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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 276. 



eandera Librum Judiciarium nominavimus ; non quod ab 

 eo sicut a praedicto Judicio non licet ulla ratione disce- 

 dere." (Mad ox, Hist. Excheq., edit. 4to., vol. ii. p. 398.) 

 So Rudborne, Angl. Sacr. torn. i. p. 257. : " Vocatus 

 Domj'-sday; et vocatur sic, quia nuUi parcit, sicut nee 

 magnus dies Judicii." These derivations are quoted in 

 Sir HenrA' Ellis's General Introduction, to Domesday Book, 

 pp. 1,2.]" 



THE INQUISITION. 



(Vol. X., pp. 120. 137. 246.) 



The attack made upon Col. Lehmanowsky in 

 the first of the above articles having been re- 

 published in the United States, !that gentleman, 

 who has been for many years a clergyman of the 

 Lutheran Church in this country, has taken notice 

 of it in the following letter to the editor of the 

 Independent, a religious newspaper published in 

 the city of New York. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Letter from Colonel Lehmanowsky. 



Hamburg, Clark co. Indiana, 

 Dec. 15, 1854. 



Mr. Editor of the Independent, 



A few days ago, a gentleman gave me to read 

 an article, published in a London (England) pe- 

 riodical, called Notes and Queries, in which a writer 

 criticised my statement about the destruction of 

 the Inquisition Chemastin, near Madrid, in Spain. 

 In perusing this article, my first intention was not 

 to take notice of it, and let it pass for what it is 

 worth. But yesterday, a friend of mine handed 

 me your paper. The Independent, in which my 

 attention was drawn to an article signed "In- 

 quirer." In said article I am called a " Polish 

 refugee ; " whereas, the Polish refugees came in 

 this country only in 1833 ; whilst I came after the 

 battle of Waterloo, in 1816, and have had the 

 honour, since 1821, to be a citizen of these United 

 States. 



Secondly, the gentleman says that in the year 

 1814 the king of Spain re-established the "In- 

 quisition," and in 1820 he or his friend saw that 

 massive building yet standing, and therefore I 

 must have made a false statement about Its being 

 blown up. It seems the learned gentleman thinks it 

 needs to rebuild an "Inquisition" as long as it 

 needed to build St. Peter's at Rome, and in eleven 

 years time it could not be rebuilded, as it was blown 

 up in 1809 by the troops under my command. 

 May be, if the gentleman would go to Moscow, in 

 Russia, at the present time, he will likewise say, 

 Moscow has never been burned, and the Kremlin 

 had never been blown up by powder in 1812, 

 because, he would say, the houses are all standing, 

 and the " massive " buildings in the Kremlin are 

 there. 



Thirdly, this kind gentleman says thnt Marshal 

 Soult was not the Commandant of Madrid. Who 

 said so ? not I. My statement is, that Count 

 Mejoles was the Commandant, but Marslial Snult 

 the Military Commander of the division, wliich 

 not only occupied Madrid, but twenty or thirty 

 miles round about Madrid. 



And now, Mr. Editor, I think I have done so 

 far my duty in answering this very learned gen- 

 tleman, who made the criticism in the Notes and 

 Queries. But allow me to remark, that I ;;m 

 astonished that any one should wait twenty years 

 since my first statement, to correct the same. It 

 seems to me that those who were always wishing 

 to have this statement hushed up, waited until 

 they were sure Marshal Soult and Col. De Lisle 

 were dead, and no doubt suspected Col. Lehma- 

 nowsky was also numbered among the dead, so 

 that they may have free pluy ; but they are 

 mistaken. 



I will only add, as the Lord has blessed me to 

 be nearly eighty-two years of age, they sliould 

 wait a little longer, until they are sure tiiat none 

 are living who took part in the destruction of the 

 "Inquisition Chemastin." 



In conclusion, let me inform you, Mr. Editor, 

 that it is (with the help of God) my firm resolu- 

 tion to write no more on this subject, as I am 

 advanced in age, and can emi)loy my time a groat 

 deal better to do the work of my Captain of Sal- 

 vation, Jesus Christ, in preaching His Gospel to 

 saints and sinners. 



I remain, with due regard, your obedient ser- 

 vant, J. J. Lehmanowsky. 



LORD DERBY AND MANZONI. 



(Vol. xi., p. 62.) 



I cannot inform Hermrs where Lord Derby 

 delivered the speech in wliich he is said to have 

 quoted the lines from Manzoni's Ode to Napoleon, 

 but I know that his admiration of that ode dates 

 from many years back. At Rome, in the year 

 1821, when "it was still in its first fiime, and a 

 common topic of conversation. Lord Derby ex- 

 pressed his high opinion of its merits in the com- 

 pany of English ladies, of whom one or two did 

 not understand Italian, and were a good deal 

 chagrined to be thus excluded from the pleasure 

 which its recitation appeared to convey to the 

 rest. Lord Derby took up the book and said, 

 " Oh ! I will try to give you some general notion 

 of the matter of the poem"; its fire and inspiration 

 will all evaporate in translation;" and witli a 

 wonderfid rapidity he struck off an improvised 

 paraphrase in English, whicli I well remember 

 thinking, at the time, gave earnest of tlie talents 

 which his maturer years have so splendidly deve- 



