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barges, proceeded along the canal in full costume 

 to Lacken ; the people, filled with the morbid 

 thirst for pleasure, crowded the far-famed AUee 

 Vert, mingling their applause with the gratulating 

 smiles of their rulers. 



The argument of the work is probably lost, and 

 the work itself, like most political tracts, would 

 have sunk into merited oblivion but for this notice 

 in your pages through a pedling auto-da-fe. 



Henby Davenet. 



Norwich. 



Addison! s " Cato." — In an old number of the 

 Monthly Mirror, I found the following correction 

 of the punctuation of a very fine passage in Cato, 

 which I send to "N. & Q." for the benefit of 

 future editors ; as I have referred to three modern 

 editions, and find the error not rectified. It is in 

 the speech of Fortius : 



" The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, 

 Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors ; 

 Our understanding traces them in vain, 

 Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search." 



The semicolon should come after " intricate," and 

 the comma after " errors : " it is " our understand- 

 ing," and not the " ways of Heaven," which is 

 " perplexed with errors." The passage otherwise 

 is impious. H. G. D. 



Knightsbridge. 



Outvies, 



MS. VOLUME or POEMS. 



I have lately met with a manuscript book of 

 poems, written, as I judge by the style of writing, 

 in the time of Henry VI. It is written on paper, 

 and bound in old red calf. At the beginning is 

 an index of the contents in a later hand, of which 

 I send a copy : 



" The Contents of this Poem, by way of Lines, of 

 Adam. 

 Noah. 

 Abraham. 

 Eebecca. 

 Joseph. 

 Pilate. 



Judas Iscariot. 

 Oswald. 



Edward y® Confessor, K. of England. 

 St. Mary ^gyptiaca. 



St. Gregory, Apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi. 

 De festis mobilibus per annum. 



rS«' Petri Apostoli. 

 Vita \ S« Pauli. 

 (S« Matthias. 



Historia St« Crucis. 



Of the Fruit called Xte'"io"e, 



The Feast of the Circumcision. 

 The Feast of the Epiphany. 

 St. Fabian > „ , 

 St. Sebastian) M^'^^y'^^- 



St. Aneys vel Agnes, Virg. et Mart. 



Dialogismus inter Dubium et Lucidum. 



Another between Occupation, and Idlenesse, and Doc- 

 trine. 



M. S. Proximum intitulatur The Testimony of Nico- 

 demus, the noble Prince of Jewes, concerning y» Passion, 

 Death, Rising, and Ascension of Christ. 



Prox. The Abby of the Holy Ghost, or Conscience: 

 the Charter of God's Foundation thereof to Adam, and 

 the Statutes." 



The last two are in prose. 



The life of St. Cuthbert the Bishop is omitted 

 in this index, between St. Edward and St. Mary 

 of iEgypt. 



I should feel much obliged for any information 

 concerning these poems. W. H. Gunnee. 



Winchester. 



Historical Allusions. — In A Second Letter to 

 Dr. P. Duigenan, by a Catholic Layman, Dublin, 

 1811, is the following passage : 



" Are we to return to the times when the gunpowder 

 plot had turned men's heads, and judges sought the royal 

 favour, and worked upon the royal fears, by encouraging 

 untruths about the 'papists?' When Wray held that 

 Foxe was not blamable for his lie about Grinwood, nor 

 were the repeaters of it subject to an action, as it was 

 told for edification : and when Periam and Fleming rose 

 by ruling that the sacrifice of the mass was in itself a 

 crime? Well might the sceptic Hume say, that pro- 

 testants seemed to think that no truth was to be told of 

 idolators." — P. 23. 



I do not find any account of these matters in 

 Hume, Lingard, or Aikin. Can any of your cor- 

 respondents tell me whence they are taken ? 



J. WOODLET. 



Mosely. 



Old Chart of the Mediterranean. — In 1831 a 

 volcanic island was thrown up between the town 

 of Sciacca in Sicily and the island of Pautellaria, 

 lat. 37° 11' N., long. 12° 44' E. A tradition is 

 current among the inhabitants of Malta that a 

 volcano existed on the same spot about the com- 

 mencement of the last century, and the position 

 of the island is marked as a shoal in an old chart 

 of the Mediterranean. Query, What is the title, 

 date, and name of the author of the said chart, 

 and where can it be seen ? S. H. 



Portrait of Powell. — I have in my possession 

 an old print (size about three inches by six, ex- 

 clusive of margin) of " Mr. Powell in the charac- 

 ter of Cyrus." The print bears no date, but the 

 name of the engraver is Miller. Is this George 

 Powell the cotemporary of Wilks, or is it William 

 Powell who died at Bristol in 1769 ? W. D. 



Pym of Woolavington. — I have met with the 

 following extract from the will of a William Pym 

 of Woolavington, in the county of Somerset, dated 



