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genuine freedom, of a much injured nation! their sense of shame, their contempt of danger,—all bespeak a noble and high-minded people, who are at once worthy of independence; and who will command it.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MOOFUSSUL
MISCELLANY.

SIR,-Having received, from my correspondent in Europe, the enclosed letter, covering the detailed account of an action fought on the same ground where the Count's predecessors have often been victorious, I now send it for your perusal, and beg you will make what use of it you please.

PEREGRINE QUIDNUNC.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM T. FABRICATE, ESQ. CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES, TO C. RANGALL, Esq., PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE STATES UNITED FOR THE SUBVERSION OF ALL GOOD.

SIR, I have the honour of forwarding the enclosed despatch, relative to an action which is said to have taken place near Braggadocia. As I can

not find any such place laid down in the maps of either Spain or Portugal, I am apt to think the termination in the orthography cannot be correct, though I have reason to think that the French arms have been often successful in that quarter. This victory appears to have been one of the most complete and extraordinary ever recorded in the annals of the French; for when you take into consideration the gallantry of the attack, the intrepidity evinced, the judgment displayed, and the trifling loss sustained; when you reflect on the determined spirit with which it was continued, and the complete success with which it was crowned, I am confident you must allow it to have been seldom equalled-never surpassed!

I am, with the highest consideration,

&c. &c.

(Signed) TIM. FABRICATE.

Braggadocia,-Brumaire 13th.

SIR, I have the honour to acquaint you, that this morning, at a quarter before eleven o'clock, I was on the alert, and, by a masterly movement, reached the garrison before the drum had beaten to breakfast. After driving in the advanced posts, storming the steps, and forcing the outward verandah, I commenced a well-directed attack on

the inner works, where the breakfast forage was deposited. After a spirited defence by MajorGeneral Fowler,-who had been commissioned to act during the absence of the Commandant,—I carried the place knife in hand. With incredible satisfaction, I have to inform you, that in a few minutes I was in possession of two plates of muffins, a considerable quantity of buns, and cakes of all sorts, biscuits of various sizes, three stands of dry toast, six manchets, (three of them rasped) two hot buttered rolls of large dimensions, two loaves of smaller size,-one white and the other brown,several canisters of sugar, (as per margin) with various other stores.

I then secured the military (tea) chest, spiked nine eggs, after first unloading them, seized the coffee redoubt, and made a considerable impression upon Fort Chocolate. All this was effected without the loss of a single tooth, and I feel much pleasure in being able to add, that my bowels and stomach are in excellent order, not having lately suffered by the marauding attacks of that freebooter General Bile, who, on a former occasion, considerably annoyed me, and of whose attacks I was in some alarm, during the time I was carrying on my operations.

I am under infinite obligation to Brigadier Leg, and Colonel Foot, whose exertions on this and other occasions, demand my warmest gratitude.

They were particularly serviceable to me during my rapid march. I also beg leave to recommend to your notice, two very deserving officers, Lieut.Col. Foretooth, and Major Grinder; but for whose penetration, and unremitting exertions, in the laborious post which they occupied, I should have been ill able to have accomplished this undertaking. Nor ought I to pass over in silence the activity and intrepidity of my staff in general, particularly of Adjt.-General Thumb, and Assistant QuarterMaster-General Middle Finger, to whose lot it fell to be more individually engaged, and who were extremely active on the occasion; and I endulge a sanguine hope, that they will meet with that distinction to which their long-tried and faithful services entitle them.

Health and Fraternity.

COUNT BOBADIL.

PERSIAN ANECDOTE OF CHESS.

A KING and a Fakeer were once playing at this game, when fortune, or rather skill, invariably favouring the latter, he won from his Majesty his palaces, jewels, treasure-in short every thing he possessed! Maddened with ill-success, the King

offered his beauteous Queen, Dil-aram, as a last desperate stake against his losses. The challenge was accepted, and again the Fakeer triumphed, for in a very short time the game was brought to such a point, that check-mate seemed inevitably to await the hopeless King. At the next move, in a rage of vexation, he threw it up, and sent for Dilaram to yield her to the victor; but when she was sorrowfully led in, she glanced her eye on the board; immediately her countenance brightened, and she joyfully exclaimed

اي شاه دو روخ بده مده دلارام را پیل پیاده پیش کن اسب شه مات کن

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'King,—yield me not, but both thy rooks resign,
And Dil-aram shall still continue thine.

Move on thy pawn, then let the knight advance,

And o'er thy fallen foe, his beauteous steed shall prance."

The event justified her opinion; for the King having moved his pieces according to the direction, won the game, kept his Queen, and retrieved his losses.

This situation, according to the Persians, occurred in a game of "shutrunj," and involves unfortunately a move which is inadmissible by our rules ;—the Orientals, though this is not generally known, have two modes of playing at chess; one is termed “shutrunj;" the other, “dâba.” The first differs very widely from our manner, inasmuch as, among other distinctions, the bishops

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