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NOTES Ax\D QUERIES. 



[No. llov 



name is sotnetimes found recorded, unstopped, as 

 " Augustinus (xalaminiiis Brasickellen." R G. 



HOnCGS S " LEVIATHAN. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 314. 487.) 



I am surprised that your correspondent H. A.B., 

 who appears hy his expressions to be an admirer 

 of the Leviathan^ shouhl think tlie frontispiece an 

 absurd conceit, very unworthy of its author. The 

 des^igi maybe ref;arded, I thinic, as a very re- 

 mu'Kable embodiment of the thought expressed in 

 the piissage where the term Leviathan is first used. 

 The civil body or commonwealtli, derived from 

 the union of individuals, is represented by Hobbes 

 as the origin of all rights and duties. And this 

 corabinntion of men is (Leviathan, p. 87.) some- 

 thing more than consent and concord. It is the 

 real unity of tlieni all in one and the same person. 

 The multitude, so united in one person, is called a 

 Commonweullh. " This is the generation," he 

 says, "of that great Leviathan, or, to speak more 

 reverently " (that is, with the reverence due to it), 

 " of that mortal God to which we owe (under the 

 Immortal God) our peace and defence." This 

 " mortal God," thus constituted, may very fitly be 

 represented by the giant image, made up of thou- 

 sands of individual forms, wielding the mighty 

 sword and the magnificent crosier, and spreading 

 its arms, with an air of sovereignty, over castles 

 and churdies, rivers and ports, fields and villages. 

 The emblems then represent, as 11. A. B. observes, 

 the manifestations of civil and of ecclesiastical 

 power; and the parallelisms there exhibited appear 

 to me to be curious : the castle, with a piece of 

 ordnance discharged from the walls; the church, 

 with a figure of Faith on its roof; the coronet and 

 the mitre; the cannon, the thundeibolt of war; 

 and the spiritual fulmination, represented by the 

 mythological thunderbolts; the arms of Logic, Syl- 

 logism, and Dilemna, and the like ; and the arms 

 of war, pikes, and swords, and muskets ; and 

 finally, the ju liciary tribunal, and the tribunal of 

 the battle field, the ultima ratio regum. 



The frontispiece in the edition of 1651 is a much 

 better print than that of 1750; and in the former, 

 I think, the resemblance to Cromwell isiuideniable. 

 In this edition the tablet at the bottom has the 

 words, " London : Printed for Andrew C?-oohe, 

 1651." In the edition of 1750 there are on the 

 tablet the wonls, " Written by Thos. Hobbs, 

 1651," as C. J. W. states. W. W. 



MAJOE-GBN. JAMES WOLFE. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 271. 322. 438. 503.) 



If the following remarkable lines, described 

 to me as having been placed many years ago 



under a bust of General Wolfe, in the Old 

 Castle at Quebec, should not be well known, 

 I think they merit a place in your pages. My 

 friend who sent the verses could not supply the 

 author's name, nor state whether they still remaiil 

 in situ quo, though I have some idea that the Old 

 Castle was burnt : 

 " Let no sad tear upon his tomb be sl^ed, 

 A common tribute to the common (^ead, 

 But let the Good, the Generous, and the Erave, 

 With godlike envy, sigh for such a grave." 



I may as well add, in reply to the Query in your 

 113th No., page 504., that my worthy friend and 

 neighbour, Mr. Richard Birch Wolfe, the present 

 representative of the Wolfes of North Essex, upon 

 inquiry at the College of Arms, was unable to trace 

 any relationship between his family and that of 

 the General. Bratbrooke. 



Audley End. 



Mrs. Wolfe's maiden name was Henrietta 

 Thompson ; she was of a Yorkshire family, and 

 •' own sister to my sister Apthorp," says Cole^ 

 " the wife of the Reverend Dr. Apthorp, Fellow 

 of Eton College, so that my nieces Frances and 

 Anne Apthorp were first cousins to the General." 

 This lady died on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1 764, at 

 her house in Greenwich, and is described as " the 

 relict of Col. Edward Wolfe, and mother to the 

 late heroic General Wolfe." {Public Advertiser, 

 Sept. 28, 1764.) The official letter from General 

 Wolfe, dated Sept. 9, 1759, is in print. On 

 Nov. 18, in that year, his body was landed from 

 the "Royal William" at Portsmouth. Three affect- 

 ing letters of the bereaved mother to William Pitt, 

 dated Nov. 6th, 27th, 30th, are likewise published. 

 On March 26, 1759, she had been left a widow by 

 her husband Edward, who was in 1745 Colonel of 

 H. M. 8th regiment of infantry, and appointed 

 Lieutenant-General in 1747. In 1758, General 

 James Wolfe was Colonel of H.M. 67th regiment 

 of foot. By her will, Mrs. Wolfe devised 500Z. to 

 the maintenance and repairs of Bromley College 

 {Cambridge Chronicle, Sat. April 27, 1765) ; and, 

 her debts and legacies being first paid, bequeathed 

 the residue of her property to poor and deserving 

 persons, with preference to the widows and fami- 

 lies of soldiers who had served under her gallant 

 son. The applicants were to send in their names 

 to Jas. Gunter, attorney, of Tooley Street, South- 

 wark, before Jan. 1, 1766 {Whitehall Even. Post, 

 Thursday, Aug. 22, 1765). The monument to 

 Gen. Wolfe's memory, in Westerham Church, is 

 of white marble, and set up over the south door. 

 The inscription has been given already in Vol. iv., 

 p. 322. ; but with the omission of any mention of 

 a black tablet beneath, inscribed " I, decus, I, 

 nostrum." He was baptized on Jan. 11, 1727. 

 I subjoin an obituary, and other notices of persons 

 of his name : 



