The pamphlet appeared: from that moment every other quarrel was forgotten; the perilous state of French music was the only thing by which the attention of the public was engaged, and the only insurrection was against myself.

This was so general that it has never since been totally calmed.

At court, the bastile or banishment was absolutely determined on, and a 'lettre de cachet' would have been issued had not M.de Voyer set forth in the most forcible manner that such a step would be ridiculous.

Were I to say this pamphlet probably prevented a revolution, the reader would imagine I was in a dream.

It is, however, a fact, the truth of which all Paris can attest, it being no more than fifteen years since the date of this singular fact.