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CLXIII. JENKINS.

Jenkins, who was used as a tool by the oppofition to inflame the nation into the Spanish war, by telling that the Spaniards had cut off his ears, was found poffeffed of both when he died.

CLXIV. CHEVALIER RAMSAY.

The Travels of Cyrus had their vogue, though a feeble imitation of Telemaque; and nothing can be more infipid, or foreign to fuch a book, than the diftilled nonfenfe concerning the trinity. The author, Chevalier Ramfay, was the fon of a man who had fought against the royal forces at the battle of Bothwell-bridge, as I think it is called, and who was a violent enthusiast. When a tutor was wanted for the young pretender, Ramfay was recommended by Fenelon. He had after wards a place given him by the French court worth 400l. a year; and was made a knight of St. Louis.

Before the latter honour could be conferred, it was necessary that he should produce proofs that his ancestors had been gentlemen. The best way he thought was, to claim a defcent from fome noble family in Scotland; and he applied to one of his own name, but met with a ftern repulfe. Lord Mar called on him, while he was fitting much mortified, with the anfwer to his letter in his hand; and learning the caufe of his vexation, increased it by reproaching him for his meanness, in applying to a houfe of fuch oppofite political fentiments. The earl then took a pen, and wrote, "I do hereby acknowledge Mr. Ramfay to be defcended of my family. Mar." His vanity was the more gratified by this fudden tranfition from extreme mortification; and he was immediately admitted upon this unexpected certificate.

CLXV. MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY, It is fingular that the defcendants of Charles I, and Cromwell, intermarried, in the fourth degree.

CLXVI. HURD.

I look upon bishop Hurd as one of thofe fuperficial authors, whofe works are wonderfully adapted to the public taste. CLXVII. PASSENGERS IN LANDSCAPE. Once walking in his grounds, the good effect of the pallengers, on a foot path be

yond, was observed, as figures in the land- ́. cape. Mr. Walpole answered, “True. I have no objection to passengers, provided they pafs."

CLXVIII. STRANGE TALE.

Lord *** being out of town, his house was left in charge of a female fervant. The plate was lodged at his banker's. A letter came to fay that his lordship would be in town on fuch a day, and deGring that the plate might be got ready the evening before. The fervant took the letter to my lord's brother, who faid there was no doubt of the hand-writing. The banker expreffed the fame certainty, and delivered the plate.

The fervant being apprehenfive of thieves, fpoke to their butcher, who lent her a ftout dog, which was fhut up in the room with the plate. Next morning a man was found dead in the room, his throat being torn out by the dog; and upon examination it proved to be my lord's brother. The matter was carefully hushed, and a report spread that he was gone abroad.

CLXIX. PENNANT.

Mr. Pennant is a most ingenious and pleafing writer. His Tours difplay a great variety of knowledge, expreffed in an engaging way. In private life I am told he has fome peculiarities, and even eccentricities. Among the latter may be claffed his fingular antipathy to a wigwhich however he can fupprefs, till reafon yield a little to wine. But when this is the cafe, off goes the wig zext to him, and into the fire!

Dining once at Chester with an officer who wore a wig, Mr. Pennant became half feas over; and another friend that was in company, carefully placed himself between Pennant and wig, to prevent mifchief. After much patience, and many a wistful look, Pennant flarted up, feized the wig, and threw it into the fire. It was in flames in a moment, and fo was the officer, who ran to his fword. Down ftairs runs Pennant, and the officer after him, through all the streets of Chefter. But Pennant efcaped, from fuperior local knowledge. A wag called this "Pennant's Tour in Chester."

ERRATUM.

"The Political Quixote, or Sir G. Warrington," faid in a former Magazine to be written by the author of the "Female Quixote," is by the author of The Benevolent Quixote," "Honoria Somerville," and "Matilda and Elizabeth," (the latter in conjunction with her fifter) Her name was never published-she was a very amiable young woman-Mifs Jane Purbeck, of Bath.

MONTHLY MAG, No. XLIV.

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ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS.

Interefting and Original Anecdotes of the
French Revolution; to be continued in a
regular feries from its commencement to
the prefent period, and in-luding its fecret
history.

NEW PARTICULARS OF THE FLIGHT OF
LOUIS XVI. TO VARENNES.

We clock in the evening, paffed
through Sainte-Menehould, Drouet, the
poft-mafter, fince reprefentative of the peo-
ple, conceived the firft fufpicion of his
flight, not only from the extraordinary
movement among the troops, but also
from the mysterious and timid manner in
which he enquired after a bye road that
would take him to the Abbey of Orval,
without paffing through Verdun. This
he did in conformity with the inftructions
of Bouillé, who had represented that city
as likely to be unfavourable to his emi-
gration. Drouet to clear up a doubt of
fo much importance, took an affignat of
five livres, compared the face engraved
upon it with that of the traveller, and,
convinced of their identity, rode in all
halte through the woods; and arrived at
Varennes an hour and a half before the
king. He immediately went to Saufé,
the procurator of the commune, a man of
a firm mind, and confulted with him con-
cerning the means of topping the fugi-
tive. Saufé fent off, without lofs of
time, a requifition for men to the neigh-
bouring towns and cities; while Drouet
repaired to the farther end of Varennes,
where there is a bridge, only wide enough
for one carriage and two or three perfons
on foot to pals. By the post-mafter's di-
rections a cart loaded with manure was
taken to the middle of it, and overturned.
This operation was fcarcely complete,
when the king's carriage made its appear-
ance, and stopped in a fmall open place at
the entrance of the town. It was now
a quarter before twelve o'clock. The
king was perfuaded that he fhould find
there the relay provided for him by the
Marquis de Bouillé; enquired after it at
feveral houfes; and as yet faw no ftir or
buffle, that could infpire him with the
finalleft alarm; the procurator of the
commune and Drouet, having been able
to collect no more than feven men to op-
pole his paffage.

HEN the king, at about nine

The Marquis de Bonille's two aid-ducamps, his fon and d'Offize, were the perfous who were charged to have the relay ready at Varennes. Arriving there at fe

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ven o'clock in the evening, they stopped at an inn beyond the bridge; fat down to table; and, after their repaft was over, inftead of attending to the relay, were fɔ intent on adorning their perfons, that they spent the whole evening in dreffing, imagining that they could never make themfelves fine enough to appear before The confequence was, that they were ftill before the looking-glafs, when Lewis XVI. was stopped, and knew nothing of that event till one or two o'clock in the morning, when far from endeavouring to fuccour the king by joining the thirty huffars of the regiment of Laufan, who did not declare for the people till three o'clock, they made off from Varennes with all poffible speed, for fear of being hanged.

The king's carriage having stopped under a kind of arch, which, except a few remnants of a wall, was all that remained of the ancient fortifications, Saufe came to ask the names of the travellers, and requefted to fe their paffports, offering them his fervices at the fame time. "I am the Baronefs de Koortf," faid the queen; "and am going to Ruffia with my family and valets de-chambre." The king travelled under the name of one of thefe valets.

Saufe, who fought only to protract their ftay, in order to give the inhabitants of the neighbouring towns and hamlets time to take arms, was very preffing in his invitations to the baronefs to walk into his houfe, under the pretence of examining her paffport. He offered her befides, refreshments for herself and children. After many uteless entreaties, the supposed valet-de-chambre mixed in the converfation: "Let us alight, madam," said he; "the children muft in truth want fomething to eat."

The procurator of the commune, highly pleafed with this firft fuccefs, offered the fugitive family the beft of every thing that his houfe afforded. The queen and the princess Elizabeth declined taking any thing; the royal children ate a few bifcuits; and the king feemed to find some excellent champaign very much to his tafte. Saufé managed fo well that he found means to make the converfation last upwards of two hours, till it was intimated to him in a whisper that a fufficient force was affeinbled.

He then began to look attentively at a portrait of the king, which he had in his apartment;

apartment; and compared it with the face of the valet-du-chambre. "Pardieu !" faid he, addreffing himself to Louis XVI, "it is inconceivable how much you refemble our worthy king!" then stepping up to the baronne, do but look, madam," faid he, "how much our excellent fovereign and your valet-du chambre are alike. The queen affected not to hear him, and kept repeating every inftant, come, come! let us go!"-Saufé exclaimed four times: "how much they are alike! do but look, madam, I beseech you: Would not any one take him for the king? It is the king," faid the queen, with a great deal of majesty ; "I am the queen; and here are Monfeigneur the dauphin, Madame Elizabeth, and Madame Royale! it will be your own fault if don't make your fortune; you must be fenable of the fervice you have it in your power to render us, and cannot doubt that our gratitude will be equally great."

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"The reward, moft grateful to me," anfwered Saufé, "is the honour of having his majefty in my houfe, and that of paying my refpect to him in my character of citizen; but in my quality of magiftrate, I am under the neceffity of informing his majesty that it is impoffible for him to proceed; that the people are under arms to the amount of ten thoufand men; and that the duty of Louis XVI. is to remain in the midst of a nation by which he is adored, and to return to Paris."

When the queen, who was thunderftruck by these words, recovered from her aftonishment, fhe was highly incensed; but by dint of politene(s, and foothing language, the procurator of the commune found means to appeafe her. The phrafe ology, indeed, which that able magiftrate adopted, was fo refpectful, and fo fuited to the occafion, that it was impoffible for the king and queen to be offended. The princess Elizabeth, however, fhewed strong marks of anger : come, fir," faid fhe, in a haughty tone, "be civil at least, and let us depart."

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At this juncture, Romeuf, general La Fayette's aid-du-camp arrived. He fignified to Louis XVI. that he had orders to conduct him back to Paris, and at length the king confented to fet off. It was now five o'clock in the morning. As he was coming out of the honfe of Sarfé, his attention was called to fifteen thoufand men of the national guards of the vicinity, armed with mufkets, fcythes, fpits and all kinds of offenfive inftru

ments: "It is, faid Saufe, to protect your life, and your return." And, in fact, no lets than ten thousand men accompanied his carriage. How it was poffible in fo short a time to collect fo large a force in a country where the villages, though of confiderable fize, are fcattered at a great diftance from one another, is a thing truly aftonishing.

At the moment the king was preparing to fet off, Damas, Choifeul, and two colonels of dragoons in full uniform made their appearance, and were immediately taken into cuftody. "To the lantern with them! to the lantern, refounded on all fides !" It is well known, that at that time fuch an outcry amounted to little lefs than a fentence of death; and they were accordingly about to be mafficred, when M. La Fayette's aid-ducamp, and the commandant of the national guards of Verdun, clung fo clofely to them that it was impoffible to kill one without killing the other; and in this manner conducted them to prifon.

The commandant had five hundred men under his orders on whom he could depend. Romeuf entreated him to guard the prifoners and fave their lives. "We muft endeavour, faid he, to prove to the national affembly, that the people are orderly, when properly managed; and we muft above all take care that not a drop of blood be shed in this affair." The minds of thefe two men were congenialboth were full of honour, courage, and humanity.

The municipality of Verdun, befides. fending the above five hundred men, requefted Frégeville, then lieutenant colonel of the cond regiment of dragoons, and now a member of the council of five hundred, to march with a picked detachment of regular troops. The honour of this fervice belonged by right to the oldeft general in the town; but the municipality thought proper not to ask for any particular detachment, but merely to name the officer whom they wished to see at its head.

The lieutenant colonel fet off with a hundred and fifty men, and with a full dependance upon all his officers, except three captains, and one fub-lieutenant, whofe patriotifm was more than equivocal. On his way, he was informed that the king had juft left Varennes, and after having proceeded about four hundred yards, perceived in a height to his right, the regiment of royal-allemand with two or three general officers in uniform. The

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Marquis de Bouillé was at their head. As the fquadron of a hundred and fifty men could not advance towards the bridge of Varennes, which was ftill blocked up, without paffing under the fire of that regiment; it was neceffary either to turn back, or to take the chance of fighting one again't fix. Frégeville gave orders to halt, and drew up his detachment in a line. A fingle fhot would have been the fignal of a maffacre; and perhaps of a civil war.

Fortunately a woman came up to them; and was afked by the lieutenant-colonel if there was no other road that would take him to the column that was marching back with the king, befides that which would oblige him to pafs in front of Bouillé's troops, "Follow me," faid the woman. She then conducted the detachment through a morafs, along a path only two feet wide. Frégeville thus found himself quite unexpectedly in fo advantageous a pofition, that he had it in his power to ftop de Bouillé, had he been inclined to follow the king. The latter would have been forced to defile through the morafs, while Frégeville would already have had his squadron drawn up in order of battle.

When Frégeville had croffed the morafs, he halted a moment to give up the command to an older officer than himself, who came post-hafte from Verdun, very difcontented in appearance at the detachment's fetting off without his knowledge, but in reality at the arreftation of the king. The fpeed with which they had marched furnished him with a pretence for giving vent to his choler: "You wanted, I fuppofe, faid he, to kill the horfes." The object of the two commanders was very different-one wished to advance with promptitude, the other as flowly as poffible. The lieutenant colonel, who had marched the first, felt no concern about his juftification, being provided with a perfonal requifition from the municipality of Verdun; nor would he indeed have given up the command of the detachment, if he had not been perfuaded that the dragoons would make the other officer get on in fpite of him. In effect, a few moments after, they infifted with loud cries upon joining the escort that accompanied the king. They were accordingly put in motion; the lieutenant colonel taking no other precaution, than that of informing the column that the troops they faw on their left came from Verdun, which was faying quite enough.

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After reaching the high road from Varennes to Clermont, Frégeville, in spite of the impatience of the dragoons, thought proper to flacken his pace for about half an hour, and to leave a diftance of near three quarters of a mile between his fquadron and the column of infantry, in order that there might be a rear guard, ready to face Bouillé, fhould he present himself; and that the king's carriage might ftill continue to advance during the action, escorted by thofe who were able to proceed the fastest on foot.

As foon as the king had arrived at Clermont, the road from Varennes was blocked up with carts and casks, in fuch a way that only a fingle man on horseback could pafs at a time. The lieutenant colonel, before he entered the city, gave orders to halt, and thought it incumbent upon him to communicate to the directory of the diftrict the requifition by virtue of which he had marched. He fent an officer upon the fervice; entrusted to him the original documents; and recommended to him particularly to requeft the district to furnish oats for the horses, and refreshments for the men. Both the cattle and their riders were ready to faint from inanition, having been kept on a full gal lop the greater part of the time from two o'clock in the morning to the very heat of the day.

Clermont was in the greateft diforder: the conftituted authorities wifhed on one hand to fhew the greatest respect to the king; on the other they were hairaffed by twenty thousand men afking for bread and wine. Every inhabitant spread before his door all his provifions, and all the wine his cellar afforded; fo that in a very fhort time thefe twenty thousand men were almost all intoxicated by the combined effect of the wine, and the exceffive heat.

The officer fent on a miffion to the diftrict not being able, in confequence of their being fo fully occupied, to procure their attention to his business, stopped to look at the king, inftead of returning to the lieutenant colonel. In the mean time the dragoons, who were dying of hunger and thirft infifted upon marching forward; but were stopped when they came to the firft barricade. Frégeville, who knew feveral members of the district, refolved to pafs alone; and cleared the fecond barricade; but a little farther he found a kind of guard, confifting of about forty men, all in a complete ftate of intoxication. They rushed towards him-fome levelled

their muskets at him-others put their bayonets to his breaft. It was in vain that he endeavoured to reafon with them; they would not listen to a word he faid. At length he asked for the commandant of the poft, who fortunately proved to be an officer of the national guards, and a man of a cool and courageous character. Frégeville acquainted him with his adven"The only way for you to fave yourself, faid the officer, is to confent to be conducted like a criminal to the municipality. I will accompany you there with four truity men. On faying this he divided with him his tricoloured ribbon, and hung it to his button-hole; "This" added he, " is the diftinctive mark of our troops: now put your arms acrofs, and follow me."

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It took three quarters of an hour to get to the town-house, and from thence to the king's carriage, round which the members of the diftrict and municipality were affembled. Frégeville was recognized by one of them and immediately enlarged.

The first use that he made of his liberty was to approach the king's carriage, in order to get a fight of him, and to afk his deliverer for provifions. At that moment Louis XVI. fuddenly put his head out of the coach door, and addreffed himself to the constituted authorities : "Well!" faid he, with the tone of impatience, "when am I to fet off? Will there never be an end to all this?" A member of the district answered very civily that they were going to put the horses to, which was accordingly done, and the king fet off.

The following fketch was taken of the perfonages in the carriage. The king looked like a traveller whofe journey is tirefome to him; but his features had fuffered no change; he appeared perfectly refigned to any fate that might attend him. The queen had loft her temper; darted angry looks around her; and faid not a word. The paffions that agitated the princefs Elizabeth, were painted in her face, which was fuffufed with crimson. The two royal children were conftantly looking out of the coach-door, fmiled upon every body, and feemed to be in the midst of their family. The dauphin complaining of a kind of handkerchief tied round his head, which incommoded him by reafon of the heat, the princess Elizabeth took it off without turning round her head, fron fear of encountering the eyes of the crowd, by whom they were Surrounded,

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For the Orientall bookes wch ye Dr of Phyfic hath left behinde him att Leyden, I would I had a catalogue of them,→For I have not foe much money to spare as to buy them all, or to buy any double, wch I either have by mee, or have sent to ye Univerfity already unleffe a confiderable fumme of money might bee faved by buying all together. I pray therefore, if you can, fend mee a catalogue of ye bookes with their feverall prices, and you shall have my prefent anf what I can, or cannot doe, and I will fpeake with S Willm Bofwell before his returne to give mee his beft affiftance.

You shall doe very well, fince Henfius and Salmatius are fallen apeeces to fend mee word aboute what Philologicall queftion it is; and why you think itt will end in divinity, and what part it is that each of them mayntaynes, for itt may bee I fhall picke fomewhat out of that.I muft ftill give you caution to bee wary among that people.-Soe to God's bleffed protection I leave you, and rest

Lambeth, Yo' very loving Friende, December 13, 1639. W.CANT.

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