ootnote 109: Gierusalomme Liberata, canto xiii. It is pleasant enough
to observe how Tasso has copied and embellished the minutest details of
the siege.]

[Footnote 1091: This does not appear by Wilken's account, (p. 294.) They
fought in vair the whole of the Thursday.--M.]

[Footnote 110: Besides the Latins, who are not ashamed of the massacre,
see Elmacin, (Hist. Saracen. p. 363,) Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 243,)
and M. De Guignes, tom. ii. p. ii. p. 99, from Aboulmahasen.]

[Footnote 111: The old tower Psephina, in the middle ages Neblosa, was
named Castellum Pisanum, from the patriarch Daimbert. It is still the
citadel, the residence of the Turkish aga, and commands a prospect of
the Dead Sea, Judea, and Arabia, (D'Anville, p. 19-23.) It was likewise
called the Tower of David.]

[Footnote 112: Hume, in his History of England, vol. i. p. 311, 312,
octavo edition.]

[Footnote 113: Voltaire, in his Essai sur l'Histoire Generale, tom ii.
c. 54, p 345, 346]

Eight days after this memorable event, which Pope Urban did not live to
hear, the Latin chiefs proceeded to the election of a king, to guard
and govern their conquests in Palestine. Hugh the Great, and Stephen of
Chartres, had retired with some loss of reputation, which they strove
to regain by a second crusade and an honorable death. Baldwin was
established at Edessa, and Bohemond at Antioch; and two Roberts, the
duke of Normandy [114] and the count of Flanders, preferred their fair
inheritance in the West to a doubtful competition or a barren sceptre.
The jealousy and ambition of Raymond were condemned by his own
followers, and the free, the just, the unanimous voice of the army
proclaimed Godfrey of Bouillon the first and most worthy of the
champions of Christendom. His magnanimity accepted a trust as full of
danger as of glory; but in a city where his Savior had been crowned with
thorns, the devout pilgrim rejected the name and ensigns of royalty;
and the founder of the kingdom of Jerusalem contented himself with the
modest title of Defender and Baron of the Holy Sepulchre. His government
of a single year, [115] too short for the public happiness, was
interrupted in the first fortnight by a summons to the field, by the
approach of the vizier or sultan of Egypt, who had been too slow to
prevent, but who was impatient to avenge, the loss of Jerusalem. His
total overthrow in the battle of Ascalon sealed the establishment of the
Latins in Syria, and signalized