The editor of the Monthly Mercury maintains that it was manufactured at Paris.  “To think otherwise,” he says, “is mere folly; as if Luxemburg could be at so much leisure to write such a long letter, more like a pedant than a general, or rather the monitor of a school, giving an account to his master how the rest of the boys behaved themselves.”  In the Monthly Mercury will be found also the French official list of killed and wounded.  Of all the accounts of the battle that which seems to me the best is in the Memoirs of Feuquieres.  It is illustrated by a map.  Feuquieres divides his praise and blame very fairly between the generals.  The traditions of the English mess tables have been preserved by Sterne, who was brought up at the knees of old soldiers of William. “’There was Cutts’s’ continued the Corporal, clapping the forefinger of his right hand upon the thumb of his left, and counting round his hand; ’there was Cutts’s, Mackay’s Angus’s, Graham’s and Leven’s, all cut to pieces; and so had the English Lifeguards too, had it not been for some regiments on the right, who marched up boldly to their relief, and received the enemy’s fire in their faces before any one of their own platoons discharged a musket.  They’ll go to heaven for it,’ added Trim.”

FN 313 Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.

FN 314 Langhorne, the chief lay agent of the Jesuits in England, always, as he owned to Tillotson, selected tools on this principle.  Burnet, i. 230.

FN 315 I have taken the history of Grandval’s plot chiefly from Grandval’s own confession.  I have not mentioned Madame de Maintenon, because Grandval, in his confession, did not mention her.  The accusation brought against her rests solely on the authority of Dumont.  See also a True Account of the horrid Conspiracy against the Life of His most Sacred Majesty William iii. 1692; Reflections upon the late horrid Conspiracy contrived by some of the French Court to murder His Majesty in Flanders 1692:  Burnet, ii. 92.; Vernon’s letters from the camp to Colt, published by Tindal; the London Gazette, Aug, 11.  The Paris Gazette contains not one word on the subject,—­a most significant silence.

FN 316 London Gazette, Oct. 20. 24. 1692.

FN 317 See his report in Burchett.

FN 318 London Gazette, July 28. 1692.  See the resolutions of the Council of War in Burchett.  In a letter to Nottingham, dated July 10, Russell says, “Six weeks will near conclude what we call summer.”  Lords Journals, Dec. 19. 1692.

FN 319 Monthly Mercury, Aug. and Sept. 1692.

FN 320 Evelyn’s Diary, July 25. 1692; Burnet, ii. 94, 95., and Lord Dartmouth’s Note.  The history of the quarrel between Russell and Nottingham will be best learned from the Parliamentary Journals and Debates of the Session of 1692/3.

FN 321 Commons’ Journals, Nov. 19. 1692; Burnet, ii. 95.; Grey’s Debates, Nov. 21. 1692; Paris Gazettes of August and September; Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary, Sept.