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CONTENTS.-N° 161.

NOTES:-The Gualterio Papers at the British Museum: Autograph Letters of the Abbé de Fleury, Count de Morville, and Julien, 69- A Black-country Legend, 71 - Pedigree of Hume the Historian: Baron Baillie, Ib. - A New Song from Paris, 72-China Mania -"Old Father Antic, the Law"- Folk Lore: Frost on the Shortest Day - Scottish Societies-Story ascribed to Theodore Hook-Lord Nelson's Opinion of German Generals - An Inscription Chawban-The late Joseph Parkes - Furness Abbey and the Chetham Society, 73.

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THE GUALTERIO PAPERS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF THE ABBÉ DE FLEURY, COUNT DE MORVILLE,

AND JULIEN.

In the

Since the appearance of my last article in "N. & Q." I have been informed that the Marchesa Campana is engaged upon a history of the Stuart family, which is to comprise a large number of quotations from the Gualterio MSS. The first two volumes of the work are, I believe, actually printed, and will be published as soon as the state of the Continent renders undertakings of a literary kind tolerably feasible. meanwhile my readers cannot feel surprised at my withdrawing the promise I had made of forwarding to "N. & Q." a few specimens of Queen Maria of Modena's correspondence. I would not, on any consideration whatever, even seem to take away from the interest of the Marchesa's book; and the Gualterio MSS. are so rich in documents of all kinds that I can draw upon them for many a piquant paragraph without so much as alluding to the Stuarts. The following letters refer to the history of France, and the one I publish first was addressed to Cardinal Gualterio by the Abbé de Fleury, chaplain to Louis XIV., bishop of Fréjus in 1698, and who had been selected in 1715 to fill the important post of governor to the young Louis XV. :

Monseigneur,

Je me flatte que V. E. n'a pas tout-à-fait oublié un ancien serviteur qu'elle honoroit de ses bontés, et qui a toujours fait une profession particulière de lui être attaché. J'ay l'honneur d'escrire à Sa Sainteté pour obtenir d'elle un indult pour conférer en commende tous les prieurés dépendants de mon abbaye de Tournus.* Je suis obligé de me servir de plusieurs gens de lettres pour l'éducation du Roy, et je ne puis leur faire aucun bien que par le moyen de cet indult. Si V. E., Monseigneur, veut bien m'accorder l'honneur de sa protection dans cette occasion, j'espère que Sa Sainteté ne me refusera pas cette grâce, de laquelle certainement je ne veux faire qu'un bon usage. Le Roy se porte parfaitement bien, et donne de grandes espérances. Je profite avec plaisir de cette occasion pour me renouveler dans le souvenir de V. E., et l'assurer du respectueux attachement avec lequel je serai toute ma vie,

Monseigneur,

le très-humble et très-obéissant serviteur, A. F., ancien évêque de Fréjus.

Paris, ce 14 mars 1717.†

M. de Morville, the author of the next letter, had been ambassador, and then Secretary of State for the Navy; his colleagues in the administration organised after the death of Cardinal Dubois were M. de Maurepas, M. de Breteuil, and M. d'Argenson, all young men, like himself. (See Barbier's Journal, Charpentier's edition, i. 297.)

A Versailles, 17 aoust 1723.

Je regarde, Monseigneur, comme un des premiers, et en même temps, comme un des plus agréables soins du ministère que le Roy m'a confié, celuy d'informer votre Emce des changemens auxquels la mort de M. le Card1 Dubois a donné lieu dans les dispositions du gouvernement. Le Roy a remis l'administration générale des affaires de son royaume à M. le Duc d'Orléans, qui a bien voulu accepter le titre et se charger des fonctions de premier ministre. Sa Majesté m'a en même temps honoré de celuy de secrétaire d'état des affaires étrangères, pour exécuter sous les ordres et sous les yeux de S. A. R. ce qui peut y avoir rapport.

C'est sous ce titre et sous celuy de l'homme du monde qui porte au plus haut point la vénération, le zèle et le dévouement pour V. Emee que je la supplie de ne me pas refuser les secours qu'elle vouloit bien donner à mes prédécesseurs dans cet important employ, par cette corresseils les plus utiles au service du Roy. C'est une grâce pondance où ils ont puisé si souvent les avis et les conque je demande très-instamment à V. Emee en luy protestant que j'en auray la plus parfaite reconnoissance.

Je voudrois bien que la conjoncture où nous nous trouvons me laissât tout le temps nécessaire pour répondre

dès aujourd'huy à celles de ses lettres dont M. le Card. Dubois ne luy avoit pas marqué la réception; elle reconnoîtroit que ma première attention s'est portée avec empressement à ce qui vient de V. Emce.

J'ay fait toute celle que je dois à une lettre accompagnée d'un mémoire concernant M. le Duc de Cumia, des intérêts duquel je me feray un objet capital, comme de tout ce qui aura rapport à ceux de Vre Emce et à sa satisfaction. C'est ce dont je la supplie d'être persuadée, et

* Fleury had resigned his bishopric in order to be

nearer Madame de Maintenon, who was at the height of

her power, and he had accepted as a compensation the Abbey of Tournus, in Burgundy. See Saint-Simon's Memoirs, xi. 447-9.

† Brit. Mus., Addit. MSS. 20,322.

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