2-4 S. IX. Feb. 11. '60.] 



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of which society he became a scholar at the com- 

 mencement of his second year, at which time 

 he became intimately acquainted with Porson. 

 Shortly after taking his degree, he entered holy 

 orders, and was for many years curate of a re- 

 tired village in Lincolnshire, and afterwards be- 

 came private chaplain to the Duke of Ancaster. 

 Retiring from the active duties of his sacred office 

 on account of ill health, he removed to Bath for 

 the benefit of the waters ; and during the intervals 

 of leisure there afforded him, he compiled his 

 great work, the History of the English Stage from 

 1660 to 1830. After nine years of most acute 

 suffering, he died at his residence in Henry Street, 

 Dec. 15th, 1839, at the age of seventy-five, and 

 was buried at St. James's Church. C. P. E. 



Firelock and Bayonet Exercise (2 nd S. ix. 

 76.) — In copying the original document which is 

 printed at p. 76. supra, I find I have omitted three 

 of the evolutions as under : — 



34. Shortne them against vour 



brest - - - 1. 2. ' 



35. Return your Ramers - - 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 



36. Your right hands under y e 



Locks - - - 1. 



Instead of the order as printed, — 

 23. Cart about to charge - 1. 2. 



read — 

 23. Cast about to charge - 1. 2. 



James Graves, A.B. 

 Kilkenny. 



Destruction of MSS (2 nd S. ix. 88.) — Many 

 years ago, upon the death of Sir Edward Howorth, 

 who, for some years commanded the artillery in 

 Spain under the Great Duke, the papers of the 

 gallant General fell into the hands of a relative : 

 the name I suppress. A very voluminous cor- 

 respondence between Sir Edward and the Com- 

 mander-in-Chief was destroyed, one letter only 

 being reserved as a present to a friend, 1: who 

 might perhaps like to have an autograph of the 

 Duke." 



This letter, which I have seen, is one amongst 

 many proofs of what the public is just beginning 

 to find out, viz., that the Iron (?) Duke was, 

 where the occasion justified it, as kind-hearted 

 and gentle to his friends as he was formidable to 

 his enemies. Another Old Peninsular. 



Dicky Dickinson (2 nd S. ix. 26.) — In "N". 

 & Q." are enumerated several landslips which 

 have occurred at Folkstone, and perhaps the fol- 

 lowing, which is extracted from the London Ma- 

 gazine for 1738, is fully as remarkable. Connected 

 with it also was an extraordinary personage, who 

 has already figured in your columns (Dicky Dick- 

 inson, 2 nd S. ii. 189. 273.), and was a considerable 

 sufferer therefrom. It was considered as a sub- 

 terraneous convulsion, the soil and sand behind 

 Dickinson's house being forced eighteen feet or 





more above its level for the distance of one hun- 

 dred yards, so completely burying the spa springs 

 that they were not again discovered till a diligent 

 search for them had been made. We are not 

 positive whether Dickinson died a little previous 

 or just after this event.* The spa where Dickin- 

 son and his mistress were living was so close to 

 the sea, and so little defended from it, that he 

 wrote — 



" Neptune grown jealous of our pow'rs, 

 Turns Me and Peggy out of doors." 



The earth after the above displacement settled 

 in a slanting direction, and pleasure grounds have 

 been formed on the spot, with zigzag walks, al- 

 coves, &e. ; and what would be the astonishment 

 of Dickinson could he view the various transposi- 

 tions now apparent ? Where his cottage stood, 

 at an expense of more than 10,000/., have 

 been erected concert, ball, and refreshment 

 rooms, which are attended by many hundreds 

 every evening during the season. It is stated 

 that Dickinson was buried at the old church at 

 Scarborough, but there does not appear that any 

 monument was erected to him. On a flat stone, 

 facing the south entrance of that chureh, is inserted 

 a metal plate bearing the following inscription to 

 the memory of Dicky Dickinson's successor in 

 office : — 



" Here lyeth the body of Mr. William Tymperton, 

 late Governour of Scarborough Spaw, who departed this 

 Life on the 12th day of January, 1755, aged 65." 



Epsilon. 



Sea Breaches (2 nd S. viii. 468.) — I have now 

 before me a pamphlet bearing the following lengthy 

 title: — 



" An Essay on the Contour of the Coast of Norfolk ; 

 But m">re particularly as it relates to the Marum-Banks 

 and Sea-Breaches. So loudly and so justly complained 

 of. Read to the ' Society for the Participation of Useful 

 Knowledge,' Oct. 20th, 1789, in Norwich. By M. J. Arm- 

 strong, Geographer and Land-Surveyor ; Then a Brother 

 of that respectable Association, and now a Member of the 

 Society of Arts, &c, in London. Norwich : Printed by 

 Crouse and Stevenson, and sold bv Win. Stevenson, in the 

 Market Place, 1791," 4to. pp. 18. " 



This essay directly relates to the principal sub- 

 ject-matter of Note of Interrogation's Query ; and, 

 if any such act as that referred to was passed in 

 the reign of Anne or George I., the author could 

 scarcely have failed to notice it from ignorance of 

 its existence, assisted as he was in the compilation 

 of his paper, by a communication from the Rev. 

 Wm. Ivory of Horsey, a local antiquary of well- 

 known intelligence and information. This conclu- 

 sion becomes the more certain from the fact that 

 the writer of the Essay, in describing the ravages 

 committed by the inroads of the sea, and alluding 



[* The landslip took place on Dec. 29, 1737. Dickinson 

 died on Sunday, February 12, 1738-9. See " N. & Q.," 

 2""S. ii. 273. — Ed.] 



