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NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



[2nd s. No 40., Oct. 4. '56. 



The House of Brunswick and the Casting Vote 

 (2"'' S. ii. 44. 97. 198.) — I have received a com- 

 munication from Mr. Richard Sainthill, of Cork, 

 in which he informs me that he has in his posses- 

 sion the second edition of a work entitled A His- 

 tory of the House of Brunswick, and bearing the 

 date of 1716. In this work, from the .345 th to the 

 348th page is occupied by a list of the " ayes " 

 and " noes " in the memorable division which 

 placed the Elector of Hanover on the throne of 

 these realms. The list is printed in two parallel 

 columns, and stands thus: "Ayes 118, noes 117." 

 At the bottom of the list of ayes are the following 

 names : 



" Sir Arthur Owen, Bart. 



Griffith Rice, Esq. 

 Tellers, 



Sir John Holland. 



Sir Matthew Dudley." 



As there is no alphabetical order or precedence 

 of rank in the list, it is to be presumed that the 

 names were set down in the order of voting. This 

 statement, taken in connexion with Debrett's nar- 

 rative, ought, in my humble opinion, to settle the 

 question. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Mankind and their Destroyers (2"'^ S. ii. 210.) 

 — The following passage, though not exactly 

 in the same words, nor by a French writer, em- 

 bodies so completely the idea expressed in the 

 sentence quoted by A. P. S., that I am led to be- 

 lieve that it may be the one of which he is in 

 search : 



" As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more 

 liberal applause on their destroyers than on their bene- 

 factors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice 

 of the most exalted characters." — Gibbon's Decline and 

 Fall, chap. I. 



I believe that it is Franklin who has a remark 

 (where?) to the effect that when man destroys 

 maivhe attaches no shame to the deed, and per- 

 forms it openly in the light of day (except fe^a 

 fear of punishment) ; but that \i?1ien the questicm 

 is to create one, he hides himself in holes and 

 corners. Man is not the only animal to whom 

 the remark applies ; and I cite it as suggesting 

 inquiry and reflection upon an obscure and neg- 

 lected point in psychological science. 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



Winchester Epitaphs (2"-* S. ii. 195.)— Will 

 Mb. Gunner oblige me by ascertaining whether 

 the memorial, said to have been inscribed on brass 

 to Sir Henry Seymour of Marwell, co. Hants, and 

 to his wife Barbara, is still extant in Winchester 

 Cathedral? Or whether there is any register 

 there that would give the dates of their burial ? 

 Sir Henry died about the year 1578. 



Patonce. 



Illustrations of the Simplon (2"^ S. ii. 211.) — 

 Does H. J. refer to Brockedon's Passes of the 

 Alps, published in or about the year which he 

 mentions (1823) ? H. E. Cabrington. 



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