de Vita sua." _] No Council ever was successful; so many mean human passions getting into conflagration there; with noise, with violence and uproar, 'more like those of a tavern or still worse place,'-- these are his words.

He, for his own share, had resolved to avoid all such 'rendezvousing of the Geese and Cranes, flocking together to throttle and tatter one another in that sad manner.' Nor had St.
Theodoret much opinion of the Council of Nice, except as a kind of miracle.

'Nothing good to be expected from Councils,' says he, 'except when God is pleased to interpose, and destroy the machinery of the Devil.'" -- With more of the like sort; all delicate, as invisible needle-points, in her Majesty's hand.

[Letter undated (datable "Lutzelburg, March, 1708,") is to be found entire, with all its adjuncts, in _ Erman, _ pp.
246-255.

It was subsequently translated by Toland, and published here, as an excellent Polemical Piece,--entirely forgotten in our time (_ A Letter against Popery by Sophia Charlotte, the late Queen of Prussia: Being, _ &c.