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‘Omne facile contemnit, qui seriose moriturum cogitat.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

(Engraved by J. Wallis from a drawing by William Marshall Craig. Captioned ‘Christian rising to glory by faith in the Cross, notwithstanding the fierce attack of evil Spirits.’ Engraving published Aug. 1804(?). The last figure of the year is indistinct.)

(Engraved by Edwards from a drawing by Craig.)

‘Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.’ (Ecclesiastes, i. 2 and xii. 8.) Dated at Strasbourg.

‘Semita certè, tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ.’ (Juvenal, Satires, x. 363–4.) Dated at Berlin. Numbered 125.

‘In mundo spes nulla boni, spes nulla salutis, | Una salus servire DEO, sunt cetera fraudes.’ Dated at Halle.

(Below the illustration is a dedication to George, Prince of Wales.)

Message only, addressed to Jacob Thom. Dated at Giessen.

‘Nihil homini Amico est oportuno [sic] amicius.’ (Plautus.) Six lines, beginning ‘Dieß bruder was Ich dier hier Freundlich im geschrieben’(?). ‘Symb. | Altissimus Refugium Meum. | A[…] Jesu Christ | Dennoch du Meine Zuflucht bist.’ Dated at Strasbourg.

(Engraved by I. (Isaac?) Taylor from a drawing by Craig. Engraving published by C. Brightly, May 1810. The illustration represents a dead man, lying by a toothed wheel, draped with a sheet, and a X-shaped cross. In the background are other dead figures and a crucifix.)

(Dated at Paris. Signed by Fulchiron as président.)

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Les Commissaires particuliers de l’emprunt contre l’angleterre
Au Citoyen Ministre de finances

Citoyen Ministre

Nous avons l’honneur de vous prevenir que nous Sommes Sans réponse à diverses lettres que nous avons eu l’honneur de vous écrire, notamment à celle par laquelles nous vous Soumettions nôtre plan d’organisation, le mode que nous avions établi pour recevoir des postes, le plan de verser à la Caisse d’escompte le produit de l’emprunt, d’en faire valoir les fonds au proffet de la chose. la nécessité que le tresor recut le sols des {1} Postes ne pouvant rien faire jusqu’à ceque nous ayons vôtre autorisation. nous avons suspendu nos Séances, jusqu’à ceque nous connoissions vos intention.

Nous sommes avec respect
Citoyen Ministre
Fulchiron
president

paris 7 floréal 6

[Superscription:] Cabinet du Ministre. | Au Citoyen | Ministre de finances | Paris

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{1} ‘recut le sols des’: probable reading.

Honfleur.—Gives a detailed account of the capture of Commodore Sidney Smith.

(Dated 30 Germinal, an 4. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

‘Te Amsteldam, by Jan ’t Lam, Boekverkooper bezuyden ’t Stadhuys, naer de Copy van London.’ Published by T. Cooper at the Globe, Paternoster Row. Subscribed with an explanation of the illustration in French and Dutch. Undated.

A having made some progress in translating the Memoires of the Cardinal de Retz, and B having purchased a complete translation of the same from another hand, B obliges himself to deliver to A fifty copies of the said translation in quires as soon as it is printed, in consideration whereof A agrees not to publish a translation of the same work and will pay for twenty-five of the books he receives ‘after the rate of paper and print’.

(Engraved by Matthäus Merian the elder. The name ‘R M Massey S R S’ is written by the title, with the date 1718.)

Motto: ‘Intermissæ Venus diu | Rursus Bella Moves. | Hor: ad Venerem | Od: 1ma. Lib: 4’. First line: ‘My little Lodge! tease me no more’. The anonymous author describes himself as being fifty-five years of age. References to Lord and Lady Hervey and to Fanny Feilding suggest that the lines were composed between 1723 and 1729.

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Intermissæ Venus diu
Rursus {1} Bella moves.—

Hor: ad Venerem
Od: 1ma. Lib: 4

Edgecombe | to Mother Lodge {2}

1
My little Lodge! tease me no more
With promise of the finest Whore
That Condom e’re was stuck in:
Give Younger Men the Beauteous dame
Alas I’m past the amourous Flame
And must have done with F—ing

2
I’m not that Hero once you knew
When I the Tygress did Subdue
By Noble Feats of Vigor;
Why shou’d I now pretend to swive {3}
Mother, you know at fifty five
A Man can only Fr–g Her

3
Go to Sr. Paul that vigorous Knight
Equal in F—ing or in Fight;
Ready for each Encounter;
He can a Lady’s Cause defend
In Senates, when she needs a Friend,
Or he in Bed can mount her

4
He says an hundred tender things,
Is Generous, & gives Ruby Rings,
In Prowess never wanting:
To Opera’s He’ll take the Jades,
And F–ck them too—at Masquerades
Three times without disc–nting.

5
But Lodge, Cold Customers like me
Entirely lost to Gallantry,
I fear wou’d quickly Starve You;
I value not who’ere I toast,
Nor care a Rush which pleases most
Or Lord or Ly. Her—y

6
And yet what means my faultring Tongue,
Again I sigh, again am Young,
In dreams I found her yeilding:
Oh! were she so, in day time too,
Still cou’d I dangle still pursue,
My Charming Fanny Feilding {4}.

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{1} MS ‘Russus’, with ‘r’ added above the first ‘s’.

{2} Sally Lodge, a brothel-keeper, known as Mother Lodge. See A Genuine Epistle … to the late famous Mother Lodge (1735).

{3} MS ‘swire’, with ‘r’ underlined and ‘? v.’ in the margin.

{4} Probably Lady Fanny Feilding, daughter of the 4th Earl of Denbigh, who was said to have been ‘distinguished for her beauty and amiable manners’. She married Daniel, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham, in 1729 and died in 1734. See The Works of the English Poets, ed. A. Chalmers (1810), xvii. 589.

Numbered 9.

‘Nemo confidat nimium secundes: | Nemo desperet meliora lapsus.’ (Seneca.) Dated at Leipzig. Addressed to (Elias) Silberrad. Numbered 417.

(A printed form, filled up by hand.)

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[In the margin:] Brydges against Wilson

Let the Plaintiffs Attorney or Agent attend me in my Chambers in Serjeants Inn tomorrow at 6— of the Clock in the Evening to shew Cause why he should not deliver to the Defendants Attorney the Particulars in Writing of the Plaintiffs Demand for which this Action is brought and why all Proceedings should not be in the mean Time stayed Dated the 15th day of June 1814

Ellenborough

[In the margin:] Foulkes

[Endorsed:] Brydges v Wilson Summons for Particulars | Received as dated WHB

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Abbreviations have been expanded silently.