Feb. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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loped. I am not sure that he translated the whole 

 ode. I never possessed a copy, but some passages 

 have remained in my recollection, and though the 

 incident has probably long passed from the me- 

 mory of the distinguished author, I will vouch for 

 the correctness of mine for a stanza or two. 



" O quante volte, al tacito 

 Morir d' un giorno inerte, 

 Chinati i rai fulminei, 

 Le braccia al sen conserte, 

 Stette — e dei di che furono 

 L' assalse il souvenir. 



" E ripensb le niobili 

 Tende, ei percorsi valli 

 E 1 campi dei manipoli — 

 E 1' onda dei cavalli — 

 E il concitato imperio — 

 E il celere obbedir." 



" Oft, as in silence closed some listless day. 



His eyeball's lightning ray 



Bent on the tumbling flood, 



With folded arms he stood — 



And bitterly he number'd o'er 

 The days that had been — and that were no more. 



" He saw the quick-struck tents again — 

 The hot assault — the battle plain — 

 The troops in martial pomp array'd — 

 The pealing of the artillery — 

 The torrent charge of cavalry — 

 The hurried word 

 In thunder heard — 

 Heard — and obey'd." 



B.(l) 



THE SULTAN OF THE CRIMEA. 



(Vol. X., pp. 453. 533.) 



When I was in Edinburgh in 1821-2, a man of 

 gentlemanly appearance and manners was moving 

 in good circles, and went by the name of Prince 

 Crimgary Cattygary, or Khrim Gherri Khatti 

 Gherri, and afterwards married a Scotch ladv. 

 But if she was thenceforward called " Sultana," it 

 could only be in jest. The prince was said to 

 have been sent to Edinburgh for his education by 

 the Emperor Alexander. This also was probably 

 said idly, it being well known that no Russian 

 notable could reside abroad without the Emperor's 

 permission. 



In Chambers's edition of Clarke's Travels, p. 94,, 

 I find this note : 



" It was here (Sympheropol) that Katti Gherri Krim 

 Gherri resides. He' is a descendant of the Tartar Khans ; 

 and having become acquainted with the Scotch mission- 

 aries at Carass in the Caucasus, he was sent to Edinburgh 



for education. Here he married Dr. Lyall visited 



him in 1822 ; and describes him and his Sultana as living 

 in great happiness. According to Mr. Spencer, he had 

 not succeeded in the j'ear 183G in making a single convert 

 (vol. ii. p. 89.). A great indisposition to Christianitv 

 exists amongst the Tartars, arising from its being pro- 

 fessed by the Russians." 



Clarke gives a detailed account of the Russian 

 intrigues in becoming possessed of the Crimea. 

 He says : 



" It is well known that, by the last treaty of peace which 

 Russia made with the Turks, prior to the conquest of the 

 Peninsula, Shahin Ghirei, of the family of the Khans, 

 who had been a prisoner and a hostage at Petersburg, 

 was placed on the throne of the Crimea." 



Then follows his (Clarke's) account of the depo- 

 sition and miserable fate of this poor victim of 

 Russian perfidy and aggression. 



The note of your correspondent Anat (Vol. x., 

 p. 533.) assumes that the Query at p. 326. is "the 

 Sultan's account of himself." Surely this is gra- 

 tuitous. Tliere must be scores of men in Edin- 

 burgh who will be able to verify the circumstances 

 above related. It is possible, but not very pro- 

 bable, that the hero of the tale may have left the 

 Russian territory, and taken refuge in this country. 

 He cannot now be very young. M. (2) 



MILTON S WIDOW. 



(Vol. Ix., pp. 38. 225.) 



By some original papers I am enabled to con- 

 firm the accuracy of that part of Mr. G. Grey's 

 letter to his brother Dr. Zachary Grey, your cor- 

 respondent C. DE D. quotes from Nichols's Literary 

 Anecdotes in one of your recent Numbers, which 

 states that there were three widow Miltons there 

 {i. e. Nantwich). The three persons alluded to 

 were : — 1. Milton the poet's widow, who is first 

 traced to that town in the year 1688. 2. The 

 widow of a Mr. Humphrey Milton, an attorney 

 and a freeholder there. And 3. The aunt of 

 Dr. Grey and his brother. But as respects the 

 time of the death of Milton's widow mentioned by 

 Mr. Grey, it has already been shown by one or 

 two of your able contributors, that she died in 

 1727, and not in 1730 — the year in which he fixes 

 her death to have taken place ; and a recently 

 discovered inventory and appraisement of her 

 effects, taken by Mr. John AUcock, the acting 

 executor of her will, on August 26, 1727, pre- 

 served with her original will proved at Chester on 

 October 10th in the same year, puts the matter be- 

 yond all doubt ; inasmuch as it shows that her dis- 

 solution must have occurred between the dates of 

 her will, the 22nd of August, and the inventory 

 the 26ih of the same month, 1727 ; and most^ pro- 

 bably on the very day her will bears d.ate, judg- 

 ing from the extremely short interval between the 

 two dates. The details of the inventory I have 

 referred to, also assist in identifying the testatrix 

 as being the poet's widow, if any farther evidence 

 on that head was requisite. This document will 

 be lo(tked upon as interesting, when it is known 

 that it describes with the greatest minuteness, not 



