is the tribunal of God, whom I here represent, and I shall therefore
remain seated; your highness will continue to kneel!" After her
devotions were concluded, instead of expressing any resentment, she
observed to an attendant, "This is just the director I have long
sought!" The friar became archbishop of Granada. Her only defect--yet it
is surely great enough--is her approval of the infernal tribunal which
consigned to torture, imprisonment, or death, so many thousands of her
subjects. Strange that this very lady, whom sufferings so exquisite
could not move, should have been the constant and successful advocate of
the Moors, whenever any town or fortress was taken by storm.

To Isabel must be ascribed the glory of the enterprise of Columbus in
his discovery of America. At first she received with natural coldness
the proposals of this wonderful man; but overcome at length by the
representation of a monk, the friend of Columbus, and still more by the
resistless reasoning of the navigator himself, whom she admitted to her
presence, she borrowed the sum of money necessary for the armament, and
bade him depart.

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THE GATHERER.


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_Garratt Election.--Proclamation issued by the Mayor of
Garratt_.--Whereas _his_ Majesty, the King and Queen, _is_ expected to