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The king, struck with such a collection of                   circumstantial evidence against Macaire, de- termined to refer the decision to the chance of battle; in other words, he gave orders for a combat between the chevalier and the dog. The lists were appointed in the Isle of Notre Dame, then an unenclosed, uninhabited place; Macaire's weapon being a great cudgel. The dog had an empty cask allowed for his retreat, to enable him to recover breath. Every thing beinig prepared, the dog no                   sooner found himself at liberty, than he ran round his adversary, avoiding his blows, and menacing him on every side, till his strength was exhausted; then springing forward, he                   griped him by the throat, threw him on the ground, and obliged him to confess his guilt in the presence of the king and the whole court. In consequence of which the chevalier, after a few days, was convicted upon his own acknowledgement, and beheaded on a scaf- fold in the Isle of Notre Dame. The above curious recital is translated from the Memoires sur les Duels, and is confirmed by many judicious critical writers; particularly Julius Scaliger and Montfaucon, neither of whom have ever been regarded as fabricators of idle stories. On                   this narrative the melo-drame of the Forest of Bondi is founded.