No More Learning

1692; Burchett's Memoirs of
Transactions at Sea; Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Life of
James, ii. 494; Russell's Letters in the Commons' Journals of Nov. 28.
1692; An Account of the Great Victory, 1692; Monthly Mercuries for June
and July 1692; Paris Gazette, May 28/June 7; Van Almonde's despatch
to the States General, dated May 24/June 3. 1692. The French official
account will be found in the Monthly Mercury for July. A report drawn up
by Foucault, Intendant of the province of Normandy, will be found in M.
Capefigue's Louis XIV. ]

[Footnote 270: An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Monthly
Mercury for June; Baden to the States General, May 24/ June 3; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary. ]

[Footnote 271: London Gazette, June 2. 1692; Monthly Mercury; Baden to
the States General, June 14/24. Narcissus Luttrell's Diary. ]

[Footnote 272: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Monthly Mercury. ]

[Footnote 273: London Gazette, June 9. ; Baden to the States General,
June 7/17]

[Footnote 274: Baden to the States General, June. 3/13]

[Footnote 275: Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary. ]

[Footnote 276: An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary. ]

[Footnote 277: Baden to the States General, June 7/17. 1692. ]

[Footnote 278: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary. ]

[Footnote 279: I give one short sentence as a specimen: "O fie that ever
it should be said that a clergyman have committed such durty actions! "]

[Footnote 280: Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa. ]

[Footnote 281: My account of this plot is chiefly taken from Sprat's
Relation of the late Wicked Contrivance of Stephen Blackhead and Robert
Young, 1692. There are very few better narratives in the language. ]

[Footnote 282: Baden to the States General, Feb. 14/24 1693. ]

[Footnote 283: Postman, April 13. and 20. 1700; Postboy, April 18. ;
Flying Post, April 20. ]

[Footnote 284: London Gazette, March 14. 1692. ]

[Footnote 285: The Swedes came, it is true, but not till the campaign
was over. London Gazette, Sept, 10 1691,]

[Footnote 286: William to Heinsius March 14/24. 1692. ]

[Footnote 287: William to Heinsius, Feb. 2/12 1692. ]

[Footnote 288: Ibid. Jan 12/22 1692. ]

[Footnote 289: Ibid. Jan. 19/29. 1692. ]

[Footnote 290: Burnet, ii. 82 83. ; Correspondence of William and
Heinsius, passim. ]

[Footnote 291: Memoires de Torcy. ]

[Footnote 292: William to Heinsius, Oct 28/Nov 8 1691. ]

[Footnote 293: Ibid. Jan. 19/29. 1692. ]

[Footnote 294: His letters to Heinsius are full of this subject. ]

[Footnote 295: See the Letters from Rome among the Nairne Papers. Those
in 1692 are from Lytcott; those in 1693 from Cardinal Howard; those in
1694 from Bishop Ellis; those in 1695 from Lord Perth. They all tell the
same story. ]

[Footnote 296: William's correspondence with Heinsius; London Gazette,
Feb. 4. 1691. In a pasquinade published in 1693, and entitled "La Foire
d'Ausbourg, Ballet Allegorique," the Elector of Saxony is introduced
saying,

"Moy, je diray naivement,
Qu'une jartiere d'Angleterre
Feroit tout Mon empressement;
Et je ne vois rien sur la terre
Ou je trouve plus d'agrement. "]

[Footnote 297: William's correspondence with Heinsius. There is a
curious account of Schoening in the Memoirs of Count Dohna. ]

[Footnote 298: Burnet, ii. 84. ]

[Footnote 299: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary. ]

[Footnote 300: Monthly Mercuries of January and April 1693; Burnet, ii.
84. In the Burnet MS. Hail. 6584, is a warm eulogy on the Elector of
Bavaria. When the MS. was written he was allied with England against
France. In the History, which was prepared for publication when he was
allied with France against England, the eulogy is omitted. ]

[Footnote 301: "Nec pluribus impar. "]

[Footnote 302: Memoires de Saint Simon; Dangeau; Racine's Letters, and
Narrative entitled Relation de ce qui s'est passe au Siege de Namur;
Monthly Mercury, May 1692. ]

[Footnote 303: Memoires de Saint Simon; Racine to Boileau, May 21.
1692. ]

[Footnote 304: Monthly Mercury for June; William to Heinsius May 26/
June 5 1692. ]

[Footnote 305: William to Heinsius, May 26/June 5 1692. ]

[Footnote 306: Monthly Mercuries of June and July 1692; London Gazettes
of June; Gazette de Paris; Memoires de Saint Simon; Journal de Dangeau;
William to Heinsius, May 30/June 9 June 2/12 June 11/21; Vernon's
Letters to Colt, printed in Tindal's History; Racine's Narrative, and
Letters to Boileau of June 15. and 24. ]

[Footnote 307: Memoires de Saint Simon. ]

[Footnote 308: London Gazette, May 30. 1692; Memoires de Saint Simon;
Journal de Dangeau; Boyer's History of William III. ]

[Footnote 309: Memoires de Saint Simon; Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.
Voltaire speaks with a contempt which is probably just of the account
of this affair in the Causes Celebres. See also the Letters of Madame
de Sevigne during the months of January and February 1680. In several
English lampoons Luxemburg is nicknamed Aesop, from his deformity, and
called a wizard, in allusion to his dealings with La Voisin. In one
Jacobite allegory he is the necromancer Grandorsio. In Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary for June 1692 he is called a conjuror. I have seen two
or three English caricatures of Luxemburg's figure. ]

[Footnote 310: Memoires de Saint Simon; Memoires de Villars; Racine to
Boileau, May 21. 1692. ]

[Footnote 311: Narcissus Luttrell, April 28. 1692. ]

[Footnote 312: London Gazette Aug. 4. 8. 11. 1692; Gazette de Paris,
Aug. 9. 16. ; Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV. ; Burnet, ii. 97; Memoires
de Berwick; Dykvelt's Letter to the States General dated August 4. 1692.
See also the very interesting debate which took place in the House of
Commons on Nov. 21. 1692. An English translation of Luxemburg's very
elaborate and artful despatch will be found in the Monthly Mercury
for September 1692. The original has recently been printed in the new
edition of Dangeau. Lewis pronounced it the best despatch that he had
ever seen. The editor of the Monthly Mercury maintains that it was
manufactured at Paris. "To think otherwise," he says, "is mere folly;
as if Luxemburg could be at so much leisure to write such a long letter,
more like a pedant than a general, or rather the monitor of a school,
giving an account to his master how the rest of the boys behaved
themselves. " In the Monthly Mercury will be found also the French
official list of killed and wounded. Of all the accounts of the battle
that which seems to me the best is in the Memoirs of Feuquieres. It
is illustrated by a map. Feuquieres divides his praise and blame very
fairly between the generals. The traditions of the English mess tables
have been preserved by Sterne, who was brought up at the knees of
old soldiers of William. "'There was Cutts's' continued the Corporal,
clapping the forefinger of his right hand upon the thumb of his left,
and counting round his hand; 'there was Cutts's, Mackay's Angus's,
Graham's and Leven's, all cut to pieces; and so had the English
Lifeguards too, had it not been for some regiments on the right, who
marched up boldly to their relief, and received the enemy's fire in
their faces before any one of their own platoons discharged a musket.
They'll go to heaven for it,' added Trim. "]

[Footnote 313: Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV. ]

[Footnote 314: Langhorne, the chief lay agent of the Jesuits in England,
always, as he owned to Tillotson, selected tools on this principle.
Burnet, i. 230. ]

[Footnote 315: I have taken the history of Grandval's plot chiefly from
Grandval's own confession. I have not mentioned Madame de Maintenon,
because Grandval, in his confession, did not mention her. The accusation
brought against her rests solely on the authority of Dumont. See also
a True Account of the horrid Conspiracy against the Life of His most
Sacred Majesty William III. 1692; Reflections upon the late horrid
Conspiracy contrived by some of the French Court to murder His Majesty
in Flanders 1692: Burnet, ii. 92. ; Vernon's letters from the camp
to Colt, published by Tindal; the London Gazette, Aug, 11. The Paris
Gazette contains not one word on the subject,--a most significant
silence. ]

[Footnote 316: London Gazette, Oct. 20. 24. 1692. ]

[Footnote 317: See his report in Burchett. ]

[Footnote 318: London Gazette, July 28. 1692. See the resolutions of the
Council of War in Burchett. In a letter to Nottingham, dated July 10,
Russell says, "Six weeks will near conclude what we call summer. " Lords
Journals, Dec. 19. 1692. ]

[Footnote 319: Monthly Mercury, Aug. and Sept. 1692. ]

[Footnote 320: Evelyn's Diary, July 25. 1692; Burnet, ii. 94, 95. , and
Lord Dartmouth's Note. The history of the quarrel between Russell and
Nottingham will be best learned from the Parliamentary Journals and
Debates of the Session of 1692/3. ]

[Footnote 321: Commons' Journals, Nov. 19. 1692; Burnet, ii. 95. ;
Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. 1692; Paris Gazettes of August and September;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Sept. ]

[Footnote 322: See Bart's Letters of Nobility, and the Paris Gazettes of
the autumn of 1692. ]

[Footnote 323: Memoires de Du Guay Trouin. ]

[Footnote 324: London Gazette, Aug. 11. 1692; Evelyn's Diary, Aug.
10. ; Monthly Mercury for September; A Full Account of the late dreadful
Earthquake at Port Royal in Jamaica, licensed Sept. 9. 1692. ]

[Footnote 325: Evelyn's Diary, June 25. Oct. 1. 1690; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary, June 1692, May 1693; Monthly Mercury, April, May, and
June 1693; Tom Brown's Description of a Country Life, 1692. ]

[Footnote 326: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 1692. ]

[Footnote 327: See, for example, the London Gazette of Jan. 12. 1692]

[Footnote 328: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 1692. ]

[Footnote 329: Ibid. Jan. 1693. ]

[Footnote 330: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, July 1692. ]

[Footnote 331: Evelyn's Diary, Nov. 20. 1692: Narcissus Luttrell's
Diary; London Gazette, Nov. 24. ; Hop to the Greffier of the States
General, Nov. 18/28]

[Footnote 332: London Gazette, Dec. 19. 1692. ]

[Footnote 333: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 1692. ]

[Footnote 334: Ibid. Nov. 1692. ]

[Footnote 335: Ibid. August 1692. ]

[Footnote 336: Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Dec 23/Jan
2 1693. The Dutch despatches of this year are filled with stories of
robberies.
]

[Footnote 337: Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Dec 23/Jan 2
1693; Historical Records of the Queen's Bays, published by authority;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 15. ]

[Footnote 338: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dee. 22. ]

[Footnote 339: Ibid. Dec. 1692; Hop, Jan. 3/13 Hop calls Whitney, "den
befaamsten roover in Engelandt. "]

[Footnote 340: London Gazette January 2. 1692/3. ]

[Footnote 341: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Jan. 1692/3. ]

[Footnote 342: Ibid. Dec. 1692. ]

[Footnote 343: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, January and February; Hop Jan
31/Feb 10 and Feb 3/13 1693; Letter to Secretary Trenchard, 1694; New
Court Contrivances or more Sham Plots still, 1693. ]

[Footnote 344: Lords' and Commons' Journals, Nov. 4. , Jan. 1692. ]

[Footnote 345: Commons' Journals, Nov. 10 1692. ]

[Footnote 346: See the Lords' Journals from Nov. 7. to Nov. 18. 1692;
Burnet, ii. 102. Tindall's account of these proceedings was taken from
letters addressed by Warre, Under Secretary of State, to Colt, envoy at
Hanover. Letter to Mr. Secretary Trenchard, 1694. ]

[Footnote 347: Lords' Journals, Dec. 7. ; Tindal, from the Colt Papers;
Burnet, ii. 105. ]

[Footnote 348: Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. and 23. 1692. ]

[Footnote 349: Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. 1692; Colt Papers in Tindal. ]

[Footnote 350: Tindal, Colt Papers; Commons' Journals, Jan. 11. 1693. ]

[Footnote 351: Colt Papers in Tindal; Lords' Journals from Dec. 6. to
Dec. 19. 1692; inclusive,]

[Footnote 352: As to the proceedings of this day in the House of
Commons, see the Journals, Dec. 20, and the letter of Robert Wilmot,
M. P. for Derby, to his colleague Anchitel Grey, in Grey's Debates. ]

[Footnote 353: Commons' Journals, Jan. 4. 1692/3. ]

[Footnote 354: Colt Papers in Tindal; Commons' Journals, Dec. 16. 1692,
Jan. 11 1692; Burnet ii. 104. ]

[Footnote 355: The peculiar antipathy of the English nobles to the Dutch
favourites is mentioned in a highly interesting note written by Renaudot
in 1698, and preserved among the Archives of the French Foreign Office. ]

[Footnote 356: Colt Papers in Tindal; Lords' Journals, Nov. 28. and 29.
1692, Feb. 18. and 24. 1692/3. ]

[Footnote 357: Grey's Debates, Nov 18. 1692; Commons' Journals, Nov.
18. , Dec. 1. 1692. ]

[Footnote 358: See Cibber's Apology, and Mountford's Greenwich Park. ]

[Footnote 359: See Cibber's Apology, Tom Brown's Works, and indeed the
works of every man of wit and pleasure about town. ]

[Footnote 360: The chief source of information about this case is the
report of the trial, which will be found in Howell's Collection. See
Evelyn's Diary, February 4. 1692/3. I have taken some circumstances from
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, from a letter to Sancroft which is among the
Tanner MSS in the Bodleian Library, and from two letters addressed by
Brewer to Wharton, which are also in the Bodleian Library. ]

[Footnote 361: Commons' Journals, Nov. 14. 1692. ]

[Footnote 362: Commons' Journals of the Session, particularly of Nov.
17. , Dec. 10. , Feb. 25. , March 3. ; Colt Papers in Tindal. ]

[Footnote 363: Commons' Journals, Dec. 10. ; Tindal, Colt Papers. ]

[Footnote 364: See Coke's Institutes, part iv. chapter 1. In 1566 a
subsidy was 120,000L. ; in 1598, 78,000L. ; when Coke wrote his
Institutes, about the end of the reign of James I. 70,000L. Clarendon
tells us that, in 1640, twelve subsidies were estimated at about
600,000L. ]

[Footnote 365: See the old Land Tax Acts, and the debates on the Land
Tax Redemption Bill of 1798. ]

[Footnote 366: Lords' Journals Jan. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. ; Commons'
Journals, Jan. 17, 18. 20. 1692; Tindal, from the Colt Papers; Burnet,
ii. 104, 105. Burnet has used an incorrect expression, which Tindal,
Ralph and others have copied. He says that the question was whether the
Lords should tax themselves. The Lords did not claim any right to alter
the amount of taxation laid on them by the bill as it came up to them.
They only demanded that their estates should be valued, not by the
ordinary commissioners, but by special commissioners of higher rank. ]

[Footnote 367: Commons' Journals, Dec. 2/12. 1692,]

[Footnote 368: For this account of the origin of stockjobbing in the
City of London I am chiefly indebted to a most curious periodical paper,
entitled, "Collection for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade, by
J. Houghton, F. R. S. " It is in fact a weekly history of the commercial
speculations of that time. I have looked through the files of several
years. In No. 33. , March 17. 1693, Houghton says: "The buying and
selling of Actions is one of the great trades now on foot. I find a
great many do not understand the affair. " On June 13. and June 22. 1694,
he traces the whole progress of stockjobbing. On July 13. of the same
year he makes the first mention of time bargains. Whoever is desirous
to know more about the companies mentioned in the text may consult
Houghton's Collection and a pamphlet entitled Anglia Tutamen, published
in 1695. ]

[Footnote 369: Commons' Journals; Stat. 4 W. & M. c. 3. ]

[Footnote 370: See a very remarkable note in Hume's History of England,
Appendix III. ]

[Footnote 371: Wealth of Nations, book v. chap. iii. ]

[Footnote 372: Wesley was struck with this anomaly in 1745. See his
Journal. ]

[Footnote 373: Pepys, June 10. 1668. ]

[Footnote 374: See the Politics, iv. 13. ]

[Footnote 375: The bill will be found among the archives of the House of
Lords. ]

[Footnote 376: Lords' Journals, Jan. 3. 1692/3. ]

[Footnote 377: Introduction to the Copies and Extracts of some Letters
written to and from the Earl of Danby, now Duke of Leeds, published by
His Grace's Direction, 1710. ]

[Footnote 378: Commons' Journals; Grey's Debates. The bill itself is
among the archives of the House of Lords. ]

[Footnote 379: Dunton's Life and Errors; Autobiography of Edmund Bohun,
privately printed in 1853. This autobiography is, in the highest degree,
curious and interesting. ]

[Footnote 380: Vox Cleri, 1689. ]

[Footnote 381: Bohun was the author of the History of the Desertion,
published immediately after the Revolution. In that work he propounded
his favourite theory. "For my part," he says, "I am amazed to see men
scruple the submitting to the present King; for, if ever man had a just
cause of war, he had; and that creates a right to the thing gained by
it. The King by withdrawing and disbanding his army yielded him the
throne; and if he had, without any more ceremony, ascended it, he had
done no more than all other princes do on the like occasions. "]

[Footnote 382: Character of Edmund Bohun, 1692. ]

[Footnote 383: Dryden, in his Life of Lucian, speaks in too high terms
of Blount's abilities. But Dryden's judgment was biassed; for Blount's
first work was a pamphlet in defence of the Conquest of Granada. ]

[Footnote 384: See his Appeal from the Country to the City for the
Preservation of His Majesty's Person, Liberty, Property, and the
Protestant Religion. ]

[Footnote 385: See the article on Apollonius in Bayle's Dictionary.
I say that Blount made his translation from the Latin; for his works
contain abundant proofs that he was not competent to translate from the
Greek. ]

[Footnote 386: See Gildon's edition of Blount's Works, 1695. ]

[Footnote 387: Wood's Athenae Oxonienses under the name Henry Blount
(Charles Blount's father); Lestrange's Observator, No. 290. ]

[Footnote 388: This piece was reprinted by Gildon in 1695 among Blount's
Works. ]

[Footnote 389: That the plagiarism of Blount should have been detected
by few of his contemporaries is not wonderful. But it is wonderful
that in the Biographia Britannica his just Vindication should be warmly
extolled, without the slightest hint that every thing good in it is
stolen. The Areopagitica is not the only work which he pillaged on this
occasion. He took a noble passage from Bacon without acknowledgment. ]

[Footnote 390: I unhesitatingly attribute this pamphlet to Blount,
though it was not reprinted among his works by Gildon. If Blount did not
actually write it he must certainly have superintended the writing. That
two men of letters, acting without concert, should bring out within
a very short time two treatises, one made out of one half of the
Areopagitica and the other made out of the other half, is incredible.
Why Gildon did not choose to reprint the second pamphlet will appear
hereafter. ]

[Footnote 391: Bohun's Autobiography. ]

[Footnote 392: Bohun's Autobiography; Commons' Journals, Jan. 20.
1692/3. ]

[Footnote 393: Ibid. Jan. 20, 21. 1692/3]

[Footnote 394: Oldmixon; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Nov. and Dec. 1692;
Burnet, ii. 334; Bohun's Autobiography. ]

[Footnote 395: Grey's Debates; Commons' Journals Jan. 21. 23. 1692/3. ;
Bohun's Autobiography; Kennet's Life and Reign of King William and Queen
Mary. ]

[Footnote 396: "Most men pitying the Bishop. "--Bohun's Autobiography. ]

[Footnote 397: The vote of the Commons is mentioned, with much feeling
in the memoirs which Burnet wrote at the time. "It look'd," he says,
"somewhat extraordinary that I, who perhaps was the greatest assertor
of publick liberty, from my first setting out, of any writer of the age,
should be so severely treated as an enemy to it. But the truth was the
Toryes never liked me, and the Whiggs hated me because I went not into
their notions and passions.