A. S. A.

Wuzzeerabad.

_Passage in Carlyle._--Carlyle (_French Revolution_, vol. i.), in his

description of the horrors attendant on the death-bed of Louis XV.,

mentions the ghosts of the men "who sank shamefully on so many

battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy harlot might take revenge

for an epigram." Who was the harlot, and what the epigram?

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