1803.] 
going one; but each foot is marked on each 
fide with four digifs, and the body is fur- 
nifhed with a longitudinal furrow. The 
length of the individual is 0,291. Thefe 
two fpecies will form, in future, two 
new fub-genera, in the genus. of lizards 
of Citizen Lacepede—fhe fifth decade 
of the continuation of the defcription of 
piants in the garden of Cels, by Citizen 
Ventenat, has lately appeared. It yields 
in nothing to the preceding numbers, in 
the beauty of the {pecies defcribed in it, 
and in the finifhing of the cuts which 
reprelent them. 
ee 
‘For the Monthly Magazine. 
Some accounr of all the MANUSCRIPTS 
in the LIBRARY of tbe fate KiNG of 
FRANCE, wow called the NATIONAL 
LIBRARY (BIBLIOTHEQUE NATION- 
ALE), which relate to ENGLISH AF- 
FAIRS or HISTORY. Continued from 
p-. 205. ; 
HE affiduity of the gentiemen, to 
whom, we have already noticed, this 
important work was entrufted in the year 
21789, enabled the Academy to publith a 
fecond volume, which contains fimilar ex- 
traéts and accounts of twenty-three valua- 
ble manufcripts. 
The firft fubject that prefents itfelf, im 
which England is concerned, is a relation 
ef the famous conferences at Calais, in 
the year 1521, between the ambafladors 
of the Pope, the Emperor Charles the 
Fifth, Francis the Firft, King of France, 
and Henry the Eighth, King of Eng- 
Jand.—Mr. Gailliard, the editor, exa- 
mines, at the fame time, four manut{cripts, 
_all relating to this fubje&t; and which, 
as they were written by the partifans of 
the different monarchs, throw. light upon 
each other, and, by contraft, tend mate- 
rially to elucidate the truth. The au- 
thors give us to underitand, that their 
relations were taken from the mouths of 
the ambafladors themfelves, and the whole 
details are expreffed in the firft perfon. 
The plenipotentiaries engag<d in this 
important conference were; on the part of 
the Emperor, his Prime Minifter and Chan- 
eellor Gattinara, a native of Arragon; on 
the part of Francis, his Chancellor Duprat, 
the Marfhal. de Chabannes, and Gedoyn, 
Secretary of Finance; and Cardinal Wol- 
fey on the part of Henry. ‘The Pope, as 
a mere matter of form, fent his nephew, 
the Bithop of Afcoli ; but he was under 
the entire controul of Wolfey, who was 
then Pope’s legate. 
This conference happened the fame 
year that the war broke out between 
Manuferipts relating to Englifh Hiftory, &c. 
217 
Charles and Francis; fronmwhich fprung 
that fatal rivalhhip which was afterwards 
attended with fo many evil confequeices. 
The circumftances attending which gave 
rife to it are neatly ttated by M. Gailliard, 
but are too well known to require repeti- 
tion. j 
.Wolfey, it is known, pretended to af- 
fume the fituation of umpire and mediator; 
a character which flattered the vanity of. 
Henry, and fuited the immediate interet of 
the intriguing plenipotentiary, who was 
ftudying to raife himfelf to the papal 
chair. The jealous anxiety of the mi- 
nifters of the rival monarchs broke out 
frequently during the difcuffions, and 
fometimes in terms of badinage and ridi- 
cule, which would not perfectly comport 
with the grave and dignified folemnity of 
a modern congrefs. Gattinara pofitively 
charged Francis with having aflifted Ro- 
bert de la Marck, Duke de Bouillon, in 
his attack upon the Emperor, contrary to 
the ftipulations of the treaty of Noyon. 
This the French plenipotentiary, Duprat, 
as pofitively denied; adding, that he 
would forfeit his head if any fuch charge 
could be proved: upon which Gattinara 
exclaimed, ‘*’ Then I demand the head of 
the Chancellor cf France, for:I hold in 
my hand the letters which completely 
eftablith the fact.’ «* You hall never 
have my head (replied Duprat); for I 
alfo have the letters here, and they prove 
nothing like what you affert.”” The la- 
conic reply of Gattinara will not well 
endure tranflation. He faid, ‘* Ja qu’il 
advin, que wotre tefle me fut adjuzée, 
je ne la voudrois, mais pluftot da tefle 
d°un pore qui feroit meilieure pour man- 
ger.” 
So determined did the plenipotentiaries 
feem to leave no ftone unturned to excite 
mutual recrimination, that they even de- 
{cended to accufe their mafters of flander 
and defamation of each other, in breach 
of the treaty of Noyon, which ftinulated 
that neither of the contraéting parties 
fhould wound the honour, or injure the 
reputation, of the cther. 
Wolley feems to have fupported the 
character of mediator with moft jealous 
caution; he continually interfered to foften 
the afperities of the rival envoys, pro- 
pofed new terms of accommodation, and 
at laft refolved to vifit the Emperor him- 
felf, who was then at Bruges, to enforce 
perfonally his recommendation for pacific 
meafures, and prevail on him to give fur- 
ther powers to his minifters to facilitate 
fo defirable an end. This vifit was juftly 
fuipecied by the French plenipotentiaries 
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