“My dear Langlois, — I have been so constantly occupied that it has not been possible for me to give you an account of our debates, in which I have taken so large a share, and not unsuccessfully, if I may credit the partiality of my friends. The Ministers continue to procrastinate, yet they cannot delay the business above three weeks longer; the plan of future arrangement is nearly settled, and I write to you upon a subject of great importance to me. 1 write, my dear Langlois, to invite you, not as formerly, to a share of toil and labour, but to a bed of down. I am to be Secretary of State for the Home Department; I cannot, therefore, invite you to come and work with me, for we shall have not more business in a year than we have often done in a single week, but I do most earnestly invite you to come and take your share of this sinecure. It will oblige you to come to town sooner than usual; but it will not prevent your shooting parties in autumn. In that I can see no objection; but if, contrary to my hope, you should find London disagree with you, and should think even this quiet office too much for your spirits, you can then return to retirement. I am most anxious that you should at least make the experiment. I entreat of you, my dear Langlois; I ask it of your friendship; nay, more, I expect it from that long and faithful friendship from which I have never expected anything in vain. — Ever yours most sincerely,
Mr Langlois died in 1802. His sister, Mrs Lefroy, was the only member of the family who left descendants.
Pierre L’Anglois = Julie Monçeau de la Melonnière,
Peter,
Field-Marshal
in Holland,
died 1788.
A second
and third son.
Elizabeth
m. in 1738 = Anthony Lefroy,
Benjamin
died 1802.
Lieut.-Col. Anthony Lefroy = Anna Gardner,
Thomas Langlois Lefroy,
late Lord Chief-Justice of Ireland.
Chapter XXVIII. , pp. 304-311.
Modern Statesmen and Persons of High Position descended from the Refugees. — Susan, Duchess of Roxburghe, only child of Sir James Charles Dalbiac, K.C.H. (p. 304), Baron Romilly (p. 305), Lord De Blaquière (p. 305), Baron De Teissier (p. 306), Vicomte Henri De Vismes (p. 306), Right Hon. Austen Henry Layard (p. 306); also the following Baronets, Amyand (now Cornewall), Bayley, Boileau, Borough, De Crespigny, Lambert, Larpent, Pechell.
Notes.
Another brother of Sir George Amyand, the first baronet, was Rev. Thomas Amyand, some time Rector of Fawley in Buckinghamshire; he married Frances, daughter of William Rider of Madeira, and had three children, Thomas, Frances (Mrs Haggard), and Charlotte. Mr Smiles mentions that Amyand House, Twickenham, has descended to Mrs Haggard’s heirs.
Some account of the sufferings of Monsieur de Pechels may be found in Benoist’s Histoire de l’Edit de Nantes, Livre XXIII., p. 854, and Michelet’s Histoire de France, Tome XIII., p. 313; (this volume may be had separately, entitled “Louis XIV. et Revocation de l’Edit de Nantes, par J. Michelet”).
My Chapter XXVIII. was, of course, limited to refugees during the reign of Louis XIV. Among the new memoirs prefixed to this volume, other titled persons may be found. The following names occur in this chapter:—
Page 305. Dalbiac, Turner, Lamotte, Wilks, De Visme, Beaufils, Luard, Pitcairn, Daeten, Suttie, Russell, De Monteil, De Varennes.
Page 306. De Marguerittes, Auriol, Hay Drummond.
