OF COUNT HAMILTON, AND A TRANSLATION OF THE EPISTLE

TO COUNT GRAMMONT.

Illustrated with Sirty-four Portraits,

ENGRAVED BY EDWARD SCRIVEN, &c.

MEMOIRS

OF

COUNT GRAMMONT.

CHAPTER I.

SIR," said the Chevalier de Grammont, "the Prince de Condé besieged Lerida: the

place in itself was nothing; but Don Gre

gorio Brice, who defended it, was something. He was one of those Spaniards of "the old stamp, as valiant as the Cid, as "proud as all the Guzmans put together, " and more gallant than all the Abencerrages "of Grenada: he suffered us to make our "first approaches to the place, without the "least molestation. The Marshal de Gram"mont, whose maxim it was, that a governor who at first makes a great blustering,

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