ely my own. The result was the loss of about 200l.: exclusively
of the expences incurred in travelling about 2000 miles. The
_copper-plates_ (notwithstanding every temptation, and many
entreaties, to _multiply_ impressions of several of the subjects
engraved) were DESTROYED. There may be something more than a mere
negative consolation, in finding that the work is RISING in price,
although its author has long ceased to partake of any benefit
resulting from it.]

[45] A plate of this Monument is published in the Tour of Normandy by
Dawson Turner, Esq.

[46] The Cardinal died in his fiftieth year only; and his funeral was
graced and honoured by the presence of his royal master. Guicciardini
calls him "the oracle and right arm of Louis." Of eight brothers, whom
he left behind, four attained to the episcopal rank. His nephew
succeeded him as Archbishop. See also _Historia Genealogica Magnatum
Franciae_; vol. vii. p. 129; quoted in the _Gallia Christiana_, vol.
xi. col. 96.

It was during the archiepiscopacy of the successor of the nephew of
Amboise--namely, that of CHARLES of BOURBON--that the _Calvanistic
persecution_ commenced. "Tunc vero coepit civitas, dioecesis,
universaque provincia lamentabilem in modum conflictari, saevientibus
ob religionis dissidia plusquam civilibus bellis," &c. But then the
good Archbishop, however bountiful he might have been towards the poor
at _Roncesvalles_, (when he escorted Philip II.'s first wife
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II. to the confines of Spain, after he
had married her to that wretched monarch) should not have inflamed the
irritated minds of the Calvinists, by BURNING ALIVE, in 1559, _John
Cottin_, one of their most eminent preachers, by way of striking
terror into the rest! Well might the Chronicler observe, as the
result, "novas secta illa in dies acquirebat vires." About 1560-2, the
Calvinists got the upper hand; and repaid the Catholics with a
vengeance. Charles of Bourbon died in 1590: so that he had an arduous
and agitated time of it.

[47] How long will this monument--(matchless of its kind)--continue
unrepresented by the BURIN? If Mr. Henry Le Keux were to execute it in
his best style, the world might witness in it a piece of Art entirely
perfect of its kind. But let the pencils of Messrs. Corbould and Blore
be first exercised on the