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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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mens de la Riissie. On a pu croire n'avoir rien a con- 

 tester h, qui I'on pouvait croire tout devoir. .... C'etait 

 centre les agrandissemens de la Russie que le Congrfes 

 devait dresser toutes les forces de sa raison, de ses re- 

 presentations et de son opposition : c'eut ete un interes- 

 sant plaidoyer que celui du midi de I'Europe, demandant 



au nord de cesser de I'alarmer, et de s'arrcter enfin 



En negligeant ce point capital, le Congrfes s'est complete- 

 ment m^pris sur I'int^ret principal de I'Europe. II n'a 

 pas connu le clef de la voute de son propre ouvrage." 



J. M. 



Recapitulations. — The pages of " N. & Q." are 

 too valuable to be encroached on by recapitula- 

 tions, the greater part of which might be avoided 

 by a reference to the very clear and copious in- 

 dices of the volumes. In Vol. x., p. 494., Mr. 

 Henry H. Breen gives a quotation from Darwin 

 illustrative of the simile " Stars and Flowers," and 

 refers to Vol. vii. passim. Now, if Mr Breen 

 had taken the trouble to verify his passim refer- 

 ence, he would have seen that the simile is referred 

 to in three places only in the seventh volume ; 

 and that, in one of those places (p. 513.), the 

 quotation from Darwin (which Mr. Breen gives 

 with the air of its discoverer) was noted down by 

 me. I may also here take the opportunity of 

 pointing out another needless recapitulation. In 

 Vol. ix., p. 346., I gave several parallel passages 

 relative to " Death and Sleep ; " and among them 

 I quoted Thomas Warton's well-known Latin 

 epigram on sleep ; * and Peter Pindar's equally 

 well-known English version. In Vol. x., p. 356., 

 J. G. again quotes the Latin epigram, " adding" 

 the lines, as he says, to the "passages already 

 given," with the remark : " I have heard them 

 attributed to an eminent dignitai'y in the Church, 

 whose name has escaped me." And at p. 412., 

 D. S., after remarking, " there are several trans- 

 lations or imitations of tjie elegant lines which 

 have been sent you by J. G.," quotes the English 

 version of Peter Pindar. Cuthbbet Bede, B.A. 



^\xtxit&. 



BROMLEY LETTERS. 



May I ask whether any of your antiquarian 

 readers can inform me what has become of the 

 originals of the collection of letters known as the 

 Bromley Letters., published by the late Sir Geo. 

 Bromley, Bart., 8vo., London, 1787, printed for 

 Stockdale of Piccadilly ? They contain letters to 

 and from the Queen of Bohemia and other mem- 

 bers of the Palatine family, from whom that of 

 Bromley descends, through a natural daughter of 

 Prince Rupert. The letters were sold with the 

 other effects of the late Sir George Bromley, who 

 assumed the surname of Pauncefort, at his house 



* Written for a statue of Somnus, in the garden of 

 Mr, Harris, father of the first Lord Malmesbury. 



in Russell Square, in 1809, but who was their 

 purchaser I am unable to ascertain, unless I can 

 do so through your medium. 



I should also be much obliged if any of your 

 correspondents can inform me of letters of Queen 

 Henrietta Maria existing in private collections^ 

 or in printed works of not very usual occurrence^ 

 I am preparing a series of her letters for publica- 

 tion, which I wish to render as complete as pos- 

 sible. Mary Anne Everett Green. 



7. Upper Gower Street. 



" Bonnie Dundee.^'' — The tune to which Scott'a 

 song, " The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee," begin- 

 ning : 

 " To the Lords of Convention 'twas Claver'se that spoke," 



is usually sung, is not the tune called " Bonnie 

 Dundee," in Thomson's or Wood's Collection of 

 Scotch Songs. In Scott's Diary (see Lockhart's 

 Life, vol. vi. p. 170.), he says the words were 

 written to the tune of " Bonnie Dundee." Now, 

 is the tune, to which the words are generally sung, 

 an old air? Is it the air of "Bonnie Dundee" 

 which was running in Scott's head, when he wrote 

 the verses ; or what is the history of the air, if 

 written to suit Scott's words ? H. B. 



Rev. William Maciay. — At the east end of 

 Martham Church, Norfolk, are stones commemo- 

 rative of the Mackay family, and until recently 

 there was one commemorative of himself; it is- 

 now removed, owing to the decayed state of the- 

 tomb, and placed about the centre of the porch in 

 the pathway ; it bears the following inscription : 



" In Memory of Wm. Mackay, Rector of Fishly, Vicar 

 of Upton, Sequestrator of Ranworth, and Curate of Repps 

 with Bastwick. Died July 13, 1752, aged eighty -seven." 



Where can any account of the above be found ? 

 Did he publish any theological work ; and if so, 

 what ? J- W. DiBOLL. 



Great Yarmouth. 



Doddridge and White field. — Long before the 

 existence of " N. & Q./' I asked for an explana- 

 tion of the following singular plagiarism through 

 the medium of another periodical, but received no 

 satisfactory reply. I trust I may be more fortu- 

 nate in my present inquiry. 



In vol. iv. of Doddridge's Collected Works, there 

 is a sermon on Luke x. 42., " One thing is need- 

 ful ; " and the same identical sermon appears 

 amongst those of Whitefield, edit. London, 1825, 

 p. 312. 



Can any of your readers account for this as- 

 tounding fact ? C. W. Bingham. 



