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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'» S. X. Aug. 25. '60. 



Keofent to send an embassy to China under Lord 

 Amherst, Mr. Manning, after much solicitation, 

 reluctantly consented to accompany it, for the 

 insult he had received at college deeply rankled 

 in his mind, and almost induced him to renounce 

 his native land. As he was, however, so well ac- 

 quainted with the interior of China, his partici- 

 pation in the embassy was especially desired ; Sir 

 George Staunton, in fact, declined to accompany 

 the embassy unless Mr. Manning was included. 

 How the embassy sped is notorious, and how, on 

 returning to England, the Alceste was wrecked*, 

 and the shipwrecked suite were taken to St. He- 

 lena. Sir Hudson Lowe, the governor, granted 

 permission to the members to visit Napoleon upon 1 

 the condition that they should not address the 

 banished hero by the title of " Emperor." Napo- 

 leon spoke to each of the gentlemen composing ! 

 the suite ; and when he came to Mr. Manning, he 

 very sharply asked his old acquaintance, " Who 

 signed your passport for England ? " Mr. Man- 

 ning! with the most complimentary tact replied, 

 " par I'Empereur." So delicately uttered was the 

 allusion to his past imperial sway that Napoleon 

 deeply blushed. A. J. Dcnkin. 



Dartford. 



Milton's Blindness. — In a broadside sur- 

 mounted with a portrait of Praise-God Barebone, 

 and entitled The Picture of the Good Old Cause 

 drawn to the Life, containing " several examples 

 of God's judgments on some eminent engagers 

 against kingly government," the name of the poet 

 appears third in the list : — 



" Milton that writ two Books against the Kings, and 

 Salmasius his Defence of Kings, struck totally blind, he 

 being not much above 40 years old," 



This broadside is in the British Museum (669 f. 

 25. vol. K.), and was published on the 14 July, 

 1660. W. W. Y. 



Fly-leaf Scribblings. — Written in a copy of 

 Donzella Desterrada, or the Banished Virgin, 

 written in Italian by Car. Francesco Biondi, in 

 three Bookes, by J. Haywood, of Graie's Inne, 

 Lond. 1635. fol. : 



" Such is the envie of the present age, 

 No booke (though drest in the best equipage 

 Art can invent) shall passe the censure of 

 Some critike, who will forge wrong cause to scoffe 

 At ne're so good a peece, rather than he 

 Would be thought guiltless of sufficiencie. 



"Rob. Killinghall." 



A contemporary autograph on the same fly- 

 leaf would suggest the writer, as well as the 

 former possessor of the book. N. T. 



* The shipwreck forms a curious coincidence. Lord 

 Elgin and the Baron Gros were wrecked too, and lost all 

 their credentials and other documents. 



t A memoir of Mr. Manning, who died at Bath, will be 

 found in the Gentleman's 3Iagazine. 



Tooth and Egg Metal. — Some time since 

 " N. & Q." contained several communications on 

 this subject. The following passage from Bailey's 

 Annals of Nottinghamshire (Hi. p. 1235.) assigns 

 an origin to the name quite different from those 

 given by other correspondents, and may there- 

 fore, whether right or wrong, be perhaps worth 

 record. 



Speaking of the freemen enrolled at Notting- 

 ham in 1757,' Bailey mentions as one of them 

 William Tutin, buckle-maker, and then goes on 

 to say, — 



" It was a son of this latter person who was the in- 

 ventor of that beautiful composite white metal, the intro- 

 duction of which created such a change in numerous 

 articles of ordinarj' table services in England. This 

 metal, in honour of the inventor, was called Tutinic, but 

 which word, bj' one of the most absurd perversions of 

 language ever known, became transferred into ' tooth 

 and egg,' the name by which it was almost uniformly re- 

 cognised in the shops." 



K. F. Sketchley. 



Surgeons and Apothecaries in the Eigh- 

 teenth Century. — I transcribe from a letter 

 written in the year 1737, the following account 

 of the state of the profession of manmldwifery and 

 surgery in the tOMms of Manchester and Leicester 

 respectively : — 



" Our town (^Manchester) is so crowded, that what busi- 

 ness I have allready met with, I have (as 't were) pulled 

 it out of the fire, by the merit of raj' success ! For, 1 do 

 assure you, I have been hitherto a happy Surgeon ! and 

 have not yet miscarried in any case which I've under- 

 took. 



" I begin to think I mist it much in not settling in 

 Leicester, instead of Manchester, when I consider you had 

 not a Manmidwife within ten miles of Leicester town! 

 nor a Surgeon y' cou'd cut for the Stone! 



" I've deliver'd forty women safely, and some of 'em 

 twice ; and they are all alive and hearty, except one who 

 I deliver'd of a mortify'd monster. We indeed are quite 

 too ful in this Town {Manchester), considering how the 

 Apothecarys quack under our noses." 



Did these " Apothecaries " keep open shops, 

 like the present apothecaries of Germany, and our 

 modern " Chemists and Druggists " ? J. G. N. 



Irish Officers in Foreign Service. — Captain 

 Laurentius O'Connel served on the Staff of Ge- 

 neral Riedesel, who commanded the Brunswick 

 forces which accompanied Burgoyne to America, 

 and were taken prisoners at Saratoga in 1777. 

 Capt. O'Connel was taken prisoner at the battle of 

 Bennington, 16th Aug. 1777 ; was on parole at 

 Woburn, Mass., 11th January, 1778, and was per- 

 mitted in June following to proceed to Europe 

 with despatches for the Duke of Brunswick. He 

 eventually attained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in 

 the Brunswick service, and died on half-pay in 

 Ireland in 1819. 



Not meeting any mention of the above officer in 

 the account of the O'Connell family, I communi- 

 cate these particulars to "N. & Q." They are 



