David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ He spent his refugee life in Holland, in Switzerland, and in England. When his father died, he petitioned that his body should be given up to him, he having bought the estate of Aubonne in Switzerland chiefly for his burial. The king refused the petition; and having secured that the interment should take place in France, he also refused to erect a monument. The Marquis succeeded in possessing himself of the heart of his father, which he buried within the temple of Aubonne in the Canton de Vaud: the epitaph is in gilded letters on a black marble tablet:—
Siste gradum, Viator! ”

“ When Philip V. of Spain aspired to the Regency of France, and employed Scipion Soulan as an emissary to stir up rebellion in the south of France against the Regent (Duke of Orleans) , that shivering and dastardly Duke invoked Protestant aid, got a refugee officer from England to deal with the French Protestants of the south, and implored the influence of Pastqur Basnage of the Hague, and Professor Pictet of Geneva. ”

“ Monsieur du Quesne, a French Protestant, presented on Sunday a letter to Her Majesty from the King of Prussia about the reformed churches in France, and a petition in the name of above a million of these poor people who groan under a most severe persecution. ”