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the expressed motive ; and I forward you, if you 

 can afford space, the exact words of that extraor- 

 dinary and characteristic paragraph, citing the 

 same from the Histoire de Napoleon, par M, de 

 Norvins, Paris, 1839, p. 644. It forms the 5th 

 paragraph in the 4th codicil of the ex-Emperor's 

 famous will. 



"5". Idem (10,000) dix mille francs au Sous-officier 

 Cantillon, qui a essuj'e un proems comme pr^venu d'avoir 

 voulu assassiner lord Wellington, ce dont il a ete declare 

 innocent. Cantillon avait autant de droit d'assassiner 

 cet oligarque que celui-ci de m'envoyer, pour y perir, sur 

 le rocher de Sainte-Helfene. Wellington, qui a propose 

 cet attentat, cherchait b, le justifier sur I'interet de la 

 Grande-Bretagne. Cantillon, si vraiment il eut assassine 

 le lord, se serait couvert et aurait ^te justifie par les me- 

 mes motifs, I'interet de la France, de se defaire d'un gene- 

 ral qui d'ailleurs avait viole la capitulation de Paris, et 

 par-lsl s'^tait rendu responsable du sang des martyrs Ney, 

 Labedoy(5re, &c. ; et du crime d'avoir depouille les musees, 

 contra le texte des trait^s." 



Jos. G. 



Inner Temple. 



Payment to M. P.'s (2°^ S. iv. 188. 236. 275.)— 

 Blomefield, in his History of Norwich, gives re- 

 peated instances of this practice. He first no- 

 tices it sub ann. 1350, 24 Ed. Ill,, when we 

 find that Richard de Bytering and Robert de 

 Bumpstede, Burgesses in Parliament, received 

 71. 6s. 8d., or 11 marks, for their " Knights' Meat," 

 as it is termed. After 1649, when Richard' Har- 

 man is referred to as having had llol. at difierent 

 times for his wages in Parliament, the custom of 

 remunerating M. P.'s for their services seems to 

 have ceased in Norwich, Sub ann. 1558, 1 Eliz., 

 Blomefield tells us " that Edward Flowerdew and 

 John Aldrich had 361. paid them for 64 days' 

 Knights' Meat," which gives each of them 10s. 

 a-day, during their pei'iod of actual attendance in 

 the Commons' House. Wm. Matthews, 



Cowgill. 



The Phenix (P' S. iii. 323.)— In the very ex- 

 cellent and somewhat rare pamphlet, intitled 



" The Nation Vindicated from the Aspersions cast on 

 it in a late Pamphlet intitled a Representation of the 

 present State of Religion, with regard to the late exces- 

 sive growth of Infidelity, Heresy, and Profaneness, as it 

 passed the Lower House "of Convocation," 8vo., Lond.1711, 

 Part II., 1712, p. 22. is the following certificate: 



" It being generally thought that the following words 

 in the Representation of the Lower House of Convocation, 

 [they have republished and collected into volumes pieces 

 written long ago on the side of Infidelity, which would 

 have lain altogether neglected and forgotten without 

 such a Revival] do refer to the two volumes of The Phe- 

 nix; I, who was the projector of that design, do hereby 

 certify that I had no other end in the undertaking than 

 preserving curious and valuable pieces, without any de- 

 sign to promote Infidelity, or to serve one party more 

 than another: of which the Burden of Issachar'in the 

 Second Volume, which was written against the Scotch 

 Presbyterians, is a plain instance. And I take this occa- 

 sion to inform the Reader, that the Preface to the Second 



Volume, which gives an account of my Design, as well as 

 of each tract in the volume, was written by tlie Ingenious 

 and Reverend Mr. Christopher O'Bryen, a Nonjuriug 

 Clergyman. Witness my hand, this 6th of March, 1711. 



"John Dunton." 



What biography is there of this Nonjuring 

 clergyman ? Can any of your readers furnish any 

 notice of him ? C. M. Smith. 



New York. 



Armorial (2"'' S, iv. 250,) — 



Hamond, Yorkshire : azure, three harts, or, 



Har grave : az,ure, a fesse, argent, fretty, gules, 

 between 3 stags in full course, or. Crest, a stag's 

 head erased, per fesse, or and azure. 



This last is very nearly what he inquires for, 

 only differenced, I expect by one of the family. 



W, T. 



''The DeviVs WalV' (2"^ S, iv, 204,) — The 

 five stanzas of " The Devil's Walk " sent to 

 " N, 3c Q." by M. have been printed many times. 

 They were written by Southey, after it had been 

 stated that Porson was the author of the "Walk" 

 as originally published, and afterwards embodied 

 by him in the poem, and are to be found in all the 

 later editions of his works, C. de D. 



Chairman's Second or casting Vote (2°* S, iv. 

 268,) — If Ignoramus will refer to Creasy's Fif- 

 teen decisive Battles of the World, he will see that 

 in the council of war held just before the battle of 

 Marathon, five generals were of one opinion, and 

 five of another, and that Callimachus, the war- 

 ruler, who had not previously voted, decided the 

 debated question by his casting vote. Neverthe-. 

 less, as far as my experience goes, it is the pre- 

 vailing custom for the president, in such cases, to 

 have two votes. R. C. L. 



Barharis ex fortuna pendet fides (2"^S. iii, 488,) 

 — See T. Livii, lib, xxviii, cap. 17. W. G, L. 



St. Margaret (2°'* S, iv. 338.) — The reference 

 of your correspondent, T. G. S., to the rare little 

 book of the Life of St. Margaret, printed at 

 Paris in 1661, led to the perusal of a copy in my 

 possession. From a statement in that work, it is 

 possible that a tangible relic of this holy woman 

 may still be preserved. Some of your intelligent 

 readers may be able to say whether the interest- 

 ing remains of this Anglo-Scottish saint, men- 

 tioned in the following extract, is still in exist- 

 ence. 



" The coffre, wherein was the head and hair of S. Mar- 

 garet, was, in the year 1597, delivered into the hands of 

 the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, then Missioners in 

 Scotland, who seeing it was in danger to be lost, or pro- 

 phaned, by the seditious Hereticks, transported it to Ant~ 



werp. The Lord John MaJderus, Bishop of that City r- 



that he might know the truth of this Relick, examined 

 very diligently and upon oath the Fathers of the Society, 

 gave an authentick attestation, under the Seal of his 

 ofiice, dated the fifth of September, 1620. 



