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were princely and baronial, forming " one of the most 

 ancient branches of the House of Stewart," that had 

 existed .'is a separate family for no less than five centu- 

 ries, and directly asserted their claim by exhibiting a 

 most splendid pedigree. 



" Strange ! all this difference should be 

 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee ! " 



But so it was : for the question being considered a fair 

 topic of literary discussion for the pages of Blackwood's 

 Edinburgh Magazine, a series of articles appeared in the 

 earlier numbers of that work, and were afterwards col- 

 lected into a volume by Mr. J. Riddle, entitled The Salt- 

 Foot Controversy, as it appeared in Blackwood's Magazine ; 

 to which is added, A Reply to the article published in 

 No. 18. of that work; with other extracts, and an Ap- 

 pendix, containing some Remarks on the present State of 

 the Lyon Office. 8vo. 



The disputants in this solemn farce eventually came to 

 blows." Early in May, 1818, one Mr. Douglas presented 

 himself at the publisher's, with a new riding-whip in his 

 hand, and in a loud voice inquired, " If Blackwood was 

 within ? " And being answered in the negative, was 

 about to retire, when he met the worthy publisher at the 

 door. Upon this Mr. Douglas, in the strength, length, 

 and agility of his notable limbs, laid his whip about the 

 shoulders of the unlucky proprietor of Maga, and in- 

 stantly strode off without leaving his card. Mr. Black- 

 wood instantly provided himself with a hazel sapling, and 

 was determined to chastise the ruffian. Accordingly he 

 aud his friend James Hogg sallied forth, and found that 

 Douglas had taken refuge in Mackay's Hotel, and was to 

 start for Glasgow by the 4 o'clock coach. On his appear- 

 ance Mr. Blackwood sprung upon him with his stick, 

 and, to use his own words, " nothing short of a certificate 

 from a respectable surgeon will conviifce those who wit- 

 nessed the whole proceeding, that his arms and shoulders 

 do not bear unequivocal marks of the severity of his 

 punishment." 



The account of this affray by the Ettrick Shepherd is 

 so characteristic, that we give it in his own words : — 



" To the Editor of the ' Glasgow Clironicle.' 



" Sir, — A copy of the Glasgow Chronicle has just been 

 handed to me, in which I observe a paragraph concerning 

 Mr. Blackwood, and ' a gentleman from Glasgow,' which I 

 declare to be manifestly false. The paragraph must have 

 been written by that said gentleman himself, as no other spec- 

 tator could possibly have given such a statement. Among 

 other matters, he says that Mr. B. was 'accompanied by 

 a man having the appearance of a shop-porter.' He is ' a 

 gentleman from Glasgow,' and I am 'a man having the 

 appearance of a shop-porter' (for there was no person ac- 

 companying Mr. B. but myself). Now I do not take 

 this extremely well, and should like to know what it is 

 that makes him a gentleman, and me so far below one. 

 Plain man as I am, it cannot be my appearance ; I will 

 show myself on the steps at the door of Mackay's Hotel 

 with him whenever he pleases, or anywhere else. It 

 cannot be on account of my parents and relations, for in 

 that I am likewise willing to abide the test. If it is, as 

 is commonly believed, that a man is known by his com- 

 pany, I can tell this same gentleman that I am a frequent 

 and a welcome guest in companies where he would not be 

 admitted as a waiter. If it is to any behaviour of rune 

 that he alludes in this his low species of wit, I hereby 

 declare, Sir, to you and to the world, that I never at- 

 tacked a defenceless man who was apparently one half 

 below me in size and strength, nor stood patiently and 

 was cudgelled like an ox, when that sa*me person thought 

 proper to retaliate. As to the circumstances of the drub- 

 bing which Mr. Blackwood gave this same 'gentleman 



from Glasgow,' so many witnessed it, there can be no 

 mistake about the truth. 



" James Hogg. 

 " No. 6. Charles Street, Edinburgh, 

 13th May, 1818."] 



Ursinus. — There was a translation made by 

 " Parrie " of* the Lectures of Zach. Ursinus, and 

 published at Oxford in 1578. Where can I meet 

 with a copy of it ? Has any edition of this trans- 

 lation been issued since the date mentioned ? 



C. Le Poer Kennedy. 



RofT. 



[ The Summe of Cliristian Rejfgion, delivered by Zach- 

 arias Ursinus in his Lectures upon the Catechism auto- 

 rised by the noble Prince Frederick throughout his 

 dominions, and translated by Henrie Parrie, was first 

 published at Oxford in 1587 (not 1578), 8vo. This was 

 followed by other editions (probably abridged) in 8vo. 

 Oxford, 1589, and Oxford, 1595. It was again reprinted 

 in the following work with a long title-page: " The 

 Summe of Christian Religion, delivered by Zacharias 

 Ursinus, first by way of Catechism, and then afterwards 

 more enlarged by a sound and judicious Exposition and 

 Application of the same'. Wherein also are debated and 

 resolved the Questions of whatsoever points of moment 

 have been, or are Controversed in Divinitie. First Eng- 

 lished by D. Henry Parry, and now again conferred with 

 the best and last Latine edition of D. David Pareus, 

 sometimes Professour of Divinity in Heidelberge. Where- 

 unto is added a large and full Alphabeticall Table of such 

 matters as are therein contained > together with all the 

 Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either 

 of Controversie, Exposition, or Reconciliation ; neither 

 of which was done before, but now is performed for the 

 reader's delight and benefit. To this work of Ursinus 

 are now at last annexed The Theological Miscellanies of 

 D. David Pareus : in which the orthodoxall tenets are 

 briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errours of 

 the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, 

 Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted ; and now trans- 

 lated into English out of the Originall Latine Copie, by 

 A. R. London, Printed by James Young, and are to be 

 sold by Steven Bowtell, at the signe of the Bible in 

 Popes-head Alley. 1645," fol. The Catechism itself, under 

 the title of The Heidelberg Catechism, has been fre- 

 quently reprinted. The last edition, 1850, contains a 

 valuable bibliographical notice by the Editor, the Rev. 

 A. S. Thelwall, M.A., Lecturer at King's College, Lon- 

 don.] 



Assumption of Titles. — In the year 1 845 

 the following appeared among the advertisements 

 in Aris's Birmingham Gazette : — > 



" At a meeting held at the Public Office, Birmingham, 

 on Friday the 12th day of Dec. 1845, Mr. Jones of London 

 in the Chair, a gentleman whose name was privately 

 mentioned to the chairman, staled to the meeting that 

 he had discovered the existence of an Act, 36 Edw. I., 

 which provided that if any person should use, cause or 

 permit, or suffer to be used, or connive at or countenance 

 the using or appending after his surname the addition of 

 any honours, title, distinction, or designation which such 

 person was not intitled by the laws of this realm so to 

 use or append, every person so offending should forfeit 

 and pay the sum of one hundred shillings to the king, or 

 to any person by him empowered to sue for the same." 



It farther stated that the rights of the Crown 

 to all future penalties had been purchased by tho 



