Feb. 18. 1854.] 



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His principal works are, Histoire de V Esprit Hu- 

 main, Les Lettres Juives, Les Lettres Chinoises, 

 Les Lettres Cabalistiqucs, and his Philosophic du 

 bons Sens. Perhaps your correspondent may be 

 interested to learn that a reply to the Lettres 

 Juives was published in 1739, La Haye, three 

 vols, in twelve, by Aubert de la Chenaye Des- 

 Bois, under the title of Correspondence historique, 

 philosophique et critique, pour servir de reponse 

 aux Lettres Juives. Henry H. Bbeen. 



Sir PhilipWentworth (Vol. vii., p. 42. ; Vol. viii., 

 pp. 104. 184.)- — In Wright's Essex, vol. i. p. 645., 

 Sir Philip Wentworth is said to have married 

 Mary, daughter of John, Lord Clifford. I do not 

 recollect that Wright cites authority. I know he 

 has more than one error respecting the Gonsles, 

 who are in the same pedigree. Anon. 



General Fraser (Vol. viii., p. 586.). — Simon 

 Fraser, Lieut.-Colonel, 24th Regiment, and Bri- 

 gadier-General, was second in command under 

 Bursoyne when he advanced from Canada to New 

 York with 7000 men in 1777. He fell at Still- 

 water, a short time before the surrender of Bur- 

 goyne at Saratoga. He was struck by a shot from 

 a tree, as he was advancing at the head of his 

 troops; and died of his wound October 7, 1777. 

 He was buried, as he had desired, in the redoubt 

 on the field, in the front of the American army 

 commanded by General Gates. During his in- 

 terment, the incessant cannonade of the enemy 

 covered with dust the chaplain and the officers 

 who assisted in performing the last duties to his 

 remains, they being within view of the greatest 

 part of both armies. An impression long pre- 

 vailed among the officers of Burgoyne's army, that 

 if Eraser had lived, the issue of the campaign, and 

 of the whole war, would have been very different 

 from what it was. Burgoync is said to have shed 

 tears at his death. General Fraser's regiment had 

 been employed under Wolfe in ascending the 

 Heights of Abraham, Sept. 12, 1759 ; where, both 

 before and after the fall of Wolfe, the Highlanders 

 rendered very efficient service. His regiment was 

 also engaged with three others under Murray at 

 the battle of Quebec in 1760. Some incidental 

 mention of General Fraser will be found in Can- 

 non's History of the 31 st Regiment, published by 

 Furnivall, 30. Whitehall ; but I am not aware of 

 any memoirs or life of him having been published. 



J. C. B. 



Namby-Pamby (Vol. viii., pp. 318. 390.).— 

 Henry Carey, the author of Chrononhotonthologos, 

 and of The Dragoness of Wautley, wrote also a 

 work called Namby-Pamby, in burlesque of Am- 

 brose Phillips's style of poetry ; and the title of it 

 was probably intended to trifle with that poet's 

 name. Mr. Macaulay, in his Essay on Addison and 



his Writings, speaks of Ambrose Phillips, who was 

 a great adulator of Addison, as — 



" A middling poet, whose verses introduced a spe- 

 cies of composition which has been called after his 

 name, Namby-Pamby." 



D. W. S. 



The Word "Miser" (Vol. ix., p. 12.). — Cf. the 

 use of the word miserable in the sense of miserly, 

 mentioned amongst other Devonianisms at Vol. vii., 

 p. 544. And see Trench's remarks on this word 

 {Study of Words, p. 38. of 2nd edit.). H. T. G. 



Hull. 



The Forlorn Hope (Vol. viii., p. 569.), i. c. the 

 advanced guard. — This explains what has al- 

 ways been to me a puzzling expression in Gur- 

 nall's Christian in Complete Armour (p. 8. of 

 Tegg's 8vo. edit., 1845) : 



" The fearful are in the forlorn of those that march 

 for hell." 



See Rev. xxi. 8., where " the fearful and unbe- 

 lieving" stand at the head of the list of those who 

 " shall have their part in the lake which burnetii 

 with fire and brimstone." H. T. G. 



Hull. 



The true origin and meaning of forlorn hope 

 has no doubt been fully explained in " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. viii., p. 569. Richardson's Dictionary does 

 not countenance this view, but his example proves 

 it conclusively. He only give3 one quotation, 

 from North's Plutarch; and as it stands in the 

 dictionary, it is not easy to comprehend the pas- 

 sage entirely. On comparing it, however, with 

 the corresponding passage in Langhorne (Valpy's 

 edition, vol. iii. p. 97.), and again with Pompei's 

 Italian version (vol. iii. p. 49.), I have no doubt 

 that, by the term forlorn hope, North implied 

 merely an advanced party ; for as he is describing 

 a pitched battle and not a siege, a modern forlorn 

 hope would be strangely out of place. 



Is enfans perdus the idiomatic French equiva- 

 lent, or is it only dictionary-French ? And what 

 is the German or the Italian expression ? 



It. Cary Barnard. 



Malta. 



Thornton Abbey (Vol. viii., p. 469.). — In the 

 Archaeological Journal, vol. ii. p. 3-17., may be 

 found not only an historical and architectural 

 account of this building, but several views ; with 

 architectural details of mouldings, &c. H. T. G. 



Hull. 



" Quid fades," Sf-c. (Vol. viii., p. 539. ; Vol. ix., 

 p. 18.). — In a curious work written by the Rev. 

 John Warner, D.D., called Metronariston, these 

 lines (as printed in Vol. ix., p. 18.) are quoted, 

 and stated to be — 



" A punning Epigram on Scylla as a type of Lust, 

 cited by Barnes." 



