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Page Our Ninth Volume 3

NOTES:-- A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney 3 The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden 5 Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, A.D. 1650-51, by John Bruce 6 Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis 7 Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way 8

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QUERIES:-- Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke 9

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A STRAWBERRY-HILL GEM.

"_Pour qui se donne la peine de chercher, il y a toujours quelque trouvaille a faire, meme dans ce qui a ete le plus visite_.--Henry PATIN.

I take up a work of European celebrity, and reflect awhile on its bibliographic peculiarities--which may almost pass for romance.

It is a _Scottish_ work with regard to the family connexion of its author: it is an _Irish_ work with regard to the place of his nativity. It is an _English_ work as to the scenes which it represents; a _French_ work as to the language in which it was written; a _Dutch_ work as to the country in which it came to light. It was formerly printed anonymously: it has since borne the name of its author. It was formerly printed for public sale: it has been twice printed for private circulation. It was formerly classed as fiction: it is now believed to be history.

But we have too many enigmas in the annals of literature, and I must not add to the number. The work to which I allude is the _Memoires du comte de Grammont par le comte Antoine Hamilton_.

The various indications of a projected re-impression of the work remind me of my _portefeuille Hamiltonien_, and impose on me the task of a partial transcription of its contents.

Of the numerous editions of the _Memoires de Grammont_ as recorded by Brunet, Renouard, or Querard, or left unrecorded by those celebrated bibliographers, I shall describe only four; which I commend to the critical examination of future editors:

1. "_Memoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant particulierement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le regne de Charles II._ A Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1713. 12^o, pp. 4 + 428.

"AVIS DU LIBRAIRE.--Il seroit inutile de recommander ici la lecture des memoires qui composent ce volume: le titre seul de _Memoires du comte de Grammont_ reveillera sans doute la curiosite du public pour un homme qui lui est deja si connu d'ailleurs, tant par la reputation qu'il a scu se faire, que par les differens portraits qu'en ont donnez Mrs. de Bussi et de St. Evremont, dans leurs ouvrages; et l'on ne doute nullement qu'il ne recoive, avec beaucoup de plaisir, un livre, dans lequel on lui raconte ses avantures, sur ce qu'il en a bien voulu raconter lui-meme a celui qui a pris la peine de dresser ces memoires.

"Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, ils contiennent particulie[re]ment l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le regne de Charles II; et, comme on y decouvre quantite de choses, qui ont ete tenues cachees jusqu'a present, et qui font voir jusqu'a quel exces on a porte le dereglement dans cette cour, ce n'est pas le morceau le moins interessant de ces memoires.

"On les donne ici sur une copie manuscrite, qu'on en a recue de Paris: et on les a fait imprimer avec le plus d'exactitude qu'il a ete possible."

The above is the _first_ edition. The imprint is fictitious. It was much used by the Elzevirs, and by other Dutch printers. The second edition, with the same imprint, is dated in 1714 (Cat. de Guyon de Sardiere, No. 939.). The third edition was printed at Rotterdam in 1716. The _avis_ is omitted in that edition, and in all the later impressions which I have seen. Its importance as a history of the publication induces one to revive it. There is also an edition printed at Amsterdam in 1717 (Cat. de Lamy, No. 3918.); and another at La Haye in 1731 (Cat. de Rothelin, No. 2534*). Brunet omits the edition of 1713. Renouard and Querard notice it too briefly.

2. "_Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentee d'un discours preliminaire mele de prose et de vers, par le meme auteur, et d'un avertissement contenant quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton._ A Paris, chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, a la croix d'or. 1746." 12^o. pp. 24 + 408.

"AVERTISSEMENT. Le public a fait un accueil si favorable a ces _Memoires_, que nous avons cru devoir en procurer une nouvelle edition. Outre les avantures du comte de Grammont, tres-piquantes par elles-memes, ils contiennent l'histoire amoureuse d'Angleterre sous le regne de Charles II. Ils sont d'ailleurs ecrits d'une maniere si vive et si ingenieuse, qu'ils ne laisseroient pas de plaire infiniment, quand la matiere en seroit moins interessante.

"Le heros de ces _Memoires_ a trouve dans le comte Hamilton un historien digne de lui. Car on n'ignore plus qu'ils sont partis de la meme main a qui l'on doit encore d'autres ouvrages frappes au meme coin.

"Nous avons enrichi cette edition d'un discours mele de prose et de vers, ou l'on exagere la difficulte qu'il y a de bien representer le comte de Grammont. On reconnoitra facilement que ce discours est du meme auteur que les _Memoires_, et qu'il devoit naturellement en {4} orner le frontispice. Au reste il ne nous appartient point d'en apprecier le merite. Nous dirons seulement que des personnes d'un gout sur et delicat le comparent au _Voyage de Chapelle_, et qu'ils y trouvent les memes graces, le meme naturel et la meme legerete.

"Il ne nous reste plus qu'a dire un mot de M. Hamilton lui-meme, auteur de ces memoires, et du discours qui les precede.

"Antoine Hamilton dont nous parlons, etoit de l'ancienne et illustre maison de ce nom en Ecosse. Il naquit en Irlande. Il eut pour pere le chevalier Georges Hamilton, petit-fils du duc d'Hamilton, qui fut aussi duc de Chatelleraud en France.

"Sa mere etoit madame Marie Butler, soeur du duc d'Ormond, viceroi d'Irlande, et grand maitre de la maison du roi Charles.

"Dans les revolutions qui arriverent du tems de Cromwel, ils suivirent le roi et le duc d'Yorck son frere qui passerent en France. Ils y amenerent leur famille. Antoine ne faisoit a peine que de naitre.

"Lorsque le roi fut retabli sur son trone, il ramena en Angleterre les jeux et la magnificence. On voit dans les memoires de Grammont combien cette cour etoit brillante; la curiosite y attira le comte de Grammont. Il y vit mademoiselle d'Hamilton, il ne tarda pas a sentir le pouvoir de ses charmes, il l'epousa enfin; et c'est la tendresse qu'_Antoine_ avoit pour sa soeur, qui l'engagea a faire plusieurs voyages en France, ou il etoit eleve, et ou il a passe une partie de sa vie.

"M. Antoine Hamilton etant catholique, il ne put obtenir d'emploi en Angleterre; et rien ne fut capable d'ebranler ni sa religion, ni la fidelite qu'il devoit a son roi.