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Trent, there is no reference to the English memoirs published in the same year, and, in all probability, not till after the part of Ranke's first volume was in the press and printed. In the account, however, of the third, last, and most important convention of the Council, of which the account occurs pp. 329-351 of the first volume, second edition in 1838, there are three distinct references to the Memoirs, as authority, pp. 334, 344, 345. In the third volume likewise among the documents, in that, the subject of which is Sarpi, p. 276, speaking of a MS. history of Milledonne, which he possessed, he adds, 'welche auch Foscarini und Mendham kennen'. These, added to the reference first adduced, are really more notice than a foreigner, with so little notoriety and introduction as the present writer can pretend to, could well expect from a distant university. The only wonder with me is, that the work was known at Berlin at all, particularly so early.
"But now, what becomes of the Dublin Reviewer's assertion, that Ranke has refrained from quoting Mr. Mendham's Memoirs, with the reason given by the author for the same? and what becomes of his veracity?
