FOOTNOTES:

[90] See the Journal Encyclopédique, September 1774.

[91] Vide Ferrand’s History of the Dismemberment of Poland.

[92] Alfred-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, called Marquis de Pezay, inspector-general of the sea-coast, born 1741, died 1777.

[93] Twelve hundred pounds sterling.

[94] 230,000 livres are £9200 sterling.

[95] This story is told differently in the Memoirs of Durfort de Cheverny, edited by M. de Crêvecœur; but even after a careful consideration of his version, we consider our own the most correct.