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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>'« S. VI. 151., Nov. 20. '58. 



is delivered, you may be sure, with uproarious 

 emphasis. It is, iu fact, the very word where all 

 the fun centres. 



Can any of your correspondents favour me 

 with a transcript of the ditty, if any such there 

 be, called the Rogues March ? I know an old 

 officer, who would almost give the eyes out of his 

 head for a copy of the curiosity. The verse com- 

 monly sung by soldiers (the only one I have ever 

 heard) is subjoined : — 



" Drum the rascal out of the town, 

 Drum Lim out for desertion ; 

 If ever he 'lists for a soger again, 

 May tlie d 1 be his sergeant." 



The air of the march, of course, is well known. 

 It is given in Chappell's National Airs, p. \5. A 

 writer on the subject (" N. & Q." 2"« S. ii. 36.) 

 is astonished, that " so graceful and pastoral a 

 melody should have been condemned to be the 

 cantio in exitu of deserters and reprobates who 

 are to be drummed out " of the service ; but I 

 will answer for it, if he had ever heard it played, 

 in giving effect to this ultimate act of martial 

 discipline, he would be struck with its appro- 

 priateness. As played by military buglers or 

 fifers, who unquestionably improvise the accom- 

 paniments as wide of contrapuntal propriety as 

 possible, to suit the ignominious ceremony, he 

 would neither think it graceful nor pastoral, but 

 swear, by Crotch or some other " divine composer," 

 it was just the thing for the occasion. M, S. R. 

 Brompton Barracks. 



aticelic^ t0 Minax «attcr(ctf. 



The Villa Lrtdovisi (2"'' S. vi. 402.)— Your num- 

 ber of last Saturday contains a very unfair and 

 unfounded attack on a Roman nobleman. Prince 

 Piombino, signed by Dr. Rock, and stating that 

 the Villa Ludovisi and its artistic treasures have 

 for many years been churlishly closed by their 

 owner to the inhabitants of Rome and to tra- 

 vellers, and especially the frescoes by Guercino in 

 the Casino. 



I beg to inform Dr. Rock, that nothing is 

 more easy for foreigners than to obtain permission, 

 and which is enjoyed every year by hundreds of 

 our countrymen, by soliciting it from tbe noble 

 owner. The gallei-y of statues with such permis- 

 sion is visited by hundreds every Thursday, as also 

 the Casino, containing Guercino's frescoes, when 

 not inhabited by the family (from April to June). 

 If the Casino has not been open during the present 

 year, it has arisen from its undergoing extensive 

 repairs, by the addition of two wings for the resi- 

 dence of the younger members of the family. 



As a friend of the Piombino family, and an 

 habitual resident at Rome, I trust you will give 

 insertion to this contradiction to De. Rock's asser- 

 tion, than which nothing is so likely to shut the 



Villa Ludovisi against all foreigners and tra- 

 vellers. J. B. Pdntland. 



At Mr. Murray's, 

 50. Albemarle Street. 



" Co7ne thori fount of every blessing" (2°* S. vi, 

 55.) — I have had the opportunity of looking at 

 Mrs. Diana Binden's copy of the hymn — "Come 

 thou fount of every blessing" — as sent by your 

 correspondent Z., and send you the following par- 

 ticulars : — The hymn is copied with some others, 

 e. g. Watts's hymn, " My God the spring of all 

 my joys," and one or two of Mrs. Binden's own, 

 upon some blank leaves in Wesley's Hymns and 

 Sacred Poems, Dublin, 1747, On the title-page 

 is written, "Diana Binden, 1759." The book is 

 bound ; and on the inside of the cover is some 

 handwriting, evidently that of the name on the 

 title-page and of the MS. Hymns. Upon part 

 of this handwriting of the cover a Wesleyan So- 

 ciety's ticket is pasted, — the device, Christ wash- 

 ing the Disciples' feet. Upon this ticket is written 

 Mrs. Binden's maiden name, Diana Vandeleur, 

 she being a member of the Wesleyan Society. 

 Mr. George Smith, in his History of Wesleyan 

 Methodism, vol. i. p. 340., engraves facsimiles of 

 some of the early tickets of the Society, and 

 amongst them this, which he says was used circa 

 1763. The inference therefore seems to be inevi- 

 table, that the writing on the cover, over which 

 this ticket was pasted, and the MS. Hymns, which 

 are identical with it, are of a prior date to the 

 period when this ticket was used. 



The title of the hymn is, as given by your cor- 

 respondent Z. : " Hymn by the Countess of Hunt- 

 ingdon." Evidently, therefore, the hymn, when 

 copied by Miss Vandeleur, was believed by her to 

 be by the Countess, with whom she was on inti- 

 mate terms. Nothing, however, is said by the 

 biographer of the Countess about her being a 

 writer of hymns, although traditions of the kind 

 are I know preserved amongst members of the 

 Countess's connexion. She is, for example, said 

 to have written the hymn beginning : 



" When thou my righteous Judge shalt come." 



Wherever Jay may have affirmed the Countess 

 to have been " the author of some hymns," it is 

 not in his Life. The hymn in question is found 

 in the earliest editions of the Countess's Hymn 

 Booh, e. g. the edition of 1 764. 



Robinson was born in January, 1734, and began 

 to preach at Stoneyard, 1759. The popularity 

 and excellence of the hymn have induced me to 

 make these inquiries, and to trouble you with the 

 evidence. I shall be glad if any of your corre- 

 spondents can confirm, or otherwise, the presump- 

 tions of these data. H. A. 



Hiidihrastic Couplet (2°'' S. vi: 191.) — Absent 

 from London during the "Long Vacation," I 

 have not been within reach of " N. & Q.," and I 



