on 'Life in Eastern Galicia' is one of the best things contributed at considerable cost the fine illustrations for which we cannot be too grateful." Mr. Keyser sends to the resent number Notes on Berkshire Churches, with many beautiful 'The illustrations. Mrs. Suckling writes Washington Arms and Pedigree.' She says that, from a long article recently published in America, it would appear that doubts have arisen as to the accuracy of the pedigree supplied to General College, these Washington by the Heralds doubts being "based upon investigations (not yet completed) by the Rev. Dr. Solloway, Vicar of Selby, Lancashire (?), England; that our father, George, did not, after all, derive from the Washingtons of Sulgrave, but was probably a descend--albeit it exhibits traces of mere journalism we ant of one of two brothers who went to Virginia from Lancashire." For the last three years Mr. John Hautenville Cope has assisted Mr. Ditchfield in the editing, and the latter records how pleasant the association has been, and how considerably his labour has been lightened. The Library Journal: May. (New York, R. R. one means 66 The case method THIS is a University number, and Mr. Hicks, who would gladly have dispensed with-is given by Mr. J. F. Macdonald in The Paris of To-day.' Mr. Herbert Bentwich has a subject of curious and historic as well as political interest in The Future of the Land of Promise,' where he discusses the effect which the Great War may be expected to produce on the Zionist movement. 66 THE editor of The Cornhill calls special attention to Mr. Boyd Cable's contribution to the July number, another sketch entitled 'Between the Lines,' illustrating what are those actions and experiences conveyed summarily to us in some such phrase as a violent artillery bombardment has been in progress.' We heartily sympathize with the desire that a realization of these should bite deep into the public mind-not so much a realization of the physical suffering and the ghastly modes of wounding and death, which brave men learn to accept without complaint, as some hint of what the bitterness must be to lie passive under bombardment, not for a tactical reason, but for sheer lack of means of reply. This, in his vigorous, restrained, and poignant sketch, Mr. Boyd Cable brings out well- and may it have the number and the sort of readers the editor desires! Mr. Henry James on 'Mr. and Mrs. Fields' is delightful, and, after so much roaring of guns, refreshing in the way we all so well know as his own. Dr. Fitchett in a first paper on Wellington's conversations about his battles is pleasant, readable, and instructive up to the height of a very pretty occasion. Sir Henry Lucy in Peacetime after War' discusses a Morning Chronicle of the spring of 1802, illustrating the preoccupations of the country at the moment when peace began to dawn. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub. lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answering queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication" Duplicate." BROOKLYN.-Forwarded to MR. BLEACKLEY. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1915. CONTENTS.-No. 289. NOTES:-Waterloo, 21-Mrs. Barber's True Tale,' 23Bibliography of Irish Counties and Towns, 24-Une Chasse au Maringouin, 25-Wolves in France-Henry Colburn-"Chapel," Nautic l Term, 25-Valentine Green, Mezzotint Engraver-The Statues of London-The Old Coburgh Gardens, Dublin, 27. QUERIES:-'The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club St. Saviour's, Southwark The Gentleman's Calling and The Whole Duty of Man,' 27- The Scourge "Forth shall come an Aske"-William Hamilton Maxwell -Origin of Quotations Wanted-Capture of Trincomalee, 28-Portraits by James Lonsdale-Bloomfield: DisraeliHazlitt: "Freemen of Highgate "-Hassocks-Heraldic Query-Peat Family-A Phantom Parliament Agnes, Daughter of Louis VII., 29- Excerpta Legationum Mrs. Barrett, née Tyers-Mrs. J. P. Kemble, née Hopkins -Margaret Scott, ætat. 125 Revelations of Peter Brown,' 30. " REPLIES:-The "Dominion" of Canada, 30-Professors at Debitzen, 31-A "Pound for Prisoners-A Russian Easter, 32-Miss Barsanti-" Sacramentum "-Epigram on Thomas Hearne-Heraldic Query: Boteler Arms, 33Corpus Christi in England: Post- Reformation, 34Napoleon and the Bellerophon-Flag of the Knights of Malta-Hugh Price Hughes and Baron Plunket, Primate of Ireland-J. Hill-Authors Wanted-Munday Surname —John Udall, 36-Tomb of Alexander the Great-"Bell" Bible-German Soldiers' Amulets-Notes on Statues at the Royal Exchange, 37-" London Bridge is broken down"-Cheeses in Ireland-Origin of 'Omne Bene,' 38 -Parish Registers-Goats with Cattle-Duignan Bibliography, 39. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole-Form of Abjuration used by Eighth Century German Converts-The Nineteenth Century 'The Burlington.' by There were present the Dukes of Wellington and Brunswick, the Prince of Orange, Lord Uxbridge, &c., &c. In the course of the evening a courier arrived with the intelligence that the French were advancing in force on the side of Charleroi and Namur, and the Duke, who read the despatch in the ballroom, immediately ordered the officers to repair to their quarters by daylight. A sad gloom overspread the entertainment, and a trying scene of leavetaking followed. The French, commanded Napoleon, had penetrated three miles on this side of Genappe: you will see the account of the engagement of the next day in the Duke's despatches. To use his own words in a note to the Duchess of Richmond, he was successful tho' with inferior forces." The Duke of Brunswick, who was at the ball, was killed, having seven bullets in his body. Two others fell, about whom I was much interested: Lord Hay, a fine young officer, who had been here a great deal, shot through the heart (he was A.D.C. to General Maitland in the Guards), and Tom Brown, whose brother I knew at Christ Church, and of whom I had seen a great deal since I have been here, and liked exceedingly. He was a protégé of A. Cowper and a most amiable good young man. The Duke slept at Genappe that night, having driven back the enemy. The opinion here was that had he had more cannon up he would have done more with less loss, for our loss was very severe. The same evening the French made a night attack on the Prussians with a body of 10,000 cavalry, took them by surprise, and placed about 14,000 hors de combat, being dispersed all over the country. Blucher, who had all along sustained the left of the British, tho' he had not been engaged, sent in the morning (Saturday) to tell the Duke that he could not get his people together, and the latter deemed it expedient to retire, tho' right sorry to do so, for he had anticipated the giving Bonaparte a complete beating that day, so advantageously did every thing appear from the success of the day before. However, he retreated to a position about nine miles from this city. The French followed, but at a respectful distance. On Saturday morning the attention of the Bruxellois was taken up with the wounded, who arrived by hundreds. I never saw so dismal a sight. Poor fellows, some without an arm, some without a leg, covered with blood and dust, worn with fatigue and hunger, some fainting, others raving with pain, were brought crowded upon carts and waggons under a burning sun. The inhabitants were very kind, placing themselves about the Porte de Namur with wine, linen, &c., &c. When the hospitals were full they took them into their houses. On Sunday morning the Duke of Richmond, who, I must say, has been a little too confident, considering his large family, finding that Wellington was so near, and the rest of the English residents here gone or going, gave orders that we should be ready to start at a quarter of an hour's notice, and rode himself to the Duke of Wellington to ask his opinion. In consequence the carriages were packed, and horses About two the quite ready to be put to. cannonading began; you may conceive our situation. The engagement, by the issue of which we were to stand or fall, had commenced, and, tho' we have infinite confidence in Wellington and the British, yet the Prussians, Dutch, Belgians, &c., could not be so certainly depended upon, and human On the other events are uncertain at best. side there was Bonaparte with 120,000 of his best soldiers, those of Austerlitz, Jena, &c. His greatest object in his desperate situation was to beat the British and to get If he received a possession of this country. check here he was sensible that it must end in his ruin. What efforts then would he not make to gain his point? All this was approaching to a decision within ten miles of on us. The doubt and anxiety visible every countenance as we walked upon the ramparts, listening to each coup de canons, was extreme; and at home the poor Duchess, harassed by the thought of the Duke being absent, of her ten children with her, and her three sons in the action, was a pitiable object. At 4 the Duke came home and reported that all looked favourable, but we must still be ready to start. About 7, just as we were sitting down to dinner, came a messenger to say that Wellington had gained his battle, and that the French were retiring. Wounded officers came in at intervals, but knowing nothing. About 10 arrived 8,000 prisoners, with two eagles and stands of colours, and soon afterwards a note from an A.D.C. of the Duke of Wellington to say that the victory had been complete. Here again I refer you to the despatches, wishing rather to give you such particulars as do not fall under the notice or within the limits of a despatch. The Duke got back to his quarters to dinner at 11, and after taking some rest rode into Brussels at 8 o'clock this morning with the remnants of the staff. The Duchess had gone up to his house to make inquiry about her nephew, Sir A. Gordon (since dead), who had been wounded, I should like to see the V. [To his father.] Brussels, July 14th. .My last letter was written the morning after the battle, when I knew simply that it had been fought and that the victory had declared in favour of the Allies. A number of particulars have come in since, which may be interesting to you to hear, especially as you may depend upon their authenticity. *Lord Fitzroy J. H. Somerset was the fifth son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, and acted as A.D.C. and Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington Marshal Lord Raglan, Commander-in-Chief of the at Waterloo. Later, he was better known as FieldBritish Army in the Crimea, where he died on 28 June, 1855. + Mr. Madan did visit the battle-field three or four days after the fight, though no description of it occurs in any letter of his that is still extant. However, on that occasion he picked up a plume of feathers which once adorned the head-dress of a Prussian Hussar, and this is still in the possession of the family. The engagement was one of the most obstinate and well contested that we read of in history, whether we consider the valour of the soldiers or the skill of the Generals. The cannonade, which opened at the distance of not many hundred yards, was thought by persons who were present at both battles to be inferior to Leipsic in nothing but extent. Bonaparte had brought against the English the flower of his army, those soldiers who had fought under him in his most successful campaigns, and, having been made prisoners before the war with Russia, had not known what it was to see Bonaparte beaten. The number of the French infantry on the field of battle was 76,000, not reckoning any who were in garrison in the neighbouring places, or in the rear from whatever cause, as Vandammer's corps, &c. The cavalry were 21,000. Against them the Duke of Wellington had 51,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and, though the proportion of British amongst the former was very great, yet it is to be remembered that the rest were of different nations and had not yet acquired that confidence in their leader which can only be gained by repeated success, and is in itself half the battle. The several attacks of the French were most skilfully planned, and carried into execution with steady intrepidity, and indeed were so tremendous that we were repeatedly driven from our guns, and, had it not been for the determined courage of our men, and for that blind resolution which prevents an Englishman from knowing when he is beaten, we must certainly have lost the battle more than once. Regiments were broken by a charge, but not routed. They formed again under the hottest fire, as if on parade, and repeated this till they succeeded in repulsing the enemy in spite of himself, and recovered possession of their guns. The Duke himself said that every engagement he had ever been in sunk to nothing in comparison with this. Once when we had been driven back he observed, "Well, we may still have a chance if that division of Artillery can get up." In five minutes it appeared in sight. Another time he said, The battle is not lost if Adams' brigade arrives now." An officer came up at the moment to say they were just marching up. He found it necessary to expose himself very much, and rode thro' the thickest of the fire, encouraging the troops just as the enemy were commencing their attack. In one instance he had occasion to act with great temerity. Some Dutch troops had been endeavouring vainly for some time to dislodge eight companies of a French regiment from a wood. It appeared absolutely necessary that we should carry it instantly. The Duke put himself at the head of two companies of a regiment of Guards and cheered them to the attack; the effect upon the men cannot be described. The wood was immediately carried at the point of the bayonet. Lord Uxbridge, who had never before served under the Duke (being senior to him till he was made F.M.), said that his coolness and decision in action surpassed every thing he could have conceived; and I fancy it is not too much to assert that there is no general in the world except himself who could have won that battle. Every one says that the French behaved better than they ever did before. The carnage on both sides was dreadful, and it is supposed that the dead will be in far greater proportion to the wounded than usual, as has been made plain by the returns. The Duke of Wellington felt much on this subject. He could not speak of the battle the next day without tears in his eyes. One striking circumstance occurred on the field. The Duke in galloping over the ground stopped to give some orders to an A.D.C. He called Canning.' My lord, he is killed." Gordon." "He is just taken to the rear, severely wounded.' "Then go and desire Col. "He is killed, my lord." Then tell the officer commanding the regiment," &c. (quite overcome). July 14. The above has been in my portfolio a considerable time, having been written within the first week or ten days after the battle.... ALAN STEWART. 66 66 66 MRS. BARBER'S A TRUE TALE.' JONATHAN SWIFT, in his letter to John Gay of 28 March, 1728, says : "I hope Dr. Delany has shown you the tale, writ by Mrs. Barber, a citizen's wife here, in praise of your Fables. There is something in it hard upon Mr. Congreve, which I sent to her, for I never saw her, to change to Dryden, but she absolutely refused." curious chance this contained the only version (out of the sixteen that exist) of Mrs. Barber's 'Tale' which does not include the desired reference. Readers of N. & Q.' may be interested to see the something "hard upon Mr. Congreve,' and to read about the scarce pamphlet in which it appeared. It was first issued anonymously as A Tale, being an addition to Mr. Gay's Fables: [quotation of five lines from] Ramsay's Life of Cyrus. Dublin, printed by S. Powell for George Ewing....1728." 7 pp. 16mo. The fourth stanza, on pp. 4-5, contains the lines in question, which are :— Steele's comedies gave vast delight, is noteworthy in that it follows the text of Mist's Weekly Journal, and accordingly contains both the lines on Congreve and those on Swift. A check list of its various issues is as follows: A Tale,' &c., 1728; Mist's Weekl" Journal, 13 April, 1728; London Journal, January, 1733/4; Mrs. Barber's Poems on Several Occasions,' 1734; New York Gazett?, 8 July, 1734; Gay's Fables,' ed. 7, Dublin, 1737; id., Dublin, 1760; id., London, 1767; id., Edinburgh, 1770; id., Dublin, 1772; Muse's Mirrour,' 1778; Gay's Fables,' Dublin, 1784; id., Philadelphia, 1794; id., Dublin, 1799; id., Dublin, 1804; id., Philadelphia, 1808. I have examined all of these items C[o]n[greve']s cou'd no addmittance [sic] find, except The London Journal and The New Forbid as poisons to the mind. That author's wit and sense, says she, This poem was then reprinted (again anonymously) in Mist's Weekly Journal, 13 April, 1728, p. (?), under the title 'A Tale from Dublin, design'd as an addition to Gay's Fables.' The verses on Congreve still remained, but the author had inserted, as a compliment to Swift, the eight lines ending with Then bless'd the Drapier's happier fate, Who sav'd (and lives to guard) the State. Next the editor of The London Journal reprinted the poem (still anonymously) in the January, 1733/4, number. I am unable to state whether or no the Congreve verses appeared here also, because none of the libraries in this vicinity contain that number of the periodical. Finally, however, the poem was brought out under its author's name when Mrs. Mary Barber published in 1734 her Poems on Several Occasions.' On pp. 7-12 of that volume appears A True Tale,' which is none other than our little poem in question. It was in this version of the poem that the "something....hard upon Congreve disappeared, no doubt in obedience to Swift's behest," as Dr. Elrington Ball conjectures. In a minor way the True Tale' maintained its lease of life for seventy years more by being reprinted in at least ten editions of Gay's Fables.' All of these editions follow fairly closely the text of the 1728 edition of Mrs. Barber's 'Tale,' and consequently all of them contain the lines on Congreve. but one exception they reprint the poem without the author's name, and so it is not strange to find that the version given in the • Muse's Mirrour' of 1778 is " supposed to be written by Dr. Parnell." This 1778 reprint With ENNISKILLEN. MS. Letters in Library, Trinity College, Dublin, on Defence of Enniskillen and Siege of Londonderry : James II. to General Hamilton: (1) 1 May, 1689; (2) 10 May, 1689; (3) 20 May, 1689; (4) 8 July, 1689. Letter from Berwick to General Hamilton: (5) 5 July, 1689. Letter from R. C. Carr to the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin: (6) 7 April, 1787. Preserved in MS. Room in Library of Trinity College, Dublin, in Box E. 2. 19. No. 543. Actions of the Enniskillen Men from their first taking up arms in 1688 in defence of the Protestant Religion, their liberties and lives, to the landing of Duke Schomberg in Ireland. By Rev. Andrew Hamilton, an actor and eyewitness therein." London, 1690. Reprinted Belfast, 1813 and 1864. |