Sept. 10. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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campaign from General Harvey, and on another 

 occasion attentions from Granby. Here, for ex- 

 ample, is a poetical picture which brings Swinney 

 vividly before us : 

 " At Marienbourn, the vaunting army halts, 



A pastor from the heiv'n-devoted train, 



Brings hams and fowls, and spreads them on the plain : 



The jovial officers their bellies fill. 



Rally their chaplain, and applaud him still." 



Swinney must therefore have served under 

 Sackville ; for, as he tells us, Sackville 



" by George was made 

 Good Marlbro's successor " — 



and certainly the probabilities are that he must 

 have been personally known to — had before 

 spoken to him. Sackville must at this very time 

 have been particularly anxious about Swinney 

 and his doings, wise or unwise. That fatal battle 

 of Minden had been the ruin of all his hopes — the 

 overthrow of all his ambition. In my opinion, 

 Sackville had been shamefully and shamelessly 

 run down on that occasion ; but whether justly or 

 unjustly stripped of his honours and degraded for 

 his conduct, here was a man about to write 

 a poem on the battle, to immortalise those who 

 fought in it ; and Sackville must have been keenly 

 alive to what he might say of him. Swinney 

 foreshadowed what his opinion would be in the 

 First Book, where he enumerates Sackville 

 amongst his " choice leaders " — 



" Good JVIarlbro', Sackville, Granby, Waldgrave bold, 

 Brudenell and Kingsley." 



This was published early in 1 769. 



In the Second Book Lord George is brought 

 prominently forward. The " bewilder'd Ferdi- 

 nand," " doubtful himself," summons a council of 

 war, and calls first on Sackville for advice. 

 " Sackville, disclose the secret of thy breast : 

 Say, shall we linger in ignoble rest ? 

 Shall we retreat ? advance, or perish here ? 

 Resolve our queries : state thy judgment clear." 



Sackville now plays the "high herolcal," and 

 talks through six pages ; but to what purpose I 

 am unable to conjecture. There seems to be a 

 great deal of angry remonstrance — of offensive 

 remonstrance : 



" When I ask [says Sackville to Ferdinand], didst ever 

 thou consult 

 A chief, till now, and wait the sage result ? 

 When Aalm's camp was deluged all in rain, 

 And floods rusht o'er an undistinguisht plain, 

 To thy flint heart remonstrances were vain : 

 What, then, avail'd neglected Mailbro's prayers ! 

 His instances? His unremitted cares? 

 The Elector's stables had sufficient room. 

 Stalls, without end, anticipate the doom 

 Of British chargers, forced to march, at noon. 

 Beneath their riders' weight and scorching sun." 



Swinney then gives in a note what he calls the 

 genuine queries proposed by Prince Ferdinand, 

 with Sackville's answer : which answer is nearly 

 as void of distinct meaning as the poetry, but in 

 favour I think of risking a battle. The general pur- 

 port, however, foreshadows what Swinney's conclu- 

 sion would have been — that Sackville, the friend of 

 the British soldier, protested against the frauds by 

 which they were robbed and starved ; protested 

 against their being called on to do all the work, 

 and run all the risks of the campaign ; and dis- 

 dains to humour or flatter Prince Ferdinand. 

 These were, in brief, the explanations given by 

 Sackville's friends as the cause of his disgrace — 

 Granby the favoured, a gallant soldier indeed,, 

 but a mere soldier, being comparatively indifferent 

 about such commissarial matters, and much more 

 easily deceived by the cunning of the selfish Ger- 

 mans and English. This intention is made still 

 more clear in another note, wherein Swinney 

 states : 



" We may be enabled to account for a certain dis- 

 graceful event, in some future observation of ours, 

 equally to the honour of the person disgraced, and to the 

 innocent cause of that disgrace." 



Under these circumstances there can be little 

 doubt that Sidney Swinney, D.D., was the party 

 alluded to by .Junius ; as little, I think, that Swinney 

 had before, and long before, spoken to Lord George 

 Sackville, — must have been dear to Sackville, as 

 one of the few who had served under, and yet had a 

 kind word to say for him, — had said it indeed, and 

 was about to repeat it emphatically. That Swin- 

 ney was the fool Junius asserted, the extract al- 

 ready given must have abundantly proved ; but I 

 will conclude with one other, in which he not 

 only anticipated Fitzgerald, but anticipated the 

 burlesque exaggerations in the "Rejected Ad- 

 dresses :" 

 " Horse, Foot, Hussars, or ere they march review'd. 



The Foot, that form the first and second line. 

 All smartly drest, like Grecian heroes shine; 

 Their bold cock'd hats, their spatterdashers white, 

 And glossy shoes, attract his ravish'd sight." 



T. S. J. 



TOM, MYTHIC AND MATERIAL, 



"All Toms are alike," quoth the elegant Pelhani ; 

 and if we were asked to define the leading idea of 

 him, we should describe a downright honest John 

 Bull, essentially manly, but withal a bit — perhaps 

 a large bit — of a dullard. His masculinity is un- 

 questionable. A male cat, as every body knows, 

 is a 7y?tt-cat; a romping boy-like girl is a Tom- 

 boy, or a Tom-rig ; a large nob-headed pin is a 

 Tom-T^tm : and in many pi'ovincial dialects the 

 great toe h,par excellence, the Tow-toe. Last, not 



