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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 65., Maic. 28. '67. 



that, so secure was he of the affections of his sub- 

 jects, that he went on a pilgrimage to Rome, as 

 had been done by other royal and noble persons 

 at. that time. How could a tyrant, and one pos- 

 sessing by violence, have ventured to leave his 

 own territories for months ? The fact is doubted 

 by Hailes, but it is too strongly authenticated to 

 admit of cavil. It would be interesting to ascer- 

 tain if there are any Papal records of the period 

 between 1037 and 1053 existing at Rome. 



The remains of Macbeth, after his slaughter, as 

 well as those of Lulac, were carried to lona, and 

 ])laced beside those of Duncan in the royal bury- 

 ing-place. Lulac was Gruoch's son, by her first 

 marriage ; therefore Macbeth's step-son. Upon 

 Jiis father-in-law's death — although, as his name 

 indicates, he was of weak capacity — he was pro- 

 claimed King of the Scots. He got the crown 

 through his mother, another proof of her prefer- 

 able title. 



King Lulac, after a brief reign of six months, 

 was slain : and in this way terminated the race of 

 Guoch, unless Duncan's two younger sons were 

 by her, which may or may not have been the case. 



We may probably resume these speculations on 

 some other occasion. The subject is very curious, 

 and perhaps some historical student may think it 

 worth his while to consider it. J. M. 



COLTON'S "HyPOCBlST," ANNOTATED BY MRS. 

 PIOZZI. 



The following passages are extracted from the 

 valuable notes to the Rev. C. C. Colton's power- 

 ful satire. Hypocrisy (8vo., Tiverton, 1812), — the 

 accompanying sentences, in Italics, being tran- 

 scripts of remarks in the handwriting of Hester 

 Lynch Piozzi (Dr. Johnson's Mrs, Thrale), in my 

 copy of the above-named work, which formerly 

 oelonged to that lady : — 



" The salt that will preserve the Lives of the Poets 

 (Johnson's) Is to be found in the comparison that work 

 contains of Pope and Dryden," &c. — P. 13. 



" Borrowed from Fontenelle" s comparison of Racine and 

 Corneille, which was itself borrowed from Rapin's compari- 

 son, between Herodotus and Thuci/dtdes." 



" If an author were to ask a bookseller what he should 

 write, his answer would be, 'anything but sermons or 

 poetry.'" — P. 41. 



" Blair's single volume sold for GOQL, and Scott gets a 

 guinea a line for his verses : why not write sermons or 

 poetry ? " 



" In the article of a cruel and unnatural mother, let us 

 hope that Savage is without a competitor." — P. 49. 



" I have understood lately that she was not his mother ; 

 that Colonel Brett declared upon his death-bed that the 

 Countess's son died in infancy, and that Mr. Savage was an 

 impostor. God knows." 



•' it is not therefore to be wondered at, if even such a 



writer as Mr. Southey, whose powers it were ridiculous 

 to deny, from the manifest difficulty of satisfying the 

 public taste with originalities, serves up a dish of high 

 seasoned absurdities in their stead." — P. 81. 



" True, True. Southey's Motto to the Curse of Kehama 

 shoidd be taken from his work ; this very line icould do 

 excellently : 



' " A Monstrous Dream of Things Impossible." 



" On seeing the statue of this Cardinal (Richelieu) at 

 the Sorbonne, Peter the Great exclaimed — 'Illustrious 

 statesman now no more! How gladly would I have 

 given thee one half of my kingdom, to teach me how to 

 govern the other.' " — P. 87. 



" Quote rightly, when you do quote, Dear Author: it 

 was Henry the Fourth's statue Peter saw, not Richelieu's, 

 which inspired the wish. He would not have sighed for the 

 Cardinal's qualifications." 



" I have heard the late Daines Barrington affirm that 

 he was one of a party who had prepared a room, with all 

 the apparatus necessary to resuscitate Dr. Dodd. That 

 the hangman was fee'd, that the Doctor's neck was not 

 dislocated ... 



" / have heard Dr. Johnson aver the same thing." 



"... and that he had no doubt they should have 

 succeeded, but that the immense crowd, and vast assem- 

 blage of carriages, prevented the hearse from reaching the 

 scene of action, until it was too late ; but that even then 

 a few faint symptoms of life were perceptible."— P. 89. 



" This I never heard till now, and do not believe." 



" This reminds me of an excellent anagram on a similar 

 subject : ' Bona rapta, pone leno." That is, ' Robber lay 

 down thy stolen goods.' It is curious that these words 

 make up, literatim. Napoleon Bonaparte." — P. 97. 



" Leno is not a thief, but a bawd or pimp; the character 

 does neither suit the Tyrant . . . nor the command to lay 

 down his spoil. Otherwise a good anagram enough." 



" That sarcastic remarks on the last of the Bourbons 

 are not now at least acceptable to the Emperor, is evi- 

 dent from the following anecdote, which I know to be 

 authentic. The Abbe Sifeyes, in company with Bona- 

 parte, Duroc, Grand Marechal de Paris, and a few others, 

 were walking tlirough a suite of apartments at Versailles. 

 When they came to the state Bed Room of the unfor- 

 tunate monarch, the Abbe' exclaimed, ' This was the bed 

 of the Tyrant.' Bonaparte, turning short, with visible 

 indignation, rejoined: 'Tyrant, say you, Sir.' Had I 

 been in his place, I would have been in possession of that 

 bed at this moment, and you would have been saying 

 Mass.'" — P. 97. 



" TTiat is very good, if he really did say so; for every 

 word is Truth." 



" These elements of knowledge should support the 

 superstructure ; but like all other foundations, they should 

 lie concealed." — P. 118. 



" Just so : we teach our girls to dance, not that they may 

 exhibit like Professors, but to give them a graceful carriage." 



" Sir Joseph Banks, the learned and amiable President 

 of the Royal Society, was carried out to Otaheite to ob- 

 i-erve the transit of the planet Venus over the sun's disk. 

 This phenomenon migiit have been seen at home, but the 

 object of ascertaining the sun's parallax would not have 

 been attained." — P. 157. 



" Certainly: for I saw it." ^11. L, P. 



