"It was then," said his Lordship, "that Colbert, having asked
a merchant what he should do, he (the merchant), with great justice
and great sagacity, said, 'Laissez faire et laissez passer'--do
not interfere as to the size and mode of your manufactures, do not
interfere with the entrance of foreign imports, but let them compete
with your own manufactures."
Colbert died twenty-nine years before M. de Gournay was born. Lord
J. Russell omitted to state whether Colbert followed the merchant's
advice.
C. ROSS.
_College Salting and Tucking of Freshmen_ (No. 17. p. 261., No. 19.
p. 306.).--A circumstantial account of the tucking of freshmen, as
practised in Exeter College, oxford, in 1636, is given in Mr. Martyn's
_Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury_, vol. i. p. 42.
"On a particular day, the senior under-graduates, in the
evening, called the freshmen to the fire, and made them hold
out their chins; whilst one of the seniors, with the nail of
his thumb (which was left long for that purpose), grated off
all the skin from the lip to the chin, and then obliged him to
drink a beer-glass of water and salt."
Lord Shaftesbury was a freshman at Exeter in 1636; and the story told
by his biographer is, that he organised a resistance among his fellow
freshmen to the practice, and that a row took place in the college
hall, which led to the interference of the master, Dr.
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