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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. X. Nov. 24. '60. 



he bequeaths towards the building of a monas- 

 tery, " a thousand sheep, three hundred muttons, 

 forty-eight oxen, and fifteen bulls." 



I quote from the last number of the Quarterly 

 Review, p. 436. S. M. 



*' The Causidicade." — What is the origin, and 

 who is the author, of The Causidicade. A Pane- 

 gyri-Satiri-Serio- Comic- Dramatical Poem on the 

 Strange Resignation and Strange Promotion. By 

 Periinus Pelagius. Fourth Edition. London, 

 Printed for M. Cooper in Paternoster Row, 1743. 

 {Price One Shilling.) ? 



Some of your correspondents versed in the his- 

 tory of the Bar and the traditions of Westminster 

 Hall, may perhaps be enabled to throw some light 

 on the mass of personal allusions scattered through- 

 out this very bitter effusion. M. N. S. 



De. Antipudingabia. — Can I be informed who 

 was the malevolent (I suppose English) author 

 and critic under this compound name, of whom 

 the Rev. John Lanne Buchanan, in A Defence of 

 the Scots Highlanders (London, 1794, 8vo.), com- 

 plains in the subjoined extract (pp. 266-7.), 

 with any particulars of the London " monster," 

 also therein referred to ? 



" There is a vicious singular animal of this description, 

 who has made a kind of livelihood for years, partly by 

 imposition, and mostly by entertaining the publick with 

 malignant effusions of his own invention, at the expence 

 of characters of worth and learning, especially if they are 

 unfortunately of this intermeddling busy-body's acquaint- 

 ance, and, among others, Mr. P(inkerton) himself is said 

 to have also felt his satire. People are not certain whe- 

 ther this Proteus may not be the supposed author of a 

 book entitled Dr. Antipudingaria, and to be seen in the 

 British Museum : but Dr. Antipudingaria is less manly 

 than Mr. P., inasmuch as he dares not attack a man 

 under his own proper name, but like the monster, who 

 lately infested the streets of London, by stabbing de- 

 fenceless women as they passed along, and secretly re- 

 joiced in this successful mode of assassination. So in 

 like manner this Dr. Antipudingaria securely assassin- 

 ates the reputations, and tarnishes the learning too, of 

 his acquaintances, especially if men of merit. In his 

 usual crafty manner he addresses the publick in the 

 third person singular, or in the plural number." 



From additional notices the vehicles of the 

 Doctor's spleen and venom seem to have been 

 "some magazine or newspaper" : — 



" People are of opinion that he has fortified himself 

 lately about the English Review, arising from some dirty 

 eructations that have been belched out in that publica- 

 tion," &c. 



G.N. 



[The waspish critic noticed under the compound name 

 of Dr. Antipudingaria is Dr. William Thomson. It ap- 

 pears that Buchanan, who knew more of Gaelic than 

 he did of English, in an unlucky moment entrusted 

 the manuscript of his Travels in the Western Hebrides 



from 1782 to 1790, to the editorial care of Dr. Thom- 

 son. The editor availed himself of this opportunity, 

 and under the shelter of poor Buchanan's name, to dis- 

 charge the vials of his wrath against a portion of the 

 Scottish clergy and others. These scurrilities Buchanan 

 justly disclaimed ; and in the Postscript to his General 

 View of the Fisheries of Great Britain, 1794, resented 

 the indignity severely, and promised "to purge out all 

 his dirty evomitions from the second edition." Among 

 other periodicals in which Dr. Thomson was engaged 

 were The English Iteview, the European Magazine, the 

 Political Herald, and the Whitehall Evening Post. For a 

 notice of Renwick Williams, the monster of London, see 

 our 2'"i S. viii. 229.] 



Quotation. — Where are the under-mentioned 

 lines to be found ? 



" A boat at midnight sent alone * 

 To drift upon the moonless sea, 

 A lute, whose leading chord is gone, 

 A wounded bird, that hath but one 

 Imperfect wing to soar upon, 

 ^ Are like what I am, without thee ! " 



Theodore. 

 [See Moore's Loves of the Angels, near the end of the 

 Second Angel's Story.] 



Masqueeabes. — When were public masquer- 

 ades introduced into this country, and what kind 

 of reception did they meet with ? M. A. 



[Masquerades are said to have been invented by Gra- 

 nacci, an Italian, in the beginning of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury. At all events they were fashionable in Italy as 

 early as 1512, when they were introduced into England 

 in the reign of Henry VIII., as old Hall informs us in his 

 Chronicle (4to. Lond. 1809, p. 526.) He says, « On the 

 dale of the Epiphanie at night (1512-13) the icing (Henry 

 VIII.) with a xi. other were disguised, after the maner 

 of Italic, called a maske, a thyng not seen afore in Englande ; 

 thei were appareled in garmentes long and brode, wrought 

 all with gold, with visers and cappes of gold ; and after 

 the banket doen, these maskers came in, with sixe gen- 

 tlemen disguised in silk [which some take for the modern 

 domino'], bearyng staffs torches, and desired the ladies to 

 daunce, some were content, and some that knewe the 

 fashion of it refused, because it was not a thyng commonly 

 seen. And after thei daunced and commoned together, 

 as the fashion of the maske is, thei tooke their leaue and 

 departed, and so did the quene and all the ladies." Henry 

 kept his Christmas at Greenwich at this time.] 



" Genuine Rejected Addresses." — About 

 the same time that the Rejected Addresses of 

 James and Horace Smith made their appearance 

 a volume containing the real Rejected Addresses 

 was published. As the book is very scarce, could 

 you give me the names of the authors ? It is no- 

 ticed in The Monthly Review. • X. Y. 



[This work was published by B. McMillan, and is en- 

 titled JTie Genuine Rejected Addresses, presented to the 

 Committee of Management for Drury Lane Theatre ; pre- 

 ceded by that written by Lord Byron, and adopted by 

 the Committee, 8vo. 1812. Many are anonymous ; those 

 with the names or initials prefixed are the following : — 

 Horace Twiss, Esq. Anna, a young lady in her fifteenth 

 year. Wm. Thomas Fitzgerald, Esq. John Taylor, Esq. 

 Alicia Lefanu. C. T. (two). T. J. Z. Z. Dr. Busby. 

 G. F. Busby, Esq. T. Josephus. Walter Henry Watts. 



