Copies of the despatches of L’Hermitage, and, indeed of the despatches of all the ministers and agents employed by the States General in England from the time of Elizabeth downward, now are or will soon be in the library of the British Museum.  For this valuable addition to the great national storehouse of knowledge, the country is chiefly indebted to Lord Palmerston.  But it would be unjust not to add that his instructions were most zealously carried into effect by the late Sir Edward Disbrowe, with the cordial cooperation of the enlightened men who have charge of the noble collection of Archives at the Hague.

FN 457 It is strange that the indictment should not have been printed in Howell’s State Trials.  The copy which is before me was made for Sir James Mackintosh.

FN 458 Most of the information which has come down to us about Anderton’s case will be found in Howell’s State Trials.

FN 459 The Remarks are extant, and deserve to be read.

FN 460 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 461 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 462 There are still extant a handbill addressed to All Gentlemen Seamen that are weary of their Lives; and a ballad accusing the King and Queen of cruelty to the sailors.

“To robbers, thieves, and felons, they
Freely grant pardons every day. 
Only poor seamen, who alone
Do keep them in their father’s throne,
Must have at all no mercy shown.”

Narcissus Luttrell gives an account of the scene at Whitehall.

FN 463 L’Hermitage, Sept. 5/15. 1693; Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 464 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 465 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.  In a pamphlet published at this time, and entitled A Dialogue between Whig and Tory, the Whig alludes to “the public insolences at the Bath upon the late defeat in Flanders.”  The Tory answers, “I know not what some hotheaded drunken men may have said and done at the Bath or elsewhere.”  In the folio Collection of State Tracts, this Dialogue is erroneously said to have been printed about November 1692.

FN 466 The Paper to which I refer is among the Nairne MSS., and will be found in Macpherson’s collection.  That excellent writer Mr. Hallam has, on this subject, fallen into an error of a kind very rare with him.  He says that the name of Caermarthen is perpetually mentioned among those whom James reckoned as his friends.  I believe that the evidence against Caermarthen will be found to begin and to end with the letter of Melfort which I have mentioned.  There is indeed, among the Nairne MSS, which Macpherson printed, an undated and anonymous letter in which Caermarthen is reckoned among the friends of James.  But this letter is altogether undeserving of consideration.  The writer was evidently a silly hotheaded Jacobite, who knew nothing about the situation or character of any of the public men whom he mentioned.  He blunders grossly about Marlborough, Godolphin, Russell, Shrewsbury and the Beaufort family.  Indeed the whole composition is a tissue of absurdities.