S°d S. NO 99., Nov. 21. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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■after that are 16 pages of contents. "The Epistle 

 dedicatorie " is written by Thomas Heywood, and 

 the work dedicated to the " Hon. Robert, Earle of 

 Somerset," &c., and "The Preface to the Reader" 

 36 by R. Barckley. L. A. N. 



[There are three editions of this work, 1598, 4to., 1603, 

 •«lto., and 1631, 4to. Onr correspondent's copy is the last 

 -eeiition. It is entitled The Felicitie of Man; or, his Sum- 

 ■inuin Bonum. Written by S' R. Barcklej^ K*. In cceli 

 •summnm permanet arce bonum. Boeth. do Cons. Philos. 

 3ib. 3. London: Printed by R. Y. and are sold by Rich. 

 Roystone, at his shop in Ivie Lane. 1631. The work is 

 noticed in the Relronpective Bem'ew, i. 271 — 279., where it 

 Is commended as "a garner filled with the most amusing 

 and best histories, and little narrations, told in the au- 

 thor's own words, and occasionally enlarged, but in per- 

 fect keeping and consistency." It is not very rare.] 



Dorothy Boyle. — I have in my possession an 

 engraving which I believe to be uncommon. ^ It 

 represents a young lady, and has the following 

 inscription : — 



" Lady Dorothy Boyle, 

 ■" Once the comfort, the joy, the pride of her parents ; the 

 admiration of all who saw her; the delight of all who 

 knew her. Born May the 14th, 1724. 



" Marry'd, alas! Oct. the 10. 1741, and delivered from 

 £xtream misery May the 2d, 1742. 



" This was taken from a picture drawn seven weeks 

 after her death (from memory) by her most afflicted 

 J!u-other, 



" Dorothy Burlington. 



" John Faber fecit, 1744." 



Can any of your correspondents give me any in- 

 formation as to this apparently ill-fated marriage? 



Trustee. 



[Dorothy Boyle, the eldest daughter of Richard, Earl 

 of Burlington, was married to George, Earl of Euston 

 (eldest son of Charles, 2nd Duke of Grafton), on Sept. 23, 

 1741 {Gent. 3Iaa. xi. 600.), and died of the small-pox on 

 May 2, 1742. the Earl of Euston, her husband, died at 

 Bath, July 7, 1747.] 



Macaulay's Essays : '■'■St. Cecilia.'^ — Lord Ma- 

 caulay, describing the persons present at the trial 

 of Warren Hastings, writes {Essays, vol. iii. 

 p. 447.):- 



" There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beauti- 

 ful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features lighted 

 up by love and music. Art has rescued from the common 

 decay." 



Who is the person here designated ? by what 

 artist is the picture? and where is the picture 

 now ? Was the person Mrs. Sheridan ? Is the 

 picture the one by Reynolds, described as "St. 

 Cecilia" in the Catalogue of the Manchester Ex- 

 hibition, and there stated to belong to Sir W. W. 

 W^ynne ? Or of whom is the last-named picture 

 a portrait ? M. A. 



[Miss Linley, afterwards Mrs. Sheridan, and Macau- 

 lay's allusion is to Sir Joshua's well-known portrait of 

 her as St. Cecilia, which was exhibited at Manchester.] 



WHO COMPOSED "RULE BRITANNIA." 



(2"-i S. iv. 152.) 



The recent Query of your correspondent, Mr. 

 J. W. Phillips, — occasioned by the assertion in 

 M. Schoelcher's Life of Handel (and not in that 

 by Mrs. Bray, as erroneously stated in the news- 

 papers seen by ^Mr. Phillips *), that " the Mar- 

 seillaise of England, ' Rule Britannia,' which is 

 taken from Alfred, a masque by Dr. Arne, is in 

 great part borrowed from the poor Occasional 

 Oratorio," and that " in reality it is by Handel, for in 

 the whole air there are only two bars which do not 

 belong to him," (and in support of which assertion 

 M. Schcelcher quotes parallel passages from " Rule 

 Britannia" and "Prophetic Visions," an air in the 

 Occasional Oratorio^, — has led me to an investiga- 

 tion for the purpose of ascertaining, on the one 

 hand, whether any and what evidence existed in 

 support of our countryman's hitherto undisputed 

 claim to the composition of this well-known na- 

 tional song; or, on the other, whether anything 

 beyond the similarity or identity of certain pas- 

 sages in the two compositions could be found to 

 corroborate M. Schoelcher's assertion. 



I now beg leave to place the result of my in- 

 quiries before your readers, but before doing so 

 it is right to state that M. Schoelcher believes 

 Alfred to have been produced in 1751, because 

 (notwithstanding an admission that he had heard 

 of it as existing at an earlier date) he found in 

 that year an announcement of the publication by 

 J. Oswald of the music, and also because the first 

 collection of songs known to him in which " Rule 

 Britannia" appeared bears the date 1752. 



The facts, as I find them, are these : — The 

 masque oi Alfred, to which "Rule Britannia" be- 

 longs, was first produced at a private performance 

 at Cliefden House, near Maidenhead, then the re- 

 sidence of Frederick, Prince of Wales, on August 

 1, 1740. The newspapers furnish particulars of 

 this performance so ample (considering the period), 

 that I cannot do better than transcribe them. 

 The London Daily Post and General Advertiser of 

 Saturday August 2, 1740, says — 



" Last Night was performed in the Gardens of Cliefden 

 (in commemoration of the Accession of his late Majesty, 

 King George, and in Honour of the Birth of the Princess 

 Augusta, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess 



* The error, which was committed more than once, 

 and, if I remember rightly, by more than one newspaper, 

 of giving extracts from M. Schoelcher's work, and stating 

 them to be from Mrs. Bray's, is most unaccountable, as 

 the two works have nothing in common but the subject j 

 M. Schoelcher's being a bulky octavo of some four hun- 

 dred and fifty pages, containing the results of a great 

 deal of minute and patient investigation, whilst the other 

 is a very small octavo of ninety-two pages only, and a 

 mere ephemeral production, written obviously to sei-ye a 

 temporary purpose. 



