[131]. For this article see Annals of Agriculture, vol. ix. p. 479.
[132]. Son of a Protestant pastor of Nîmes, member of the Constituent Assembly; guillotined 1784. See Letters of Helen Maria Williams.
[133]. His country by adoption; Lazowski was a Pole.
[134]. Abbot.
[135]. ‘January 30, 1790. To Bradfield, and here terminate, I hope, my travels.’—Travels in France, Bohn’s Library.
[136]. This letter is interesting as written by the last representative of that unhappy country in England. We read in Knight’s History of England, vol. v., that, on the reassembling of Parliament after the partition of Poland no allusion whatever was made in the House of Commons to that event. The final partition treaty was signed in 1795 by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
[137]. The passage occurs in the small memorandum-book from which I have occasionally quoted particulars of yearly[of yearly] expenses, &c.
[138]. Vol. xv. 1791, My Own Memoirs.
[139]. These letters were sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Co., London, December 1896.
[140]. Louis d’or at this time worth 24 francs.—Littré.