[552]Montesquieu, "Notes sur l'Angleterre."

[553]Smollett, "Peregrine Pickle," ch. 40.

[554]See Hogarth's prints.

[555]Goldsmith's "Traveller."

[556]Chesterfield observes that a Frenchman of his time did not understand the word Country; you must speak to him of his Prince.

[557]The executioner of Charles I.

[558]Montesquieu, "De l'Esprit des Lois," book XIX. ch. 27.

[559]Junius wrote anonymously, and critics have not yet been able with certainty to reveal his true name. Most probably he was Sir Philip Francis.

[560]"Anecdotes and Speeches of the Earl of Chatham," 7th ed. 3 vols. 1810, II. ch. 42 and 44.

[561]Ibid. II. ch. 29.