilkes in a severe 'North Briton.' On this the painter exhibited the caricature of the writer. Mr. Churchill, the poet, then engaged in the war, and wrote his 'Epistle to Hogarth,' not the brightest of his works, and in which the severest strokes fell on a defect that the painter had neither caused nor could amend— age, and which, however, was neither remarkable nor decrepit; much less had it impaired his talents, as appeared by his having composed but six months before one of his most capital works, the satire on the Methodists. In 'revenge for this epistle Hogarth caricatured Churchill, under the form of a canonical bear, with a club and a pot of porter-et vitulâ tu dignus et hic-never did two angry men of their abilities throw mud with less dexterity." his Of this caricature Churchill himself thus wrote to his friend Wilkes: "I take it for granted you have seen Hogarth's print against me. Was ever anything so contemptible? I think he is fairly felo de se." Churchill, in his Epistle to Hogarth, did full justice to the great painter's powers as a satirist of general vices; but he was bitterly severe upon some of his imputed failings : "Hogarth, stand forth; I dare thee to be tried In that great Court where Conscience must preside; Take longer time, and view them o'er again. A single instance where, Self laid aside, On Envy's altar he is doomed to bleed. See how he gloats, enjoys the sacred feast, The caricature of Churchill bore this title: The Bruiser, C. Churchill (once the Rev.), in the character of a Russian Hercules, regaling himself after having killed the monster Caricatura, that so sorely galled his virtuous friend, the heavenborn Wilkes.' Churchill complained that Hogarth had violated the sanctities of private life in this Caricature. He appears to have forgotten his own attacks upon Hogarth's age, and Wilkes's allusions to the painter's domestic infelicity. Churchill, in such a matter, was fairer game. However high his genius, his conduct was an outrage upon the decencies of a not very scrupulous age. Educated at Westminster— a remarkable boy, who had the distinction of being the friend of Cowper-he rushed from the schoolboy's real freedom into the fearful responsibilities of a most unhappy marriage. He finally took orders-became a curate in the country, and afterwards in London; had two sons-kept a school-became embarrassed in his circumstances -rushed to dissipation--separated from his wife-and was raised at once into notoriety by the publication of his 'Rosciad.' In a few months he became the most marked man of his time. He had a real hatred of hypocrisy ; but he manifested that hatred by a contempt for opinion which looked, and really was, something different from virtue. He threw off his clerical dress, and appeared in a blue coat with metal buttoms. He resigned his lectureship of St. John's, Westminster, and became the associate of Wilkes in the habitual profligacies of his private hours. It is a sad story. Churchill was fitted for better things. He has left much satire that is masterly in its temporary purposes. Had he not been prematurely cut off in the midst of his thoughtless career, be might have taken a high place amongst those who have filled the world with what the world "will not willingly let die." EVENING EMPLOYMENT. EVERY man of business is aware that a great effort is now making in the metropolis and the great provincial towns to obtain for shopmen, clerks, and other servants, a reduction in the hours of labour. This is a new principle, which was presented to men's minds only a few years ago, and which has gradually taken its root in public opinion. When this new principle was first promulgated, it met with general reprobation on the part of employers, many of whom spoke their sentiments before they had consulted their judgments. They imagined that this reduction would be attended with a loss of trade to them, the amount of which was numerically identified with the hours thus to be surrendered. But other people argued very naturally that their customers would still buy what they wanted, though they had only ten hours instead of twelve, or twelve hours instead of fourteen, to make their purchases. They were not always busy; they would have ample time left for business; and these, with a host of minor reasonings, united to that spirit of fair play and innate justice which are so indigenous in the English heart, have at length made converts of many considerable employers, and the opinion is fast gaining ground that their assistants ought to be relieved of some part of their present duty by adopting the new system of short hours. Some large firms have already had the good sense and the grace to set the example, by closing their warehouses at six or seven o'clock, instead of nine or ten. The progress of public opinion during the last two years, especially among that important class the drapers, mainly owing to the Metropolitan Drapers' Association, has been so great as to warrant the expectation that the principle of short hours will before long be generally adopted throughout the kingdom. But the new system of abridged labour must bring with it a great change in the habits of several hundred thousands of men, for which no preparation is being made, and which no man seems to anticipate! It is a moral revolution that the country is on the eve of witnessing, and this immense consequence is left to the chapter of accidents! What is the measure? Time, new time, given to several hundreds of thousands of industrious men. Two, three, or four hours which were full, are made empty. This new time must be spent, and the way in which it shall be spent will necessarily have an effect on the character of the whole of that vast class, and its consequences will operate on the entire nation. Let it be remembered that the two or three hours given up to the employed are evening hours. That these hours will mostly be spent out of doors, by men the major part of whom are young, a large number of whom are unmarried, isolated, having no homes properly so called, no domestic circles to frequent, and, finally, no preparation for the proper use of leisure. The new time, we repeat, must be spent, and it will be spent, in seeking amusement after labour in those places of public resort which exist for that purpose. Now we ask every man of experience, whether London, or Manchester, or Leeds, or Huddersfield, or Glasgow, or Edinburgh, presents at the present day, either in quantity or in quality, the opportunities for recreation and amusement which this new state of things must require? They do not. They are all very scantily provided with innoxious diversions; but, on the contrary, as if it were an understood thing that pleasure must always be left-handed, these great towns are but too amply furnished with pastimes which are both degrading and dangerous. The injury which these latter already produce on the morals of the class we refer to is obvious and great enough. It will be infinitely greater, unless the want of good and salutary amusements be acknowledged and pro-. vided for in due time. The better to understand this subject, let us take a view of London during those hours which are set aside for recreation by those who have leisure. Let us follow this laborious population to their multiform diversions. Let us see what amusements there are, and how the liberated son of industry spends his time and his money before he goes to bed. These resorts consist of theatres, taverns, other taverns with theatrical entertainments attached to them, the common public-houses, the shilling concerts, the dancing-rooms, with their weekly balls, the singing-rooms, and a few exhibitions. There may be a class of young men so strongly fortified against the influence of these public resorts as to pass through them unscathed. Parental advice, fatherly warnings, a strong discipline in early youth, good education, a sound judgment, a firm mind, may enable, here and there, one young man in a thousand to visit these places without being seriously affected in his morals. But how different must be the consequence in respect to the majority! Look at our THEATRES; look at the houses all around them. Have they not given a taint to the very districts they belong to? The Coburg Theatre, now called the Victoria, the Surrey, what are they? At Christmas time, at each of |