May 3. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



349 



532. Translation of a Letter 



602. 

 623. 



Ballynaliinch 

 Virl eruditi 

 New Morality 



624. 



From Mental Mists 



Yet venial Vices, &c. 



Bethink thee, Giffbrd', &c. 

 written by Mr. Canning some years hcforo he 

 had any personal acquaintance with Mr. GiiForil. 



- Gifford, 1 

 Ellis,_ I 

 Canning, | ~^ b. 

 Frere, J 



- Canning,, c. 



- Canning, u. 



- Canning, 

 Frere, 

 Gifford, 

 G.Ellis, 



- Frere, \v. 

 Canning, w. 



These lines 



625. Awake ! for shame ! 

 628. Fond Hope I 



626. Such is the liberal Justice 

 63 1. O Nurse of Crimes 



632. See Louvet 



6*3. Bat hold severer Virtue- 



t..aiiiiaig, w. 

 Frere, "| 

 Canning, 5w. 

 G. Ellis, J 



634. To thee proud Barras- bows 



635, Ere long perhaps - 

 Couriers and Stars - 



637. Britain beware 



Canning, w. 



- Frere, 



- Canning, w. 



- Frere, 

 Can 11 

 G. 



- Canning, w. 

 Frere, > 

 Canning, j 

 Frere, 

 Canning, 

 Ellis, 

 Gifford, ) 



Ellis, 5 "'• 



Frere, "I 

 Canning, J 

 Canning, w. 



?> pv. 



Wrigbt, the publisher of tlie Anti- Jacobin, lived 

 at 169. Piccadilly, and his shop was the general 

 mornins: resort of the friends of the ministry, as 

 Debrell's was of the oppositionists. About the time 

 when the Anti-Jacohin was contemplated, Owen, 

 who had been the publisher of Burke's pamphlets, 

 failed. The editors of the Anti-Jacobin took his 

 honse, paying the rent, taxes, &c., and gave it up to 

 Wright, reserving to themselves the first floor, 

 to which a communication was opened through 

 Wright's house. Eeing thus crmbled to pass to 

 their own rooms througii AVrighi's shop, where 

 their frequent visits did not excite any remarks, 

 they coiitrived to escajx; particular observation. 



Their meetings were most regular on Sundays, 

 but they liot unfrequently met oa other days of 

 tiie week, and in their rooms were chiefly wiitten 

 the poetical portions of ll.^ti work. What was written 

 was generally left open^ upon the table, and as 

 others of the party dropped in, hints or sugges- 

 tions were made; sometimes wliole passages were 

 contributed by some of the parties present, and 

 afterwards altered by others, so that it is almost 

 impossible t(j ascertain the names of the authors. 

 Where, in the above notes, a piece is ascribed to 

 different authors, tlie conflicting statements )nay 

 arise from incorrect information, but sometimes 

 they arise from the whole autluirship being as- 

 Bigned to one person, when in litct both may have 



contributed. If we look at the references, vol. Li. 

 pp. 420. 532. 623., we shall see Mr. Canning 

 naming several authors, whereas Lord Burghersh 

 assigns all to one author. Mr. Canning's authority 

 is here more to be relied upon. " New Morality" 

 Mr. Cunning assigns generally to the four con- 

 tributors ; ilr. Wright has given some interesting 

 particulars by appropriating to each Lis peculiar 

 portion. 



Giffbrd was the working editor, and wrote most 

 of the refutations and corrections of the " Lies," 

 " Mistakes," and " Misrepresentations." 



The papers on finance were chiefly by Pitt : the 

 first column was frerjuently for what he might 

 send ; but his contributions were uncertain, and 

 generally very late, so that the space reserved 

 for him was sometimes filled up by other matter. 

 He only once met the editors at Wright's. 



Upcott, who was at the time assistant in Wright's 

 shop, was employed as amanuensis, to copy out fi)r- 

 the printer the various contributions, that the au- 

 thors' handwriting might not be detected. 



Edw. Hawkins. 



The Anti-Jacohin (Vol.iii., p. 334.).— In a copy 

 of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, now in my pos- 

 session, occurs this note in the autograph of Mr. 

 James Boswell : — 



" These lines [Lines written by a Traveller at Czarco- 

 zelo] were written by William PITT — as I learnt 

 from his nephew on the 28 th of IMay ISOS, at a dinner 

 held in honour of his memory." 



The sirname is in large capital letters-; the 

 year is indistinctly written. This is the note 

 which is indicated in the auction-catalogue of the 

 library of Mr. Boswell, No. 2229. 



Bolton Coknet. 



Egg and Arrow Ornament. — Mr. Ruskin, in his 

 Stones of Venice, vol. i. p. 305., says — 



" The Greek egg and arrow cornice is a nonsense 

 cornice, very noble in its lines, but utterly absurd in its 

 meaning. Arrows have had nolhing to do with eggs 

 (at least since Leda's time), neither are the so-called 

 arrows like arrows, nor the- eggs like eggs, nor the 

 honeysuckles like honeysuckles: they are all conven- 

 tionalized into a monotonous successiveness of nothing 

 — pleasant to the eye, useless to the thought." 



The ornament of which Mr, R. thus speaks is 

 indill'erently called egg and tongue, egg and dart, 

 as well as egg and arrow. It seems to me that 

 the egg is a comjjlete misnomer, although common 

 to all the designations ; and I fancy that the idea 

 of what is so' called was originally derived from, 

 the fidl-length shield, and therefore that the or- 

 nament sliould be named the diicld and dart, an 

 association more reasonable than is suggested by 

 any of the ordinary appellutiou;. Can any of 



