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of the colours of his own dress, appeared in honour of Miss Franks, and attended in the same manner as Lord Cathcart ; device, a heart, with a wreath of flowers; motto, ‘ Love and Glory.’ Six knights in the same order, with appropriate devices and mottoes, as those of Lord Cathcart. After they rode round the lists and made their obeisance to the ladies, they drew up opposite the White Knights ; and the chief of these having thrown down his gauntlet, the Chief of the Black Knights directed his squire to take it up. The knights then received their lances from their squires, fixed their shields on their arms, and making a general salute to each other, by a very graceful movement of their lances, turned round to take their career, and, encountering in full gallop, shivered their spears. In the second and third encounter they discharged their pistols. In the fourth, they fought with their swords. At length, the two chiefs, spurring forward into the centre, engaged furiously in single com- bat, till the marshal of the field (Major Gwynne) rushed in between them, and declared that the fair damsels of the Blended Rose and Burning Mountains were perfectly satisfied with the proofs of love, and the signal feats of valour, given by their respective knights ; and commanded them, as they prized the future favours of their mistresses, that they would instantly desist from further com- bat. Obedience being paid by the chiefs to this order, they joined their respective bands. The White Knights and their attendants filed off to the left: the Black Knights to the right. And, after passing each other at the lower side of the quadrangle, moved up alternately, till they approached the pavilions of the ladies, when they gave a general salute.

“ A passage being now opened between the two pavilions, the knights, preceded by their squires and bands of music, rode through the first triumphal arch, and arranged themselves to the right and left. This arch was erected in honour of Lord Howe. It presented two fronts in the Tuscan order; the pediment was adorned with various naval trophies, and at the top was the figure of Neptune,.with a trident in his right hand; in a niche on each side, stood a sailor with a drawn cutlass.

“ Three plumes of feathers were placed on the summit of each wing, and in the entablature was this inscription, ‘ Laus illi debetur ct alma gratia major.’ The intervals between the two arches was an