[ 98 || rough hastened to the streets, where he sound the German soldiers pillaging the houses of the principal inhabitants. He drove them away, and obliged them to leave the booty they were carrying off. After having thus quieted every disturbance, he left the city and coming back to the gates, concluded the terms of the capitulation as had been previously agreed on. The Spaniards were surprized at the fidelity of the English, for they had formerly been accustomed to treat them as barbarians. 43. School boyfriendship. Of two young men who had been educated at Eton, a celebrated school in England, the one became one of the principal ministers of the king of England in 1715. The other had joined a rebellion in Scotland, and being taken in arms against the king was condemned to death. His former associate besought the king for his life, but his request was refused. On
