OF COUNT GRAMMONT, BY ANTHONY HAMILTON. A NEW EDITION. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 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 some"thing. 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, |