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Colonels and Captains, are never to be listened to. 

 They can't see 3 feet before them : enveloped in 

 smoke, blood, and wounded, they think it's all 

 goinw to ruin, without seeing an inch of the field. 

 " I ask pardon for taking these liberties with a 

 book of a public library ; but having been inti- 

 mate with Sir Walter, and known the Duke and 

 Lord Hill, and having met them, heard them 

 speak of the battle, it is a duty to add authentic 

 facts for the sake of the Ladies and Gentlemen of 

 Leeds. We are passing away (this generation) ; 

 in a few years, the Duke and Lord Hill, and all 

 will be gone. Sir Walter has left us, and then 

 these little written additions, by one who lived at 

 the time, may not be without interest. I apolo- 

 gise for the liberty, but must be forgiven. 



" B. R. Haydon." 



" The Duke heading the final attack with his hat in his 

 hand," is corrected at p. 139. : 



" The Duke never took off his hat ; and in ad- 

 vance, the Duke was in the rear. 



*' From Col. Gurwood, in a letter whilst 

 at Leeds, Dec. 12th, 1839. 



"B. R. H." 



General Cambrone's refusal of quarter with the words, 

 " The Imperial Guard can die, but never surrender," is 

 thus annotated, p. 144. : 



" I heard the Duke say, at the very time the 

 French made Cambrone utter this fine bit of 

 poetry, he was a prisoner at my quarters. The 

 Duke said, 'I didn't let him sup with me — he 

 broke his honour to Louis — and I bowed him and 

 his companion into another room.'' At Walmer, 

 Oct. 8 th, 1839. 



»B, R. H." 



Minav JJotc^. 



Alpaca. — I enclose a cutting from the Hamp- 

 shire Telegr(;yph of September 29, 1855. Should 

 this account of the introduction of alpaca wool 

 into England be correct, it is very possible that 

 at some future time all trace will be lost of the 

 facts : I therefore think that a corner in one of 

 your columns cannot be thrown away in register- 

 ing the manner of the first importation of this 

 material into this country, and the name of the 

 manufacturer who discovered how to apply it : 



" It is said that the first two cargoes of alpaca that 

 reached Liverpool were brought over as ballast, and lay 

 for some time unnoticed in the cellars of the broker to 

 whom they were consigned, and who considered them 

 worthless. A manufacturer named Titus Salt discovered 

 them there, and took away a sample to experiment upon. 

 Shortly he returned, and, to the astonishment of the 

 broker, bought up all that he had, at M. per pound. 

 Now see the result, in an import considerably above 

 2,000,000 lbs. annually, in an advance of from lOd. to 

 2s. 6d. per pound, and in a branch of manufactures pro- 

 ducing an immense variety of goods, new to the markets 

 of the world, employing profitably the labour of thou- 



sands, and not only sustaining some of our largest fac- 

 tories, but actually creating new towns." 



Haughmond. 

 Southampton. 



[Mr. William Walton gives a somewhat different ac- 

 count of the introduction of the alpaca into England. 

 He says, " The first person in this country who intro- 

 duced a marketable fabric made from this material was 

 Mr. Benjamin Outram, a scientific manufacturer of Greet- 

 land, near Halifax, who about 1829 sold it at a very high 

 price, in the form of ladies' carriage-shawls and cloak- 

 ings, as curiosities. No quantity of the wool existing in 

 England, he was obliged to procure a small supply from 

 Peru, and gradually the articles manufactured with it 

 came into notice. In 1832, Messrs. Hegan, Hall, & Co., 

 spirited merchants in Liverpool, convinced from their 

 superiority that these new manufactures would ere long 

 come into fashion, directed their agents in Peru to pur- 

 chase and ship over to them all the parcels of alpaca wool 

 they could meet with, and thus was laid the foundation 

 of that valuable and growing trade in this article which 

 has since risen up The greatest share of the spin- 

 ning and weaving of this article falls to Bradford, where 

 great credit is due to Mr. Titus Salt, through whose in- 

 telligence and perseverance the spinning of alpaca wool 

 has been brought to perfection." — The Alpaca, by W. 

 Walton, 1844, p. 65.] 



A Drawing of the Lord Mayor^s Show in 1453. 

 — Mr. Fairholt, in his Lord Mayors' Pageants, 

 printed for the Percy Society, 1843 (part i. p. 8.), 

 speaking of " Sir John Norman, the first Lord 

 Mayor that was rowed in his barge to Westmin- 

 ster, with silver oars at his owne cost and 

 charges," has this note : 



" Gough, in his British Topography, vol. i. p. 675., says, 

 * there is a drawing of his show on the river in the Pe- 

 pysian Library.' " 



A drawing of the Lord Mayor's Show in 1453 

 would certainly be a great curiosity, but I am In- 

 clined to think that no such representation exists. 

 Mr. Fairholt has misquoted Gough, whose words 

 are, " there Is a drawing of the show," not his 

 show ; and do not refer to any show in particular. 

 Gough's note is loosely written, but this is evi- 

 dently his meaning. Edwaed F. Rimbault. 



Anecdote of Prior. — The following passage is 

 copied from An Historical Guide to the Town of 

 Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, second edition, 

 1853, p. 30. : 



" There is a fine copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's History 

 of the World in this old library, and local tradition at- 

 taches an interesting anecdote to this book. It is said 

 the poet Prior used to read here often ; and once when 

 poring over the book in question on a winter evening, he 

 fell asleep, and the candle, falling from the tin sconce of 

 the desk upon the middle of the open book, burned slowly 

 a round hole through it, may be a hundred pages, rather 

 more than less. The smoke of the smouldering paper 

 aroused the weary student. A hand would have been 

 sufficient to cover the damage and put out the fire ; and 

 probably in this way it was extinguished. We may 

 imagine, however, the dismay at the mischief done to a 

 book costly even now, but then of a much higher mone- 

 tary value. The paina taken to remedy the defeats marks 



