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in 1690 and 1691, now to be met with, and if so, 

 where? Any information on this subject will 

 oblige BiRTANUs. 



Dublin. 



262. Convocation for the Province of York. — 

 The religious newspapers recently gave us an ac- 

 count of the meeting of Convocation for tlie 

 province of Canterbury, but I have seen no account 

 of the meeting of Convocation in the province of 

 York. Does that body ever meet, and is any 

 record kept of its proceedings ? Enquirer. 



263. The Scent of the Bloodhound. — In a MS. 

 (Camb. Univ. Dd. i. p. 542.) I find the following 

 allusion to this subject: — 



" \>e\ far as do!" a blod hound 

 J'at al times of ]'' yer 

 Hal' fate and last of euerl beste 

 J^at 111 folewih fer or ner : 

 But whan 1'° liaicethorn. bereih blomcs, 

 )'* liound /iai> lorn Ills smel, 

 If he fcJe sweincs of I'' Jtniiris ; 

 And )'us J'* huntcris tel." 

 Is there any truth in this statement? C. H. 



264. Cooper s Miniature of Cromwell. — Can any 

 of your readers inform me what has become of the 

 original miniature of Oliver Cromwell painted by 

 Samuel Cooper? It was long in the possession of 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds, and given by his will to 

 Richard Burke the younger, who survived him 

 only two years, dying unmarried in 1794. 



Should the portrait be still extant, and the sub- 

 ject attract any notice, I am prepared to supply 

 some authentic particulars as to its early history, 

 respecting which Northcote was completely misin- 

 formed. See his Life of Reynolds, vol. ii. p. 221. 

 2d edition. Braybrooke. 



Audley End, Nov. 1. 



265. Lines on Cagliostro. — ]\Ir. Carlyle, in 

 Miscellanies, 3rd edit., vol. iii. p. 324., quotes the 

 following " epigraph," as appended to a portrait 

 of Cagliostro : 



" De I'Ami des Humains icconnaissez les traits: 

 Tons ses jours sont marcjuc's par de nouveaux bien- 



faits ; 

 11 proloiige la vie, il secourt I'indigence ; 

 Le plaisir d'etre utile est seul sa recompense." 



Is there any possibility of ascertaining, at the 

 present day, to which of the countless dupes of 

 that " quack of quacks " we are indebted for this 

 hyperbolical eifusion ? Hbnry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia, Sept. 1851. 



266. The Names and Numbers of British JRegi- 

 vients. — Formerly the regiments in the British 

 •irmy were distinguished not by a particular num- 

 ber, but the name of aji officer of rank. 



I shall feel obliged by information on the fol- 

 lowing points ; — 



1. What was the origin of thus naming, instead 

 of numbering, regiments? 



2. Who conferred the name ? Was it done at 

 the War-otfice, or how ? 



3. If in honour of an officer commanding the 

 corps, was the name changed when that officer 

 died, or removed to another regiment; or what 

 was the rule ? 



4. When did the present mode of numbering 

 regiments begin, and by whom was it introduced ; 

 and what was the rule adopted in applying the 

 number to each corps? I mean, what was the 

 principle followed in giving any regiment a certain 

 number ? Was it accordins; to the length of time 

 it had been embodied ? 



5. What is the guide now, in identifying a 

 named with a numbered regiment. 5- 



267. PraecTs Charade. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents tell me the answer to the ibllowing 

 charade by W. M. Praed ? 



" My first's an airy thing, 



Joying in flowers ; 

 Evermore wandering, 



In Fancy's bowers ; 

 Living on beauteous smiles 



From eyes that glisten; 

 And telling of love's wiles 



To ears that listen. 



" But if, in its first flush 



Of warm emotion, 

 My second come to crush 



Its young devotion, 

 Oh ! then it wastes away. 



Weeping and waking. 

 And, on some sunny day, 



Is blest in breaking." 



I have several of Praed's charades, but this is 

 the only one of which I have not the answer. E.G. 



268. Cozens the Painter. — Can any of your 

 correspondents give me information as to Cozens 

 the painter ? The celebrated painter Turner has 

 declared that for much of the poetry of painting 

 he is indebted to Cozens. Now, on the wall op- 

 posite to which I am sitting, hangs a portrait of 

 Cozens by Pine, which has been some time in our 

 family. I wish to know where I shall find men- 

 tion of him, or where I can see any of his works. 



C. S. B. S. 



269. Parliamentary Debates. — By the fortunate 

 preservation of the MSS. of ^Ir. Cavendish, there 

 was a probability of our getting a pretty full re- 

 port of the proceedings of what has been called 

 " the unreported parliament," which sat from 

 1768 to 1774. Unfortunately, on the death of 

 j\Ir. Wright, the publication stopped, having ar- 

 rived only to the debates of ^March, 1771. Is there 

 any chance of the further publication of this im- 

 portant work ? If not, where is the MS., and can 

 it be consulted ? P. D. 



