"Bravo, my dear friend; let them blame men like you, and they will not go far. I cannot offer you, in quarterly payments, the five thousand francs which you had placed at my disposal; but I have still a few china plates at your service, and if you want them we will sell them. "Poor France! "Yours more than ever, "CHATEAUBRIAND."--B. ] [Footnote 236: Ambassador to Naples in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 237: Ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 238: The Chevalier de Fontenay, First Secretary of Embassy in St. Petersburg in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 239: The Vicomte de Pontcarré, Third Secretary of Embassy in St. Petersburg in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 240: 16 September 1824.--T.] [Footnote 241: 29 May 1825.--T.] [Footnote 242: George Keith, tenth Earl Marischal (_circa_ 1693-1778), was sentenced to death for taking up arms for the Chevalier in 1715, took refuge in Spain, whence he commanded the Spanish expedition, was defeated at Glenshiel in 1719, and again fled to Prussia. Frederic II. appointed him Ambassador to Paris in 1751, and Governor of Neuchâtel in 1752. Here, in 1762, he gave his protection to Rousseau. He is generally known on the continent as Milord Maréchal.--T.] [Footnote 243: "An earthenware cooking-pot, without feet, in which meat is noiselessly cooked, over a stove, the French Huguenots being said to have taken this precaution to avoid scandal on days when flesh-meat was forbidden" (Littré).--B.] [Footnote 244: The County of Neuchâtel passed in 1707, on the death of Marie Duchesse de Nemours, the last of the Longuevilles, to Frederic I. King of Prussia, to whom it was guaranteed by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. In 1806, Napoleon seized it and erected it into a principality for Marshal Berthier; in 1815, it returned to Prussia, while remaining a Swiss canton. Neuchâtel declared its independence in 1848; this independence was recognised by Prussia in 1857.--T.] [Footnote 245: Isabelle Agnès de Sainte-Hyacinthe de Charrière (1745-1805), _née_ van Tuyll, author, under the pseudonym of the Abbé de La Tour, of the _Lettres Neuchâteloises_ (1784), _Caliste, ou Lettres écrites de Lausanne_ (1786), etc.--T.] [Footnote 246: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), the eminent French critic. His appreciation of Madame de Charrière occurs in his _Portraits de femmes_, published in 1844.--T.] [Footnote 247: Characters in the _Lettres Neuchâteloises._--B.] [Footnote 248: Louis Fauche-Borel (1762-1829), a Neuchâtel printer and Royalist agent. He devoted himself to the cause of the Bourbons and was repeatedly imprisoned under the Directorate and Consulate. He met with nothing but ingratitude from the Restoration and returned to Neuchâtel, where he lived in penury and at last put an end to his life in the manner stated by Chateaubriand.--T.] [Footnote 249: Louis Comte de Pourtalès (1773-1848), Governor of Neuchâtel.--B.]