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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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light on the derivation of this word, or give any 

 other authority for it than this passage ? I have 

 of course seen the note in the edition of Chap- 

 man's Iliad published by Russell Smith. Libya. 

 Salford. 



Mutiny at the Nore. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents kindly refer me to any work which will 

 give me the names of the killed and wounded in 

 the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. James Delano. 



Ephemeral Literature. — Can any reader of "N. 

 & Q." oblige the subscribed by telling him the 

 author of " Universal Languages and Empires," 

 &c. (No. 737.), " Education " (No. 739.), " Scien- 

 tific Heirlooms and the Price of them" (No. 757.) 

 in Family Herald for 1857; but more especially 

 any other articles or works by the same hand ? 



J. J. 



A Lost Cornelian. — In the dark ages, long be- 

 fore " N. & Q." was born or thought of, I found at 

 Weymouth a cornelian, v/ith a well-engraved 

 crest, viz. a stork bearing in her beak a cross 

 flory (?), with the motto, " Semper paratus." Can 

 you help me to its owner ? C. W. B. 



Tennyson^s " Enid." — Can you or any of your 

 readers tell me where to find the original story of 

 "Enid," the first of Mr. Tennyson's four Idylls? 

 I find no traces of it in Sir Thomas Malory's edi- 

 tion of King Arthur. Cantab. 



Francis Moult, Esq. — Any information respect- 

 ing this gentleman, an eminent chemist in London, 

 who died May 17, 1733, will oblige J. Y. 



Character of Mr. Hastings. — Dr. Rimbault 

 mentions in " N. & Q." (2"^ S. vii. 323.) that this 

 piece is printed in Peck's Desiderata Cw-iosa. 

 This has been stated before him by Horace Wal- 

 pole, Mr. Martyn in his Life of Shaftesbury, and 

 others. I have searched carefully through both 

 editions of Peck's book, and cannot find it. Can 

 Dr. Rimbatjlt or any one else refer me to the 

 page of Peck's volume, specifying the edition ? 



" The English Spy." — I should be glad to know 

 if this work is complete in twelve numbers, as, 

 at the end of p. 147. is printed "Conclusion of 

 Volume One;" and "the next volume" is re- 

 ferred to in the preface. Was a second volume 

 ever published, and who was the author ? Is 

 " Bernard Blackmantle," a pseudonym for Mr. P. 

 Egan ? CuTHBEBT Bede. 



[This work makes two volumes: the second volume 

 was published ia 1826, pp. 400. It was written by Charles 

 Molloy VVestmacott, and continued by the same editor 

 under the title of The St. Jameses Royal Magazine. ] 



Sheridan's Speech on Warren Hastings Trial. — 

 Allow me to call attention to a singular inaccu- 

 racy in the 8th edition of the Encyclopcedia Bri- 

 tannica now in the course of publication. It occurs* 

 in vol. xi. p. 239., where, alluding to the trial of 

 Warren Hastings, it is said — 



" The prosecution was opened by Burke in a speech of 

 extraordinary eloquence and power, which extended over 

 three days. He was succeeded by Fox, who in his turn 

 gave place to Sheridan. The speech of that brilliant wit 

 was said by the ablest among those who heard it to have 

 been the best that was ever delivered in the English 

 House op Commons. It certainly was one of the most 

 telling, for it caused so much excitement that no other 

 speaker could obtain a hearing, and the debate was ad- 

 journed." 



Now all the world knows that this celebrated 

 speech of Sheridan's was made by him, not in the 

 House of Com7nons but in the House of Lords, 

 when, as one of the managers appointed by the 

 House of Commons to conduct the impeachment, 

 he opened one of the articles of charge ; and the 

 notion of there being any debate or a competition 

 to obtain a hearing in the case is absurdly out of 

 the question. It is to be regretted that, in a work 

 of authority, such inaccuracies should appear. 



G. J. 



Edinburgh. 



l_The writer in the eighth edition of the Enajdopadia 

 Britannica has confounded the two celebrated speeches 

 delivered by Sheridan on the same subject, namely, the 

 spoliation of the Begums of Oude : the first in the House 

 of Commons on Feb. 7, 1787, when it was proposed to 

 impeach the great Indian minister; and the second 

 in Westminster Hall, on the 3rd and three following 

 daj'S of June, 1788, when Hastings was arraigned before 

 the Lords. Upon the conclusion of the first speech in • 

 the Commons, which occupied five and a half hours in 

 the delivery, fcfir William Dolben immediately moved an 

 adjournment of the debate, confessing that, in the state 

 of mind in which Mr. Sheridan's speech had left him, it 

 was impossible for him to give a determinate opinion. 

 Mr. Stanhope seconded the motion, and Pitt concurring, 

 "the debate was adjourned a little after one o'clock." 

 (^Annual Register, ViWI, p. 150.) 



In the absence of verbatim reports of the two celebrated 

 oratorical efforts in question, it is now impossible to state 

 which was the better or more famous of the two. Burke 

 declared the first to be " the most astounding effort of 

 eloquence, argument, and wit, united, of which there was 

 any record or tradition." Fox said of the same speech, 

 " AH that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, 

 when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and. 

 vanished like vapour before the sun." And Pitt acknow- 

 ledged " that it surpassed all the eloquence of ancient 

 and modern times, and possessed everything that genius 

 or art could furnish, to agitate and control the human 

 mind." (_Vide Moore's Life of Sheridan, 4to. 1825, p. 

 324.) 



The second speech, which was delivered in Westmin- 

 ster Hall, was, in the judgment of Fox and others, much 

 inferior to the first on the same subject. Burke, however, 

 appears to have been of a contrary opinion, declaring of 

 this second master-piece of eloquence, that " the various 

 species of eloquence that had been heard, either in an- 

 cient or modern times, whatever the acuteness of the bar, 

 the dignity of the senate, or the morality of the pulpit, 



