[Footnote 220:  “Grotii Epistolae,” 375 and 380, fo.  Ams. 1687.  A volume which contains 2500 letters of this great man.]

[Footnote 221:  “La Vie du Cardinal Duc de Richelieu,” anonymous, but written by Jean le Clerc, vol. i. 507.  An impartial but heavy life of a great minister, of whom, between the panegyrics of his flatterers and the satires of his enemies, it was difficult to discover a just medium.]

[Footnote 222:  Mem.  Rec. vol. vi. 131.]

[Footnote 223:  It is quoted in the “Remarques Critiques sur le Dictionnaire de Bayle,” Paris, 1748.  This anonymous folio volume was written by Le Sieur Joly, a canon of Dijon, and is full of curious researches, and many authentic discoveries.  The writer is no philosopher, but he corrects and adds to the knowledge of Bayle.  Here I found some original anecdotes of Hobbes, from MS. sources, during that philosopher’s residence at Paris, which I have given in “Quarrels of Authors.”]

[Footnote 224:  Montresor, attached to the Duke of Orleans, has left us some very curious memoirs, in two small volumes; the second preserving many historical documents of that active period.  This spirited writer has not hesitated to detail his projects for the assassination of the tyrannical minister.]

[Footnote 225:  At page 154 of this work is a different view of the character of this extraordinary man:  those anecdotes are of a lighter and satirical nature; they touch on “the follies of the wise.”]

[Footnote 226:  In “The Disparity.” to accompany “The Parallel” of Sir Henry Wotton; two exquisite cabinet-pictures, preserved in the Reliquiae Wottonianae; and at least equal to the finest “Parallels” of Plutarch.]

[Footnote 227:  The singular openness of his character was not statesmanlike.  He was one of those whose ungovernable sincerity “cannot put all their passions in their pockets.”  He told the Count-Duke Olivarez, on quitting Spain, that “he would always cement the friendship between the two nations; but with regard to you, sir, in particular, you must not consider me as your friend, but must ever expect from me all possible enmity and opposition.”  The cardinal was willing enough, says Hume, “to accept what was proffered, and on these terms the favourites parted.”  Buckingham, desirous of accommodating the parties in the nation, once tried at the favour of the puritanic party, whose head was Dr. Preston, master of Emanuel College.  The duke was his generous patron, and Dr. Preston his most servile adulator.  The more zealous puritans were offended at this intimacy; and Dr. Preston, in a letter to some of his party, observed that it was true that the duke was a vile and profligate fellow, but that there was no other way to come at him but by the lowest flattery; that it was necessary for the glory of God that such instruments should be made use of; and more in this strain.  Some officious hand conveyed this letter to the duke,