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he wait at once usheved into • suite of !twit:tents
where he beheld the dress of every age and of every
nohow; in some instance►, perhaps, not ednpted
by the wearers from any regard to gracefulness,
bet assumed by all with the intention of promoting
good humour and mirth. The appearance of the
Knight in the midst of this nsotly crew, though he
was cased in complete armour, did not sweet soy
particular attention; and he would have passed,
like the rest, uninterruptedly, through the night,
mammon and amused, if his own extravagancies
bad not led to consequences which the faithful
/naturists is compelled to relate. It presently
occurred to our hero that lie hail now ao op-
-. palimony of dispersing a crew that were as.
ambled for some diabolical pirrlsose. He saw
'Ports and Jewry, Moms and Mehomedans, and
Irtgblanders and dluh.itoes, Laxitareoi, Carboneri,
Baines, Chinese, il,lttentots, lawyers, priests,
I'h►ygisna and Parophodians, and other represen-
tations of perilous, nation., professions, deformities
or misfortunes, which convinced him that he should
Wow have it in his .power to set the world right by
slit work of one Oh, all ye nations of
the earth !" exclaimed the valorous champion,
•‘yielil yourselves to my unconquerable taut, and
submit to the ineffable wisdom of my opinion;
why have ye sophisticated the garb of the true Cas-
tilian, by thus daring to profane it with the pre.
dente of these outlandish and heathenish vupersti.
Lions ? You are assembled here to insult my co•n.
fry, and to exhibit harbaritis a in apparel, which,
the law of armt, no true Spaniard can tolerate.
command you to abstain from your orgies, or I will.
itistautly send 'on to your account with my valiant
arm, that has gained immortal fame in mountain
feuds." Hr then accosted a large woman, as the,
• 'figure before him bore some marks of being ; she wail
masked, and wore her nether garment. so tightly
pad to her brie), Out she seemed properly prepared
to mount the barbed steed, Nod run a tilt with any
knight or baron in Christendom ; her upper habihe

meets would have led one, less liable to tee than
• Dun Quixote, to suppose that she was a Moor, a
race abhorred by the Spaniards. " You, Sir,"
Mid the redoubted Knight, " how dare you coo-
laminate this soil with your filthy Moresco 1"—" Sir
Knight," said the Lady, " you play your assumed
part well. But is it posaible that you can really
fancy use, what you call me, H man?"—" Man or
giant," quoth the Knight, " acknowledge yourself
conquered, and beseech my clemency for your for-
feited life."—" Donna Cambria de Comovills,"
said a licentiate, who saw the Lady was alarmed,
" allow me to encounter this awful hero, who seems
to have prepared himself for our pageant by an
application to the vintages of Xeres •." This
Gentleman was the reoowned Senor Pientrello de
Grandenzies, who, as he approached our acrompli.h-
ed chief, displayed in his Spanish cap three huge
leathers, at the sight of which the wrath of our hero
became intolerable, and puckering himself up into
a posture of tarsier, lie exclaimed, " Stand uff,
Renegado ! by what authority do you bear the
eagle's plume ?"—" By the same authority. Sir
Knight," said Senor Pientrello, quite collectedly,
•'.that jdstities you in assuming the warrior's fel-
chion. it is my pleasure to wear them. But, Sir
Knight if the angry tone, know that they are not
the plumes of the bird of Jove, but were spared me
from the tail of a very peaceable and inoffensive
turkey-cock." At heuriegof the sail of a turkey.
cock, Don Quixote said, " Sir Knight of the bor.
rowed plumes, you cannot insult see with your tole
of toils ; but the laws of knighthood require that I
should pluck them trout your cup." The Knight
iucontinesitly made an essay to accomplish his
end, but eneouutried a youth from the college of
Selamancs, Senor Celtudato dt Bigendoes, who was
priecipally dressed to what appeared to be s Roman
-military costume ; such as ieveterate.antiquartans
describe front . green coins end broken pieces of
stone ; a short checquered vestment hung from his
taws so as not quite to reach his knees, which were
hare ; a short sword mud dagger were stuck in his
girdle, together with other military implements; a
cloak of the same materials as that which appeared
Wow, hung over his shrdder., and he war also
decorated with plumes, like those of the powerful
Oesudeuzies. " St.siy. Sir Knight," said the youth,
6, do not acaith oar ancient and mirthful society."
The dress of the youth. de Begaudosa, was still
more foscibly objected to by Dun Quixote than
were the feathers of Setter Pientrello; and he
eirgerly demanded of Senor Cehodato, his warrant
for wearing an ancient garb like that of Crime, to
the prejudice of the Roman fame, and to the die-
pace of the true Castilian. The youth did not
deign to attend to the Knight's ravings, but mildly
continued : "We are here associated for the pus.
pose of extending the empire of good will* in the
house of Donee Mercellina de Clisintainadtlda ;
aid if you choose to comport youreelf with the
manures which become your apparent rank, Donee
hiercellina desires you to partake of our cheer ; but
if you disturb us with your follies shout turkey-
tucks sod Roman soldiers, we must forcibly bind
you to be peaceable."
Don Quixote now became quite ungovernable,
and assaulted man, woman, and child. Sot the
fate of battle is not always so the strong; and a
warrior may be subdued by insignificaut weapons.
The -valorous Doti Quixote war surrounded by
Wire and - beaux, and other. who composed the
soiedlueraihiig party. and was soon denuded or his
'hoisted lieltnet and slarld. They treated with the
utmost contempt his sword, which, they said, had
ilever been drawn but where there was no warlike
uppouriii. He was thrown on the fluor, and rolled
out into the stable-yard, while him cuisses rattled
about him ; or, it. the lofty port expresses it, " the
halfpence ratsLd to his great co•st pocket." In
staid did the prostrate Knight protest against such
unkeritor.like treatment. which was hewer prac-
tised. ea he asserted, amongst the rival chiefs iu the
siithintains of Li Maticlia.
Deer to his remouatrances, Senor Pientrello gave
?Dan Quixote a squeeze, which divested him for a
seoinesit of all recollection of the deeds of ancient
&nights-tweet, and made him feel that corporal
pain has amuse influence on the 'wok mind. Senor
'Cehiudato rlr Begooduaa followed up tie Granden-
Me salutation, with the application of a Huger and
a thumb, in iiiiit•tioli of the mode of attack usually
adopted by jealous lobsters or spiteful crabs; and

• Xgreo, a place rag Spain, femora fur-wise, ',beset oar
sea *herr,. The fipsaisi I ill programed soft, 'lrma-
ragradeg to wood to our sh.

• We have letters from Leghorn of the 4th of September,
w►ich inform us that an lonises vessel, commanded by Cups.
Vidatir left Smacia on Sittig( Ifith, and amved at Leghorn
on September Ist, and hitrught ores roolirmissr a but we
said its Hie Constitution**, of September 14. The Turks,
according to all the Journals, had penetrated into the Prlo-
imerses, but bad been three times successively defeated and
obliged to retire on Curieth, which it was hoped they would
soon be obliged to it. Our correspondent adds, that
the Turkish military chest fell tutu the hands of the Greeks,
sod that Tchar Hadgi Ali Paths, formerly Grand Vizir and
Cummasder in Chief (and not Mahnioud Pscha) perished
is the battle of Angola 7. The Ge►man Journals which
an-
nuanced lie ruin of the Greeks, ►ave only spoken of what
might follow the entrance of the Turks; while our informs-
twit, later than theirs by several days, gives the detail, of
what actually followed. To-morrow we will give our readers
the Bulletins of the Greek •icturiesrNote of the Editor of
the Clensifferiennef.

t The sews of this victory must be false. Captais
Vidalia saw the Greek fleet leave Hydra on the 16th August,
it could Pot therefore be at the south of she Mores ea the
A3tl.-11elit of the Ed iior of the Conettialioanal.

ton's ground of appeal is the violation of Art. 29,
of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which au-
thorises the accused to choose his defender among
the advocates or atrestets of the Royal Court, whence
the Court of Assizes issues.
zusien, sErtntsse 11.
The Federal Diet of Swiss closed its Session on
August Si. An agreement established among the
Cantons, which awaits the ratification of their Sove-
reign Counei:s, contains a system of imposts, in op-
position to France, to which five of the Cantons, as
the Valais, Neufchatel, Uri, Schwtz, and Coder-
wuld, besides the commercial Cantons of Basle,
Zurich, and Geneva, have not consented. Every
body is convinced that the measure, as one of re-
prisal, will have no effect, and that it is on the part
of the Government of Berne, its author, an imitation,
not an aggression, of the system of France. It is a
revenue which s State desires to obtain by laying
on imposts.

GIBRALTAR PAPERS.

GIBRALTAR. AuGure 28.

In the morning of the 18th instant, a relict/titre
took ;dace betwern Z dditntr and a detachment of
the Moron tothlia, end at no great distance from
that town, in which the former is stated to have lost,
in killed and wounded, about one half of his men
(9 out of 20), and the latter to have had three
wounded, including two officers. This account is
taken from official reports trousmitted to the Civil
Governor of Seville. Another official account, corn-
monicaled by the Military Commandant to the Al-
coldes of Cadiz, alter alluding to the reneontre,
adds, that Zuldivar subsequently took the road to
Galina with 20 horse.

The expeditionary column of the Cadiz militia
proceeded from Arco and Paterna on the 21st, en-
tered Merlins Sidottio on the next morning, arrived
at Cinchona on the 24th, was in San Fernando
(Ia Isla) on the 25th, and was expected to re-enter
Cadiz on the 26th, accompanied by detachments of
the militia of the several towns through which it
had to pass.

AUGUST 27.
Captain Houghton, of the brig George, arrived
yesterday from Valparaiso. states that he met with
very thick fogs off Cape Spartel on Saturday after-
noon and during the night; towards the morning,
he heard many guns bred in the direction of the
land, as if from vessels in distress. On the weather
clearing up, at about 9a. Ne. he saw on shore, to
the southward of the Cape, • line of battle-ship
and two brigs, the latter with French colours :
while lie remained in sight, one of the brigs ap-
peared to have got off; but the other was roiling
mach. They had boats about them as if carrying
out anchors. There seems to be no doubt that
these are the French vessels seen from Cadis some
days ago.

BAYONNE PAPERS.

11.11TONNR, 11EPTILMIlita 10.

The news which we have just received from the
frontiers announce the landing at St. Sebastian of
the regiment of active militia coming from Gis'bele,
and of two battalions of the regiinent of the line
of Vittoria, •t Bilhoa, which embarked at Comma.
Letters from Vittoria of the 7th, received at
Yrun by express, mention the arrival in that city
of eight pieces of cannon and 1,500 men, intended
for Navarre. Travellers from the interior, who
have arrived to-day at the Lazaretto of Behobie,
confirm the advance of troops towards Catalonia,
and the provinces adjacent to France. They add,
that the Royalists are masters of all Catalonia,
where the Cousiitutional garrisons are closely block-
aded, and anxiously waiting for the reinforcements
which are on the way. .

The accounts fro-in Arregon, received by way of
Olesen, represent that province us generally re-
solved to repulse the Defenders of the Faith. A
battalion of the active militia of Saragossa has vo-
luntarily marched to join the division of Zsrco de
Valle, who is at Frage. Mina was collecting forces
at Lerida.

Private letters received to-day from St. Jean
Pied de Port, confirm the defeat of General Que-
sada in the environs of Biel, between Jaca and
Sanguesa. The column of Colonel Tabuenea,
consisting or 700 infautry and 100 cavalry, and two
cannon, attacked on the morning of the 7th Gen.
Queued*, who had under his command 9,000 men,
and after having been repulsed from Jac* hesitated
to enter into Arragoii, because the Empecioado
was in the environs of Huesca, and Espinosa in the
Kollar!. The Constitutional troops, whore ardour
is beyond description, succeeded in breaking
the line of their adversaries, of whom they killed
300, and took a great number prisoners. They
also took forty mules loaded with ammunition,
the military cheat, and the greater part of the bag-
gage. The ranks of the Defenders of the Faith
having been thrown into disorder, SOO men went
over to the Constitution*listit, and an equal num-
ber from the Valleys of Erro, Ahescos, Salazar,
Roncal, Auso, and Echo, returned to their homer,
throwing away their arms. This news is certain.
It is also added, but we cannot warrant the truth
of the statement, that QUesada has been arrested
by his Own soldiers, end taken to Irati to be tried ;
tome even go so far us to say that he has now been
shot ;we wait for more authentic accounts. With
respect to the fate of ibis General. he had himself
previously expretord his apprehensiusis, and even
his repugnance, to command • troop without discip-
line, in which there was • great number of brigands
and desperate characters. We are wholly ignorant
of the movement* which Espinosa may have made
since this battle ; we merely know that on the 7,h
he wits in the V.lley of Roncal; that the battalion
of the Faith, calitoned at Ochsgavia sod in the en-
virons, had made • movement towards human. •
villageon the high road from Tolosa to Primpelnua;
so that iu this case Irati would be insulated.

In the course of Thursday night the house of
Mrs. BRYAN, of Portman-place, Edgware-road,
was entered by thieves, who ransacked the lower
part of the house to a serious amount. which they
carried off unobserved. They gained admittonce
into the house by menus of perforating with a centre
hit the shutter of the back kitchen window, iu
which an aperture was mode of sufficient magnitude
to admit a man', arm, and the faateutugs were then
easily displaced.