[15] Fontaine, Lib. VII. Fable iii.
[16] Æneid I.
[17] Mélanges de littérature, d’histoire & de philosophie, par M. D.... Tom. IV. p. 364.
[18] And thou too, my dear Brutus! It is assured that this satyrist gave to the word Brutus a more malicious interpretation than we pretend to approve of.
[19] The reader knows that hegira signifies flight, or expulsion.
[20] This is what a thousand French have heard said in England, in Germany, and even at Rome.
[21] It is assured, that the day after the expulsion of the Jesuits, the Convulsionaries began to foretell it. It is thus that they have always prophesied; and what is very surprising, they have never been mistaken.
[22] These queries appear to have been written in the interval between the arrêt, which ordains the Jesuits to take the oath, and the arrêt which banished them. It was thought they might be useful, if any unforeseen circumstance should seem one day to require the Jesuits to be forced to renounce expressly the institution.
[23] As the Jesuits of Versailles, and some others of the principal have done.
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