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that one would say there was not room for one 

 more, — every projection is occupied. On fine 

 days the birds seem more inclined to leave their 

 abode, and myriads are then seen flying in a huge 

 circle, and returning to the rock, or sailing or 

 diving in the sea. When a steamboat passes, it is 

 said to be "like ploughing up live birds." But 

 no description can come up to the wonderful 

 reality. It must be seen to be appreciated. 



Not far from these Stacks tradition points out 

 a spot called the Danish Camp. Although it is 

 impossible that Danes, or any human beings, could 

 have landed there or even very near, and though, 

 on the supposition that they landed at the nearest 

 possible place, it is perfectly inconceivable with 

 what object they could have encamped there — so 

 totally devoid of probability from natural forma- 

 tion does the place seem — yet it is far from im- 

 probable that they did land and encamp in the 

 neighbourhood, of which circumstance tradition 

 thus preserves the memory. 



Another Stuck also stands in the entrance to 

 Milford Haven, on which a martello tower of im- 

 mense strength has recently been constructed. 



At the head of one of the creeks or pills of 

 Milford Haven, several of which run up into the 

 country, there is a village named Carew (pro- 

 nounced by the natives Carey or Kerry). It 

 possesses a ruined castle, sometimes called the 

 Windsor Castle of Wales, and a curious old 

 church. By the roadside is an ancient cross of 

 uncertain age and peculiar appearance. It is 

 figured in Fenton's Pembrokeshire, with, so far as 

 I recollect, tolerable accuracy. The antiquaries 

 of the locality are unable to determine the period 

 or purpose of its erection. I am not aware whe- 

 ther a suggestion of its being a Danish bauta- 

 stone, erected to commemorate some fallen Viking, 

 has ever been made, but it might help to solve the 

 difficulty. At all events, it is near this arm of 

 the sea, where daring rovers (and such we know 

 the Danes were) might have penetrated ; more- 

 over, it bears a general resemblance to those 

 monumental crosses of Scandinavian origin found 

 in the Isle of Man, which Mr. Worsaae figures at 

 pp. 282, 283, 284. of his work. Tee Bee. 



midable pedagogue just occurs to me: I was 

 " Hall-gate boy " one day when there happened to 

 be "no breakfast in hall," and I had omitted to 

 let him know this. The little man was so angry 

 that he seized me by both ears, lifted me up, and 

 held me suspended for some time. This particu- 

 larly disagreeable mode of punishment I have 

 never forgotten ; I should have preferred a good 

 caning. I was ten years old in 1780, and my 

 father died while Newgate was on fire, and the 

 mob were releasing the prisoners. I saw nineteen 

 of the rioters executed at the same time. There 

 were three bai-s across the scaffold, by which they 

 were suspended. I stood in the Old Bailey near 

 enough to have a good view of them. One was 

 said to be a Jew, and a little incident respecting 

 this man has dwelt upon my memory. His next 

 neighbour, on one side, was crying out loudly from 

 fear, and the Jew nudged him, as a hint to show 

 more fortitude, and he became silent. When the 

 drop fell the crash was tremendous, and the vast 

 multitude (the larger part being women) gave 

 expression to their feelings by a loud scream of 

 I terror. Excuse the garrulity of your nearly nona- 

 genarian correspondent, J. N. 



LORD GEOEGE GORDON 8 RIOTS. 



As I am among the few now living who were 

 spectators of the execution of the rioters in Lord 

 George Gordon's affair, allow me the gratificatioa 

 of recording my reminiscence of that event in " N. 

 & Q." I was a Blue-coat boy at the time, and 

 had just come up from the sciiool at Hertford to 

 Chri.-t's Hospital, where I was a contemporary of 

 Tliornton, Middlcton, C. Le Grice, Coleridge, and 

 Charles Lamb, under the well-known " Cuddy 

 r>owycr." A cliaracterisiic anecdote of that for- 



Inscription in Wilson's Arte of Rhetoriqne. — In 

 order to follow a recommendation I have before 

 ventured to advance in " N. & Q." that MS. in- 

 scriptions in old books should be communicated, I 

 now send the following from 



"The Arte of Rhetorique for the Use of all suche as 

 are studious of Eloquence, sette forth in English, by 

 Thomas Wilson, 1552," 4to., 



a book now in the British Museum (75 a. 20.). 

 At the foot of the title is written, 



" Given to me by Mr. Samuel Johnson, 17G5.— G. S." 



And in the opposite fly-leaf, in the hand of George 

 Steevens, is written : 



" This work was reprinted by Jhon Kingston in 1570, 

 Lond. 4to., with a ' Prologue to the Reader,' dated Die. 7, 

 1560. Again, 1576, 4to., and 1585, 4to." 



In the Prologue he mentions his escape at 

 Rome, and adds, 



" If others neuer gette more by bookes than I have 

 doen, it wer better be a carter than a scholar, for worldlie 

 profite." 



Mr. Warton observes that " this book may 

 justly be considered as the first system of criticism 

 in our language." 



This will, I think, be allowed to be trebly inter- 

 esting, both on Johnson's account and Sleevens's, 

 and also for the valuable note written by the latter 

 upon the author. Sir Thomas Wilson and his book. 



J. G. Nichols. 



