Sept. 21. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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compare it with the published fnc-similes of the 

 handwiiting of Junius ; but he refused my request. 

 His letter alone disproves the notion entertained 

 by R.J. and others, that Mr. Dubois was in any 

 degree connected with me, or with the authorship 

 of the work in question. 



With regard to the testimony of Lord Camp- 

 bell, I wrote to his lordship in February, 1848, 

 requesting his acceptance of a copy ofJuniufi Iden- 

 tijicrl, which I thought he might not have seen; 

 and having called liis attention to my name at the 

 end of tiie preface, I begged he would, when 

 opportunity olfered, correct liis eiior in having 

 attributed the work to Mr. Dubois. I was satis- 

 fied with his lordship's reply, which was to the 

 effect that he was ashamed of his mistake, and 

 would take care to correct it. No new edition of 

 that series of the Lives of the Chancelloi-x, which 

 contains the " Life of Lord Loughborough," has 

 since been published. The present edition is 

 dated 1847. 



R. J. says further, that " the late Sir. George 

 Woodfall always spoke of the pamphlet as the 

 work of Dubois;" and that Sir Fortunatus Dwar- 

 ris states, '■'■ the pamphlet is saiil, I know not with 

 what truth, to have been prepared under the eye 

 of Sir Philip Francis, it may be through the 

 agency of Dubois." If Junius Identified be alluded 

 to in these observations as a pamphlet, it would 

 make me doubt whether 11- J., or either of his 

 authorities, ever saw the book. It is an 8vo. vol. 

 The first edition, containing 380 pages, was pub- 

 lished in 1816, at 12s. The second edition, which 

 included the supplement, exceeded 400 pages, 

 and was published in 1818, at 14.v. The supple- 

 ment, which contains the plates of handwriting, 

 was sold separately at Zs.Qd., to complete the first 

 edition, but this could not have been the pamphlet 

 alluded to in the preceding extracts. I suspect 

 that when the work is spoken of as a pamplilet, 

 and this is often done, the parties thus describing 

 it have known it (mly throii<;h the medium of the 

 critique in the Edinburgh Ilevieiv. 



Mr. Dubois was the author of the biogrn])hy of 

 Sir Philip Francis, first printed in tliu MuntJdy 

 Mirror i'nr May and June, 1810, and reprinted 

 in Junius Identified, with acknowdedgment of the 

 source from whidi it was taken. To this biograpliy 

 the remarks of Sir Fortunatus Dwarris are strictly 

 applicable, except that it never aj)j)earcd in the 

 form of a pamphlet. 



John Taylor. 



30. Upper GowcT Street, Sept. 7. 1850. 



FOLK LOUE. 



iieighboars, for the cure of this disorder. Her 

 universal remeily was a large house-spider alive, 

 and enveloped in treacle or preserve. Of course 

 the parties were carefully kept in ignorance of 

 what the wonderful remedy was. 



Whilst I am on the subject of cures, I may as 

 well state that in parts of the co. Carlow, the 

 blood drawn from a black cat's ear, and rubbed 

 upon the part affected, is esteemed a certain cure 

 for St. Anthony's fire. Junior. 



Funeral Superstition. — A few days ago the body 

 of a gentleman in this neighbourhood was con- 

 veyeil to the hearse, and while being placed in 

 it, the door of the house, whetlier from design 

 or inadvertence I know not, was closed betbre 

 the friends came out to take their places in the 

 coaches. An old lady, who was watching the pro- 

 ceedings, innuediately exclaimed, " God bless me! 

 they have closed the door upon the corpse : there 

 will be another death in that house before many 

 days are over." She was fully impressed with 

 this belief, and unhappily this impression has been 

 confirnieil. The funeral was on Saturday, and on 

 the Alonday morning following a young man, resi- 

 dent in the house, was found dead in bed, having 

 died under the influence of chloroform, which ho 

 had inhaled, self-administered, to relieve the pain 

 of toothache or tic-douloureux. 



Perhaps the su[)erstition may have come before 

 you already ; but not having met with it myself, 

 I thought it might be equally new to others. 



H. J. 



Sheffield. 



Folk Lore Rhymes. — 

 " Find odd-leafed asli, and even-leafed clover. 

 And you'll see your true love before the day's over." 



If you wish to see your lover, throw salt on the 

 fire every morning for nine days, and say — 

 " It is not salt I mean to burn, 

 But my true lover's heart I mean to turn ; 

 Wishing him neither joy nor sleep. 

 Till he come back to me and speak." 



' If you marry in Lent, 

 You will live to repent." 



Wedsecnabp. 



Spiders a Cure for A^ue (Vol. ii., p. 130.). — 

 Seeing a note on tliis suliject reminds me that a 

 ic'ff years since, a lady in tiu! south of Lelnnd 

 was celcbi'ated far mid near, amongst her poorer 



BMEMD.^TION OF A PASSAGE IN THE "TEMPEST. 



Premising that I should approach the text of 

 our great poet with an almost equal degree of 

 awful reverence witli that -which characterises his 

 two latest editors, I must confess that I sliould not 

 have the same respect for evident errors of the 

 printers of the early editions, which they have 

 occasionally shown. In the following passage in 

 the Tempest, Act i., Scene 1., this forbearance has 

 not, however, been the cause of the very unsatis- 

 factory state in which they have both left it. I 



