We have had an article in our papers that the Empress-queen had desired the King of France to let her have Mesdames de Craon and de la Calmette, ladies of great piety and birth, to form an academy for the young Archduchesses-is there any truth in this? is the Princess to triumph thus at last over Richcourt?  I should be glad.  What a comical genealogy in education! the mistress and mother of twenty children to Duke Leopold, being the pious tutoress to his grand-daughters!  How the old Duchess of Lorrain will shiver in her coffin at the thoughts of it?  Who is la Calmette?  Adieu! my dear child!  You see my spirit of justice:  when I have not writ to you for two months, I punish you with a reparation of six pages!—­had not I better write one line every fortnight?

(322) The memorial will be found in the Gentleman’s Magazine for this year.  In December the park was opened by the King’s order.-E.

(323) Francis Greville, Earl Brooke.

(324) Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr`ebillon, son of the tragic poet of that name, and author of many licentious novels, which are now but little read.  He was born in 1707, and died in 1777.-D. ["The taste for his writings,” says the Edinburgh Reviewers, " passed away very rapidly and completely in France; and long before his death, the author of the Sopha, and Les Egaremens du Coeur et de l’Esprit, had the mortification to be utterly forgotten by the public.”  Vol. xxi. p. 284.]

(325) Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, the author of numerous plays and novels, some of which possess considerable merit.  The peculiar affectation of his style occasioned the invention of the word marivaudage, to express the way of writing of him and his imitators.  He was born in 1688, and died in 1763.-D.

(326) Walpole, in his Anecdotes of Painting, states Liotard to have been an admirable miniature and enamel painter.  At Rome he was taken notice of by the Earl of Sandwich, and by Lord Besborough, then Lord Duncannon.  See Museum Florentinum, vol. x.; where the name of the last mentioned nobleman is spelled Milord D’un Canon.-E.

(327) She was a Miss Strafford.  The perusal of Cr`ebillon’s works inspired her with such a passion for the author, that she ran away from her friends, went to Paris, married him, and nursed and attended him with exemplary tenderness and affection to his dying day.  In reference to this marriage, Lord Byron, in his Observations on Bowles’s Strictures upon Pope, makes the following remark:—­“For my own part, I am of the opinion of Pausanias, that success in love depends upon fortune.  Grimm has an observation of the same kind, on the different destinies of the younger Cr`ebillon and Rousseau.  The former writes a licentious novel, and a young English girl of some fortune runs away, and crosses the sea to marry him; while Rousseau, the most tender and passionate of lovers, is obliged to espouse his chambermaid."-E.

(328) Lord Cholmondoley borrowed great sums of money of various people, under the pretence of a quantity of Genoa damask being arrived for him, and that his banker was out of town, and he must pay for it immediately.  Four persons comparing notes, produced four letters from him in a coffeehouse, in the very same words.