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procured. These wines possess every desirable 

 quality, — strength, flavour, rw&y brightness, re- 

 tained after being in bottle perhaps ten or fifteen 

 years : for it should be known that these, and many 

 other wines not sophisticated with spirit of wine, 

 will keep well and greatly improve in bottle for 

 Vfery many years. 



The horrible liquid now mixed with coarse 

 wines, almost pure alcohol, is equally destructive 

 to the taste as pernicious to the health of drinkers ; 

 its wholesome and nutritious properties being all 

 destroyed by high distillation. J. B. 



Quotation wanted : " We^ve wept, wive hied" 

 &c.— 

 " We've wept, we've bled — we never blushed till now." 

 Where is this to be found ? Anon. 



William Staneliouse of Carholzie. — I shall feel 

 obliged for references or information regarding 

 the ancestry of " William Stanehouse of Carbol- 

 zie," who received a patent of naturalisation as a 

 Scotch settler in Ulster, in 1618. His descend- 

 ants bear " argent, on a fesse, azure, between three 

 pigeons volant of the last, a leopard's face between 

 two mullets of the first." Where is Carbolzie ? 



E. D. B. 



Portarlington. 



Portraits of Counts of Holland. — I should be 

 glad of information respecting the authorship, 

 date, rarity, and literary merits of a folio volume 

 entitled, — 



" Recueil de XXXVI. Portraits veritables de tous les 

 Comtes et Comtesses de la Hollande, &c. Avec un 

 abrege Chronologique de leurs Efegnes, depuis I'An 853 

 jusqu'k I'An 1581 ; &c. A^ Amsterdam : chez M. Magems, 

 Libraire." 



Besides the very curious portraits, the book con- 

 tains several maps, charts, &c., " le tout grave par 

 de tres habiles maifcres." Wm. Matthews. 



"^ Marvellous Pleasant Love Story." — Who is 

 the author of A Marvellous Pleasant Love Story ? 

 a work published in or about the year 1806. 

 There is an opera entitled Rusticity, written by 

 the same author, noticed in the Biographia Dra- 

 matica. X. 



Early American Expedition for the Discovery 

 of the North-west Passage. — In the Boston Ga- 

 zette or Weekly Advertiser., May 22, 1753, there is 

 the following notice : 



" Philadelphia, May 10. — We hear that the schooner 

 Argo, Capt. Swaine, who was fitted out from this port by 

 a number of Merchants of this and the neighbouring Pro- 

 vinces, and sailed hence on the 4th of March last for 

 Hudson's Bay, on the Discovery of the North-west Pas- 

 sage, having touched at the Hiannas, near Cape Cod, and 

 at Portsmouth in New England, to take in her Comple- 

 ment of Hands, and some particular Necessaries, took her 

 departure from the latter place on the 15th of April, all 

 well on board, and in high spirits." 



Mr. Merlan (a good authority) understood that 

 Dr. Franklin was the originator of this Provincial 

 Arctic Expedition. What is known of its result ? 



W. W. 



Malta. 



Rev. John Newson. — Who was the Rev. John 

 Newson, M.A., rector of Connington, in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, and vicar of Elm cum Emneth in the 

 Isle of Ely ? He was the author of — 



" A Brief Explication of the Christian Religion by 

 Question and Answer; to which are added Eight Ser- 

 mons on Plain and Practical Subjects." Printed at Shef- 

 field by W. Ward. 1781. 8vo. 



H. J. 



Sheffield. 



Early Caricatures. — Having in my possession 

 six burlesque engravings, viz. " The State Pack- 

 horse," "European Race for a Distance, a.d. 1739 

 and 1740," "The Tomb-stone," "The Reason," 

 and " The Funeral of Faction," I am desirous of 

 some explanation of their meaning, and to what 

 political state they refer. Will any of your cor- 

 respondents assist me in my elucidation ? J. F. 



Kensington. 



Martha Blount. — What authority had Johnson 

 — what other authority than his "it is said" is 

 there — for the shocking story, that Martha Blount 

 asked when she last came to Twickenham, " What, 

 is he not dead yet ? " Mackay, in his Thames and 

 its Tributaries, repeats it ; assumes it to be true, 

 and adds, " it does not appear that this thought- 

 less and unkind expression ever reached the ear 

 of the poet." Assuredly it never could, if never 

 uttered ; and I hope it will appear to rest at pre- 

 sent on the "it is said." Mr. Mackay adds, " but 

 he took her general inattention and neglect of 

 him in his days of sickness and decay very deeply 

 to heart." Is there any authority for this story 

 of inattention or neglect, beyond the note of RufF- 

 head, through whom Warburton spit his venom, 

 and revenged her quarrel with the Aliens ? R. R. 



" l^emple' of Fame ; " "Dying Christian." — Mr. 

 Carruthers, it is understood, is preparing a new 

 edition of The Life and Works of Pope. It may 

 be well, therefore, to draw his attention to any 

 statement, no matter how imimportant, which is 

 either erroneous or open to misconstruction. 



In the list of Pope's Works (vol. i. p. 340.), Mr. 

 Carruthers registers The Temple of Fame as pub- 

 lished in 1714. It is true, I believe, that the 

 Temple of Fame was published in February or 

 March 1714-15; but calling that 1714 is likely 

 to mislead, the more especially as 1715 is the date 

 in the title-page. 



Mr. Carruthers also states that the Dying 

 Christian to his Soul was published in The Spec- 

 tator, 1712. This again is, I think, a mistake. 

 We have indeed in The Spectator, Nov. 10, 1712, 



