[Jean Bon St. André, deputy to the Convention for the Department of Lot, during the reign of Terror, rivalled Marat and Robespierre in cruelty. Having been appointed to remodel the Republican Navy, he was present at the action of June 1, 1794, in which he shewed excessive cowardice. He was afterwards Consul at Smyrna, where he was arrested by the Turks, but released on the peace. Napoleon subsequently commissioned him to organise the four departments of the Rhine, in which he succeeded. He was created a Baron, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Prefect of Maure. He died in 1813 of a contagious malady caught while performing charitable offices for the sick!—ED.] Footnote 259: Henry VI. crowned at Paris. Footnote 260: The Black Prince. Footnote 261: The Spanish Armada. Footnote 262: Oliver Cromwell. Footnote 263: Louis XIV. Footnote 264: William III. Footnote 265: Blenheim, Ramilies, &c., &c. Footnote 266: American War. Footnote 267: Lord Heathfield. Footnote 268: [Parodied from Pope’s Prologue to _Cato_.—ED.] Footnote 269: See _The Robbers_, a German tragedy [by SCHILLER], in which robbery is put in so fascinating a light, that the whole of a German University went upon the highway in consequence of it. Footnote 270: See _Cabal and Love_, a German tragedy [by SCHILLER], very severe against prime ministers and reigning Dukes of Brunswick. This admirable performance very judiciously reprobates the hire of German troops for the _American_ war in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a practice which would undoubtedly have been highly discreditable to that wise and patriotic princess, not to say wholly unnecessary—there being no American war at that particular time. Footnote 271: See _The Stranger; or, Reformed Housekeeper_, in which the former of these morals is beautifully illustrated; and _Stella_, a genteel German comedy [by GOETHE], which ends with placing a man _bodkin_ between _two wives_, like _Thames_ between his _two banks_ in _The Critic_. Nothing can be more edifying than these two dramas. I am shocked to hear that there are some people who think them ridiculous. Footnote 272: These are the warnings very properly given to readers, to beware how they judge of what they cannot understand. Thus if the translation runs, “_lightning of my soul, fulgation of angels, sulphur of hell_,” we should recollect that this is not coarse or strange in the German language when applied by a lover to his mistress; but the English has nothing precisely parallel to the original Mulychause Archangelichen, which means rather _emanation of the archangelic nature_—or to Smellmynkern Vankelfer, which, if literally rendered, would signify _made of stuff of the same odour whereof the devil makes flambeaux_. See Schüttenbrüch on the German idiom. Footnote 273: