BY RECTOR OF WHITTINGTON, VOL V. "Suffer the little cl:ildren to come unto ma" Mark x. 14. KIRKBY LONSDALE: PRINTED AND SOLD BY A. FOSTER. SOLD BY MEESRS. EEELEY, FLEET STREET ; AND BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. (Massacre of Protestants in France.) The following account is taken from Ander. son's History of the reign of Prancis 1. and Charles IX. and from a trans lation of Mezeray. “ The spirit of barbarity indulged among those of higher rank, maddened in the breasts of the people. Wherever the ruffian barīds of them were led by the city officers, they rushed like furies, and marked their track with violence, bloodshed, and brutality. The doors of houses being burst open, females, the infants and the aged, stocd pale and trembling, but met with no mercy. Briou, venerable, as age with honor, and locks white like snow, could make him, was employed in the office of tutor to the Prince of Conti. The assassins surrounded him* while his pupil yet in * See Frontispiece, |