2°d S. VIII. Dec. 31. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



533 



To the differences between Rogers and Ville- 

 main may be added those in the Pastes Universels, 

 a far more voluminous and important work than 

 those produced by the authors aheady named. 



The consternation into which the monarchs and 

 their ministers were thrown by the arrival of the 

 intelligence that Napoleon had arrived in France 

 is beyond all question, and probably exceeded the 

 graphic description given by your correspondent. 

 But, whether these trembling kings could have 

 despatched " the " three ministers to negociate a 

 treaty with a puny and f\illen foe at Presberg, 

 when the giant-tyrant was raising his head and 

 at every hour additional tidings and dispatches 

 Avere eagerly expected, and to themselves of the 

 last importance ? — or, whether "the" three minis- 

 ters would have wasted their precious time in 

 dallying over a treaty, chiefly on boundaries and 

 titles, which the chances of the war, virtually com- 

 menced, might in a few weeks reduce to a bundle 

 of waste paper, and make their own signatures an 

 irrefragable proof of mispent time? — are proposi- 

 tions it would be difficult to reconcile in the 

 negative, even with the most ordinary political 

 sagacit}'. 



Without trespassing too much upon your space, 

 the following historic facts, coupled with one pi'O- 

 bability, may tend to reconcile the discrepancies 

 of the dates. On the evening of the Uth March 

 intelligence reached Vienna of the arrival of 

 Buonaparte in France {Pastes Universels^^ the 

 ministers hud left, and the dispatches followed 

 them to Presberg. The King of Saxony, hitherto 

 a prisoner in tiie Chateau of Scliewetz, refused to 

 sign the treaty on the 1 1 tli .(^Pastes Universels) ; 

 the ministers return to Vienna, and immediately 

 on their arrival summon a Congress for the next 

 day, the 12th March, as stated by H. N. 



PIenrt D'Aveney. 



Your recent articles upon Napoleon's sudden 

 escape from Elba recall to me a singular story 

 connected with that event, which I have often 

 heard from the lips of the party himself to whom 

 the circumstances occurred. My informant was a 

 late dignitary of the church, and formerly in con- 

 stant personal attendance upon George III. 



A few weeks previous to Napoleon's escape my 

 friend, exhausted with a fatiguing walk on the 

 beach at Brighton, had seated himself one day 

 under the lee of a boat for a short repose. Pre- 

 sently two foreigners, walking from two different 

 directions, met on the other side of the boat. The 

 one had evidently just landed, and the other had 

 met him (in this a secluded part of the beach, 

 where they deemed themselves secure from all 

 listeners) to receive a report of the state of pre- 

 parations on the other side of the water for the 

 execution of some great design. The latter began 

 by asking how things progressed, and was told in 



reply that all was now ready for the " coup ; " 

 that the MInister-at-War had so stationed the 

 regiments on which he could confide, and so 

 completed all arrangements, that there could be 

 no obstruction to the march from the coast to 

 Paris, and that everything being now prepared, 

 the sooner the event came off the better. The 

 parties then separated in different directions 

 (unconscious of the presence of the third party, 

 who all the while had been ensconced under the 

 other side of the boat); the one apparently for 

 re-embarkation ; the other to dispatch intelli- 

 gence to head-quarters at Elba. 



The court or some of the ministers happened to 

 be at Brighton at the time, and my friend without 

 a moment's delay communicated the circumstance 

 to Lord Liverpool and Lord Castlereagh, who 

 treated the whole with ridicule, or pretended to 

 do so, and nothing more was heard of the affair 

 till the papers announced the realisation of all 

 that my friend had overheard. aa. 



THE EARLY EDITIONS OF FOXE S BOOK OP 

 MARTYRS. 



(2"* S. viii. 221. 271. 334. 403. 472.) 



The 1st and 2nd volumes of the edition of 1596 

 are in Enstone church, Oxfordshire. 



The two volumes are bound in one, containing 

 1949 pages besides Index. The whole body of 

 the work is perfect, but the title of vol. i. and 

 a few pages of the Calendar at the beginning, and 

 the Index at the end, are wanting. It is thus en- 

 titled : — 



"The First Volume and the Second Volume of the 

 Ecclesiasticall Histories, contej-ning the Acts and ]Monu- 

 ments of Martyrs, &c. Xewly recognized and inlarged 

 by the Autliour, John Foxe. At Lundon, Printed by 

 Peter Short, dwelling in Bread Street Hill, at the sign 

 of the Starre, Anno Domini lo96." 



In Enstone church there are also several other 

 volumes which I enumerate, but would refer to 

 the "Parochial History" of that parish by the Rev. 

 John Jordan, vicar, for a more particular de- 

 scription of them. 



A volume of treatises on the Roman contro- 

 versy by John White, D.D., &c., containing among 

 others : — 



" A Defence of the Way to the True Church against 

 A. D. his Reply, &c., by John White, Doctor of Divinity ; 

 at London, Imprinted bv Felyx Kyngston for William 

 Barrett, 1G24." 



"The Orthodox Faith and Way to the Churcli Ex- 

 plained and Justified: in answer' to a Popish Treatise 

 entituled White died Blacke. By Francis White, Doctor 

 in Divinity and Deane of Carlisle, elder brother of Doctor 

 John White. Printed at London by John Haviland for 

 William Barret, 1624." 



A volume of sermons by Thomas Adams (title- 

 page and first 250 pages wanting). The whole 



