Feb. 22. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



131 



Epigrams on Sir Elijah Impoy. R d. 



— — bv Mr. Wilberforcc. Ellis. 

 Original Letter. A. (Adair.) 

 Congratulatory Ode. Courtcnay. 

 Ode to Sir Elijah Impey. "Anonymous — I be- 

 lieve L. J. Townsend." — L. 



Song, to tune " Let the Sultan S.ikdin." R d. 



A new Song, "Billy's Budget." Fitzpatrick. 



Epigrams. R d. 



Ministerial Facts. " Ld. J. Townsend, I believe." 

 — L. 



Journal of the Right Hon. II. Dundas. 

 To end of Jlarch 7ih. Tierney. 



March 9th and 10th. Dr. Lawrence. 

 March 11th. Tierney. 

 March I 2th and 13th. C. Grey. 

 March 1-Jth. Tierney. 

 " This came out in numbers, or rather in contimia- 

 tlons, in the Newspaper." — L. 

 Incantation. Fitzpatrick. 



Translations. " Tickle, Richardson, R d, and 



others." — L. 



The "Memoranda" &c. respecting The RoUiad, 

 at Vol. ii., p. 439., recalled to my recollection a 

 " Note " made several years back ; but tte 

 "Query" was, where to find that Note? How- 

 ever, I made a mental note, " when lound," to 

 forward it to you, and by the merest chance it 

 Las turned up, or rather, out ; for it fell from 

 within an old "Common Place Book," when — I 

 must not take credit for being in search of it, but, 

 in fact, in quest of another note. Should you 

 consider it likely to interest either your corres- 

 pondents, contributors, or readers, you are much 

 welcome to it ; and in that case, to have troubled 

 you with this will not be regretted by C. W. 



Stoke, Bucks. 



The RoUiad. — (Memorandum in Sir Jumes Mackin- 

 tosh's copy of that work. ) 



" Bombay, 23rd June, 1804. 

 " Before I left London in February last, I received 

 from my old friend, T. Courtenay, Esq., M.l'., notes, 

 of which the following is a copy, giving account of the 

 Autliors of The Rolliad, and of the series of Political 

 Satires which followed it : — 



Extract from Dedication. Fitzpatrick. 



Nos. 1. 2. G. Ellis. 



No. 3. Dr. Lawrence. 



No. 4. .7. Richardson. 



No. 5. Fitzpatrick. 



Nos. 6. 7. 8. Dr. Lawrence. 



No. 9. Fitzpatrick. 



Nos. 10. II. J. Richardson. 



No. 12. Fitzpatrick. 



Nos. 13. 11. Dr. Lawrence. 

 Part II. 



Nos. L2. G. Ellis. 



Nos. 3. 4. J. Richardson, 



No. 5. Fitzpntrick. 



No. G. Read. 



No. 7. Dr. Lawrenco. 



Political Eclogues, 



Rose. Fitzpatrick. 



The Lyan. Do. 



Margaret Nicholson. R. Adair. 



C. Jenkinson. G. Ellis. 



Jekyll. Lord J. Townsend and Tickell. 



Prohationiiry Odiis. 



No. 1. Tickell. 



2. G. Ellis. 



3. IL B. Dudley. 



4. J. Richardson. 



5. J. Ellis. ? G. 



6. Unknown. 



7. (Mason's). Do. 



8. Brummell. 



9. Sketched by Canning, the Eton Boy, 



finished by Tickell. 



10. Pearce. ? 



11. Boscawen. 



12. Lord J. Townsend. 



13. Unknown. Mr. C. believes it to be Mrs. 



Debbing, wife of Geiil. D. 



14. Rev. I\lr. O'Byrne. 



1 5. Fitzpatrick. 



16. Dr. Lawrence. 



17. Genl. Burgoyne. 

 IS. Read. 



1 9. Richardson. 



20. G. Ellis, 



21. Do. 



22. Do. 



" If ever my books should escape this obscure corner, 

 the above memorandum will interest some curious 

 collector. James Mackintosh. 



" The above list, as far as it relates to Richardson, is 

 confirmed by his printed Life, from which I took a 

 rote at Lord J. Townsend's four days ago. 



"J. Mackinto"h. 18 Nov., 1823. , 



NOTE ON PALAMON AND ARCITE. 



It has probably often been reniarked as some- 

 what curious, that Chaucer, in describing the ar- 

 rival of Palanion and Arcite at Athens, mentions 

 the day of the week on which it takes place : 

 " And in this wise, these lordes all and some, 

 Ben on the Sonday to the citee con->e,'' &c. 



Nothing seems to depend on their coming on 

 one day of the week rather than on another. In 

 reality, however, this apparently insignificant cir- 

 cumstance is astrologically connected with the 

 issue of the contest. I'alamon, who on the 

 morning of the following day makes his prayer to 

 Venus,"succeeds at last in winning Eniclie, though 

 Arcite, who commends himself to Mars, contiuers 

 him in the tournament. The prayers of both are 

 granted, because both address themselves to their 

 Uitehiry deities at hours over which these deities 

 respectively preside. In order to understand this, 

 we must call to maid the astrological explanation 



