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to supply him. Once be received at Ilatton a box of 

 very bandsome pipes, with a plume of feathers ia the 

 bowl, which, to the best of my recollection, were a present 

 from the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Abingdon gave 

 him a superb Turkish pipe. Trivial as the circumstance 

 may be thought, I will just mention that the Doctor, 

 when smoking, always held the bowl of the pipe with 

 his finger and thumb, although the heat would not have 

 been endurable by a person unaccustomed to that habit." 

 — New Monthly Magazine, Sep. 1826. 



Parr and his pipe will go down to posterity to- 

 gether ; so thoroughly is the instrument and the 

 habit associated with the man. In a rough mezzo 

 caricature, Intended as a " Pre- face to Bellende- 

 nus," the doctor is inhaling a pipe of portentous 

 length, while with clenched fist and beetling 

 brows, he puffs out a volume of smoke, amidst 

 which we read the minacious legend " Damn tIv 

 Zitva." Dawe also, in his very characteristic 

 portrait of the doctor, has placed one of his 

 favourite "churchwardens" in his hand. Thus 

 Frank Vandermine, a Dutch artist who resided in 

 London, and who it Is said painted with a pipe in 

 his mouth, bidding objecting sitters go to another 

 artist, has perpetuated himself in a mezzotint 

 print from his own portrait entitled " The 

 Smoker" {Wine and Walnuts, vol. il. p. 14.). 



There would appear to be a strong affinity be- 

 tween theology and tobacco. Pope has 



" History her pot, Theology her pipe ; " 

 and Swift includes "best Virginia" among those 

 things which, in the possession of his Country 

 Parson, 



" Are better than the Bishop's blessing." 



Indeed smoking has ever been the habit of stu- 

 dious literary men, especially those of the critical 

 genus. Aldrich, Hobbes, and .Newton are known 

 to have been most Inveterate smokers ; Boxhor- 

 nius, the learned professor of Leyden, was so 

 addicted to the habit, that he had a hole cut In 

 the rim of his hat to support his pipe while study- 

 ing and Avritinnr ; and Porson is reported by 

 Rogers (Table T'olk) to have said that "when 

 smoking began to go out of fashion, learning be- 

 gan to go out of fashion too." The extent of 

 Parr's addiction to the habit was thought worthy 

 of note among his German brethren even. Wolf 

 says of him that, " Er soil es manchmall an einem 

 Abend, bis zu 20 Pfeifen gebracht haben " (Litt. 

 Anal. Iv. 55.3.) ; but Dr. Johnstone thinks this an 

 exaggeration, and that a fourth part of the quan- 

 tity would be nearer the mark. An interesting 

 letterfromDr. J.Urijtomake a provision for whose 

 old age Parr had exerted himself, is preserved. 

 Writing to Dr. Kett, and alluding to a promised 

 visit of Parr, he says : — 



"Promiserat se sequenti die ante meridiem venturum. 

 Itaque expectans eum lapides nigros super foco large 

 reposui ; tubos candidos, quibus fumus tabaci exhauriri 

 solet, pra2paravi; sellus, remota paululum mensa, ad 

 ignem admovi ; at, eheu ! non contigit mihi ipsum vi- 

 dere," &c. 



Dr. Johnstone tells us that — 

 "Whenever he (Dr. Parr) came to Birminghapi he 

 never failed to smoke his pipe with Mr. Belcher." 



This was a highly respectable bookseller In the 

 BuU-Eing in that town. 



I would also ask the object of the custom al- 

 luded to In the following extract from the Letters 

 of Charles Lamb by Talfourd ? — ■ 



" He (Lamb) had loved smoking ' not wisely but too 

 well,' for he had been content to use the coarsest varieties 

 of the • great herb.' When Dr. Parr, who took only the 

 finest tobacco, u&ed to half fill his pipe with salt, and 

 smoked with a philosophic calmness, saw Lamb smoking 

 the strongest preparations of the weed, puffing out smoke 

 like some ferocious enchanter, he gently laid down his 

 pipe and asked him ' how he had acquired his power of 

 smoking at such a rate?' Lamb answered, 'I toiled 

 after it. Sir, as some men toil after virtue." — Part 2, 

 p. 88. 



I conclude this gossiping paper, which might 

 serve to light a pipe with, but for the more valu- 

 able matter which will save It from combustion, 

 with another quotation : — 



" I am not convinced that this habit was productive of 

 bad consequence to his health, tho' it was often incon- 

 venient to his friends. Tobacco has been called the ano- 

 dyne of poverty, and the opium of the western world. 

 To Parr, whose nerves were extremely irritable, and sen- 

 sibility immoderate, perhaps it was a necessar3' anodyne. 



"It calmed his agitated spirits; it assisted his private 

 ruminations; it was his companion in anxiety; it was 

 his helpmate in composition. Have we not all seen him 

 darkening the air with its clouds when his mind was 

 labouring with thought? His pipe ivas so necessary for 

 his comfort that he always left the table for it, and the 

 house of the person he visited, if it was not prepared. 

 His pipe produced another inconvenience at table : at one 

 time he selected the youngest lady to light it after the 

 cloth was drawn, and she was obliged to stand within 

 his arms, and to perform various ludicrous ceremonies. 

 Latterly his best friends persuaded him to decline this 

 practice." — Memoirs of Parr, by Dr. Johnstone, p. 815. 



Wii-MAM Bates. 



Edgbaston. 



"FELLOWES' VISIT TO LA TRAPPE," ETC. 



THE NOTE ON IT IN Wll.liis's CATALOGUE. 



In " N. & Q." (•2"'» S. ix. 403.) Abhba asks to 

 whom this note refers, and what are the grounds 

 for the story ? The first question is easily answered. 

 The Rev. Sir Harry Trelawny, Bart, of Tre- 

 lawny, Cornwall, grandfather of the Radical mem- 

 ber for Tavistock. That he became a Roman 

 Catholic Is, I firmly believe, the single grain of 

 truth in the marvellous story. But had he at any 

 period of his life been a disappointed candidate for 

 the "Papal Diadem," and in despair buried him- 

 self In La Trappe, It Is utterly Impossible Mr. 

 Fellowes's journey could have had any reference 

 to such an event .... Sir H. T., who was for 

 about ten years vicar of Egloshayle, was non-re-, 

 sident. A curate attended to the duties o£ the 

 parish, but the vicar occasionally visited it from 



