_But when the possibility ... that the_.--It will probably seem to a modern reader that either 'that' or 'the' has crept in improperly. It might be so; but Burke still maintained the authoritative but rather inelegant tradition by which 'that,' like the French _que_, could replace any such antecedent word as 'when,' 'because,' etc. _Louis the Sixteenth_.--To this is appended a note in the editions beginning, 'It may be right to do justice to Louis XVI. He did what he could to destroy the double diplomacy of France.' The subject has of late years received considerable illustration in the Duke of Broglie's _Le Secret du Roi_, and other works by the same author. _Montalembert_.--Marc René, Marquis de (1714-1800), a voluminous military writer. _Harrington_--of the _Oceana_. V. PETER PLYMLEY'S LETTERS. _Dear Abraham_.--'Peter Plymley' addresses his _Letters_ to 'my brother Abraham, who lives in the country,' and is a parson. _Baron Maseres_.--Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, a descendant of Huguenots, very well thought of by his contemporaries. Dr. Rennel I know not, unless he was the Herodotus man. _C----_, Canning. _Dr. Duigenan_.--A delightful person who, in his hot youth, as a junior Fellow of T.C., D., threatened to 'bulge the Provost's' [Provost Hely Hutchinson's] 'eye,' and was afterwards a pillar of Protestantism. This _light and frivolous jester_ was _not_ the Rev. Sydney Smith, but George Canning, Esq. _The pecuniary Rose_.--'Old George' Rose, Pitt's right hand. He was rather heavily rewarded with places and pensions; but even Liberals now admit that the country has hardly had an abler official. _Lord Hawkesbury_, Jenkinson, better known as Lord Liverpool. _Tickell_--the _Rolliad_ Tickell. _Joel_--Peter's nephew and Abraham's son. VI. LETTER TO THE JOURNEYMEN AND LABOURERS OF ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. LETTER TO JACK HARROW. _Paint in the most horrid colours_.--See, for instance, _The Bloody Buoy_ and _The Cannibal's Progress_, by William Cobbett. _Flogging_.--Some of the militia mutinied at Ely, and were punished, the guard on the occasion being furnished by the cavalry of the German Legion. Cobbett noticed this in the most inflammatory manner, and it being war time, was indicted, tried, found guilty, and sentenced as he describes. _Monks and friars_.--A time came when Cobbett thought and wrote very differently of these persons. But that was his way. _Foundal_.--I do not know whether Cobbett invented this equivalent for _trouvaille_, 'windfall,' or not. His notable scheme for breaking the Bank is a good example of him in his insaner moods. VII. FIRST LETTER OF MALACHI MALAGROWTHER. _The Duenna_--Sheridan's. _The Jury Court_.--Trial by jury in _civil_ cases was only introduced into Scotland in 1815. _Evasive answer_--to the effect that each queen was the fairest woman in her own country. _Doer_ = 'factor' or agent. _Them_--as if 'Scotsmen' had been written for 'Scotland.'