e Corporal,
clapping the forefinger of his right hand upon the thumb of his left,
and counting round his hand; 'there was Cutts's, Mackay's Angus's,
Graham's and Leven's, all cut to pieces; and so had the English
Lifeguards too, had it not been for some regiments on the right, who
marched up boldly to their relief, and received the enemy's fire in
their faces before any one of their own platoons discharged a musket.
They'll go to heaven for it,' added Trim."]

[Footnote 313: Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.]

[Footnote 314: Langhorne, the chief lay agent of the Jesuits in England,
always, as he owned to Tillotson, selected tools on this principle.
Burnet, i. 230.]

[Footnote 315: I have taken the history of Grandval's plot chiefly from
Grandval's own confession. I have not mentioned Madame de Maintenon,
because Grandval, in his confession, did not mention her. The accusation
brought against her rests solely on the authority of Dumont. See also
a True Account of the horrid Conspiracy against the Life of His most
Sacred Majesty William III. 1692; Reflections upon the late horrid
Conspiracy contrived by some of the French Court to murder His Majesty
in Flanders 1692: Burnet, ii. 92.; Vernon's letters from the camp
to Colt, published by Tindal; the London Gazette, Aug, 11. The Paris
Gazette contains not one word on the subject,--a most significant
silence.]

[Footnote 316: London Gazette, Oct. 20. 24. 1692.]

[Footnote 317: See his report in Burchett.]

[Footnote 318: London Gazette, July 28. 1692. See the resolutions of the
Council of War in Burchett. In a letter to Nottingham, dated July 10,
Russell says, "Six weeks will near conclude what we call summer." Lords
Journals, Dec. 19. 1692.]

[Footnote 319: Monthly Mercury, Aug. and Sept. 1692.]

[Footnote 320: Evelyn's Diary, July 25. 1692; Burnet, ii. 94, 95., and
Lord Dartmouth's Note. The history of the quarrel between Russell and
Nottingham will be best learned from the Parliamentary Journals and
Debates of the Session of 1692/3.]

[Footnote 321: Commons' Journals, Nov. 19. 1692; Burnet, ii. 95.;
Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. 1692; Paris Gazettes of August and September;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Sept.]

[Footnote 322: See Bart's Letters of Nobility, and the Paris Gazettes of
the autumn of 1692.]

[Footnote 323: Memoires de Du Guay Trouin.]

[Footnote 324: London Gazette, Aug. 11. 1692; Evelyn's Diary, Aug.
10.; Monthly Mercury for September; A Full Account of