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[No. 179. 



of that town in 1347. They are represented as 

 six of the principal citizens ; Eustache de Saint 

 Pierre was at their head, and the names of three 

 others have come down to us, as Jean d'Aire, 

 Jacques de Wissant, and Pierre de Wissant. 

 Who were the other two ? 



" The second point relates to the character of 

 that occurrence. Some historians are of opinion 

 that the devotedness of Saint Pierre and his as- 

 sociates was prompted by the most exalted senti- 

 ments of patriotism; while others assert that it 

 was all a ' sham,' that Saint- Pierre was secretly 

 attached to the cause of the English monarch, and 

 that he was subsequently employed by him in 

 some confidential negociations. To which of these 

 opinions should the historical inquirer give his 

 assent?" 



I may add, in reply to Mr. King, that "the 

 light thrown on the subject, through M. de Bre- 

 quigny's labours," has been noticed in the Bio- 

 graphie Universelle, sub voce Saint-Pierre (^Eus- 

 tache de) ; and it was the remarks in that work 

 that first drew my attention to it. The circum- 

 stances disclosed by Brequigny are also com- 

 mented upon by Levesque in his La France sous 

 les Valois. Henet H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



PASSAGE IN COLEEIBGE. 



De Quincy, in his "Suspiria de Profundis," 

 Blackwood's Magazine, June, 1845, p. 748., speak- 

 ing of the spectre of the Brocken, and of the con- 

 ditions under which that striking phenomenon is 

 manifested, observes that 



" Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsun- 

 day of 1799 with a party of English students from 

 Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom ; afterwards 

 in England (and under the same three conditions) he 

 saw a much rarer phenomenon, which he described in 

 the following eight lines. I give them from a cor- 

 rected copy. The apostrophe in the beginning must 

 be understood as addressed to an ideal conception : 



" ' And art thou nothing ? Such thou art as when 

 The woodman winding westward up the glen 

 At wintry dawn, when o'er the sheep-track's maze 

 The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze, 

 Sees full before him, gliding without tread. 

 An image with a glory round its head : 

 This shade he worships for its golden hues, 

 And makes (not knowing) that which he pursues.' " 



These lines are from " Constancy to an ideal 

 Object;" but in the usual editions of Coleridge's 

 Poems, the last two lines are printed thus : 



" The enamour'd rustic worships its fair hues, 

 Nor knows he makes the shadow he pursues." 

 Coleridge's Poetical Works, vol. ii. p, 91., 1840. 



Query: Which reading is the correct one? 

 Coleridge refers to the Manchester Philosophical 



Transactions for a description of this phenomenon ; 

 but, as the earlier volumes of these are scarce, 

 perhaps some of your correspondents would copy 

 the description from the volume which contains it, 

 or furnish one from some authentic source. 



J. M. B. 



Minav ^\ittiei. 



Cann Family. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents enlighten me as to the origin of this family 

 name ; and if of foreign extraction, as I suspect, 

 in what county of England they first settled ? 

 There is a village in Dorsetshire called Cann St. 

 Rumbold. Possibly this may afibrd some clue. 

 Burke informs us that William Cann, Esq., was 

 Mayor of Bristol in 1648, and that his son. Sir 

 Robert Cann, also Mayor, and afterwards M.P. 

 for that city, was knighted by Charles II. in 1662, 

 and created a Baronet, September 13th in the 

 same year. The title became extinct in 1765, by 

 the death of Sir Robert Cann, the sixth Baronet. 

 The first Baronet had several brothers, some of 

 whom most probably left issue, as I find a respect- 

 able family of that name now, and for many years 

 past, located in Devonshire ; but I am not aware 

 if they are descended from the same stock. 



Domini-Cann. 



Canada. 



Landholders in Lonsdale South of the Sands. — In 

 his History of Lancashire, Baines states (vol. i. 

 chap, iv.) that a return of the principal land- 

 holders in Lonsdale South of the Sands, in the 

 time of James I., has been kept ; but he does not 

 state where the return is registered, nor whether 

 it was in a private or public form. In fact, it is 

 impossible to make any reference to the return, 

 from the brief mention made of it by Baines. 



Perhaps some one of your Lancashire corre- 

 spondents may be acquainted with the sources of 

 tne learned historian's Information. If so, it would 

 much oblige your correspondent to be directed, to 

 them, as also to any of the Lancashire genealo- 

 gical authorities referring to the district of Lons- 

 dale South of the Sands. Observer. 



Rotation of the Earth, — Has the experiment 

 which about two years ago was much talked of, 

 for demonstrating the rotation of the earth by 

 means of a pendulum, been satisfactorily carried 

 out and proved? And if so, where is the best 

 place for finding an account of it ? The diagram 

 by Mr. Little in the Illustrated London News does 

 not seem to explain the matter very fully. ? 



Nelson and Wellington. — The following state- 

 ment has been going the round of the American 

 newspapers since the death of the Duke of Wel- 

 lington. Is it true? — "Lord Nelson -was the 

 eighteenth in descent from King Edward I., and 



