" LETTRES JUIVES."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Your correspondent, "T. G.," will find the Marquis d'Argens duly noted in the "Nouveau Dictiounaire Historique," 1804, and in Watkins' " Universal Biographical Dictionary," under Argens. Various other works are mentioned as having come from him besides the " Lettres " and the" Memoires ;" but there is no evidence in the condensed article in Watkins that he ever visited England. Neither is this work any evidence that there ever was a real Marquis d'Argens. Boyer might have meant, as another joke, that he was a Money Marquis, the only marquisate worth having. Like Voltaire, he was invited to Berlin by Frederick William, and, also like Voltaire, made one of the Court Chamberlains,—though this may be as good a joke as the rest, if the sole authority be the " Memoires," as is very
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