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horn or bugle, the lashing and cracking of whip, 

 turnpike gates, a search for parcels under your 

 seat, and solicitous drivers. 



9. Discovering at a diverging point in your 

 journey that the "Tallyho" runs only every other 



, day or so, or has finally stopped. 



10. Clambering from the wheel by various iron 

 projections to your elevated seat. 



11. After threading the narrowest streets of an 

 ancient town, entering the inn yard by a low 

 gateway, to the imminent risk of decapitation. 



12. Seeing the luggage piled " Olympus high," 

 so as to occasion an alarming oscillation. 



13. Having the reins and whip placed in your 

 unpractised hands while coachee indulges in a 

 glass and a chat. 



14. When dangling at the extremity of a seat 

 overcome with drowsiness. 



15. Exposed to piercing draughts, owing to a 

 refractory glass; or, vice versa, being in a mi- 

 nority, you are compelled, for the sake of ventila- 

 tion, to thrust your umbrella accidentally through 

 a pane. 



16. At various seasons, suffocated with dust, 

 and broiled by a powerful sun ; or cowering under 

 an umbrella in a drenching rain — or petrified 

 with cold — or torn by fierce winds — or struggling 

 through snow — or wending your way through 

 perilous floods. 



17. Perceiving that a young squire is receiving 

 an initiatory practical lesson in the art of driving, 

 or that a jibbing horse, or a race with an opposi- 

 tion, is endangering your existence. 



18. Losing the enjoyment or employment of 

 much precious time, not only on the road, but 

 also from consequent fatigue. 



19. Interrupted before the termination of your 

 hurried meal by your two rough-coated, big- 

 buttoned, many-caped friends, the coachman and 

 guard — who hope you will remember them. Al- 

 though the gratuity has been repeatedly calcu- 

 lated in anticipation, you fail in making the mutual 

 remembrances agreeable. C. T. 



Bolinglrohe's Letter to Pope.— In the Illustrated 

 London News, a few weeks since, appeared an 

 original letter from Lord Bolingbroke to Pope, 

 supposed to have been never before published, 

 the authenticity of which was doubted by The 

 Athenaum. As " N. & Q." is an authority in any- 

 thing relating to Pope, perhaps I may be allowed 

 to record in its columns that this letter was first 

 published more than ninety years ago, viz. in the 

 Annual Register for 1763, p. 196. No authority 

 is there given for its authenticity, and it is un- 

 dated. I may add, that in the Register for the 

 year 1764, p. 222., is another letter, stated to be 



" original," from Pope to the Duchess of Hamilton, 

 which is not printed in any edition of Pope's 

 Letters. C. J. Douglas. 



[The last letter noticed by our correspondent is printed 

 in Roscoe's edition of Pope's Works, vol. viii. p. 332. The 

 words prefixed to it, « The writer drunk," are omitted by 

 Roscoe.] 



A Military Dinner-pui'ty. — As banquets to our 

 brave soldiers are now in vogue, and it is proposed 

 to give a grand dinner to the Guards, on their re- 

 turn to the Metropolis, the readers of " N. & Q." 

 may be glad to learn that the greatest dinner ever 

 known in England was that given by Lord Kom- 

 ney to the Kent volunteers on August 1, 1799, 

 when George III. reviewed them near Maidstone. 

 The tables, amounting to ninety-one in number, 

 were seven miles and a half long, and the boards 

 for the tables cost 1500Z. The entertainment, to 

 which 6500 persons sat down, consisted of 60 

 lambs in quarters, 200 dishes of roast beef, 700 

 fowls (3 in a dish), 220 meat pies, 300 hams, 300 

 tongues, 220 fruit pies, 220 dishes of boiled beef, 

 220 joints of roast veal. Seven pipes of port were 

 bottled off, and sixteen butts of ale, and as much 

 small beer was also placed in large vessels, to 

 supply the company. After dinner his Mnjesty's 

 health was given in a bumper by the volunteers, 

 all standing uncovered, with three times three, 

 accompanied by the music of all the bands. 



J. Yeowell. 



Shakspeare and his Printers. — In the April 

 number (No. 210.) of the Edinburgh Review, is 

 an article on the " Correctors and Corrections of 

 Shakspeare;" in the course of which the vil- 

 lanous typographical blundering of the Heminge 

 and Condell folio is the subject of strong repre- 

 hension. But qualis ah incceptu with the me- 

 chanical men of type. In that same Edinburgh, 

 in a subsequent article, on " Body and Mind," the 

 reviewer has occasion to quote the dagger-soli- 

 loquy from Macbeth ; and the quotation, in a 

 small way, is worthy of the old folio men : ivork 

 being printed for worth, the for thy, and eye for 

 eyes ! " Physician, heal thyself ! " 



A Desdltort Reader. 

 Jersey. 



A Mission of the Press. — In a ^^imes' leader of 

 June 30, the writer indulges in some pertinent 

 remarks upon the little that powerful engine, tlie 

 Press, has yet effected towards breaking down the 

 legal abominations of crabbed MS. and cumbi-ous 

 parchments, by substituting readable print and 

 tractable paper for deeds and other registered 

 documents, to the great relief of the purses and 

 brains of the lieges popularly supposed to read 

 and understand the former. 



Warming with his subject, the writer predicts 

 the time when the country squire, deprived of his 

 out-of-door recreation by a rainy day, will over* 



