I hope he has, by this time, got my EPITRE on the English Liberty of Thought." [29th October 1739, To Algarotti in London (_OEuvres,_ xviii.

5).] And so Baltimore passes on, silent in History henceforth,--though Friedrich seems to have remembered him to late times, as a kind of type-figure when England came into his head.

For the sake of this small transit over the sun's disk, I have made some inquiry about Baltimore; but found very little;--perhaps enough:-- "He was Charles, Sixth Lord Baltimore, it appears; Sixth, and last but one.

First of the Baltimores, we know, was Secretary Calvert (1618-1624), who colonized Maryland; last of them (1774) was the Son of this Charles; something of a fool, to judge by the face of him in Portraits, and by some of his doings in the world.

He, that Seventh Baltimore, printed one or two little Volumes "now of extreme rarity"-- (cannot be too rare); and winded up by standing an ugly Trial at Kingston Assizes (plaintiff an unfortunate female).