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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTiaUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



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No. 177.] 



Saturday, March 19. 1853. 



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CONTENTS. 



NoTBS : — Page 



Inedited Letters of General Green and of Washington, 



by Edward Foss .... - - 277 

 On a Passage in tlie " Domestic Arciiitecture of Eng- 

 land : " Surnames, by Josepli Burtt - - - 278 

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 280 



Folk Lore : — The ancient Custom of Well-flowering— 



Devil's Marks in Swine— Festival of Baal - - 280 

 Lord Monboddo, by W. L. Nichols - • -281 

 St. Valentine 281 



Minor Notes : — His Excellency David Hartley— The 

 Life and Correspondence of S. T. Coleridge — An old 

 Riddle — The Word " rather " — In Jesum Cruel 

 affixum ...--.. 282 



Queries : — 



Corbet Peerage, by Lord Monson ... 283 

 The Duke of Wellington a Marechal de France, by 

 Henry H. Breen 283 



Minor Queries: — Prophecy in Hovcden — A Skating 

 Problem — " Rap and rend for " — " The wee brown 

 Hen "— Deprived Bishops of Scotland, 1638— Passage 

 In Carlyle — Madagascar Poetry — Ink — Hamilton 

 Queries — Derivation of Windfall— Do the Sun's Rays 

 put out the Fire? — Denmark and Slavery — Sponta- 

 neous Combustion — Bucks, most ancient and honour- 

 able Society of — Lines quoted by Charles Lamb— De- 

 scendants of Dr. Bill— "The Rebellious Prayer" 

 — Ravenshaw and his Works .... 284 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Yolante de Dreux 

 Bishop Francis Turner — Raleigh's History - . 286 



Replies: — 



Epitaphs, by George S. Masters, Edw. Hawkins, &c. - 287 



Throwing old Shoes for Luck, by W. Pinkerton, &c. . 288 

 Owen Glyndwr [Owen ap Griffith Vychan, Lord of 



Glyndwrdwy] ...... 288 



Coleridge's Cliristabel : " Christobell, a Gothic Tale " - 292 



Photographic Notes and Queries : — Economical Way 

 of Iodizing Paper — Queries on Sir W. Newton's Pro- 

 cess — Suggestion to Photographers ... 293 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Portrait of Pope — 

 Conundrum — Herbe's " Costume Frangais " — Curious 

 Fact in Natural Philosophy — " Hand cum Jesu itis, qui 

 itis cum Jesuitis " — Tradescant Family — Arms of Joan 

 d'Arc— JudjEus Odor — Philip d'Auvergne— Dr. Parr's 

 A.E.A.O. — Jewish Lineaments — Sotadio Verses — 

 BelU at Funerals — Collar of SS. — Dr. Marshall — 

 Shelton Oak—" God and the world" — Dreng— Meals 

 — Richardson or Murphy .... 294 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements .... 



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INEDITED LETTERS OF GENERAL GREEN AND OP 

 "WASHINGTON. 



The letters of great men are always interesting, 

 more particularly when they are connected with 

 important historical facts. I presume, therefore, 

 that those I subjoin from General Washington 

 and General Green will not be unwelcome to your 

 readers. They were among the papers of an officer, 

 long deceased, who at the time was aide-de-camp 

 to Sir Guy Carlton, the commander-in-chief of 

 our army in America ; and were, I presume, in- 

 tercepted before they reached their respective 

 destinations. 



" General Green to General WasMnsrton, 



« Sir, 



" Head Quarters on Ashley River, 

 May 31st, 1782. 



V0L.VII. — No. 177. 



" I had the honor of informing your Excellency, 

 in a letter of the 19th instant, that a dangerous 

 spirit of discontent had been discovered in the 

 army, and of the measures I took to suppress it. 

 I am happy to inform you that this spii-it seems 

 entirely to have subsided, as the persons who 

 fomented it are removed at a distance from the 

 troops : and, as we have now a prospect of some 

 cloathing, and more comfortable supplies, I hope 

 it will no more appear. 



"Your Excellency has been informed of the 

 late important and interesting changes in the face 

 of affairs. — The arrival of Sir Guy Carlton, and 

 the change of ministers and measures, will open a 

 new field of hopes for this country. How far we 

 may be benefited by it, a little time will deter- 

 mine ; but it will inevitably be attended with one 

 bad consequence, as it will relax our preparation 

 for a continuance of the war, which, to me, ap- 

 pears extremely probable. General Leslie has 

 made overtures, and a proposition for a suspension 

 of hostilities ; I do myself the honor to inclose 

 you copies of his letter, and my answer on the 

 subject, from which you will see the ground on 

 which it stands. I wait most anxiously for advices 

 from Congress or your Excellency, by which my 

 conduct in the business must be ultimately di- 

 rected. I suppose this measure has been adopted 



