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Rh for the new continent, "as being," as he said, "more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.

the year 1783, only six years before the destruction of the Bastille in Paris, Linguet, an author and journalist, who had been confined there, had the rare good fortune to be set at liberty on condition of banishment from France; and he was thus enabled to publish to the world an account of his adventures, including a narrative of his experiences in that mysterious fortress, which he entitled, "Memoirs of the Bastille, containing a Full Exposition of the Secret Policy and Despotic Oppression of the French Government in the Interior, and Administration of that State Prison, interspersed with a Variety of Curious Anecdotes." In this book we get a glimpse of the interior of the Bastille in the last days of its infamous history, and while under the government of that Delaunay whose miserable ending has been so often told in histories of the French Revolution.

Having given offence to the Court of France by his political writings, Linguet took up his residence in London, from which safe asylum, and occasionally from Brussels, he continued to edit his objectionable paper, which was entitled, "The Annals." In September, 1780, he tells us, having been inveigled to Paris by a