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There is an addition of seven volumes of Universal History to Voltaire's Works, which I think will charm you: I almost like it the best of his works. It is what you have seen extended, and the Memoirs of Louis XIV. refondues in it. He is a little tiresome with contradicting La Beaumelle and Voltaire, one remains with scarce a fixed idea about that time.
His poor Wife, a born Borck, hastening from Berlin, but again and again delayed by industry of kind friends, and at last driving on in spite of everything, met, in the last miles, his Hearse and Funeral Company. Adieu, a pitying adieu to him forever, and even to his adoring La Beaumelle, who is rather less a blockhead than he generally seems.
The Fatal Dowry has been cobbled, I see, by some purblind ultra-crepidarian McCready's friend, Walker, very likely; but nevertheless, I maintain 'tis a good play, and might have been rendered very effective by docking it of the whole fifth act, which is an excrescence, re-creating Novall, and making Beaumelle a great deal more ghost-gaping and moonlightish.
"Glamour romance by Vincent Beauchamp." Beauchamp was his second name, I think. So he wrote romances, did he, poor devil! This looks like the scaffolding for one, anyway; let's have a look at it. List of characters: Beaumelle Marston; I've come across that name somewhere lately, I know; Lieutenant-Colonel Duncombe; why, I know that gentleman, too! Was this ever published?
"La Beaumelle had a long course of it, up and down the world, in and out of the Bastille; writing much, with inconsiderable recompense, and always in a wooden manure worthy of his First vocation in the Geneva time. 'A man of pleasing physiognomy, says Formey, 'and expressed himself well.
It is certain La Beaumelle, soon after this, left Berlin: not in love with Voltaire. Oh, M. de Voltaire, and why not leave it to him, then? Poor devil, he got put into the Bastille too, by and by; Royal Persons being touched by some of his stupid foot-notes.
'Oh, yes, said Mabel. 'Isn't it presumption? But Mrs. Featherstone would not hear of my refusing. Mark, I believe, thinks the part hardly suited to me, but I mean to try and astonish him, even though I may not carry out his own idea. I love Beaumelle in the book so much that I ought not to be quite a failure in the play.
But one cannot be always consistent, and this inconsistency of Vincent's was of that involuntary and mental kind which is not translated into action. She saw him at last and welcomed him with an eager impulsiveness for she knew now that she had been unjust to him at Laufingen. They talked for some minutes, until Vincent said at last, 'I hear you are going to play Beaumelle?
Who could attend to Maupertuis while Voltaire was talking? Voltaire, who as obviously outshone Maupertuis as Maupertuis outshone La Mettrie and Darget and the rest. In his exasperation the President went to the length of openly giving his protection to a disreputable literary man, La Beaumelle, who was a declared enemy of Voltaire. This meant war, and war was not long in coming.
Voltaire advised that La Beaumelle should be fettered together with a band of other literary opponents and sent to the galleys. Among Spanish historians the name of John Mariana is illustrious. He was born at Talavera in 1537, and, in spite of certain misfortunes which befell him on account of his works, lived to the age of eighty-seven years.
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