"The Court, thrown into transcendent tremor, with no resource but
either to be burnt or comply, answers within the hour: 'Yes: in all
points.' Some eight hours or so of reasoning: deep in the night of
Sunday, it is all over; everything preparing to get signed and
sealed; ships making ready to sail again;--and on Tuesday at
sunrise, there is no Martin there. Martin, to the last top-gallant,
has vanished clean over the horizon; never to be seen again, though
long remembered. [Tindal's Rapin, xx. 572
(MISdates, and is altogether indistinct); Gentleman's
Magazine, xii. 494:--CAME, "Sunday morning, 19th
August, n.s.;" "anchored abont 4 p.m.;" "2 a.m. of 20th" all
agreed; King Carlos's LETTER is GOT, ships prepared for sailing;--
sail that night, and to-morrow, 21st, are out of sight.]
One wonders, Were Pipes and Hatchway perhaps there, in Martin's
squadron? In what station Commodore Trunnion did then serve in the
British Navy? Vanished ghosts of grim mute sea-kings, there is no
record of them but what is itself a kind of ghost! Ghost, or
symbolical phantasm, from the brain of that Tobias Smollett;
an assistant Surgeon, who served in the body along with them, his
singular value altogether unknown."--King Carlos's Neutrality,
obtained in this manner, lasted for a year-and-half; a sensible
alleviation to her Hungarian Majesty for the time. We here quit the
Italian War; leaving it to the reader's fancy, on the above terms.
.......


THE SIEGE OF PRAG CONTIMES. A GRAND SALLY THERE.

"PRAG, 22d AUGUST. In the same hours, while Martin lay coercing
Naples, the Army of the Oriflamme in Prag City was engaged in