Mae. 10. 1855.] 



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given in the Harl. MSS., Mr. Baines has left out 

 three younger sons of James Chetham of Turton : 

 his fourth son, the Rev. James Chetham, D.D., 

 was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, from 

 1705 to 1716 ; he entered college Jan. 31, 1700, 

 and graduated in 1704. He also omits another 

 descent, but as I cannot connect him with the 

 family, I have nothing to say on that head ; some 

 correspondent may be able to assist me. Thomas 

 Chetham, a descendant of Ellis Chetham (proved 

 by his bearing the Chetham and Jakes [not 

 Parker] arms. Argent, on a fesse engrailed sa., 

 three escallops or, quarterly), was appointed 

 Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Town, 

 Dec. 22, 1595 ; Chief Examinator in Chancery, 

 1601 ; and Clerk of the House of Lords (Irish), 

 1607. He had a grant of lands in 1602, and 

 another grant, comprising the lands of Hackets- 

 town, CO. Dublin, part of the estate of the late 

 monastery of Holme Patrick, Sept. 4, 1606. He 

 married Mary, daughter of John Forster, Lord 

 Mayor of Dublin, and had an only child, Mar- 

 garet, born April 21, 1604 ; married May 28, 

 1623, Nicholas Loftus, Esq. ; and died in October, 

 1666. Her father died December 6, 1624, and 

 his wife's will was proved in 1652. I find the 

 name of Edward Chetham, Gentleman, Store- 

 keeper of the Port of Dublin, July 23, 1742 to 

 1744. Passing by the omissions, the errors are so 

 numerous, that, without giving a new sketch of the 

 family descent, I could not attempt to mention 

 them all; one example, however, I will give. 

 Mr. Baines makes the celebrated Humphrey 

 Chetham (vol. ii. p. 395.) the third son of John, 

 the son of Ellis Chetham ; but at p. 365. he calls 

 him the fourth son of Henry Chetham of Crump- 

 sail, and immediately afterwards he makes him 

 the third son of Henry. This carelessness is 

 unpardonable, and necessarily prevents one relying 

 on any other of the pedigrees in his voluminous 

 work. Y. S. M. 



CHABACTEB Or THE TURKS. 



As many of our military officers are about to 

 proceed to Constantinople, in order to improve the 

 discipline of the Turks, I may do them a slight 

 service by giving the character of that nation as 

 described by writers of authority : 



" The Turks are in general a sagacious, thinking people ; 

 in the pursuit of their own interest, or fortune, their at- 

 tention is fixed on one object, and they persevere with 

 great steadiness until they attain their purpose. They 

 are in common life seemingly obliging and humane, not 

 without appearances of gratitude : perhaps all or either 

 of these, Avhen extended towards Christians, are practised 

 with a view of some advantage. Interest is their supreme 

 good; where that becomes an object of competition, all 

 attachment of friendship, all ties of consanguinity are 

 dissolved ; they become desperate, no barrier can stop 

 their pursuit, or abate their rancour towards their compe- 

 titors. In their demeanour thej' are rather hypochondriac, 



grave, sedate, and passive ; but when agitated by passion, 

 furious, raging, ungovernable; big with dissimulation; 

 jealous, suspicious, and vindictive beyond conception; 

 perpetuating revenge from generation to generation. In 

 matters of religion, tenacious, supercilious, and morose."— 

 Sir James Porter, 1768. 



" We hear a parallel drawn between the Turks and 

 other nations of Europe, which is not a candid statement ; 

 if it were made between them and the populous empires 

 of the East, who profess the same faith, they would not 

 lose so much by the comparison. So widely as they are 

 discriminated from European Christians in opinions and 

 general habits of life, no fair analogy will be found to 

 exist between them. They maybe called, nationally 

 speaking, an illiterate people ; yet it is no less true that 

 a taste for literature, however ill directed by prejudice, 

 is cultivated by many individuals." — The rev. James 

 Dallaway, 1797. 



" Une justice h rendre aux Turcs, c'est qu'au milieu 

 de religions et de races si diverses, ce sont dont le carac- 

 tfere moral ofFrirait le plus de garanties. D'un naturel 

 mou et insouciant, imbus de prejuges, ils ne sont pas sales 

 comme les juifs, avides et fourbes comme les Grecs ; leur 

 caractfere est k-la-fois simple et plein de dignite'. II est 

 vrai^ que les Turcs n'ont pas, comme les juifs et les 

 Chretiens, e'te soumis depuis plusieurs sifecles k un despo- 

 tisme capricieux et barbare, h, un joug avilissant." — J. T. 

 Reinaud, 1844. 



Sir James Porter was for many years our am- 

 bassador at Constantinople ; Mr, Dallaway, at a 

 later date, was chaplain and physician of the British 

 embassy ; and M. Reinaud, formerly a pupil of the 

 venerable Silvestre de Sacy, is now one of the most 

 eminent orientalists in France. Bolton Cornet. 



:^t«ar 3attg. 



Death of the Czar. — What an illustration does 

 this sudden and awful event afford us of that 

 matchless peroration of Sir Walter Raleigh to his 

 History/ of the World! 



" Oh eloquent and mightie Death ! Whom none could 

 advise, Thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared. 

 Thou hast done ; and when all the world hath flattered, 

 Thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou 

 hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, 

 all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of men, and covered 

 it all over with these two narrow words — 'Hicjacet.' " 



These are powerful words of that most wondrous 

 of wondrous men : and never, sure, were they 

 more literally applicable than in the present pal- 

 pable demonstration of the finger of God : — surely 

 He writes on all created things Vanity ! D. C. 



Saxons in the Crimea. — Busbequius says in his 

 letters, that he had often heard that a German 

 origin was suggested by the language, customs, 

 cast of countenance, and physical structure of the 

 inhabitants of the Crimea. He succeeded at 

 length in securing the company of two persons 

 from that part of the world ; " one was somewhat 

 tall, with an artless and ingenuous expression of 

 countenance, like a man of Flanders or Batavia." 



