Bishop of St. Lisieux.—­The massacre of St. Bartholomew was not confined to Paris; orders were sent to the most distant provinces to commence the work of destruction.  When the governor of the province brought the order to Hennuyer, Bishop of Lisieux, he opposed it with all his power, and caused a formal act of his opposition to be entered on the registers of the province.  Charles IX., when remorse had taken place of cruelty, was so far from disapproving of what this excellent prelate had done, that he gave him the greatest praise for his humanity; and Protestants flocked in numbers to adjure their religion at the feet of this good and kind shepherd, whose gentleness affected them more than either the commands of the sovereign, or the violence of the soldiery.

On the same occasion, Viscount d’Orthe had the courage to write from Bayonne to Charles IX., that he found many good soldiers in his garrison, but not one executioner; and begged him to command their lives in any service that was possible to men of honor.

Baron Von Stackelberg, in going from Athens to Thessalonica in an armed vessel, was taken by some Albanian pirates, who immediately sent the captain of the vessel to the former place, demanding 60,000 piastres for the baron’s ransom, and threatening that if it was not paid, they would tear his body to pieces.  They obliged him, at the same time, to write to Baron Haller and another friend, to acquaint them with the demand.  The time fixed by the pirates had elapsed, and Baron Stackelberg, who had become extremely ill, was expecting a cruel death, when the humane and generous Haller, who had borrowed 14,500 Turkish piastres, at 30 per cent., appeared.  The pirates refused to take less than the sum demanded.  Haller offered himself as a hostage instead of his friend, if they would prolong his life, and suffer him to recover from his sickness.  This noble deed contributed to convince the pirates, that no larger sum could be obtained; they accepted it, and Haller returned to Athens with the friend whom his humanity had preserved.

The Princess Charlotte.—­During the residence of Her Royal Highness at Bognor, where she had gone for the recovery of her health, an officer of long standing in the army was arrested for a small sum, and being at a distance from his friends, and unable to procure bail, he was on the point of being torn from his family to be conveyed to Arundel gaol.  The circumstance came to the knowledge of the princess, who, in the momentary impulse of generous feeling, exclaimed, “I will be his bail!” Then, suddenly recollecting herself, she inquired the amount of the debt; which being told her, “There,” said she, handing a purse with more than the sum, “take this to him; it is hard that he who has exposed his life in the field of battle should ever experience the rigours of a prison.”—­During the last illness of an old female attendant, formerly nurse to the Princess Charlotte, she visited her every