This
privilege was first legally recognized in 1274, and was not wholly
abolished until 1827.
12 9 QUARTER SESSIONS: This court is held in England in the counties by
justices of the peace for the trial of minor criminal offenses and to
administer the poor laws, etc.
12 26 FALSE ECHOES OF MARENGO: General Desaix was shot through the
heart at the battle of Marengo (June 14, 1800); he died without a word,
and his body was found by Rovigo (cf. Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo,
London, 1835, Vol. I, p. 181), "stripped of his clothes, and surrounded
by other naked bodies." Napoleon, however, published three different
versions of an heroic and devoted message from Desaix to himself, the
original version being: "Go, tell the First Consul that I die with this
regret,--that I have not done enough for posterity." (Cf. Lanfrey,
History of Napoleon the First, 2d ed., London, 1886, Vol. II, p. 39.)
Napoleon himself was credited likewise with the words De Quincey
adopts. "Why is it not permitted me to weep" is one version (Bussey,
_History of Napoleon_, London, 1840, Vol. I, p. 302). Cf. Hazlitt,
_Life of Napoleon_, 2d ed., London, 1852, Vol. II, p. 317,
footnote.
12 (footnote) THE CRY OF THE FOUNDERING LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP "VENGEUR":
On the 1st of June, 1794, the English fleet under Lord Howe defeated
the French under Villaret-Joyeuse, taking six ships and sinking a
seventh, the _Vengeur_.
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