David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ He introduces a few marginal notes, for instance, “Here the Author shews himself an absolute stranger to the affairs of Great Britain” — “Here the Author runs into such extravagant suppositions, as seem to be calculated for the meridian of the French mobb only” — “Here’s an abominable untruth, for ’tis certain that the French were superior in numbers to the Allies” — “Here’s a cluster of French rhodomontadoes and chimerical suppositions! I believe with a design to feed that nation with the hopes of an approaching Peace on their monarch’s terms.” ”

“ Abel Boyer, to whose annals historians and biographers are so much indebted, was descended from an influential burgess family in Castres. He was born in 1664, and was a student in Puylaurens; but the Revocation prevented him from completing his college education in France. He then went as a senior student to Geneva, and again removed to Franeker. He came to England in 1689, and resided forty years, wielding his pen with diligence and success. ”