Jan. 10. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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1764. " Wednesday, at Westminster, Dec. 28, Lady 

 Anne Wolfe, aunt to the late General, a 

 maiden lady." — The Gazetteer, Friday, Jan. 4, 

 1765. 



1677. Oct. 14. Thomas Wolfe, D.M. Oxon, 1653. 



1703. April 6. Sir John Wolfe, Knt., Aid. London. 



1711. Dec. 10. Sir Joseph Wolfe, Knt., Aid. London. 



1748. May 27. John Wolfe, Secretary to the Chan- 

 cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. 



1755. Nov. 1 2. Mrs. Wolfe, of Queen's Square. 



1759. Sept. 21. Jacob Wolfe, Consul at St. Petersburg. 



1791. Feb. 25. Mrs. , wife of Lewis Wolfe, Esq., 



Compt. at the Stationer's Office. 



1 793. Dec. — Rev. Thos. Wolfe of Howick, Nor- 



thumberland. 



1794. Aug. 2. Mrs. , relict of the above, at Saf- 



fron Walden. 



1795. Jan. 27. Robert Wolfe, of Cork. 



May 18. Rev. B. Wolfe, Schoolmaster of Dillon. 



June 25. Thomas Wolfe. 



William Twenslow of Arclyd, co. Chester, born 

 1666, married Anne, sister of Edward Wolfe, Esq., of 

 Hatherton. 



Robert French, married Anne, daughter of Richard 

 Wolfe, and niece of Theobald Wolfe of Baronsrath, 

 CO. Kildare. 



Rev. James Jones, of Merrion Square, married 

 Lydia, d. of Mr. Theobald Wolfe ; she died in 1793. 

 Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Jermyn Street. 



In Vol. iv., p. 271 ., inquiry is made for the parent- 

 ageof the motberof Gen, Wolfe. Ihave accidentally 

 discovered, in turning over Burke's Landed Gentry 

 (p. 1389.), that she was a Thompson. Sir Henry 

 Thompson, who was three times married, had, by 

 his first wife, Henry, M.P. for York, the grand- 

 father of Jane, married to Sir Robert Lawley, by 

 whom she was mother of Paul Beilby Thompson, 

 ISSk Lord Wenlock. By his third wife, Susanna 

 Level, Sir Henry had a son Edward, who mar- 

 ried a lady named Tindal, and had issue, Edward, 

 also M.P. for York; Francis, a lieut.-colonel ; 

 Bradwarden, a captain ; Mary, married to General 

 Whetham ; and " Henrietta, mar. Colonel Wolfe, 

 and was mother of General Wolfe, killed at 

 Quebec." N. 



Will it serve your correspondent 5i to state that 

 at Inversnaid, on the borders of Loch Lomond, 

 where Wordsworth met his immortalised " High- 

 land Girl," there is a ruined fort, erected in 1716 

 to keep the clan Gregor in order, and which was 

 taken and retaken, repaired and dismantled, but 

 which, after the rebellion of '45, was occupied 

 by the king's troops ? There Is a tradition that 

 General James Wolfe was, for a time, stationed 

 here. This tradition is referred to in all tlie Guide 

 Books, but no precise date is given. G. W. 



In the United Service Institution there is a 

 pencil profile of General Wolfe. It was presented 

 to that collection by the Duke of Northumberland 

 (when Lord Prudhoe). 



On the back of the sketch itself are written 

 these words : 



" Tills sketch belonged to Lieut.-Col. Gwillim, A.D. 

 Camp to Genl. Wolfe when he was killed. It is sup- 

 posed to have been sketched by Harvey Smith." 



On the back of the frame there is a paper, with 

 the following inscription : 



" This portrait of General Wolfe, from which his 

 bust was principally taken, was hastily sketched by 

 Harvey Smith, one of his aid-de-camps, a very short 

 time before that distinguished officer was killed on the 

 plains of Abraham. It then came into the possession 

 of Colonel Gwillim, another of the General's aid-de- 

 camps, who died afterwards at Gibraltar; and from 

 him to Mrs. Simcoe, the Colonel's only daughter and 

 heiress; then to Major- General Darling (who was on 

 General Simcoe's staff) ; and is now presented by him 

 to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 



" Alnwick, Jan. 23, 1832." 



This interesting sketch hangs near the case 

 containing the sword worn by Wolfe when he 

 fell. L.H. J. T. 



" THERE IS >'0 MISTAKE. 



(Vol. iv., p. 471.) 



It may, perhaps, have puzzled others of your 

 readers, as for some time it did myself, to account 

 for your correspondent F. AV. J. having undertaken 

 to prove that tlie Duke of Wellington did not first 

 use " those celebrated words " there is no mistake, 

 in his " reply to Mr. Huskisson." F. W. J. shows 

 that the Duke wrote "the sentence now so well 

 known" in 1812. No doubt he did : and it may 

 not unreasonably be assumed that he had used it 

 many hundred times before under similar cir- 

 cumstances. F. W. J. evidently confounds those 

 words used by the Duke in their natural sense 

 with the slang phrase Avhich has been current for 

 some years, and owes its origin, I believe, to a 

 character in a farce, " and no mistake." The 

 slang phrase is used by way of binding or confirm- 

 inof ; as, for instance, " I will be there at two 

 o'clock, and no mistake" — the latter words being 

 equivalent to "You may depend on it:" if, in- 

 deed, it be possible to fix a precise meaning to 

 words so improperly applied. It is hardly neces- 

 sary to say, that in both the instances referred to 

 by your correspondent, the Duke used the words 

 in their natural and proper sense. F. W. J. is 

 wrong in supposing that the Duke used the phrase 

 In his "reply to Mr. Huskisson;" it was to Lord 

 Dudley his Grace addressed the words. Mr. Hus- 

 kisson having voted against his colleagues on the 

 question of transferring the franchise from East 

 Retford to Birmingham, went straight from the 

 House of Commons to his office in Downing Street, 

 and wrote a letter to the Duke, then Prime 

 Minister, announcing that he lost no time In afford- 



