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clude “an impartial relation of all transactions ”’ 
from July, 1714, to Dec. 31, 1715, and then under 
the Historical Register “a complete narrative” 
of occurrences which had happened “ during the 
whole reign of his present Majesty King George.” 
OzIN: 
Morning Dreams (2°° §. i. 392. 463.) — The 
quotation about which Sarror inquires is not, I 
think, to be found in any of the illustrious drama- 
tists he names; but if he will consult a play as 
celebrated in its way as their productions, called 
Bombastes Furioso, he will find some lines to the 
following effect (1 quote from memory), which 
doubtless is the passage he is in search of : 
Distaffina log. —“ This morn as sleeping on my bed I lay, 
I dreamt, (and morning dreams come true, they say!) 
I dreamt a cunning man my fortune told, 
And all my pots and pans were turned to gold.” 
Ture CHAPLAIN OF THE CocKkED Harts. 
The notion with regard to the truth of morning 
dreams is as old as Ovid: 
« Namque sub Aurora, jam dormitante lucerna, 
(Somnia quo cerni tempore vera solent), ” &c. &c. 
Epist. xix. Hero Leandro, vv. 195, 6. 
To the above lines in the Delphin edition is 
appended the following note : 
“ Quia videlicet stomachus non sit vino ciboque dis- 
tentus.” 
N. L. T. 
Duchesse D'Abrantes (1* 8. x. 29.) — Having 
read in your No. of July 8, 1854, the remark 
taken from the Atheneum of January 7, No. 1367, 
that the Duchess of Abrantes died in a common 
hospital at Paris, I am able to state, on very good 
authority, that being severely afflicted with a com- 
plaint requiring continual attendance, this lady 
retired as a boarder (“en pension”) to a “ maison 
de santé” at Chaillét, where eventually she died. 
The duchess, although no longer possessing the 
enormous fortune she had formerly enjoyed, was 
by no means in indigent circumstances, but had 
at the time of her death an income of considerable 
amount. J.B. 
Gibraltar. 
Judge Jeffreys (24 §. i. 128.) — My authority 
for stating that the reports published under Ver- 
non’s name were Jeffreys’ work is from Yorke’s 
Royal Tribes of Britain, a work containing many 
curious genealogical and historical anecdotes re- 
lating to the chief families in the Principality; and 
from their being collected by the author from 
either the persons to whom the events occurred, 
or from their near relatives, there appears to be 
no reason to doubt their authenticity. As be was 
acquainted with the family of Jeffreys, whose grief 
for the ferocity of their relative he mentions, it is 
not likely that he would have made his assertion 
80 positively about the Reports without some good 
~ 
authority, though there may be some inaccuracy 
in attributing all of them to Jeffreys: not having 
any acquaintance with legal literature myself I 
gave the anecdote as I found it. 
Francis Ropert Davtss. 
Moyglas Mawr. 
Original Letter of Nalson the Historian (2™° 8. 
i. 387.) — On seeing in type the letter which I 
forwarded to you some time since, it struck me as 
strange that the writer should date it “ Aug. 7°, 
1682,” and the recipient indorse it “rec. 16 Aug', 
1681.” On comparing the original, however, I 
find that my transcript is correct, and that the 
Duke of Ormond, when docketing the letter, 
must have written 1 for 2 by mistake. 
There is a slight typographical error in your 
pages ; for “charges,” in the last paragraph, read 
“ charged.” JAMES GRAVES. 
Kilkenny. 
Fleming's “ Rise and Fall of the Papacy” (24 
§. i. 392.) —I have an edition of this pamphlet, 
whose subject once attracted much attention in 
Scotland, entitled : 
“ A Discourse on the Rise and Fall of Papacy, wherein 
the Revolution in France, and the abject State of the 
French King, is distinctly pointed out, delivered at Lon- 
don, in the Year mpccr, by Robert Fleming, V.D.M. 
Edinburgh, printed for John Ogle, Bookseller, Parliament 
Close, Mpccxcul, price 6d., 8vo., pp. 70.” 
The copy had belonged to the Rev. Dr. John 
Gillies, who was minister of the Blackfriars’ (or 
College) Church of Glasgow, and the friend and 
biographer of George Whitefield. There are two 
pages of an Introduction prefixed; one of the 
parazraphs of which Dr. Gillies had thought it 
worth emphatically to mark with his pen, and 
which may now be of service in transcribing, as 
showing the feelings and opinions of the men of 
1792 in respect to the author’s publication : 
“ The Spirit of Prophecy has long since failed; but the 
events of the present day have a strong tendency to sup- 
port an opinion held by many men not more conspicuous 
for their piety than their learning and abilities, that the 
prophetig breathings of these holy men, who in the early 
ages of the world spoke of events that were to come as if 
they were already past, do in many particulars allude to 
the present age. That eminent divine, Mr. Robert 
Fleming (son of the Rey. Mr. Fleming, author of the 
Fulfilling of the Scriptures), who, at the beginning of this 
century, published in London his Discourse on the Rise 
and Fall of Papacy, ranks himself with those who sub- 
scribe to this opinion. In that short, but valuable trea- 
tise, he assigns the reasons on which he grounds his 
conjectures; and by exact calculations, and an accurate 
interpretation of the original text, he adduces proof tan- 
tamount to mathematical precision, to establish his asser-~ 
tion that the King of France, about the year 1794, shall 
be reduced to a state inferior to all the Kings of the 
earth. The present condition of that monarch seems to 
verify what our author has asserted; and when we attend 
to the period at which he wrote this treatise, in 1701, and 
observe his prediction so literally fulfilled at the distance 
