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[2nd S, No 78., J0NE 27. '67. 



to Hamilton. Whether it had any marks of originality I 

 know not." 



To which the learned editor (Mr. Dawson Turner) 

 adds, 



" Mr. Pinkerton, in his Iconographia Scotica, contents 

 himself with observing that 'the fictitious portraits of 

 Mary are infinite.' He himself gives four different en- 

 gravings of her, all unlike each other, and all equally 

 unlike what history represents her to have been. In Mr. 

 Lodge's singularly beautiful work is an exquisite repre- 

 sentation of her, from a picture in the collection of Lord 

 Morton, which every one who feels interested in the story 

 of that unfortunate queen will join me in hoping is 

 genuine." 



In a letter to the Earl of Buchan, dated Janu- 

 ary 10, 1795, Pinkerton says : 



"The genuine portraits of Marj' amount to at least 

 eight. 1. The Earl of Morton's, certainly the best and 

 most authentic in the opinion of Vertue, a good judge and 

 a devotee of Mary : it has her arms on table tapestry. 

 2. Vertue's print from an undoubted painting by Zuc- 

 chero, in St. James's Palace. 3. In widow's weeds, Ken- 

 sington. (All paintings quite alike ; sharp features, 

 aquiline nose, resembling James V., or No. 1.) 4. Print 

 by Cock of Antwerp, 156L 5. By De Leu of Paris, a 

 contemporary. 6. In Jonston's Inscriptixmes, 1602. 7. In 

 Mcntfaucon's Monumens. 8. Her gold and silver coins." 



Mr. Gilbert Laing, writing to Pinkerton from 

 Edinburgh, June 18, 1728, speaking of the pic- 

 tures at Newbottle House, says : 



"There is a half-length portrait of Queen Mary of 

 Scots: dark brown hair, a very youthful and cheerful 

 face : dress, a red gown, close from the neck, tight-laced : 

 no ruff, round the neck, but large awkward ruffs on each 

 arm, a little below the shoulder, of the same stuff as the 

 gown, and part of it : close sleeves to the wrists. The 

 red is set otf by black sewing. In such close, stiff, long- 

 waisted dresses I think Queen Elizabeth is drawn often. 

 Her age is sixteen or seventeen years, I conjecture; the 

 expression of the face did not strike me." 



Amongst the numerous portraits of Mary Stuart, 

 the following may also be noticed : — A contem- 

 porary portrait, at the age of sixteen, preserved at 

 Harwicke Hall, Derbyshire ; a miniature painting 

 in oil by Zucchero, in the British Museum ; and a 

 whole length, by the same artist, in the hall of the 

 Drapers' Company. 



I have not seen the work on the portraits of 

 Mary Stuart, published by the Prince Alexandre 

 Labanoff at St. Petersburg in 1856 ; but if it is 

 well executed it must be a very interesting vo- 

 lume. Edwaed F. Kimbault. 



JOAN or ARC. 



(2"^ S. iii. 447.) 



Your correspondent Mb. Robert J. Axlen, 



contrasting an extract from the London Journal 

 and a note on the Annals of England, inquires, 

 " How is it possible to reconcile these conflicting 

 statements ? Can any of your readers refer me 



to the document spoken of as existing in the 

 Rouen archives ? " 



I will endeavour to answer both questions, in 

 the reversed order. 



The " document " referred to is The Account of 

 Gillies Marchousne, which M. Daniel Polluche 

 discovered at Rouen, and which I believe has been 

 recently inspected by M. J. O. Delepierre. Other 

 archives lead to the conclusion that Joan was not 

 burnt, viz. The ancient Registers at the Alaison de 

 Ville of Orleans, and the MS. entitled The Chro- 

 nicle of Metz, composed by the curate of Saint 

 Thiebaut, coming down to the year 1445, and 

 which was discovered by Father Viguier. For a 

 copy and translation of the last, Mr. Allen 

 should consult Life and Times of Joan of Arc, 

 1828, vol. ii. He may also read with advantage 

 the review of M. Delepierre's pamphlet in The 

 AthencEum for Sept. 15, 1855, and my rejoinder in 

 the Literary Gazette for May 17, 1856. The 

 question was first raised by M. Polluche in his 

 ProMeme Historique sur la Pucelle (s!<r son Ma- 

 riage), Orleans, 1749 (not 1750, as stated in the 

 Life and I'imes), 8vo. An English translation by 

 W. H. Ireland was published in the Introduction 

 to vol. ii, of his translation of Voltaire's Maid of 

 Orleans, London, 1822, 8vo,, which is also found 

 in the second volume of the Life and Times, 



As to the second question : the two statements 

 are reconcileable by supposing the " Joan " who 

 received the 210 livres to have been an impostor. 

 We know of three at least, 



1. The pretended Pucelle of 1441, who was 

 conducted before Charles, and confessed the im- 

 posture. 



2. The pretended Pucelle of 1436, who pre- 

 sented herself at Metz, and afterwards visited 

 Cologne with Count Wirnenbourg, where the In- 

 quisitor discovered the imposture. 



3. The alleged Pucelle of 1436, who came to 

 Lorraine, and married Robert des Armoisies, and 

 under that title was welcomed at Orleans. 



Some think 2. and 3. are the same ; others, 

 that 2. and 3, are different, and that 3, is the im- 

 postor who received the gratuity at Rouen men- 

 tioned in the London Journal. 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham, 



Your correspondent had better refer to Jeanne 

 Dare by Henri Martin. Paris : Furne et C''=. 

 The true history of the heroine is found in this 

 book. I quote the following from the New Quar- 

 terly : 



" Documents which had been slumbering in the dust 

 for ages, recently brought to light, not only add much 

 to our knowledge of the heroine's exploits, but give a 

 faithful record of her arrest, trial, condemnation, and 

 death — a record which we may saj', en passant, relieves 

 the English of much of the obloquy which has rested 

 upon them for their share therein — and show that the 



