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good likeness ; being, as our comical subject adds, 

 *' drawn so much alive as to be a protection to 

 the public and his book against such false and 

 imperfect copies as may be issued by pyratical 

 printers." 



The Life and Errors, it will be remembered, 

 include " The Lives and Characters of a Thousand 

 Persons now Living in London," &c. A specimen 

 of this biography had been previously published 

 by Dunton, under the title of The History of 

 Living Men : or Characters of the Royal Family, 

 the Ministers of State, ^c, being an Essay on a 

 Thousand Persons that are now Living, loith a 

 Poem upon Each, small 8vo., pp. 118., London, 

 E. Mallet, 1702; dedicated to Prince George. 

 I note this little book of mine in consequence of 

 not finding it in any list of the author's works ; it 

 contains a characteristic address to the Prince, 

 and a Preface ; with the Lives of the Queen, the 

 Prince, Catherine Q. Dowager, Princess Sophia, 

 Dukes of Ormond and Queensberry, Earl of 

 Rochester, Abp. Tillotson, Sir T. Littleton, and 

 Alderman Heathcoat. 



In " N. & Q.," 2"^ S. ii. 132., we are told that 

 Dunton's Summer Ramble is in the Bodleian in a 

 prepared state for the press ; this is, no doubt, A 

 Ramble through Six Kingdoms, which he adver- 

 tises in his Ltfe and Errors as forthcoming. The 

 eccentric John Dunton has his admirers, notwith- 

 standing the philippic of D'Israeli; and if the 

 Rambles possess half the interest attaching to the 

 Autobiography, may we not hope that measures 

 will shortly be taken to give to the world a work 

 which cannot fail to be acceptable to the curious ? 



J. O. 



Havelock. — Lord Byron's implicit faith in small 

 and delicate hands, as a sign of high birth, is well 

 known. See his Works (Murray's edition, 1833), 

 vol. i. p. 294. and vol. xvi. pp. 23. 99. There is a 

 curious illustration of this notion in that strange old 

 legend of Havelock — to which many antiquarian 

 eyes have doubtless been recalled of late — in 

 Gaimar's Estorie des Engles. It occurs in the 

 description of Havelock's person, whilst disguised, 

 under the name of Cuheran, as cook and jugleur 

 to King Edelsi : — 



" Cil Cuheran estait quistrun 

 Mes mult par ert bel valetun. 

 Bel vis aveit, e bele mains, 

 Cors eschevi, suef e plains." 



L. 105-8. 



By the bye, I presume there is about as much 

 certainty in the genealogical deduction of our 

 gallant countryman Sir H. Havelock (whom may 

 God long preserve and bless !) from his Danish 

 namesake, if he ever existed anywhere but in 

 Gaimar's imagination, as there would be in trac- 



ing the pedigree of Mr. Gunter, of Berkeley 

 Square, from the father of the illustrious cook — 

 King Gunter. 



Any authentic information as to the origin of 

 the name and family of Havelock would, I am 

 sure, be acceptable to your readers. 



C. W. Bingham. 



Lord Bacon's Mother. — On the title-page of a 

 copy of Moschopulus, printed by Robert Stephens, 

 1545, and in my possession, is the following note 

 in the handwriting of Anne Cooke, one of the 

 learned daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, and the 

 mother of Lord Bacon : — 



" My father delyvered this booke to me and my brother 

 Anthony, who was myne elder brother and scoolefellow 

 w*!' me,'to follow for wrytyng of Greke. Hys chance was 

 to dye of the swett. A^ 1555." 



To this note she has affixed her name, both be- 

 fore marriage and after, "Anne Cooke" and "A. 

 Bacon," with the date 1558. Over the words 

 " Hys chance " is written in a somewhat different 

 hand, possibly Lady Bacon's at a more advanced 

 period of life, " God's ordinance." J. H. Mn. 



Smoke Consumption. — A paragraph has been 

 going the round of the newspapers announcing, as 

 a new and surprising discovery, the invention of an 

 apparatus for consuming or destroying smoke by 

 exposing it to jets of water, sprinkled over it 

 somewhat on the plan of a shower-bath. 



It may be worth recording, perhaps, in " N. & 

 Q.," that so far from this being a new discovery, 

 a patent was obtained for it upwards of a quarter 

 of a century ago. 



The inventor was the late Mr. Humphrey 

 Jeffreys, a gentleman of independent fortune at 

 Bristol. It has been remarked that gentlemenis 

 patents seldom succeed, and I believe the in- 

 vention referred to was not much used ; but I re- 

 member being told at the time that the principal 

 reason why it did not succeed was that it was 

 only applicable to ordinary smoke, and that the 

 so-called smokes most injurious to health, viz. 

 metallic vapours, were not in fact destroyed by it. 



This may serve as a hint, perhaps, to the 

 present supposed inventor, whom I by _no_ means 

 charge with piracy or plagiarism, as it is very 

 possible that he may not have heard of the pre- 

 vious discovery. But " fair play is a jewel," and 

 should any fame attach to an ingenious and useful 

 invention like this, I feel it but a duty to a de- 

 ceased friend to claim it as due to the late Mr. 

 Jeffreys. M. H. R. 



Mutiny in India. — 



" We learn that a mutiny had happened in the 52nd 

 regiment, that the mutineers seized the magazine, and 

 took out sixty rounds a man ; they then proceeded to 

 the commanding officer's quarters, with a determina- 

 tion of putting him to death ; but he, having notice of 

 their intention, made his escape. Two thousand men 



