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“T enclose a letter to the Post Master, St. 
Thomas, which, if.you would back by one word, 
might lead to the discovery of this Person. 
“T am sure you have ever been ready to do me 
a service. I am, with gratitude, 
“ My dear Sir F. Freeling, 
“B. R. Haypon. 
“ Sir F. Freeling, Bart., 
“ Post Office.” 
. L observe the sale of one of his pictures (inter 
alia) at Exeter, the property of the late Charles 
Brutton, Esq., advertised for this day, as ~ 
“The Mock Election. Haydon. 6 feet 3 inches by 
4 feet 103. This is the companion picture of one painted 
for George IV., and is especially mentioned in the 
Memoirs of the Life of Haydon.” 
Where are now “ The Chairing the Members,” 
and the duplicate ‘‘ Mock Election?” Who was 
the “A. Z.” mentioned in poor Haydon’s letter ? 
; Joun GARLAND. 
Dorchester, 18th March. 
Pinar Hotes, 
The Northern Circuit in Olden Time: Poetry of 
the late Lord Chancellor Eldon. —The late Justice 
Sir James Allan Parke commenced going the 
Northern circuit at the time when the late Lord 
Chancellor Eldon, then Mr. Scott, was the most 
formidable leader on that circuit, and these two 
learned gentlemen became very intimate and 
friendly together in a short time. Upon one oc- 
casion the learned lord felt disposed to throw a 
joke at the other, and he was urged by his friends 
to do it in verse. He said he never attempted a 
line of poetry in his life, and could not do so, but 
being again urged, he wrote as follows: 
“James Allan Parke came naked stark 
From Scotland ; 
But he got clothes, like other beaus, 
In England.” 
And this, it is said, was the first and only time he 
ever attempted to write poetry. X. Y. Z. 
Temple. 
Horse-chesnut (Zisculus hippocastanum, Zin.). 
_—Among the many interesting communications 
on this subject, noted from time to time in your 
excellent journal, and which are not only highly 
amusing, but illustrative of the singular ideas en- 
tertained by our ancestors, the one I am about 
to relate is, I think, of more modern date than 
those hitherto recorded, and possibly may be co- 
incident with the introduction of this beautiful 
tree from the far-off mountains of Thibet into our 
country, about the year 1550. A youth of my 
acquaintance, being asked by a lady to collect her 
a few horse-chesnuts, was ‘very curious to know 
what she could want with them; and upon taking 
them to her, he asked her the question, when she 
replied, that “she used them to hang about her 
bed, in order to cure the rheumatism.” Whether 
any cure was effected, I have never been able to 
learn. J. B. Wuirsorne. 
Serjeants’ Mottoes.—'To complete the list of 
mottoes on serjeants’ rings, given in 1* S, v. 92. 
110. 139. 181. 563., and which include all down 
to the year 1850, some correspondent will no 
doubt be able to supply those taken by the three 
new serjeants, sworn in before the Lord Chan- 
cellor on Tuesday, February 12, 7. e. Mr. §. 
Pigott, Mr. S. Hayes, and Mr. S. Wells. Th 
account given of the appointment in the Morning 
Post of the 14th contains an error, where it 
speaks of “the time-honoured custom of pre- 
senting the Lord Chancellor with gold rings of the 
date of the thirteenth century.” If the writer 
means the time-honoured custom of the date of 
the thirteenth century, he is still under an erro- 
neous impression, for the earliest notice of ser- 
jeants’ rings that we are acquainted with is of the 
date 1465. 
Some one will perhaps be able to inform us 
why the serjeant’s “ best man” at this ceremony 
is called a “colt.” The Post says “at the ap- 
pointed hour the three learned serjeants, accom- 
panied by their respective colts, as the members 
of the bar officiating on this occasion are some- 
what fantastically designated,” &c. CEYREP. 
Motto for a Screw Steamer.— Allow me to sug- 
gest the following : 
“Nee gerit expositum telis in fronte patenti 
Remigium: sed, quod trabibus circumdedit «quor, 
Hoc ferit, et taciti preebet miracula cursus, 
Quod nec vela ferat, nec apertas verberet undas.” 
Lucani Pharsalia, lib. iv. 423. seq. 
Y. B.N. J. 
Curious Inn Signs. — Hutton in his Batile of 
Bosworth says, that upon the death of Richard ILI. 
and consequent overthrow of tite Yorkists, all the 
white roses and white boars were pulled down, 
and that none are to be found at the present day, 
although we have black and blue boars in abund- 
ance. 
Query, Is not this too sweeping? I think T 
have seen both in Wales. Near Ecton, in North- 
amptonshire, is an old public house bearing the 
strange title of “The World’s End,” from which 
probably Hogarth took the idea of his picture, 
for he was a frequent visitor at the rectory there. 
In that case, if I remember rightly, the sign is 
a bond-fide attempt to limn the destruction of the 
world, representing a globe floating in a sea of 
thunderbolts and flashes of lightning. I am told 
that in the southern division of the same county, 
near Whittlebury Forest, there is, or was, another 
“ World’s End,” in open defiance of the Coperni- 
can or any other system, the sign-board exhibiting 
