part the gallantry of the Duke of Buckingham to her: Je penfois (car nous autres Poetes, Ce que, Vous fieriez, fi dans ce moment Vous avifiez en cette place · Venir le Duc de Buckingham; De lui, ou du Pere Vincent. At the Dutchess of Norfolk's feat at Holme, near Hereford, there is a whole-length portrait of the Princess, with this infcription, " Anne "Reine de France, groffe de fex mois; fait par "Beaubrun 1638:" and indeed the Queen's pregnancy is pretty visible in the picture, LA MARECHAL D'ANCRE. ઃઃ THIS upftart Minifter, by name Concini, and fofter-brother to Mary de Medicis, was fo in◄ folent, that he used to call the Gentlemen who were in his train, My Hundred-ayear Scoundrels," Concini governed France fo wretchedly and fo defpotically, that Malherbe faid after his death, "Now it has pleafed Hea The Queen's Confeffor. ven "ven to take Concini away from us, we have no Howell, in his Letters, relates this account of the death of the Marshal d' Ancre from an eye-witness: "The young King Louis XIII. "being told that the Marshal d'Ancre was "the ground of the difcontent amongst the "people of Paris, commanded M. de Vitry, Captain of the Guards, to arrest him, and "in cafe of refiftance to kill him. 66 This bu"siness was carried very closely till the next "morning, that the faid Marquis was coming to the Louvre, with a ruffling train of gal"lants after him, and paffing over the draw66 bridge at the Court-gate, Vitry ftood there "with the King's guard about him, and, as "the Marquis entered, he told him that he "had a commiffion from the King to ap prehend him, and therefore he demanded. "his fword. The Marquis hereupon put his "hand upon his fword; fome thought to yield "it up, others to make oppofition. In the mean time, Vitry discharged a piftol at him, "and fo difpatched him. The King, being "above in his gallery, afked what noise that was below. One smilingly answered, No"thing, Sir, but that the Marshal d'Ancre " is flain. Who flew him? The Captain of your 1 your Guards. Why? Because he would "have drawn his fword at your Majesty's royal "commiffion. The King then replied, Vitry "has done well, and I will maintain the act. Prefently the Queen Mother had all her "guards taken from her, except fix men and "fixteen women, and fo fhe was banished "Paris, and commanded to retire to Blois. "Ancre's body was buried that night in a "church-yard by the Court; but the next morning the lacqueys and pages (who are "more unhappy here than the apprentices of "London) broke up his grave, tore the coffin "to pieces, ripped the winding-fheet, and tied "his body to an afs's tail, and fo dragged him up and down the gutters of Paris (which are none of the fweeteft); they then fliced off "his ears, and nailed them upon the gates of "the city: they cut off his genitories, and fent "them as a prefent to the Duke of Maine. "The reft of his body they carried to the new bridge, and hung him, his heels upwards “and his head downwards, upon a new gibbet, "that had been fet up a little before to punish them who fhould fpeak ill of the prefent "Government, and it was his chance to have "the first fruits of it himself. His wife was "hereupon apprehended, imprisoned, and be"headed for a witch, fome few days after, ❝ upon " upon a furmife that fhe had enchanted the "Queen to dote fo upon her husband and they fay, the young King's picture was "found in her clofet, in virgin wax, with one leg melted away. A little after, a process was as formed against the Marquis her husband, and "fo he was condemned after death. This was " a right act of a French popular fury, which, "like an angry torrent, is irresistible, nor can any banks, boundaries, or dykes, ftop the impetuous rage of it." LE CHEVALIER DE GUISE. THIS Nobleman, true to his race, from earlieft life exhibited the characteristic of family courage. In a Letter in Sir Ralph Winwode's Collection of State Papers, dated Paris, 30th Dec, 1612, it is faid: "The Duke (then Chevalier de Guife, his brother being alive) meeting fome days fince "with the Baron de Luz in the ftreet, chal"lenged him to come out of his coach to fight him, and killed him on the place. The "ground of which quarrel is pretended to "have been, for that the faid Baron did of late let fall fome words that he was of coun " cil . cil to the killing of the late Duke of Guise at Blois, and that he had hindered the Mar fhal of Brifac from difcovering that pur" pose." In another Letter in the fame Collection, dated Paris, January 26, 1612, it is added, "A duel has happened between the Chevalier de Guife, and the young Baron de Luz; "who, to revenge his father's death, hath caft "himfelf into the fame misfortune. He hath « been much more pitied than his father, both for the ground of his quarrel, and for his own worth, he being one of the beft horfe "men in this Court, and of a very good cou rage, as he hath fhewed in this private fight, "which was very long and very well maintained 66. on both fides, for he had three mortal wounds, " and the Chevalier five, but all very favour able, fo that he is almost already recovered "of them, and his fecond alfo, a Knight of "Malta, called M. de Grignan, who had a dangerous thrust through the body, The "Baron's fecond, called Riolet, had only a cut "in his hand. Of all thefe champions, the Chevalier hath carried away the chief honour; "not fo much for the refpect of his quality, "which |