Audley End, Nov. 1.
265. Lines on Cagliostro.
—Mr. Carlyle, in Miscellanies, 3rd edit., vol. iii. p. 324., quotes the following "epigraph," as appended to a portrait of Cagliostro:
"De l'Ami des Humains reconnaissez les traits:
Tous ses jours sont marqués par de nouveaux bienfaits;
Il prolonge la vie, il secourt l'indigence;
Le plaisir d'être utile est seul sa récompense."
Is there any possibility of ascertaining, at the present day, to which of the countless dupes of that "quack of quacks" we are indebted for this hyperbolical effusion?
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia, Sept. 1851.