2^ S. Ne 87., Aug. 20. '57.] 



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as there in no necessity of using the prefixes Mr. and Mrs., 

 or the titles Count and Countess; and if these are used 

 out of compliment, tlie name must agree in gender, 

 number, and case, with the title. Thus, if you say, at 

 Countess Walewska's ball, you chance the termination of 

 the nominative a into iej : Na balu Hrabiny VValewskiej, 

 &c. It may be that our correspondent has never met with 

 the names Wielliorska, Chreptowiczowa, but in the Polish 

 language the change of the termination is indispensable. 

 With regard to foreign names the Polish language follows 

 the rules of the language from wliich they are derived, 

 and would thus appear to be more tolerant than the 

 English. With respect to names like those of Bull, 

 Abbot, and King, though there are scarcely any of that 

 import, most of the Polish names being derived from 

 places, such names do not take the sexual appellative, 

 but merely the termination of the gender. Thus, if there 

 be such a name in the Polish language as Bull, Bi/k, the 

 feminine would not be Cow, Krowa, but Bykowa, &c.] 



Bishop of Aleria. — Some one of your readers 

 may possibly be able to inform me who was " the 

 Bishop of Aleria" mentioned by Johnson in his 

 preface to Shahspeare. I have searched all the 

 books I know of likely to help me to the name, 

 and have inquired of all the reading men in my 

 circle of acquaintance, but in vain. 



A. M. Cantxjabiensts. 



[This bishop was John Andreas, born at Vigevano in 

 1417, who became secretary to the Vatican library under 

 Paul II. and Sixtus IV. By the former he was employed 

 to superintend such works as were to be multiplied by the 

 new art of printing, at that time brought into Rome. He 

 published Herodotus, Strabo, Livy, Aulus Gellius, &c. 

 His schoolfellow. Cardinal de Cusa, procured him the 

 bishoprick of Accia, a province in Corsica; and Paul II. 

 afterwards appointed him to that of Aleria, in the same 

 island, where he died in 1493. See Fabric. Bibl. Lat. iii. 

 894. Beloe, who has abridged many of Andreas's pre- 

 faces, justly observes, that " when the length of time is 

 considered which at the present day would be required to 

 carry any one of the classical works through the press, it 

 seems astonishing, and hardly credible, that so much 

 should have been accomplished in so very short a pe- 

 riod." — Anecdotes, iii. 274 ] 



Christopher Love. — I am anxious to ascertain 

 the parentage of Christopher Love, whose long 

 trial appears in the State IVials, who was exe- 

 cuted on Tower Hill in 1651, by Cromwell's par- 

 ticular prosecution. This eminent Presbyterian 

 is described in Biographical Dictionaries as a 

 native of Cardiff. He was attended on the scaf- 

 fold by Manton, Calamy, and Ash. Was he not 

 the son of Sir Thomas Love, Vice- Admiral of the 

 Fleet, who mentions in his will his son Christo- 

 pher, student of Winchester College, 1627 ? 

 Christopher Love, the Presbyterian martyr, was 

 an Oxford man. Sir Thomas Love was a native 

 of Rawats in Northants. He mentions this place 

 in his will ; and also his kinsman Dr. Nicholas 

 Love, Warden of Winchester College. There is 

 no doubt, therefore, that he belonged to the an- 

 cient family of Love of Northants, whose pedigree 

 is recorded in the Heralds' College. The name of 

 Dr. Nicolas Love appears therein. T. L. 



[Wood in his Athena, Hi. 278., states that "Christopher 



Love, son of a father of both his names, was born at Car- 

 diff in Glamorganshire, became a servitor of New Inn, 

 1H35, aged seventeen years." This statement is also con- 

 firmed by a MS. Life of Christ. Love in the Sloane MS. 

 3945., evidently written by some one personally ac- 

 quainted with him. It states, that "he was the son of 

 Mr. Christopher Love of Cardiff in Wales. His mother 

 was a lady's daughter of a great family. He was the 

 youngest child of his parents, and being the child of their 

 old age (his mother being fifty j-ears old when she did 

 bear him), he was dearly beloved of them. They were no 

 way wanting to bring him up in learning, though they 

 never intended him for the ministry; but from a child ha 

 was very much taken with his book ; and though his 

 father and mother were too indulgent over him in giving 

 him time for play and sinful recreations, in carding and 

 dicing, yet I have heard him say, that he never neglected 

 his learning." See "N. & Q." 1" S. xii. 266.] 



NIBBDHB AND THE ABBE SOULAVIB. 



(2°^ S. iii. 401.) 



The extraordinary hallucination of Niebuhr in 

 pronouncing the spurious Memoirs of the Minority 

 of Louis XV., published by the Abbe Soulavie 

 as the production of Massillon, to be " the best 

 historical work in the French literature," and 

 worthy to be placed "beside Thucydides and Sal- 

 lust," has been satisfactorily exposed by your 

 correspondent E. T. Some of your readers may, 

 however, ask who the Abbe Soulavie may be, and 

 what was the literary character and position of a 

 man capable of composing memoirs which Nie- 

 buhr, even under the erroneous belief that they 

 were written by Massillon, could deliberately 

 place at the head of the historical literature of 

 France, and could consider as standing on a level 

 with the history of Thucydides. 



According to the detached life, in the Biogra- 

 phie Universelle^ the Abbe Soulavie was born in 

 1751 or 1752, and he was cure of Sevent, and 

 vicar-general of the diocese of Chalons at the out- 

 break of the French Revolution. He adopted 

 warmly the new ideas, and became a member of 

 the Jacobin Club. He was allied with the ex- 

 treme revolutionary party, such as Chabot, Collot- 

 D'Herbois, Barere, &c. ; and used all his influence 

 in the press for promoting the overthrow of the 

 monarchy. He was one of the first priests who 

 married. In 1790 he promulgated a false charge 

 against the Abbe de Citeaux, of having shut up 

 a monk of his order in a wooden cage, and left him 

 to die, in revenge for a blow which he had re- 

 ceived. At this time he published the four first 

 volumes of the Memoirs of Bichelieu, founded 

 upon papers communicated to him by the family ; 

 but of which he made a fraudulent use, with a 

 view of blackening the memory of Richelieu, and 

 of flattering the revolutionary ideas of the day. 

 In reference to this work, the writer of his life in 

 the Biogr. Univ. calls him a " hardi faussaire." - 



