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believed bv any one, foamed with the violence of a Saint 

 Dominic ; "vaunted that he had combated infidelity and 

 laid it under his feet ; and said the blackest fiends in hell 

 would not keep company with Wilkes, and then begged 

 Satan's pardon for comparing them together." 



And shortly afterwards he proceeded to make a 

 statement, on which D., from his obvious acquaint- 

 ance with the secret history of the time, may per- 

 haps be able to throw some light. " Warburton's 

 part was only ridiculous, and was heightened by 

 its being known that Potter, his wife's gallant, 

 had had the chief hand in the composition of the 

 verses." In short, my query is — does there 

 exist any other statement than Walpole's as to 

 the suspicion of an improper intimacy existing 

 between Potter and Mrs. Warburton ? W. P. 



Rule of the Pavement (S""* S. iv. 26.) — Is there 

 any rule laid down by the Commissioners of Po- 

 lice, that policemen shall " take the wall ?" The 

 metropolitan police do so continually, without 

 paying any attention to the " rule of the pave- 

 ment." Surely those in authority ought to set a 

 good example to others. I hope that the Com- 

 missioners have seen No. 80. of "N. & Q. ;" and 

 that they have given, or will give, their men in- 

 structions to observe the " rule of the pavement." 



I.J. 



For the information of C. E., I may tell him 

 that at Dresden, and many other towns in Ger- 

 many, on crossing a bridge it is essential to take 

 your right hand, a " trottoir " being given up, one 

 on each side, for passengers crossing. I was once 

 angrily spoken to by a German, having ignorantly 

 taken the left hand side of the bridge. M. W. C. 



Alnwick. 



General Wolfe (2°'* S. iv. 44.) — As you have 

 been occupied lately regarding the heroic con- 

 queror of Canada, of whom so little unfortunately 

 is known, you may perhaps interest your readers 

 by inserting the following inscription (if it be not 

 already in the "N. & Q.") to him, and to his gal- 

 lant opposer the Marquis de Montcalm. It is 

 placed upon a monument erected to their memory 

 at Quebec, — I believe on the " Plains of Abra- 

 ham : " — 



" Mortem Yirtus communem, 



Famam Historia, 

 Monumentum Posteritas dedit." 



I knew an old gentleman, who died about the 

 year 1832, at the age of ninety-six or ninety-seven, 

 'Colonel Dalrymple, who was in Wolfe's regiment, 

 the 20th Foot, and had seen him ; he also stood 

 very near Admiral Byng during his trial on board 

 the "Monarch" at Portsmouth. R. 



Kensington. 



O'Neill Pedigree (2°^ S. iv. 38.) — Your cor- 

 respondent, J. Mackell, is quite wrong in alleg- 

 ing that " no letters " on this subject ever appeared 



in the Belfast Commercial Chronicle. These 

 letters not only appeared in that paper (about 

 1838), long ere the Belfast Daily Mercury was in 

 existence, but being from the pen of Mr. Mont- 

 gomery, a solicitor in Belfast, were republished 

 in a separate volume as The Montgomery MSS. 

 The volume, which came into my possession as 

 part of the chain of evidence connected with a 

 case or claim to the Stirling peerage (not Hum- 

 phrey's), remained with me up till a few months 

 ago, when I gave it away, as I was moving my 

 books. Sholto Macduff. 



Coxs Museum (2"^ S. iv. 32.) — I have in my 

 possession, bound up with other pamphlets, — 



"A descriptive Catalogue of the several superb and 

 magnificent pieces of Mechanism and Jewellery exhibited 

 in the Museum at Spring Gardens, Charing Cross. 

 Tickets a Quarter-Guinea each. 1773." 



Although the catalogue describes the action of 

 the several parts of the mechanism, and two or 

 rather " pieces " have bulls occupying a prominent 

 position in them, no reference is made to their 

 eyes as, like the poet's, '" rolling." 



Varlov ap Harry. 



George Washington an Englishman (2"*^ S. iv. 

 39.) — The Penny Cyclopcedia is right. By re- 

 ference to Jared Sparks' Life of Washington^ it 

 will be seen that he was born Feb. 22, 1732-3, in 

 Westmoreland County, Virginia ; no doubt at 

 Bridge's Creek on the Potomac river. A pe- 

 digree of his family is given in Baker's Northamp- 

 tonshire, vol. i. p. 514. In the date of his birth, 

 Feb. 11. is there put for Feb. 22. L. (1.) 



" Which the world will not willingly let die " (2"*^ 

 S. iii. 30.) — I trace the origin of the phrase to 

 Milton : let those who can go further do so. In 

 " The Reason of Church Government urg'd against 

 Prelacy," Works, Pickering, 1851, vol. iii. p. 144., 

 after stating the success of his early education in 

 England (" it was found that whether ought was 

 impos'd me by them that had the overlooking, or 

 betak'n to of mine own choice in English, or other 

 tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter, 

 the stile by certain vital signes it had was likely 

 to live "), and that he had afterwards resorted to 

 the private academies of Italy, where he had re- 

 ceived " written Encomiums which the Italian is 

 not forward to bestow on men of this side the 

 Alps," — he adds : 



" I began thus farre to assent both to them and divers 

 of ray friends here at home, and not less to an inward 

 prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by 

 labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion 

 in this life), joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, 

 I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, 

 as they should not willingly let it die." 



For thus speaking of himself Milton, in graceful 

 terms, craves " to have courteous pardon : " 



"For although a Poet soaring in the high region of his 



