to retreat. In confidence of this, they advanced to renew the Battle with loud fhouts of Affurance, which quite daunted the Chriftian Power; and particularly the Count of Tripoly, a Leader of firft Note, perceiving how cruel and fatal the Day was like to be to his Brethren in Faith, took an inglorious Refolution of faving himfelf by flight, with thofe under his Conduct, e'er the Battle was well warm; and accordingly he himself escaped to Tyre, where he died foon after of a Pleurify, but not one Soul that followed him was fo happy as to fave himself. And now (fays our Hiftorian) the Faithful furrounded the Rebellious Infidels as with a Toil, and tore them down with the Edge of the Sword, and overwhelmed them with thick fhowers of Arrows. A A part of them would have fled, but were every one cut off in the Attempt: the other part retreated to a woody Hill, called Hittin, where our Author tells us the Sepulchre of Shoaib or Jethro ftands, as the Moslems foolishly dream. Here were the Chriftians pent up, and in danger of being burned with the Wood which sheltered them, by the Fireworks which were thrown in among them. Thus forely preft on all fides, and at the point of perifhing with Hunger and Thirst, they came out of the Wood and delivered up themselves to Chains and Death, just as the Soltan had ordered fome to be fpared for Captivity, and others to be cut off. This unfortunate Submiffion was made a little too precipitately, and attended with fome Circumftances, which re

flected great Dishonour upon upon the Chriftian Arms; and particularly, it is faid, that thirty Franks permitted themselves to be bound by

one

one MoЛlem with a Tent-Rope, and to be driven along by him.

THOSE of the vanquished Chiefs who were brought alive to the Soltan, were, as our Author names them, the King of Jerufalem, Godfrey his Brother, Prince Reynold Lord of Shawbek, the Son of Humfrey, the Son of the Prince of Tiberias, the Masters of the Knights Templers and Hospitalers, and the of Lord Hubeil. The Templers and Hofpitalers were all doomed to Death by the Soltán, and Prince Reynold was fentenced to the fame abrupt end, for fome infraction of Treaties, and for a former rude Contempt of Mohammed. In the mean time, the abovefaid Prisoners were brought before the Soltán, who handed a refreshing Draught cooled with Ice, to the half-dead King of Jerufalem; who when he had drank, handed it to Prince Reynold. Upon which, Saláb addin bid the King of Jerufalem take notice, that it was not of his giving; for it was a Cuftom with the Arabs and Tartars never to hurt a Prisoner, whom they afked either to eat or drink. They were then ordered away to a certain Place where they eat a bit of fomething, and were immediately fent for back again by the Soltán, who had now only a few of his Servants about him; and being all brought to the entrance of the Tent, the Soltán put Prince Reynold in mind of what he had formerly done and faid, and offered him the Mohammedan Faith; which the Prince rejecting, he drew his Scymiter, and cleft him down the Shoulder, and the bloody deed was compleated by the ftanders-by. The Captive King, at the fight of fo ghaftly and tragic a Violence, dreaded for himself; but the Soltan

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Soltán cheared him up, and affured him, that what he had done to the Prince, was in completion of a Vow, and by way of juft Re

venge.

THE Fate of the Land of Palestine was now decided, it was to change Mafters, the Chriftian Kingdom of Jerufalem was to be no more, and the Victors were to be glutted with the Spoil of the fighing Country: no Town, no City withftood the rapid courfe of the Conqueror, and particularly Ptolemais, at that time a very confiderable Town of Trade, was ftormed and plundered of her immenfe Riches; Sidon alfo was taken, but Tyre escaped for the present. Jerufalem THE Holy City herself was at last befieged, the fcattered Troops being all rallied for that important and principal Service. Ferufalem was well qualified for an obftinate Defence, and had a good Garrison within; but those (fays our Author) who reckon it at fixty thoufand ftrong, exceed all measure. The Attack was firft made on the Weft fide of the City, whence it was removed to the North, the Machines being there planted amidst horrid flights of Arrows given and returned, and plaid against the Wall, till they fhook down the Northern Angle of it, pointing to the Valley of the Sons of Hinnom, as the Scripture-Phrafe is. The Citizens thus expofed to the fury of the Befiegers, fued for terms; and at length it was agreed, that they fhould march out, every Man paying ten Pieces of Tyrian Gold Coin, every Woman five, and each of the young People and Children one: but fuch as could not ranfom their Heads at that rate, were

to

to remain behind, and by this capitation 220,000 Pieces of Gold were raised.

up,

THUS was the City of Jerufalem delivered three thousand Moflem Captives in it released, the great Crofs upon St. Peter's thrown down, the Chriftian Name and Mysteries contemptuously trampled on, and their Downfal exulted over by the fortunate Followers of Mohammed, upon the Friday before that very Night of the Year that he is faid to have taken his Night Journey from Mecca to Jerufalem, and from Jerufalem to Heaven; which our Hiftorian takes to be an undeniable Proof that the Finger of God directed this extraordinary Event.

HAVING thus feen how the City of Jerufalem was wrested from the hands of the Chriftians, we will in an Article of the next Number to come, relate, from this fame Hiftorian, fo far as he goes, what Efforts the Chriftian Potentates made to poffefs themselves of the fame again: where we shall particularly have occafion to speak pretty largely concerning our Richard the Firft, who, after his arrival in Palestine, had, according to our Hiftorian, the principal Management of the War.

* Two and twenty thousand Men would have paid this Sum, according to the Rate of the above Capitation; but we cannot, from the Sum collected, imagine there was any thing like a quarter ofthat Number of effective Men in Jerufalem at this time. According to this, fome Chriftian Writers are much mistaken in speaking upon this Head.

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ARTICLE II.

Veteris Teftamenti Libri Hagiographi, Jobus, Davidis Pfalmi, Solomonis Proverbia, Concionatrix, & Canticum Canticorum, ex Tranflatione Johannis Clerici; cum ejufdem Commentario Philologico in omnes memoratos Libros, & Paraphrafi in Jobum & Pfalmos.

Veteris Teftamenti Prophetæ, ab Efaiâ ad Malachiam ufque, ex Tranflatione Johannis Clerici; cum ejufdem Commentario Philologico, & Paraphrafi, in Isfaiam, Jeremiam, ejus Lamentationes, & Abdiam: Differtatione Joh. Smith de Prophetiâ, & ipfius Authoris, de Poefi Hebræorum. Amfteladami, Ann. 1731.

That is,

The Books of the Old Teftament, commonly called Hagiographa, viz. the Book of Job, the Pfalms of David, the Proverbs of Solomon, his Ecclefiaftes, and his Song of Songs, tranflated by John le Clerc; together with his Philological Commentary on each of these Books, and a Paraphrafe upon Job and the Pfalms.

As alfo,

All the Prophets of the Old Teftament, from Ifaiah to Malachi ; tranflated by the Same