Note 39 — LETTER XXXVIII.

This Misfortune came upon the Duke and Duchess of Maine, merely from a Suspicion which the Regent entertain’d, that the Duke had a Hand in the pretended Conspiracy of the Prince of Cellamare, the Ambassador of Spain; which, they said, was to remove the Duke of Orleans from the Regency, and to vest it in the King of Spain, who wou’d have put the Duke of Maine in his Place, according to Lewis XIVth’s last Will. The bare Suspicion however amounted to fix the Guilt upon this Prince, and all that belong’d to him. It were to be wish’d, that some Eye-witness of what was then transacted at Court, and in Bretagne, wou’d give the Public an exact Account of it.