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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Poem about a Mummy (2"'* S. ii. 87.) — Proba- 

 bly the poem your correspondent A. A. D. in- 

 quires for is The Answer of the Egijptian Mummy, 

 in reply to the Addi-ess to an Egyptian Mummy, a 

 poem written at the unrolling of a mummy some 

 years ago. The Address, which is a poem of con- 

 siderable merit, and of no little interest, was at- 

 tributed to Mr. Roscoe, and has been several times 

 reprinted. 



The Answer was, what your correspondent calls 

 it, — droll, and describes the mummies' " ex- 

 periences " of three thousand years ago. It was 

 printed in the Saturday Magazine of the Christian 

 Knowledge Society for April 26, 1834, to which I 

 beg to refer A. A. D. I may just name as well 

 that the Address itself was also reprinted in the 

 same magazine for February 22, in the same year. 

 Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. 



Derby. 



I think that your correspondent^A. A. D. must 

 refer to an " Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's 

 Exhibition," written by Horace Smith, and origin- 

 ally published in the New Monthly Magazine. 

 Perhaps the quotation of one of the stanzas may 

 refresh A. A. D.'s memory. 



" I need not ask thee if that hand, now calmed. 

 Has any Roman soldier mauled and knuckled, 

 For thou wert dead, and buried, and embalmed, 



Ere Romulus and Remus had been suckled : 

 Antiquity appears to have begun 

 Long after thy primeval race was run." 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



In a work upon the Plurality of Worlds, by 

 Alex. Copland, Advocate, Bvo., Lond. and Edin., 

 1834, there is a poem entitled " The Mummy 

 Awake," which may be what A. A. D. wants. 



J. O. 



There is a story by Edgar Poe, among his 

 Tales of Mystery, &c., entitled " Some Words with 

 a Mummy," which pretty nearly answers the 

 description given by A. A. D., except that it is in 

 prose. It may be found in vol. i. pp. 212. 599., 

 in an edition published by Vizetelly in 1852, 

 among the series of " Readable Books." 



H. A. C. 



Mr. Bathursfs Disappearance (2"^ S. ii. 48. 95.) 

 — Has there not been a story going the rounds of 

 the English and foreign papers, since the publica- 

 tion of JBishop Bathurst's Life by his son, the late 

 archdeacon, to the effect that some human bones 

 had been found in making alterations in the 

 " Post House at (I think) Perleberg," where the 

 disappearance took place, which were supposed to 

 be those of Mr. Bathurst. Probably it is a 

 " canard." If I am right in fixing on Perleberg 

 as the locus in quo, it is hardly " pr&s de Ham- 

 bourg?" I once heard the subject discussed in 



a German diligence. The opinion expressed was, 

 that he had committed suicide ; throwing himself 

 into some tributary of the Elbe, then swollen by 

 rains, whilst his horses were being fed at the post. 

 The loss of his dispatches was the reason assigned 

 for the commission of this rash act of desperation. 

 How these dispatches were lost was a disputed 

 point ; but the opinion of the diligence was, that 

 either Russia, or our ally Austria, and not France, 

 had a hand in their disappearance. J. H. L. 



To settle divers errors, let me state, as a rela- 

 tive of the wife of Mr. Benjamiti Bathurst, that 

 she was the eldest daughter of Sir John Call of 

 Whiteford House, Cornwall, and sister to the late 

 Sir William Call. Lady Aylmer, who is alive, 

 is her sister. Mrs. Bathurst's only surviving 

 daughter is the Countess of Castle Stuart, not the 

 Dowager Countess. A. Holt White. 



A Noble Cook (2"'^ S. ii. 87.) — I have heard 

 this extract alluded to the Lord Aston of that 

 day. The title is now, I believe, extinct. The 

 last lord was in holy orders. In a statement of 

 the case of the soi-disant Earl of Stirling (no very 

 good authority), with a view of showing that 

 other Scotch claimants of peerages had not com- 

 plied with the orders of the House of Lords, it is 

 alleged — 



" The Lord Aston, whose name does not even stand on 

 the Roll of Scotch Peers, has still been allowed to keep 

 his title, and to be denominated as Lord Aston in the 

 Commission of the Peace for the County of Worcester." 



I presume this lord was a descendant of the 

 cook. J. H. L . 



" God save the King " (2°'^ S. ii. 96.) — Dr. 

 Gauntlett, in his note upon this tune, has gone 

 out of the way to point out an error of the late 

 Dr. Crotch's. In so doing he has made a " ludi- 

 crous mistake " himself. The author of the chant 

 in D minor was not "William Morley of 1740," 

 but William Morley, Gent., of the Chapel Royal, 

 whose death is recorded in the cheque book of 

 that establishment to have taken place Oct. 29, 

 1721. The correct date is of some value in Dft. 

 Gauntlett's argument. Edward F. Rimbault. 



Order of St. John of Jerusalem (2°'^ S. i. 460.) 

 — Does not E. H. A. confound two different 

 orders ? The order of the Temple was surely 

 quite different from that of St. John of Jerusalem 

 or the Knights Hospitallers, and the one body, if 

 my memory does not fail me, was generally in 

 rivalry, not to say hostility, to the other. /3. \. 5. 



" Blawn-sheres " (2"'* S. ii. Q5.) — The word to 

 which G. refers is sewells, not sewers. It is ex- 

 plained by Mr. Halliwell as a "scarecrow" 

 made of feathers, to scare deer from breaking the 

 fences. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



