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Pardon us James, who must to Thee declare 
*Twas Loyal Zeal made us presume thus far, 
We ne’re were Poets upon Oliver.” 
No. 1163. of the Collection of Proclamations, 
§c., presented to the Chetham Library, Man- 
chester, by James O. Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S. 
BrsuioTHEecaR. CHETHAM. 
Hinar Notes. 
Proclamation issued by King Charles I., on the 
occasion of his having concluded a Treaty of Peace 
with Spain in 1630.— This may at the present 
moment be perused with pleasure by many of the 
readers of “ N. &. Q.” Henry KeEnsineron. 
“ By the King. 
“Whereas it is found meete and expedient, upon 
weighty considerations moued to His Majestie, by the in- 
tervention of some of His Friends, to lay aside hostility 
with the King of Spaine, and so to remooue by faire and 
peaceable means the cause of the Warre, which hath bred 
interruption to the Amity betwixt the two Crownes, 
upon assurance given His Majestie hereof by that King. 
His most Excellent Majestie hath condescended to renew 
the ancient Amity and good intelligence betwixt y® two 
Crowns, their Realmes, Countreys, Dominions, Vassals, 
and Subjects; And doeth accordingly make knowen to all 
His louing people, that the sayd Peace and Friendship 
‘being so established, not onely all Hostilitie and Warre is 
to cease on both sides from henceforward, But also the 
former Trade and Commerce, as it stoode in the vse and 
observance of the Treatie, made by His Majestie’s blessed 
Father, is restored and confirmed betweene the sayd 
Kings, their Kingdomes, Territories, and Subjects, as well 
by Land as Sea and Fresh-waters. 
“ Which His Majestie hath thought fit to declare unto 
all manner of his Subjects, of whatsoever estate they be, 
strictly charging and commanding them to obserue and 
accomplish all that hereunto belongeth, As it is certainly 
promised to be published on the side of the King of 
Spaine, the Date of these Presents. 
“Giuen at His Majesties Palace of Westminster, 
the fifth day of December, in the sixt yeere 
of His Majisties Reigne. 
“God Save the King.” 
Invention of Postage Stamps. — 
“The invention of postage stamps is generally ascribed 
to the English, and certainly they were first brought into 
use in England in 1839. But a Stockholm paper, The 
Fryshitten, says that so far back as 1823, a Swedish officer, 
Lieut. Trekenber, of the artillery, petitioned the Chamber 
of Nobles to propose to the government to issue stamped 
aper specially destined to serve for envelopes for prepaid 
etters. The fact, it adds, is duly recorded in the minutes 
of the Chamber under date of the 23rd March, 1823. 
The proposition was warmly supported by Count de 
Schwerin, on the ground that it would be both convenient 
to the public and the Post Office, but it was rejected by a 
Jarge majority.” — Galignani, April 28, 1856. 
Wie WV 
Malta. ‘ 
Wordsworth v. Campbell. — Reading the other 
day the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers, I was sur- 
prised by a note of the editor, asserting that 
Wordsworth declared the lines in Campbell's 
Pleasures of Hope, — 
“ Where Andes, giant of the western star, 
With meteor-standard to the winds unfurl’d, 
Looks from his throne of clouds o’er half the world,” 
to be sheer nonsense; and that he asks ‘“* What 
has a giant to do with a star ? and what is a meteor- 
standard?” And adding that Professor Wilson, 
though avowing his admiration of the “ splendid ” 
passage, swore that he could not tell what it 
meant. 
Surely both Wordsworth and Wilson were ig- 
norant of geography, or they would have known 
that the Andes were the giant mountains of the 
western world; and that Cotopaxi, one of their 
highest peaks, being a voleano, might poetically 
be said to unfurl its meteor-standard to the winds. 
It is evident that Wilson appreciated the beauty 
of the passage, though he would not trouble him- 
self to explain it; and the criticism of Words- 
worth is what might have been expected from a 
poet of his peculiar style. M. E. F. 
Surgical Operations under Chloroform, &c.— 
Has the following passage been “noted” in your 
pages? If not, it would be curious to non-medical 
readers, like myself, to know whether opium, or 
what is supposed to have been made use of more 
than two hundred years ago by the “ old surgeons,” 
“who, ere they show their art, cast one asleep, 
then cut the diseas’d part,” &c.; and whether 
the use of ether, and subsequently of chloroform, 
in surgical operations, is merely a revival in these 
enlightened days of some heretofore forgotten 
practice of the “ dark ages,” or whether it is really 
something new ? 
Women beware Women, tragedy, by Thos. Mid- 
dleton, first printed 1657, Act IV. Se. 1.: 
“ Hippolito. Yes, my lord, 
I make no doubt, as I shall take the course, 
Which she shall never know till it be acted; 
And, when she wakes to honour, then she’ll thank me for’t. 
Ll imitate the pities of old surgeons 
To this lost limb; who, ere they show their art, 
Cast one asleep, then cut the diseas’d part ; 
So, out of love to her I pity most, 
She shall not feel him going till he’s lost ; 
Then she'll commend the cure.” 
S. H. H. 
The last Gibbet in England. — As “N. & Q.” 
will be a work of reference hereafter, may not the 
following notice, which appeared in a recent num- 
ber of The Examiner, claim a remembrance ? 
“ A few days ago, the last gibbet erected in England 
was demolished by the workmen employed in making 
the extensive docks for the North Eastern Railway Com- 
pany, upon Jarrow Stoke, on the Tyne.” 
W. W. 
Malta. 
A Slavian (Glagalit) Copy of “ Beneficium 
Christi, 1563” (1* 8. x. 384. 406. 447.; xii. 75.) 
— Ranke and Mr. Macaulay said that there 
