the Appendix to Mr.
Fox's History. See also Preston's Letter to James, dated April 18-28,
1685, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 236: Lewis to Barillon, Feb. 16-26, 1685.]

[Footnote 237: Barillon, Feb. 16-26, 1685.]

[Footnote 238: Barillon, Feb. 18-28, 1685.]

[Footnote 239: Swift who hated Marlborough, and who was little disposed
to allow any merit to those whom he hated, says, in the famous letter to
Crassus, "You are no ill orator in the Senate."]

[Footnote 240: Dartmouth's note on Burnet, i. 264. Chesterfleld's
Letters, Nov., 18, 1748. Chesterfield is an unexceptional witness; for
the annuity was a charge on the estate of his grandfather, Halifax. I
believe that there is no foundation for a disgraceful addition to the
story which may be found in Pope:

"The gallant too, to whom she paid it down,
Lived to refuse his mistress half a crown."
Curll calls this a piece of travelling scandal.]

[Footnote 241: Pope in Spence's Anecdotes.]

[Footnote 242: See the Historical Records of the first or Royal
Dragoons. The appointment of Churchill to the command of this regiment
was ridiculed as an instance of absurd partiality. One lampoon of that
time which I do not remember to have seen in print, but of which a
manuscript copy is in the British Museum, contains these lines:

"Let's cut our meat with spoons:
The sense is as good
As that Churchill should
Be put to command the dragoons."]

[Footnote 243: Barillon, Feb. 16-26, 1685.]

[Footnote 244: Barillon, April 6-16; Lewis to Barillon, April 14-24.]

[Footnote 245: I might transcribe half Barillon's correspondence in
proof of this proposition, but I will quote only one passage, in
which the policy of the French government towards England is exhibited
concisely and with perfect clearness.---- "On peut tenir pour un maxime
indubitable que l'accord du Roy d'Angleterre avec son parlement, en
quelque maniere qu'il se fasse, n'est pas conforme aux interets de V. M.
Je me contente de penser cela sane m'en ouvrir a personne, et je cache
avec soin mes sentimens a cet egard."--Barillon to Lewis, Feb. 28,/Mar.
1687. That this was the real secret of the whole policy of Lewis towards
our country was perfectly understood at Vienna. The Emperor Leopold
wrote thus to James, March 30,/April 9, 1689: "Galli id unum agebant,
ut, perpetuas inter Serenitatem vestram et ejusdem populos fovendo
simultates, reliquae Christianae Europe tanto securius insultar