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ond 
These words seemed to-give Hemy 
very great delight, and when they named 
the King his: uncle, he lifted his hood a 
little, and, In reciting his love and de- 
sire Hie had of seeing him, said, holding his 
hood, “ St. John, ‘thank youl”, wl hichhe 
seemed to speak with the most perfect 
sincerity. 
When the Archbishop had ¢ spoken, the 
King deliberated in private with the Car- 
dinal d’Yorck, the. Comte de Sutfolck, 
and tHe Lord Treasurer :, afterwards the 
Cardinal said to the French ambassadors 
in very elegant Latin, “ that the King of 
England felt all the advantages of peace, 
and would spare no pains to effectit; but 
independently even of so great a con- 
cern, it would be a sensible pleasure for 
him to see the King of France his uncle, 
and that the smallness and ~nsufficiency 
of the offers made by France would not 
be for him either a motive or pretext for 
refusing such a journey; but that the 
passage of the King of England to France, 
at this conjuncture, and amidst such a 
conflict of parties, was not a step to he 
taken lightly; that he could not attempt 
it without great counsel and deliberation, 
without being ussured at first of the truces 
being sufficiently long ; without having 
taken measures of every kind, which pru 
dence required; that he would then con- 
sult at leisure, and would give his answer 
to the King his uncie, and if t 
his reflections, and the influence of cir- 
cumstances should deprive him of so plea~ 
sant a journey, he would send to France 
persons instructed to treat on all the 
great interests which divided the two na- 
tions, and upon every thing which bore 
a relation to them,’ 
Here ends the narration. 
[There is a great paucity of informa- 
tion after the reign of Edward HI. and 
this important paper shows, that Suffolk 
was very weak: that Henry was half an 
idiot, and that, unless it was to gratify 
royal sncliation the reference, after 
such rejection of offers, to an interview 
between such a Prince as Henry and the 
French King, proves the Council to have 
been egregious dupes, of which the pas- 
aves iu the Cardjnal of York’s reply, 
marked in Italics, seem very strong proois, 
What concessions for diplomates! | ii. 
‘They were not fit to deal for a horse, 
much more for kingdoms. That the MS. 
was not written at the time does‘appear ; 
for Suffolk, who is stiled Duke, Count, 
Monsieur, and every thing else but his 
reai title, that of a Marquis, was not 
created a Duke till 1448, nearly three 
i after the embassy.—See Boulton, 
rf 
he result of 
276; Stowe, $86,—In 1446, on account 
of the expiration of the truce in April, 
forces were sent to Normandy, in which 
the agency of Suffolk’ was very. conspi- 
cuous; and that lest the Prench should 
not consent to amity. | 
—a 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OU were so obliging, in the last 
Number of your Journal, to insert 
my inquiry respecting the origmal plates 
of Ames’s A ypperaphical Antiquities ; 
this, it seems, has given rise to a rue 
mour of my not performing what I had- 
pledged myself to perform; namely, the 
giving of new plates tom Ly new edition 
of this work. 
of making promises rashly, ‘and still less 
so of not performing them when made, so 
it will be found, on the present occasion, 
that I have faithfully adhered to the words, 
of my ‘* Prospectus,” published in May 
or June, 1808. 
At page 3, I have observed that the 
plates of Ames’s, or rather (it should have 
been said) of Herbert’s work, are “ al- 
most all defective,” and that it was ‘¢ pro~ 
posed to remedy these defects.”—Now, 
Suir, it will be found, that my first volume 
will contain eight new copper-plates, and 
upwards of thirty wood cuts.' Ames’s 
portrait, in Herbert, is almost a carica~. 
ture of that amiable and excellent Eng- 
lish bibliographer: it has therefore been 
re-executed. Of Herbert himself, there 
will be two portraits for the first time 
given to the public—the one a mezzo- 
tint, of the size of Aines’s; the other an 
outline stipling of lim, with a turban 
and beard, as he was accustomed to dress 
in India. —Of Caxton’s types aione, there. 
will be four copper plates: the plate in 
Herbert presents us with but an impert fect 
idea of the originaltypes. The extriusic em- 
bellishments (if I may so speak) will con= 
sist of three stipling engravings of portguits 
of the Ear! of Pembroke, che Fart of Gx- 
ford, and Dr. Mead; hese being the 
leading bibliovraphical characters a the 
first fain of pe 18th century. These 
par aits wilb belong to the small, as well 
as large, paper copies; and it is intended 
to continue the series of them to tke e pre- 
sent day, in the Say ScHBEE volumes. 
t is probable, that the five volumes of 
. my new edition may comprehend five.or 
‘six plates which are in Her bert; 
but they 
will be accompunied with upwards of one 
hundred and thirty additional copper and 
wood cuts. Printers’. devices and por- 
traits will be given on an entire new plan, 
and 
As Tam not in the habit. 
ae Poe 
