Sept. 11. 1852.'] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which the editor in 1S12 republished, asserting 

 positively that they wei'e written by Junius, al- 

 liiough he never once adverts to Almon s previous 

 collection and publication ; or whether such as- 

 sertion by the editor was a mere speculative 

 opinion founded on Almon's pamphlet? I could 

 add other curious points of agreement between the 

 edition of 1812 and Almon's pamphlet ; but enough 

 has been said to direct attention to the subject. 



So far as I know, Almon's edition was followed 

 by A Complete Collection of Junius's Letters, 

 with those of Sir William Draper : London, printed 

 for R. Thompson, Paternoster Row, 1770. 



Tiiis edition concludes with the letter to the 

 Duke of Grafton of Feb. 14, 1770, and the an- 

 nouncement that "any future productions of 

 Junius shall be carefully collected and printed in 

 the same size as these letters." 



It is moi-e than probable that Mr. Thompson 

 kept his word with the public ; but I have never 

 seen a continuation. 



I shall reserve Wheble's two — or three — edi- 

 tions for a separate paper. L. J. 



NOTES ON LONDON. 



Oxford Street. — At the west corner of Berner's 

 Street, in Oxford Street, the widow and daughters 

 of Rjlaiid the engravei', who Avas executed at 

 Tyburn, kept a print shop for some years after his 

 i;.rnominious death. When his forgery on the East 

 India Company, for which he was hanged, was dis- 

 covered, he fled from his home, and thought to 

 conceal himself in an inn of an obscure village at 

 some distance from London, and there remained 

 ibr some time. He was discovered by his name 

 being written in his shoes, over which he had 

 pasted a bit of paper. This exciting curiosity, 

 was taken off, and his name under it coming in 

 sight, he was apprehended, brought to justice, and 

 suffered the sentence of the law. 



At the farther extremity of Oxford Street, in 

 the first house in Edgware Road, immediately 

 opposite to Tyburn turnpike, lived for many years 

 the Corsican general Paoli, so well known and be- 

 loved for his noble qualities and generous hospi- 

 tality, not only to his own countrymen, but to all 

 foreigners of distinction and merit. His death 

 took place in this house. General Paoli was god- 

 father to the Emperor Napoleon. 



Montagu House. — During the riots in 1780, 

 which were headed by Lord George Gordon, an 

 encampment was formed in Hyde Park ; also in 

 the gardens of tlie British Museum, then called 

 Montagu House, for the troops which were sta- 

 tioned in London and its vicinity, to quell the 

 rioters. A small print, forming the frontispiece 

 to The Lady's Pocket-hooh for the year 1781, gives 

 11 vievf of it, in these gardens, which occupied a 



large plot of ground situated at the back of Mon- 

 tagu House, being laid out in grass terraces, bor- 

 ders with flower-beds, and with two large grass- 

 plots in the centre, divided by a large gravel walk, 

 where the gay world resorted on a summer's even- 

 ing : the back being open to the country, com- 

 posed of fields extending to the west, as far as 

 Lisson Green and Paddington ; to the north, to 

 Primrose Hill, Chalk Farm, Hampstead, and High- 

 gate ; and to the east, to Battle Bridge, Islington, 

 St. Pancras, &c. On the side of the garden, next 

 to Bedford Square, was a fine grove of elm trees. 

 All the ground was subsequently and by degrees 

 built over, to contain the numerous collections 

 which have been added to the British Museum, and 

 even its present extent is scarcely sufficient for 

 the increasing multitude of its acquisitions. Mon- 

 tagu House was never razed to the ground, as 

 Mr. Cunningham asserts, but it has been enlarged 

 and added to as occasion required. The gardens 

 of Bedford House, in Bloomsbury Square, ex- 

 tended to those of the British Museum, before 

 that house was pulled down, and Kussell Square 

 and the adjacent streets were built on its site. 



X. 



FOLK LOSE, 



Leafing of the Oak and Ash. — The newspapers 

 occasionally " come out" with an old saw about 

 fine weather in harvest, or a dry summer, if the 

 oak comes out in leaf hefore the ash ; and your cor- 

 respondent BOSQUECILLO VlEGO (Vol. V., p. 581.) 



backs it with his imprimatur, having " remarked 

 this for several years." I should like to know 

 when he ever remarked the contrary. The fact 

 really is (and I have made and recorded observa- 

 tions on natural history for some years), that 

 the oak (though individual trees v.ary in time) 

 always exhibits foliage before the ash, and did so 

 this year. The skies will doubtless fall when the 

 converse takes place. Amkbose Florence. 



Nurse7'y Game. — 



" Here comes a poor Duke out of Spain ; 

 He comes to court your daughter Jane." 



Answer. 

 " My daughter Jane is yet too young, 

 She has a false and flattering tongue." 



Answer. 

 " Let her be young, or let her be old, 

 Her beauty is gone, she must be sold." [ 



Answer. 

 " Fare thee well, my lady gay, 

 I'll call again another day." 



Answer. 

 " Turn back, turn back, you ugly wight, 

 And clean your spurs till they shine bright." 



