Hoxton.
_Dutensiana_ (Vol. vi., p. 376.; Vol. vii., p. 26.).--The following
statement, extracted from Quérard's _France Littéraire_, sub voce
Dutens, will account for the discrepancies mentioned by your
correspondents with reference to the works of Louis Dutens.
Dutens published three volumes of _Memoirs_, which he afterwards
committed to the flames, out of consideration for certain living
characters. He then published, in three volumes, his _Mémoires d'un
Voyageur qui se repose_, the two first containing the author's life, and
the third being the _Dutensiana_.
Your correspondent W. (Vol. vi., p. 376.) says that Dutens published at
Geneva, in six volumes 4to., with prefaces, the entire works of
Leibnitz. This statement is thus qualified by the _Biographie
Universelle_:
"L. Dutens est l'Editeur de _Leibnitii opera omnia_, mais c'est
à tort que quelques bibliographes lui attribuent les
_Institutions Leibnitiennes_. Cet ouvrage est de l'Abbé
Sigorgne."
The same correspondent inquires whether Dutens was not also the author
of _Correspondence inteceptée_: and SIR W. C. TREVELYAN (Vol. vii., p.
26.) says he had seen a presentation copy of it, although it is not
included in the list of Dutens' _Works_ given by Lowndes.
This is explained by the fact that the work, originally published under
the title of _Correspondence interceptée_, was afterwards embodied in
the _Mémoires d'un Voyageur_. Lowndes seems to have had no knowledge of
it as a separate publication.