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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Bonaparte and Lord Whitworth, by Lord Braybrooke - 313 



Notes on Prynne's Breviate, by Archbishop Land - 314 



Epitaph on Voltaire . . . _ . 31G 



The Miller's Melody, Fragment of an Old Ballad - 316 

 Minor Notes: — Or. Johnson a Prophet — Coleridge 

 and Plato — Epitaph in St. Giles' Church, Norwich — 



Hair iu Seals — To " eliminate " - - - 317 



Queries : — 



Algernon Sidney, by Hepworth Dixon - . - 318 



Old Irish Tales - - . . . - 318 



Political Pamphlets . . . . _ 319 



Minor Queries : — The Book of Nicholas Leigh 



Gabriel Harvey's Notes on Chaucer — The Cholera 

 and the Electrometer — Terre Isaac — Daundelyon — 

 Mallet's Death and Burial — Classical Quotations in 

 Grotlus — The Authorised Version— Rector's Chancel 



— Duchess of Lancaster— Cheke's Clock — Kuthven 

 Family — "The Man in the Almanack " — Arkwright 



— Burial, Law respecting — Mr. Sorrow's Muggle- 

 tonians — Puritan Antipathy to Custard ■ — " Corruptio 

 Optimi," &c. — Miss . Fanshawe's Enigma — Mary 

 Ambree - ...... 319 



Minor Queries Answered:— Sir W. Stanley— Mires— 

 Somerlayes— Wyned — Cromwell Family — Beholden 



— Men of Kent and Kentish Men— Bee-park— A great 

 Man who could not spell — Glass-making in England 



— Eustace— Mas — John Le Neve— Meaning of Crow 321 



Beplies : — 



Presbyterian Oath ...... 323 



The Old Countess of Desmond, by the Knight of Kerry 323 

 Shakspeare's Sickle or Shekel - . . .324 



A few more Words about " Dulcarnon," by S. W. Singer 325 

 English Surnames, by Mark Antony Lower . . 32G 



Rev. John Paget ...... 327 



Lett3r to a Brigadier-General - - . .328 



Maps of Africa . - - • - .329 



Keplies to Minor Queries: — James Wilson, M.D 



History of Commerce — Ecclesiastical Geography — 

 Butts Family — Friday at Sea — A Pinch of Snuff from 

 Dean Swift's Box — English Translation of the 

 Canons — Few Descents through a long Period — 

 Tandem D. O. M. — Land Holland — .\rc de Arbouin 



— Derivation of " Martinique " — Bigot — Davies 

 Queries — Fawsley, Heraldic Atchievement — Old 

 Scots March — Periwinkle — Erasmus' Paraphrase — 

 "Black Gowns and Red Coats" — Arms of Man- 

 chester — Sir Thomas Frowyk — John Goldesborough 



— Corrupted Names of Places — Story of Ginevra — 

 Ornamental Hermits — Dr. Fell — List of Protho- 

 notaries — The Vellum-bound Junius — Plague Stones 



— George Trehern — St. Christopher — White Livers 



— Torshel's Design to harmonise the Bible - - 329 



Miscellaneous :— 



Notes on Hooks, Sales, Catalogues, &c. ... 334 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - ' - . 334 



iJotices to Correspondents .... 334 



Advertisements ...... 335 



Vol. v.— Xo. 127. 



BONAPABTE AND LORD WHITWOBTH. 



The Rev. J. Sanford has authorised me to place- 

 the following letter in your hands, in order that 

 you may print it in " N. & Q." should it appear to 

 be of sufficient interest. Beaybrooke. 



" I send you an account of the very memorable 

 scene which occurred at Madame Bonaparte's 

 drawing-room on the 13th of March, 1803. I be- 

 lieve I am the only living witness, as those who 

 were near the person of Lord Whitworth were 

 members of the corps diplomatique, Cobenzel, 

 Marcoff, Lucchesini, all dead. Many years after 

 I became intimately acquainted with the Marchese 

 Lucchesini at Florence, when I had an oppor- 

 tunity of referring to that remarkable conversation. 



"It was announced that Madame Bonaparte- 

 was to receive on the following Sunday, and it was 

 reported that she was to have maids of honour for 

 the first time ; a little curiosity was excited on this 

 score. The apartment of Madame B. was on the 

 opposite side of the Tullleries in which Bonaparte 

 held his levees. I was acquainted with Lord 

 Whitworth, who told me to place myself near to- 

 him, in order to afford facility for presentation, as 

 Madame B. would occupy an arm-chair to whicb 

 he pointed, and on each side of which were two 

 tabourets. As all foreigners had been presented to- 

 General B. at his levee, his presence was not ex- 

 pected. The rooms, two in number, were not 

 very large ; the ladies were seated round the rooms 

 in arm-chairs : a passage was left, I suppose, for 

 Madame B. to pass without obstacle. When the 

 door of the adjoining room was opened, instead of 

 Madame B. the First Consul entered ; and as Lord 

 Whitworth was the first ambassador he encoun- 

 tered, he addressed him by enquiring about the 

 Duchess of Dorset's health, she being absent from 

 a cold. He then observed that we had had fifteen 

 years' war ; Lord W. smiled very courteously, and 

 said It was fifteen years too much. We shall pro- 

 bably, replied General B., have fifteen years more : 

 and If so, England will have to answer for It to 

 all Europe, and to God and man. He then en- 

 quired where the armaments in Holland were 

 going on, for he knew of none. Then for a mo- 



