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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°"» S. IX. Fr.n. IB. 'CO. 



1>inni:r Etiquette (2 nd S. ix. 81.) — Your cor- 

 respondent, Ci-devant, has thrown good light on 

 ■ lie question of dinner etiquette, as raised in 

 Eraser's Magazine for January last, in a paper 

 containing a reference to Miss Austen's Emma. 

 With regard to the very interesting extract pro- 

 duced by him from the Memoirs of Madame de 

 Ge/dis, I have a letter from a lr.dy well qualified 

 by experience and position to speak on the sub- 

 ject. She writes : — 



" It seems odd that Napoleon did not bring back the 

 old Court etiquette; and still more so that the emigrant 

 nobles should have taken to the revolutionary modes. 

 When I accompanied C. to Paris in 1814, the JVoah's ark 

 plan was followed by the Bourbon noblesse, with several 

 of whom we dined. Our first dinner was one given by 

 the Due de Fleury. The new French ministers, includ- 

 ing the Due de Blacas, were present. I was banded into 

 the dining-room by a French gentleman (whose name I 

 forget), whom I afterwards also met at all the grand 

 balls given by the King of Prussia and the various Am- 

 bassadors. Each gentleman held his hand towards the 

 lady he escorted, and she placed on it the tips of her 

 fingers. Our names were all written on slips of paper 

 placed opposite to our seats at table. Our next dinner 

 was at Lafitte's, so that we had an immediate oppor- 

 tunity of comparing the ways of the rich parvenus with 

 those of the old 7ioblesse ; but all was conducted alike in 

 both sets. At home, my father always handed his lady 

 to table. He could not bear what he called the new 

 fashion of ladies leaning upon gentlemen's arms." 



I have it on the authority of a venerable Scot- 

 tish lady that, in her youth in Scotland, the ladies 

 alwavs left the drawing-room first, and before the 

 gentlemen, to go in to dinner ; but I can find no 

 evidence that this practice prevailed in London 

 society within living memory. At Highbury, and 

 in Mr. Woodbouse's circle, the maimers of the 

 time and class are no doubt correctly described 

 by Miss Austen in Emma. W. F. P. 



Sepulchres (2 nd S. ix. p. 92.)— Notwithstand- 

 ing the positive assertion of Liturgist, supported 

 too as it is by the high authority to which he re- 

 fers, I, for one, would beg leave to demur for 

 awhile, and would solicit farther information from 

 other ecclesiastical antiquaries who have turned 

 their attention to the subject, and who may be 

 able to give early examples of ecclesiastics laid 

 with their feet towards the west.* 



la Willis's Current Notes for 1855 (p. 44.) there 

 i= an interesting article by the vicar of Morwen- 

 stow on the position of the buried dead ; and 

 therein lie mentions an abbot's sepulchre in Clo- 

 velly church, having the feet laid towards the 

 west ; also, an early priest's grave in his own 

 church in the same direction. He speaks of others 

 of the same sort " in many an antique church," 

 and he goes on lengthily to explain it. and quotes 



f * Our correspondent has probably overlooked an able 

 article on this subject in our I* S. ii. 4.52., in reply to the 

 Vicar of Morwenstow, from the pen of one of the most 

 learned of our ecclesiastical antiquaries. — Ed.] 



a rubrical enactment (without reference) for the 

 burial of the clergy. " Habeant caput versus 

 altare." "It was," to quote his own words, "to 

 signify preparation and readiness to arise, and to 

 follow after their Lord in the air, when he shall 

 arise from the east, and, accompanied by his saints, 

 pass onwards to the west," &c. H. T. Ellacombe. 



The Prussian Iron Medal- (2 nd S. ix. 91.) — 

 Under this reference mention is made by your 

 correspondent Z. of " D'Allonville's Memoires 

 dun Homme d'Etat (Prince Hardenberg )". I find 

 it stated in the Encye. des Gens du Monde that 

 Prince Hardenberg at his death in 1822 left cer- 

 tain memoirs, but that the MS. was impounded by 

 the King (of Prussia), who commanded that it 

 should not. be opened before the year 1 850. On 

 the other hand, it appears from the Novo. Biog. 

 Gener. that d'Allonville succeeded A. de Beau- 

 cfTamp in the redaction of the " Memoires tires des 

 Papiers (Tun Homme d'Etat" which bear the ear- 

 lier date 1831-1837. Are these "Memoires," 

 published before the date assigned by the royal 

 ordinance, the work cited by Z.? "Whether or no, 

 where in London might a copy of " D'Allon- 

 ville's Memoires dun Homme d'Etat (Prince 

 Hardenberg)" be seen ? I have made many in- 

 quiries for such a work, but hitherto without suc- 

 cess. Vedette. 



"The Voyages," etc., of Captain Richard 

 Falconer (2 nd S. ix. 66.) — The edition of 1724 

 is the second, and has an engraved frontispiece by 

 Cole. I never heard of an edition of 1 734. Chet- 

 wood, the author, also wrote a similar work en- 

 titled The Voyages and Adventures of Captain 

 Robert Boyle in several Parts of the World, 

 12mo., 1728, and afterwards reprinted. And 

 I have also another production of Chetwood, 

 entitled : 



" The Voyages, Travels, and Adventures of William 

 Owen Gwin Vaughan. Esq.: with tbe History of his 

 Brother Jonathan Vaughan, Six Years a Slave in Tunis; 

 intermix'd with the Histories of Clerimont. Maria, Elea- 

 nora, and others, full of various turns of Fortune. By 

 the Author of Captain Robert Boyle." 2 vols. 12mo., 

 1760. 2nd edition, with plates by Vander Gutcb. 



This edition is dedicated to his Royal Highness 

 the Prince of Wales by "R. Chetwood." The 

 latter work is the most amusing of the series, and 

 is equally difficult to procure at the present day. 



Aloystts. 



Ballads against Enclosures (2 nd S. ix. 64.) — 

 The animosity excited against the Inclosure Acts 

 and their authors, and more especially against the 

 landlords and lords of manors, who alone were 

 supposed to derive benefit from the spoliation of 

 the poor cottager, was almost without precedent; 

 though fifty years and more have passed, the sub- 

 ject is still a sore one in many parishes: much of 

 the indigence and misery caused by the cottager's 



