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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and 4th verses of the 57th chapter of the Book of 

 the Prophet Isaiah. F. A. Cabkington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Spontoon (2"'^ S. vi. 329. 421.)— The spontoon 

 carried by officers of infantry was a sort of light 

 battle-axe, resembling a good deal those of the 

 gentlemen-at-arms. Specimens can be seen in 

 the armoury of the Tower, and at the United 

 Service Museum in Scotland Yard. In the year 

 1745, the officers of infantry carried " half pikes,"- 

 which had an ornamental blade nine inches 

 long, and a light haft of ash six feet long; the 

 butt being shod with iron, to stick in the ground. 

 The readers of Rob Roy will recollect that Capt. 

 Thornton gave his "half pike" to a soldier. 



F. A. Caerington. 

 • Ogbourne St. George. 



Dr. Young and Voltah-e (2"^ S. viii. 134.) — I 

 believe the following is the correct version of Dr. 

 Young's epigram upon Voltaire, who had made 

 some very free remarks upon the characters oi 

 Satan, Sin, and Death, in Milton's Paradise Lost. 

 These lines are certainly more harmonious and 

 poetical than those quoted from W. Cole : — 



" Thou art so witty, pi-otligate and thin, 

 At once Ave think thee Satan, Death, and Sin." 



Soon after the death of Voltaire, some philo- 

 sophes having proposed to erect a monument to his 

 memory, an Englishman, who was staying at 

 Paris, undertook to compose the epitaph, as fol- 

 lows : — 



" Hie jacet 



VoUarius: 



Qui 



In Poesi magnus, 



In Historia parvus, 



In Philosophia minimus. 



In Religione nullus : 



Cujus 

 Ingenium acre, 

 Judicium pragceps, 

 Improbitas sumnia : 



Cui 



Arri.=ere mulierculae, 



Plausere scioli, 



Favere profani : 



Quern 



Dei hominumque irrisorem 



Senatus physico-atlieus 



Hoc lapide 



Donavit." 



F. C. H. 

 Paintings at Vauxhall (2"'* S. viii. 70.) — I re- 

 member seeing, in 1842, six or seven of the paint- 

 ings by Hogarth and Hayman, which formerly 

 decorated this once fashionable place of amuse- 

 ment, at the house of a picture-cleaner, Mr. 

 Gwennap of Tichborne Street, Haymarket. They 

 were purchased at the Vauxhall Gardens' sale in 

 1841, and had been consigned to Mr. Gwennap 

 for the purpose of cleaning, repairing, &c. 



Most of the Vauxhalv pictures have been en- 



graved, and copies are preserved in the extraor- 

 dinary collection of materials for the history of 

 the gardens formed by John Fillinham, Esq., of 

 Hanover Street, Newington. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Character of Mr. Hastings (2"'' S. viii. 131.) — 

 My reference to this article was derived from Sir 

 John Hawkins's History of Music (the new edi- 

 tion), p. 568., where the passage stands : 



" The Character of Mr. William Hastings, written by 

 the First Earl Shaftesbury, and printed in Peck's Collec 

 tion of Curious Histoncal Pieces, No. xxxiii." 



Walpole includes it among the writings of the 

 Earl in his Royal and Noble Authors, and adds : 



" Printed originally in Peck's Desiderata Cwiosa, and 

 lately in the Connoisseur, vol. iii." 



Park, however, in his edition of Walpole's work, 

 says in a note : 



" Dr. Kippis states, and so may the present editor, 

 that he examined the whole of Evans's edition of Peck's 

 Desid. Cur. without finding this character of Mr. Hast- 

 ings inserted. Vide Biog. Brit., vol. iv. p. 263. In the 

 Connoisseur, however, it may be seen." 



It is also printed in Bell's Huntingdon Peerage 

 (second edition, with additions), 1821, where it is 

 stated to have been inscribed, in " gold letters," 

 under an original portrait of Mr. Hastings, pre- 

 served at Winbourne St. Giles, the seat of the 

 Earl of Shaftesbury. 



I should add that an engraving from this por- 

 trait forms one of the illustrations to Mr. Bell's 

 curious volume. Edwaed F. Rimbault. 



De Foes Descendants (2'"» S. viii. 51. 94.) — 

 David Erskine Baker died without children. His 

 brother, Henry Baker, died in his father's lifetime, 

 leaving one child, the Rev. William Baker, rector 

 of Lyndon, co. Rutland, who died in 1828, leav- 

 ing three children — the Rev. Henry De Foe Baker, 

 William Baker, M.D., and Mary Baker. The 

 Rev. Henry De Foe Baker resigned the vicarage 

 of Greethara on being appointed Warden of 

 Brown's Hospital, Stamford, where he died in 

 1845, leaving two children —the Rev. Henry De 

 Foe Baker and Harriet Elizabeth Baker. Dr. 

 Baker died in 1850, leaving four children — the 

 Rev. William De Foe Baker, Charles Bernard 

 Baker, Sophia Baker (who died in 1853),. and 

 Emily Dallas Baker. H. S. 



" Le Bas Bleu'' (2»'» S. viii. 27.) — This elegant 

 little Interlude is from the pen of one of your cor- 

 respondents, Me. William Hugh Logan, banker, 

 Berwick-upon-Tweed. Besides two most useful 

 works, a treatise on the System of Scottish Bank- 

 ing, and the Law of Bills and Promissory Notes, 

 Mr. Logan is the author of several dramatic 

 pieces, by way of delassements from his graver 

 occupations. Mb. Logan's reputation for a finan- 

 cier' is held in deservedly high repute on the 



