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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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practice to precept, may be glad to learn that Mr. Sutton 

 gives lessons on the calotype process at the Photographic 

 Institution, New Bond Street. 



Glutton (Vol. xi., p. 343.). — Tour correspondent 

 Gn. will find in James's Naval History, vol. i., an 

 account of the exploit performed in 1796 by 

 H.M.S. Glatton, Captain Trollope, of 1256 tona, 

 5Q guns, carrying twenty-eight 68-pounders on 

 her lower deck. On July 15, Captain Trollope 

 fell in with a squadron of French ships, consisting 

 of Brutus, 50 ; Incorruptible, 38 ; MagLcienne, 

 36 ; Republicaine, 28 ; two corvettes of 22 guns 

 each, a brig of 16, and a cutter of 8 guns. This 

 squadron Captain Trollope unhesitatingly engaged 

 single-handed ; the action lasted from 9.45 p. m. 

 till 11 p. m. Having repaired damages during the 

 night, he offered the French battle at daybreak, 

 which they declined, and bore away for Flushing, 

 followed by the Glatton. Having thus driven the 

 enemy into port, the Glatton proceeded to Yar- 

 mouth to refit. Her loss in the action was two 

 men wounded. On the side of the enemy one 

 frigate lost seventy in killed and wounj^ed, and 

 one ^ frigate sank in Flushing harbour ; further 

 particulars are not known. The largest of the 

 French frigates was 300 or 400 tons larger than 

 the Glatton. The Glatton was one of nine India- 

 men purchased by the government in 1 795, and 

 was probably named by her owner from the place 

 of the same name in Huntingdonshire. It is in 

 memory of this exploit that the Admiralty have 

 called one of the new floating batteries the 

 Glatton. May she be equally successful against 

 the Eussian ! H. C. K. 



Monmouth and Foudroyant (Vol. xi., p. 342.). — 

 In Giffard's Deeds of Navcd Daring, Murray, 

 1852, will be found an account of this celebrated 

 action, which, says Campbell, was "one of the 

 most glorious in the naval history of Britain." It 

 took place in 1758. The Foudroyant mounted 

 thirty 42-pounders, thirty-two 24-pounders, and 

 eighteen 12-pounders, with a picked crew of 880 

 men. l^e Monmouth carried sixty-four 24- 

 pounders, with a complement of 470 men. The 

 loss of the former (which was captured) was 190 

 killed and wounded ; that of the latter, 27 killed, 

 including her captain (Gardiner), and 79 wounded. 



H. C. K. 



Lives there a man so dead to his country's 

 honour, that on seeing the sign at Lostwithiel, of 

 the brave capture of the Foudroyant by the bold 

 little Monmouth, he recollects no description of 

 the action in SmoUet, or any other historian of 

 the reign of George II.? In a sailor's family, 

 though not descended from poor Captain Gardiner, 



the slight is deeply felt. The Monmouth, a 64, 

 captured the Foudroyant, 84, commanded by the 

 Marquis De Quesne, in February, 1758, after an 

 obstinate action, almost without extraneous as- 

 sistance. (See Charnock's Naval Biography, vol. vi. 

 p. 301., and vol. v. p. 386. Also see stanzas on 

 this action in Naiml Chronicle, vol. iv., for latter 

 half of 1800, p. 322. They were written by 

 Glover, secre^tary to the Commodore. They 

 were set to a very noble tune, and became a very 

 favourite song.) When the morning dawned, De 

 Quesne is said to have burst into tears on seeing 

 to what a small ship he had struck. A. S. 



Mothering Sunday (Vol. xi., p. 353.) ; St. Simon 

 the Apostle (VoL xi , p. 354.). — My present object 

 is merely to correct an erroneous expression in 

 each of the above articles. On Mothering Sunday, 

 the priest and his ministers are not vested in 

 white, but in purple ; that is, violet colour, the 

 same as on the other Sundays in Lent. What I 

 certainly meant to say was, that the candles on the 

 altar were of white wax ; whereas, on the other 

 Sundays in Lent, they are yellow or unbleached. 

 The only difference in the vestments is, that those 

 of the deacon and sub-deacon are not folded as on 

 the other Sundays of Lent ; but let down, and 

 worn full, as at other seasons. 



In the account of the Apostle St. Simon, I 

 should have included the fuller's bat with the saw, 

 as an instrument of that Apostle's martyrdom 

 occasionally met with ; instead of placing it with 

 other emblems with which he is represented. 



F. C. H. 



Eminent Men born in 1769 (Vol. xi., pp. 27. 

 135.). — lam afraid the year 1769, with all its 

 claims to distinction, will turn out in the end to be 

 nothing more than a new version of the fable of 

 the jay with the borrowed plumes. Sir Walter 

 Scott, as stated, Vol. xi., p. 135., was not born in 

 that year, but in 1771 ; and in a foot-note to 

 Alison's History of Europe, vol. iv. p. 1 . edit. 1 849, 

 I find the following statement with reference to 

 Napoleon : 



" ' He (Napoleon) was born on the 5th February, 1768, 

 and subsequently gave out that he was born in August, 

 1769, as in the interim Corsica had been incorporated with 

 the French monarchy.' — Odeleben, i. 230., and Ilistoire 

 de France, par M. Salgues, i. 67." 



Henby H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Thames Water (Vol. x., p. 402. ; Vol. xi., 

 p. 295.). — I was the other day told by a person 

 that he had drunk Thames water two thousand 

 miles out at sea, which was as pure and " beau- 

 tiful" as possible, but which, when they had left 

 land, was as black and filthy as could be. He 

 added, that it did not taste like common water, 

 but that there seemed to be a " solidity " about it. 

 Pelicanus Americanus. 



