ged without ceasing
till mid-day, when the Turks were again beaten out of the town, and
pursued by the Magyars to their camp. There the combat was renewed, both
sides displaying the greatest obstinacy, until Mahomed received a great
wound over his left eye. The Turks then, turning their faces, fled,
leaving behind them three hundred cannon in the hands of the Christians,
and more than twenty-four thousand slain on the field of battle.'

_Myself_. After that battle, I suppose Hunyadi enjoyed his triumphs in
peace?

_Hungarian_. In the deepest, for he shortly died. His great soul
quitted his body, which was exhausted by almost superhuman exertions, on
the 11th of August, 1456. Shortly before he died, according to
Florentius, a comet appeared, sent, as it would seem, to announce his
coming end. The whole Christian world mourned his loss. The Pope
ordered the cardinals to perform a funeral ceremony at Rome in his
honour. His great enemy himself grieved for him, and pronounced his
finest eulogium. When Mahomed the Second heard of his death, he struck
his head for some time against the ground without speaking. Suddenly he
broke silence with these words, 'Notwithstanding he was my enemy, yet do
I bewail his loss; since the sun has shone in heaven, no Prince had ever
yet such a man.'

_Myself_. What was the name of his Prince?

_Hungarian_. Laszlo the Fifth; who, though under infinite obligations to
Hunyadi, was anything but grateful to him; for he once consented to a
plan which was laid to assassinate him, contrived by his mortal enemy
Ulrik, Count of Cilejia; and after Hunyadi's death, caused his eldest
son, Hunyadi Laszlo, to be executed on a false accusation, and imprisoned
his younger son, Matyas, who, on the death of Laszlo, was elected by the
Magyars to be their king, on the 24th of January, 1458.

_Myself_. Was this Matyas a good king?

_Hungarian_. Was Matyas Corvinus a good king? O young man of
Horncastle! he was the best and greatest that Hungary ever possessed,
and, after his father, the most renowned warrior--some of our best laws
were framed by him. It was he who organized the Hussar force, and it was
he who took Vienna. Why does your Government always send fools to
represent it at Vienna?

_Myself_. I really cannot say; but with respect to the Hussar force, is
it of Hungarian origin?

_Hungarian_. Its name shows its origin. Huz, in Hungarian, is twenty,
and the Hussar force is so ca