His Excellency is determined to administer those laws with the strictest impartiality, and without leaning to any particular class or creed.

So far as the laws will allow him, their protection shall be extended, on just and equal principles to the poor and to the rich, to the Catholic and to the Protestant.
This communication, which was kept strictly secret, reached the Marquis of -- -- at a critical period of our narrative.

Whitecraft, who was ignorant of it, but sufficiently aware of the milder measures which the new Administration had adopted, finding that the trade of priest-hunting and persecution was, for the present, at an end, resolved to accelerate his marriage with Miss Folliard, and for this purpose he waited upon her father, in order to secure his consent.

His object was to retire to his English estates, and there pass the remainder of his life with his beautiful but reluctant bride.

He paid his visit about two o'clock, and was told that Miss Folliard and her father were in the garden.