Mar. 8. 1851.] 



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The Unpublished Manuscripts on Chnrch Government 

 by Archbishop Laud, stated to have befii prepared for 

 the educatum of Prince Heiiry, and subsequently pre- 

 sented to Cliarles I., vrhieh we mentioned in our sixty- 

 ninth number, was sold by Messrs. Puttick and 

 Simpson, on the i'-ith ultimo, for 'JVenty Guineas. 

 And here we may note that in the Collection of Auto- 

 graphs sold by the same auctioneers on Friday last, 

 among other valuable articles was a Letter of BiirUe, 

 dated 3rd Oct. 1793, from wliich we quote the follow- 

 ing passaije, which will be read with interest at the 

 present time, and furnishes some information respecting 

 Cardinal Erskine — the subject of a recent Query : — 

 " I confess, I would, if the matter rested with me, 

 enter into much more distinct and avowed political 

 connections with the Court of Rome tlian hitherto we 

 have held. If we decline them, the bigotry will be on 

 our part and not on tliat of his Holiness. Some mis- 

 chief has happened, and mucii good has, I am con- 

 vinced, been prevented by our unnatural alienation. 

 With regard to IMonsigncr Erskine, I 

 am certain that all his designs are formed upon the 

 inost honourable and the mo^t benevolent public prin- 

 ciples." One of the most interesting lots at the sale 

 was a proclamation of the " Old Pretender," dated 

 Rome, 23 Dec. 1743, given "under our Sign Manual 

 and Privy Seal," the senl having the inscription "Ja- 

 cobus III. Rex,' which fetched Eleven Pounds. 



We believe there are few libraries in this country, 

 however small, in which there is not to be found one 

 shelf devoted to such pet books on Natural History 

 as White's Selborne, the Journal of a Naturalist, and 

 Waterton's Wande.riiicix. The writings of I\Ir. Knox 

 are obviously destined to take their place in the same 

 honoured spot. Actuated with the same love of nature, 

 and gifted with the same power of patient observation 

 as White, he differs from him in the wider range over 

 which he extends his observation, and in comliining 

 the ardour of the sportsman with the scientilic spirit 

 of inquiry which distin^rui'ihes the naturalist. In his 

 Game Birds and Wild Fowl : their Friends and their 

 Foes, which contains the result of his observations and 

 experience, not only on the birds described in his 

 title-page, but on certain other animals supposed, often- 

 times most erroneously, to be injurious to their welfare 

 and increase — we have a work which reflects the 

 highest credit upon the writer, and can scarcely fail to 

 accomplish the great end for which Mr. Knox wrote 

 it, that of " adding new votaries to a loving observation 

 of nature." 



Bootes RECEivEn. — Desdcmona, the Magnifico's 

 Child ; the Fourth of Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Stories of 

 The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines, is devoted to the 

 history of 



" a inaiil 

 That p.'iragons di-scription ami miIJ fame." 



Gilbert's Popular Narrntive of the Uriyiti, History, 

 Progress, and Prospects of the Great Industrial Lxhibi- 

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 rently carefully compiled from authentic sources of 

 information upon the several points set forth in its 

 ample title-page. 



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Alfhju^k we have this week enlarged our paper to 21 pages, we 

 are compelled to solicit the indulgence of riiajiy correspondents for 

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 Replies. 



C. II. P. will find his Query inserted. It was in tirpe last week, 

 but only posiponed from want of room. JVe ha"e omitted his cbui' \ 

 7nent called fur liy the omission of the words ^ fleet against the." 



W. S. The fine lines commencing, — 



" My minil to me a kingdom is. 

 Such perfect juy therein I find :" 

 were written by Lovelace. 



F. B. Relton. The Satyr on the Jesuits was written by 

 John Oldham, and originally puhlistu-d in lfj79. 



Salopian. The tragedy tfThe Eail of Warwick, or The King 

 and S-.iliject, was trauslaled from the French of De la Harpe by 

 Paul Heff'ernan. 



C\M. It appears from Br:iyley*s Londiniana, iv. 5. on the 

 authority of Stri/pe's Stow, b. i. p '287., that Sir Baptist Hicks, 

 afterwards Viicuunt Campden, was the son of Robert Hicks, a 

 silk mi-rcr. whokrpt a shop in Cheapsidc, at Soper's Lane End, at 

 the U'hite Bear. See also C'inni»gham*s Handboak of London, 

 Art. Hicks' Hall. 



O. P. The lines — 



" Had Cain lieen Sent, God would hjve chang'd his doom, 

 Ni^t fore I hi:n wander, but confin'd him home." 

 are from Cleveland's \\Qbc\\ Scott, and would be found at p. 52. 

 of Cleveland's Poems, ed. lfJ-54. 



H., who asks wh,-ther ant/ friend living in London would con- 

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Rusncus vu II find the information he seeks in a Biographical 

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L.J. Blackstonc ( Hook iv. cap. 25. ; vol. iv. p. 32S. ed. 1778) 

 supposes that pressing a mute pri oner to death was graditally in- 

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