May 13. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



455 



Highlanders, then quartered in Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, murdered a cooper named Parker, and was 

 executed on September 28, pursuant to his sen- 

 tence. He was only nineteen years of age, and at 

 the gallows endeavoured to throw the executioner 

 off the ladder. The statement concludes with — 

 "his body was taken to the surgeons' hall and 

 there dissected;" and the following is appended 

 as a foot-note : 



" It was said that, after the body was taken to 

 the surgeons' hall, and placed ready for dissection, 

 the surgeons were called to attend a case at the in- 

 firmary, who, on their return, found Macdonald so far 

 recovered as to be sitting up. He immediately begged 

 for mercy; but a young surgeon, not wishing to be 

 disappointed of the dissection, seized a wooden mall, 

 with which he deprived him of life. It was farther 

 reported, as the just vengeance of God, that this young 

 man was soon after killed in the stable by his own 

 horse. They used to show a mall at the surgeons' 

 hall, as the identical one used by the surgeon." 



Robert S. Salmon. 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



The case of Anne Green is attested by a third 

 witness : 



" In December, 1650, he was one of the persons 

 concerned in recovering Anne Green to life, who was 

 hanged at Oxford on the 14th, for the supposed mur- 

 ther of her bastard child." — " Memoir of Sir William 

 Petty, Knt.," prefixed to Several Essays on Political 

 Arithmetic, p. 3., 4th edit., London, 1755. 



Cpl. 



gave more pleasure, and to a greater number, than a 

 continuation by myself in the spirit of the two first {sic) 

 cantos (qu. would give)." — Letters, $-c, Moxon, 1836, 

 vol. i. pp. 94-5. 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



COLERIDGE S CHRISTABEL. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292; Vol. via., pp. 11. 111.) 



Mr. J. S. Warden might well express astonish- 

 ment at the rash and groundless statement in 

 "Blackwood" (Dec. 1839), that the third part of 

 Christabel which Dr. Maginn sent to that maga- 

 zine in 1820 "perplexed the public, and pleased 

 even Coleridge" How far the " discerning public" 

 were imposed upon I know not; the following 

 extract will show how far the poet-philosopher 

 was "pleased" with the parody. 



" If I should finish ' Christabel,' I shall certainly 

 extend it, and give new characters, and a greater num- 

 ber of incidents. This the 'reading public' require, 

 and this is the reason that Sir Walter Scott's poems, 

 though so loosely written, are pleasing, and interest 

 us by their picturesqueness. If a genial recurrence of 

 the ray divine should occur for a few weeks, I shall 

 certainly attempt it. I had the whole of the two 

 cantos in my mind before I began it ; certainly the 

 first canto is more perfect, has more of the true wild 

 weird spirit than the last. I laughed heartily at the 

 continuation in * Blackwood,' which I have been told is 

 by Maginn. It is in appearance, and in appearance 

 only, a good imitation. I do not doubt but that it 



GENERAL -WHITELOCKE. 



(Vol. ix., p. 201.) 



General Whitelocke being on a visit to Aboyne 

 Castle, in this county, the seat of the late Marquis 

 of Huntley, then Earl of Aboyne, and a public 

 market being held in the neighbourhood, the Earl, 

 the General, and some other visitors, were seen, 

 sauntering amongst the cattle and the tents of the 

 fair. Amongst the attenders of the country mar- 

 kets at that period was a woman of the name of 

 Tibby Masson, well known in this city for her 

 masculine character and deeds of fearlessness. 

 Tibby had accompanied her husband, who was a 

 soldier, to South America ; and, along with him, 

 had been present at the unfortunate siege of 

 Buenos Ayres ; and, as a trophy of her valour, 

 she brought with her an enormous-sized silver 

 watch, which she declared she had taken from the 

 person of a Spanish officer who lay wounded in 

 the neighbourhood of the city after the engage- 

 ment. Tibby was standing by her "sweetie" 

 (confectionary) stall in the Aboyne Market when 

 the Earl and Whitelocke, and the other gentlemen, 

 were passing, and she at once recognised her old 

 commander. They stopped, and the General 

 tasted some of her "sweeties," and saucily de- 

 clared that they were abominably bad. Upon 

 which Tibby immediately retorted : " They are a 

 great deal better than the timmer (wooden) flints 

 that you gave our soldiers at Bonny's Airs." On 

 hearing this, the consternation of Whitelocke and 

 his friends can more easily be imagined than de- 

 scribed. They all fled from the field with the 

 utmost rapidity, leaving Tibby completely vic- 

 torious ; and the General, so far as is known, 

 never again visited Aberdeenshire. B. B. 



Aberdeen. 



I have not access to a file of newspapers, but 

 have been frequently told by an old pensioner, 

 who served under General Whitelocke : " We 

 marched into Bowsan Arrys (as he pronounced 

 Buenos Ayres) without ere a flint in our muskets." 



L. G. 



The subjoined charade, which I have seen years 

 ago, is perhaps preferable : 



" My first is an emblem of purity, 

 My next against knaves a security; 



My whole is a shame 



To an Englishman's name, 

 And branded will be to futurity." 



