We end by a quotation from Mr. Weld, which we abstained from giving so long as we supposed that the discontinuance of the Calculating Machine might be, in any degree, Mr. Babbage’s fault. “Mr. Babbage has shown me letters, by which it appears that he declined offices of great emolument, the acceptance of which would have interfered with his labours upon the _Difference Engine_.” [52] We said in that review that Menabrea’s Memoir was in Italian:—we should have said French. THE END. Transcriber’s Notes. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Italic text is denoted by underscores _thus_, small capitals have been changed to all capitals. Some words are inconsistently hyphenated such as “light-house”, “lighthouse” and “astronomer-royal”, “astronomer royal”. These have been left as originally printed. The footnotes have been renumbered throughout the book and moved to the ends of the chapters. The Appendix consists of extracts from other publications. The footnotes have been renumbered but there remain references to page numbers in the original publications. Some small changes have been made as follows: A closing quotation mark at the end of the first sentence of footnote 47 has been removed since all of this text is taken from the note cited. In order to obtain the correct alignment of text: On page 126 the dashes serving to indicate repeated text have been replaced by duplicated text. In the table in footnote 40 the ditto marks have been replaced by duplicated text. In the table on page 220 “The Bath” has been repeated instead of being bracketed to “Military” and “Civil”.