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meaning Sardinian, seems to prove nothing but 

 that they thought it had that meaning in Liin. 



C. B. 



Epitaph on Voltaire (Vol. iii., p. 518.). — The 

 question is asked, " Has the name of the lady of 

 Lausanne, who wrote the epitaph on Voltaire, 



' Ci git I'eiifant gate dii moiide qu'il gata,' 

 been ascertained ? It has ; and the lady was 

 Madame la Baronne de Montolieu, who wrote a 

 great variety of novels, of which by far the best, 

 and indeed one of the most interesting in the 

 French language, is her Caroline de Lichtfield, 

 first published at Lausanne in 1786, two volumes 

 8vo. Her family name was de Bottens (Pauline- 

 Isabelle), born at Lausanne in 1751, and there 

 died in December, 1832. Her first husband was 

 Benjamin de Crouzas, son to one of Montesquieu's 

 adversaries, after whose death she married the 

 Baron de Montolieu. It was Gibbon's most in- 

 timate friend and literary collahorateur, Dey verdun, 

 who published, and indeed corrected, her then 

 anonymous Caroline de Lichtjield. 



Voltaire's friend and mistress, the learned 

 INIadame du Chatelet, had prepared an inscription 

 for his portrait, which may be considered an anti- 

 cipated epitaph : 



" Post-geiiitis Hie canis erit, nunc canls amicis; " 

 but one of a very different tenor was written by 

 J. J. Rousseau, we are told by Lord Brougham : 



" Plus bel esprit que grand gc-nie, 

 Sans loi, sans moeurs, et sans vertu ; 

 11 est mort comma 11 a vecu, 

 Couvert de gloire et d'infamie." 



J.R. 



Voltaire, where situated (Vol. iii, pp. 329. 433.). — 

 The inquiry, " Where is Voltaire situated ? " was 

 answered in a late number, and reference made to 

 the Essays of an Octogenarian, a privately-printed 

 work, and therefore not generally accessible ; but 

 the subject will be equally found elucidated in the 

 Gentlemuris Magazine for July, 1846, p. 25. No 

 such place ever existed, as there made clear; 

 for it is the simple anagram of his patronymic, 

 Arouet 1 j (lejeune), framed by hiinselti though by 

 Condorcet and other biographers, ignorant of the 

 fact, supposed to be a landed property. Voltaire 

 loved not his paternal name, as will be there found, 

 and gladly changed it. Tiie article embraces 

 various particulars of Voltaire's life, in refutation 

 ofLonl Brougham's errors; some of them strange 

 etiougli, and not inconsiderable in number, so as 

 to excite surprise in so accomplished a person. 



J.R. 



Children at a Birth CN''ol. iii., p. 347.). — See 

 Quarterly lieview, No. xxix. vol. xv. p. 187., 

 where Southey quotes JlakewilCs Apology as 

 authr)rity for an epitajjh in Dunstable Church to 

 a woman who had, at three several times, three 



children at a birth ; and five at a birth two other 

 times. A. C, 



Milkmaids (Vol. iii., p. 367.).— 



" May 1. — I was looking out of the parlour window 

 this morning, and receiving the honours which Mar- 

 gery, the milkmaid to our lane, was doing me, by 

 dancing before my door with the plate of half her cus- 

 tomers on her head." — Tatler for May ^, 1710. 



R. J. R. 



'■'■ Heu quanto minus" ^-c. (Vol. iv., p. 21.). — 



" Heu quanto minus est cum aliis versarl quam tui 

 memlnisse," 



is the end of an inscription at the Leasowes " to 

 Miss Dolman, a beautiful and amiable relation of 

 Mr. Shenstone's, who died of the small-pox, about 

 twenty-one years of age," in the following words. 

 On one side : 



" Peramablli suae consobrin^e 

 W. D." 



On the other side : 



" Ah Maria 



puellarnm elegantlssima 



Ah flore venustatis abrepta 



Vale ! 

 Heu quanto minus est," &c. 

 Shenstone's Works, 176'!, vol. ii. p. 356. 



C.B. 



This quotation is Shenstone's " Epitaph on his 

 Sister." 



J. O. B., however, has given it incorrectly : it 

 should be — 



" Heu quanto minus est cum reliquls versari quam 

 tui nieminisse." 



Moore has done something towards givin"- the 

 force of this strikingly concentrated sentence, 

 thus : — 



" Tho' many a gifted mind we meet, 

 Tho' fairest forms we see. 

 To live witli them is far less sweet. 

 Than to remember thee." 



II. E. H. 

 The '■'■ Passellew" Family (Vol. i., p. 319.). — I 

 think there can l)e little doubt that the " Robert 

 Passellew" of AValtliam Abbey, and "John Paslew," 

 tlie last abbot of Whalley, belong to the same 

 family. A reference to Burke's General Armory 

 proves the armorial bearings to be the same, and 

 also that the family was connected with the county 

 of Durham. Tiie following extract from the His- 

 torical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Account of 

 Kirkstall Abbey (Longmans, 1827), will show that 

 a centui-y later the Paslews had obtained a footint^ 

 in Yorkshire, and had become benefactors of 

 Kirkstall : 



" Il(>I)crt Passelowe, with King Richard II. 's licence, 

 gave one toft, five acres of land, ,ind an annu;d rent of 

 tis. Gil. in ISramley, with tlie reversion of nine mes- 

 suages, seven o.xgangs, and six acres and a half of land, 



