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translated into English by John Digby, under the title, The Embassador and his Functions, to which is added An Historical Discourse, concerning the Election of the Emperor, and the Electors.'[1]
On the birth and learning of an Embassador;[2] Whether Clergymen are proper for Embassies;[3] Of Instructions;[4] Of the Function of the Embassador in general;[5] Of Prudence
- ↑ Small folio [1716], pp. (viii+) 570, of which pp. 431–570 treat of 'The Election of the Emperor'; there are, in addition, twenty-eight pages of Index. An 'analyse raisonnée' of the work is given in Bibliothèque de l'Homme public, by Condorcet (1790), tome douzième, pp. 6–104. 'De tous les auteurs qui ont traité des ambassadeurs, aucun n'a rapporté tant de faits que Wicquefort. … Ces faits y sont mal distribués, et se sentent de la situation violente où etoit l'auteur; mais on les y trouve. Il ne cite point ses garans; mais la plupart des faits qu'il rapporte sont vrais. Pour les principes, il ne fait que les entrevoir.'–p. 6. See Appendix, below, pp. 217 sqq-
- ↑ Bk. i, ch. vii.
- ↑ Bk. i, ch. ix.
- ↑ Bk. i, ch. xiv.
- ↑ Bk. ii, ch. i. See also Bk. i, ch. xvi, pp. 116–21, 'Of the Embassador's Powers' ('The Powers, with reference to an Embassador, are nothing else, than what a Letter of Attorney is in reference to a private Person', p. 116); ch. xviii, 'Of the Reception and Entry of the Embassador’, pp. 127–48; ch. xix, 'Of Audiences', pp. 148–64; ch. xx–xxii, 'Of Honours and Civilities', pp. 164–202; 'Of the Apparel and Expences', pp. 202–8 ('The Embassador Extraordinary cannot well avoid keeping an open Table, if he will do honour to his Master. … In the Courts of the North, where great Entertainments make part of the Negotiation, this Expence is very necessary, as well as in Holland, where they take great delight in reasoning between two Trestles. The Fenns of the Country produce a multitude of Frogs. The major Part of Embassadors do not succeed therein, as well because every Body is not fit for it, as because it is contrary to the Dignity of the Character'); ch. xxiv, 'Of the Competition between France and Spain', pp. 208–20; ch. xxv, 'Of Several Other Competitions',
teenth century on the subject of the rights and duties of ambassadors. … The curiously chequered life of this intriguing adventurer might almost have furnished materials for his once celebrated treatise, which is rather of an historical than didactic character, and was written during his long imprisonment in Holland.'—Wheaton, op. cit., p. 235.
