534 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



engaged in the manufacture and circulation of forged assignats. The 

 Secretary-at-War thus addresses the Governor, from the Horse Guards, 

 26th October, 1794. " Sir : Some unpleasant occurrences which have 

 lately happened on that part of the coast of Brittany on which persons 

 sent from Jersey have been landed, with a view of establishing a 

 communication with the Royalists in the interior of France, render 

 it absolutely necessary that you should not permit or authorize any 

 person whatever to embark from Jersey with a design of proceeding 

 to France, and particularly to that part of the coast which I have 

 described, unless you shall hereafter receive from me directions con- 

 trary to those of this dispatch, to which in the present state of affairs 

 I must request you will pay immediate and particular attention. One 

 reason in particular which induces me to urge this precaution is, that 

 I have reason to believe an intercourse has lately been established 

 between Jersey and the coast for the sale and distribution of forged 

 Assignats. The parties concerned in this speculation will of course 

 make every exertion to prevent its failure, and it will therefore be 

 necessary that any person supposed to have taken a share in it should 

 be carefully watched. * * * I am, etc. : — Henry Dundas." This 

 signature is all the more interesting, as a few years later it became 

 merged and lost in that of Melville, Mr. Dundas having been in 

 1802 created Yiscount Melville. (For a transcript from a document 

 wholly in the handwriting of Sir George Yonge, after whom the other 

 great highway of Ontario, Yonge Street, was named, vide supra.) 



To the literary relics connected with the United States, I add (1) 

 a volume from the press of Dr. Franklin, the sheets of which may 

 have been worked off by his own hand. It is a small German 

 treatise, entitled " Einige zu dieser Zeit nicht unnutze Fragen," &c., 

 dated at Philadelphia, 21st April, 1741. The imprint at the foot of 

 the title-page reads as follows : " Gedruckt und zu haben bey B. 

 Franklin-." (2) A book once the property of Washington Irving. 

 It is a Spanish work: — the Leon Prodigioso of Cosmo Gomez Texada 

 de los Beyes, printed at Madrid in 1670, by Bernardino de Yilla- 

 Diego. On the first fly-leaf are the interesting words, in the hand- 

 writing of the former owner : W. Irving, /Seville, May 16th, 1828. 



II. In the British division I insert now, (1) in the Court group, 

 a letter which I copy from one written by William Henry, Duke of 

 Gloucester, brother of George III. It is rather mysteriously worded. 



