2~» S. IX. June 2. '60.] 



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his eyes. The first offender was his own son ; the king, 

 determined that the law should take its course, but still 

 pitying the criminal, ordered one of his own eyes to be 

 extracted and one of his son's, and thus satisfied the de- 

 mands of justice, and extended mercy to his son." 



LlLSYA. 



TVentworth Lord Roscommon. — Malone, in 

 the Maloniana published by Sir J. Prior (p. 404.), 

 speaks of Knightly Chetwood's MS. Memoirs of 

 this nobleman now in the Public Library at Cam- 

 bridge. Is the picture of him by Carlo Maratti, 

 to which Malone refers, in existence ? and if so, 

 where is it ? Lord Roscommon is said to have re- 

 sembled his uncle, Lord Strafford, in his counte- 

 nance. W. L. 



The North Atlantic Submarine Tele- 

 graph. — Articles lately appeared in several of 

 the newspapers upon the subject of the proposed 

 new Anglo- American submarine telegraph by way 

 of the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. 

 I shall be indebted to any of your correspondents 

 who will politely refer me to the prints in ques- 

 tion, or any of them. Any statistical information 

 with reference to this project will also be accep- 

 table ; more especially as to soundings made in 

 these seas, the results of which may or may not 

 have been published. 



Such information may be furnished to me 

 through " N. & Q.," or direct to my address at 

 foot. T. Lampray. 



18. Clement's Inn, W.C. 



" Withered Violets." — Twenty years ago I 

 met with some verses upon " Withered Violets," 

 beginning : 



" Long years have passed, pale flowers, since you 

 Were culled and given in brightest bloom, 

 By one whose eyes eclipsed their blue, 



Whose breath was like their own perfume." 



I should feel obliged for the remainder of the 

 poem, and its author and occasion. N. J. A. 



" N. & Q." Cuttings. — Cuttings from " N. & 

 Q." are always troublesome when they extend over 

 more than one page. Is there any simple plan of 

 splitting ordinary paper so that the matter may be 

 pasted in a uniform manner in scrap-books ? If 

 so, it would be very useful to collectors of news- 

 paper and other scraps. Some years ago " bank- 

 notes" were split, apparently by simple means, and 

 if this can be done readily and easily in the case 

 of ordinary printed matter, it would be very valu- 

 able to collectors generally. Este. 



[Had the suggestion contained in the first part of 

 'a communication reached us in time for its adop- 

 tion, we would gladly have given it our consideration, 

 but it is now too late, and we have therefore omitted it. — 

 Bo. "N. & Q."] 



Illing worth's- Lancashire Collections. — In 

 Palmer's Abridgement of Calamy's Nonconformists' 



Mrmor. (vol. i. p. 2G3., 8vo. 1804), it is stated 



that Mr. James Illingworth, B.D., Fellow of Em- 

 manuel College, Cambridge, and a native of Lan- 

 cashire, " had made large Collections of the 

 Memoirs of noted men, especially in Lancashire." 

 He died in 1693. Where are these manuscripts 

 deposited ? or is their fate known ? F. R. R. 



eaucrteg tot'tf) 9u3toerrf. 



Nathaniel Hooke. — In the Sale Catalogue of 

 the late Sir William Betham's Genealogical and 

 Heraldic Manuscripts, p. 12., lot 53., appears the 

 " Patent of James III. creating Nathaniel Hooke 

 a Peer of Ireland." Who was he ? and how, if 

 at all, connected with Nathaniel Hooke, the his- 

 torian? Abhba. 



[The individual noticed in the patent is no doubt Na- 

 thaniel Hooke, the Duke of Monmouth's private chaplain, 

 who was sent from Bridgwater to London to forward the 

 rising which Danvers and others had undertaken to 

 create. He la}' concealed till June 21, 1688, when he 

 threw himself at the feet of James II., and procured a 

 pardon. He afterwards became a Roman Catholic, and a 

 zealous partisan of King James, whom he followed into 

 exile, and an officer of the French army, in which ser- 

 vice he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He is 

 spoken of by Lockhart in his Memoirs, p. 197., as a sub- 

 tle, pragmatical fellow, who was sent over to Scotland in 

 1705, where he showed " a great concern to raise a com- 

 bustion." He was more bent on a civil war, which the 

 King of France, now become his master, wanted, than to 

 serve King James. He was taken prisoner at the siege 

 of Menin in 1706, and he was hardly persuaded not to 

 tell the Duke of Argyle he had been in Scotland the year 

 before. In 1708, he was sent plenipotentiary to the Ja- 

 cobite party in that country. Consult Roberts's Life of 

 the Dukeof~Monmouth,u. 328. ; Lockhart Papers, i. 229-234. 

 and Hariiwicke's State Papers, ii. 332. 533. and 538. 

 May not this individual be the Roman Historian, as his 

 biographers seem to know nothing of him before the year 

 1722? J 



Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. — Was 



Nelson indeed guilty of the execution of Carac- 

 cioli at Lady Hamilton's instigation or not ? 



It is a fair question for discussion in " N. & Q.," 

 particularly as an author of this year distinctly 

 asserts it. <p. 



[So much has been written on this painful matter that 

 we can do but little more than refer our correspondent to 

 those eminent writers who have carefully investigated it 

 in all its bearings. Southey (Life of Nelson, p. 198. edit. 

 1830), speaks of it as " a deplorable transaction ! a stain 

 upon the memory of Nelson, and the honour of England ! 

 To palliate it would be in vain, to justify it would be 

 wicked." Lord Brougham laments that " Nelson, in an 

 unhappy moment, suffered himself to fall into the snares 

 laid for his honour by regal craft, and baited with fasci- 

 nating female charms Seduced by the profligate 



arts of one woman, and the perilous fascinations of another, 

 he lent himself to a proceeding deformed by the blackest 

 colours of treachery and of murder. A temporary aberra- 

 tion of mind can explain though not excuse this dismal 

 period of his history." (Historical Sketches of Statesmen, 

 Second Series, i. 209. edit. 1845.) Consult also Clarke and 

 M'Arthur's Life of Nelson, ii. 188. The entire question 



