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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»* S. IX. Mar. 24. *60. 



" Vengeance was his nightly dream, and the 

 uppermost of his waking thoughts." — Vol. i. p. 

 135. 



" Bad language — vengeance was his nightly dream, 

 and his first idea on awaking — would be better." 



" Her complexion savoured of the brunette" — 

 Vol. i. p. 140. 



" Strange, that expressions so vulgar should stain at 

 intervals a style so generally eloquent. A. S." 



" Actions, which might seem to savour of a too 

 tender and ambiguous sensibility." — Vol. ii. p. 24. 



" Oh ! that vulgar word." 



" He was reckoned for a madman." — Vol. ii. p. 

 59. 



" Awkward." * 



" He exhibited .... a copy of what monarchs 

 are who reckon among the instruments of their 

 power prisons of state." — Vol. ii. p. 203. 



" True democratic sentiment. It was a sentiment 

 which all England spoke before France destroyed her 

 Bastile and Englaud erected one in the Cold Bath 

 Fields. 



" Democracy is a bad thing, but not so bad as Mo- 

 narchical Tyranny." 



" Thank God, exclaims the Englishman, we 

 have no Bastille," &c. — Vol. ii. p. 215. 



"Not tyranny but dire necessity invented them. Things 

 as they are not in England. Commentator, hast thou 

 ever been over prisons? If thou hadst, thou wouldst not 

 deny the truth of this picture however thou mightst al- 

 ledge that its horrors had their rise in the corruption of 

 man rather than in the cruelty of the Legislation. We 

 should not, in our national partiality, shrink from truth, 

 much less brand it with imputed falsehood." 



" My case was not brought forward, but was 

 suffered to stand over six months longer. It 

 would have been just the same, if I had had as 

 strong reason to expect acquittal as I had con- 

 viction."— Vol. ii. p. 237. 



" The truth of that observation rescues this author 

 from slandering the inhumanity of English customs in 

 these cruel delays concerning punishment or acquittal." 



" The water to be administered to the prisoners 

 shall be taken from ' the next sink or puddle 

 nearest to the jail.'"— Vol. ii. p. 271. 



" Good God ! is that possible ? the state trials shall show 

 me. If true, what execration is too severe for ." 



" Oli, God ! if God there be that condescends 

 to record the beatings of an anxious heart." — 

 Vol. iii. p. 10. 



" Heavens! what an if! unhappy man. The doubt 

 it implies disgraces thy fine talents, and withers our 

 trust in the goodness of thine heart." 



If the foregoing unstudied remarks of the 

 " Swan of Lichfield" should excite interest as to 

 her printed opinions on the same work, the reader 

 is referred to her Letters, edited by Sir Walter 

 Scott (6 vols. Edinb. 1811). See Letter 43., vol. 

 iv. ; Letter 4C. vol. iv. ; Letter 10. vol. v. 



William Bates. 



iHt'itOf #0tejS. 



The Goodwin Sands. — About forty-five years 

 since, being on a visit at Rolvenden in Kent, I 

 was told a similar tale to the " Legend of the 

 Zuyderzee" (ante, p. 140.), respecting the origin 

 of the Goodwin Sands. A person who was sitting 

 at breakfast one morning in his kitchen observed 

 a movement in the floor, he took up a brick, and 

 found salt water, in which was a small fish. He 

 kept this discovery secret, and immediately sold 

 his property. The next morning the sea had so 

 far undermined that portion of the country, that 

 it broke up the land and formed the Goodwin 

 Sands. E. P. 



Alliterative Poetry. — If the following has 

 not already appeared in " N. & Q.," it may be 

 remembered by some of its readers as having ap- 

 peared about thirty years ago in one of the cheap 

 publications of that period : — 



" Alphabetical Assertions, Briefly Collected ; Describing 

 Elegant Flirtations, Generally Happening In Joking, 

 Kissing, Larking, Merry-making, Nutting (Opportunity 

 Producing Queer Rumpusses), Small Talk Under Volk's 

 Windows, 'Xciting Youthful Zeal, &c. 

 "Arthur Ask'd Amy's Affection, 

 Bet, Being Benjamin's Bride, 

 Coolly Cut Charles's Connection ; 



Deborah, Dicky Denied. 

 Eleanor's Eye, Efficacious, 



Frederick's Faiality Feels; 

 Giles Gained Georgiana — Good Gracious! 



Harry Hates Helen's High Heels. 

 Isaac Is Isabel's Idol, 



Jenny Jeers Jonathan Jones: 

 Kath'rine Knows Knock Kneed Kit Kuiedal, 



Love's Leering Lucy's Long-bones. 

 Mary Meets Mortifications, 



Nicholas Nancy Neglects, 

 Oliveu's Odd Observations 



Proves Peter Poor Patty Protects! 

 Quaker Quintilian's Queer Quibbles 



Red Rachel's Reasons Resist : 

 Soft Simon's Svmpathv Scrilibles 

 Tales To Tall Tabitha Twist. 

 Urs'la Unthinking. Undoing 

 Volatile Valentine's Vest, 

 William's Wild Wickeder Wooing 

 'Xceeds Youthful Zelica's Zest." 



W. J. Stannard. 

 Hatton Garden. 



Bonaparte's Marriage. — The following is the 

 first, public announcement of the intended union 

 of the Emperor Napoleon and the Arch-Duchess 

 Maria Louisa. The short but terrible conflict be- 

 tween the Austrians and the French terminated 

 after the severest reverses in favour of the latter, 

 and the treaty of peace was signed at Vienna on 

 the 14th Oct. 1809. The Emperor Napoleon left 

 the Palace of Schoonbrunn on the 16th on his re- 

 turn to Paris, and the Austrian capital was eva- 

 cuated by his army as rapidly as circumstances 

 would permit. The last, French soldier had 

 scarcely left before the Emperor of Austria held 



