2'-^ S. X. Dec. 8. '60.] 



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Cave Undebhiix.— Where can I find anything 

 about this person, who, I am told, was an eminent 

 actor ? C. J. R. 



[Cave Underbill was a member of tbe company col- 

 lected by Ilbodes in June, 1660, and wbich, soon after- 

 wards, submitted to the autbority of Sir Wm. Davenant, 

 He is first mentioned by Downes for his performance of 

 Sir Morglay Thack in the Wits, after wbich he sus- 

 tained the Gravedigger in Hamlet. Underbill's reputa- 

 tion appears to have been speedily established, as he 

 was intrusted by Cowley, in 1663, with the hero of bis 

 Cutter of Coleman Street. His last performance at Drury 

 Lane was on May 12, 1710, when be acted Duke Trin- 

 calo in The Tempest. Davies informs us " that Underbill 

 was a jolly and droll companion, who divided bis gay 

 hours between Bacchus and Venus, if we may believe 

 Tom Brown. Tom makes Underbill one of tbe gill- 

 driiikers of his time ; men who resorted to taverns, in the 

 middle of tbe day, under tbe pretence of drinking Bristol 

 milk (for so good sherry was then called) to whet their 

 appetites. He bad an admirable vein of pleasantry, and 

 told his lively stories with a bewitching grace. He was 

 so afflicted with tbe gout, that be prayed one minute, 

 and cursed tbe other." Among Tom Brown's Letters 

 from the Dead to the Living, there is one from Leigh to 

 Underbill, and another from Underbill to Leigh. Anthony 

 Aston speaks verj' unfavourably of Underbill ; but Cibber 

 and Downes put it past a doubt that he was a good actor. 

 His death took place about tbe commencement of tbe 

 year 1715. Consult Gibber's Apology, edit, bj' Bell- 

 chambers, 1822, pp. 164 — 166. ; Anthony Aston's Sup- 

 plement to Cibber's Lives, p. 12.; and Geneste's History of 

 the Stage, i. 496. ; ii. 439. There is a small portrait of 

 Underbill as Obadiah, which is very scarce, by R.! Bing, 

 and engraved by J. Faber, jun., which was copied and 

 published by J. Caulfield in 1825.] 



Pius IX. — I remember that soon after the elec- 

 tion of the present Pope, when he seemed inclined 

 to grant his subjects free institutions, there ap- 

 peared in one of our Reviews an article tracing his 

 career from early life, and showing how unlikely 

 it was that he should be sincere in this professed 

 liberality. My impression is that the article was 

 in the Westminster Review, yet I cannot find it 

 there. I would be obliged if any of your readers 

 would mention where an article, such as the one I 

 allude to, is to be found. W. H. 



[There is an article on Pope Pius IX. and tbe Present 

 Movement in Itah^, in the Quarterly Review, Dec. 1847, 

 vol. Ixxxii. p. 231.] 



"Killing no Murder." — Can you favour me 

 with the name of the author of this celebrated 

 tract, together with any bibliographical particu- 

 lars of it> ' ' R.W. P. 



[Of this tract (says Lingard, Hist, of Etig., viii. 51G- 

 17., 8vo., Lond. 1849) thousands of copies were sent by 

 Sexhy into England; and although many were seized 

 by the officers, yet man}' found their waj' into circu- 

 lation (vide Tburloe, State Papers, vol. vi. 315. et seq.). 

 Having obtained a sum of 1400 crowns, he followed tbe 

 books to organise new plots against tbe life of the Pro- 

 tector. By this time he was too well known. All his 

 steps in Holland were watched ; his departure for Eng- 

 and was announced ; emissaries were despatched in every 



direction ; and within a few weeks be was apprehended 

 and incarcerated in tbe Tower. There he discovered, 

 probably feigned, symptoms of insanity. To questions 

 respecting himself he answered with apparent frank- 

 ness and truth, that he bad supplied Syndercombe with 

 money, that he bad written the tract Killing no Murder ; 

 nor was there, be said, anything unlawful in these thingg, 

 for the Protectorate had not then been established by 

 any authority of Parliament ; but whenever he was in- 

 terrogated respecting tbe names and plans of his asso- 

 ciates, his answers became wild and incoherent, more 

 calculated to mislead than to inform, to create suspicion 

 of the friends, than to detect the machinations of the 

 enemies, of the government. He was never brought to 

 trial, but died, probably by violence, in tbe sixth month 

 of bis imf risonment [January, 1658 J. ( Vide Clarendon 

 Papers, iii. 322, 338. 357. ; Merc. Pol. 39.) 



Clarendon assures us that Sexby (originally a trooper, 

 and subsequently a colonel) was an illiterate person, 

 which is a sufficient proof that be was not tbe real author 

 of the tract, though he acknowledged it for his own in 

 tbe Tower, probably to deceive the Protector. The 

 writer, whoever be was, kept bis secret, at least at first ; 

 for Clarendon writes to Secretary Nicholas, that be can-, 

 not imagine who could write it (^Clar. Pap., iii. 343.). 

 By most historians it has been attributed to Colonel 

 Titus, upon his own repeated assurances after tbe Re- 

 storation; nor shall we think this improbable, if we 

 recollect that Titus was in Holland, constantly in the 

 company of Sexbj', till tbe departure of the latter for 

 England (Ibid. 331. 335.). Evelyn asserts it in his 

 Diary, ii. 210. 8vo. 



It is not very generally known that an effort was made 

 to arrest tbe mischief of Killing no Murder, by a counter 

 publication, issued in tbe same j-ear as the first, and en- 

 titled Killing is Murder, by Michael Hawke, of tbe Middle 

 Temple, Gent. In his prefatory address " to the upright 

 and unbiass'd reader," the writer commences by saying : 

 " It is not unknown to some great Personages, that the 

 Author bad compleated this Exercitation before the An- 

 swer to Killing no Murder saw tbe light ; and bad been 

 made public sooner, but that be doubted to divulge it 

 M'ithout the surveigh of some of tbe Higher Powers: 

 their {_sic^ being therein specified many particular papers 

 concerning the State." As a specimen of composition it 

 is very poor, possessing nothing whatever of the terseness, 

 fine irony, and biting sarcasm of the famous pamphlet 

 that provoked it. 



In the Grenville Library there is a French translation 

 of Killing no Murder, bearing the following title: Traicte 

 Politique compose par William Allen, Anglois, et traduit 

 Nouvellement en Frangois, oil il est prouvS par VExemple de 

 Moyse, et par d'autres, tir6s hors de I'Escriture, ^ue Tuer un 

 Tyran, Titulo vel Exercitio, n'estpas un Meutre. Lugduni, 

 1658, 12". We notice this publication because in the 

 Mac Carthy Sale Catalogue, No. 1575., and in the Cata- 

 logue de Caillard, No. 251., it is called " edition originale." 

 The original English edition first appeared in 4to., 1657, 

 and was undoubtedly printed in Holland. ] 



Apocuypha. — Where can I find the best Com- 

 mentary on the Apocrypha ? The date, and 

 sources, and real authors of the different books, 

 &c., being the points on which information is 

 wanted. P. P. 



[The best Commentary on the Apocryphal Books is 

 that by Dr. Richard Arnald, which was published ori- 

 ginally in 1744; and has been since frequently reprinted. 

 Gougb's copj', with MS. notes by Jeremiah Markland, 

 sold for seven guineas. M. Claude Baduel of Nismes, a 

 French Protestant, also published Annotationes in Libras 



