tainly, more inappropriately bestowed, than while in the act of recording one of the most cruel and oppressive acts of that Sovereign's cruel and oppressive reign. I have also thought, that the subject was one of sufficient historical curiosity to interest the English public. For these reasons I have been induced to throw together the following chain of evidence upon the subject, making use of the same documents as M. Delort, to which I have added some others previously published, and printing the whole series in an Appendix. April, 1826. G. A. E. CONTENTS. No. 1. Estrades to Lewis the Fourteenth. Commencement of the Negociation-State of the Court of Mantua.-Influence of the Spaniards there No. 2. Matthioli to Lewis the Fourteenth. Account of his Interview with the Duke of Mantua.— |