1827.] 



Domestic and Foreign. 



529 



said is Dr. Roche, and his authorities, 

 make nothing-. Mr. Younge is quoted as 

 calling " deep-breasted," a most disagree- 

 able image, and to be sure it is, if it mean 

 hanging like an Hottentot's. But really 

 so fond as he is of accumulating names, 

 he might have made room for the Bishop 

 of Chester's, whose opinion is at least as 

 much entitled to attention as most of those 

 he enumerates. We have not Dr. Bloom- 

 field's books at hand, but he thinks, if we 

 recollect rightly, /3a^t/^wvo;, and ^a-%xoX9ro?, 

 have pretty much the some meaning 

 whether correctly or not is not to the 

 purpose and that meaning he expresses, 

 as a mantua-maker might, long-waisted. 



We must now leave the book the good 

 and the bad for those who have more 

 patience, and more learning than our- 

 selves. 



The Glorious Recovery by the Vaudois 

 of their Valleys, by Henry Arnaud 

 Edited by H. D. Acland; 1827. Mr. 

 Sims, Mr. Gilly, and Mr. Acland himself 

 may, by their several publications, be 

 thought to have exhausted the subject of 

 the Vaudois ; but Mr. Acland has, how- 

 ever, produced another goodly octavo - 

 aided by the common arts of book-making 

 not that the volume before us is alto- 

 gether superfluous, but it inclines us to 

 murmur a little, because it plainly is not 

 conclusive. Another book becomes indis- 

 pensable to put the whole mass of scat- 

 tered information iuto something like 

 order. 



Mr. Jones's History stops at the expul- 

 tion of the Vaudois in 1686 he being un- 

 able to trace them and their history any 

 farther. The present occupants of the 

 Valleys he considers to be a new race 

 not descended from the ancient posses- 

 sors ; but he grounds his opinion not on 

 historical facts, but on some fanciful in- 

 terpretation of the Apocalypse, and on an 

 assumed difference in the tenets of the 

 ancient and modern Vaudois. Arguments 

 of this kind, however, will satisfy few 

 readers now-a-days. The facts of the 

 expulsion of the Vaudois in 1686, and of 

 their return, or at least of a considerable 

 number, in 1689, are as well established 

 as any historical matter can well be by 

 cotemporary authority and uninterrupted 

 tradition. 



A narrative actually exists, written by 

 Henry Arnaud, the chief pastor of the 

 Vaudois, and the military leader of the 

 enterprize, in which they recovered pos- 

 session of their old quarters. This narra- 

 tive Mr. Acland has translated and re- 

 published, preceded by a sketch of their 

 history, by himself, from Claude of Turin, 

 professedly, to the expulsion, in 1686, by 

 the Duke of Savoy, but in reality stop- 

 ping short at 1664. Arnaud's narrative 

 M.M. New Series. VOL. IV. No. 23. 



of the rentree glorieuse," is followed by 

 another sketch of their subsequent his- 

 tory to the present time. So that this 

 volume which, one way or other, was to 

 exhibit a view, more or less detached, of 

 their whole history, after all leaves out 

 this conspicuous event, and we must refer 

 for it to other volumes particularly to 

 one Boyer's work, which was, it seems, 

 translated and abridged by a person of 

 quality, 1692. 



To that work Henri Arnand himself ap- 

 parently refers, and states: 



That the able author has exposed the cruelties 

 )> which 14,000 Vaudois, imprisoned, in violation 

 of the written promise of a prince of the house of 

 Savoy, were reduced to a remnant of 3,000, who, 

 more like spectres than men, were at last released 

 by his royal highness of Savoy, and allowed to re- 

 tire to Switzerland only in virtue of a treaty with, 

 the Protestant cantons. He has also so feelingly 

 painted the arrival of these moving skeletons at 

 Geneva, that I feel grateful for being spared a de- 

 scription which I could not have dwelt on without 

 abandoning myself too much to grief. The Gene- 

 vese vied with each other in taking to their houses 

 the most wretched of these exi'es, and carried 

 many of them in their arms from the frontier, 

 where they went to meet them. Some arrived only 

 to die, and others scarcely in time to be susceptible 

 of assistance. These were put in a state to follow 

 their countrymen who had previously been reco- 

 vered, and who, after being clothed according to 

 their wants, had already proceeded to Switzerland, 

 in performance, on their part, of a treaty, many 

 articles of which had been violated towards them. 



In February 1687, they had all arrived 

 in the Swiss Protestant cantons, chiefly in 

 that of Berne, where subsistence was 

 kindly afforded them. But, restless, and 

 pining for home again, they made two un- 

 successful attempts to return, the last of 

 which was productive of almost fatal con- 

 sequences to their wishes. The Duke of 

 Savoy was put on his guard, and augment- 

 ed his garrisons-, and the Bernois, to ex- 

 culpate themselves from the charge of aid- 

 ing the attempt, compelled them to quit 

 the canton. A proposal was made to them 

 to emigrate to Brandeburgh; but, still 

 holding to their resolution of returning to 

 their vallies, they objected to the distance. 



At length they embarked on the Aar 

 for Zurich and Schaffhausen, intending, 

 some of them, to go onward to Wirtena- 

 berg, where a grant of lands had been, 

 made them. Unwilling, however, to sepa- 

 rate, they solicited permission to winter 

 (1687-8) in Zurich and Schaffhausen, and 

 obtained it chiefly by the interposition of 

 the Genevese, and the protection of Eng- 

 land and Holland, from the latter of which 

 countries they received 92,000 crowns. 

 But this sum would not last for ever ; and 

 the poor Vaudois were again urged to ac- 

 cept the offers of the Elector of Brand -n- 

 burgh, which they peremptorily refused. 

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