Dec. 13. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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stately dignity with which he tossed liis capote 

 over his shoulder, and answered 6<|Ui @-nl3xios — lam 

 a Theban. The boiil Boeotian would have stared 

 in amazement had I spoken to him of Stives, al- 

 though, if homeward-bound, he would have said 

 he was going V ras 0r;j3ay. 



The Turks have made Istambol or Stamboul 

 out of (TTTtv TToKw ; and we may, perhaps, hear from 

 our friends, the Nepaulese amljassadors, that the 

 capital of England is called Tolondoti, and that of 

 France Apa7-i. L. II. J. T. 



" Inhere is no mi.ifnki;." — -The Duke of Welling- 

 ton's reply to Mr. Iluskisson, "There is no mis- 

 take," has become familiar in the mouths of both 

 those who remember the political circumstances 

 that gave rise to it, and those who have received 

 it traditionally, without inquiring into the origin 

 of it. You may perhaps think it worthy of a 

 " Note " that this was not the first occasion on 

 which the Duke used those celebrated words. The 

 Duke (then Earl of Wellington) in a private letter 

 to Loril Batlmrst, dated Flores de Avila, 24th 

 July, 1812, writes in the following easy style: 



" I hope that you will be pleased with our battle, of 

 which tlie disp;itch contains as accurate an account as 

 I can give you. There was no mistakj, everything 

 went on as it ought ; and there never was an army so 

 beaten in so short a time." 



The whole letter is well deserving of insertion; 

 but my object is simply to draw attention to the 

 occasion on which the Duke first used the sentence 

 now so well known. F. W. J. 



RemarTiable Propheq/. — The following pre- 

 diction of St. Ca3sario, Bishop of Aries, in the year 

 542, may not be considered void of interest at the 

 present moment. It is taken from a book, en- 

 titled lAher Mirabilis, printed in Gothic charac- 

 ters, and deposited in the Royal Library, Paris : — • 



" The administration of the kingdom, France, will 

 be so blended, thit they shall leave it without defenders. 

 The hand of God shall extend itself over them, and 

 over all ricli ; all the nobles shall be deprived of tlieir 

 estates and dignity ; a division shall spring up in the 

 church of God, and there shall be two husbands, the 

 one true, and the other adulterous. The legilimate 

 husband shall be put to ftiglit ; there shall be great 

 carnage, and as great a jjrol'usion of blood as in the day 

 of the Gentiles. The universal church and the whole 

 world shall deplore tlie ruin and destruction of a most 

 celebrated city, the cai)ital and mistress of France. 

 The altars of tlie temple shall i)e destroyed, the holy 

 virgins outraged shall fly tVoin their seats, and the 

 whole church shall be stripped of her temporal gods; 

 but at length the black eagle and the lion sliall appear 

 hovering from fur countries. Misery to thee, O city 

 of philosophy I thou shalt be subjected I A captive 

 humbled even to confusion, shall at last receive his 

 crown, and destroy the children of Brutus/' 



Alpha. 



The Ball that hilled Nehon (Vol. iv., p. 174.).— 

 " The musket-ball that killed Nelson is now in the 

 possession of the Rev. F. VV. Baker, of Bathwick, near 

 Bath. A considerable portion of the gold lace, pad, 

 and silk cord of the epaulette, with a piece of coat, 

 were found attached to it. The gold lace was as firmly 

 fixed as if it had been inserted into the metal while in 

 a state of fusion. The ball, together with the lace, &c., 

 was mounled in crystal and silver, and presented by 

 Captain Hardy to the late Sir William Beattie, the 

 surgeon of the Victory." 



1 have e.xtracted this from the Illustrated Lon- 

 don News, First Number. If this relic be now in 

 the ]K)ssession of Prince Albert, I presume it be- 

 came his by purchase or presentation from the 

 above-named gentleman. Blowen. 



Gypsies. — The Indian origin of the numerals of 

 this people is evident from the following com- 



parison : 



Sanscrit. 



Hungirian Spanish 



Gypsy. Gitano. 



jek yetjue 

 dui dui 



trin trin 



schtar estar 



panscii pansche 



tschov job 

 efta hefta 



ochto otor 



enija esnia 



dosch deque 



1. eka 



2. dwaou 



3. traya 



4. tchatouara 



5. panyntcha 



6. chacli 



7. sapta 



8. achtaou 



9. nava 

 10. dasa 



The Sanscrit must be read with a French pro- 

 nunciation, being from Balbi'a Atlas Ethuogra- 

 phique ; the Hungarian Gypsy as German, and 

 the last as Spanish ; the two latter are from Bor- 

 row's Zuicali, vol. ii. p. 118. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



caucn'piS. 



DIAL MOTTO AT KARLSBAD. 



The inclosed inscription was brought over for 

 me from Kurlsbad by the late Lord Ciiief Justice 

 Tiiidal. Can any one throw light upon the capital 

 letters ? I give it copied exactly from Sir Nicholas 

 Tindal's writing, with his observation beneath, and 

 may safely venture to warrant his accuracy. It 

 niiglit be supposed to be a chronogram, but ibr the 

 introduction of the letter " E." 

 " Mutto from a Dint formed on the two Sides of I he Angle 



of a House at Karlsbad. 

 " ' Ilora Horls CS lit, percjVut sIC TeBTpora nobis, 

 Vt tll»l finalls sit bona, VlVe bene.' 



''The letters which are written in capitals were so in 

 the original inscription, and were coloured red : pro- 

 bably the anagram of some one's name is concealed 

 under them " 



Having been a collector of existing dial mottoes 

 fm" many years, I shall feel greatly obliged to any 



