e Genoese and Venetians. Those, who seek for
information on the subject, should consult the _Dissertation of
Bynkershook de Dominio Maris_, and note 61 to the recent edition of Sir
Edward Coke's Commentary upon Littleton.]

[Footnote 013: "Mais, dites vous, dans ce tems meme, le jeune Pison
pouvolt avoir dix ans: Grotius faisoit bien des vers a cet age. Je le
scais, mais les Grotius sont ils bien commune! combien d'enfans
trouveres vous de dix ans, qui ayent nonseulement assez du feu pour
faire des vers, mais encore assez de jugement pour en juger sainement."
Gibbon's Posthumous Works, 8vo. vol. i. p. 520.--"Salmasius," says Mr.
Gibbon in another part of the same entertaining publication, (vol. v. p.
209), "had read as much as Grotius; but their different modes of reading
had made the one an enlighten'd philosopher; and the other, to speak
plainly, a pedant puffed up with an useless erudition."]

[Footnote 014: Bentivoglio, Histoire des Guerres de Flandres, l,
xxviii.]

[Footnote 015: _Bella plusquam civilia._ Lucan.]

[Footnote 016: Those who wish to obtain a clear, concise, and exact
notion of Calvinism and Arminianism, will usefully peruse the account of
them in Mr. Evans's "_Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian
World_." The thirteenth Edition is now before us, and we believe that it
has been often since reprinted.]

[Footnote 017: Mosheim's Ecc. Hist. Cent. xvi, ch. 2. Sec. 3. part 2.]

[Footnote 018: Chalmer's Biographical Dictionary, Title "Arminius."]

[Footnote 019: A short and clear account of Arminianism is given by Le
Clere, in his Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, Vol. II. Art. 3. p.
123.]

[Footnote 020: The best discussion of this subject, which has fallen
into the hands of the writer, is Bourduloue's Sermon _sur la
Predestination_.]

[Footnote 021: English Translation of Burigni's Life of Grotius, pp. 43,
44, 45.]

[Footnote 022: Vol. i.]

[Footnote 023: _Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton, during his
Embassy in Holland, from January 1615-16[**Modern presentation.] to
December 1620. London, 1757, p. 84_,--Sir Dudley Carleton's Letters
abound with harsh expressions respecting Grotius. The Editor of this
correspondence has inserted (p. 415) a letter from Grotius to Dr.
Lancelot Andrews, written from the Castle at Louvestein. "This letter,"
says the Editor, "which was never printed before, deserves a place here,
not only for its elegance and spirit, and its connection with the
sub