[Footnote 69: Besides the bloody passages of this narrative,
I must refer to an anticipation in the third volume of the
Decline and Fall, which in a single note (p. 234, note 25)
accumulates nearly 300,000 heads of the monuments of his
cruelty. Except in Rowe's play on the fifth of November, I
did not expect to hear of Timour's amiable moderation
(White's preface, p. 7.) Yet I can excuse a generous
enthusiasm in the reader, and still more in the editor, of
the Institutions.]