1792. of cardinal Dubois. 117s 
It is very singular that the regent fliould have 
loaded with favours and dignities the person whom no 
body else could suffer, and whose death he himself 
wifhed for, that he fhould have taken into the coun- 
cil, him with whom the dukes and mareschals of 
France would not afsociate. He must have been a 
statesman, despicable as he. was. To be. at the 
height of greatnefs he only wanted the blué ribbon 
of the Beaux esprits. The French. academy: gave it 
him ; and Fontenelle, the-philosopher Fontenelle! af- 
sured:him, in his discourse in the name of his bre- 
thren, that the titles he brought them appeared to . 
them greater than all others. 
‘ Praises, as well as honours, distrefsed the cardinal, ’. 
who, never having tasted the pleasures of humanity, 
and always experienced the torments of ambition, 
said at last; I wifh I were.at Paris-in my fifth year, 
with a governe/s and five hundred crowns of rent. 
This confefsion is the best lefson and the best-remedy 
to give to those magnificent slaves who have the 
fever of kings. 
‘Death relieved him sooner than he wifbed from 
the weight of greatnefs. He had a great deal ta suf- 
fer in his last illnefs, both from surgeons and his 
conscience.. The church could have given him some 
consolation, but he lost his time in getting: informa- 
tion about the ceremony which ought to be observed. 
in administering to a.cardinal. 
‘His mausoleum in, the church of St Honoré, at 
Paris, is one of the masterpieces of the young Coston. 
Et didicere, yt nos, marmora falsa loqui. 
