[102] General Advertiser, March 26, 1782.

[103] General Advertiser, May 1, 1783.

[104] General Advertiser, February 13, 1784.

[105] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1736, pp. 617-618.

[106] By Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester.

[107] A pickle herring was a Merry-Andrew or clown, and this means that the quack was too poor to afford either horse or attendant.

[108] A false witness—one who would swear to anything for a trifle.

[109] I have before me now twelve lives of him, and that is by no means an exhaustive list.

[110] ‘Memoire pour le Comte de Cagliostro, accusé: contre Monsieur le Procureur-General, accusateur; en presence de Monsieur le Cardinal de Rohan, de la Comtesse de la Motte, et autres co-accusés.’ Paris, 1786, 4to.

[111] Of this work there was a French translation published in 1791 at Paris and Strasbourg, under the title of ‘Vie de Joseph Balsamo, connu sous le nom de Comte Cagliostro,’ &c. 2nd edition.