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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ; 
OU have inferted in page 136 of 
your Magazine for September a 
trifle that I fent you ** To Peace.”? There 
ys one line rendered, by the mis~printing, 
fach nonienfe, that I cannot refrain from 
‘noticing it. Inttead of 
66 Proteétrefs ! ah, lefs potent than benign!” 
you will find 
<¢ Prote&trefs! ah, lefs patient—” 
One or two friends, to whom the verfes 
were firft read at a monthly meeting, fay, 
that merely taking notice of the miftake 
among the errafa in a future number, 
would not redeem the credit of the writer, 
as the lines would never be read in con- 
nection with them, and think they fhould 
be reprinted. You will perhaps not think 
them deferving fuch attention. 
EE ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ONE of your readers converfant with 
French hiftory or romance can forget’ 
the celebrated Raoul de Coucy, whofe un- 
fortunate amours with the fair Gabrielle 
de Vergi are recorded by various writers 
in profe and verfe. Even moft Englifh 
readers will recolle& that the youthful 
hero having been mortally wounded in 
the Holy-land (about the latter end of the 
twelfth century), direéted his fquire to 
embalm his heart and take it to his mif- 
trefs; but the jealous hufband having fur- 
prifed the {quire on his return to France, 
caufed the heart to be dreffed by his cook 
and ferved up at dinner to the lady, whe, 
on difcovering what fhe had eaten, refolved 
to ftarve herfelf to death. , 
It is not many years fince a poor curate 
of a little village near St. Quintin, in Pi- 
cardy, was fortunate enough to prove, by 
dint of refearches and a compilation of in- 
difputable documents, that he was lineally 
defcended from the illuftrious family of 
de Coucy. The French genealogifts ex- 
amined his pretenfions, the filiation was 
acknowledged at court, the curate ob- 
tained a rich abbey, his nephews became 
Seigneurs, Colonels, &c..&c. and the an- 
cient eftates were refiored to the name. 
The pedigree of this tamily, the portraits 
of the unfortunate lovers abovementioned, 
feveral curious fongs in the old dialect, 
with the original mufic, are given ina 
beautiful little volume, printed at Paris in 
1781, and entitled “ Alémoires Hifforiques 
fur Raoul de Coucy.”’ This york, which 
Family of De Coucy——Queries. 
” [O@ober 1, 
I believe is rare, was lately given to me 
by a French lady, whofe nephew claims 
defcent from a family once pofleffed of 
ample territories. Having heard that the 
prefent government of France has rein- 
ftated feveral ci-devant nobles in their pa- 
trimonia] eftates (among others the news- 
papers mention the Duke of Richmond, 
formerly Duc @’ Aubigne); and ftimulated 
by the example of the poor curate de Coucy; 
he has enquired of me (and I take the li- 
berty of referring him to fome of your 
correfpondents) whether, 3rft. There is 
ealy accefs to the genealogical manufcripts 
in the public libraries of Paris? ad. 
Whether moft or a great number of the 
heraldic MSS were not deftroyed in the 
firtt fury of the revolution? 3d. Whe- 
ther colleétions exitt of all the patronymic 
names of the Nobles, Seigneurs, Chate- 
lains, &c. ath. Whether there exifts 
fuch a work as fhews, alphabetically (in 
the manner of our Edmonfon’s Heraidry, 
faid to contain fifty thoufand coats of 
arms), the names and armorial bearings of 
the principal families? sth. Whether 
manufcript records exift, which, like our 
Vifitation Books, mention the nobleffe and 
gentry inhabiting the different provinces 
and diftriéts of France, the names cf their 
feats, their arms, pedigrees, &c. &c. and 
6th. What lifts or records exift containing 
the names of Seigneurs or proprietors of 
land in France, during the tweltth, thir- 
teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries? 
An anfwer to thefe queftions will be 
efteemed a8 an effential favour, by 
Sir, Your obedient fervant, 
Sept. 10th, 1802. D. D. 
To ihe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIRs 
With to be informed whether the im- 
proved edition of Dr. Harwood’s View 
of the Claffics in Alphabetical Order, an- 
nounced in your Magazine for July, 1800, 
as intended for publication by a bookfeller 
in London, known to the public by a com- 
pendious Hiftory of the Art of Printing, 
is yet publifhed, or whether the Introduc- 
tion by Dibdin, mentioned in your laft 
month’s Magazine, is to be confidered 
as fuch re-publication. If it is not, E 
fhould with to know to what bookfeller 
we are to be indebted for it ; and whether 
there is any probahility of its fpeedy ap- 
pearance from the prefs. By inlerting 
thefe queries for folution by fome of your 
readers you will oblige Yours, &c. 
Sept, 14thy 18020 P.S. 
