déjà été proposé et rejeté par Pontchartrain, lorsqu'il était contrôleur-général, qui, devenu chancelier, n'y fut pas plus favorable.' Notwithstanding the fact that the king expected every one to send their plate, the list of donors amounted to less than a hundred names: and the result was far below the king's expectation. Au bout de trois mois, le roi sentit la honte et la faiblesse de cette belle ressource, et avoua qu'il se repentait d'y avoir consenti.' Saint Simon confesses that he sent a portion only of his own, and concealed the rest. P. 274, 1. 4. tried in my memory by Louis XV. In 1762, towards the close of the calamitous Seven Years' War. 'La France alors était plus malheureuse. Toutes les ressources étaient épuisées: presque tous les citoyens, à l'exemple du roi, avaient porté leur vaisselle à la monnaie.' Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XV, ch. 35. P. 278, 1. 8. Mais si maladia, &c. From the comical interlude in Molière's Malade Imaginaire, in which the examination of a Bachelor for the doctor's degree is conducted in dog-latin. The candidate has already given the famous answer to the question, 'Quare opium facit dormire?' Quia est in eo virtus dormitiva,' &c. On being interrogated as to the remedy for several diseases in succession, he makes the same answer : 'Clysterium donare, Which is repeated after the final question in the text. Burke happily compares the ignorance which made the assignat the panacea of the state, to this gross barbarism in the art of medicine. 1. 22. pious and venerable prelate. Bitter irony, on Talleyrand. · P. 284, l. 19. club at Dundee. The Dundee Friends of Liberty,' whose proceedings acquired some notoriety a year or two later. In 1793 the Unitarian minister Palmer was transported for seven years for writing and publishing a seditious address bearing the name of this society. P. 286, 1. 6. Credat who will. Horace, Sat. lib. i. v. Ico. 1. 31. nuzzling = following blindly by the nose. So Pope: The blessed Benefit, not there confin'd, Drops to the third, who nuzzles close behind.' P. 287, 1. 5. glimmerings of reason —— - solid darkness. Pope, Dunciad iii. 226: Strike through, and make a lucid interval,' &c. P. 288, 1. 22. his atlantic regions. The allusion is to Bailly's Letters on the subject of the fabled island of Atlantis. 1. 23. smillen with the cold, dry, petrifick mace. 'The aggregated Soyle Par. Lost, x. 293: Death with his Mace petrific, cold, and dry, As with a Trident smote.' P. 290, l. 16. tontines. Lotteries on groups of lives, so called from their inventor. They had been adopted in England, and in the session which preceded the publication of this work, a batch of them had been converted into ordinary annuities. 1. 31. all-atoning name. Dryden, in the famous character of Achitophel, says that he 'Assumed a patriot's all-atoning name.' P. 291, 1. 6. Grand, swelling sentiments, &c. See especially, Lucan, Book VII. This poet was excluded from the collection of classics edited 'for the use of the Dauphin,' on account of his tyrannicide principles. Corneille records his preference of Lucan before Virgil. 1. 9. Old as I am, &c. Perhaps an allusion to Addison's Cato, Act II: 'You have not read mankind; your youth admires The throes and swellings of a Roman soul, L. 10. Corneille. See Cinna' (Clarendon Press Series). 1. 14. severe brow, &c. Perhaps a reminiscence of Thompson, 'Liberty," Book III: The passing clouds That often hang on Freedom's jealous brow.' P. 294, 1. 3. one of our poets. Addison, in the celebrated Soliloquy of Cato, Act v. sc. I: 'Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful Thought! Through what Variety of untry'd Being, Through what new Scenes and Changes must we pass !' 1. 15. snatches from his share, &c. The allusion is to the proceedings against Hastings. 29/5/02. CLARENDON PRESS, OXFORD. DOM MINA LIV MEA ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. 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