text:  To be sure the advantage is on the side of the French academicians; for instead of sending forth a mass of confused contradictory and ill-written reports based upon imperfect evidence and leading to no definite conclusion the literary commission as Llorente informs us was silent altogether; whereupon Llorente attributing not unnaturally this preternatural silence on the part of the three French _savans_ to the impossibility of finding any thing to say after the lapse of a year and a half publishes his arguments and appeals to literary Europe as the judge "en dernier ressort" of this important controversy