and confessed that I was right. I have taken the oath to the King of England; I have been several times charged with his Majesty's affairs at a foreign court; I have a pension from the State, and a benefice in the Church; and I shall always maintain that I am more of an Englishman, than the greater part of those who are English only from the chance of their birth.

35. WHETHER THE ARABIANS HAVE BEEN CON

QUERED.

It is an error to suppose that Arabia has never been conquered: ab Assyriis Persisque sæpe victi, says Herodotus, in his second and third books; and Xenophon, in the first, second, third, fourth, and eighth books of his Cyropedia. Strabo, who is a very exact writer, says in his sixteenth book, that Alexander the Great had entertained a design of establishing the seat of his empire there. Ælius Gallus, a Roman general, the friend and protector of Strabo, subjugated part of Arabia Felix; and the Turks have been, for a long time, masters of it. The proof of this may be found in Niebuhr's

Travels in Arabia; and particularly at the -fifteenth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh of the second volume of the octavo

pages edition.

36. VICES AND Virtues, in wHOM FOUND. The greater part of vices consist either in defects or excesses; the greater part of virtues, in the observance of a just medium. The virtues are found less among the low and the great, than in the middling classes of mankind. The low are less acquainted with their duties; this is their defect: the great know them, transgress them, and give themselves up to excess. The generality of men who form the middle class, understand them better, and practise them more.

37. PONT DU GARD.

The Pont du Gard was built by Agrippa, and is supposed to have made part of the aqueduct which conducted the waters of the fountains of Eure and Airain to Nimes.

38. ANECDOTE RELATIVE TO THE MAISON Quarrée at NIMES.

The Maison Quarrée was a temple erected

to the honour of Caius and Lucius Cæsar, the sons of Agrippa. The Duke de Choi

seuil, who always had grand ideas, formed the design of transporting that fine edifice to the park of Versailles. Measures were actually taken for its removal: an architect was found, who had made a plan for numbering all the stones of the building, and replacing them so well together, that no one could perceive that they had been displaced. The project, however, was not carried into execution. The inhabitants of Nimes were unhappy at the thoughts of seeing their fine church removed, and the Minister was not willing to displease them. If the removal had taken place, the question of the person who, seeing a beautiful church in the country, asked whether it had been made upon "the spot," would have become less absurd.

39. BON-MOT OF THE GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA. Paul, Grand Duke of Russia, in 1782, said of the disturbances of Geneva, that "it was a tempest in a glass of water." The idea was very proper for the heir of the largest empire in the world.

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40. BON-MOT OF A PHYSICIAN.

Dr. Rogerson, a Scotch physician attached to the Empress of Russia, passed through Paris about the year 1786, on his way from Petersburg to Scotland. M. Necker, who had been some time ill, desired to consult him. The Doctor afterwards observed, that he saw nothing in him but une ambition rentrée. The phrase was very good for a foreigner, if it was his; but I have since that been told, that Dr. Tronchin said the same of M. Turgot.

41. ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE DE CRILLON AND GENERAL MURRAY.

Sir Horace Mann, British Minister at Florence, communicated the following anecdote to me in the year 1782. Capt. George Donn, aide-de-camp of General Murray, who was then Governor of Minorca, and a person of the name of La Rivière, his Secretary's clerk, deposed, that having been sent successively to the Duke de Crillon by the General, relative to an exchange of prisoners, the Duke by degrees insinuated,

and particularly to the clerk, that he was authorized by the Court of Spain to offer the Governor of Mahon a considerable sum if he would give up that place; adding, that measures would be taken to do away all suspicion of any connivance. He proposed to pay one million down to General Murray, who might mention what further sum he required. In order to persuade him to listen to these offers, the Duke gave him to understand, that in the year 1756 it was obtained in the same manner; which accounted for the readiness with which the fortress surrendered, merely after the taking of the Queen's and Anstruther's redoubts.

General Murray, indignant at this proposal, wrote the following letter to the Duke :

"SIR-When one of your kings pro"posed to your brave ancestor to assassi"nate the Duke of Guise, he made the an

swer which you should have made to the "King of Spain, when he employed you to "assassinate the character of a man, whose "birth is not less illustrious than your own,