Vota, on his way homeward, had written to apologize for the sputterings of fire struck out of him in certain pinches of the combat; says, It was the rough handling the Primitive Fathers got from these Beausobre gentlemen, who indeed to me, Vota in person, under your Majesty's fine presidency, were politeness itself, though they treated the Fathers so ill.

Her Majesty, with beautiful art, in this Letter, smooths the raven plumage of Vota;--and, at the same time, throws into him, as with invisible needle-points, an excellent dose of acupuncturation, on the subject of the Primitive Fathers and the Ecumenic Councils, on her own score.

Let us give some Excerpt, in condensed state:-- "How can St.Jerome, for example, be a key to Scripture ?" she insinuates; citing from Jerome this remarkable avowal of his method of composing books; "especially of his method in that Book, _ Commentary on the Galatians, _ where he accuses both Peter and Paul of simulation and even of hypocrisy.

The great St.Augustine has been charging him with this sad fact," says her Majesty, who gives chapter and verse; ["Epist.
28*, edit.

Paris." And Jerome's answer, "Ibid.