What seems to be intended now is the destruction of our Chiefs, individually, by secret meansmeans which it is supposed we shall not be able to trace to the instigators, even if we should detect their instruments.

The strife seemed for a moment to cease, as one of the crowd pointed, not to the impending destruction overhead, but to some object apparently at an equal elevation to westward.

His policy embraced three great objects: First, the overthrow of the Huguenot power; secondly, the subjugation of the great nobles; thirdly, the destruction of the undue might of Austria.