[Footnote 012: A similar exclusive claim in respect to the Indian seas, under the grant of Pope Alexander VI., was set up by the Portuguese; similar claims to the Ligustic and Adriatic seas, have been and still continue to be made by the Genoese and Venetians. Those, who seek for information on the subject, should consult the _Dissertation of Bynkershook de Dominio Maris_, and note 61 to the recent edition of Sir Edward Coke's Commentary upon Littleton.] [Footnote 013: "Mais, dites vous, dans ce tems même, le jeune Pison pouvolt avoir dix ans: Grotius faisoit bien des vers a cet âge. Je le sçais, mais les Grotius sont ils bien commune! combien d'enfans trouveres vous de dix ans, qui ayent nonseulement assez du feu pour faire des vers, mais encore assez de jugement pour en juger sainement." Gibbon's Posthumous Works, 8vo. vol. i. p. 520.--"Salmasius," says Mr. Gibbon in another part of the same entertaining publication, (vol. v. p. 209), "had read as much as Grotius; but their different modes of reading had made the one an enlighten'd philosopher; and the other, to speak plainly, a pedant puffed up with an useless erudition."] [Footnote 014: Bentivoglio, Histoire des Guerres de Flandres, l, xxviii.] [Footnote 015: _Bella plusquam civilia._ Lucan.] [Footnote 016: Those who wish to obtain a clear, concise, and exact notion of Calvinism and Arminianism, will usefully peruse the account of them in Mr. Evans's "_Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World_." The thirteenth Edition is now before us, and we believe that it has been often since reprinted.] [Footnote 017: Mosheim's Ecc. Hist. Cent. xvi, ch. 2. § 3. part 2.] [Footnote 018: Chalmer's Biographical Dictionary, Title "Arminius."] [Footnote 019: A short and clear account of Arminianism is given by Le Clere, in his Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, Vol. II. Art. 3. p. 123.] [Footnote 020: The best discussion of this subject, which has fallen into the hands of the writer, is Bourduloué's Sermon _sur la Predestination_.] [Footnote 021: English Translation of Burigni's Life of Grotius, pp. 43, 44, 45.] [Footnote 022: Vol. i.]