decollatus. Unable to persuade the clerks either to alter the word, or to grant the writ, Vivian de Staundon petitioned the council for relief, and an order was made that the writ should be issued; but, as if the council were anxious not to give the clerks of the Chancery any discretion, it was directed that the word suspensus should be retained in all cases, whatever might be the nature of the felon's execution." The council also acted in a directory character towards persons who were doubtful of their remedy in the ordinary courts, for upon petition to the council advice was given. III. The council had authority to determine matters not cognizable in courts of common law, a practice from which originated the court of Chancery. the Court by Parliament, in 1641. This, however, could not have been the Chambre des Estoilles, or Camera Steliata, in which the court originally sat, and from which it received its designation; for the building itself was evidently of the Elizabethan age, and the date 1602, with the initials E. R., separated by an open rose on a star, was carved over one of the doorways. An interior view of this latter Star Chamber, as it appeared shortly before its demolition, is shewn in the cut. The ceiling was of oak, and had been very curiously devised in moulded compartments, ornamented with roses, pomegranates, portcullises, and fleursdes-lys; it had also been gilt and diversely coloured. The origin of the name "Star Chamber," has been the subject of much learned dispute; but the most probable explanation is, that the roof of the chamber was anciently ornamented with gilded stars. The course of proceedings before the council, was twofold; one, ore tenus; the other, by bill and answer. The former method was usually adopted in political cases, and, consequently, was the most abused. It ori IV. The council also acted in cases of such importance as were deemed necessary to demand a special interference. If it were a "heinous trespass," for which speedy remedy were required: if one party were so rich and the other so poor that right was not likely to be done in the courts below; in such cases either the par-ginated either in "soden reporte," which probably means ties were summoned before the court, or a special comprivate or secret information given to the council; or, mission was issued for each particular case. The prac- "by the curious eye of the state and king's council prying tice of issuing special commissions was soon greatly into the inconveniences and mischiefs which abound in the abused. The Commons petitioned against it, and in the commonwealth." "The person accused or suspected, was course of the reign of Edward the Third, it was gradu- confessed any offence, or if the cunning of his examiners immediately apprehended and privately examined. If he ally laid aside. Under succeeding monarchs, the prac- drew from him, or his own simplicity let fall, any exprestice was more or less adopted, until, in the fifth year of sions which suited their purpose, he was at once brought to the reign of Henry the Sixth, it was agreed in the Ro- the bar, his confession or examination was read, he was tulary Parliament that the only causes determinable at convicted, ex ore suo, and judgment was immediately prothe common law which were to be withdrawn from the nounced against him. Imagination can scarcely conceive a decision of the ordinary courts, were to be those in more terrible judicature. Dragged from home in the cuswhich the complaint was against a man of great influ-tody of a pursuivant, ignorant of the charge or suspicion entertained against him, without friend or counsellor, the ence, or the suitor was too poor to prosecute his cause in fore-doomed victim was subjected to a searching examinathe inferior courts; or in which the court saw "other tion before the members of a tribunal, which was bound by reasonable cause." no law, and which itself created and defined the offences it punished." "In theory, nothing could be more excellent. In turbulent times, it is scarcely necessary to remark, great men were too apt to weigh out justice for themselves, and with no great nicety; a court, therefore, to which the people might fly for relief against powerful oppressors, was most especially needful." Law-charges also were considerable, and this, "the poor man's court, in which he might have right without paying any money," was an institution apparently calculated to be of unquestionable utility. It was the comprehensiveness of the last clause, -the "other reasonable cause," which was its ruin. The ministers of despotic princes found little difficulty in considering their own desire to silence their opponents, to be cause reasonable enough for the withdrawal of almost all political cases from the ordinary tribunals. In the exercise of their judicial authority, the council held their sittings in a chamber of the palace at West ́minster, known as "the Council Chamber near the Exchequer," and the "Chambre des Estoyers," or "Estoilles," near the Receipt of the Exchequer. This chamber is said to have been situated in the outermost quadrangle of the palace, next the bank of the river, and was consequently easily accessible to the suitors. Our frontispiece is chiefly taken from Messrs. Britton and Brayley's History of the Ancient Palace; and late 'Houses of Parliament, at Westminster, in which work the following observations occur: The The method of proceeding, ore tenus, is of great antiquity. It was not until the reign of Edward the Third, that pleadings were put into writing, and delivered in that form to the clerks of the court, instead of being pronounced vira voce by the counsel. ore tenus prosecutions in the Star Chamber, did not possess any one of the properties of an honest judicial inquiry. "There was no previously declared accusation against which the defendant might prepare himself; whereever resident, he was taken from amongst his neighbours, who, in some cases, were his judges at the common law, and, at all times, were the best witnesses of the tenour of his life, and conveyed in custody to Westminster; there he was not confronted with any accuser, but in the presence of a secret assembly, comprehending some of the most dignified persons of the realm,- an assembly calculated to overawe the boldest offender, and utterly confound a person of any timidity, he was interrogated upon points of his conduct respecting which the council had received information, through the trustworthy channels of common rumour, or secret information. It is not difficult to conceive how easily a most notable confession might be thus extracted. tary, that no bodily torture was to be practised, and that, if We are told, indeed, that the confession was to be volunthe accused would not confess, the council were obliged to adopt the other mode of proceeding by bill. In the meantime, however, the defendant remained in custody. If, to avoid a lingering confinement upon he knew not what charge, he once submitted to examination, the testimony of Hudson informs us, how little scrupulous the judges were as to the nature of his replies, and how unfairly they distorted, to his disadvantage, loose words, uttered by him, probably, in ignorance of the point at which his practised examiners were labouring to arrive. His judges were, in On the eastern side of the New Palace Yard, near the bank of the Thames, stood various old buildings and offices, formerly belonging to the Exchequer; and adjoining to them, northward, was an arched gateway, apparently of Henry the Third's time, which communicated with a boarded passage and stairs, leading to the water. At different times, since 1807, the whole of this range of build-point of fact, his prosecutors, and every mixture of these ing has been pulled down; the last remaining part which included the offices, where the trials of the pix and the printing of exchequer bills were recently carried on, was destroyed early in the year 1826. There was also an apartment in the same edifice, in which that despotic tribunal, the Star Chamber Court, held its sittings, during the most obnoxious period of its career; namely, from the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, until the final abolition of two characters is inconsistent with impartial justice. However calm the feeling of a prosecutor may be, when he enters into a cause, he soon acquires the keen spirit of a partisan; the idea of defeat gradually becomes painful to him, and, in the end, he dreads a failure as much as if his own personal credit or interest were connected with success.' CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE WEATHER. COMPARING autumn and spring with summer and winter, days of sunshine and gaiety with others dreary and dark through clouds and rain, and a series of fine, beautiful, and dry weather, with that which is cold, bleak, and rainy, who is not sensible of the difference? It is not our intention, in the present place, to investigate the effects of our climate on the sensitive or animal system, but may it not be one cause of that hardihood or perseverance, so generally ascribed to the natives of our island? The melancholy, said by foreigners to tinge our habits and dispositions, is by some imputed to our climate, and man is surely more liable to be oppressed by a dead and uniform, than by a lively, atmosphere. On the other hand, we should droop and languish, as herbage on the lawn or the foliage of the trees, under protracted sunshine. There is something acrid in what we call an Italian sky, which accords with the passions that characterize the inhabitants of burning climates. How well described are the noxious scenes of torrid and uncultivated lands, by Goldsmith, in the following picture: Far different there from all that charmed before, Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But beautiful are the peaceful triumphs of man, over these moral and physical evils of nature and society! Besides the constant vicissitude that pervades the whole mass of material existence, wherever man is stationed, or society improves, art is at work. Who has not marked the alteration introduced by agriculture, gardening, and architecture? Instead of a desert, behold a populous city, in which our busy race pursue their respective callings and professions, in endless and emulous diversity. For the wild, formerly inhabited by the bittern and the raven, the asp and the adder, we have ample inclosures of arable grounds, fields in high cultivation, gardens gay with flowers, and orchards rich with fruit. Our culture of the earth allures around us birds which charm our ears and delight our hearts with their melody. They derive provision from our industry, and repay us with their songs. They clear the soil of insects; and by building in our shrubberies, partake with us in all the advantages of our improvements. The These local accommodations soften, to a certain degree, the natural asperities of the atmosphere. The air nourishes vegetation, and is in turn loaded with the perfume of flowers. How different is the waste inhospitable heath, from the warm fertile inclosure! Here, everything thrives, and is healthy and vigorous. wilderness, in the lofty words of antiquity, "becomes glad, and the desert rejoices and blossoms as the rose." The beautiful prophecy, that "every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain," is thus literally accomplished. Full often have we contemplated the universe in its frigid and torpid state, without heat or comfort. The fields, the trees, the forests, the meadows, the heaths, the hills, and the valleys-lawns, pleasure-grounds, gardens, shrubberies, and plantations-all denuded of their richest foliage, and stripped of their sweetest mantle ! But how soon and how wonderfully does nature revive, and how still more rapid is her progress to maturity! And what shall we say of the pleasing and transporting variety she introduces everywhere to our attention and admiration? Surely no language can express it better, with greater brevity, or more happily describe the pious effect it ought to produce on our imaginations and hearts, than those of the Psalmist: "Thou renewest the face of the earth." All this enchanting and delicious gloss of novelty and variety in substance, shape, and colour, so charming and beautiful, from its contrast with the frightful and desolating scene which preceded, can only come from Thee, who art the Father, the Spirit, and the Comfort of every living thing. Sweet and useful, both for health and enjoyment, are the interchanges of wet and dry, cold and heat, frost and thaw, clouds and sunshine; and thankfully ought we to acknowledge the Source of all these bountiful gifts! Wherever we are, Thou art ministering to our pleasures, gratifying our senses, soothing our feelings, and transporting our hearts with a profusion of goodness and mercy! The warmth which cherishes, the light which cheers, the strength which upholds, the food which nourishes, the drink which revives, and the sleep which restores our frail enfeebled powers, are all from Thee, tokens of Thy bounty, and proofs of our constant dependence on Thy care. And we owe Thee our sincerest gratitude for these gracious symbols of Thy indulgence; for the many prospects which impress and captivate our hearts; and especially for all our senses and faculties, which enable us to relish and enjoy them. Ten thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; That tastes those gifts with joy. It is through the commodious medium of the air that we imbibe the balmy breath of heaven, that we experience the friendly auspices of the higher regions; that winds blow, rains fall, and dews distil; that we enjoy the salubrious fragrance of the morning, and that the shadows of the evening, like a pavilion of safety and repose, are dropt around us! By means of this circumambient fluid, the horrors of night are dispelled by the placid and softening effulgence of the moon; and the united transparency of those ethereal lamps that bespangle the vaulted sky radiate our hemisphere with their luminous phenomena. From this we receive the capacity by which our lungs play, our pulses beat, our blood circulates, and all the fine, minute, and mastersprings in the animal machine, are impelled and kept alive. How highly do some few of the manifold mercies vouchsafed to us, rise in our partial estimation, while those of the last importance are overlooked! We ransack the whole globe for a favourite plant, or one valuable mainly for its scarceness, and nature is exhausted to gratify the palate, the eye, and the ear, while those inestimable objects on which even life, and all its blessings and enjoyments absolutely depend, are seldom considered with sufficient interest, or recollected with due sensibility. Yet we cannot open our lips, or raise our eyes, emit a breath, or move a step, without having our hearts impressed with a deep conviction of His goodness, who hath graciously provided such ample and well adapted means for our respiration! Whatever is sweet to the taste, or pleasant to the sight, or agreeable to our senses, in the heavens above, or upon the earth beneath, we enjoy by the exercise of those organs which owe their efficiency, under God, entirely to the atmosphere. It dispenses health by its purity; it braces our nerves by its energy; it animates and invigorates our spirits by its soft and cheering influence; and it revives and rouses all the dormant and latent springs in our constitution by its freshness and elasticity. So useful is this vital atmosphere both to the mind and body! The ways in which it contributes to all our powers and enjoyments, are numberless and various. And is not the Author of an accommodation so neces sary and appropriate, eminently entitled to our devoutest homage and acknowledgments? Ought not every organ we possess, every faculty we enjoy, to be stirred up to praise His holy naine for blessing us thus abundantly by infusing into his creatures His breath of life? Hereby we live and move and have our being; and it is of the Divine mercy we are not consumed by the very means of life; that the air we respire is not malignant, but salubrious; that we have organs so well adapted for its reception; that they are often kept in repair amidst debility and corruption; and that the vapour in which we are wrapped, as in a mantle of velvet, is not a magazine of disease and death, but of comfort and life. How manifold are Thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast Thou made them all! [Abridged from BASELEY'S Glory of the Heavens.] CURIOUS CHESS PROBLEMS. XI. THE following beautiful little problem is by M. Paul Loquin, of Orleans. We have already invited our readers to solve a few problems in two moves, which have been greatly admired for their ingenuity. The following problem will bear comparison with any that have been previously given. We would advise the young student to endeavour to solve it mentally, and not touch the pieces until he is quite sure of the solution. It is real improvement in the game. by cultivating this habit that chess problems conduce to White moving first, is to check-mate in two moves. BLACK. SUMMER WIND. Ir is a sultry day; the sun has drank O come, and breathe upon the fainting earth THE first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason.BACON. A REPINING life, is a lingering death.-QUARLES. THE painter has no reason to complain, for as all descriptions of creeping plants are very abundant in Ireland, Irish ruins generally wear a very picturesque look. The beautiful ivy hangs its drapery round them all, wild roses, yews, and similar plants nestle everywhere among the broken masonry, and often have I seen the most wretched huts enveloped in a rich full robe of ivy, worthy to luxuriate around the tottering keep of what was once a royal castle. Many a hut, I believe, is made habitable only by the ivy that embraces and upholds it.-Kour's Ireland. OLD ENGLISH NAVIGATORS. CAPTAIN JOHN DAVIS. THE discovery of a free passage to the westward; the friendly disposition of the natives, who seemed disposed to afford an abundant supply of skins; and the great ability shown by Davis in the previous voyage, induced the merchants to assist him in fitting out a second expedition. Accordingly, on the 7th of May, 1586, Davis sailed again on a voyage of discovery for the northwest passage, with the Mermaid, a ship of one hundred and twenty tons, two barks, the Sunshine and the Moonshine, and a pinnace named the North Star. In the middle of June they approached the southern extremity of Greenland, but it was "mightily pestered with ice and snow," so that they could not land; they, therefore, bore off, and, by doubling the same, recovered a free sea. On the 29th of June they again discovered land, and sending the pinnace forward as scout, they arrived before this land, which "is very high and mountainous, having before it on the west side, a mighty company of isles, full of faire sounds and harboroughs. "The ships being within the sounds, wee sent our boates to search for shole water, where wee might anker, which in this place is very hard to finde: and as the boat went sounding and searching, the people of the country having espied them, came in their canoes towards them, with many shouts and cries; but after they had espied in the boat, some of our company that were the yeere before here with us, they presently rowed to the boate, and tooke holde on the oare, and hung about the boate with such comfortable joy, as would require a long discourse to be uttered; they came with the boates to our ships, making signs that they knewe all those that the yeere before had bene with them. And I perceived their joy and small feare of us, myselfe with the merchants and others of the company went ashoare, bearing with me twenty knives: I had no sooner landed, but they lept out of their canoas and came running to mee and the rest, and embraced us with many signes of heartie welcome: at this present there were eighteen of them, and to eache of them I gave a knife: they offered skins to me for reward, but I made signes that they were not solde, but given them of courtesie: and so dismissed them for that time, with signes that they should returne againe after certaine houres." They remained some days at this place, fitting out the pinnace for the purpose of proceeding on the voyage, when the natives flocked around them, eager to barter "seale skinnes, stagg skinnes, white hares, sealefish, samon peale, smal cod, dry caplin, with other fish, and birds such as the countrey did yeeld." A party was sent to examine the dwellings of the people, with strict injunctions to offer no injury to them. They found that the natives lived in tents, constructed of a frame of timber, and covered with seal skins: they contained a store of dried fish, chiefly caplin, which is described as a fish not larger than a pilchard; they also found in the tents, "bags of trane oyle, many little images cut in wood, seale skinnes in tan tubs, with many other such trifles, whereof they diminished nothing." They also discovered ten miles within the snowy mountains, much flat grassy land, similar to the moors of England, a large river and an inlet, which proved to be a deep bay. While remaining here, the sailors tried their skill with the natives in leaping and wrestling: in the former the sailors excelled; but in the latter the victory seems to have been divided equally. The people are described as "of good stature, well in body proportioned, with small, slender hands and feet, with broad visages, and small eyes, wide mouthes, the most part unbearded, great lips, and close-toothed." "They eate all their meate rawe, they live most upon fish, they drinke salte water, and eat grasse and ice with delight; they are never out of the water, but live in the nature of fishes, save only when dead sleepe overtaketh them, and then under a warme rocke, laying his boate upon the land, hee lyeth downe to sleepe. Their weapons are all darts, but some of them have bowe and arrowes and slings. They make nets to take their fish of the finne of the whale." Their disposition was found to be thievish: they could scarcely resist the temptation to steal, when a piece of iron was anywhere to be seen: they exercised their skill in the use of the knives which had been given to them, by cutting away the Moonlight's boat from her stern; "they cut our cloth where it lay to aire, though wee did carefully looke unto it, they stole our oares, a caliver, a boate speare, a sword, with divers other things." Upon this, a couple of shots were fired over their heads, "which strange noise did sore amaze them, so that with speed they departed," but after some hours they returned with peace offerings of seal skins and salmon; but no sooner did they perceive some iron, than they committed a new theft. It affords a pleasing trait in the character of Davis, that, on hearing of the new theft, he laughed, gave an order that the people should not be "hardly used, but that the company should be more vigilant to keepe their things, supposing it to be hard in so short a time to make them know very their evils." Davis proceeded in the pinnace to explore somewhat the interior of the country, and sailing up what appeared to be a large river, he was met by a storm of wind, and forced to land. He ascended a lofty peak, hoping thus to see the nature of the country; but "the mountains were so many and so mightie, that his purpose prevailed not." He describes what appears to have been a waterspout, viz. "a mightie whirle-winde taking up the water in very great quantitie, furiously mounting it into the aire, which whirlewinde was not for a puffe or blast, but continual for the space of three houres, with very little intermission." The next morning he re-embarked, and penetrated higher up the channel, and found, to his surprise, not a continent, but "huge waste and desert isles, with mighty sounds and inlets passing betweene sea and sea." On returning to the ships, Davis found that the sailors and the natives had disagreed on account of the thefts committed by the latter, and the quarrel became so urgent that the natives had assailed the ship's crews with their slings, and as they reported to the captain, "they spare us not with stones of halfe a pound weight: and wil you stil endure these injuries; it is a shame to beare them." But Davis still gave them mild and tolerant treatment, and even bestowed a number of gifts upon them; but having received his presents, they gave him a shower of stones in return: whereupon Davis gave permission for two boats to chase the offenders; but they rowed so swiftly that the sailors returned with "small content.” Two days after, five natives appeared and offered to make a fresh truce; but the master reported to Davis that one of them was the chief ringleader, 66 a master of mischief:" whereupon he was captured, and a fair wind suddenly springing up, they set sail and carried him. away; determined to retain him until a stolen anchor should be returned. The native, however, soon became reconciled to his lot, and was a pleasant companion. "I gave him," says Davis, " a new sute of frize after the English fashion, because I saw he could not endure the colde, of which he was very joyfull, he trimmed up his darts, and all his fishing tooles, and would make okan, and set his hande to a rope's end upon occasion." Davis sailed across the bay, and, on the 17th, they descried some 66 very high cliffe land, with bayes and capes," but on approaching it, it was discovered to be an enormous mass of ice. It was, in fact, that immense barrier which often occupies the middle of Baffin's Bay during a great part of the season. They sailed by the side of this mighty obstacle until the 30th, when they found it to be a bar to all further Their progress. and sails were completely frozen, and the air loaded with fog; all this was the more remarkable to our navigators, considering that, in the preceding year, this sea was open and navigable. 66 ropes Our men, through this extremity, began to grow sick and feeble, and withall hopelesse of good successe: whereupon very orderly, with good discretion they intreated me to regard the state of this busines, and withall advised me that, in conscience, I ought to regard the saftie of mine owne life with the preservation of theirs, and that I should not, through my over boldness, leave their widowes and fatherlesse children to give me bitter curses. This matter in conscience did greatly move me to regard their estates; yet, considering the excellence of the businesse if it might be attained, the great hope of certaintie by the last yeare's discoverie, and that there was yet a third way not put in practise, I thought it would growe to my great disgrace, if this action, by my negligence, should growe into discredite: whereupon seeking helpe from God, the fountaine of all mercies, it pleased his Divine Majestie to move my heart to prosecute that which I hope shall be to His glory, and to the contentation of every Christian minde. Then, considering that the Mermaid was not so convenient and nimble as a smaller bark, especially in such desperate hazards, and that the merchants paid no less than a hundred pounds per month for the hire of that ship, he determined to furnish the Moonlight with sufficient stores and men to proceed "in this action as God should direct." 66 Proceeding on his voyage with a favourable wind, Davis turned the ice, and, on the 1st of August, in lat. 66° 33', he discovered land free from snow and ice. This land was found to consist of numerous islands, with the sea on all sides. They found the weather very warm, and the mosquitoes "did sting grievously.' They also had a friendly intercourse with some natives, accepting a seal as a present, and bartering skins. They continued during many days to beat about, sometimes having great hopes of a thorough passage;" at other times becalmed; and at other times borne away by a great current striking to the west. They continued during some days to sail among numerous islands, and a mainland, which they coasted until the 28th, and found it still to bear towards the south. Here they found large quantities of sea birds, and abundance of cod fish. They also arrived at a very fair harbour, and sailed ten leagues into it. The land (which is Labrador) is described as having fair woods, consisting of fir, "pineapple," alder, yew, and birch, and abounding in game. They coasted the shore during a few days, and on the 4th of September anchored in a very good road among numerous islands, the country flat and woody. Eight leagues to the north of this place they had great hopes of finding the passage, because of "a mightie great sea passing betweene two lands west." Here they found of "foule and fish a mightie store." Davis sent five of his men on shore to procure a supply, when they were suddenly set upon by some savages who were lurking in the woods, and before Davis could fire a gun for their relief, two of the men were shot dead with arrows, two more were grievously wounded, and the fifth escaped by swimming. Their troubles were further increased by a violent storm, an account of which we will give in the simple language of the narrator:-" This present evening it pleased God further to increase our sorrowes with a mighty tempestuous storme, the winde being north-northeast, which lasted unto the tenth of this moneth very extreme. We unrigged our ship, and purposed to cut downe our masts; the cable of our sheet-anker brake, so that we onely expected to be driven on shoare among these canibals for their pray. Yet in this deepe distresse the mightie mercie of God, when hope was past, gave us succour, and sent us a faire lee, so as we recovered our anker againe and nowe moored our ship; where we saw that God manifestly delivered us: for the straines of one of our cables were broken, and we only roade by an olde junke. Thus being freshly mored, a new storme arose, the winde being westnorth-west, very forcible, which lasted unto the tenth day at night. The eleventh day, with a faire west-north-west winde we departed with trust in God's mercie, shaping our course for England, and arrived in the west countrey in the beginning of October.” Soon after his return Davis wrote a letter to Mr. Sanderson, the chief adventurer, dated from Exeter the 14th of October, 1586, in which he says, "I have now experience of much of the north-west part of the world, and have brought the passage to that likelyhood, as that I am assured it must bee in one of foure places, or els not at all. And further, I can assure you, upon the perill of my life, that this voyage may be performed without further charge, nay, with certaine profite to the adventurers, if I may have but your favoure in the action." The merchants who had hitherto favoured the expedition for the most part refused to contribute to a third trial; but at the instigation chiefly of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and Secretary Walsingham, Davis was enabled to proceed on a third voyage in the following year, 1587. Having in his last voyage discovered large quantities of cod-fish, two vessels were sent out with him for the purposes of fishing, one pinnace only being devoted to the voyage of discovery. They sailed on the 19th May, and on the 14th June they discovered at some distance a rocky land covered with snow. On the 21st of June the two barks left him, with the promise not to depart till August, when he would return to them. In the mean time Davis pursued his voyage, coasting towards the north; and on the 28th he reached a point which he named Hope Sanderson, in upwards of 72°, the sea being still open to the west and north. The wind having changed, he sailed forty leagues to the west without seeing land. On the 2nd July, he encountered a large bank of ice, which involved him in considerable difficulty; but having happily escaped, he came at length within sight of Mount Raleigh, and afterwards anchored among a group of islands, which he named the Earl of Cumberland's Isles. On quitting this place he sailed back south-east, in order to get into open water again, and succeeded in doing so in 62° lat. On the 30th he passed a great bank or inlet, to which he gave the name of Lumley's Inlet; and the next day he passed a headland, which he called the Earl of Warwick's Foreland. On the 1st August he fell in with the southernmost cape, named by him Chudley's Cape; and on the 12th passed an island, which he called Darcy's Island. Wheu he arrived in 52° lat., he found that the two ships had departed without him: he was in much distress, having but little wood and fresh water remaining. However, taking courage, he made the best of his way home, and arrived at Dartmouth on the 15th September. On the next day he wrote to Mr. Sanderson as follows :—“ I have made my safe returne in health, with all my company, and have sailed threescore leagues further than my determination at my departure. I have been in 73°, finding the sea all open, and forty leagues between land and land. The passage is most probable, the execution easie, as at my coming you shall fully know." But the Spanish invasion happening the year following, and Mr Secretary Walsingham dying two years after, the design was set aside, and not again attempted by Davis. A few years after his return, Davis published an interesting and vivid summary of his three voyages. Mr. Sanderson employed Molyneux, the best artist of the time, to construct a globe, which comprised all Davis's discoveries. This globe is still in existence in the library of the Middle Temple. But this zealous navigator did not remain idle. In August, 1591, he was appointed captain of the Desire, rear-admiral to Mr. Thomas Cavendish, in his second unfortunate expedition to the South Seas. After many disasters, Davis arrived in Ireland in June, 1593. After this, he performed no less than five voyages to service of the Dutch. the East Indies, as pilot: one of these was in the The last voyage of Davis was in company with Sir Edward Michelbourne, during which Davis lost his life in a desperate conflict with some Japanese pirates, who craftily obtained possession of the ship, |