Note 412 — Chapter XX · FALL OF THE EMPIRE.

Histoire des Traités, vol. viii. The original may be found in Meyer's Corpus Iuris Confœderationis Germanicæ, vol. i. p. 70. It is a document in no way remarkable, except from the ludicrous resemblance which its language suggests to the circular in which a tradesman, announcing the dissolution of an old partnership, solicits, and hopes by close attention to merit, a continuance of his customers' patronage to his business, which will henceforth be carried on under the name of, &c., &c.