23 JANUARY 1875, Page 14

GIBBON AND LOUIS XVI.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

find the following notice in the catalogue of a Paris publisher :— "Gibbon, Histoire de la Decadence et 'de la Chute de l'Empire &main, tradnite de l'Anglais par De Septchenes. Paris,1795. 18 vole."

The publisher adds this note

"Le roi Louis X VL est l'auteur de cetto traduction, sous la peen- donyme de M. de Septch6nes.' "

Perhaps some of your readers could give me some information on this matter.—I am, Sir, &c.,