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University and the corporation of Cam- 
bridge, relative to the jurisdiction of the 
former. In the year 1534, an instance 
is recorded, which seems to have had a 
very amicable termination. Mr. Slegge, 
the then mayor, maintained that he ow- 
ed no obedience to the vice-chancellor, 
as vice-chancellor, but as speaking in the 
king’s name; and he drew up articles of 
accusation against the University for pre- 
tending that they were entitled to more. 
On the Friday before Michaelmas day, 
the vice-chancellor sent the mayor word 
to meet him at St. Mary’s, to hear an an-. 
swer to his Jibell, when he ~answered 
each article distinctly: after which, says 
the Chronicle, “ they departed to the 
Pump tavern, ‘the University paying for 
at. The mayor elect asked the vice- 
chancellor to dinner on Michaelmas day. 
On Michaelmas day, between nine and 
ten, the mayor, with his company, went 
to their ball in their best arraye, and a 
quarter before eleven the mayor sent two 
baylyfis to the vice-chancellor, to desire 
him to come tothe hall, The vice-chan- 
eellor, with the doctors in their red robes, 
with the proctors, aud between sixty and 
eighty students, met at St. Maryes, whi- 
ther the mayor came, and, after much 
conversation, submitted to take the oatlis, 
as he was wont, save that he required it 
first to be read in Latin, and then in En- 
glish, and the bailyffs were sworn, and . 
paid the proctors 3s. and 4d. After 
this, the vice-chancellor, doctors, mayor, 
&c. separated to St. Mary’s uniil the 
cloth wus laid for dinner.” 
FRENCH FLATTERY. 
We must not suppose that the French 
were at any time deficient in that style of 
excessive adulation in their addresses 
to their sovereigns, of which we now 
daily see so many specimens, or that it 
‘took its rise in favour of their present 
idol. To say nothing of the flattery with 
which Louis the Fourteenth was conti- 
nually fed, we subjoin a curious harangue 
addressed to Louis the Fifteenth, after 
his campaign of 1745. 
“The conquests of your majesty are 
so rapid, that we think it absolutely ne- 
cessary that future Historians should 
be cautious in their relation, lest pos- 
terity should consider them as fables, un- 
worthy of belief. Yet they must be told 
_as an ‘undoubted fact that your majesty, 
when at the head of your army, wrote 
yourself an account of your exploits, 
having no other table but a drum. The 
Most distant ages must learn that the En- 
glish, those ferce and audacious enemies, 
jealous of your majesty’s fame, were com~ 
Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. [Feb. 1, 
pelled to yield to your prowess the palace 
of glory. Their allies were only so many 
witnesses of their shame, and hastened 
to join their standards only to become the 
spectators of your majesty’s triumph. 
We venture to tell your majesty, that 
whatever may be the love you bear your - 
subjects, there is still one way to add to 
our felicity, by curbing the high courage 
which you possess, and which would cost 
us too many tears, if it exposed to the cer- 
tain danger of war your majesty’s pre- 
_cious life or that of the young hero, the 
‘object of our fondest hopes!” 
-* Such"an address to princes so little 
warlike as that of Louis the Fifteenth 
and his son, was the height of falsehood: 
and absurdity. ~ ‘The military exploits of 
Napoleon may perhaps justify the lan- 
guage of flattery, whatever we may think 
of the rest of his character. 
SENSIBILITY. 
Dominique de Vic, governor of Ami- 
ens, of Calais and vice-admiral of France, 
always made particular enquiry in what- 
ever piace he commanded, for the mer- 
“chants and artificers of reputable charac- 
ter, and.on being informed who they 
were and where they hved, he would vi- 
sit them im the most friendly manner, 
and request them to die with him. Of 
this amiable, man history relates these 
two alfecting anecdotes. 
In the year 1586, he lost the calf of 
his right leg by a gun-shot, and though 
the part was well cured, yet he could 
not attempt to ride on horseback, with- 
out experiencing the most excruciating 
pain in his wounded leg, in consequence - 
of which, he retired to Guyenne. He 
had Jived there about three years, when 
he was informed of the death of Henry 
the Third, and the embarrassments of 
Henry the Fourth, and the great need in 
which he stood of all his good servants. 
He directly had his leg cut off, sold part - 
of his estates, entered into the king’s ser- 
vice once more, and rendered him the 
most signal service at the battle of Ivri. 
Two days after this great prince was. 
assassinated, De Vic going through the 
Rue de la Ferronerie, and seeing the spot 
on which this horrid murder was -com- 
mitted, he ‘fell senseless to the ground, 
and died next morning. 
SINGULAR VENGEANCE, 
The following singular historical fact is. 
related by Don Vincent Bacallar y San 
na Marquis of San-Felipe, in his history 
of. Spain, during the reign of Philip the . 
Fifth. The Portuguese having declared 
in favour of the Arch-duke Charles of 
Austria, 
