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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Hume has written on the subject, which is to this 

 effect. "Lord Marechal, a few clays after the 

 king's coronation, told me that he believed the 

 young Pretender was at that time in London, or 

 at least had been so very lately, and had come 

 over to see the show of the coronation, and had 

 actually seen it. I asked my lord the reason for 

 tLis strange fact? Why, says he, a "gentleman 

 told me so, who saw him there, and that he even 

 spoke to him, and whispered into his ear these 

 words : ' Your royal highness is the last of all 

 mortals I should expect to see here.' ' It was cu- 

 riosity that led me,' said the other ; ' but I assure 

 you,' added he, ' that the person who is the object 

 of all this pomp and magnificence is the man I 

 envy the least.' " 



Hume says that this story came to him from so 

 near the fountain head, " as to wear a face of 

 great probability." But it amounts to this, — 

 Lord Marechal told Plume that somebody (who is 

 nameless) had told him that he (the anonymous 

 somebody) had seen the prince, and held the above 

 absurd dialogue with him. We have better evi- 

 dence of the presence of Charles Edward in Eng- 

 land in 1750 and 1753. In the former year, Dr. 

 King says in his Memoirs, that he saw and con- 

 versed with the prince at Lady Primrose's. Thick - 

 nesse, in his Memoirs, states that the prince was 

 over here about 1753-4; and Lord Holdernesse, 

 who was Secretary of State in 1753, told Hume 

 that he first learned the fact from George II., who 

 remarked that when the Pretender got tired of 

 England he would probably go abroad again. 

 The ostensible domicile of Charles Edward at that 

 time was Liege, where he lived under the title of 

 Baron de Montgomerie. J. Doran. 



The Querist will find the subject noticed in the 

 2nd volume of Sir AValter Scott's novel of Red- 

 itu nutlet, vol. ii. p. 246., and a relative note, p. 254. 

 No special allusion is made, however, to thePreten- 

 dcr ; but it is said that when the champion flung 

 down his gauntlet as the gage of battle, an un- 

 known female stepped from the crowd and lifted 

 the pledge, leaving in its stead another gage, with 

 a paper expressing that if a fair field of combat 

 were allowed, a champion of rank and birth would 

 appear with equal arms to dispute King George's 

 claim to the throne. 



Sir Walter justly considers this as "probably 

 one of The numerous fictions which were circulated 

 to keep up the spirits of a sinking faction;" and 

 had such an incident actually occurred, it is in- 

 conceivable that it should not have been noticed 

 in any contemporary newspaper or other publica- 

 tion. G. 



Edinburgh. 



Bbbeohbs Biblb (■->"' S. viii. 530.) — This an- 

 ecdote, attributed to Oraoherode, was, sixty years 

 "ince, rei Rev, (Monoid Walter, M.A., 



chaplain of the Centurion, who published, in 1748, 

 the celebrated voyage of Lord Anson. The book 

 affirmed to have been covered by the Reverend 

 journalist, and afterwards presented to the British 

 Museum, was the Bible that had been his daily 

 companion on the voyage. Could not this fact be 

 ascertained by some reader at the Museum, and 

 the right donor ascertained, with the present state 

 of the gift, with its covering, that had been round 

 the world before its application to its present pur- 

 pose ? E. D. 

 [Nothing is known of the volume bound iu buckskins 

 in the Cracherode or any other collection in the British 

 Museum, so that we may conclude it was a joke of the 

 facetious bibliopole, Dr. Dibdin. — Ed.] 



Bacon on Conversation (2 nd S. viii. 108.) — 

 Lord Bacon, at the beginning of his 8th book De 

 Augmentis Scientiarwn, and in the correspond- 

 ing passage of his work on the Advancement 

 of Learning, treats the subject of Conversation, 

 or behaviour in intercourse with men, as a de- 

 partment of civil science. He remarks, however, 

 that the subject had been already treated by 

 others in a satisfactory manner. " Verum hsec 

 pars scientias civilis de conversatione eleganter 

 profecto a nonnullis tractata est, neque ullo modo 

 tamquam desiderata reponi debet" (vol. ix. p. 6., 

 ed. Montagu.). In the Advancement of Learning 

 the passage stands : " But this part of civil know- 

 ledge hath been elegantly handled, and therefore 

 I cannot report it for deficient." 



The writer principally referred to by Lord Ba- 

 con in this passage is undoubtedly Giovanni della 

 Casa, who was born in 1503, and died in 1556, 

 and whose work, Galateo, trattato del costumi, 

 published in 1558, particularly plated to the sub- 

 ject of conversation. It acquired great celebrity, 

 was translated into many languages, and was par- 

 ticularly renowned for the elegance of its style (to 

 which the words of Bacon allude). Another wri- 

 ter, whom Lord Bacon doubtless had in his mind, 

 is Castiglione, who, in the second book of his Cor- 

 tigiano, lays down rules for the conversation of the 

 courtier, both with his sovereign and with his 

 equals (see the Milan ed. of 1803, vol. i. p. 127. 

 147.). Castiglione died in 1529, and his Cortigiano 

 was published in the previous year. L. 



Dr. Dan. Featly (2 nd S. ix. 13.)— Dr. D. 



Featly (alias Fairclough, see Clarke's Lives, 1683, 

 p. 153.*) is mentioned in Howell's Letters (last 

 ed. p. 354.) ; in Lloyd's Memoires, p. 527. ; in 

 Clarke's Lives (1677), p. 295. ; in. Fuller's Wor- 

 thies (8vo. ed.), iii. p. 24. ; a Life and Death of 

 Dr. Dan. Featly, published by John Featly, ap- 

 peared in 1660 (12mo.) ; J. F. was, I suppose, the 

 Dr. John Featly, nephew of Dr. Daniel, rector of 

 Langer, Notts, and precentor of Lincoln, whose 

 younger brother, Henry, lived at Thorp, Notts 



' Tho second page so numbered in Eairclough's Life, 



