had received from the ſword of Glanville rendered death inevitable; and, at the requeſt of that youth, the ſentence was ſuſpended.
The ambitious views which this imperious lord had formed, were now completely diſappointed. His family, whom he fought to enrich and ennoble by the crime of murder, had all deſcended to the grave; the laſt that remained he ſaw fall in this battle, and was himſelf now hastening to that gloomy dwelling; not with the ſatisfaction of having paſſed a life of piety and virtue, but with the reproaches of a heart tainted with every vice, and where that of murder formed the chief.
Such was the end of an ambition, founded in murder. May this tale impreſs on the mind of the reader the important truth it is intended to convey that what is begun in vice cannot end in peace; and that however ſucceſsfully the cunning and artifice of narrow-minded mortals may plan the concealment of their crimes from their fellow men, they are ſtill viſible to the all-ſearching eye of Providence!
THE
RUIN OF THE
HOUSE OF ALBERT.
From Ryan’s Reliques of Genius.
Adela was the only daughter of a powerful baron of Aquitaine. Her father ſprung from an illuſtrious family, and added to hereditary honours the glory of heroic atchievements. In his youth, he accompanied the flower of the European chivalry, who fought under the banner of Godfrey, and recovered the holy ſepulchre from the hands of the infidels. He returned
