Dec. 15. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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a description of the bird, in many respects identical 

 with that in his History. The latter, however, 

 says nothing about the clamour of the bean-goose 

 resembling that of hounds ; neither can I find any 

 notice whatever of this bird's vocal performances. 

 Whereas, in Mb, Yakbell's valuable woik, the 

 peculiarity alluded to is distinctly attributed to 

 the hrent goose (vol. iii. pp. 76, 77., 1st edit.) ; two 

 authorities. Col. Hawker and the authors of the 

 Catalogue of Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, being 

 adduced for the assertion that the noise of these 

 birds is like that made by a pack of hounds. 



Abthcb Hosset. 



" Souvenirs de la Marquise de Crequy." — Are 

 the Souvenirs de la Marquise de Crequy genuine 

 or spurious ? X. O. B. 



Niebuhr anticipated. — Who anticipated Nie- 

 buhr's attack on the early history of Rome besides 

 Vice and Beaufort ? X. O. B. 



Sir Gilbert Pickering. — Who is the male re- 

 presentative of Sir Gilbert Pickering, of Tich- 

 marsh, one of Charles I.'s judges, and a member 

 of Cromwell's House of Lords ? The family estate, 

 on the death of Sir Edward, the fourth baronet, 

 in 1749, went to his sisters, and the title devolved 

 on Gilbert Pickering, descended from the second 

 son of the first baronet. He is said to have left a 

 daughter and heiress, married in Ireland, but I 

 have met with no notice of a subsequent baronet. 

 If, however, the pedigree contained in Burke's 

 History of the Commoners, vol. ii. pp. 194-5., be 

 correct, male descendants of the second son of 

 Sir Gilbert still exist, and as the baronetcy has 

 not been assumed by any of the persons therein 

 specified, it is to be presumed that a preferable 

 heir male may be in existence. K. R. 



Portrait of George Herbert. — Can you, or any 

 of your readers, tell me if a portrait of George 

 Herbert can be found ; and if so, in whose hands? 



J. C. C. 



Rolliad. — Mathias, in his Pursuits of Literature, 

 ascribes this satire to Dr. Laurence & Co. Who 

 was Dr. Laurence, and who the Co.? The 21st 

 edition (!) is said to have been published in 1799. 

 What is the date of the first ? A succinct account 

 of all political satires in rhyme, from Dryden 

 down to Peter Pindar and the Antijacobin, would 

 be an acceptable publication. Is there any series 

 of these, or resume, amongst our present serials ? 



M. (2) 



[Our Second and Third Volumes contain several articles 

 on the various contributors to Tlie Rolliad. A valuable 

 biographical notice of Dr. Laurence will be found in the 

 Preface to The Epistolary Coirespondence of the Si, Hon. 



No.320.] 



Edmund Burke and Dr. French Laurence, 8vo., 1827 ; and 

 in the Gentleman's Mapazine,vo\. Ixxix. pp. 282. 527. ; see 

 also Gorton or Rose's Biographical Dictionary. The Cri- 

 ticisms on the Rolliad, and Probationary Odes for the 

 Laureateship, first appeared in 1785. As we have lately 

 been informed that a gentleman, well read in general 

 literature, has ransacked the five hundred and odd volumes 

 of Catalogues in the British Museum for the original Rol- 

 liad, which, as he conjectured, elicited these clever sati- 

 rical Criticisms, we may as well state, for the benefit of 

 others, that the original Rolliad is a veritable myth, an 

 imaginary poem. However, as we find Tom Moore knew 

 all about it, he shall tell its history. " It was in 1785, 

 that, in the course of an altercation with Mr. RoUe, M.P, 

 for Devonshire, Mr. Sheridan took the opportunity of 

 disavowing any share in the political satires then circu- 

 lating, under the titles of The Rolliad, and the Proba- 

 tionary Odes. ' He was aware,' he said, ' that the honour- 

 able gentleman had suspected that he was either the 

 author of those compositions, or some way or other con- 

 cerned in them ; but he assured him, upon his honour, he 

 was not — nor had he ever seen a line of them till they 

 were in print in the newspaper.' \_The Morning Herald."] 

 Mr. RoUe, the hero of The Rolliad, was one of those un- 

 lucky persons, whose destiny it is to be immortalised by 

 ridicule, and to whom the world owes the same sort of 

 gratitude for the wit of which they were the butts, as the 

 merchants did, in Sinbad's story, to those pieces of meat 

 to which diamonds adhered. The chief offence, besides 

 his politic. il obnoxiousness, by which he provoked this 

 satirical warfare (whose plan of attack was all arranged 

 at a club held at Becket's), was the lead which he took 

 in a sort of conspiracy, formed on the ministerial benches, 

 to interrupt, by coughing, hawking, and other unseemly 

 noises, the speeches of Mr. Burke. The chief writers of 

 these lively productions were Tickell, General Fitzpatrick, 

 Lord John Townshend, Richardson, George Ellis, and 

 Dr. Laurence. There were also a few minor contribu- 

 tions from the pens of Bate Dudley, Mr. O'Beirne (after- 

 wards Bishop of Meath), and Sheridan's friend, Read. Ill 

 two of the writers, Mr Kllis and Dr. Laurence, we have 

 a proof of the changeful nature of those atoms, whose 

 concourse for the time constitutes Party ; and of the vola- 

 tility with which, like the motes in the sunbeam, de- 

 scribed by Lucretius, they can — 



" ' Commutare viam, retroque repulsa reverti 



Nunc hue, nunc illuc, in cunctas undique partes.* 

 « ' Change their light course, as fickle chance may guide, 

 Now here, now there, and shoot from side to side.' 



" Dr. Laurence was afterwards a violent supporter of 

 Mr. Pitt; and Mr. Ellis showed the versatility of his wit, 

 as well as of his politics, by becoming one of the most 

 brilliant contributors to The Antijacobin." — Life of 

 Sheridan, edit. 1825, p. 303.] 



AldricKs Chant in G. — I should be glad if 

 some of your musical correspondents would fa- 

 vour me with a solution of a difficulty. In the 

 beautiful "Creed" of one of Dr. Aldrich's Church 

 Services (in G) the constant recurrence of the 

 following phrase, — 



D B A— 1 . 



13 G D— r^*'-' 



(" Treble, B I D B A B 

 JBass, G I B G D G 



in which the initial bass with b of each bar U 

 figured 5 (?iot6), gives a quaintness and piquancy 

 to the whole strain, which is very grateful to the 

 ear. Now, as the Doctor has used a similar 



