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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 88., Sept. 6. '57. 



paquet," etc. (^Hist de Gil Bias, livre 4'«'"«, 

 chapit. V.) 



The first use of envelope which I find is in the 

 4th stanza of Swift's Advice to the Grub-street 

 Verse -writers, 1726. Although such covers were 

 in general use in France, yet it was not the custom 

 to employ them here unless in official or franked 

 correspondence ; but the introduction of the penny 

 postage, which is now regulated by weight instead 

 of " single " or " double " as the case might be, 

 caused the alteration, which is at this time almost 

 universally adopted. 



Wiiile on this subject, I would ask, is there any 

 rule, when words are adopted by us from the 

 French, as regards their orthography and orthoepy? 

 we writing the word with a single p and pronounc- 

 ing it ongvelope, as if it were French ; that is, 

 should we make it rhyme with hope or hop ? 



Delta. 



The Earl of Selkirk's Seat (2°'» S. iv. 149.) — 

 I am not aware that there is any engraving, or 

 drawing, either of the house or demesne of St. 

 Mary's Isle, Lord Selkirk's seat. 



The house was originally a small monastery 

 pertaining to the monks of Holyrood at Edin- 

 burgh ; it has, at various periods, been added to, 

 and the present earl has also built some additions. 

 It is an irregularly built house, not presenting 

 any features of architectural beauty. 



The family plate, which your correspondent 

 mentions as having been carried off by Paul Jones 

 in April, 1778, was afterwards recovered by the 

 government, and restored, intact, to the family; 

 and is, I believe, in use at the present time. 



Paul Jones's log-book is also preserved at St. 

 Mary's Isle. It was presented to the late earl by 

 a merchant of Boston into whose hands it had 

 fallen. H. Cuthbeet. 



Paul Jones (2"^ S. Iv. 149.) — Some years ago I 

 was acquainted with an old sailor of the name of 

 Pinkerton, but who enjoyed the title of "the 

 Bloody Drake," because having fought in the 

 action of the 24th April, 1778, he used, when be 

 was elevated (which was very often), to boast that 

 he was " a bloody Drake ; " which, I suppose, in- 

 dicated the desperate nature of the encounter. 

 My grandmother was an eye-witness of the action. 



Fras. Crossley. 



BuceUas (2"'* S. iii. 450.) — Bucellas is not the 

 name of a vineyard, but of a small village about 

 ten miles from Lisbon, Sixty years ago the quan- 

 tity of genuine Bucellas was small, little more 

 than thirty pipes annually. It was of a peculiar 

 flavour, and said to be from a hock grape trans- 

 planted. As the demand increased, the quality 

 was deteriorated by the admission of the neigh- 

 bouring produce. 



The same thing has occurred regarding the 

 wine from Collares, a small village beyond Cintra. 



Formerly thirty or forty pipes oA genuine was the 

 whole annual produce. Several hundred pipes 

 are now exported, but of inferior quality. This 

 wine, said to be from a Burgundy grape, is found 

 on board all the Mediterranean steamers from 

 Southampton, not nluch to the contentment of the 

 passengers. 



Should these remarks meet the eye of a Lis- 

 bonian of the olden time, (there cannot be many 

 remaining,) they will call to mind Caviglioli, who 

 kept an inn at Cintra, and was afterwards a seller 

 of Collares wine at Lisbon. When at Cintra he 

 had a cellar well stocked with Collares wine, and 

 on the occasion of the French troops under Ge- 

 neral Soisson passing through, and not choosing to 

 trust his wine to their tender mercies, he set forth, 

 met the General, and delivered the keys of his 

 cellar, offering the contents at his disposal. The 

 General ordered sentries to be placed and the 

 cellar strictly guarded ; and Caviglioli had the 

 satisfaction of finding it at their departure minus 

 only such reasonable quantity as the General, his 

 staff, and friends, had freely but fairly partaken 

 of. J. B. 



Rev. H. Hution (2^-^ S. iv. 150.) —This gentle- 

 man, I am happy to inform X., is alive and well, 

 and resides at No. 2. Provost Road, Camden 

 Town, London, N.W. The following advertise- 

 ment, which has just met my eye, will, perhaps, 

 afford additional satisfaction to your correspond- 

 ent : — 



" Ready for the Press, to be published by Subscription, 

 price to Subscribers, 7s. Gd., the Collected Poems of 

 Hugh Hutton, M.A." 



J. K. W. 



Bristol- 



Criticism on Gray's^: Elegy (2°'* S. iv. 35.) — 

 John Young was, as your correspondent T. G. S. 

 indicates, forty-six years Professor of Greek in 

 the University of Glasgow. As he died in 1820, 

 it follows that at least forty-six years before — 

 that is to say in 1774, he was old enough to write 

 this very clever and now little known work. 

 Writing from the country, and having no access 

 to my library until my return to Edinburgh, I 

 cannot say whether he died in harness ; but the 

 period he held the professorship is quite enough 

 to show that, as regards date, his claim of author- 

 ship admits of no question. 



But what I have now to 'communicate is, I 

 think, tolerably conclusive. Prior to January, 

 1817, when a youth, I had the happiness of calling 

 a young gentleman — a nephew of the amiable 

 author of The Sabbath — my intimate friend. He 

 was, to the regret of all who knew him, and to 

 my inexpressible sorrow, removed from this world 

 by typhus fever at the beginning of that month. 

 His tastes were literary, and he resided with his 

 accomplished mother in Edinburgh, who had re- 



