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vented from arriving in time on that last me- 

 morable occasion, having left London after his 

 lordship, and not arriving till the battle was over, 

 and his master's career of glory brought to a 

 brilliant close. But it may be amusing to re- 

 cord Tom's opinion and observations. He said, 

 " I never told anybody that if I had been there, 

 Lord Nelson would not have been killed ; but 

 this I have said, and say again, that if I had been 

 there, he should not have put on that coat. He 

 would mind me like a child ; and when I found 

 him bent upon wearing his finery before a battle, I 

 always prevented him." " Tom," he would say, 

 " I'll fight the battle in my best coat." " No, my 

 Lord, you shaun't." " Why not, Tom?" " Why, 

 my Lord, you fight the battle first ; and then I'll 

 dress you up in all your stars and garters, and 

 you'll look something like." Thus poor old faith- 

 ful Tom Allen gave himself credit for having 

 saved his master's life by his rigid discipline in 

 attire on former occasions ; and it was evident 

 that he was of opinion that he should have saved 

 it once more at Trafalgar. 



Tom's accounts of other memorable events of 

 Nelson's life were given with equal naivete. His 

 old age was rendered comfortable in Greenwich 

 Hospital, where he held the office of pewterer till 

 his death. F. C. H. 



Minax 3otti, 



Rev. Joseph Mendham. — Joseph Mendham, of 

 Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire : St. Edmund Hall, 

 Oxford, B.A. 1792 ; M.A. 1795 ; Deacon, 1793 ; 

 Priest, 1794. The following is a list of his 

 works : — 



"An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer, with Notes Criti- 

 cal and Illustrative. 8vo. 1803. 

 " Clavis Apostolica, or Key to the Apostolic Writings. 



" Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, exhibited in 

 an Account of her Damnatory Catalogues and Indexes, 

 both Prohibitory and Expurgatory, with Supplements. 

 1830-43." 



" Watson, W. (Prisoner in Wisbech Castle), Important 

 Considerations, or a Vindication of Q. Elizabeth from the 

 charge of unjust Severity towards her Roman Catholic 

 Subjects, printed 1601, edited with a Preface and Notes. 

 1831." 



" Life and Pontificate of Saint Pius V., 8vo. 1832-33." 



" Memoirs of the Council of Trent, principally derived 

 from MSS. and Unpublished Records, 8vo., with Supple- 

 ments. 1834-46." 



"Index Librorum Prohibitorum, h. Sexto V. Papa, 

 confectus et publicatus; ad vero a Successoribus ejus in 

 Scde Romano suppressus, ed. J. Mendham. 1835." 



" Taxe Sacre Penitentiarie Apostolice, with an account 

 of the Taxffi Cancellaria Apostolicae, &c., of the Church 

 of Rome. 1836." 



" Additions to : 1. The Taxse of the Church of Rome, 

 1836. II. The Venal Indulgences, 1839. III. The Index 

 of Prohibited Books, by Gregory XVI., 1840. 1848." 



" Venal Indulgences and Pardons of the Church of 

 Rome e^Lemplified. 1839." 



" Acta Concilii Tridentini, anno 1562-3, usque in finem 

 Concilio Pii IV. P. M. et alia multa circa dictum Con- 

 cilium Fragmenta, a Card. Gab. Paleotto descripta, edente 

 J. Mendham. 1842." 



" Cardinal Allen^s Admonition to the Nobility and 

 People of England and Ireland, a.d. 1588, reprinted, with 

 a Preface, by Eupator, with Additions. 1842." 



" On the Announced first Roman edition of the Greek 

 New Testament and Dr. Wiseman." (Anon.) 8vo. 1844. 



" The Declaration of the Council of Trent concerning 

 the going into Churches at such time as Heretical Ser- 

 vice is said, or Heresy preached ; edited, with a Preface, 

 by Eupator. 1850." 



Tailless Cats. — I remember that, some twenty 

 years ago, there was a prolific family of tailless 

 cats, that, in a comparatively wild state, increased 

 and multiplied in the vaults under the chapel of 

 Clare Hall, Cambridge. This vault, or rather 

 part of the vault, was not devoted to sepulture, 

 but, to the best of my recollection, was the repo- 

 sitory of the college fuel. 



How they had originally come there I never 

 could learn. They may possibly have been im- 

 ported by some student from the Isle of Man. 



Henrt T. Riley. 



English Letter by Napoleon. — I have cut the 

 following from the Staffordshire Sentinel, deeming 

 it worthy of preservation in " N. & Q. : " 



" In the collection of Count Las Casas, at Paris, there 

 is preserved a curious document — an attempt, the first, 

 perhaps the only one, of Napoleon Bonaparte to write in 

 English. The sense of this extraordinary epistle is not 

 quite clear, but the words, as well as they can be de- 

 ciphered, are as follow : — ' Count las Casas — since sixt 

 week I learn the English and I do not any progress, six 

 week do fourty and two day if might have learn fivty 

 word for day I could know it two thousands and two 

 hundred, it is in the dictionary more of fourty thousand 

 even he could must twenty bout much oftenn for know it 

 ov hundred and twenty week which do more two years, 

 after this you shall agree that to study one tongue is a 

 great labour, who it must do in the young aged. Lor- 

 wood (Longwood) this morning the seven March thurds- 

 day, one thousand eight hundred sixteen after nativity 

 the year Jesus Christ.' " 



Threlkeld.; 



Cambridge. 



Solicitors. — 



" In our age," says Hudson (a barrister of Gray's Inn 

 in the reign of Charles I.), " there are stepped up a new 

 sort of people called Solicitors, unknown to the records of 

 the law, who, like the grasshoppers in Egypt, devour the 

 whole land; and these I dare say were express main- 

 tainers, and could not justify their maintenance upon any 

 action brought. I mean not where a lord or gentleman 

 employed his servant to solicit his cause, for he may jus- 

 tify his doing thereof, but I mean those which are com- 

 mon solicitors of causes ; and set up a new profession, not 

 being allowed in any court, or at least not in this court, 

 where they follow causes ; and these are the retainers of 

 causes and devourers of men's estates by contention, and 

 prolonging suits to make them without end." — Treatise 

 on the Star Chamber. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



