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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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MNDON, SATURDAY, HECEMBER 13. 1856. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAT. 



Dr. Walker y Governor of Londonderry. — I am 

 not aware if anything is known of his family or 

 descendants, but I have in my possession a curi- 

 ous petition to George III. from a grand-niece, a 

 Mrs. Young, the wife of an American loyalist, 

 wherein she gives some particulars of the family 

 history. I transcribe it for the interesting inform- 

 ation it contains. 



" To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 

 " The Petition of Alicia Maria Young 

 " Most humbly sheweth 



"That your most gracious Majesty's humble Petitioner, 

 impelled by the most poignant distress and the necessitous 

 calls of a numerous family, has presumed to lay at your 

 Majesty's feet a few lines, imploring not only your Ma- 

 jesty's royal benevolence but forgiveness for such pre- 

 sumption. That your Majesty's Petitioner humbly begs 

 leave to state, and which will appear by a certificate in 

 her possession from the Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns and 

 other dignified characters in Irelaad, that she is Grand- 

 daughter to the late Capt" Gervas Walker, brother of the 

 late Revd Doctor Geo. Walker, Governor of Londonderry 

 (in the Kingdom of Ireland) when besieged, and who fell 

 in the service of his Majesty King William. That in 

 consequence of his loyalty and signal services a pension 

 of one hundred poimds p. ann. was granted in 1756 to his 

 lineal descendant Geo. Walker, and at his decease con- 

 tinued to his daughters, Celia, Jane, and Sherry, the last 

 of whom died in 1781, since which period no pension has 

 been apply'd for by any of the Kindred of Governor 

 Walker. That j'our Majestj''s Petitioner's Husband 

 John Young went to America in 1774 as a Merch', where 

 by the Vississitute {sic) of fortune during tbe late war 

 his property and himself fell into the hands of the Ame- 

 ricans, which proved not only destructive to our little 

 fortune, but has involved himself and your most gracious 

 Majesty's petitioner with four dear children in utter ruin 

 and distress, j'our Majesty's Petitioner's Husband being 

 exiled from her for debt and consequently cannot render 

 the smallest services or assistance towards the support of 

 his distress'd family. That in this unhappy predicament 

 your Majesty's Petitioner with all humility begs leave to 

 prostrate herself at your Majesty's feet, imploring that 

 the unfortunate and distress'd situation of herself and 

 Husband, with the cries of her four dear children, will re- 

 commend her to your Majesty's royal clemenc}', earnestly 

 imploring that the Benevolence and Humanity which has 

 so long distinguished your royal breast will plead her 

 cause, and that j'our Majesty in your accustomed Bounty 

 and Goodness will be graciously pleased to gi-ant to your 

 Majesty's Petitioner, as the only indigent surviving lineal 

 descendant of Governor Walker, the Pension heretofore 

 enjoyed by the late Geo. Walker and his family, or such 

 other relief as to your Most Gracious Majesty may seem 

 meet, and your Majesty's Petitioner's distressed family as 

 in duty bound will ever pray. 



" Alicia Makia Young. 



« 65. High Street, 

 Mary le bone." 



To this petition is appended a certificate of Dr. 

 Inglis, late rector of New York, dated " London, 

 June 4, 1787," to the following effect : — 



" I do hereby certify that Mr. John Young and Alicia 

 Maria his wife were personally known to me at New 

 York for several years, as well before as during the late 

 American Rebellion — that Mr. Young was a Merchant 

 of good reputation, took a decided part on the side of 

 Government when the Rebellion broke out, and uniformly 

 persevered in the same line of Loyal conduct — that he 

 suffered many losses in his property, by which his family 

 was reduced from affluence to indigence and distress — 

 that the above Alicia Maria his wife, who applied for this 

 certificate, is now in London and overwhelmed with dif- 

 ficulties to support herself and four small children — that 

 I always understood and believed her to be a woman of 

 respectable birth and education, and so far as I know ever 

 supported a fair and amiable character, and that she is au 

 object well worthy the attention of the benevolent and 

 humane, who may be disposed to assist dejected merit 

 and relieve those who have seen better days. 



" (Signed) Charles Inglis!! D.D., 



Late Rector of New York." 



I know not what success the petition obtained, 

 or whether any ; and there is nothing endorsed on 

 it to show. The curious part of it is, that a col- 

 lateral descendant of the loyalist, Governor Wal- 

 ker, should have been the wife of an American 

 loyalist. The papers themselves came into my 

 hands amongst a mass of government documents 

 which I discovered some years ago in a cheese- 

 monger's shop, and I suppose had been thrown 

 out as waste or refuse paper, but they contain 

 many curious MSS. and autographs. T. S. 



" The Dutch- Gards Farewell to England.^'' — 



• In Times of great Danger have we been so civil, 



To save your Religion from Pope and the Devil? 



The Freedoms and Laws which our Kingdom may 

 boast 



Have we not Restor'd them, before they were lost ? 



Your Lives we preserv'd from, the Priest's Bloody 

 Slaughter, 



Endangering our Own by our Crossing the Water. 



We might have been kill'd too, but that we were Cun- 

 ning, 



And turning our Tails, sav'd ourselves by our Running. 



Must these our Adventures with shame be Rewarded, 



And not in the Liegerof Fame be Recorded.' 



Must we the Battalions of Chosen Dutch Skaters, 



Be drove by a Law from your Wives and j'our daugh- i 

 ters. 



And kick'd from the Crown like a parcel of Tray tors?. 



Must we that Redeem'd you from Pop'ry and Slavery ; " 



And made you all Free in the use of your Knavery ; 



Be recompenc'd thus for our Courage and Bravery i 



O England ! England ! 'Tis very hard Measure ; 



And things done in Haste, are Repented at Liesure. 

 " But since we are forc'd to take leave of your Nation 



And Lope Skellum after a very Odd fashion ; 



Where our Frowes and our Skildren were happily Set- 

 tled, 



To tell you the Truth, we are damnably Nettled. 



We bid you Farwell, since we're bound to forsake-ye; 



And heartily wish a French Devil may take-ye. 



May Discords Domestick arise and confound-ye. 



And Lewis this Summer with Forces surround-ye. 



May your Taxes encrease till it quite has undone ye ; 



And the Dutch run away with your Trade and your 

 Money. 



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