the Daughter of _Constans d'Aubigny_, Baron of _Surincan_, and of _Joan
de Cardillac_. _Charles d'Aubigny_, Governor of _Berry_, and Knight of
the King's Orders, who died in 1703, was her Brother. Her Grandfather
was _Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigny_, Admiral of _Bretagne_ and _Guienne_,
celebrated for his Zeal for the Protestant Religion, and Author of a
_History of his own Time_, of the _Confession_ of _Saney_, and of the
Baron _de Faneste_. Every body knows, that the Attachment of his Widow
_Scarron_ to Madame _de Montespan_, made her Way to _Lewis_ XIV. who was
so pleas'd with her Humour, that she continued in the highest Favour
till that Monarch's Death; and enjoy'd a Pension of 50,000 Livres, which
was punctually paid her by _Lewis_ XV. every Year as long as she liv'd.
After her Death, the Duke de _Noailles_ became Marquis _de Maintenon_ in
Right of his Wife.
[74] This alludes to a Joke of the President _de Harlai_, who when he
was accosted by the Comedians, in the Name of their _Troop_, which that
worthy Gentleman never car'd for, especially since _Tartuffe_, and the
Comedians saying to him, _My Lord, the_ Company _of Comedians_, &c. The
President made Answer, _Gentlemen_, the Troop _of the Parliament_, &c.
[75] The Author refers here to the Works directed by Mr. BENSON, one of
the present Auditors of the Imprest (for which see p. 67. of the First
Volume of these Memoirs).
[76] The Bottle called the Holy Phial, is kept at _Rheims_, in the Tomb
of St. _Remy_, in the Church of that Name. It has not been filled since
the Coronation of _Clovis_, when 'tis said this Phial was brought from
Heaven, with the Oil with which that first Christian King of _France_
was consecrated; and the Frier who shews it at _Rheims_, says very
seriously, That when the King is sick, it dries away; so that when he
dies, there is not a Drop left in the Bottle; but that as soon as his
Successor is proclaimed, it fills again of its own Accord. I tell you no
more than what I heard with my own Ears, and tho' I could not help
smiling at it, the Frier was not angry. The Liquefaction of this Oil is
altogether as miraculous as that of St. _Januarius_'s Blood at _Naples_.
[77] The Abbé _de Vayrac_ was of a good Family in _Guienne_, and had all
the Vivacity natural to that Province, which stood him in the stead of
Wit; but it was of the abusive Kind. If ever an Author was a Plagiary,
he was. He published a _State_ of _Spain_, and a _State_ of the Empire;
which last brought him under an ignominious Sentence of the Court of
_Vienna_. He had also composed a History of _Portugal_, which he could
not obtain a Licence for Printing, because it appear'd that he had paid
greater Compliments in it to the _Portuguese_, than to the _French_. He
died in the Beginning of the Year 1733, as he returned from a Journey he
had made to _Holland_.
[78] In 1643.
[79] This famous Counsellor was restor'd not long after, at the pressing
Instances of his Brethren, and has merited the Elogiums of the Minister
himself, as well as of all _France_.
[80] _Pucelage_ is the _French_ Word for _Virginity_.
[81] Neither was he included in the Promotion of the four Marshals of
_France_, which the King made in 1734, tho' he had served with great
Bravery ever since the Beginning of the last War between _France_ and
_Germany_.
[82] This Minister pleases them to Perfection. They all like his
Behaviour, and the Diligence with which he dispatches Business. In a
Word, he is beloved and adored.
[83] In _November_ 1736, she was delivered of a Son.
[84] Prince _Christian_ II. Son of the Prince _de la Tour_. He resigned
his Canonship of Cologn, on purpose to serve in the Emperor's Army.
[85] The Marshal _de Zumjungen_ dy'd the 25th of _August_ 1732. The
Count _de Wurmbrand_ commanded till another was appointed.
[86] _Gand_ signifies _Ghent_ in the _German_, and _Glove_ in the
_English_.
[87] He is the Great Great Grandson of Prince _Maurice_, by the Lady _de
Malines_.
[88] The Emperor lately appointed him to relieve the Count _de Sastago_,
Viceroy of _Sicily_, at the Time that Don _Carlos_, King of _Naples_,
went to make a Descent upon _Sicily_, with twenty thousand Men, under
the Command of the Count _de Montemar_, Duke of _Bitonto_.
[89] M. _d'Amerongen_, who is descended of one of the best Families in
the Province of _Utrecht_, having lost his elder Brother, who was in the
Regency, has quitted his Service to succeed him in the Government.
[90] It was burnt quite to the Ground in the Beginning of the Year 1734.
[91] VOL. I. LETTER V.
[92] He succeeded _Francis Lewis_ of _Neubourg_, Elector of _Mentz_, who
was chose Grand Master the 12th of _July_ 1694, In the Room of his
Brother, _Lewis Anthony_ of _Neubourg_; and he is the fourteenth Grand
Master since the Defection of _Prussia_, formerly the Seat of this
Order, which has existed ever since the Year 1190; when it was
instituted in the Holy Land, by _Henry_ King of _Jerusalem_. A Duke of
_Masovia_, having invited to his House _Herman de Salsza_, the fourth
Grand Master of the new Order, chose in 1210, he gave him, and his
Knights, Lands upon the Frontiers of _Prussia_; the Inhabitants whereof
being _Pagans_, did great Mischief to his Subjects, and he promised to
leave them all the Lands that they conquered from those People, which
the Emperor and the Pope confirmed. Before the Year 1250, they took
_Prussia_, _Courland_, and a Part of _Livonia_; and put all the _Pagans_
to Death that refused to turn Christian. The _Teutonic_ Knights, being
driven out of the Holy Land, by the taking of _Acre_, went and
established the principal House of their Order at _Marpurg_, in the
Beginning of the fourteenth Century; from whence they transferred it to
_Marienbourg_ in _Prussia_. The Order made such a rapid Progress, that
in the Beginning of the following Century, it was in a Condition to
oppose _Jagellon_, King of _Poland_, with an Army of eighty-three
thousand Men; which that Prince, _Anno_ 1410, cut in Pieces. After that
time the Order was scarce ever at Peace, but was always at Variance,
either with the _Poles_, or the _Lithuanians_, or with the _Russians_,
or with its own Subjects; till it was obliged to make a dishonourable
Peace in 1446, with _Casimir_ King of _Poland_. The Grand Masters, from
that Time to 1510, when _Albert_ of _Brandenbourg_ was chose Grand
Master, could not repair their Losses. The latter having embraced the
Protestant Religion, made a Bargain in 1515, with the King of _Poland_,
and yielded all _Russia_ to him, on Condition of holding of him in Fee,
what was afterwards called _Ducal Prussia_, or _Brandenbourg Prussia_,
which now forms the Kingdom of _Prussia_; and the rest was incorporated
with _Poland_, and forms the Palatinates of _Culm_, _Marienbourg_, _&c._
Thus were the _Teutonic_ Knights obliged to retire to _Germany_, where
their Order is shared into twelve Provinces, each of which has its
particular Commandeurs; and their oldest Commandeur is called the
Provincial Commandeur. These twelve Commandeurs depend on the Grand
Master, and have a Right to chuse him. The Grand Master's Residence is
at _Marien-shal_ in Franconia, and his Revenue about twenty thousand
Crowns. 'Tis said, the Order does not yet despair, that some Day or
other, it will be able to recover its lost Dominions.
[93] He is dead.
[94] He was Grand Master of the _Teutonic_ Order, Bishop of
_Strasbourg_, _Halberstadt_, _Passau_, _Olenitz_ and _Breslaw_; Abbot of
_Hirchsfeldt_, _Murbach_ and _Luders_.
[95] Nevertheless, he was disgrac'd in 1733, for a very trifling Cause,
which made the Count _de la Lippe_, also, lose all his Employments; and
his own Disgrace has been attended with that of his whole Family, and
with great Alterations at the Elector's Court, where the Count _de
Hohen-Zollern_ is now Grand Master of the Houshold, and First Minister;
and the Baron _de Hornstein_ Great Chamberlain.
[96] He was scarce twenty-eight Years of Age.
[97] The Baron _de Roll_ has succeeded him in his Place.
[98] The Count, who is a Lover of the Sciences, intends to make a
_Lycaum_ of his Castle, and a little _Athens_ of his Town. He begins by
forming a numerous Library, and longs to get the Learned about him. But
the main Point is to make a good Choice of them; and the first Choice
which the Count has made of a Man who has already engrossed his Favour,
does not promise well for the future.
[99] He died in 1734.
[100] On the Road, two Leagues from _Cleves_, there's the Palace of
_Meiland_, where the King of _Prussia_ resided at the Beginning of the
Illness which he contracted in 1734, as he returned from the Imperial
Army on the _Rhine_.
[101] The Name of this Prelate was _Barkman Wuytiers_. He died in 1733,
at no very great Age, with the Character of a Man of the strictest
Virtue. The Court of _Rome_, and the _Jesuits_, conceiv'd great Hopes
after his Death. The latter, after having been banished out of the
United Provinces by very severe Laws; employed the Mediation of a
certain Court to succeed in their Design of getting an Apostolical Vicar
accepted in the Place of the Archbishop of _Utrecht_; but this Design,
which was look'd upon as dangerous to the Liberty of the Republic,
miscarry'd, and the Deceased was succeeded by _Theodore van der Kroon_.
[102] What is said throughout this Article, of their Manner of living,
must be understood only of the common People, and not of Persons of any
distinguished Rank, nor even of the Merchants.
[103] As there is no Dignity superior to that of the Burgomaster, they
who attain to it succeed one another in the several Functions, without
passing to other Employments: They are the Members of the Council, who
are sent to the College of Counsellor-Deputies, or who fill the Posts of
Treasurers, _&c._ But the Burgomasters are they who go to the Assemblies
of the States of the Province, with the Pensionary or Syndic of the
City, who is the Spokesman.
[104] He is since dead.
[105] This Minister was succeeded in 1734, by the Count _d'Uhlefeld_,
Son to the Lady who has the chief Direction of the Houshold to the
Archduchess, Governess of the _Austrian Netherlands_. He is come to a
Post which was so well fill'd before, in a very difficult Juncture,
which has given him an Opportunity to discover the great Talents he has
for Negotiation. As his Family is one of the best regulated, so it may
be said to be one of the most magnificent. The Count _de Sinzendorff_
died suddenly about the End of _September, 1734_, at the Seat of the
Count _d'Asperen_, at the very Instant when he was preparing to return
to _Vienna_.
[106] These Differences were indeed adjusted during the Time that M. _de
Masch_ resided here with a Ministerial Character; but he had no Hand in
the Accommodation, it being negotiated only by M. _Luiscius_ the King's
Resident, and M. _Duncan_, the Prince of _Orange_'s Privy-Counsellor, or
Major-Domo.
[107] Upon the Death of the King of _Poland_, he was confirmed by the
new Elector of _Saxony_.
[108] M. _Preys_. He has resided at the _Hague_ for several Years, and
was here during the Time of the Ambassador _Palmquist_, whom he
Succeeded. He is a Minister of consummate Knowledge in Affairs, and is
consulted by others of a more modern Standing, both with Pleasure and
Profit.
[109] M. _Greys_ has for several Years had the Care, as Envoy
Extraordinary, of the King of Denmark's Interests with the States
General. He was bred up to be a Minister at the Altar, but had more
Inclination to be a Minister of the Cabinet, in which he succeeded, and
is very much esteem'd, but sees very little Company.
[110] This able Minister died in _December, 1736_.
[111] M. _de Keppel_ married the Widow of the late Count _de Welderen_,
one of the greatest Men of this Republic, who left three Sons and five
Daughters, that are the Ornament of the Nobility of _Guelderland_, and
the Darlings of the _Hague_, where Foreigners have an easy and agreeable
Access to this Lady's House. M. _de Keppel_, one of the finest Gentlemen
of his Time, and one of the bravest Officers of the State, died in 1733,
leaving only one Son, who is an Officer in the Horse Guards.
[112] The good Lady died of the Small Pox in 1735 in a very advanced
Age. Tho' she had made a Profession of Devotion for a certain time, she
had not intirely lost her Taste for Gallantry, in which she certainly
out-stripped the Lady _Mazarine_; for she declared herself, that it
would be more easy to number the Shells upon the Shore at _Scheveling_,
than her Adventures of Gallantry. She never missed her Aim but at one
Man, and that was King _Augustus_. She did all she could to engage his
Caresses, if not his Affection, but without Success; and every body
knows the Adventure of my Lord _Raby_, who having an Amour with the
Countess at _Berlin_, surprised her with King _Augustus_ striving to get
loose from her close Embraces. Nor is this a Wonder; for tho' the King
of _Poland_ did not want Gallantry, yet he was for a Woman of some
Politeness, of which the Countess had no Share; for being the Daughter
of a Waterman at _Emmeris_, she had not the completed Education. She had
Beauty indeed, but was in every other respect a coarse Lady.
Nevertheless, during her Residence at the _Hague_, the Youth who had
nothing else to employ their Time, constantly reported to her House, and
among these she had always some favourite Spark. Every body knows her
Intrigues with the famous Count _de F----_; and her Last Will and
Testament has render'd several others immortal. You will be surprised to
know the End of this Woman, who had been so much talked of, who had
regaled so many People in her Time, and to whom every body had easy
Access. She dies, is immediately removed out of her Chamber, and put
into a Coffin in the Entry of her House, which is sealed up, and she is
interred without one of her ungrateful Favourites vouchsafing to attend
her Funeral, or indeed any body but the Bearers, and a few Neighbours,
who were insulted by the Mob.
[113] The Issue of this Dispute betwixt the Jew and the Anabaptist has
been, that the latter has lost the Day, the Comedians being gone. The
victorious Jew has hit upon an Expedient to metamorphose his future
Opera into a public Concert, which he gives every _Monday_ in the
Afternoon, where one sees all the People of Fashion of both Sexes; and
there they sing Opera Acts, and the finest _French_ Cantatas.
[114] Of the latter, there died a Baron in _December_, 1736, who was one
of the principal Men, and held the greatest Offices of any in the
Republic, next to the Grand Pensionary _Slingeland_, whom he survived
but a few Days.
[115] M. _de Wassenaar-Twickel_, a Name which he derives from a fine
Estate in the Province of _Over-Yssel_, of which he is Deputy.
[116] _William Charles Henry Friso_, Prince of _Orange_, was married
_March_ 14. 1734. to the Princess Royal of _Great Britain_.
[117] The Count _d'Auverquerque_ died Velt-Marshal of the Republic,
about the End of the Campaign of 1708.
[118] As the History of this extraordinary Man came to the Hands of the
Bookseller since the Publication of the first Edition, he thought he
should do a Pleasure to the Public, by inserting it in this.
[119] He was executed in _July_, 1734.
[120] Or the _Palace of Orange_ in the Wood at the _Hague_. It was
yielded to the Prince of _Orange_ by his Treaty of Partition with the
King of _Prussia_.
[121] _Margaret_, Daughter of _Florence_ IV. Count of _Holland_. She was
Countess of _Henneberg_.
[122] This belongs also to the Prince of _Orange_.
[123] This is an ignominious Punishment inflicted Abroad for such
heinous Offences at deserve neither Banishment, nor Whipping, nor Death.
The Criminal who suffers it, stands in a Shirt, with a Rope about the
Neck, holding a burning Taper in one Hand, attended by the Executioner,
and other inferior Officers of Justice, and in this Posture begs Pardon
of the King, of Justice, and the Public, for the Offence committed.
[124] This most Excellent Princess departed this Life the 20th of _Nov._
1737, to the infinite Regret of the King and Kingdom.
[125] His Governor is the Hon. _Stephen Poyntz_, Esq; and his Preceptor
in the learned Languages _Jenkin Thomas Philips_, Esq; formerly
Secretary to the Commissioners for the Fifty New Churches, and since
preferr'd to be his Majesty's Historiographer.
[126] Her Royal Highness, as is well known, is since married to the
Prince of _Orange_.
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7 the Condu ctof[Conduct of] the Popes,
8 not a Man spoke a Work[Word].
9 in a Posture of Astonish mentat[Astonishment at] the Appearance
17 proclaimed Pope on _Wedcesday[Wednesday]_ the 12th
20 After this, th y[they] went all, both Cardinals and Prelates
87 {footnote} _Sebastian_ was Grandon[Grandson] of _John_ III.
110 intituled[intitled] Captain of the Appeals;
122 chief Lackeys of the Cardinals rideing[riding]
202 the famous Story of _Maria Aliacoque[Alacoque]_, a celebrated
208 as she allighted[alighted] from the Coach,
222 Assistance from the King his Maste[Master]:
225 {footnote} Et lui southaite[souhaite] un bon voyage.
229 intent upon carrrying[carrying] his Point,
232 Count _Sinzendorf's[Sinzendorff's]_ coming from _Vienna_
244 a Madness which was co-temporary[contemporary],
264 After her Death, the Duke de _Noalies[Noailles]_ became
292 General of the Coriers[Couriers], Posts and Relays
294 about their Master's Preeminency[Pre-eminency].
309 and lives very handsomly[handsomely],
309 but lives handsomly[handsomely] upon what he has
313 The Inhabitants have a livid unwholsome[unwholesome] Complexion.
351 His Disbursments[Disbursements] seem to me to be very moderate
359 _Paul Veronese_, _Tintoret_, _Corregio[Correggio]_,
376 are commonly employed as Tresurers[Treasurers] of the City,
389 and the _Amsterdamers[Amsterdammers]_ themselves cannot
419 a young Man of an unblamable[unblameable] Behaviour;
425 of the _Franche Comte[Comté]_. The Republic
443 that of being sollicited[solicited] by the Person in Disgrace
Index _Churchil[Churchill], Arabella_, 257.
Index Womens Houses, and the great Emoluments of Gameing[Gaming],
Index _Hagendorp[Hogendorp]_, M. 413.
Index _Lewid'ors[Lewis d'Ors]_, worn in a Lady's Ears for Pendants
Index _Peyronie[Peyrome]_, _la_, Surgeon, 292.
Index _Popes_, the Days on which he[the] Cardinals kiss
Index _Rochebone[Rochebonne]_, M. Archbishop of _Lyons_, 174, 176.
Index _Terasson[Terrasson]_, Abbé, 243.
Index _Tintorit[Tintoret]_, Painter, 359.
Index _Tourlane[Touraine], la_, 216.
Index _Walpot[Walpol]_, Baron _de_, 350.
Index His Conduct in the _Cevennios[Cevennois]_ and in
Index _Wassienaurs[Wassenaars]_, of _Holland_, 412.
Index _William_ l. Pr. of _Orange_'s Assasination[Assassination], 425.
Index Disputes adjusted relateing[relating] to his Succession,
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