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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'» S. VIII. July 30. '59, 



the Gulf-stream, Fucus vesiculosus could have been 

 obtained in suflBcient abundance in the North and 

 West of Ireland, although I do not know that it 

 was burned there for kelp till the beginning or 

 middle of last century. Is there then a mistake 

 as to England ? 



As to the name, I am aware that celp is now a 

 Gaelic word for kelp, but I cannot trace its root 

 to that language, and it seems to be merely the 

 English appellation with a Gaelic orthography (c 

 being pronounced as k in English) : the genuine 

 Gaelic expression is luath feamnach^ literally, ashes 

 of sea-weed. Can kelp be connected with the 

 name of the person who first discovered it ? 

 Perhaps some of your readers about Newcastle 

 may be able to unravel the subject, as kelp seems 

 to have been first or principally used there. 



W.A. 



NAPOLBOM S SSCAFE FROM ELBA. 



The following short sentence from Rogers's Re- 

 collections is, in the absence of the vol., extracted 

 from the Athenccum for June 18, 1859, p. 799. : — 



" When Buonaparte left Elba for France I (the Duke 

 of Wellington) was at Vienna, and received the news from 

 Lord Burghersh, our minister at Florence. The instant 

 it came I communicated it to every member of the Con- 

 gress, and all laughed ; the Emperor of Russia most of 

 all." 



This, coupled with the manifest desire of your 

 correspondents to obtain the exact time at which 

 the tidings detailing the particulars of the crown- 

 ing victory at "Waterloo arrived in England, 

 prompted the desire to forward the following ver- 

 sion, though differing in many essential points 

 from the one quoted above. It may not have ap- 

 peared in print, but it has a wide circulation in 

 England as well as upon the Continent. 



It is well known that, at the time Napoleon 

 landed, the monarchs of Europe were assembled with 

 their ministers at Vienna. The King of Saxony, 

 who had too closely allied himself to the fortunes 

 of the falling Emperor, and for his own interest 

 too closely adhered to that alliance, was forbidden 

 to approach that capital ; but, as circumstances 

 rendered it necessary that some conferences should 

 be held with him, he was directed to -take up his 

 abode at Presburg. 



To this city the ministers "of the three great 

 powers repaired, probably to decide on that mon- 

 arch's future destiny. The chateau assigned for 

 their residence was small ; the Prince of Rohan, 

 who was attached to the French minister, could 

 only be accommodated with a temporary bed in 

 the large salle. At one end of this salle was a 

 room in which slepfc the Duke of Wellington ; 

 at the other end was the apartment occupied by 

 the Prince Metternich, and beside the salle was 

 the dormitory of the Prince Talleyrand. 



The arbitrators had retired to rest on the night 

 of the memorable lltli of March, — a rest fated to 

 be both suddenly and violently disturbed by an 

 event pregnant with the destinies of the world. 

 The Prince of Rohan, an early sufferer, was 

 aroused from his sleep by the words — " Rohan^ 

 take this to Talleyrand." Unable for a moment to 

 shake off his lethargy, the words were repeated 

 ! with increased emphasis. "Take this to the Prince 

 \ Talleyrand, he must see it directly." By this time 

 j the astonished attache was enabled to collect him- 

 ' self sufficiently to discover the Duke of Welling- 

 ton standing only in his night apparel by his bed- 

 side, holding a letter in his hand, which he had 

 just received from Lord Burghersh, announcing 

 the landing of the notable prisoner from Elba at 

 Cannes on the 3rd inst., upon the scene of his for- 

 mer sovereignty. Talleyrand received his dis- 

 patches about two hours later, and last, though in 

 his own country, and after a lapse of nearly the 

 same time, the Prince Metternich received his 

 packet. Rest and sleep were instantly banished, 

 all immediately rose from their beds, and by six 

 o'clock were at the breakfast-table. 



The preliminaries of a hasty treaty were then 

 arranged with the King of Saxony, and by eleven 

 o'clock they were in their carriages, and retraced 

 with all possible expedition the route for Vienna. 



Henbt D'Avenet. 



Lord. Howe. — The remains of George Augustus,, 

 third Viscount Howe (who was killed at Ticon- 

 deroga in 1758) we»e brought to Albany, N. Y., 

 and interred under the episcopal church there. 

 The old church having been pulled down, a new 

 building is now in progress of erection. It is in the 

 principal part of the city, which is the capital of 

 the state. This seems to be, therefore, a fitting 

 opportunity for the erection of a mural tablet to 

 the memory of that brave officer and nobleman. 



O'C. 



Harry- Sophister. — Fuller and Ray both give 

 this phrase as a Cambridge proverb ; but their 

 solutions have not been considered satisfactory 

 either by Grose {Provincial Antiquities) or others.. 

 In Urquhart and Motteaux's translation of Rabe- 

 lais (bk. ii. chap. 17.) we find the phrase "Arrian 

 Sophisters." On reference to the original it \s 

 simply "les artitien sophistes," the graduates in 

 arts. Is it probable that the corruption of artis- 

 tian to Arrian, and thence to Harry, is the true- 

 solution of the phrase ? A. A» 



Poets' Corner. 



Errors in Dehrett. — In the edition of Debrett's 

 Peei-age, revised and corrected by Henry Collen,. 

 Esq., Lond., 1849, the name of the 2nd Viscount 

 Falkland, who was killed at Newbury, is printed 



