The heart of the courteous _Diego_ overflowed as he read the letter------he ordered his mule forthwith and _Fernandez’s_ horse to be saddled; and as no vent in prose is equal to that of poetry in such conflicts----chance, which as often directs us to remedies as to _diseases_, having thrown a piece of charcoal into the window----_Diego_ availed himself of it, and whilst the hostler was getting ready his mule, he eased his mind against the wall as follows. ODE _Harsh and untuneful are the notes of love, Unless my _Julia_ strikes the key, Her hand alone can touch the part, Whose dulcet move- ment charms the heart, And governs all the man with sympathetick sway._ 2d O Julia! The lines were very natural----for they were nothing at all to the purpose, says _Slawkenbergius_, and ’tis a pity there were no more of them; but whether it was that Seig. _Diego_ was slow in composing verses--or the hostler quick in saddling mules----is not averred; certain it was, that _Diego’s_ mule and _Fernandez’s_ horse were ready at the door of the inn, before _Diego_ was ready for his second stanza; so without staying to finish his ode, they both mounted, sallied forth, passed the _Rhine_, traversed _Alsace_, shaped their course towards _Lyons_, and before the _Strasburgers_ and the abbess of _Quedlingberg_ had set out on their cavalcade, had _Fernandez_, _Diego_, and his _Julia_, crossed the _Pyrenean_ mountains, and got safe to _Valadolid_. ’Tis needless to inform the geographical reader, that when _Diego_ was in _Spain_, it was not possible to meet the courteous stranger in the _Frankfort_ road; it is enough to say, that of all restless desires, curiosity being the strongest----the _Strasburgers_ felt the full force of it; and that for three days and nights they were tossed to and fro in the _Frankfort_ road, with the tempestuous fury of this passion, before they could submit to return home. ----When alas! an event was prepared for them, of all other, the most grievous that could befal a free people. As this revolution of the _Strasburgers’_ affairs is often spoken of, and little understood, I will, in ten words, says _Slawkenbergius_, give the world an explanation of it, and with it put an end to my tale. Every body knows of the grand system of Universal Monarchy, wrote by order of Mons. _Colbert_, and put in manuscript into the hands of _Lewis_ the fourteenth, in the year 1664. ’Tis as well known, that one branch out of many of that system, was the getting possession of _Strasburg_, to favour an entrance at all times into _Suabia_, in order to disturb the quiet of _Germany_----and that in consequence of this plan, _Strasburg_ unhappily fell at length into their hands. It is the lot of a few to trace out the true springs of this and such like revolutions --The vulgar look too high for them --Statesmen look too low ----Truth (for once) lies in the middle.