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number of the Quarterly Review, where the author 
of an Essay on Menander is styled “ Monsieur 
William Guizot”—the Christian name being given 
for the purpose of distinguishing him from his 
celebrated father. J.C. R. 
Passage in Coleridge.—In “ A Short Defence of 
the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, by a Lay- 
man, London, 1839,” the author, tracing the in- 
fluence of Spinoza and Paulus, says: 
“ Coleridge (Diss. 29.) gives several rationalistic in- 
terpretations, and particularly claims as his own the dis- 
covery that Elijah was not fed by ravens, but by some 
people with a rayen-like name.” 
Can any of your readers tell me what work of 
Coleridge is referred to by ‘‘ (Diss. 29.)” ? 
A.N. 
Aylesbury. 
Military Portrait. — Who is the military person, 
apparently of some distinction, whose portrait is 
in my possession ? It is-of full length, in military 
costume, with left hand resting on a cane; a 
brown hat with feather in right hand, which rests 
on his side. It is probably the one mentioned in 
Horace Walpole’s Letters as seen by him at Le- 
theringham Abbey, Suffolk, then (1 believe) be- 
longing to the Nauntons. In the background are 
some troops or trained bands marching rapidly, 
and bearing a banner with a St. Andrew’s cross in 
the corner, and the lower part is striped. A 
person in command is at the head of the troops. 
On a stone in the corner is the date 1637; of the 
last two figures I am not quite certain. G. O. L. 
Roger Ascham.— Being about to republish 
Roger Ascham’s admirable book, Zhe School- 
master, I shall be obliged if any of your corre- 
spondents can give me the proverb referred to in 
the following passage : 
“ Acts of Parliament, many good Proclamations, divers 
straight Commandments, sore Punishments openly, 
Special Regard privately, could not do so much to take 
away one Misorder, as the Example of one big One of this 
Court dic still to keep up the same; the memory whereof 
doth yet remain in a common Proverb of Birching 
Lane.” * 
B. 
Black Hole at Calcutta. —Can any of your 
readers inform me whether there is a list to be 
met with anywhere of the persons who were con- 
fined in the Black Hole at Calcutta, or even of the 
twenty-three sufferers who survived the horrors 
of their imprisonment? Mr. Holwell, (Gent.’s 
Mag. vol. xxviii. p. 68.) in his account of that 
{* Nares and others are of opinion that this is a pro- 
verbial phrase for ordering. one to be whipped; but ac- 
cording to Stow, who quotes this “passage of Ascham 
under Birchen Lane (Survey, edit. 1720, book ii. p. 149.), 
it seems to have reference to some person notorious for 
resisting the laws relating to the sale of apparel ] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd S. No 13., Mar. 29, 56. 
dreadful occurrence, mentions only three or four 
of the names of his fellow sufferers. F. 
Lady Elizabeth Hatton.—In what year did 
Lady Elizabeth Hatton die? Is the place of her 
sepulture known? Does any portrait, painted or 
engraved, of her ladyship exist ? LyRpPoLe. 
Pinoy Queries with Answers. 
“ Catechism for the Swinish Multitude.” — Mr. 
William Maltby, the author of the Porsoniana, 
appended to the Recollections of the Table- Talk of 
Samuel Rogers, recently published by Moxon, 
after having mentioned the Letters on the Orgies 
of Bacchus (reprinted in the Spirit of the Public 
Journals for 1797) as being the production of 
Porson, proceeds as follows; 
“The New Catechism for the use of the Swinish Multi- 
tude (which Carlile, of Fleet Street, reprinted) was also 
certainly by Porson. I transcribed it from a copy in his 
own handwriting.” (P. 337.) 
To which the editor adds in a note: 
“A gentleman informed me that Porson presented to 
him a copy of the Catechism,—a printed copy.” 
It seems from the title of this Catechism, and 
from its reprint by Carlile, that it was of a Jaco- 
binical tendency. Can any of your corre- 
spondents give an account of it, or state whether 
it is preserved in any publication which admits of 
reference ? L. 
[A notice of this satirical piece will be found in Facetie 
Cantabrigienses, edit. 1825, p. 83., entitled “ Porson’s Po- 
litics.” ‘The writer remarks, “ They never interrupted an 
harmonious intercourse with him, who pays this tribute 
to his memory, and to whom, in a moment of confidence, 
he gave, in his own hand-writing, a pamphlet, written in 
answer to Mr. Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolu- 
tion. It is termed A New Catechism for the Natives of 
Hampshire. The humour of the tract consists in playing 
upon the expression ‘swinish multitude,’ said to have 
been applied to the common people by Mr. Burke. The 
following is the beginning and ending of the tract: 
“ Question. What is your name? 
Answer. Hog or swine. 
Q. Did God make you a hog? 
A. No; God made me man in his own image: the 
right honourable Sublime and Beautiful made me a swine. 
Q. How did he make you a swine? 
A. By muttering obscure and uncouth spells. 
dealer in the black art. 
Q. Who feeds you? 
A, Our drivers, the only real men in this country. 
Q. How many hogs are you in all? 
A, Seven or eight millions, 
Q. How many drivers? 
A. Two or three thousand.” 
This curious dialogue thus concludes: 
“ Q. What is the general wish of the hogs at present ? 
A, To save their bacon. 
He isa 
[ Chorus of Hogs. Amen,” 
Two editions of this tract are in the British Museum; 
