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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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•walk on the edge of the common under the paling 

 of a gentleman's enclosui'e, where he would go 

 backwards and forwards fcfr a couple of hours at 

 a time. There was a Life and Correspondence of 

 Matthew Gregory Lewis in 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 

 1839, but I have not the opportunity of referring 

 to it. 2. 2. 



Thomas Hawkins (2°* S. ix. 436. ; x. 279.) — 

 To the list of the works of Thomas Hawkins, for- 

 merly of Sharpham Park, Somerset, and then 

 of the Hermitage in the Isle of Wight, given in 

 p. 279., may be added Truth restored in Science, 

 Philosophy and Divinity. Thomas Hawkins was 

 private secretary, to Don Carlos. He claims the 

 Earldom of Kent, and counsel assure him that his 

 claim is good and easy of proof. At the general 

 election in 1859 he was a candidate to represent 

 the electors of the county of the Isle of Wight. 

 When he was but eighteen years of age he 

 "formed the proud design of obtaining* for our 

 country a geological collection of the organic 

 remains of the ancient earth which should rank 

 with the great collections, and peradventure excel 

 them." At the age of twenty-three the first por- 

 tion of these collections of skeletons of Ichthyo- 

 sauri and Plesiosaurl were purchased by the 

 trustees of the British Museum. Had it not 

 been for these petrified effigies of extinguished 

 races, the forms in the Crystal Palace grounds^ 

 could not have been constructed, although there 

 is not a guide-book to that establishment which 

 acknowledges the claims and merits of this, the 

 right, Mr. Hawkins. Alfred John Dunkin. 



Dartford. 



Action (2°^ S. ix. 144.) — I have not noticed 

 that anyone has answered Mr. Talbot's inquiry 

 as to the author of the dictum assigning to "ac- 

 tion " the first, second, and third place in Oratory 

 to the following passage in Cicero, 2, de Oratore, 

 c. 17: " Demos thenem ferunt ei, qui quseslvlsset, 

 quid primus esset In dicendo, actionem — quid se- 

 cundum. Idem — et Idem tertium respondlsse." As- 

 suredly, however, he did not mean what we call 

 " action," but something more,' which he describes 

 himself — "Est enim actio quasi corporis quaedam 

 eloquentla, cum constet e voce et motu." (Cic. de 

 Clar. Oral. c. 38.) C. H. 



Mr. Cowper (or Cooper) Walker (2"^ S. x. 

 326.) — Of Joseph Cooper Walker, the historian 

 of the Irish bards, there Is a memoir in Nichols's 

 Literary Illustrations of the Eighteenth Century, 

 vol. viii., followed by a series of his correspon- 

 dence with Dr. Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, 

 Mr. Gough, Mr. Pinkerton, and others, extending 



* Vide Dedication, &c. to Dr. Buckland in The Book 

 of the Great Sea Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosaurl. 

 GedQlim Taniniin of Moses. Extinct Monsters of the An- 

 cient Earth. 1841, pas. ' 



to more than 60 pages. It is surprising that the 

 memoir contains no mention of his father, as he 

 is also stated to have been a literary man. In the 

 memoir (^Gent. Mag. 1799) referred toby Abhba, 

 the father is called Mr. Cowper Walker, without 

 any other Christian name ; and of his origin it is 

 stated : — 



" Mr. W. was descended from the antient families of 

 the Walkers and Kussells of Warwickshire, and mater- 

 nally allied to the Badhams of the county of Cork, and 

 other respectable families in Ireland; but, except his 

 own children, he had no relative of the same name in 

 that kingdom. His father, a suffering loyalist, aban- 

 doned England in the time of the Civil Wars, and mar- 

 ried into a wealthj' family in Ireland. Left an orphan at 

 an early age," &c. &c. 



This statement has a considerable air of mys- 

 tification, and it does not give the origin of Mr. 

 Walker's first name, nor decide whether it was 

 really Cowper or Cooper. Dying in 1799, in his 

 seventy-fourth year, Mr. " Cowper Walker " was 

 born in 1726; and his father, if he abandoned 

 England in the time of the Civil Wars, must have 

 spent a good many years in Ireland before he 

 made the acquaintance of the " wealthy family " 

 which afforded him a wife. Altogether, the gene- 

 alogy seems to partake of Hibernian romance. 

 However, there appears to be no doubt that the 

 Mr. Cowper Walker who died in 1799 was the 

 father of Mr. Joseph Cooper Walker, as it is then 

 stated that " His eldest son Is known to the pub- 

 lick by his Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy, 

 and other productions." (Gent. Mag. as before.) 

 The younger son was S. Walker, M.E.I.A. (Lite- 

 rary Illustrations, vii. 685.) J. Gr. N. 



Asteroids (2"^ S. x. 269.) — A complete list of 

 the Asteroids discovered up to September, 1858, 

 will be found by Querist in Hannay's Almanack 

 for 1860, p. 42. The number had then increased 

 to fifty-four, and, I believe, two, if not more, have 

 been discovered since that epoch. 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Similarity of Sentiment between Robert 

 Burns and others (2°" S. x. 305.) — Your cor- 

 respondent G. N. shows a parallel passage of 

 Burns and James I. Burns may be again quoted, 

 for the sake of connexion : — 



" A prince can mak' a belted knight, 

 A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 

 But an honest man's aboon his might, 

 Guid faith he mauna fa' that." 



Here is another similar expression, from Nicho- 

 las Rowe : — 



"Yet Heaven, that made me honest, made me more 

 Than e'er a king did, when he made a lord." 



Nor was " gentle Jamie " the only monarch 

 who exhibited similarity of sentiment, In this re- 

 spect, with Robert Burns. Henry the Eighth, as 

 Allan Cunningham tells us in his Lives of British 



