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the first hostilities occurred between Hannibal and the 

 Romans, and more recently distinguished as being the 

 scene of a cavalry engagement during the Peninsular 

 war." 



Murviedro is the Saguntum of the ancients, and 

 its situation a league from the Mediterranean, or 

 four from Valencia. Population, 5,500. At the 

 opening of the Peninsular war, the place was for- 

 tified and garrisoned in the best manner circum- 

 stances would allow. In Sept. 1811, it was be- 

 sieged by Suchet, aided by Habert and Harispe, 

 when the invaders were repulsed. Driven to the 

 last extremity, the garrison subsequently surx-en- 

 dered. This is the only important event that 

 occurred. There is not a municipal, or other re- 

 cord, to show that sword blades, in any quantity, 

 were ever manufactured there. The locality is 

 not favourable, as no steel can be had there. 



Sahagun is a small town in the province of 

 Leon, fifteen leagues from Valladolid ; where, on 

 Dec. 21, 1818, in a brilliant action, Moore de- 

 feated a corps of French cavalry, and established 

 himself in the place, finding that Napoleon was 

 coming down upon him. The district of Sahagun 

 is exclusively agricultural ; and by no historian is 

 it mentioned that the town was ever celebrated 

 for the manufacture of side-arms, like Bilboa, and 

 other places in the Basque provinces, where the 

 best metal and expert workmen always abounded. 



VlATOK. 

 Oxford. 



Myosotis palustris, or Forget-me-not ('2'"^ S. i. 

 270.) — Henry IV. of England (when Duke of 

 Hereford, I believe,) assumed this flower as his 

 emblem, with the motto, Souviens de inoi, ".Re- 

 member me." This is probably the origin of the 

 name "Forget-me-not," inquired for by your cor- 

 respondent. See Miss Strickland's Lives of the 

 Queens of Richard II. and Heni-y IV. 



Henky T. Riley. 



"No pent-up Utica" Src. (P' S. xi. 503.) — The 

 lines, correctly written, read thus : 



" No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, 

 But the whole boundless continent is j'ours," 



and are part of an Epilogue to Cato, written in 

 1778 by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall of Massachus- 

 setts. The entire poem is to be found in Duyck- 

 inck's Cyclopcedia of American Literature, vol. i. 

 pp. 286, 287. * Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Wm. Cooper (2"'i S. ii. 307.) — In reply to R. 

 J.'s Query respecting this gentleman, I beg to say 

 that if he writes to Wm. Cooper, Esq., or Carlos 

 Cooper, Esq., his brother barristers-at-law, Nor- 

 wich, he will get all the information' he requires : 

 but if he chooses, he can see or communicate with 

 the gentleman himself in London, at 3. Church- 

 yard Court, or 13. Grenville Street, Brunswick 



Square. But in order to save your correspon- 

 dent trouble, I can inform him that Mr. Cooper is 

 a barrister, and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn as 

 such on June 10, 1831. He obtained his degree 

 of B. A. at Oxford; and he wrote two other 

 dramas, — one called Mohxnna, and the other 

 Zopyrus, the Hero of Pei-siu. And I imagine he 

 wrote no more than the two above named ; and 

 the other referred to by your correspondent, as in 

 his dedication of Zopyrus, he describes it as his 

 third and last attempt. I'his last drama was acted 

 at Norwich on Feb. 13, 1844, and was published 

 by Matchett & Co. at Norwich, price 2*., in three 

 Acts. John Nukse Chad wick. 



Motto for an Index (2"'> S. i. 413.) — Would 

 the following serve your correspondent as a motto 

 for his index ? 



" 2oc TO fATjfvetv efAot'." — Eurip. Suppl., v. 98. 



From my own budget of these small wares a 

 sample or two may amuse some of your readers : 



1. "'AvT^p ia-Ti. IIopios ev9a.Se <to4>6s." — Plat. Apol. Socr. 



might, years ago, have been written over the en- 

 trance of Hatton Parsonage. 



2. "4>atVeTai moi Kiji/os icro? Beoicriv 



eft-ixev u>vTJp." — Fragm. Suppl. 



the admirers of a late tragedian, or of the hero of 

 Ghuznee, might equally adopt. 



3. " Quicquid habes, age, 

 Depone tutis auribus." — Hoi: i. 27. 17. 



Inscription for a Romanist confessional. 



4. If your correspondent (2"** S. i. 468.) dis- 

 covers the hippotaph of " Sorrel," he may be 

 disposed to write on it, i(T(p7\\e icava xa^Tio-ej/, Hipp. 

 12. 37., while for William the Conqueror's horse 

 might be applied, with one word altered : 



" Incessit per ignes 

 Suppositos cineri doloso." — Tlor. 2. 1. G. 



0. " SoUiciti jaceant, terrS,que premantur iniqua 



In longas orbera qui secuere vias." 



Ov. A7n. 2. 16. 15. 



So would the late Col. Sibthorpe and other ene- 

 mies to railroads have said. 

 6. " Organa semper 



In manibus." — Juvenal, vi. 379. 



Heading for letters to The Times from fretful old 

 gentlemen complaining of street music. 



1, "'Evi) leal via'' 



The smart old maid- ewe dressed lamb fashion. 



8. " kKoiv aeKOVTi ye flvfAw." 



A candidate for the voluntary theological at Cam- 

 bridge, now made compulsory as a step to ordi- 

 nation. 



If word- quibbling is allowed : 



9. « Alter erit turn Tiphys." 



The Commissioners of Sewers read Typhus. 



