[18] In the year 1814, the late M. Millin published a dissertation upon
this medal, to which he prefixed an engraving of the figure of Louis.
There can indeed be but one opinion that the Engraving is unworthy of
the Original.

[For an illustration of the _Medallic History of France_, I scarcely
recollect any one object of Art which would be more gratifying, as
well as apposite, than a faithful Engraving of such a Medal: and I
call upon my good friend M. DU CHESNE to set such a History on foot.
There is however another medal, of the same Monarch, of a smaller
size, but of equal merit of execution, which has been selected to
grace the pages of this second edition--in the OPPOSITE PLATE. The
inscription is as follows: LUDOVICO XII. REGNANTE CÆSARE ALTERO.
GAUDET OMNIS NATIO: from which it is inferred that the Medal was
struck in consequence of the victory of Ravenna, or of Louis's
triumphant campaigns in Italy. A short but spirited account is given
of these campaigns in Le Noir's _Musée des Monumens Français_, tome
ii. p. 145-7.]

[19] ["And it is Mr. DIBDIN who makes this confession! Let us render
justice to his impartiality on this occasion. Such a confession ought
to cause some regret to those who go to seek engravings in London."
CRAPELET, vol. ii. p. 89. The reader shall make his own remark on the
force, if there be any, of this gratuitous piece of criticism of the
French Translator.]

[20] [And, till within these few months, those of the REV. DR. NICOLL,
Regius Professor of the Hebrew Language! That amiable and modest and
surprisingly learned Oriental Scholar died in the flower of his age