2"d g. ix Jan. 21. '60.] 



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placed beside each other on trestles, beariDg respectively 

 the following inscriptions:' — 



" ' Jessie Aspasia, the most excellent and truly beloved 

 wife of Fred. W. Campbell, Esq., of Barbeck, N.B., and 

 of Woodlands, Surry. Died in her 28th year, July 11, 

 1812.' 



" ' Henry E. A. Caulfield, Esq., died September 8, 1808, 

 aged 29 years.' 



" TbeSexton tells us, that the lady was daughter of 

 W. T. Caulfield, Esq., of Rahanduff, in Ireland, by Jessie, 

 daughter of James, third Lord Kuthven, and that she 

 bore with exemplary patience a fatal disorder, produced 

 by grief on the death of her brother. They now lie to- 

 gether in unburied solemnit}'." 



Feeling an interest in these parties for genealo- 

 gical purposes, &c., I would be glad to know if 

 the bodies have since been removed to their an- 

 cestral burial-place ? or do they still lie under the 

 staircase feuding to the gallery in the church of 

 Stains ? K. C. 



Cork. 



Historical Coincidences : French and Eng- 

 lish Heroism at Waterloo and Magenta : — 



" L'Empe'reur (Napoleon III.) est sur la route. Le 

 Colonel Raoul vient lui dire de la part du general Reg- 

 naud de St. Jean d'Angely, que la masse des ennemis 

 augmente a chaque instant, et qu'il ne peut plus tenir, si 

 on ne lui envoj-e pas du renfort. ' Je n'ai personne k lui 

 envoyer,' re'pond avec calme l'Ernpereur: ' dites au gene- 

 ral qu'il tienne toujours avec le peu de monde qui lui 

 reste.' Et le general tenait." — Saturday Review, Dec. 31, 

 1859, review of La Campagne d'ltalie de 1859, Chroniques 

 de la Guerre, par le Baron de Bazancourt. 



" One general officer was under the necessity of stating 

 that his brigade was reduced to one-third its number, and 

 that those who remained were exhausted with fatigue, 

 and that a temporary relief seemed a measure of peremp- 

 tory necessity. ' Tell him,' said the Duke, ' what he pur- 

 poses is impossible. He, I, and every Englishman on the 

 field, must die on the spot we now occupy.' ... 'It is 

 enough,' said the general. ' I, and every man under my 

 command, are determined to share his fate.'" — Paul's 

 Letters to his Kinsfolk, 1816. 



Two curious instances of the two commanders 

 and their generals at Waterloo and Magenta, for 

 which I suspect Scott and Baron de Bazancourt 

 would be equally puzzled if required to produce 

 their authorities. J. H. L. 



The French in Wales. — The Times news- 

 paper, during the last week, has contained a cor- 

 respondence relative to the French landing in 

 Wales in 1797. The following memoranda made 

 at the time appeared in yesterday's issue. If re- 

 printed and indexed in " N. & Q." they will be 

 of use to the future historian ; if left unnoticed 

 in that wide sea of print, they will probably be 

 forgotten : — 



"To Tim Editor of the 'Times.' 

 " Sir, — Permit me, with all due deference both to the 

 Hon. G. Denman and M. Edouard Tate, to give through 

 the medium of your columns a full, duo, and particular 

 account of the French landing in Wales, from an old 

 writing in my possession written at the time: — 

 " ' On the 22d of February, 1797, that part of the De- 



vonshire coast, situated at the mouth of the Bristol 

 channel, was thrown into the greatest consternation by 

 the appearance of three frigates, which entered the small 

 harbour of Ilfracombe, scuttled some merchant ships, and 

 endeavoured to destroy every vessel in the port. From 

 this place they departed, standing across the channel 

 towards the side of Pembroke; they were discovered 

 from the heights of St. Bride's Bay, as they were steering 

 round St. David's Head. They afterwards directed then- 

 course towards Fishgard, and came to anchor in a small 

 bay not far from Lanonda church, at which place they 

 hoisted French colours and put out their boats ; they 

 completed their debarcation on the morning of the 23d, 

 when numbers of them traversed the country in search of 

 provisions, plundering such bouses as they found aban- 

 doned, but offering no molestation to those inhabitants 

 who remained in their dwellings. The alarm which they 

 had first created soon subsided, as their numbers did not 

 exceed 1,400 men, wholly destitute of artillery, though 

 possessed of 70 cartloads of powder and ball, together 

 with a number of hand grenades. Two of the natives be- 

 came victims of their own temerity; in one of these in- 

 stances a Frenchman having surrendered and delivered 

 up his musket, the Welshman aimed a blow at him with 

 the butt-end of it, when self-preservation induced the 

 Frenchman to run him through the body with his bay- 

 onet, which he had not delivered up. Soon after the in- 

 vaders surrendered themselves prisoners of war to Lord 

 Cawdor, at the head of 700 men, consisting of volunteers, 

 fencibles, 3-eomen cavalry, and colliers. The frigates set 

 sail for the coast of France, but two were captured on the 

 first night in the ensuing month, while standing in for the 

 harbour of Brest, by the San Fiorenzo and Nymph fri- 

 gates. They proved to be La Resistance, of 48 guns, and 

 La Constance, of 24. The officer in command stated, 

 when captured, that the whole expedition consisted of 

 COO veteran soldiers, besides sailors and marines. It was 

 alleged at the time in favour of the French Government 

 that this expedition was merely an experiment.' 

 " I am, Sir, yours obediently, 

 " Leek, Dec. 21." " G. Massey." 



K. P. D. E. 



Christmas Eve. 



Junius. — If this question ever was solved, the 

 secret has not transpired, and the subject niay be 

 said to remain as problematical as ever. In Quar- 

 tcrly Review for April last (p. 490.), it is stated 

 that George III., when labouring under aberra- 

 tion of mind, even when most delirious, possessed 

 such " reticence" that he never divulged any 

 matters which in his rational moments it was his 

 object to conceal. It repeats his words to Major- 

 Gen. Desaguliers in 1772: "We know Junius — 

 he will write no more." And the reviewer adds, 

 " there can be little doubt, that the King knew 

 Francis's secret, and he never communicated it." 

 This, however, is not reconcilable with the follow- 

 ing statement in Diaries and Correspondence of 

 the lit. Hon. George Hose, just published by the 

 Rev. Leveson V. Harcourt, in 2 vols. 8vo. ; where, 

 in vol, ii. p. 184., it is related that, on October 31, 

 1804, the King, when riding out with Mr. Rose, 

 asked him whether he knew, or had any fixed 

 opinion as to who was the author of Junius ? To 

 which Mr. Rose replied, he believed no one living 

 hnew to a certainty who the author ivas, except Lord 



