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were as popular in America as in Europe, and to 

 this day the name is occasionally met with, varied 

 by those who do not know whence it is derived 

 into Pamelia and Permelia. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Dibdin at the Nore. — Is there any published 

 authority for the statement made by F airplay in 

 the last number of " N. & Q." (p. 280.) that "Mr. 

 Pitt encouraged Dibdin to go among the sailors 

 during the mutiny at the Nore ? " P. II. 



Chettle's Welsh. — Will you permit me to 

 ask your British readers whether the Welsh of 

 Chettle's " Patient Grizzel," be good Welsh, or 

 a mere gallimaufry of language. Chettle, Dekker, 

 and Haughton, are not names that smack of the 

 Principality, nor can one sec how a London audi- 

 ence could have appreciated the fun of whole 

 sentences of Welsh, though Sir Owen states that 

 it is " finer as Greek tongue." G. H. K. 



Voltaire. — 



" The correspondent of The Times has studied to ad- 

 vantage the advice of Voltaire on the means of under- 

 mining the Christian truth : ' Menlez, mentez hardi- 

 ment.'" — Letter dated Paris, April 10, in Tablet, April 

 14, 1860. 



My copy of Voltaire professes to be his com- 

 plete works. 1 have read it through, and the 

 greater part of it more than once, but do not 

 remember anything which would warrant the 

 opinion that Voltaire was so wicked as to adopt 

 or so foolish as to recommend such a practice. I 

 should like to know whether this saying or writing 

 was ever imputed to him before last week, and if 

 so, when and by whom ? FiTZHorrciNs. 



Garrick Club. 



Hale the Piper. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents furnish me with any particulars relat- 

 ing to this worthy, whose portrait is engraved in 

 Caulfield's Memoirs of Remarkable Persons ? I 

 " should be glad to know where a copy of the origi- 

 nal portrait, with the music and song beneath, 

 may be seen, and to have the words of the song. 

 Any information will be very acceptable. 



Llewellynn Jewitt. 

 Derby. 



Red Gold. — Tn the Codex Dipl. JEv. Sax., vol. 

 iv. p. 291., is printed the will of Thcodred, Bishop 

 of London, who died about the year 9G2. In this 

 will the bishop bequeaths a certain quantity of red 

 gold on two occasions ; first, he granted his lord his 

 iieriot, namely, " tua bund marcas arcde goldjs." 

 This is printed " tua bund mancasa rede goldes " 

 in Kemblc's "Notes on the Bishops of East An- 

 glia," i;i the Norwich volume of the Proceedings of 

 the Archaeological Institute ; and next he gives to 

 • Edith " fifti marcas redes goldes." Pray allow me 

 to inquire what this red gold was? 



George Munford. 



Search Warrants, how executed. — 



"By the old common law, which, though allowed to 

 fall into disuse, has never been formally abrogated, the 

 constable executing a search- warrant was obliged to leave 

 his upper coat at the door, and the party complaining to 

 strip if he choose to assist, lest innocent men should be 

 convicted by what was called the suppositition of goods." 



From a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, London, 

 1830, entitled Police and Espionage. 



The pamphlet is coarse and virulent, but the 

 author does not seem to have been illiterate. 

 Was there ever such a law or custom ? S. II. 



Napoleon III. — When and where did the 

 first wife of the emperor die? In the Family Li- 

 brary, " Court and Camp of Buonaparte," he is 

 mentioned as having married his first cousin, 

 " Charlotte," the second daughter of his uncle 

 " Joseph, ex-King of Spain." She is represented 

 as living at Florence, and alive in 1830. What 

 title or name did she assume, as he relinquished 

 his titles of" Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves" in 

 1814? ' A. 



catteries tottl) STtu»um-j£. 



Peter Finnerty. — Reverting to bygone times 

 and persons, I should thank any correspondent of 

 "N. & Q." to point out to me a memoir of the 

 above gentleman, whom I can well remember to 

 have seen lounging in the afternoons in St. James's 

 Street, as was then the custom. I may say floruit 

 at the beginning of this century. He was a robust 

 stout Hibernian, well educated, possessing much 

 fluency and rapidity of enunciation.. He was con- 

 stantly employed on the Morning Chronicle, and 

 was for some years editor of that journal, and 

 was also much acquainted with the eminent lite- 

 rary and political characters of his day. Subjicio. 



[Peter Finnerty was the son of a tradesman at Lough - 

 rea in Gal way. At an early age he had to seek his for- 

 tune at Dublin, and was brought up as a printer. In the 

 revolutionary year of 1798, he succeeded Arthur O'Con- 

 nor as printer of the democratic organ The Press. The 

 violence of that paper caused it to be prosecuted. On 

 Friday, December '22, 1797, Finnerty was tried upon 

 an Indictment for a Seditious Libel in The Press, be- 

 fore the Hon. William Downes, one. of the Justices of 

 the Court of King's Bench in Ireland. The prosecution 

 was owing to a letter signed " Marcus," on the subject 

 of the conviction and execution of William Orr, on a 

 charge of administering unlawful oaths — a topic con- 

 tinually brought forward and animadverted upon by 

 the conductors' of The Press. Finnerty was sentenced to 

 stand in and upon the pillory for the space of one hour; 

 to be imprisoned for two years to be computed from the 

 ."1st October, 1797 (the day he was arrested); to pay a 

 fine of 20/. to the king; and to give security for his future 

 good behaviour for seven years from the end of his im- 

 prisonment, himself in 500/., ami two sureties in 250/. 

 each. (Cobbett's State Trials, xxvi. 902-1018 ) On his 

 removal to London, Finnerty engaged himself as a par- 

 liamentary reporter for the Morning Chronicle. Having 

 become acquainted with Sir Home Popham, he sailed 



