Jan. 6. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Epitaph on Richard Adlam. — In the romantic 

 village church of Kings Teignton, Devon, there is 

 a tomb to the memory of Richard Adlam, whose 

 epitaph, besides being a singular specimen of the 

 style of the period, is so remarkable for the coinci- 

 dence of the first line with Dr. Young's celebrated 

 apostrophe to Death (Night Third) — 



" Insatiate archer ! could not one siifiice ? " — 

 that we might almost think he must have seen and 

 had it in hS mind when Jie wrote it. It is as fol- 

 lows: 



" Richardus Adlam hujus ecclesise Vicarius, obit Feb. 10, 

 1670, Apostrophe ad Mortem : 



"Damn'd tyrant! can't profaner blood suffice? 

 Must priests that offer be the sacrifice ? 

 Go tell the genii that in Hades lye, 

 Thy triumphs o'er this sacred Calvary, 

 Till some just Nemesis avenge our cause 

 And force this kill-priest to revere good laws ! " 



GUMELMUS. 



Dalston. 



Earthenwai'e Vessels found at St. Mary's Col- 

 legiate Church, Youghal, Ireland. — In the pro- 

 gress of the restoration of the choir of this church 

 during the autumn of this year, 1854, vases similar 

 to those found at Fountains Abbey (Vol. x., 

 p. 386.), and at St. Peter's Man<jroft, Norwich 

 (Vol. X., p. 434.), were discovered. They are ten 

 in number, laid on their sides, the orifices not 

 reaching to the surface of the walls in which they 

 are imbedded, but communicating with the out- 

 side through circular perforations in a piece of 

 limestone laid up to each. Five of these vases 

 are in the north wall, and five directly opposite in 

 the south, high up above the arches of the windows 

 contiguous to the nave. They are all of browp 

 earthenware, glazed within, but differ in shapes 

 and dimensions. Some have narrow mouths, 

 whence they gradually expand to the base. Some 

 swell out, like Roman amphorce, and like them are 

 symmetrically tapered to the bottom. Some have 

 wide mouths, narrow necks, and broad bases to 

 stand on. Measurements of the largest four were 

 as follows respectively, viz. 15i inches X 11a ; 

 15 X 11 ; 11 X 7 ; 9| X 91. May they not have 

 been intended for acoustic purposes, according to 

 Priestley's experiments ? Samubx Hayman, Clk. 



South Abbey, Youghal. 



Schedone and Poussin. — Great praise has been 

 bestowed on Poussin for the pathetic episode in- 

 troduced into one of his pastoral paintings; in 

 which, amid the fleeting pleasures of the shep- 

 herd's life, a stone, the memorial of some de- 

 parted shepherd, is seen bearing the well-known 

 inscription, " Et ego in Arcadia fui." It is ques- 

 tionable whether Poussin did not borrow this 

 idea. In the Sciarra Piilace at Rome, there is a 

 picture of Schedone, in which shepherds are in- 



troduced contemplating a skull. On a stone 

 below appear the words " Et in Arcadia ego." I 

 apprehend that Schedone's painting whs produced 

 the first, and that the pathetic and justly admired 

 idea was originally his. Poussin, during his long 

 residence at Rome, would be familiar with Sche- 

 done's painting. W. Ewabt. 



A Family of Six Children at a Birth. — The 

 Dayton Gazette, published in Ohio, states on the 

 authority of " a lady of character, who saw and 

 counted the children, and had the mother's word 

 that they were all hers at a single birth," that a 

 German woman lately passed through Dayton 

 with six children born at a birth. The woman 

 was on her way to see her husband, who was sick 

 at another place where he was at work. The 

 children were carried in a basket, and were all of 

 a size except the youngest, which was smaller 

 than the others. 



It is said that Ambrose Pare, the French phy- 

 sician, gives an account of a similar family. 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



China, Conquest of — In the year 1758, Lord 

 Clive, then Governor-General of India, proposed 

 to conquer China, if parliament would supply him 

 with a force of fifteen thousand men. I have no 

 doubt so great a man knew well that he was able, 

 humanly speaking, to accomplish what he pro- 

 posed; and if his proposal had been accepted, 

 what a mass of misery might have been prevented, 

 by China and India being united under one great 

 Christian government ! The fanatical spirit of the 

 present rebels against the Imperial government 

 would now be turned, with fatal effect, against any- 

 foreign interference of a hostile nature ; and 

 nothing now remains for England, in her inter- 

 course with China, but the most cautious, pacific, 

 and prudent policy. A. 



^ntxit^. 



ADDISON S LETTERS. 



I am engaged in an edition of Addison's Works, 

 which I at first intended should be a mere reprint 

 of Bishop Hurd's, and form four volumes of my 

 British Classics ; but I have found occasion to 

 alter my plan. Some autograph-collecting friends 

 having placed at my disposal several unpublished 

 letters of Addison, and called my attention to the 

 existence of many others in both private and pub- 

 lic collections, I commenced a diligent, and I am 

 happy to say successful search. I have, in conse- 

 quence, discovered more than fifty letters quite 

 unknown to the literary world ; all of which, to- 

 gether with a considerable number which have 



