"_Worse than a Crime_" (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--In reply to a question you attribute the famous saying concerning the murder of the Duc D'Enghien to Talleyrand. If you will refer to p. 266. vol. i. of Fouché's _Memoirs_, 2nd edition, 1825, C. Knight, you will find that he claims the saying to himself: "I was not the person who hesitated to express himself with the least restraint respecting the violence against the rights of nations and of humanity. 'It is more than a crime, it is a political fault.' I said words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others." J. W. Walsall. In matters of rumour different people hear different things. I never heard the words "c'estoit pire qu'un crime, c'estoit une faute," ascribed to any one but Fouché of Nantes. I have understood that the late Prince of Condé would not hold any intercourse with the Prince de Talleyrand, or with the Court when he was present officiating as Grand Chamberlain of France, owing to his full conviction of that minister's privity to the murder of his son. But how is that consistent with Talleyrand's more than condemning, and even ridiculing the action? A. N. _Verses in Classical Prose_ (Vol. iv., p. 382.).--Merely as matter of information, permit me to refer your correspondent A. A. D. to the notes of Glareanus and Drakenborch on the first lines of Livy's preface, and to the "variorum" commentators on the first line of Tacitus' _Annals_ ("Urbem Romanam a principio reges habuere"), for a collection of examples of the occurrence of verse in prose compositions. THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. _Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru_ (Vol. iv., p. 257.).--Probably the melodramatic spectacle mentioned by MR. HASKINS was derived from a Spanish book, of which I possess an English translation, bearing the following title:-- "A Relation of the First Voyages and Discoveries made by the Spaniards in America, with an Account of their unparalleled Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. Together with the Propositions offered to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West Indies. By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an Eye-witness of their Cruelties. Illustrated with Cuts. London, printed for Daniel Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple Bar, and Andrew Bell at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks Market, 1699." 8vo. pp. 248. The "cuts" are twenty-two in number, on two fly-sheets, and represent torturing death in the most horrible variety. A MS. note on a fly-leaf, in the handwriting of Mr. Bowdler of Bath, says, "This book is taken out of the fourth part of Purchas's _Pilgrims_, fol. 1569." E. WARING. Hotwells, Clifton. _Nolo Episcopari_ (Vol. iv., p. 346.).--_Bishop Jeremy Taylor_ seems to ascribe the above oft-quoted words to the _Roman Pontifical_:--