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cat, categorically calls for their best bidding.' " 

 After a spirited competition, tlie animal is knocked 

 down for 233 guineas ; and the song, in conclu- 

 sion, assures us that " Kate of Russia, Katafelto's 

 Cat, and Catalani, were every one by Tom out- 

 done," &c., &c. R. H. B. 

 Bath. 



"i/ Cappucino Scozzese" (2"* S. iv. 111.) — 

 This appears not to be strictly a romance, but a 

 true history, probably embellished, and to have 

 gone through many editions in various languages. 

 The hero of the story is George Lesley, son of 

 James Lesley and Jane Wood (called Selvia in 

 the Italian work), of Peterstown, Aberdeen. Be- 

 sides the edition mentioned by H. B. C, I have 

 one of which the title is : -— 



" II Cappucino Scozzese Agginutovi il compimento 

 sino alia morte raccolto dalle notizie di scrittori Francesi, 

 Scozzesi, e Portoghesi. Opera curiosa, proficua, c dilet- 

 tevole. Dedicata alle signore educande ne' sagri chiostri. 

 A spese di Francesco Martini. In Eonaa, 1760, 12mo., 

 pp. 312." 



The whole of this edition appears to have been 

 rewritten, and the additions to have been trans- 

 lated from the Portuguese, where an edition had 

 been published at Lisbon, in 1667, — as stated in 

 an interesting " Avvertimento ; " from which it 

 appears that there had been an edition in Paris in 

 1664 ; and that the edition, of which this is a re- 

 print, was (including the French and Portuguese 

 impressions) the fifteenth, but the first complete 

 Italian one. The author of the Portuguese was 

 P. Cristoforo d' Almeida, and of the French P. 

 Francesco Barravult. 



Some of the additional information was fur- 

 nished by "Monslgnor Guglielmo Leslel, Gen- 

 tlluomo Scozzese," a relative of II Cappucino, and 

 first printed in the edition of Francesco Rozzi. 

 George Lesley died in 1637, and Rinuccini, who 

 knew him personally, was Legate in Ireland In 

 1648, and died in 1653. Another account of the 

 Capuchin was composed in 1662, but not pub- 

 lished in consequence of his death, by " P. Ric- 

 cardo Irlandese" (an Irish Capuchin), who was 

 furnished with " molte notizie in Firenze da un 

 Cavaliere Scozzese, ed altre procacclate dalla 

 Scozia." 



In the " approvazlone," dated October, 1759, 

 occurs the following passage : — 



" L' esemplarfi datomi ad esaminare, — quantunque porti 

 in fronte lo stesso titolo, e tratti del medesimo Religioso ; 

 con tutto cib non b 1' opera stessa di Monsignor Rinuccini : 

 ma pill tosto una metafrasi di essa nella lingua medesima, 

 colla giunta degl' ultimi avvenimenti, che indarno furono 

 da quell' esimio Prelate ricercati." 



W. C. Treveltan. 



Wallington. 



2Tie Earl of Selkirk's Seat (2°'^ S. iv. 149. 196.) 

 — Your correspondent who solicits that a view of 

 St. Mary's Isle, the seat of the Earl of Selkirk, may 



be indicated to him, will I believe find Mr. Cuth- 

 bert's information, that no such engraving exists, 

 perfectly correct. Having myself been an assi- 

 duous collector of materials for some years past, 

 to illustrate the History of Paul Jones, I have 

 come to the opinion expressed by Mb. Cutubert. 

 Still, feeling it a great desideratum, will you allow 

 me to suggest to some tourist who may visit that 

 part of Scotland, that he would render a most de- 

 sirable service if he would make a drawing of it ? 

 It may not present any particular architectural 

 attraction ; still its association with history and the 

 arch-marauder and Flibustier entitles It to the 

 distinction. The scenery about Kirkcudbright is 

 very beautiful, and in The Gazetteer of Scotland, 

 by Robert and William Chambers, vol. iv., under 

 the head of Kirkcudbright, there is a description 

 of St. Mai'y's Isle with this remark : 



" Were we asked to write out a list of the six prettiest 

 places in our native country Kirkcudbright would be 

 one." 



The Histories and Descriptions of the Isle are 

 very numerous. In The New Statistical Account 

 of Scotland, by the Ministers of the respective Pa- 

 rishes, 15 vols. 8vo., Edinburgh, 1845, there is a 

 well-written account of Kirkcudbright and St. 

 Mary's Isle, by the Rev. John McMillan, and a 

 good view of Kirkcudbright in a Voyage round 

 Great Britain in 1813, by Richard Ay ton and 

 William Daniel, vol. ii. p. 188. Indagator. 



Rue at the Old Bailey (2"^ S. Ii. 351., iv. 198)., 

 and MusiC'Vuling. — Judges and juries sometimes 

 caught the gaol-fever. The following is from a 

 note-book of Ferguson, the mechanician, &c. : 



" Woodham was the inventor of the machine for ruling 

 music paper, which it did a whole page at a time in the 

 neatest manner: he was one of the jury who died of the 

 gaol distemper in 1773 — told by Mr. Bride. 



This note-book was in the possession of Mr. 

 Jones of Charing Cross, who lent it to me, 



A. De Morgan. 



Professor (2"'* S. iv. 38.) : Esquire (69. 134.) 

 — The remarks of H. T. E. about would-be pro- 

 fessors reminds me of an account I once read in 

 The Times of a bankrupt who justified his title to 

 a professorship of music, to which exception had 

 been taken by the Commissioner, by alleging that 

 he professed to teach the fiddle. Esquires by 

 creation, office, or usage, have, equally with pro- 

 fessors, just cause to complain of the all but 

 universal adoption of their "rights and privi- 

 leges " by persons not entitled to them, from 

 barbers' clerks upwards. I onceu saw a letter 

 from a mechanic in America to his mother in 

 Yorkshire, desiring her to be sure to direct to 

 him in future " Leonard . . . ., Esquire^' for he had 

 had the honour of being just promoted to the dis- 

 tinguished post of parish constable ! " Well, what 

 did you do ?" I asked. " Do ? why a' I ton'd him 



