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pounder shot also, which had been dug up on the 
hill side, were presented to me, together with 
numbers of musket and pistol-balls, and some of 
the large plated buttons, an inch in diameter, 
worn by gentlemen in that day; these latter relics 
I have distributed among various antiquarian 
friends. ‘The carnage in and after the battle was 
tremendous ; and in a visit which several years 
ago I made to that country, fields were pointed: 
out to me extending for some miles along the 
course taken by the fugitives, which were stated 
to have been strewn with dead and dying. 
Francts Ropent Davies. 
Moyglass Mawr, 
Henry Dodweil. —It may be as well, for the 
sake of historic accuracy, to point out some mis- 
statements made by Mr. Macaulay respecting 
Henry Dodwell and Charles Leslie. In his Hist. 
of England, vol. iii. p. 462., we read, — 
“Dodwell’s Discourse against Marriages in different 
Communions is known to me, I ought to say, only from 
Brokesby’s account of it. That Discourse is very rare. It 
was originally printed as a preface to a sermon preached 
by Leslie. When Leslie collected his Works he omitted 
the Discourse, probably because he was ashamed of it.” 
What company has Mr. Macaulay been keeping 
of late, to lead him to pen such a sentence? Has 
Gilbert Burnet, that gifted trimmer, bewildered 
him? Francis Brokesby, as is well known, was 
too honest to impose on him, as any one may see 
on turning to chap. xxxil. of his valuable work. 
The fact is, instead of Dodwell’s Discourse having 
been “ originally printed as a preface to Leslie’s 
Sermon,” as stated by Mr. Macaulay, Leslie’s 
Sermon forms a prefatory article to Dodwell’s 
Discourse, the former making sixty-three pages, 
whilst the latter extends to two hundred and _fifty- 
four! 
Again, so far from Leslie having omitted Dod- 
_ well’s Discourse in his collected Works, “ because 
he was ashamed of it,” he has actually reprinted 
his original preface, containing the following com- 
mendatory notice of it : 
“Before I adventured to commit this Sermon to the | 
press, I sent it to the most learned and judicious Mr. Dod- 
well, who returned tlie following letter, with his leave to 
inake it public, and to go along with this; which will 
make this valuable, as being the occasion of showing so 
learned a treatise to the world; and s0 necessary at this 
time, to revive the true notion of the peculinm, the holy 
seed, or city of God.” 
To the word letter, in the foregoing extract, is 
appended the following editorial note : 
“This was a large Discourse, and printed with the Ser- 
mon in the 8vo. edition; but not thought proper to be 
inserted here among a collection of this author’s Works.” 
Sony folio edition of Leslie’s Works, 1721, vol. i. p. 
787. 
Charles Leslie’s Works were collected and pub- 
lished by himself in 1721, the year preceding his 
death. They occupy two volumes folio: and his 
worthy friend R. K., whom he thanks for the 
pains he has taken in procuring the publication 
of these works, was Roger Kenyon, a physician 
and nonjuror, who died at St. Germains. due. 
Death of Charles IT. —In the first edition of 
Macaulay’s History, vol. i. p. 439. (note), we read 
as follows : 
“T have seen in the British Museum, and also in the 
library of the Royal Institution, a curious broadside; con- 
taining an account of the death of Charles... . No 
name is given at length; but the initials are perfectly 
intelligible, except in one place. It is said that the D. 
of Y. was reminded of the duty which he owed to his 
brother by P. M. A.C. F. I must own myself quite 
unable to decipher the last five letters.” 
The meaning of those letters is what I now 
propose to attempt to unfold. The “curious 
broadside” is printed in the very rare volume, 
whose title is given below in full*; and there the 
passage, in which the refractory letters occur, 
runs as follows: 
“P.M. aC. F. came to the D. upon the Doctor’s telling 
him of the State of the K., and told him, ‘that now was 
the time for him to take care of his brother’s soul, and that 
it was his duty to tell him so.’ ” 
From the way in which those letters are printed, 
it is evident that the two first (P. M.) stand for 
the name of the party indicated ; that the third 
letter (a), is the indefinite article; and the two 
last (C. F.) signify something respecting the be- 
fore-mentioned party. Now, from Macaulay’s 
own narrative we learn, that James received the 
first intelligence of the dangerous state of his 
brother through the medium, in the first place, 
of the notorious Louisa de Querouaille, whom 
Charles had created Duchess of Portsmouth. I 
would therefore suggest, that the letters stand for 
“ Portsmouth a Catholic French lady.” The 
only objection that I ean see to this is, that the 
party alluded to in the passage quoted, is spoken 
of as a man; but this I must leave to your readers, 
to get over as they best can, E. W. 
The Two Leslies.—In Mr. Macaulay's History 
(vol. ili, pp. 266-7.), the following passage occurs : 
* Such an agent was George Melville Lord Melville, a 
nobleman connected by affinity with the unfortunate 
* The Phenix; or a Revival of Scarce and Valuable 
Pieces, from the remotest Antiquity down to the present 
Times. Being a Collection of Manuscripts and printed 
Tracts, nowhere to be found but in the Closets of the Curious. 
By a Gentleman who has made it his Business to search 
after such Pieces for Twenty Years past. London : 
m.pcevu. It is strange that Macaulay has not noticed 
this volume; for it contains, among other things, several 
valuable and interesting documents relating to William, 
Prince of Orgnge, 
