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difficulty which would have rendered his conviction at the present time impossible. The case has been made subservient to the purposes of the novelist and the dramatist both in France and England; but even their invention could add nothing to the horrible interest of the naked facts. The story was elaborated in Blackwood under the title of "Lesurques; a Judicial Error;" but the details are faithfully given in one of Chambers's Tracts," Circumstantial Evidence; the Lyons Courier." The tragical history is in substance soon told. In 1794, the Lyons mail was robbed of above 54,000 francs and the courier brutally murdered, and it appears that four persons were concerned in the crime. Lesurques fell a victim to his close resemblance to one of the murderers, not only in stature, in features, and in complexion, but even in certain marks on the face, on the hand, and on the body. He was executed, protesting his innocence, and his innocence was also asserted by some of the actual perpetrators of the crime who suffered with him. His property was confiscated to repay the Treasury for the sum lost, and his family reduced to beggary. His wife shortly after committed suicide; his son joined the grand army and perished in the snows of Russia. One of his daughters made a desperate effort to obtain restitution, after the innocence of the father had been established by the discovery of the actual murderer, a man of the name of Dubosq, to whom Lesurques had borne so fatal a resemblance, but she failed, and drowned herself in the Seine on the morning after the rejection of her claims by the Chambers, and the second daughter died in a madhouse.

The claim of restitution has not been permitted to sleep. Something had been done by previous governments, by paying small portions of the indemnity; but the present motion, made by the Baron de Janzé, was for restoration of the 54,585 francs, together with interest since the year 1794. The motion opened up a discussion on the whole case, and both M. de Janzé, M. Clary, and M. Jules Favre ably supported the claim, and recapitulated the evidence of the Courts, and it was eventually assented to by 113 against 112. For more than sixty years the law has refused to do a full measure of justice, and the doing it now will be an act exceedingly popular.

The whole of the proceedings in this case are very instructive, showing how fallible in judgment are human tribunals, but particularly in showing the contrast between the jurisprudence of France at that time and at this, and in fact indicating the general improvement in the administration of the criminal law within this century. I believe, that with the evidence adduced upon which Lesurques was condemned and executed, no court of law in Europe would now pass a sentence of death, and certainly such sentence would not be carried

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Most biographers state that Bunyan died at the house of his friend Mr. Strudwick, of Snow Hill, London, on Aug. 31, 1688, in his sixty-first year, and was buried in that friend's vault in Bunhill Fields. Rawlinson (ob. 1755) copied this inscription when it must have been comparatively new, and incorporated it among his MS. additions to the List of Inscriptions, &c. in the Dissenters' Burial Place near Bunhill Fields, published by Curll in 1717; his copy of which is now preserved in the Bodleian Library.

H. J. S.

ASCOT RACES FORTY YEARS AGO.—
"Nobilis, en, sonipes viridis legit æquora campi,
Carpit iter rapidis ocyor ille Notis;
Sed quis vitalem spiravit naribus auram,
Et fecit pectus luxuriare toris?"

These lines came out at Eton during the Ascot week some time in the reign of George IV. Those races always inspire great interest at Eton, owing to its vicinity to the heath; but the same has become less exciting since the institution of the new police, and the suppression of public gambling in Windsor and on the course. Moreover, the king used to make a point of attending every day, and the sports usually concluded with a pugilistic contest or two, for love or for money. Yet the company was more select than it is now; the "roughs," who come from all quarters by the railways, could not then afford the expense.

The ladies used to descend from their carriages between the races, and promenade on the course in front of the Grand Stand. If Gibbon could have been at Ascot in those days, he would have been even more struck than he says he was at Winchester, with "the splendour of the carriages, the beauty of the horses, and the gay tumult of the numerous spectators." (Memoirs of his Life and Writings.) W. D. EPITAPHS ON CATS.-As an accompaniment to the Epitaphs on Dogs, inserted in " N. & Q." 3rd S. v. 416, I send you the following one, placed over a favourite French-Persian cat, named Mouton, from his gentle disposition:

"Ci repose pauvre Mouton,

Qui jamais ne fût glouton;
J'espère bien que le roi Pluton,

Lui donnera bon gîte et crouton."

M. M.

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ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS. Mr. Lewes, in his recent work on Aristotle, says (p. 18),— "He wrote on Politics, giving the outlines of two hundred and fifty-five constitutions; even the little treatise on that subject, which is still extant, is thought to be one of the very best works yet written, and Dr. Arnold, who knew it by heart, declared that he found it of daily service in its application to our time."

As it is totally wrong to say that Aristotle gives the outlines of 255 constitutions, I desire to know what Mr. Lewes means. Does he mean 255 pages on constitutions? He is not correct either in describing the Politics as a little treatise, for it consists of eight books, and Walford's translation occupies 286 pages in Bohn's edition. Notwithstanding Arnold's great attachment to Aristotle, I think we must limit the portion he committed to memory to the eighth book, a fragment on the education of youth, upon which the Doctor based some of the specialties of his system at Rugby. It was not in the Rugby course of study.

T. J. BUCKTON.

THE WITTY FOOL. Some numbers back "N. & Q." contained the amusing answer of a Highland fool to a person wishing to find a ford. The original of this is at least two hundred years old. See Facetia Bebelianæ, 1660, p. 238:

"Idem cum juxta Salam, memorabile apud historicos Germaniæ flumen, obequitaret, fuit interrogatus ab eo qui in adversa parte fluminis equitabat, ubi flumen vadari posset? Respondit, ubique bene. Ille autem verbis fatui fidem habens, cum in flumen equum adegisset, profunditate illius penè absorptus est: et cum tandem ægrè flumen superasset, quæsivit indignanter cur se decepisset? Ad

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Can any of the readers of "N. & Q.," refer me to the author of the above? A. A. Poets' Corner.

RAINE'S MARRIAGE PORTION OF £100.- On Monday the 2nd of May last, May-day falling on the Sunday, the proceedings in connection with this charity were carried out. As I do not remember any notice of this remarkable bequest in the pages of " "N. & Q."I beg to hand the following statement for your acceptance. It will, I think, be considered worthy of preservation. Mr. Henry Raine was a brewer in the parish of St. George-in-the-East, Middlesex. In the year 1719 he erected some schools in a place now known as Charles Street, Old Gravel Lane, and which are called the "Lower Schools." These schools were intended for fifty boys and fifty girls. In 1736 he extended the charity by the endowment of a new school called "The Asylum," and in this school forty of the girls chosen from the Lower School, and who have been in it for a period of not less than two years, are maintained, clothed, and educated. Ten are elected into it every year, and after having been there four years, during the last of which they are instructed in the duties of domestic servants, they go out to service. At the age of twenty-two, those who have been out to service, after being the proper time in school, are eligible to become candidates for the marriage portion of one hundred pounds. This marriage portion constitutes the peculiarity of the bequest. It is given to those young women who having received the required education in the schools, and having attained the age of twenty-two years shall, by the masters and mistresses whom they have served be best recommended for their piety and industry. This ceremony takes place every year, and the celebration creates much interest in the neighbourhood. Amongst the noble acts of benevolence of which we have in this country so many substantial records, I do not remember to have heard of another of this character. T. B.

HORACE NOT AN OLD WOMAN. The Daily Telegraph of last week begins an article thus:"Make money, my son, honestly if you can, but

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His eldest son John was born in 1620 or 1621; Governor of Pontefract Castle 1648; executed at York, August 23, 1649, and buried at Wentworth. He married Margery, daughter of Dr. Robt. Dawson, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmackdough, in Ireland, by whom (who remarried Jonas Buckley) he had issue Robert, born died 1676 (s. p.); John, born died in

in infancy; Mary, born - died

(s. p.),

cember 18, 1702, having married, 1st, Annabella,
daughter of William Ashenden, of Leeds, gent.,
who died 1677, leaving one son, John; 2nd.
Mary, daughter of George Jackson, of Leeds,
merchant, by whom he had issue George, James,
and Castilian, born and buried at Leeds; Cas-
tilian, born 1692; Robert, born 1679; Ann, born
married Willm. Sykes of Stockholm, mer-
chant; Ellenor *, born
married
Richard Sharp, of Leeds, died 1743; Mary, Eliz-
abeth, and Margaret.

John Morris, of Leeds, only son of Castilian Morris by his first wife —, born, died 1709, having married Martha, daughter of Chaloner of Baildon, and by her had two daughters, Arabella and Martha. I have a memorandum that

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"In August, 1754, Dan1. Williamson, Painter in Leeds, copied for Mr. Thomas Wilson of Leeds, the south Prospect of Pontefract Castle, and the parish church, from an original painting, painted at the expense of Col. Morris, Governor of that Castle in 1648, before the superb fabricks were demolished. Mrs. Frankland of Leeds, great-granddaughter to the Colonel, has the original prospect, and also the Colonel's lady's picture. Dr. Francis Drake, of York, has the Colonel's picture, which Mr. Thomas Wilson purchased for him of Mrs. Sharp, of Leeds, the Colonel's granddaughter, for four guineas."

Are these pictures still in existence? and if so, where? Whose daughter was Mrs. Frankland? and was Mr. Thomas Wilson in any way related to or connected with the family of Colonel Morris? Answers to these queries, or any further information respecting Col. Morris himself, or any of his family, will greatly oblige M. S.

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An exemplification of this exists in the case of having been twice married; and Castilian Mor-ings of that town have disappeared during the Boulogne-sur-Mer. Many of the ancient buildtroubles of the great Revolution, and the Vandalism of the early part of the nineteenth century; but sketches of them, more or less accurate,

ris †, Town Clerk of Leeds, born

died De

* Was Barbara Wentworth of the same family as Thos. Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, in whose household her grandson, Col. John Morris, was brought up?

Who was the Rev. Morris, Vicar of Aldborough, to whom Castilian Morris sent a transcript of his father's trial, and some passages relating to his death and sufferings, the letter accompanying them being dated Leeds, June 18, 1702, and signed "Your affectionate Cozen, and humble Servant, CASTILIAN MORRIS."

Is Mrs. Sharp's Christian name rightly stated to have been Ellenor? and if so, whose daughter was Eleanor Morris, said to have been a granddaughter of Col. Morris, and who must have been about the same age, as she was married first, April 20, 1720, and a second time about 1743, and died Jan. 3, 1770.

have been found in the collections of English amateurs, have been shown to the authorities of Boulogne, and have been highly appreciated by them, as illustrating the history of their town, of which they are justly proud. Several views of the Haute Ville of this kind are in high estimation among French, and especially Boulonnese antiquaries. One of the most interesting edifices of old Boulogne was the Cathedral, which of late years has totally disappeared, and been replaced by the modern one-a sumptuous pile certainly, but of course devoid as yet of historical interest. No view of the old Cathedral of Boulogne is known to exist in France; but it is considered possible that among accomplished English travellers, of the times just anterior to the Great Revolution, some one may have made a sketch of it, or have preserved some trace of its form.

I have been requested by the learned Keeper of the Archives of Boulogne-M. L'Abbé Haigneré-to propose to your readers and correspondents a search for drawings of this or any other of the ancient buildings of Boulogne; and I am desired to state that the communication of them to the municipality of the town will be duly and gratefully appreciated.

I take this opportunity of informing your readers, if they are not previously aware of the fact, that the Public Library of Boulogne, under the guardianship of M. Gérard, a gentleman of singular learning and urbanity, is very rich and extensive; and that its MSS. of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, have an European reputation for their great beauty and rarity. The library is open to all students, and every facility is given for the consulting and copying of

the treasures it contains, to an extent and in a

manner totally unknown, but which may well be imitated, in England. The same observation may indeed be extended to the libraries of Amiens, Rouen, and other large cities in the north of-I might rather say all over France.

Conway.

H. LONGUEVILLE JONES.

ANECDOTE. I have somewhere read an anecdote of an eminent man who excused himself for gathering a peach from a friend's garden wall by an impromptu rhyme, which his companion deemed a sufficient justification of the act of petty larceny. Will some one refresh my memory as to the words of the distich (I think it was) and the name of the author? ST. SWITHIN,

BORROW SUCKEN.-In a document of the earlier part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, a person is described as residing at "Borrow Sucken in the countie of Northampton." I am anxious to identify the place. K. P. D. E.

THE EARL OF CLONMELL'S "DIARY."-Can you furnish me with any particulars of a volume entitled, I believe, The Diary of John Scott, Earl of Clonmell, and said to have been "privately printed," near the end of the last, or the beginning of the present, century? I have never met with a copy of the book, which, as I presume, is "very rare." Has any description of it appeared in print? and in what collection may a copy be found? Lord Clonmell was a distinguished character. ABHBA.

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DUCHAYLA. Will Mr. De MORGAN, who has bestowed so much attention on the literature of

mathematics and its practical applications, or some other well-informed mathematician, have the kindness to inform me who is M. Duchayla, author of the celebrated Proof of the Parallelogram of Forces, mentioned in p. 7 of J. H. Pratt's Mathebridge, 1836; and also in p. 19 of Isaac Todmatical Principles of Mechanical Philosophy, Camhunter's Treatise on Analytical Statics, Cambridge, 1858, 2nd ed.? I should also be glad to know when and where this celebrated "proof" was first published. The name of Duchayla is not to be found in the principal biographical dictionaries.

MATHEMATICUS, T. C. D.

EXPEDIENT. into use? The text, Távтa μoi é¿eσtiv, àλλ' où távta When did this word first come uppe (1 Cor. vi. 12), is translated by Wyclif "Alle thingis ben nedeful to me, but not alle thingis ben spedeful." By Tyndale, "All thinges fittable." Cranmer's version is, "I maye do all are lawfull vnto me: but all thinges are not prothynges, but all thynges are not profytable." The

same words are in the Genevan version. It is not

till that of Rheims (A.D. 1582) that we get "Al things are lavvful for me, but all things are not expedient." A. A.

Poets' Corner.

CAPTAIN THOMAS FORREST published —

"A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balambanga (1776-8), including an Account of Magindano Sooloo and other Islands. To which is added a Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue. Lond. 4to, 1779. "A Treatise on the Monsoons in the East Indies. Lond. 12mo, 1783;" and

"A Voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago," &c. &c. London, 4to, 1792.

A translation into French of his Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas appeared at Paris, 4to, 1730.

It appears that he was born in or about 1729; became a midshipman in the navy 1745, and was senior captain of the East India Company's marine at Fort Marlborough in 1770.

His portrait, engraved in 1779 by William Sharp from a drawing of J. K. Sherwin, is prefixed to both his Voyages. Under that before his second voyage is this inscription :

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GREEK OR SYRIAN PRINCES.- In examining the records of the borough of Leicester for the purpose of local history lately, I met with the following entry:

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"At a Common Hall, held the 15th day of August, Anno Dni. nri. Georgii 2di, nunc Reg. Magn. Brittan. &c. quarto, Ao Dni, 1730.

"Ordered that Joseph Abaisir and John Hemmer, Princes of Mount Lybanus, in Syria, be presented with Ten Guineas by the Corporation, and be Treated and Guarded to Coventry in such manner as they were conducted from Nottingham hither, pursuant to his Majesty's Royal Injunction. The ten Guineas and all other charges to be paid by the Chamberlins, and allowed them in their accounts.

"Sealed with the Common Seale for the said Princes the like pass from Leicester to Coventry, as they had from other places one to another."

A friend, writing from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, informs me that the same personages (known in our Chamberlains' accounts as the "Grecian " Princes) were in that town on July 30, 1730, and were there presented with twenty guineas by Mr. Mayor.

At a Common Hall meeting held on November 27, 1732, it was ordered

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THE HOOTING THING OF MICKLETON WOOD.Some thirty years ago, I often heard a friend, now deceased, speak of a strange and inexplicable noise for which a wood near Mickleton, in the county of Gloucester, had long been notorious. My friend in his boyhood had often been staying in the house of a wealthy yeoman in that parish, by whom the sound in question had frequently been heard, and who, being a keen sportsman, and beast in the forest, was not likely to be deceived well acquainted with the cry of every bird and by any ordinary woodland sound. He described it as being unlike any other noise he ever heard, and most uncouth and awful in character. He used also to tell the story of a relation of his own, a wild young officer in the army, by name Eden, who came into the neighbourhood many years before on a visit, and was as fond of expressing his contempt for "the hooting thing" as he was desirous of hearing it. At last his curiosity was gratified. One day while alone out shooting, he actually heard the mysterious sound. He returned home silent and thoughtful; could never be induced to talk about what he had heard, and shortly after resigned his commission, and died afterwards a fervent preacher among John Wesley's Methodists.

A trifling circumstance has recalled this singular story to my remembrance, and I wish to ask if any tradition of "the hooting thing" still lingers in the neighbourhood of Mickleton? W. L. N.

"JACK OF NEWBURY."-Who or what is meant by Mogunce, mentioned in the following passage from The History of Mr. John Winchcomb, alias Jack of Newbury, the famous and worthy Clothier of England?

"May it please your Majesty, said Jack, to understand that it was my chance to meet with a monster, who had the proportion of a man but headed like a dog, the biting of whose teeth was like the poisoned teeth of a crocodile, his breath like the basilisk's, killing afar off, I suppose his name was Envy; who assailed me invisibly, like the wicked spirit of Mogunce, who flung stones at men and

could not be seen."

In this book there are many curious sayings, one example of which I subjoin:

"A maiden fair I dare not wed,
For fear to have Acteon's head:
A maiden black is often proud;
A maiden little will be loud;
A maiden that is high of growth,
They say is subject unto sloth:
Thus fair or foul, yea, little or tall,
Some faults remain among them all."

In the course of the history, the virtues of a certain George a Green are extolled, who, I suppose, must be the subject of a scarce biography, entitled,

"The History of George a Green, Pinder, of the Town of Wakefield; his Birth, Calling, Valour, and Reputation in the County. With divers pleasant as well as

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