the season, one day brought her a dish, for which he had paid a hundred crowns. "Alas, Sir," said she, "I cannot avail "myself of your attention; my physician "has put me on a milk diet."-" Well, Ma"dam," answered he, "there is a remedy "for every evil;" and he caused the peas to be given to the cow from which she had her milk.

114. ACCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED TO M. DE CALONNE.

As M. de Calonue was once sleeping in his bed, the ciel (canopy) fell down, and nearly smothered him. Some very malignantly exclaimed, "Juste Ciel!" while others said that it was a bed of justice. He told me once, that he found himself so oppressed by this canopy, that he was several hours without being able to extricate himself so far as to ring his bell, and was obliged, after all, to wait until the time at which his valet-de-chambre usually entered his room.

115. FINE ARGUMENT OF MAUPERTIUS.

There is a fine argument in favour of

religion, at the conclusion of the Essai de Philosophie morale, by Maupertius, in the first volume of his works. "All that is 66 necessary to do, in this life, to obtain the "greatest happiness our nature is capable "of here, is, undeniably, the very same "that we ought to do to lead us to eternal "happiness."

116. ANECDOTE OF MR. PITT.

Mr. Pitt, at the commencement of the year 1784, kept the place of prime minister, notwithstanding all the efforts of the opposition; and though their numbers had increased to such a degree, that they had a majority of one hundred votes against him, it was six weeks before he would give them the satisfaction of secing him quit it. At last, the majority against him still continuing to increase, he said to the King: "Sire, "I am mortified to see that my perseverance

has been of no avail, and that I must, "resign at last."-" If so," replied the King, "I must resign too." It was then that the Lord Chancellor Thurlow advised the King to dissolve the paliament, and thus

take the sense of the nation. In fact, the new parliament clearly shewed that the nation approved the measures of the King and his minister; for Mr. Pitt had then a very great majority, which he has preserved ever since.

117. PORTRAIT OF CHARLES I. SUITABLE TO LOUIS XVI.

When the unfortunate Louis XVI. perished in so barbarous a manner, I was struck with the resemblance between his fate and that of Charles I. of England; and I was still more so, when reading the history of the tragical end of Charles in Clarendon. I extracted the portrait which that historian has drawn of King Charles, and shewed it to several noblemen and ladies, who had been most about Louis XVI. All agreed, that it appeared to have been made for that worthy and unfortunate King. The following is the portrait taken exactly from Clarendon: I have omitted only some circumstances which do not in the least degree change its

nature.

"But it will not be unnecessary to add a "short character of his person, that pos"terity may know the inestimable loss

"persuasion, which the stubbornness of "men's humours made dilatory in the "courts of justice.

"He was very fearless in his person;

but in his riper years, not very enter. "prising. He had an excellent understand"ing, but was not confident enough of it.

"This made him more irresolute than the "conjuncture of his affairs would admit; "if he had been of a rougher and more im"perious nature, he would have found 66 more respect and duty.

"His not applying some severe cures to "approaching evils, proceeded from the "lenity of his nature, and the tenderness "of his conscience; which in all cases of "blood, made him choose the softer way, "and not hearken to severe councils, how "reasonable soever urged.

"To conclude, he was the worthiest gentle66 man, the best master, the best friend, "the best husband, the best father and "the best christian, that the age in which "he lived produced: And if he were not "the greatest King, if he were without

"some parts and qualities, which have "made some Kings great and happy, no "other Prince was ever unhappy, who was "possessed of half his virtues and endow"ments, and so much without any kind " of vice,"

118. ESCAPE OF LOUIS XVI.

On the 17th of August, 1791, I saw M. **** in London: he had been sent secretly to the Court of London, by the King and Queen of France. He brought letters for Mr. Pitt, from the Count de Mercy and the Count de Fersen, and letters from the King of Sweden to the King of Great-Britain and Mr. Pitt. He acquainted me with several particulars relative to the flight of the King of France, and to the state of affairs in France, part of which was afterwards confirmed to me by the Marquis de Bouillé.

It was the Count de Fersen who conceived the project of making the King and the whole Royal Family take flight, and who put it in execution. The Baron de Breteuil and the Marquis de Bouillé were, at