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■with the Walcheren expedition, with a view of reporting 

 its achievements; but being prevented carrying that ob- 

 ject into effect, after a delay of some weeks, he returned 

 to England. 



Finnerty was a strange wild effervescent sort of Irish- 

 man, extremely quick and ready, and at the boiling 

 point in a minute. He had a fracas with George Hanger, 

 afterwards Lord Coleraine. Like Porsun ami Paul Hif- 

 fernan, his favourite haunt was the Cider Cellar, No. 20. 

 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, celebrated for its devilled 

 kidneys, oysters, and Welsh rabbits, where very choice 

 spirits" and intellectual men passed their nights, as well as 

 their days. 



In February, 1811, Finnerty was committed to Lincoln 

 gaol for eighteen months, having also to find securities 

 for five years' good behaviour, himself in 500/. and two 

 sureties in 200/. each, for a libel on Lord Castlereagh, on 

 a judgment by default in the Court of King's Bench. 

 He memorialised the House of Commons on June 21, 

 against the treatment he experienced in gaol, accusing the 

 gaolers of cruelty and placing him with felons, refusing 

 him air and exercise. There were several discussions on 

 the subject, in which he was highly spoken of by Whit- 

 bread, Burdett, Romilly, and Brougham. (Hansard's 

 Parliamentary Debates, xx. 723-43., 1811.) He died in 

 Westminster, May 1 1, 1822, aged fifty-six. 



refer Finnertyused to relate the following anecdote of 

 his friend Mark Supple, a thick-boned Irish reporter in 

 the staff of Perry on the M^orning Chronicle. Supple after 

 having dined at Bellamy's, as was his wont, walked into 

 the gallery of the House of Commons, and taking advan- 

 tflge of a pau?e in the debate, roared out for "A song 

 from Mr. Speaker!" The Speaker, the precise Adding- 

 ton, was paralysed ; the House was thunderstruck — there 

 was clearly no precedent for this. In the next minute 

 the comic prevailed over the serious, and the House was 

 in a roar of laughter, led off by Pitt. However, for 

 appearance sake, the serjeant-at-arms was obliged to 

 seek out the offender; but no one in the gallery would 

 betray Mark Supple, and the official was about retiring 

 at fault, when Supple indicated to him by a meaning nod 

 that a fat Quaker who sat near him was the delinquent. 

 The poor Quaker was taken into custody accordingly; 

 but in the midst of a scene of confusion and excitement, 

 the real culprit was discovered, and after a few hours' 

 durance, was allowed to go off, on making an apology. 

 (Andrews's British Journalism, ii. 31.) 



Finnerty published, Report of the Speeches of Sir F. 

 Burdett at the late Election, 8yo. 1804; and His Case, in- 

 cluding the Law Proceedings against him, and his treat- 

 ment in Lincoln Gaol, 8vo. 1811.] 



" Nouveau Testament far i/es Theologtens 

 db Louvain. Bourdeaux, 1 686." — In a handbill 

 now before me, dated 1821, the above-named book, 

 inter alia, is for sale. The bill is as follows : — 



"Catalogue of part of the library of the late Duke of 

 Norfolk, removed from Home Lacy ; also, the library of 

 a Clergyman, deceased, will be sold by Auction by Mr. 

 Evans, at his house, No. 93. Pall Mall, on Monday, Dec. 

 3rd, 1821, and six following days (Sundays excepted)." 



Is there any possibility of finding out to whom 



this volume was sold, and all or any particulars 



ectingit? George Lloyd. 



[We have now before us Evans's Catalogue of Dec. 3, 

 1821, with the purchasers' names and prices, and we find 

 that No. 1842, Le Nouveau Testament, traduit par les 

 Thiologieni de Louvain, Bourdeaux, 1080, 8vo. was sold 

 to Mr. I'ettigrew. This identical copy, which was for- 

 merly in Ca;sar do Missy's collection, is now in the 



British Museum, and as it came from the library of the 

 late Duke of Sussex, it would appear there is a slight 

 inaccuracy in the following note on the article in Mr. 

 Pettigrew's Catalogue, Bibliotheca Susseriayia, vol. ii. 

 p. 543. : He says, " Of this rare edition of the New Tes- 

 tament, four copies only are known [the Catalogue of the 

 British Museum states that " only eight copies are known 

 to exist"]. I purchased it at the sale of Cesar de Missy's 

 hooks and MSS.for the sum of 24/. The other copies are 

 in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, in the library 

 of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and in the Archie- 

 piscopal library at^Lambeth. [A pencil note in the British 

 Museum copy farther adds, there are two copies at Dub- 

 lin, one in the Bodleian, and one in Christ Church, 

 Oxford.] Its publication took place at a time when con- 

 troversy ran high between [Roman] Catholics and Pro- 

 testants, and this edition was put forth as the production 

 of the Doctors of the Louvain, and its accuracy was at- 

 tested by the Archbishop of Bordeaux. The fraud at- 

 tempted" was, however, soon detected, and the edition 

 was doomed to destruction. A great number of passages 

 are perverted from the truth, evidently by design, to 

 favour the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. 

 Bishop Kidder published a tract containing reflections 

 on this translation, London, 1690, 4to. To this I refer 

 the reader for a very particular examination of the edi- 

 tion: it may suffice here to allude to two passages only, 

 from which its character can be estimated : — Actsxiii. 2., 

 ' Or.comme ils offr&ient au Seigneur le Sacrifice de la 

 Messe; ' Corinthians iii. 15., after ' il sera sauve'' follows 

 ' par le Feu de purgatoire.' "] 



Dr. Thomas Comber. — Was Thomas Comber, 

 the liturgical writer (born 1645), related to the 

 Comber family of Shermanbury, Sussex ? 



H. J. Mathews. 



[In 1542 the manor of Shermanbury in Sussex was 

 sold by William Lord Sandys to William Comber, who 

 was the great-grandfather of Dr. Thomas Comber, Dean 

 of Durham, the liturgical writer. The arms of the family 

 given at the Heralds' Office, in 1571, to one of the Dean's 

 ancestors, Mr. John Comber of Shermanbury, in the 

 county of Sussex, gentleman, are, field or, bend wave, 

 gules; three stars, sable. Crest, a lynx's bead. In the 

 Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Comber, 

 J).D. Dean of Durham, by his great-grandson, Thomas 

 Comber, A.B. 8vo. 1799, it is stated (p. 0.) that " the 

 Dean of Durham, as himself informs us, was descended 

 from a very ancient family at Barkham, in the county of 

 Sussex, and that manor, according to family tradition, 



was bestowed upon one of his ancestors, de Combre, 



by William the Conqueror, with whom he came over 

 from Normandy, for killing its Saxon or Danish Lord in 

 the famous battle which placed that Duke on the throne 

 of England."] 



The Christian Advocate. — I find the fol- 

 lowing note at p. 117. of Lady Morgan's Autobio- 

 graphy. (Bentley, 1859) : — 



" My husband gave up his profession at the period of 

 the prosecution of the Christian Advocate .... He re- 

 fused to belong to a profession whose great truths he was 

 not permitted to avow." 



To what circumstance, and what " Christian 

 Advocate" does her ladyship allude? A " Rev. 

 Mr. Reynolds" [Rennell] appears to be the party 

 connected with it, but I can only trace the mo- 

 dern periodical of that name. George Lloyd. 



[Lady Morgan here alludes to the masterly production 

 of the Rev, Thomas Rennell, B.D., F.R.S., who soon after 



