from the great French writer, the high minister of State, the
patron of historical letters for half-a-century in France,
the Protestant Guizot.

M. GUIZOT to the DEAN.

Paris, ce 7 Fevrier 1870,

10 Rue Billault.

Sir--Je m'associerai avec un vrai et serieux plaisir a
l'erection d'une statue en l'honneur du Dr. Chalmers. Il n'y
a point de theologien ni de moraliste Chretien a qui je porte
une plus haute estime. Sur quelques unes des grandes
questions qu' il a traitees, je ne partage pas ses opinions;
mais j'honore et j'admire l'elevation, la vigueur de sa
pense, et la beaute morale de son genie. Je vous prie,
Monsieur, de me compter parmi les hommes qui se feliciteront
de pouvoir lui rendre un solennel hommage, et je vous
remercie d'avoir pense a moi dans ce dessein.

Recevez l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingues.

GUIZOT.

Mr. E.B. Ramsay, Dean, etc., 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh,
North Britain.

Some of Mr. Gladstone's letters, already printed, show that they were
not the beginning of the correspondence between him and the Dean. The
accident which made them acquainted will be mentioned afterwards
(p. lxxxi.)

Right Hon. W.E. GLADSTONE to DEAN RAMSAY.

Hawarden Castle, Chester,

Jan. 3, 1870.

My dear Dean Ramsay--I send you my rather shabby contribution
of L10 to the Chalmers' Memorial. I wish it were more, but I
am rather specially pressed at this time; and I think I
refused Robert Bruce altogether not long ago.

I quite understand the feeling of the Scotch aristocracy,
but I should have thought Lothian would be apart from, as
well as above it.

But the number of subscriptions is the main thing, and very
many they ought to be if Scotland is Scotland still. He was
one of Nature's nobles. It is impossible even to dream that a
base or unworthy thought ever found harbour for a moment
in his mind.

Is it not extraordinary to see this rain of Bishoprics upon
_my_ head? Nor (I think) is it over; the next twelvemonth
(wherever I may be at the end of it) will, I think, probably
produce three more.

Bishop Temple is a fine fellow, and I hope all will now go
well. For Manchester (this is secret) I hope to have Mr.
Fraser of Clifton--a very notable man, in the first rank of
knowledge an