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your readers give me any information regarding 

 this gentleman, who was, I believe, one of the 

 most eminent physicians in the north of Ireland ? 

 He died about the year 1802. R. Ingus. 



Madison Agonistes. — Who is the author of 

 Madison Agonistes, §c., a fragment of a political 

 burletta, 12mo., Cawthorne, London, 1814? 



R. Inglis. 



" Corydon, Selemnus, mid Sylvia." — In a book- 

 seller's catalogue of T. Arthur, Holywell Street, 

 Strand, I found the title of the following work, 

 Corydon, Selemnus, and Sylvia ; a Fragment from 

 a Dramatic Pastoral. Royal 8vo., no date. Pri- 

 vately printed, by C. B. Deeble. Is anything 

 known regarding the author ? . R. Inglis. 



Heineken Arms. — Would Mr. E. S. Taylor, 

 or any other of your correspondents, oblige me by 

 ■A reference to any work on foreign heraldry which 

 contains the arms of " Heineken of Bremen," and 

 " Heineken of Amsterdam," and also of Lubec. 



N. S. Heineken. 



Sidmonth, Devon. 



'•'•Keeping the wolf from the door." — Although 

 T have met with the expression many times 

 in the course of my prelections, and am per- 

 fectly well acquainted with what it means, I have 

 never seen a distinct and satisfactory explanation 

 of its derivation. In the event of you, or any of 

 your correspondents, being enabled to favour me 

 with the same, you will oblige K. 



" Memoirs of Dr. Burney hy his Daughter^ 

 Madame D'Arblay." — In the course of perusing 

 this very delightful work (3 vols., Lond., 1832), 

 two points occurred to me, the resolution of which 

 (to borrow a musical term) appears to me attain- 

 able only through the, medium of "N. & Q." 

 They are as follows : — 



1. Repeated allusions (vol. i. pp. 117. 184. 221. 

 341. ; vol. ii. pp. 118. 134., &c.) are made to "cor- 

 respondence" which one would expect to find 

 collected at the end of the work (as the author says 

 on p. 341. of vol. i., " which will be selected from 

 the vast volume of letters that will be consigned to 

 the flames"), but I look for it in vain : the only 

 correspondence consisting of extracts scattered 

 through the volumes to aid the progress of the 

 narrative. 



2. A complete list of all the Doctor's Works is 

 also mentioned as presented in another place, but 

 the promise is not fulfilled ; greatly to the disap- 

 pointment of the reader, who can but consider 

 such a list an essential item in the biography of a 

 musical and literary genius. 



Possibly these matters formed a corollary to the 

 work, published separately afterwards. Can you 

 inform me ? A. W. Hammond. 



North Brixton. 



Hebrew Translation of the Lusiad. — In the Life 

 of Camoens, by Mr. Mickle, prefixed to his trans- 

 lation of The Lusiad is the following statement : — 



" It, i. e. The Lusiad, is translated also into Hebrew, 

 with great elegance and spirit, by one Luzzetto, a learned 

 and ingenious Jew author of several poems in that lan- 

 guage; and who, about thirty years ago, died in the 

 Holy Land." 



Is anything further known of this learned Jew, 

 or of his translation of The Lusiad f E. H. A. 



Weathercock. — Will any of your correspon- 

 dents give me a rule for setting a vane by the aid 

 of the magnetic needle, for any given day? 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 

 Birmingham. 



Salter the famous Angler. — Can any one give 

 me any biographical account of this gentleman, 

 who wrote the celebrated book on angling about 

 the year 1810. He resided for a long time at 

 Clapton Place, Clapton Square, and was very 

 much esteemed by all who knew him. A. A. 



Poet's Corner. 



Duncomhes Marines. — I shall be glad to know 

 what the corps was, called " Duncombe's Ma- 

 rines," which seems to have existed in the latter 

 part of the last century ; and to be referred to 

 any book, &c., for its history. W. E. 



Minnx <kvitxiti toitl) ^n^toenf. 



Jeremy Bentham. — Where is Jeremy Bentham 

 buried ? I lately met a person who was quite 

 positive that he was mummied, or in some way 

 preserved : and he (my informant) believed in 

 the possession of one of his most ardent admirers, 

 and was occasionally exhibited to a party of select 

 friends. Can there be any foundation of truth in 

 this extraordinary story ? D. L. 



[It was a part of Jeremy Bentham's will, that his body 

 should be devoted to the purpose of improving the science 

 of anatomy, and in consequence it was laid on the table 

 of the anatomical school in Webb Street, Borough. In 

 compliance with Mr. Bentham's wish. Dr. Southwood 

 Smith delivered a lecture on the occasion. After the 

 usual anatomical demonstrations, a skeleton was made of 

 the bones, which was stuffed out to fit Bentham's own 

 clothes, and a wax likeness, made by a distinguished 

 French artist, fitted to the trunk. This figure was seated 

 on the chair which he usually occupied, with one hand 

 holding the walking-stick, called Dapple, his constant 

 companion whenever he went abroad. The whole was 

 enclosed in a mahogany case with folding glass-doors, 

 and may now be eeen in University College, Gower 

 Street.] 



Linncens. — In the cathedral at Upsal, in Lap- 

 land, is a monument to the memory of that prince 

 of naturalists, Linnseus, surmounted with a me- 

 dallion likeness of that eminent Swede. Is there 

 any engraving of this monument ? and if so, is it 



