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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>d S. Ko 94., Oct. 17. '57. 



for example, from the Caliph Haroun Alraschid 

 to the King of Syria, in that tale of the Arabian 

 NigMs Entertainments entitled " The History of 

 Ganem," we find the following passage : — 



" It is my will that you cause his (Ganem's) house to be 

 plundered ; and when it shall be razed, order the materials 

 to be carried out of the city into the middle of the plain. 

 Besides this, if he has father, mother, sister, wives, 

 daughters, or other kindred, cause them to be stripped ; 

 and when they are naked, expose them three days to the 

 whole city, forbidding any person, on pain of death, to 

 afford them any shelter. I expect you will without de- 

 lay execute my command. — Haroun Alraschid." 



E. W. 



Great vulgar Error as to Fortunes made in 

 India. — Major Scott, in his speech in the House 

 of Commons, July, 1784, says : 



" There is not a more mistaken idea, than that which 

 has been so industriously circulated, and believed, of the 

 rapid and enormous fortunes made by the Company's ser- 

 vants in Bengal. This list is warranted accurate, and it 

 proves, that of 608 civil servants, appointed [1762 to 

 1784], 37 only have returned to this country, 150 are 

 gone from whence they can never return; and according to 

 every probable calculation, not 37 of the 321 now in Ben- 

 gal will return in the next ten years with fortunes ac- 

 quired in India. Of the 37 who have returned, not a man 

 has brought home an enormous fortune ; many less than 

 20,000/. — some not a shilling : nor has one fortune, to my 

 knowledge, been rapidly acquired ; and of the whole 

 number, two only are Members of this House 



" The fortunes acquired by military gentlemen during 

 these 22 years are still more inconsiderable. Of above 

 1200 officers, not thirty have returned with any fortunes 

 at all ; and two, Capt. Watherston and myself, sit in this 

 House. Of this number I know only five who have 

 brought home above 20,OOOZ., and many with less than 

 5000/. About thirty officers have returned, disabled by 

 wounds and ill-health, and have now a bare subsistence 

 from Lord dive's military fund 



" It is worthy of remark, that of all the civil servants 

 who have gone out in the last twelve years, that is, since 

 Mr. Hastings became Governor, only one has returned, 

 and that gentleman never profited sixpence by his ap- 

 pointment 



" It is equally worthy of remark, that not a single gen- 

 tleman, who has been in the Governor General's family, 

 civil or military, has returned to England, with any for- 

 tune, myself excepted ; and I certainly did not acquire a 

 fortune in Mr. Hastings's family ; I brought with me, or 

 left behind, about 7000/., being all that I acquired in six- 

 teen years 



" It will be found that the fortunes acquired at Madras 

 and Bombay are still more inconsiderable." 



E.. Webb. 



Dr. Jenner. — Every friend of science will re- 

 joice that we are about to erect a statue in Tra- 

 falgar Square to this distinguished benefactor of 

 his species. The learned Dr. Heberden, who, as 

 a London physician, had during the period, about 

 the middle of the last century, a most extensive 

 practice, somewhat remarkably thus expresses 

 himself, after lamenting that we had no specific 

 for small-pox : — 



" Et si reperiatur aliquando medicamentum, quod pri- 

 vatim valeat adversus banc pestem, posterorum vel for- 



tunaj, vel ingenio acceptum referendum erit." — Gul. 

 Heberden, Commentarii de Morborum Curatione, p. 386. 



This happy discovery was Jenner's, of whom 

 the plainest but most just character ever given of 

 any one, was that by T. F. Dibdin, in his Remi- 

 niscences : — 



" I never knew a man of a simpler mind, or of a warmer 

 heart than Dr. Jenner." 



Amicus. 



Bas-relief at Augsburg. — I send you a com- 

 munication from Mr. Roach Smith, addressed to 

 The Times a short time since on the "Destruction 

 of Works of Art," believing that its insertion in 

 the columns of "N. & Q." will aid in furthering 

 the purpose of the writer in so doing. He says : 



" One of the most curious and interesting Roman sculp- 

 tures to be found in Germany is a bas-relief at Augsburg, 

 representing the stowing away in cellars of newly-made 

 wine. It has been engraved by Mr. Rich in his Illust. 

 Companion to Latin Diet, and Greek Lexicon (p. 141.) 

 in explanation of the Cella Vinaria. Wishing for a 

 sketch from the stone itself, I asked my friend Mr. Fair- 

 holt, now at Augsburg, to procure one. I have just re- 

 ceived his reply. ' On asking after the bas-relief of the 

 Men Stowing away Wine, the keeper of the Museum told 

 me its curious history. He says it is in the wall of a 

 cellar under the Town Hall, — probably a wine cellar 

 used by the Romans, — but some years ago alterations 

 were made there which subdivided the place ; the walls 

 were strengthened, and the bas-relief was absolutely built 

 up in the new wall. The keeper took much interest in 

 finding this out, and he was also anxious to know the 

 exact spot in which the monument was immured. After 

 much trouble he was given the name of an old mason 

 who had helped to build it in. This was four years ago, 

 when the cholera was raging there, and on going to the 

 mason's house he found the poor old man lying dead, and 

 now he believes no one knows the spot.' 



" Temple Place, Strand, 

 Sept. 11, 1857." 



Henkt W. S. Taylor. 



Southampton. 



^Mtviti. 



KEV. JOHN KOBINSON OF LEYDEN. 



In the Memoir prefixed to the works of Robin- 

 son the Pilgrim Father, I find it stated that " no 

 complete life of Mr. Robinson was written by 

 any of his contemporaries," and the materials for 

 forming such a biography, more especially the 

 particulars of his earlier years, are acknowledged 

 to be imperfect and scanty. All that can be said 

 of him with any certainty is, that he was born in 

 1575 ; that he graduated at Cambridge (though 

 at what college is undetermined, — Emanuel and 

 Corpus Christ! * " presenting nearly equal claims 

 to have been his alma mater ") ; and that he went 



* " C. C. C. register exhibits a record which appears to 

 identify Mr. Robinson of Leyden with her alumni : 



"John Robinson E. Lincsh. — admitted 1592. Fell. 

 1598." 



Memx)ir, {ut supra), p. xiv., 1851. 



