7/65 I have sent to him to legislate for us: he is wise in the law, and astrology, and all sciences; he shall aid my Ministers in their councils. I have written to him by the post. There shall be no more infamous mad-houses in France, where poor souls shiver in strait-waistcoats. He was in his counting-house, counting out his money, as the old prophecy warned me. I will endow the land with noble institutions instead of diabolical forts. |