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being the orin;iiial from which Purchas took his 

 account, and somewhat abridged it. In spite of 

 Raleigh's precautions as to the hiring, the people 

 behaved ill, and — 



" They returned, and brought no comfort or new ac- 

 cesse of hope concerning the lives and safety of the un- 

 fortunate EngHsh people, for which only they were sett 

 forth, and the charg of this employment was under- 

 taken." 



Here ends the history of Sir Walter Raleigh's 

 connexion with Virginian discovery and colonis- 

 ation. A new company was at the moment in 

 contemplation, and it even despatched its first 

 pioneer vessel in the same month of 1602 as Ra- 

 leigh did. Raleigh may have had, to a certain 

 extent, a selfish object in view. His patent of 

 1584 was conditional, as regarded its continuance, 

 on his planting a colony within six years; and 

 had he been able to have discovered any remains, 

 however small, of the colony of '87, he could have 

 prevented interlopers. The nature of his position 

 also in England in March, 1602, may perhaps 

 afford a clue to his designs. At that moment his 

 royal mistress lay on the bed of sickness, dying 

 by inches. The clouds were beginning to gather 

 around Raleigh's head. His star, which had been 

 in the ascendant for more than twenty years, was 

 getting nigh its setting. Raleigh, a man of wis- 

 dom and foresight, as well as conduct and action, 

 knew all this. He knew what he had to expect, 

 and what he afterwards in fact experienced, i'rom 

 the new king, to whom all eyes were turned. 

 Is it not most likely that he looked to Virginia 

 as his haven of refuge, where, if he could maintain 

 his patent rights, he might have set his enemies at 

 defiance ? Had this dream, if he entertained it, 

 been realised, the twelve years' imprisonment and 

 the bloody scaffold on which his head fell, might 

 have been averted. This, however, was not to 

 be;— the search, as already mentioned, was fruitless, 

 and the new company went on ; and, finally, under 

 a fresh charter from James I., Virginia was again 

 colonised in 1606, since which time its history 

 and existence have been uninterrupted. On Ra- 

 leigh's return from his last expedition to Guiana 

 in 1618, only a few months beibre his murder, he 

 touched at Newfoundland, being, as I verily be- 

 lieve, the only occasion on which he set his foot in 

 North America. 



It may cause your readers to smile, and perhaps 

 be a surprise to some of them, when I conclude 

 this long paper, written on the subject of Raleigh's 

 connexion with Virginia, by asserting that he 

 never had any connexion, direct or indirect, witii 

 it! All the colonies with which he hadto do 

 were planted in North Carolina and the islands 

 thereto belonging. To have laid any stress upon 

 this, or to have mentioned it earlier than now, 

 would have amounted to nothing but a play upon 

 names. The country caUed Virginia in Queen 



Elizabeth's reign, embraced not only the state now 

 so called, but also Maryland and the Carolinas. 

 Virginia Proper was in reality first planted by 

 the company of 1606, who fixed their settlement 

 on the Chesapeake. T. N. 



Demerary, Oct. 1851. 



3Sieitliei ta iHinor (SucrfCiS. 



Bunting's Irish Melodies. — On p. 167. of the 

 third volume of " Notes and Quekies," Mr. 

 Stepheks, of Stockholm, asks a question con- 

 cernins; the Irish Airs of this distinguished musi- 

 cian. As a member of the Royal Academy of 

 Music in Stockholm, I feel more than oidinary 

 pleasure in answering the Query of your esteemed 

 correspondent. 



Edward Bunting was born at Armagh in 1773. 

 He claimed descent from Patrick Gruama O'Qum, 

 who was killed in arms in July, 1642 ; and it was 

 to this origin that Bunting attributed his musical 

 talents, as well as certain strong Irish predilec- 

 tions, for which he was through life remarkable. 

 His first collection of Irish Airs was published in 

 1796 ; his second in 1809 ; and his third, and last, 

 in 1840. The first work contains sixty-six native 

 Irish airs never before published. The second 

 added seventy-five tunes to the original stock. 

 This volume, like the first, afforded a copious fund 

 of new melodies, of which the song-writers of the 

 day eagerly and largely availed themselves. The 

 third and final collection consists of upwards of 

 150 melodies; "Of these," the editor remarks in 

 his Preface, " considerably more than 120 are now 

 for the first time published, the remainder being 

 sets much superior to those already known." 

 Bunting did not live to carry out his plan of re- 

 publishing his first two collections uniform with 

 the third. He died December 21, 184.3, aged 

 seventy. A copious memoir of him, accompanied 

 with a portrait, may be found in the Dublin U/ii- 

 versitij Magazine, No. XL I., January, 1847. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Colonies in England (Vol. iv., pp. 272. 370.). — 

 In Vol. iv., p. 207. inquiry is made about the 

 existence of colonies of Moors and others in dif- 

 ferent parts of England : I was not aware of there 

 being any such as those he mentions ; but as your 

 correspondent wishes to know of any others which 

 may still exist, I can inform him that colonies of 

 Spaniards are known of in Mount's Bay and Tor- 

 bay. The latter, from having intermingled with 

 the surrounding population, have not now, I 

 believe, much more than a traditionary Spanish 

 descent ; whilst the former, on the contrary, liave 

 kept aloof, and are easily distinguished from their 

 marked Spanish features. This colony is planted 

 at Mousehole ; and, according to their account, 

 they have been settled there upwards of three 



