"O earth! cover not thou my blood."--_Job._ xvi. 18.

_West Side._

"Take away the wicked from before the King, and His throne shall be
established in righteousness."--_Prov._ xxiii. 5.

Fifteen months afterwards the father of William Allen presented a petition
to his majesty for vengeance on the murderers of his son.

O. SMITH.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

_Osnaburg Bishopric_ (Vol. ii. p. 358.).--By the treaty of Osnaburg, in
1624, it was stipulated "that the alternate nomination to the Bishopric of
Osnaburg should be in the catholic bishops, and in the protestant branches
of the house of Luneburg." Thus, the Princes Ernest Augustus, the father of
George I., Ernest Augustus, brother of the same monarch, and the late Duke
of York, became sovereign-bishops of Osnaburg. But by the treaty of Vienna,
in 1815, the bishopric became an integral part of the kingdom of Hanover.
(Vide _Halliday's House of Guelph_, 4to. 1820, pp. 134, 135, 335.)

F.E.

_Death of Richard II._ (Vol. ii., p. 391.).--Otterburn tells us (pp. 228,
229.) that Richard II.'s death took place at _Pontefract Castle_, on St.
Valentine's day, and adds, that the body was exposed to public view in all