l, was accused of having
invited one Abraham Payba, alias James Roberts, a Jew, to dine with them
at Paris, in the year 1751; and of having plied him with wine till he
became intoxicated, and so lost at play the sum of 800 louis d'ors. It
was affirmed that they subsequently called at his house, and that on
his exhibiting an evident disinclination to satisfy their demands,
they threatened to cut him across the face with their swords unless he
instantly paid them. Terrified by their violence, and, at the same time,
unwilling to part with his gold, the Jew had cunning enough to give them
drafts on a Paris banker, by whom, as he had no dealings with him,
he well knew that his bills would be dishonoured; and, to escape the
vengeance of those whom he had outwitted, quitted Paris. On ascertaining
how completely they had been duped, Montagu, with his associates
Lords Taffe and Southwell, repaired to the house of the Jew, and after
ransacking his drawers and strong boxes, are said to have possessed
themselves of a very considerable sum of money, in addition to diamonds,
jewels, and other valuable articles. The Jew had it now in his power to
turn on his persecutors, and accordingly he appealed to the legislature
for redress. Lord Southwell contrived to effect his escape, but Lord
Taffe and Montagu were arrested, and were kept in separate dungeons in
the Grand Chatelet, for nearly three months. The case was subsequently
tried in a court of law, and decided in favour of the accused,--the
Jew being adjudged to make reparation and defray the costs! Against the
injustice of this sentence he appealed to the high court of La Tournelle
at Paris, which reversed it. Lord Taffe and Montagu afterwards appealed,
in their turn, but of the definitive result there is no record.

DR WILLIAM DODD.

Le Sage, in his 'Gil Blas,' says that 'the devil has a particular
spite against private tutors;' and he might have added, against popular
preachers. By popular preachers I do not mean such grand old things as
Bossuet, Massillon, and Bourdaloue. All such men were proof against the
fiery darts of the infernal tempter. From their earliest days they had
been trained to live up to the Non nobis Domine, 'Not unto us, O Lord,
but unto thy name, give glory.' All of them had only at heart the glory
of their church-cause; though, of course, the Jesuit Bourdaloue worked
also for his great Order, then culminating in glory.

The last-named, too, was another La Fon