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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2-'^ s. vi. iso., Nov. 13. '58. 



Dryden and Addison) was appointed General of 

 the Forces in Ireland, our author states, that " he 

 went to congratulate him ;" and he adds : — 



" He was phased to enquire of me several things relating 

 to that country, and particularly in what part of Dublin I 

 would recommend his residence ; offering at the same 

 time, if I would go with him, all the services that should 

 fall in" his wav ..... After I had, as decently as I could, 

 declined the latter part, I told his lordship, 'that as to a 

 place of residence, I was master of a house in Dublin,large 

 enough, and suitable to his great quality, which should be 

 at his service." 



The above passage makes it, I think, highly 

 probable that the writer of it was naturally con- 

 nected with Ireland. He was intimately ac- 

 quainted with, and had property in, that country ; 

 but he was a non-resident. In connection with 

 the latter circumstance, I must revert once more 

 to his " Dedication," in which he says : — 



" An old soldier I may truly call myself, and my family 

 allows me the title of a gentleman, yet I have seen many 

 favourites of fortune, without being able to discern why 

 they should be so happy, and myself so unfortunate." 



In order to distinguish the individual who wrote 

 those several passages, it is required (1.) that he 

 should be an Irish gentleman, (2.) residing out of 

 his native country, and (3.) but inadequately pro- 

 vided for, after his long military career was 

 brought to a close. 



At the period when the Military Memoirs 

 originally appeared, there resided upon the poor 

 rectory of Padworth, in Berkshire (on the borders 

 of Oxon), a military chaplain, who was not only a 

 member of the family of Carleton in Ireland, but 

 had serveil with a regiment of dragoons in Spain. 

 That gentleman died, and was buried at Padworth, 

 in the month of October, 1730. To him, there- 

 fore, I am inclined to attribute the authorship of 

 the work in question. There is nothing in its 

 composition to militate against such a supposi- 

 tion ; on the contrary, there are interspersed 

 throughout the volume many admirable reflections 

 upon Divine Providence, predestination, religious 

 errors, the folly of duelling ; in short, such re- 

 flections as would naturally suggest themselves to 

 the pious mind of a regimental chaplain. Above 

 all, the Memoirs are emphatically the work of a 

 gentleman, and therefore less likely to be the pro- 

 duction of either Dean Swift or Defoe. Doubt- 

 less either of the last-mentioned, in his endeavour 

 to make the story more real, would have disfigured 

 its pages with a profusion of expletives, no less 

 easy of expression than conception. As it is, the 

 work is singularly free from such blemishes. 



I am desirous of knowing, in conclusion, firsc, 

 whether the original edition of the Memoirs bore 

 on its title-page the name of the author ? and, 

 second, whether any farther record is extant of 

 the Rev. Lancelot Carleton, A.M., rector of Pad- 

 worth ? If, as I believe, no author's name was 

 inscribed upon the work until it was reprinted 



in 1741, there is, in that case, little difficulty in 

 accounting for the confusion of the names of the 

 papr neglected regimental chaplain located on the 

 borders of Berkshire, and his more affluent neigh- 

 bours the Carletons of Brightwell, Oxon. /3. 



^(rmr fiatti. 



Charles the First. — The following lines by that 

 learned and amusing writer James Howell, the 

 author of Familiar Letters, on the martyrdom of 

 Charles the First, were composed a few weeks 

 after that event : — 



" So fell the Royal Oak by a wild crew 

 Of mongrel shrubs, which underneath him grew ; 

 So fell the Lion by a pack of curs, 

 So the Rose wither'd 'twixt a knot of burrs ; 

 So fell the Eagle by a swarm of gnats. 

 So the Whale perish'd by a shoal of sprats." 

 " In the prison of the Fleet, • 



Feb. 25, 1648." 



J.Y. 



An Honest Quack. — The following singular ad- 

 vertisement appeared in the London Gazette, Oct. 

 26, 1745 : — 



" Notice to the Puhlick. — As we daily see many Per- 

 sons of Distinction die of the Gout in the Stomach, who 

 are alwaj's in a bad state of Health for Want of a Fit, 'tis 

 evident that the Faculty of Physicians are not possessed 

 of a sure Remedy to bring down a Fit, which would save 

 the Person's Life ; since the late Emperor did, and many 

 great Gentlemen daily die of it. 



" All Persons who are thus afflicted, if they apply to 

 Joseph Galindo, Chymist, in Duke Street, St. James's, 

 may depend upon a sure Relief; that they shall have a 

 compleat Fit within twenty Days, by a most agreeable 

 Liquid, not exceeding two Ounces, to be taken but once 

 a Day ; its Operation is insensible in all Respects 



" N.B. As the Author is certain of the Infallibility of 

 his Remedy, ho makes no previous Demands for his daily 

 Attendance and Remedy, till he has brought on a 

 thorough Fit of the Gout" * 



T. B. 



Ranelagh, Vauxhall, and Marylebone. — In the 

 curious Memoires pour servir a la Vie de Jean 

 Monnet, who was the manager of the French Com- 

 pany of Comedians put down here by the mob in 

 1749, we have (torn. ii. p. 60.) the following cha- 

 racteristic description of the three public gardens 

 then existing in this metropolis. I preserve M. 

 Monnet's orthography : — 



" Renelagh, Vaux-hall, et Mariborne. 



" On s'ennuie dans le premier, avec de la raauvaise 

 musique, du the et du beure. Dans le second on s'en- 

 rhume ; dans le dernier, on s'enivre et on s'endoit." 



Monnet's Memoirs give a very curious picture 



[* This advertisement reminds us of the following 

 work which turned up at the sale of Dr. Bliss's library: 

 "The Honour of the Gout, plainly demonstrating that 

 the Gout is one of the greatest Blessings that can befal 

 Mortal Rlan," 8vo. 1699. A crumb of comfort for some of 

 our afflicted brethren.] 



