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Duke himself? On consideration, perhaps, Sir 

 John set down the whole story as a canard. On 

 the same day that he heard it, Aug. 4, he jots 

 down another curious article of intelligence, re- 

 specting a certain " Salon," a place, apparently, 

 of a so newhat Tartarean character, whither gen- 

 tlemen resorted to lose their money. " The fund 

 is extremely rich. /amfoWithad, on one occa- 

 sion, lent Napoleon forty millions of francs." 

 Lively Parisians ! In this case, however, the 

 canard was too palpable. Sir John adds, " But 

 this appears impossible ; perhaps it was four 

 millions." 



After all, the proposal to lay the French crown 

 at the feet of Wellington may have been actually 

 made, and for a time entertained, although there 

 seems to be little prospect of our now obtaining 

 evidence of the fact. Supposing the statement to 

 be groundless, the question remains to be asked, 

 In what way can the report have originated ? 

 There is a story current that, in the course of 

 the Duke's residence at Paris after Waterloo, he 

 was once in the royal box at the opera, Louis le 

 desire not being present ; and that some indig- 

 nant Frenchman shouted from the body of the 

 house, " Do you want to make yourself King ? " 

 It is also stated, in the Wellington Anecdotes, 1852, 

 that the Duke was at one time charged with as- 

 piring to the throne of Spain : — 



" In reply to an absurd charge once circulated by a 

 licentious portion of the press, that he aspired to the 

 Spanish throne, Lord Wellington wrote, ' There is no 

 end ol' the calumnies against me and the army, and I 

 should have no time to do anything else, if I were to 

 begin either to refute or even to notice them. Very lately' 

 they took the occasion of a libel in an Irish newspaper, 

 respecting a supposed conversation between Castanos and 

 me (in which I am supposed to have consented to change 

 my religion to become King of Spain), to accuse me of 

 this intention.' " 



It is added that certain High Mightinesses felt it 

 necessary to protest formally that they were not 

 of the number of the Grandees who had given 

 their consent to such an arrangement. (Wellington 

 Anecdotes, pp. 22, 23.) 



I have not been able to find the Duke's letter 

 here cited. Perhaps some of your readers can 

 supply a reference. Thomas Boys. 



Bichard Symonds (2"'^ S. vii. G7. 224.) — Your 

 correspondent J. C. Symons is mistaken as to 

 the identity of the author of the Diary. The 

 Richard Symonds, whom he mentions as having 

 died in 1680, was the first cousin of the Richard 

 Symonds the date of whose death I am endea- 

 vouring to ascertain. C. E. L. 



Faunes Family (2"'* S. vii. 147.) — There is no 

 such surname of a pcr.wn as Faunes within the 



county of Berwick, in which the place called 

 Fauns is situated, so far as I ever heard, and I 

 have lived in the county for many years, and 

 know it well. 



I have no reason to suppose that there ever 

 were any such. I have searched the chartularies 

 of Kelso and Dryburgh Abbeys, where I find 

 " Adam," and others " de Faunes," and nowhere 

 find Faunes used as a surname. 



Fauns, which is in the parish of Earlstoun, was 

 formerly a village of some extent. The only re- 

 mains of it now consist of two good farm-houses, 

 and offices and cottages for the farm-servants, and 

 a carpenter, blacksmith, &c. These steadings, as 

 they are called, are Fauns on the Hill, and Fauns 

 Loan End ; the latter taking its specific name from 

 being at the junction of the loan, or road, leading 

 over the hill and through what was the village, 

 with the main line of road from Edinburgh to 

 Kelso. 



The origin of the name of Faunes is probably 

 from its being within what was formerly an ex- 

 tensive forest ; and the district contains this and 

 many other similar names connected with the 

 chase of deer. There are Fauns Hill, Hartside 

 Hill, Hindside Hill, Hindhope, Roecleugh, Hound- 

 wood, &c. J. Ss. 



P.S. There is an error (probably a typogra- 

 phical one) in the end of this Query. It says 

 that "Adam de Faunes" "married a Haig of 

 Banerside ;" it should have been Bemerside. 



Old China (2"'^ S. vii. 139.) — Iain obliged to 

 Vebna for his ofler of a sketch of his old yellow 

 vases; but as a sketch gives only the form, it 

 would not enable me to give an opinion as to the 

 porcelain being eggshell, or the colour bright 

 citron yellow, these being the characteristics of 

 the imperial porcelain of Nankin. 



I shall, however, be happy to be put into com- 

 munication with Vebna. A letter addressed to 

 the care of John Murray, publisher, Albemarle 

 Street, will reach me. M. 



Curious Charge of Treason (2"'^ S. vii. 7. 179.) 

 — I should be glad if Mk. Philip Colson will 

 explain in what Mr. Edw;abd Foss's account of 

 Walter Walker's execution in the reign of Edw. 

 IV., is " quite a new reading,"' and " so totally dif- 

 ferent from the facts." Mr. Colson quotes from 

 Shakspeare : — 



" . . how Edward put to death a citizen 

 Onh' for saying he would make his son 

 Heir to the Crown ; meaning indeed his house, 

 Which by the sign hereof was called so." 



Mb. Colson says the citizen was a " respectable 

 grocer." Mr. Foss says Walter Walker, " a pub- 

 lican " was indicted on a charge of high treason 

 for saying he would make his son " Heir to the 

 Crown;" meaning his inn so called. In this I 

 can find no " new reading," or anything " totally 



