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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. V. 125., May 22. '58. 



suit ; and ought to be rewarded either by the Society qr 

 by the profession (it is large enough, and might acquire 

 the secret with surely as much propriety from Mr. Poun- 

 cey, although of course upon more reasonable terms, as 

 the aristocracy acquire that of horse-taming from Mr. 

 Rarey). I have just learnt that he actually offered the 

 right to his secret to the Society for the ridiculous sum 

 of 150 guineas, and that they are trying to get it out of 

 him for nothing! In that expectation they Avill be de- 

 feated, as I find from the notices of patents that Mr. 

 Pouncey has taken out a provisional protection. But 

 some such offer he must have made them, for I perceive 

 that Mr. Sutton, who is very probably in his secrets, 

 suggests, in his Photographic Notes, a subscription for 

 some such amount, which he thinks might purchase it ! 

 Npw I have no interest in the matter one way or another ; 

 but I feel disgusted at the idea of injustice being done to 

 ANOTHER DISCOVERER, and at the attempts (such j^s 

 anonymous pencil-notes in feigned names, asking him to 

 publish a shilling book of instructions,') to get a hold of his 

 discoverj' "for an old song." Mr. Pouncey seems to have 

 legitimately enough arrived at his discovery. He is en- 

 gaged in issuing a large work in parts, Dorsetshire Pho- 

 tographically Illustrated; and to secure permanency for 

 his pictures, he at first had recourse to the stone, in a 

 most ingenious way combined with photography; but 

 still the results bore evidence of the lithographer's touch, 

 and his subscribers (although he certainly gave v^lup for 

 their monej-, twenty large plates with letter-press de- 

 scriptions in each guinea part,) grumbled about getting 

 strict photographs. Necessity is the mother of inven- 

 tion, — hence Mr. Pouncey's discovery of a mode of print- 

 ing in pure carbon, at present known only to himself, and 

 whjph be says he will' give the photographic gentlemen 

 w|ip are now prying into it seven full years to discover. 



Sholto Macduff, 



Smith of Northamptonshire (2""* S. iv. 25Q.) — 

 At Weald Hall, cq. Essex, there is a large picture, 

 supposed to be of the city of Tangier. Weald 

 Hall was bought by my ancestor of the Smith 

 family, of which there were two brothers, one 

 only of whom left two daughters co-heiresses, 

 who uiarried into the families of Earl Derby and 

 Jliord Barrypaore ; the letter represented, I believe, 

 by Mr. Smith Barry, who has property in Ireland, 

 and may know something about a Sir Eustace 

 Smith of Gough Hall. The arms described as 

 bornp by Col. W, Smith — chevron sable between 

 three griffins' heads erased — are the same as those 

 on some old japanned tables the property of my 

 father at Weald Hall. E. T. 



Misfs and Fog's Journal (2"^ S. iii. 387.) ; 

 Nathaniel Mist, what took him to Boulogne? (2""* 

 S. iv. 9.) — I believe no answer has yet been given 

 to either of the above Queries, and therefore I 

 submit the following, which will probably dispose 

 of both. f J V 



In " Select Letters taken from Fog's WeeUy 

 Journal" " Printed and sold by the Booksellers of 

 London and Westminster, 1732," 2 vols. 8vo., the 

 first letter is dated Saturday, Sept. 28, 1728, and 

 purports to be from the shade of N. Mist in 



Elysium to his " Dear Cousin Fog.'' It begins 

 thus : — 



" The Occasion of my present Address to j'ou, is to ac- 

 quaint you tliat I was lately seiz'd with an apoplectick Fit, 

 of which 1 instantly died: However, you need not be 

 startled at receiving a Letter from the other World, for 

 you may perceive it does not smell of Brimstone ; by 

 which you will conjecture, that it comes from the tem- 

 perate side of Elysium. — I was so suddenly snatch'd off, 

 that I had not Time to make my Will, therefore I have 

 been obliged to do it since my Decease. — Amongst all my 

 Relations, 1 have cast my Eyes on you to be my Heir, 

 and the Executor of my fast Will and Testament; and I 

 was determined in this Choice, as well in Regard to your 

 personal Merit, and superior Parts, as in consideration of 

 your being the nearest to me in Blood ; for the Fogs are 

 the younger Branch of the Family of the Mists," &c. &c. 



The bulk of the letter, which occupies four 

 pages, and is but a tame specimen of " Letters 

 from the Dead to the Living," is composed of dull 

 jokes on Fogs, Mists, Will o' the Wisps, and Jack 

 o' Lanterns, and it winds up as follows : — 



" Adieu ! the little Spirit which is to carry this is ju§t 

 upon the Wing : 1 have not Time to say more ; but to 

 recommend to you to take up ray Pen, and begin your 

 Lucubrations immediately, i am, dear Cousin Fog, your 

 sincere Friend and Hun^k Sfrtfiat^, Td\ the Resurrection, 

 N. Mist." 



A record of Mist's bodily death is found in the 

 obituary of the London Magazine for September, 

 1737, p. 517., as follows : — 



" Of an Asthma, at Boloign in France (whither he had 

 lately retired for his Health), Mr. Nathaniel Mist, Printer, 

 very well known for the Weekly Paper published under 

 his Name, afterwards called Fog's Jotimal." 



S. H. H. 



Heralds of Scotland (2""^ S. v. 377.) — There is 

 no work published having special reference to the 

 " College of Scottish Heralds ; " but some in- 

 teresting particulars respecting " the present 

 state of Lyon Office " will be found in the Salt- 

 fort Controversy (relative to the family ^listory of 

 the Stewarts of Allantqn) by John Reddell, the 

 well-known authority in Scottish Peerage matters, 

 which was published in 1818. T. G. Si 



Gormagons, Gregorians, Antigallics, Bucks, Sfc. 

 (2"^ S. y. 316.) — Some of these clubs or societies 

 are included, I believe, in a proclamation of which 

 the following is the commencement : — 



" At the Court of St. James's, the 28th day of April, 

 1721. Present, the King's most excellent Majesty in 

 Council. 



" His Majesty having received information which gives 

 great reason to suspect that there have been latelj', and 

 still are, in and qbout the Cities of London and West- 

 minster, certain scandalous Clubs or Societies of young 

 persons who meet together, and in the most impious and 

 blasphemous manner insult the most sacred principles of 

 our Holy Religion, affront Almighty God himself, and 

 corrupt the minds and morals of one'another ; and being 

 resolved to make use of all the authority committed to 

 him by Almighty God to punish such enormous offenders, 

 and to crush such shocking impieties, before they increase, 

 and draw down the vengeance of God upon this nation ; 



