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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2 nJ S. IX. April 28. 'GO. 



poetically is it extended to the pagan divinities, and the 

 oriental Idolatries! "-T. ITarton. 



T am not aware that Dunster, or any other 

 critic, has pointed out the following parallelism: — 

 " Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra, 

 Non trinodas cortina tegit, non spumat anhelus 

 Fata Sibyllinis fanaticus edita libris; 

 Perdidit insanos niendax Dodona vapores, 

 Mortua jam mutse lugent omenta Cains, 

 Nee response! refert Libycis in Syrtibus Ammon." 

 (ihe Libyck Hamraon shrinks his horn, st. xxii.) 

 " Nil agit arcanum murmur: nil Thessala prosunt 

 Carmina, turbatos revocat nulla hostia Manes." 



Prudentii Apotheosis adv. JuJaos. 



Compare with the last line st. xxi. : — 

 " In urns and altars round 

 A drear and dying sound 



Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint." 

 " Attention is irresistibly awakened and engaged by 

 the air of solemnity and enthusiasm that reigns in this 

 stanza (xix.) and "some that follow. Such is the power 

 of true poetry, that one is almost inclined to believe the 

 superstition real."— Jos. Warton. 

 "And the chill marble see.na to sweat, 

 While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat." 



See an illustration of these two lines in " N. & 

 Q." 1 st S. iii. 36. Bibliothecar. Chetham. 



Calcutta Newspapers. — From the first number 

 of The World, now before me, dated October 15, 

 1791, it appears that the following weekly news- 

 papers were at that date published in Calcutta : — 

 " The Recorder, The Asiatic Mirror, 



The India Gazette, The Calcutta Gazette, 



The Calcutta Chronicle, The Advertiser, 

 The Bengal Journal, The Journal, and 



The Calcutta General The World." 



Advertiser. 



Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



Epitaph in Memory of a Spaniard. — Here 

 is the copy of an epitaph, which I make no ques- 

 tion will provoke the attention of some of your 

 readers who have the skill and the patience to 

 decypher monumental intricacies. It runs thus : 

 "estasepoltvraesdjvan 

 calbodsaabedreydesvs 

 herederosanode 1609." 



The letters are in Roman capitals, and equi- 

 distant, the division of words being altogether dis- 

 regarded. The inscription, worn by constant 

 treading, is on a small flat, stone near the altar of 

 the king's chapel at Gibraltar, and is evidently in 

 memory of some Spanish celebrity. At the foot 

 of the epitaph is an ornamental shield, 7 in. by 

 5 in., too much defaced to enable its heraldic 

 characteristics to be discovered. M. S. R. 



eattm'ftf. 



Macaulai's Earlier Essays. — It is well 

 known that Macaulay not unfrequently contri- 

 buted papers on the political situation of the 



time being to the Edinburgh Review ; for in- 

 stance, a paper entitled the "New Anti-Jacobin 

 Review " (vol. xlvi. of the year 1827, pp. 245- 

 268.), another on " Spirit of Party " (vol. xlvi. pp. 

 415-433.), and a third inscribed "Observations on 

 the late Changes" (vol. xlvii. of the year 1828, 

 pp. 251-260.). I now wish to know if two papers 

 in the 52nd vol. of the Edinburgh Review (of the 

 year 1831), entitled "the General Election and 

 the Ministry" (pp. 261-279.), and "the Late and 

 the Present Ministry" (pp. 530-546.) are from 

 Macaulay's pen? Perhaps one of your numerous 

 readers may be able to answer this question. 



I also wish to know if there are other essays of 

 Macaulay extant, besides those which have been 

 separately published, and those which are now 

 preparing for publication at Messrs. Longman's ? 



J. A. 



Lord Chatham before the Privy Council. 

 — In the recently published Memoirs of Mulone, 

 we are told in the " Maloniana" (p. 349.), that Lord 

 Chatham (when Mr. Pitt) " on some occasion 

 made a very long and able speech in the Privy 

 Council relative to some naval matter ;" but that 

 his proposal was instantly rejected when Lord 

 Anson declared that Mr. Secretary knew nothing 

 at all of what he had been talking about. Now 

 when did, or when could, Lord Chatham ever 

 have made an eloquent speech in the Privy Coun- 

 cil? The thing is simply impossible. Franklin 

 made a famous speech there ; but it was as a 

 party before the Council. A Privy Councillor 

 never makes a speech, except as a judge in giving 

 judgment; and no one could ever have heard 

 Lord Chatham make an eloquent speech there. 



Another passage (note, p. 348.) shows how pro- 

 foundly ignorant Malone must have been of what 

 he writes about. He speaks of Pope as patronising 

 Lord Mansfield. Lord Mansfield, at the time 

 mentioned, was in the highest position in the 

 House of Commons, the antagonist of Lord Chat- 

 ham ; and whoever has read Pope, must recollect 

 his considering Mr, Murray one of the greatest 

 men of the day. E. C. B. 



" Mille jugera." — Horace, in his ode In Vedium 

 Rufum, refers to a well-estated Roman gentleman 

 in the following terms : — 



"Arat Falerni mille fundi jugera." 



Can any of your classical readers find a similar 

 reference or allusion in any other Latin writer 

 in prose or verse ? There seems some intention 

 of precision in the idea expressed by the poet. 

 Were a thousand jugera the Roman ideal of a large 

 estate P H. C. C. 



"Wicquefort Manuscripts. — In the year 1735, 



Sir ■ Trevor, English ambassador at the 



Hague, bought, for Sir Richard Ellis, at a sale of 

 MSS. in Amsterdam, the last ten books of the 

 " Histoire des Provinces Unies par Abraham de 



