ncipal citizens; Eustache de Saint Pierre was at their
head, and the names of three others have come down to us, as
Jean d'Aire, Jacques de Wissant, and Pierre de Wissant. Who
were the other two?

"The second point relates to the character of that occurrence.
Some historians are of opinion that the devotedness of Saint
Pierre and his associates was prompted by the most exalted
sentiments of patriotism; while others assert that it was all
a 'sham,' that Saint-Pierre was secretly attached to the cause
of the English monarch, and that he was subsequently employed
by him in some confidential negociations. To which of these
opinions should the historical inquirer give his assent?"

I may add, in reply to MR. KING, that "the light thrown on the
subject, through M. de Brequigny's labours," has been noticed in the
_Biographie Universelle_, sub voce _Saint-Pierre (Eustache de)_; and it
was the remarks in that work that first drew my attention to it. The
circumstances disclosed by Brequigny are also commented upon by Levesque
in his _La France sous les Valois_.

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

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PASSAGE IN COLERIDGE.

De Quincy, in his "Suspiria de Profundis," Blackwood's _Magazine_, June,
1845, p. 748., speaking of the spectre of the Brocken, and of the
conditions under which that striking phenomenon is manifested, observes
that

"Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799 with
a party of English students from Goettingen, but failed to see
the phantom; afterwards in England (and under the same three
conditions) he saw a much rarer phenomenon, which he described
in the following eight lines. I give them from a corrected
copy. The apostrophe in the beginning must be understood as
addressed to an ideal conception:

"'And art thou nothing? Such thou art as when
The woodman winding westward up the glen
At wintry dawn, when o'er the sheep-track's maze
The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze,
Sees full before him, gliding without tread,
An image with a glory round its head:
This shade he worships for its golden hues,
And makes (not knowing) that which he pursues.'"

These lines are from "Constancy to an ideal Object;" but in the usual
editions of Coleridge's _Poems_, the last two lines are printed thus:

"The enamour'd ru