LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 381 



be acquainted, that the book out of which it is 

 taken is pretended to be translated from an 

 English manuscript, with this title*. The In- 

 terests of England mistaken in the present War; 

 and therefore the author expresses himself as in 

 the person, or under the character of an Eng- 

 lishman, though he manifestly appears to be a 

 papist and a Jacobite, but a man of shrewd sense 

 and thorough insight into the affairs of these 

 kingdoms. But it happened that he had little 

 insight into the Archbishop's character or prin- 

 ciples, for otherwise he never would have put 

 such an assertion, backed with such a piece of 



* The character of this book and its author is given by 

 Monsieur Le Clerk, in a letter to the Archbishop from Am- 

 sterdam, April 29, 1704, in these words. 



" Intelligo insilens tuis in manus tuas incidipe virulentam 

 satyram, Gallice conscriptam, non in Anglicam tantum et Bel- 

 gicam gentem sed et in te quoque privatim. Satyrici illius li- 

 belli, quoniam videris ubi editus sit, et a quo nescire, scito au- 

 torem esse pontificium, et nisi vehementer fallor, Anglum ex 

 eis qui aut Duaci aut in Belgio Pontificio alibi degunt et in 

 Gallia ab aliquot annis viscerent. Libellus vero editus est 

 Antwerpiae aut Bruscellis ut facile intelligunt characterum 

 periti, utque ostendit summa quae hie est raritas exemplarium 

 cum in hisce provinciis nuUo modo comporari possint. Quod 

 in inscriptione dicitur esse editus a Georgio Galleto qui fuit 

 ante hac prefectus typographies Huguetanorum, id plane falsum 

 est ; nee Galletus ofRcinam ullam hie habet aut libros ullos 

 vendit. Nomen ejus malique est adhibitum ut tegeretur locus 

 ubi libellus est editus." 



