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‘Malo accepto stultus sapit. At fœliciter is sapit: qui alieno periculo sapit.’ Dated at Strasbourg.

(Engraved by John Sturt.)

(Probably from an edition of The Christians Defence against the Fears of Death issued in 1720. The True Relation is attributed to Daniel Defoe.)

‘Æternitatem Cogita.’ Text in Hebrew. ‘S[ymbolum]. T.A.N.D.E.M.’ Dated at Frankfurt am Main.

‘In solo Domini Verbo sapienta vera: | In solo Christi merito fiducia vera: | In solo Coelo vita est et patria vera.’ (Johann Ernst Gerhard.) Dated at Altdorf.

(Illustration engraved by V. O. from a drawing by M.B., 1700.)

‘Si in necessariis veritas, in non-necessariis libertas, in omnibus charitas sit, Ecclesiæ vulnera sanarentur.’ (Rupertus Meldenius, etc.) Dated at Ratisbon (Regensburg).

‘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.)

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

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

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

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Transcript

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.

‘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’.