Nov. 6. 1852.] 



KOTES AND QUERIES. 



439 



Kfhich lie repeated on approbation. Dr. Scott at 

 once found fault with the accent being thrown on 

 the middle syllable of Trafalgar. Mr. Canning 

 defended this, by citing the example of Gibraltar : 

 but Dr. Scott informed him that even this was 

 wrong ; and gave the right pronunciation, Gib- 

 ral-tar, with the most delicate precision. 



At Vol. vi., p. 333. the Rev. John Scott is 

 named. This ought to have been, the Eev. Alex- 

 ander John Scott. John Scott, Esq., was public 

 secretary to Lord Nelson, and was killed, being 

 nearly cut in two by a cannon-shot, at the begin- 

 ning of the action. He was no relation to his 

 namesake, the chaplain and foreign confidential 

 secretary. Both men were highly esteemed by the 

 •commander-in-chief: and such was his power over 

 the affections of those who were about him, that 

 "during the five-and-thirty years that Dr. Scott 

 •survived, he was weak as a woman at any mention 

 •of the death of Nelson. Aufbed Gatty. 



Oct. 21., Anniversary of Trafalgar. 



Byron is an authority for the accentuation of 

 the ultimate syllable : 



♦' 'Twas on a Grecian autumn's gentle eve 

 Cliilde Harold hail'd Leucadia's cape afar, 

 A spot he long'd to see, nor cared to leave : 

 Oft did he mark the scenes of vanish'd war, 

 Actium, Lepanto, fatal Trafalgar." 



Childe Harold, Canto II. St. 40. 



<' The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make 

 Their clay creator the vain title take 

 Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; 

 These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, 

 They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar 



Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar." 

 CMde Harold, Canto IV. St. 181. 



■*' Nelson was once Britannia's god of war. 



And still should be so, but the tide isturn'd; 

 There's no more to be said of Trafalgar, 



'Tis with our hero quietly inurn'd, 

 Because the army's grown more popular. 

 At which the naval people are concern'd." 



J)on Juan, Canto I. St. 4. 



It must be confessed that, in common parlance, 

 the accent is almost uniformly on the penultimate 

 eyllable. I doubt not, however, that Scott and 

 Byron are right, and the populace wrong. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



SCOTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY. 



(Vol. vi., p. 342.) 



This company was established by an act of the 

 Scotch parliament in 1695. Towards the end of 

 the same year the matter attracted the notice of 

 the English parliament, and on the 17th of De- 

 cember the House of Commons, in an address to 

 the king, complained of the Scotch Company as 



prejudicial to English interests. In his reply the 

 king said " that he had been ill served in Scot- 

 land ; but he hoped some remedies might be found 

 to prevent the inconveniences which might arise 

 from this act." This reply was disingenuous, for 

 it may almost be said that the Scotch parliament 

 had passed the act at the instigation of the king. 

 On the 1 0th of May, at the opening of the Scotch 

 parliament, the Marquis of Tweedale, his majesty's 

 high commissioner, declared — 



" That if they found it would tend to the advance- 

 ment of trade, that an act be passed for the advance- 

 ment of trade; that an act be passed for the encourage- 

 ment of such as should acquire and establish a plant- 

 ation in Africa or America, or any other part of the 

 world, where plantations might be lawfully acquired, 

 his Majesty being willing to declare that he would grant 

 to the subjects of this kingdom, in favour of these 

 plantations, such rights and privileges as he granted in 

 like cases to the subjects of his other dominions." 



After this, it was a little too bad to say, that he 

 had been " ill served in Scotland ; " but perhaps 

 politicians "may find an excuse for this piece of 

 statecraft in the difficulties of William's position, 

 and the then temper of the House of Commons. 

 On the 26th of the following January the House 

 of Commons resolved that the directors of the 

 Scotch Company were guilty of a high crime and 

 misdemeanour, and ordered them to be impeached. 

 An incident occurred, in connexion with this 

 business, which is worth noting as indicative of 

 the feeling of the House towards the king. In 

 committee several resolutions had been passed, 

 and amongst others one recommending that certain 

 commissioners of ti'ade, proposed to be appointed, 

 should take an oath acknowledging King William 

 as the rightful and lawful king of the realm ; that 

 the late King James had no right or title there- 

 imto ; and that no other person had any right or 

 title to the crown otherwise than according to the 

 Act of Settlement, &c. When these resolutions 

 were reported to the House, his majesty's " duti- 

 ful commons," after a warm debate, rejected some 

 of them, and, in particular, that recognising Wil- 

 liam as the lawful sovereign ! 



The Scotch Company occasioned King William 

 further trouble in 1700, as appears from the par- 

 liamentary history. The Marchmont Papers^ 

 edited by Sir George Rose, also contain some 

 letters on the subject, written at this time to King 

 William, by Patrick Earl of Marchmont. 



C. Ross. 



BARLOW FAMILY. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 147. 392.) 



I cannot think that your correspondent Mb. 

 George Barlow (p. 392.) can have any good reason 

 for supposing himself to descend from Thomas Bar- 

 low of Sheffield, to whom arms wei'e granted in 



