. Tales of chivalry : or, Perils by flood and field ..... REWARD OF BRAVERY. When Solyman, emperor of the Turks,took the castle of Buda, in 1529, he found,in one of the dungeons of the castle, JNe-dasti, the governor of the place. He wascurious to know the cause of so extraor-dinary a circumstance, when the Germansconfessed to him, that Nedasti havingreproached them as cowards and traitors,because they pressed him to come to acapitulation, they had thrown him into adungeon in order to free themselves fromhis controul. The sultan, filled with ad-miration at the fidelity and bravery of thenoble-
. Tales of chivalry : or, Perils by flood and field ..... REWARD OF BRAVERY. When Solyman, emperor of the Turks,took the castle of Buda, in 1529, he found,in one of the dungeons of the castle, JNe-dasti, the governor of the place. He wascurious to know the cause of so extraor-dinary a circumstance, when the Germansconfessed to him, that Nedasti havingreproached them as cowards and traitors,because they pressed him to come to acapitulation, they had thrown him into adungeon in order to free themselves fromhis controul. The sultan, filled with ad-miration at the fidelity and bravery of thenoble-minded governor, loaded him withpresents and commendations of his con-duct—granted him his liberty, and con-demned to death all those who had violated,in so shameful a manner, the laws of mili-tarv subordination. HENRY IV., Being importuned to allow the prosecu-tion of a person who had written a libelon him, magnanimously replied, I cannotin conscience do any harm to a man whotells truth, although it may be unpalatable. PERILS BY FLOOD AND FIKM). 389. THE BROKEN HEART. There was a large and gay party as-sembled one evening, in the memorablemonth of June, 1815, at a house in theremote western suburbs of of handsome and well-dressedwomen—a large retinue of the leadhigmen about town—the dazzling light ofchandeliers blazing like three suns over-head—the cliarms of music and dancing—together with that tone of excitementthen pervading society at large, owingto our successful continental campaigns,which maddened England into almostdaily annunciations of victory ;—all thesecircumstances, I say, combined to supplyspirit to every party. In fact, Englandwas almost turned upside down with uni-versal fieting ! Mrs. , the lady whose party I have just been mentioning, wasin ecstacy at the eclat with which thewhole was going off, and charmed wiihthe buoyant animation with which allseemed inclined to contribute their quotato the evenings amusement. A younglady of some
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