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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2'"i S. VII. April 30. '59. 



scendant of Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of 

 London in 1713, who died in 1718-19, the ances- 

 tor also of the Hoares of Stourhead, Wilts). 



Mr. Richard Hoare died at Boreham in 1 778, 

 and his only surviving son in the following year. 

 There remained two daughters and coheirs ; So- 

 phia, married in 1783 to the Hon. William Grim- 

 ston (who assumed the name of Bucknall in 1797, 

 and died April 25, 1814), died March 4, 1826; 

 and Harriett Ellen, married to Nathaniel Webb, 

 Esq., of Busbridge, Surrey. Mrs. Richard Hoare 

 died suddenly at Boreham, May 18, 1799. At the 

 same time another portrait by Sir Joshua Rey- 

 nolds (the Hon. Mrs. Bucknall), said in the ac- 

 count of the sale in The Times newspaper to have 

 been painted in 1777, at the price of 75 guineas, 

 was sold for 360 guineas. This one might ima- 

 gine to be Mrs. Hoare's daughter Sophia ; but she 

 was not married till 1783, and did not become the 

 Hon. Mrs. Bucknall till 1797. Does it represent 

 the Hon. Mrs. Bucknall when Miss Hoare ? Can 

 any of your readers inform me when the picture 

 of Mrs. Hoare was painted, the price Sir Joshua 

 received for it, and which of the four children of 

 Mrs. Hoare, Henry Richard, born 1766, died 

 1768, Henry Benjamin, died 1779, Sophia or 

 Harriett Ellen, is the babe represented in it? 

 Who is the Hon. Mrs. Bucknall of the other 

 portrait ? And from whose collection have the 

 pictures been sold ? I. B. N. 



PIEDMONTESB, AtJSTBIAN, AND TBENCH 

 ARMAMENTS. 



The point of view from which the French re- 

 gard the threatened contest of Austria and Pied- 

 mont at this time may be ascertained from 

 Lamartine's Le Passe, le Present, et VAvenir de la 

 Republique, in reference to the parallel position of 

 1848, extracted from Farini's Roman State, trans- 

 lated by Gladstone (ii. 267.) The manner in 

 which Pius IX. and the constitutional party re- 

 gard the protection of England and France may 

 be inferred from Farini's contemptuous sneer, 

 which he supplies by way of annotation. 



" The King of Sardinia," says Lamartine, « repeatedly 

 sought from the French Eepublic a word of concurrence 

 and encouragement on behalf of the war already begun. 

 This word was never uttered. * * * The Republic desired to 

 be clear of every charge of having provoked war. * * * The 

 Eepublic foresaw that the King of Sardinia must in 

 Lombardy, meet with signal successes or signal reverses ; 

 in either case France must find herself concerned to in- 

 terfere. She therefore created, and strengthened up to 

 62,000 men, the army of the Alps, so as to be ready for 

 action. If the King of Piedmont drives the Austrians 

 from Upper Italy, and incorporates into his dominions 

 Uie Milanese, Venezia, Parma, Modena, perhaps even 

 Tuscany, France cannot allow, or cannot allow without 

 misgiving, that a" Power of the second order, at her very 

 door, should suddenly alter into one of the first. The 

 frontiers of this new kingdom of Italy would almost 



touch the gates of Lyons.* * * But, should the Piedmontese 

 be worsted, and pursued home by a victorious Austrian 

 armj', and should Austria wish to break up or attenuate 

 that kingdom, or to filter it, or to occupy its fortresses, 

 which indirectly are ours too, then France, by the right 

 of vicinage, in the care of her own security, and of her 

 legitimate influence with a state conterminous and feeble, 

 must descend into Piedmont under the form of armed 

 mediation. Wliat happens ne^^ ? I will show you, not 

 by idle conjecture, but from facts of the first four months 

 of the first Republican Government. This, then, will 

 happen ; the broken army of Piedmont will reconstruct 

 itself behind the line of ours. All Italy, reassured, will 

 take arms on our right hand, feeling herself under the 

 shadow of our protection. Venice will consolidate her 

 resistance. The Austrian army will halt to negotiate in 

 front of ours, which will cover the frontier of Piedmont 

 Europe, dreading to hear the first shot fired between 

 them, hastens to the place of meeting, to interpose. Eng- 

 land dispatches her envoys to mediate between the two 

 camps, and supports the negotiations by her fleet at 

 Genoa and in the Adriatic. The conferences open, com- 

 munications are made; our legitimate influence is up- 

 held and increased over Piedmont, Tuscany,' Rome, and 

 Naples. Political existence, constitutional and semi- 

 national, is gained for Lombardy as well as for Venice, 

 the prize of their blood ; it is guaranteed by the joint 

 Protectorate of France and England, the basis of Italian 

 emancipation. Such was the plan of the first Republican 

 Government. Already three-fourths of it were achieved ; 

 there remained nothing but the denouement, when it was 

 broken and scattered by the cannon of June 23, 1848, at 

 Paris, and afterwards by the inconstant, perhaps involun- 

 tarily inconstant, policy of the succeeding Governments 

 of the Republic." 



Whereupon Farini remarks, " In sooth, M, de 

 Lamartine, after these ingenuous confessions, will 

 have the right anew to call Italy the land of dead 

 men, if she shall go on trusting in the political 

 wisdom and the attachment of friends like these!" 



T. J. BCCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



THE "nVE GEEAT POWERS. 



These are words that are now constantly before 

 the public; and, generally speaking, they are 

 among the " unpleasant'st words that ever blotted 

 paper," for they are seldom named but in con- 

 nexion with national jealousies, intrigues, and wars. 

 They are, moreover, old words ; but, of course, 

 they have not always applied to the same govern- 

 ments. Thus, John Trussell, in his Lyfe and 

 Raigne of Henry the Fift (Dawson, at the Raine- 

 bowe, Fleet-streete, 1636), says :' — "In this Coun- 

 cill" (Constance, 1416), "it was decreed that 

 England should have the titel of the English Na- 

 tion, and should be accounted one of the five 

 principall Nations, which often before had beene 

 moved, but never granted till then," &c. The old 

 historian does not note the farther fact that what 

 " often before had beene moved," was now eagerly 

 opposed by the French representatives at the 

 council. Those envoys objected to any represen- 

 tatives of the King of England being received 



