l*jg2' life of yohn eairlof Buchan^ . ^ 



chieftans in the wars with England. These troops 

 were landed at Rochelle, early in the summer of that 

 year ; and soon after proceeded to the aid of the dau- 

 phin, who had been lately deceived by the pretended 

 reconciliation of the duke of Burgundy at Pauilly 

 le Fort, A truce soon succeeded by the renewal of 

 hostilities by Henry v. 



It would exceed the limits of your journal, fbould 

 J here enter into a detail of the circumstances, not 

 lefs interesting in themselves than characteristic of 

 the times, which happened at the interview between 

 the dauphin and the duke of Burgundy at Pouilly, . 

 and the conference at Montereetu, where the duke, 

 from an accidental mistake, was cruelly afsaGinated* . 

 Nor would many of your readers be deeply interest- 

 ' ed in the political struggles of that kingdom at a pe- 

 riod now so distant. It is only necefsary to say that 

 this afsafsination proved highly detrimental to the in- 

 terests of the dauphin. It served to unite the prin- 

 cipal cities against him, and in favours of Henry v. 

 of England, whose son, in place af the dauphin, was- 

 acknowledged to be the presumptive heir to the crowB 

 of France, which was the cause of those unfortunate 

 wars that rendered both countries miserable for a 

 long time ; and happily terminated at last in the 

 total expulsion o£ the Englifhi from that king.dom, 

 and a total relinquilhment, on our own part, of all 

 claims, uniefs it be to retain the empty title of king, 

 of France, which we still, absurdly enough, continue 

 to adopt. 



As it was in these struggles that the earl of Buchan 

 ctistinguiihcil himself, so much of the history oolj; 



