2»d 8. VII. Jait. 1. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES* 



bis informant.' When George III. heard of Lord 

 Loughborouj^h's death, he exclaimed : " He has 

 not left a greater rogue behind him." 



I remember meetings some time since, in the 

 Examine?' for -1813 (p. 431.), a letter offering to 

 verify on oath, that a Mr. Hewitt had revealed the 

 authorship on his death-bed. The letter may be 

 a quiz, but there are persons whom it might 

 amuse to see it. William J. Fitz-Patkick. 



Almon, in the 1st volume of Anecdotes, pub- 

 lished in 1797 (pp. 15, 16, 17.), speaking of the 

 Papers of Junius, says : — 



" They were occasionally attributed to Lord Sackville, 

 lit. Hon. W. G. Hamilton, the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 

 John Dunning, and many others, but without the least 

 ground or foundation in truth. . . . During their original 

 publication the writer lived in Norfolk Street in the 

 Strand; not in affluent circumstances, but he did not 

 write for pecuniary aid. He was a native of Ireland, of 

 an honourable family, and of Trinity College, Dublin. 

 He was at one time intended for the army, and at another 

 for the bar ; but private circumstances prevented either 



taking place He frequently attended Parliament 



and the Courts in Westminster Hall, and sometimes he 



committed to paper the speeches he had heard 



When the public discontents concerning the Middlesex 

 election . . had abated, he ceased to write, which was 

 about the close of the year 1771. However, towards the 

 end of 1779, he resumed his pen, and wrote a number of 

 political essaj'S or letters, which he entitled The Whig. 

 .... in the year 1791, he went to Madras with Lord 

 Macartney, to whom he had been known in Ireland, and 

 there he died." 



Who was the person thus described ? R. G. T. 



[Hugh Macaulay Boj'd, whose Miscellaneous Works 

 were published in two volumes in 1800. In the pre- 

 liminary Memoir, the editor, Mr. Campbell, endeavoured 

 to prove that Boj'd was Junius. Bo3-d's claim was after- 

 wards advocated by Almon in the Preface to the edition 

 of Junius' Letters published by him in 1806. George 

 Chalmers supported Boj'd's claim in his Appendix to the 

 Supplemental Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare 

 Papers, which he reprinted with new facts, &c. in 1817, 

 and again with farther additions in 1819, under the title 

 of The Author of Junius ascertained, 8fc. See " N. & Q." 

 2n'i S. i. 185, 6.] 



SIR ROBERT WALPOLE AND QUEEN CAROLINE. 



No historical anecdote is better known than 

 that of Sir Robert Walpole's accidental discovery 

 of the true nature of Queen Caroline's disease, 

 which she took so much pains to conceal from the 

 world. Horace Walpole is the authority for the 

 story, the original version of which is in Lord 

 Orford's Reminiscences. Lord Orford says : — 



" It was great shrewdness in Sir Robert Walpole, who 

 before her distemper broke out discovered her secret. On 

 my mother's death, who was of the Queen's age, her Ma- 

 jesty asked Sir Robert many physical questions; but he 

 remarked that she oftenest reverted to a rupture, which 

 had not been the illness of his wife. When he came home 

 he said to me, 'Now, Horace, I know by possession of 



what secret Lady Sundon has preserved such an ascend- 

 ant over the Queen.' " 



Though Walpole was but a youth when his 

 mother died, and therefore not very likely to be 

 made the depository of a secret so delicate and 

 important, the story is circumstantial — even a 

 conversation being remembered, and the exact 

 words quoted. Nevertheless it is certain that no 

 such discovery was made by Sir Robert, and that 

 consequently no such conversation could have 

 taken place. This, I think, is proved by the fol- 

 lowing extract from a letter from Sir Robert to 

 his brother Horace, written only three days be- 

 fore the Queen's death, but nearly three months 

 after the death of Lady Walpole. The letter will 

 be found in Coxe's Life of Sir Robert Walpole 

 (4to. edit. iii. 500.) : — 



"London, Tuesday, November'loth, 1737, 

 12 o'clock at noon. 

 " The queen was. taken ill last Wednesday ... It was 

 explicitly declared and universallg believed to be the gout 

 in her stomach . . . The case was thought so desperate 

 that Sir Hans Sloane and Dr. Hulse were on Friday sent 

 for, who totally despaired. Necessity at last discovered 

 and revealed a secret ivhich had been totally concealed and 

 unknown. The queen had a rupture, which is now known 



not to have been a new accident But will it ever 



be believed that a life of this importance (when there is 

 no room for flattery) should be lost, or run thus near, by 

 concealing human infirmities? " 



The life of the Queen was of the utmost im- 

 portance to Walpole, and if he had known of her 

 disease since his wife died, he would of course 

 have long before taken care to inform her phy- 

 sicians of its true character; but it is evident from 

 this extract, and the remainder of the letter, that 

 Walpole had been as much in the dark concern- 

 ing the Queen's secret as was every one else ; and 

 as much thrown into consternation at the sudden 

 discovery, as the rest of his party. 



W. Mot Thomas. 



ENGLISH MORALS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



I have often thought of l^ringing before the 

 notice of the readers of " N. & Q." a statement 

 made by Bishop Goodman of Gloucester, which I 

 have not seen anywhere except in Newcorae's 

 Memoir of Dean Goodman. That writer says : 

 " In the Library of Trin. Coll. Camb. there is 

 Pontificate Romanum, impress, mdcxxvii., some- 

 time Godfrey Goodman's own book." And, after 

 giving a copy of some manuscript notes which the 

 Bishop had written on a spare leaf at the be- 

 ginning of the book, he adds (Appendix T, sig. y, 

 for the Appendix is not paged) : — 



" Upon another blanc leaf, at the end of the 

 book, is this Note in his own hand : — 

 " ' L H. S. 



" 'I was Parson of Stapleford Abbots in Essex, 

 A.I). 1C07, where I continued neer 13 years. Then 



