Nov, 15. 1851.] 



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fashion ; one wore a flowing wig, while his neigh- 

 bour rejoiceil in hair cropped closely to the head; 

 this one had a coat with wonderful long skirts,^ his 

 fellow marched without his upper garment ; various 

 as the colours nf the rainbow were the clothes 

 worn by the gallant band. It so happened that 

 there was a certain Dr. Shuckburgli, wit, mu- 

 sician, and surgeon, and one evening after mess he 

 produced a tune, which he earnestly commended 

 as a well-known piece of military music, to the 

 officers of the militia. The joke succeeded, and 

 Yankee Doodle was hailed by acclamation "their 

 own march." During the unhappy war between 

 the American colonies and the mother country, 

 that quaint merry tune animated the soldiers of 

 Washington ; it is now the national air of the 

 United States. Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



General Wolfe (Vol. iv., pp. 271. 32.3.). — Some 

 of the inquiries made at p. 271. respecting General 

 Wolfe have been subsequently answered, I find, 

 in p. 323., but no mention appears of his family 

 beyond his father and mother ; a deficiency which 

 I can in some degree supply by ascending to his 

 great-grandfather. Captain George Wo?tlfe (sic), 

 of whom we are told by Ferrar, in his History of 

 Limerick^ there printed by A. Watson, in 1787, — 



" That on the capitulation of the city of Limerick in 

 Octoher, 16ol, to llie Parliaineiitarian general Ireton, 

 twenty of the most distinguished of its defenders were 

 excepted from pardon, and reserved for execution. 

 Amongst them were two brothers, George and Francis 

 Woulfe : tlie former, a military officer ; the latter, a 

 friar, who was hanged, — but the captain made his 

 escape. He fled," says Ferrar (p. 350.), "to the north 

 of England, Avhere he settled ; and liis grandson. 

 General Edward Woulfe, was appointed colonel of the 

 8th regiment of foot in the year 1745. He trans- 

 mitted his virtues with additional lustre to his son 

 Major- General James Woulfe, wliose memory will be 

 for ever dear to his country, and whose name will be 

 immortalised in history." 



Cajitain Woulfe married, and changed his re- 

 ligion ; to which his brother the fritir fell a 

 martyr, exhibiting on the scaflold, it is related, 

 far more intrepidity than many of his fellow suf- 

 ferers of military rank. Ireton, however, finally 

 pardoned several of those originally excepted from 

 the capitulation. Wotdfe's family was at that 

 period one of the most eminent in the county of 

 Clare, where it still retains a respectable rank ; 

 and one of its members was the late Chief Baron, 

 Stephen Woulfe, a gentleman equally beloved in 

 society as respected on the bench. Another was 

 a chemist of some eminence in London, at the 

 close of the past century. They retained the u in 

 the name, which most others, lijce the captain's 

 descendants, laid aside; as Honaparte did during 

 his triumphant campaign in Italy, in order to 

 un-ltalianise and Frenchify his jiatronymic Uho- 

 naparte. The Chief Justice Wolfe, who was so 



barbarously murdered in Dublin at the outbreak 

 of young Emmet's rebellion in 1803, was of a dif- 

 ferent branch. Edward, the general's father, had 

 distinguished himself under Marlborough, as did 

 the son in 1747, at the battle of Lawfelst on the 

 continent. iMy own family, 1 may add, has been 

 brought into close connexion with that of the 

 subsisting Irish branch of the general's stock by 

 intermarriage. J. R. (Cork.) 



The Violin (Vol. iv., p. 101.).— This article re- 

 minds me of a distich said to have been inscribed 

 on the violin of Palestrina, the " Musicag Priueeps" 

 of the sixteenth century : — 



" Viva ful in sylvis ; sum dura occisa securi ; 

 Dum vixi tacui ; mortua dulce sona." 



Thus translated into French : 



" La hache m'arracha mourant du fond des bois ; 

 Vivant, j'etais muet ; mort, on vante ma voix." 



Palestrina's violin was made by a great musical 

 instrument maker at Bologiui, who had the same 

 lines graven on his lutes, bass-viols, &c. 



J. E. (Cork.) 



Eanvig (Vol. iv., p. 274.). — The allusion to 

 the word "Earwig" induces me to repeat a 

 charade on it, not without merit, though the last 

 lines appear more responsive to the rhyme than to 

 the fact ; — 



" My first, if lost, is a disgrace, 



Unless misfortunes bear the blame ; 

 My second, though it can't efface. 



The dreadful loss, yet hides the shame. 



" My whole has life, and breathes the air, 

 Delights in softness and repose ; 

 Oft, when unseen, attends the fair, 

 And lives on honey, and the rose." 



J. E. (Cork.) 



Prophecies of Nostradamus (Vol. iv., pp. 8C. 

 140. 258. 329.). — In answer to Mr. de St. Croix's 

 fair inquiry of the source whence I derived my 

 assertion of the existence of the first edition of 

 Nostradamus (at p. 329.), I have to say, that it 

 was from the very intelligent bibliographer, A. A. 

 Eenouard. I had known him in Paris at his 

 dwelling in the Hue de Tounton (where my I'riend, 

 the celebrated Arthur O'Connor, with his wife, 

 the daughter of Coiulorcat, had apartments), and 

 I afterwards had some interviews with him in 

 London at my own house ; when, on observing in 

 his Catalogue dun Amateur the Kizevir edition of 

 16GS, we entered into some conversation on the 

 subject ; and, in reference to the original edition, 

 not much valued indeed as very imperl'ect, he 

 said, that though now rare, because long, as not 

 worth preserving, neglected, it still may, and must 

 be, in tiie Eoyal J^ibiary ; " il doit necessairement 

 s'y trouvcr, ct non-seidement l:v, mais ailleurs." I 

 too certainly thought that the great national re- 



