negatived. (_Commons' Journals_, xi. 765. 767.) This attempt again to
shackle the press seems to have occasioned

"A Letter to a Member of Parliament showing that a restraint on the
Press is inconsistent with the Protestant Religion and dangerous to the
Liberties of the Nation." Printed 1697, and reprinted in Cobbett's
_Parliamentary History_, v. App. p. cxxx.

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, October 29. 1850.

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REMAINS OF JAMES II.

(Vol. ii., pp. 243. 281.)

To the information which has recently been furnished in your pages
respecting the remains of James II., it may be not uninteresting to add the
inscription which is on his monument in the church of St. Germain-en-Laye,
and which I copied, on occasion of my last visit to France.

The body of the king, or a considerable portion of it, which had remained
unburied, was, I believe, interred at St. Germain soon after the
termination of the war in 1814; but it being necessary to rebuild the
church, the remains were exhumed and re-interred in 1824. Vicissitudes as
strange in death as in life seem to have attended this unhappy king.

The following is the inscription _now_ on his monument in the parish church