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letters in every twenty. As a general rule, it 
should be noticed, that the thinner the paper of 
which such envelopes are made, the greater the 
security against their being fraudulentiy opened. 
To make a letter quite safe against prying curi- 
osity, or dishonest fingers, so far as its contents 
are concerned, there is nothing equal to good seal- 
ing-wax. Let the wax be well heated, applied 
under as well as above the lap, worked into an 
uniform mass, and impressed with a sharply-cut 
seal; and I think it will puzzle the most expert 
at such dirty work, to get at the inside of the 
letter without leaving some very significant marks. 
Nigh Fpl bAul iy 
In the Strand, two doors west of Temple Bar, 
on the north side, the metallic capsule envelopes 
were sold a few months ago; they were arranged 
in the window, and plenty of persons were “ sow- 
ing gape seed” at them. ANon. 
Hydrophobic Patients Smothered (1% 8. v. 10. ; 
vi. 206, 298. 438.) — Several communications 
have appeared in “ N. & Q.” to ascertain whether 
in cases of decided hydrophobia the patients were 
ever put to death by smothering or otherwise, or 
whether such opinion were a mere popular de- 
lusion. That death by suffocation has been prac- 
tised formerly, history affords us many precedents, 
not to mention the instance of Edward V. and his 
brother; and the procuring of death as a ter- 
mination of the sufferings of a miserable case, is 
thus described in the London Magazine for 1738, 
p- 44.;: 
“ One Brounsell, a labourer, who had been bitten by a 
mad dog, was directly sent to be dipped in the salt water, 
and returned to Bedford; when the bite healed up, and 
he was to all appearance well, but he was afterwards 
taken ill on a Friday, and the Saturday was raving mad, 
barking and howling like a dog, and biting at every- 
thing in his way. He had intervals that he was sensible, 
when he desired to be tied down to the bed to prevent his 
doing mischief; and begged not to be smothered, as 
people are in his unhappy case, but desired to be bled to 
death. Accordingly on Saturday night he had a vein 
opened by a surgeon of that place, and bled till Sunday 
morning, when he expired in that miserable condition.” 
F. 
Construction of Quadrants (2" §S. i. 175.) — 
Dr. Tucker will find an account of Sutton’s and 
Collins’s quadrants in Dr. Brewster’s Edinburgh 
Encyclopedia, art. “ Quadrants,” and also draw- 
ings of the same. There are also, I believe, old, 
and now scarce, pamphlets descriptive of the above 
instruments. N.S. Hetvexen, 
Sidmouth. 
Sir Henry Gould, Knt. (2"' S. i. 295.) — Have 
you not attributed to the justice of the Common 
Pleas, who died in 1794, the paternity that be- 
longs to his namesake, the judge of the King’s 
Bench, who died in 1710? ‘The first of the four 
wives of Lieutenant-General Fielding, who died 
in 1740, was Sarah, the daughter of the judge of 
King’s Bench, and their son was the author of 
Tom Jones, &c. The judge of the Common 
Pleas was of Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, and left 
two daughters, one married to the Hon. Temple 
Luttrell, and the other to the Earl of Cavan. (See 
Brydges’s Collins’s Peerage, iii. 277., and Gent. 
Mag. \xiv. 283.) On the announcement of the 
death of Admiral Sir Davidge Gould in 1847, the 
St. James's Chronicle says he was the last male 
descendant of the ancient Somersetshire family 
of Gould, which enumerated two distinguished 
judges among its members. Does the pedigree in 
Phelps’s Somersetshire show in what relationship 
they stood to each other ? Epwarp Foss. 
[On turning again to Phelps’s Somersetshire, it is clear 
we have confused the two chief-justices. According to 
the pedigree, Sir Henry Gould of the Common Pleas was 
the son of Sir Henry of the King’s Bench, and conse- 
quently uncle of Henry Fielding the novelist. ] 
Greek Fire (2™ §. i. 316.)— Your corre- 
spondent T. Lampray will find some account of 
the “invention and use of the Greek fire” in 
Gibbon’s Decline and Full of the Roman Empire, 
vol. x. pp. 14. 18., edit. 1839. E. C. Harineron. 
The Close, Exeter. 
English Orders (2"° S. i. 290.) — Mr. Fraser 
seems to have mistaken the meaning of the author 
of The Origin and Developments of Anglicanism, 
who does not admit the validity of Anglican 
Orders, nor touch that point at all, but confines 
himself in the passages adduced to the question of 
mission or jurisdiction. When that author ob- 
serves that “ Orders were indeed perpetuated,” 
he speaks not of the present Anglican clergy, but 
of those Catholic priests who had been ordained 
before they became Protestants. Thus he asks, 
“When they apostatised, did this mission last ?” 
And he answers, “Obviously not.” He is evi- 
dently not speaking of their orders being per- 
petuated in successive Anglican clergy, but of 
their own individual sacramental character of 
priests remaining indelible zm them. 
Mr. Fraser, therefore, is not correct in pre- , 
suming that our controversialists hold the Anglican 
orders to be valid, though irregular, And as he 
desires to be “enlightened upon these points, 
strictly as matters of fact,” I beg to assure him 
that the practical conclusion of Catholics is, that 
such orders are invalid; and in conformity with 
this, every Anglican clergyman who enters the 
sacred ministry in the Catholic Church is reor- 
dained ; and this not conditionally, as if the matter 
were doubtful, but absolutely, as a mere layman. 
F. C. Husenseru, D.D. 
Dr. Samuel Barnard and Archbishop Abbot 4 
(2™' §, i. 123.) —In reply to Mr. Srerman’s 
