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We will try again—page 512-3. 
4903. April 53." General David Dundas created a 
‘Knight and invested with the order of the Garter. 
—— May 20. Died, the Rev. Richard Hole, author 
of anjepic poem, called ‘ Arthur,” and other 
works of great taste and merit. [Who ever heard 
of him ?] 
—— June 17... His Royal Highness Prince Adolphus 
Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, promoted to the 
rank of Lieut. Gen. in the army. 
Again—page 488-9. 
1800. July29. .S. F. Waddington was tried at the 
Worcester assizes for forestalling hops, and found 
guilty. 
— J.S. Boothy Clapton, esq. committed suicide 
by blowing out his brains with a pistol; he was 
possessed of an estate of £7000 a year! 
— Oct. 6. Sir Wm. Staines elected Lord Mayor of 
London for the year ensuing. 
Once more—page 364-5. 
1788. Aug. 5. Joseph Ewart, esq. appointed envoy 
extraordinary at the Court of Berlin. 
— Aug. 16. The new coinage of guineas of this 
year's date to the amount of £6000 was issued 
this day. 
— Sept. 18. The Court of Proprietors of Bank 
Stock declared a dividend of 34 q»cent. for the 
half-year ending the 10th October next. 
—— Sept. 28. Alderman Curtis and Sir Benjamin 
Hammett were sworn in sheriffs of London. 
—— Sept. 3). The French King made a complete 
change in his ministry. 
All alike !—Still the book las its value. 
Events, great and small, are brought down 
to the end of 1825 ; all that can be required 
chronologically, is here, and we dare say, 
correctly enough; what we complain of is, 
that there is more than there ought to be: 
facts of perfect insignificance, and justly 
forgotten by every body 
De, Foix, or Skeiches of the Manners and 
Customs of the 14th Century, an historical 
Romance. By Anna Exiza Bray, late 
Mrs, Cuaries StorHann, author of Let- 
ters written during a Tour through INor- 
mandy, &c. 3 vols, 12mo.—Count de Foix 
is sovereign of Bearn and Foix, at the foot 
of the Pyrenees. He has twosons, Evan 
and Gracien, and with these, residing at his 
feudal castle, are two female wards; one 
of them, akinswoman, is Isabel de Greelly. 
She, by her father’s will, is bound to mar- 
ry according to De Foix’s appointment, or 
to lose her large inheritance: he conse- 
quently and disinterestedly designs her for 
one of his own sons. 
The other, Jane de Boulogne, is daughter 
of the Count de Boulogne, and heiress to 
the lands of Comminges. . Of these. terri- 
tories a neighbouring lord, Armagnac, has 
violently despoiled the beautiful heiress. In 
consequence of this spoliation, Jane is 
placed by her mother under De Foix’s 
powerful protection, with the view both of 
securing his assistance towards the recovery 
if 
of her inheritance, and safety to her person. 
against the further designs of Armagnac, 
who. .wishes,. by marrying her, to confirm 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
[Sepr. 
his othetwise precaridis Seizure!’ De Poix 
meatis: to’ bestow ‘her Upott ‘his! other son! 
Besides these sons and wards; there iis 
one Hustaceya youth of unknown parentage, 
_stipposed to be'a peasdtit’s Soli iwhomy the 
Countess de Foix in her life-tinie ytd’ pert 
suaded her lord’ to adopt as “his owir}tand 
who ‘had grown up’ in the palace ‘undérits 
master’s eye and especial protection; to= 
gether with the Count’s sons, 'To'this*hero 
Isabel, with whom he had been. familiat 
from boyhood, allin the usual way,’ gives 
her affections, instead of, as in duty bound, 
reserving them for the far less worthy; less 
handsome, less clever Sir Gracien de Foix. 
The remaining damsel also, Jane'de Bou- 
logne, at a splendid tournament in honour 
of the assumption of the Virgin, parts with 
her’s, in a no less perverse and orthodox 
manner, to a stranger knight, who is suc- 
cessful in the lists. Both these unpermit- 
ted attachments are discovered by a plotting 
abbot of a neighbouring convent. | Eustace 
is forthwith turned to the right-about., The. 
stranger knight, whom they find to be.the 
Duke de Montpensier, son of the Duke de 
Berry, an enemy of De Foix’s, narrowly 
escapes the indignation of De Foix. at his 
intrusion; but, at Jane’s intercession, with 
the promise of never marrying him without 
the Count’s concurrence, is allowed to go 
away too. 
Now, many years previous to theseevents 
one Arnaut de Bearn. was holding the for- 
tress of Lourdes for England; this fortress 
was invaded by the Duke of ‘Anjous » De 
Foix was afraid of the Duke, and wanted his 
friendship: he therefore beguiled De Bearn 
from his strong-hold of Lourdes to the castle 
of De Foix; and as soon as he had the 
person of De Bearn in his» power, made 
proposals for the surrender of Lourdes to 
himself, under flimsy pretences, which could 
not cover his insidiousness.. De Bearn re- 
jected his requisition, and De Foix there- 
upon stabbed him to the heart. 
John de Bearn, brother of the murdered 
Arnaut, succeeded to his inheritance, and 
together with Le Mengeant, a freebooting 
chief, ruled over the free bands of Lourdes 
and its neighbourhood. These chiefs em- 
ployed themselves from that time in plan- 
ning vengeance against De Foix, and, in 
furtherance of that aim, enter into an alli- 
ance with Armagnac, the afore-mentioned, 
despoiler of Jane de Boulogne’s territories., 
Upon. these alliances and hostilities, and> 
their influence on the, fortunes of Eustace, 
and the! two. wards, the story is. ‘built. 
Eustace turns out. to..be. the son ofthe! 
murdered. Arnaut. de- Bearn, andy. by- 
means of a secret understanding, between 
his widowed mother and the late:Countess 
de Foix, had been effectually screened from, 
the Count’s pursuit and persecution, and. 
his education provided for, by, being placed, 
under that Count’s own care asa peasant’s.- 
son, whom his lady desired to adopte sys» 
Finally Armagnac, the alliance, being: 
