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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt:...most perfect state of health and has continued ever since perfectly well. The whole of the parties in this case are most respectable, and the facts unquestionably happened as here stated. "This we are bound to look upon as the work of pure chance, for we are not to suspect a man capable of possessing power sufficient to perform a miracle. In the same manner we must look upon it as chance that Columbus, having previously determined to bestow the name of the Trinity on the first laud he should discover, (in his third voyage,) actually discovered an island on which stand three mountains, apparently from the sea, joined together--the same island that now bears the name of Trinidad and which he gave to it. We must likewise attribute to chance the curious circumstance of the letter C so often occurring in the principal events of the unfortunate Princess Charlotte's life, noticed in the Mirror, vol. x., p. 376. Also that in the word " Devil" every thing is bad, viz., D evil Evil Vil ri L--(Hell) and that a mendicant speaks his own misfortunes, " mend I can't." All these are coincidences, as curious as that Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Soult, were born in the same year. H. M. A ROYAL HUSBAND. In the autumn of the year 1567, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex, was sent by Queen Elizabeth to Vienna, to the court of the Emperor, in order to report upon the person of Archduke Charles, (youngest son of Ferdinand the First) who was considered as a desirable match for the Queen. Elizabeth seems to have been more disposed to this alliance than to any other which had.been proposed to her. The following curious description of the Archduke was sent by the Earl of Sussex to the Queen herself:--"His highness is a person higher surely...