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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''* S. VI. 147., Oct. 23. '58, 



latter, as not agreeing so well with the context. 

 However, to my text : — As the above species of 

 vagary is not confined to the quoted work, would 

 it not be well that this kind of compositor's freak 

 should have an end ? Perhaps you will be good 

 enough to give us such an explication that the 

 unlearned world may know bow it ought to be 

 spelled, together with " the reason why." * 



It is an undoubted discursion, but I cannot re- 

 frain jotting down a somewhat diverting, but 

 veritable incident, worthy of note, not merely 

 from the evidence it affords of the need of the 

 schoolmaster in this our nineteenth century, but 

 more especially as occurring at a bookstall. 

 " Here," says the proprietor, " is a wack o' books, 

 Sir, — four dozen and si.^ for three bob; and 

 there" — (selecting two fat odd volumes of a maga- 

 zine, and producing them with manifest exulta- 

 tion) — "there's a, pair o' books, Su- !" (as if they 

 were a pair o' boots. Sir !) " worth a tanner of the 

 money." Yet this thrice-happy wight was en- 

 dowed with the faculty of humility — confessed 

 himself " but a worm — a poor worm ; there were 

 all sorts of worms in this world," he said — "he 

 was a humble book-worm," and — there I left 

 him. W. J. Stan>'Ahd. 



Hatton Garden. 



Rogerd's Song in " Tlie Anti- Jacobin" — Look- 

 ing over the article in the last Edinburgh Review 

 upon " Canning's Poetry," I was induced to refer 

 to my own copy of the work, being of the 5 th edi- 

 tion, 1803, bought at the sale of a literary man, 

 who lived in London in the days, and probably 

 within the circle, of the Anti- Jacobins themselves. 

 Almost every article is marked slightly, and in 

 pencil, with the names of the author or joint- 

 authors, and sometimes in that slight familiar way 

 •which an intimate would use, and none but him- 

 self then understand. Thus " C. & F." stand for 

 " Canning & Frere," " ^.J." for Morpeth. Mr. Pitt 

 is named for the concluding verse of the above- 

 mentioned song ; and I should say that all the names 

 suggested, not always agreeing with the generally 

 received lists, would be worth consideration in the 

 haze of uncertainty which rests on the subject ; 

 but I notice this copy no^v, because I find inserted 

 in it on a bit of coarse paper, but neat hand, t-.vo 

 verses in MS., but with no mention of who the au- 

 thor was, — whether one of the original Anti- Ja- 

 cobin junto, amusing himself by correcting Pitt's 

 disregard of the unities in reference to Rogero's 

 food, or whether some subsequent reader proving 

 how easily such rhymes could be spun out ad infi- 

 nitum. Perhaps some of your readers may have a 



[* Cf. "N. & Q." 1st S. ii. 424. ; iii. 73. 109. 193. 229. 

 433.] 



copy with these same stanzas, and a clue to the 

 author ; if so, it would be a favour to the public 

 to give it. 



" When men are kidnapp'd in the 'Hue- 



-and-Cry ' they're put, and got again. 



But doom'd to darkness and Mildew 



I never more shall see the U- 



-niversity of Gottingen, 



-niversity of Gottingen. 



"I relished once a roast or stew, 



But now like Vermin caught in gin, 

 I'm starved on Mutton Scraggs, and Sou- 

 -p worse than beggars at the U- 

 -niversity of Gottingen, 

 -niversity of Gottingen." 



A. B. K. 

 Longevity in the North. — 



" The bracing air of the north would seem to be favour- 

 able to longevity. The Sunderland Times says : ' An old 

 man, who has reached the patriarchal age of 104 years, 

 crossed the ferry at Middleborough a few ilnys ago, on 

 his waj' from Boston, in Lincolnshire, to Wolviston, the 

 place of his nativity. He was quite unattended, and able 

 to walk with perfect ease. He stated that he remem- 

 bered Stockton when it was (comparatively) a small 

 fishing village, and had only one public-house. His name 

 is Jonathan Close, and he states that his grandfather 

 lived to the age of 115, and his father and mother to 93. 

 He had reached the age of three score and ten when he 

 left his native place — upwards of thirty years ago — and 

 he has not been home since." — Doncasier Gazette, Oct. 1, 

 1858. 



Anon. 



Poetical Grace after Meat, by Rums. — In the 

 Literary Magnet for January, 1826, are some 

 anecdotes of Burns, by Miss Spencc, in which it is 

 said that — 



" At one 01 Burns's convivial dinners he was requested 

 to say grace ; when he gave the foUoning impromptu : — 



" O Lord, we do Thee humbly thank 

 For that we little merit. — 

 Now Jean may tak' the flesh away, 

 And Will bring in the spirit." 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



The " Sir Andrew FreeporV of " the Spectator." 

 — In a review of Bannister's Writings of William 

 Paterson, Founder of the Bank of England, in The 

 Critic for Sept. 2oth, " a fair specimen of Mr. 

 Bannister's conjectural speculation, and free and 

 easy method of induction," is given in the follow- 

 ing quotation : — 



" It is believed that Sir Andrew Freeport, the distin- 

 guished trade member of the Spectator Club — whether 

 drawn by Addison or Steele — wasportrajed after Wil- 

 liam Paterson. The Spectator had a leanied Scottish 

 contributor in Mr. Dunlop, son of Paterson's friendly and 

 just judge, the Principal of Glasgow University; and 

 although the name of Andrew was not then so exclu- 

 sively Scottish as at present, it Las a somewhat strong 

 leaning in that direction. It is certain that all the cha- 

 racters of the Spectator Club were portraits; and the 

 principles, tlie practice, and courtesies of this noble type 

 of the free-trader — the British merchant of 1709 — are 

 eminently characteristic of Paterson." 



The original Sir Andrew Freeport was Sir Gil- 



