On the 22nd, in the morning, he assembles the council, and having made a feint of raising the siege and retiring, he declares to them his dream; and, together with Nestor and Ulysses, resolves on an engagement.

This was the twenty-third day, which is full of incidents, and which continues from almost the beginning of the second canto to the eighth.  The armies being then drawn up in view of one another, Hector brings it about that Menelaus and Paris, the two persons concerned in the quarrel, should decide it by a single combat; which tending to the advantage of Menelaus, was interrupted by a cowardice infused by Minerva:  then both armies engage, where the Trojans have the disadvantage; but being afterwards animated by Apollo, they repulse the enemy, yet they are once again forced to give ground; but their affairs were retrieved by Hector, who has a single combat with Ajax.  The gods threw themselves into the battle, Juno and Minerva took the Grecians’ part, and Apollo and Mars the Trojans’:  but Mars and Venus are both wounded by Diomedes.

The truce for burying the slain ended the twenty-third day; after which the Greeks threw up a great entrenchment to secure their navy from danger.  Councils are held on both sides.  On the morning of the twenty-fourth day the battle is renewed, but in a very disadvantageous manner to the Greeks, who were beaten back to their retrenchments.  Agamemnon being in despair at this ill success, proposes to the council to quit the enterprise and retire from Troy.  But by the advice of Nestor, he is persuaded to regain Achilles, by returning Chryseis, and sending him considerable presents.  Hereupon, Ulysses and Ajax are sent to that hero, who continues inflexible in his anger.  Ulysses, at his return, joins himself with Diomedes, and goes in the night to gain intelligence of the enemy:  they enter into their very camp, where, finding the sentinels asleep, they made a great slaughter.  Rhesus, who was just then arrived with recruits from Thrace for the Trojans, was killed in that action.  Here ends the tenth canto.  The sequel of this journal will be inserted in the next article from this place.

St. James’s Coffee-house, April 22.

We hear from Italy, that notwithstanding the Pope has received a letter from the Duke of Anjou, demanding of him to explain himself upon the affair of acknowledging King Charles:  his Holiness has not yet thought fit to send any answer to that prince.  The Court of Rome appears very much mortified, that they are not to see his Majesty of Denmark in that city, having perhaps given themselves vain hopes from a visit made by a Protestant priest to that see.  The Pope has despatched a gentleman to compliment his Majesty, and sent the king a present of all the curiosities and antiquities of Rome, represented in seventeen volumes, very richly bound, which were taken out of the Vatican library.  Letters from Genoa of the 14th instant say, a felucca was arrived there in five days from