Oct. 25. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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'Tis honour's boasting stories, 



My anxious fears reprove, 

 And point to wealth, fame, glories, 



Ah, what are these to love ? 



" Two passions vainly pleading, 



My beating lieart divide, 

 Lo, there my country bleeding. 



And he7-e my weeping bride. 

 But ah, thy faithful soldier. 



Can true to either prove, 

 Fame fires ray soul all over. 



While every pulse beats love. 



" Then think where'er I wander, 



The sport of seas and wind, 

 ~So distance hearts can sunder, 



AVhom mutual truth has joined. 

 Kind heaven the brave requiting, 



Shall safe thy love restore, 

 With raptures crown our meeting, 



And joys ne'er felt before." 



Poor Wolfe, but poorer bride ! Yunaf. 



I am enabled to reply to the third Query of 5 

 from papers in my possession. AVolfe's com- 

 mission as second lieutenant in his father's (Col. 

 Edward Wolfe's) regiment of marines*, is dated 

 3d November, 1741 ; as ensign in Col. Scipio 

 Duroure's regiment, 27th March, 1742; as lieu- 

 tenant in the same regiment, 14th July, 1743; as 

 adjutant in the same regiment, 22d July, 1743 ; 

 as captain in Barrell's regiment, 23d June, 1744; i 

 as major in Lord George Sackville's regiment f, j 

 5th January, 1748-49; as lieut.-col. of the same 

 regiment, ■20th March, 1749-50, and colonel by 

 brevet, 21st Oct. 1757; colonel of the 67th re- ' 

 giment, 21st April, 1758 ; brigadier in America, 

 23(1 July, 1758 ; killed at siege of Quebec. 



Wolfe's father, Edward Wolfe, was appointed ■ 

 brigadier-general, 25th April, 1745; major-general, : 

 27th May, 1745. and lieut.-general, 30th Sept. 

 1747. 



If 5 will communicate with me personally, I 

 may be able to furnish him with some other in- 

 formation relating to Wolfe. Robert Cole. 



The following memoranda from MSS. in my 

 care, relative to this distinguished man, may, 

 perhaps, be of use to your correspondent 5. 



Feb. 1746, a petition (dated Feb. 1746) to the 

 Duke of Bedford for his interference relative to 

 the pay due to him .as Inspector of Marines. 



Another letter, dated July 7, 1746, printed in 

 the first volume of the Bedford Correspondence. 



Another letter, dated Feb. 16, 1747, on the 

 same subject as the first. 



• This regiment was afterwards numbered the 1st 

 regiment. 



f This rejiiincnt was afterwards numbered the 20tli, 

 and then the G7tli. 



Another letter, dated Feb. 19, 1757, also printed 

 in the Bedford Correspondence. 



Another letter, dated July 22, 1767, relative to 

 his embarkation of a regiment in which he was 

 lieut.-col. 



Another letter, dated Jan. 26, 1788, printed in 

 the Bedford Correspondence. 



Copy of a letter to Lord George Sackville, 

 dated Halifax, May 12. W. A. 



Maior-General Edward Wolfe resided in one of 

 the villas in Montague Walk, on the west side of 

 Greenwich Park ; afterwards the residence of the 

 Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, Henry Drax, Esq., Mr. Scott, 

 and his widow. 



In the register book of St. Alphege in Gi-een- 

 ■wich occurs this entry : 



"Major-Gen' James Wolfe, buried Nov. 20'" 1759." 

 His body was brought to England from Quebec, 

 and laid by the side of his father, Major-Gen. E. 

 Wolfe, who was buried there on April 2, 1759. 



His mother's Christian name was Henrietta; 

 she be([ueathed 500Z. to Bromley College at her 

 death in 1765. 



The short sword worn by General Wolfe at the 

 time of his death is in the United Service Institu- 

 tion in Scotland Yard. His military cloak is, I 

 believe, kept in the Tower. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



In the church of Westorham, the place of 

 Wolfe's birth, as well as in Westminster Abbey, is 

 a cenotaph. Is it well known who was the author 

 of the pleasing lines inscribed at Westerham ? 



" While George in sorrow bows his laurel'd head." 

 May I also ask whether the packet of autograph 

 letters in the possession of your correspondent 

 was ever shown to Southey, and whether an in- 

 tention was not entertained by him, at one period, 

 of writing a memoir of Wolfe ? If these letters 

 were unknown to Southey, I have strong reasons 

 for believing that another collection of General 

 Wolfe's letters exists. Would not your cor- 

 respondent's collection, or a selection from it, form 

 a very intei'esting pu'olication ? J. H. M. 



STANZAS IN CmiiDE HAROLD. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 223. 285.) 



I am much obliged to your correspondents who 

 have taken the trouble to answer my Query re- 

 specting the lines in Childe Harold; but I am 

 sorry that you did not print one of the replies " at 

 considerable length" to which you allude in your 

 note to Mr. Crossley's brief one : for Mr. Cross- 

 ley's settlement of the question will hardly, I 

 think, appear so satisfactory to all readers as it 

 evidently does to him. Will you allow me to ex- 

 plain the reasons for thinking so? 



