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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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film was generally torn in the washing previous to de- 

 veloping. 



I trust the length of this will be excused, as I thinlc I 

 have offered a very valuable means for the purpose 

 spoken of. T. L. Mekuitt. 



Maidstone, February 9, 1857. 



N.B. — I forgot to say the time of exposure should, in 

 bright days, be ten minutes, a quarter of an hour in dull. 



Maull and Poli/blank's Portraits. — Messrs. Maull and 

 Polyblank continue their interesting series of Living 

 Celebrities. Since we last directed the attention of our 

 readers to this gallery of contemporary portraits three 

 new numbers have appeared. No. 8. gives us a very 

 marked and characteristic portrait of one who has done 

 good service to an art which has contributed so largely 

 to the perfection which Photography has now attained — 

 Chemistry — and we cannot doubt that the portrait of 

 Professor Graham is destined to find a place in many a 

 laboratory. No. 7, presents us with a portrait of an 

 artist whose works as an historical painter have secured 

 him an European reputation — E.M.Ward, the Koyal 

 Academician. To those who know him only by his 

 works, his " Execution of Montrose" and his "Last Sleep 

 of Argyll," this portrait will be a surprise, as showing, 

 from the comparative j'outh of Mr. Ward, how many 

 great pictures may yet be expected from him. No. 10., 

 the last issued, is far from the least effective of the three 

 I)ortraits now before us. It is a portrait of the able and 

 eminent lawyer who now fills the important oifice of Lord 

 Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ; and the 

 numerous friends of Lord Campbell will be delighted with 

 the opportunity of securing , so characteristic and unaf- 

 fected a portrait. 



3KcjpltP^ t0 Minax tShutvicg. 



Napoleon and Wellington (2""^ S. iii. 90.) — 

 Extract fronn the will of Napoleon, the fourth 

 codicil, dated Longwood, April 24, 1821 : 



" 5" Idem, (10,000) dix mille francs au sous-oificier 

 Cantillon, qui a essuye un proems comme prevenu d'avoir 

 voulu assassiner Lord Wellington, ce dont il a ete declare 

 innocent. Cantillon avait autant de droit d'assassiner cet 

 oligarque, que celui-ci de m'envoyer pour pe'rir sur le 

 rocher de Ste. Heitiue. Wellington, qui a propose cet at- 

 tentat, cherchait si le justifier sur I'interet de la Grande 

 Bretagne. Cantillon, si vraiment il eiit assassine ce lord, 

 se serait convert, et aurait 4t4 justifle par les menies 

 motifs, I'interet de la France, de se de'faire d'un general 

 qui d'ailleurs avait viole la capitulation de Paris, et par- 

 Ik s'etait rendu responsable du sang des Martyrs Ney, 

 Labedoyere, &c. &c., et du crime d'avoir depouille les 

 musees, contre le text des traites." — Testament de Na- 

 poleon, Ridgwaj', London, 1824. 



H. J. (2.) 



Luttrells of Bunstef Castle (2"'' S. iii. 90.) — 

 The following extract, I think, will be a satisfac- 

 tory answer to T. F.'s Queries : 



" Whilst Prynne was confined in Dunster Castle, he 

 was so much gratified by the generous hospitality and 

 continued kindness of Mr. Luttrell, that he examined 

 all the charters and muniments of that family and the 

 Mohuns, and arranged them in the most complete order 

 in numerous boxes, that remain to this day. He also 

 compiled a calendar of the whole, which is yet extant in 

 a volume, now in the possession of Mr. Luttrell. 



" These papers were arranged by Prynne in thirty-nine 



boxes. . . . Prj-nne ends [his calendar] in these words: 

 ' Mr. George Luttrell, Esq., his pedigree, and the history 

 of his ancestors and family, exactly drawn out of his 

 writings, bj' Wm. Prjmne, of Swainswicke, esq , in the 

 eiglit months of his illegal, causless, close imprisonment 

 in Dunster Castle, bv Mr. Bradshaw and his companions 

 at Whitehall— Feb.'lS, Anno Dom. 1650., 2 Car. IL" — 

 Savage's History of the Hundred of Carhampton, Bristol, 

 1830, p. 439. 



Doubtless the papers are still preserved, and 

 are in the same state as they were when Savage 

 saw them. On being shown over the castle in 

 1854 (which is still in the possession of the 

 Luttrells, the present owner being my most ge- 

 nerous benefactor), I inquired for the MSS. that 

 Prynne had arranged, and was told that " they 

 were in the old boxes." Wm. George. 



Bristol. 



Quotation Wanted : " Like some tall palm the 

 noiseless fabric greio" (2"'' S. iii. 108.) — Unkda 

 is informed that this line is from Heber's prize 

 poem on Palestine, and alludes to the erection of 

 the Temple, which " was built of stone made ready 

 before it was brought thither : so that there was 

 neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron 

 heard while it was building." (1 Kings vi. 7.) 



Jet. 



The line referred to by Uneda (slightly altered 

 in his quotation) occurs in a poem entitled Pales- 

 tine, one of the early poetic productions of tlie 

 late Bishop Heber. The idea, so elegantly ex- 

 pressed, was suggested to Heber by Sir Walter 

 Scott, as we learn from the subjoined extract 

 from Lockhart's Life of Scott: — 



" From thence [London] they proceeded to Oxford, 

 accompanied by Heber ; and it was on this occasion, as I 

 believe, that Scott first saw his friend's brother Reginald, 

 in after-days the Apostolic Bishop of Calcutta. He had 

 just been declared the successful competitor for that 

 year's poetical prize, and read to Scott at breakfast, in 

 Brazenose College, the MS. of his ' Palestine.' Scott ob- 

 served that, in the verses on Solomon's Temple, one 

 striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no 

 tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for^ a 

 few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with 

 the beautiful lines — 



" • No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung, 



Lilte some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. 



Majestic silence ! ' &c." 



E. B. 



Family of Chamherlayne (2"-^ S. ii. 168. ; iii. 58.) 

 There are some monuments in the church of Hat- 

 field Broad Oak, in Essex, that may give informa- 

 tion, and some of the family of the Chamberlaynes 

 of "the Ryes" are still in the neighbourhood, 

 but their estate of " the Ryes " has gone by pur- 

 chase to the Houblon family. A. Holt White. 



"liousseaus Dream" (2"'^ S. iii. 13.) — This 

 air was composed by Jean Jacques Rousseau, and 

 is a pantomime tune in his opera Le Devin du 



