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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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become perpetual), y/'^^ I feare is not to be hoped for in y^ 

 days nor mine ; yet since }•"■ Lpps. are so afraid of an ill 

 precedent, I would there were more of y'' mind, for tho' 

 I might not as now find my Convenience in such severity, 

 yet my safety I should bothe in Church and State." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." say whether at 

 the time in question there was any restriction on 

 incumbents in Ireland employing tempora7-y cu- 

 rates ? One would think from the foregoing, that 

 all curates engaged were to be retained for a 

 term, or for the duration of the incumbency. 



Where can a list of Irish incumbents, anno 1695, 

 be seen ? If this should meet the eye of Mb. 

 D'Alton, he no doubt could and would assist me. 



L. M. 



P.S. — I should also be glad to be informed 

 where I could meet with the best account of the 

 career of the Lords Justices of Ireland 1693 to 

 1695 ? 



English Translation of Aristotle^ s " Organon." — 

 Will some of your correspondents refer me to a 

 good English translation of the prior posterior 

 Analytics of the Stagirite ? The more speedy the 

 reply, the more welcome. 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Releat. — What is the derivation of this word, 

 which I heard at Walton-on-the-Naze used thus : 

 " When you come to the three releats" &c., a 

 spot where three roads meet ? F. C. B. 



Temple the Regicide. — By the act of the Com- 

 mons of England for the trying and judging of 

 Charles Stuart, King of England, as set out in 

 the State Trials, I find, named amongst the com- 

 missioners, three of the name of Temple, viz. Sir 

 Peter Temple, Knight Baronet, James Temple 

 and Peter Temple, Esquires. Sir Peter Temple 

 was no doubt the second baronet of that name, 

 the eldest son of Sir Thomas Temple, created in 

 1611, the progenitor of the Buckingham family. 

 Sir Peter seems to have shrunk from sitting under 

 this commission, for I do not find bis name 

 amongst those who attended at the various meet- 

 ings which took place during the trial ; but the 

 other two, James and Peter Temple, seem to have 

 been men of different pith, and not to have been 

 ashamed or afraid of acting under a commission 

 which declared its bold purpose, " To the end no 

 chief officer or magistrate whatsoever may here- 

 after presume traiterously or maliciously to 

 imagine or contrive the enslaving or destroying of 

 the English Nation, and to expect impunity for so 

 doing ; " for I find their two names recorded at 

 nearly every meeting of the commissioners, and 

 also signed to the death warrant. Can I be in- 

 formed through your columns of what branch of 

 the Temple family these bold patriots were ? 

 Were they related to Sir Peter the timid, and 

 bow ? Wh^t became of them at the Restoration ? 



and whether any of their descendants can still be 

 traced? and where I should be likely to obtain 

 information ? Sir Thomas, the first baronet, is 

 said to have had thirteen children, but he would 

 scarcely have two sons named Peter ? 



R. G. Temple. 

 The Lache, Chester. 



Monti's '■'■Death of Basseville." — In Forsyth's 

 Remarks on Antiquities, Ai'ts, and Letters, during 

 an Excursion in Italy, it is said, with relation to 

 Vincenzo Monti, author of several tragedies, that 

 " his Death of Basseville made him a public man." 

 Can you afford any information respecting the 

 subject of the latter work, or otherwise illustra- 

 tive of the passage quoted from Forsyth. T. H. 



[Hugo Basseville, the hero of Monti's most celebrated 

 performance, was born at Abbeville about 1755. In com- 

 pliance with the paternal wish he entered on the study 

 of theology, but from the natural bent of his own mind 

 devoted himself to literary pursuits, and repaired to 

 Paris in quest of fame and fortune. Visiting Berlin he 

 became acquainted with the elder Mirabeau, which gave 

 rise to an intimate friendship with that celebrated indi- 

 vidual. From Berlin he proceeded to Holland, where he 

 wrote several works, tainted with that impious licence 

 of profane wit exercised by Voltaire with such a deso- 

 lating and filial effect. At the commencement of the 

 Revokition Basseville adhered with commendable fidelity 

 to the ro3'al cause, and conducted a daily journal, the 

 Mercure National, which had for its motto, " II faut un 

 Eoi aux Fran9ais." At this time none of his friends sus- 

 pected any inclination in him towards that excess of 

 democratic fanaticism to which, whether impelled by 

 poverty, or by a guilty ambition, he presently abandoned 

 himself. In 1792 he was nominated Secretary of Lega- 

 tion at the Court of Naples. In the following year a few 

 of his countrj'men, more reckless than himself, were too 

 successful in urging him to the rash experiment of which 

 his life was the forfeit. This event occurred on Jan. 14, 

 1793, when it appears that, with a view of obtaining a 

 demonstration of the public feeling, Basseville appeared 

 in the streets of Rome wearing the badge of revolutionary 

 principles, the tricolored cockade. This dangerous step 

 excited the populace to a pitch of phrenzy, and the envoy 

 was stabbed in the stomach by a person of the lowest 

 class. How bitterly he repented his folly may be inferred 

 from the words that escaped his lips almost with his 

 latest breath, "Je meurs la victime d'un fou." The 

 poem, The Death of Basseville, is the production of Monti 

 on which his fame chiefly rests in his own country, where 

 it is familiarly styled the Bassevilliad, and often cited as 

 the masterpiece of the author, and of later Italian poetry. 

 The poem had an astonishing success ; eighteen editions 

 of it appeared in the course of six months. Ajx English 

 translation was published anonymously in 1845, but at- 

 tributed to Adam Lodge, Esq., M.A., which contains a 

 biographical sketch of Hugo Basseville, and some charac- 

 teristic notices of the poetical genius of Monti.] 



Palavacini. — There are some well-known lines 

 about Baron Palavacini, but they have escaped 

 my memory, and as I do not know where to find 

 them, I shall feel obliged if any of your readers 



