these Lords, following their own pleasures, will whore, cheat, steal, and drive on like shameless rascals; and yet must be _Areopagitæ_, and interfere in every thing. Indeed, my dearest friend, we have only enslaved ourselves." In another part of this fine correspondence, Diomedes has had the good fortune to intercept a Q. L. (_Quibus Licet_,) in which it is said, and supported by proofs, that Cato had received 250 florins as a bribe for his sentence in his capacity of a judge in a criminal court (the end had surely sanctified the means.) In another, a Minerval complains of his Mentor for having by lies occasioned the dismission of a physician from a family, by which the Mentor obtained, in the same capacity, the custom of the house and free access, which favour he repaid by debauching the wife; and he prays to be informed whether he may not get another Mentor, saying that although that man had always given him the most excellent instructions, and he doubted not would continue them, yet he felt a disgust at the hypocrisy, which would certainly diminish the impression of the most salutary truths. (Is it not distressing to think, that this promising youth will by and by laugh at his former simplicity, and follow the steps and not the instructions of his physician.) In another place, Spartacus writes to Marius, (in confidence,) that another worthy Brother, an _Areopagitæ_, had stolen a gold and a silver watch, and a ring, from Brutus, (_Savioli_,) and begs Marius, in another letter, to try, while it was yet possible, to get the things restored, because the culprit was a most _excellent man_, (_Vortrefflich_,) and of vast use to the Order, having the direction of an eminent seminary of young _gentlemen_; and because Savioli was much in good company, and did not much care for the Order, except in so far as it gave him an opportunity of knowing and leading some of them, and of steering his way at court. I cannot help inserting here, though not the most proper place, a part of a provincial report from Knigge, the man of the whole _Aeropagitæ_ who shows any thing like urbanity or gentleness of mind. "Of my whole colony, (Westphalia,) the most brilliant is Claudiopolis (_Neuwied_). There they work, and direct, and do wonders."