LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901.

CONTENTS.-No. 186. NOTES:-Civil List Pensions, 57-Charles Lamb as a Journalist, 60- The 'Marseillaise'-"Jenkins's ear"

"Sare"--Dry-General Viney, 61- Land Tax-Family Likeness-Jeroboam-Parasols, 62-Solar or Nature Myths -Origin of "Jingo" in Politics, 63.

QUERIES:-Lost Town in Suffolk-“Lambsuckle ”—Coronation Stone, 63-Crawford Family-Arms of European Countries -"Tall Leicestershire women" Hesketh Family-Lord Donore-Leigh Hunt-John Martin Rural Deaneries, 64-Cosens-Royal Borough-Massacre at Sligo J. S. Mill's Birthplace-Jones, Lord Mayor of London-Coronation Anecdotes'- Tasborough-Cheselden, Radcliffe, and Pridmore, 65. REPLIES:-Civil List Pensions

American Heraldry -

Japanese Names, 66-Dutton and Seaman Families National Flag-Toucan "-Sir H. Goodyere-G. Saunders -Cowley's Poems set to Music-Thompsons of York, 67Napoleon and a Coat of Mail-"Sawney"-Sir R. Verney

1875, June 19th (Benjamin Disraeli). MRS. HARRIET CHRISTIANA DWELLY.

"In consideration of the long and able services, extending over a period of forty years, of her late husband, John Holmes Dwelly, Chief Clerk in the Department of the Solicitor to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. 50%."

1878, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MRS. MARGARET EMMELINE MENZIES.

"In recognition of the services rendered to the Crown by her late husband, Mr. William Menzies, Deputy Surveyor of Windsor Park, especially with reference to the separate system of drainage' and other sanitary improvements. 50%."

1878, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield).

-Poem attributed to Milton-Flower Game-Takmi Acervation-Michael Bruce and Burns, 70-"Bible, Crown, and Constitution "-Dendritic Markings- Ecclesiastical "Peculiars," 71- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Painted and

Engraved Portraits-Malt and Hop Substitutes Burial of Sir John Moore'-Phillippo, 72-Title of Dowager Peeress-Icknield Street-A. Fortescue Funeral Cards, 73-Col. Cooper-Greek Pronunciation, 74-" Qui vive? -Valia as Female Name, 75.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Jaggard's 'Index to Book-Prices Current' Coleridge's 'Byron' - Shaw's 'Calendar of

Treasury Papers.' Notices to Correspondents.

Hotes.

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.
(Concluded from p. 38.)

PUBLIC SERVICE (CIVIL).

1873, August 7th (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. GEORGINA GORDON COOTE.

"Widow of Mr. Holmes Coote. In consideration of her husband's medical services, especially during the Crimean War, and of her own labour as Lady Superintendent of the Smyrna Hospital. 50l.'

Holmes Coote, 1817–72 ('D.N.B.,' vol. xii.).

1874, April 29th (Benjamin Disraeli). MRS. CHARLOTTE LOUISA Basevi.

"Widow of James Palladio Basevi, late Captain of the Royal Engineers. In consideration of the services of her husband in connexion with the advancement of science and the Trigonometrical Survey of India. 1007."

The great Trigonometrical Survey of India was initiated by Major Lambton in 1800 with the support of Col. Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington ('Encyclopædia Britannica').

"In recognition of the services rendered by her mother, Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, 'the Emigrants' Friend' 50."

Caroline Chisholm, "the Emigrants' Friend," born at Wootton, May, 1808, daughter of William Jones, yeoman and philanthropist. Married Capt. Chisholm, of the East India Company's service. Died at Fulham, March 25th, 1877; buried at Northampton (D.N.B.,' vol. x.; The Emigrant's Guide to Australia,' with memoir and portrait, 1853; Michelet's 'La Femme,' 1860).

1882, June 10th (W. E. Gladstone). MISS MARIANNE ALICE ALINE BURKE.

"In consideration of the high character and distinguished services of her brother, Mr. T. H. Burke, and in view of all the circumstances of the case. 4007."

Thomas Henry Burke (1829-82), UnderHe acted as private Secretary of Ireland. secretary to the Chief Secretaries Edward Cardwell, Sir Robert Peel, and Chichester P. Fortescue. In May, 1869, appointed UnderSecretary, and filled the post until his death, May 6th, 1882. Early in the evening of that day Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, while walking in the Phoenix Park, near of a secret society calling themselves the Dublin, were assassinated by the members Invincibles ('D.N.B.,' vol. vii.).

1883, February 2nd (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. AUGUSTE MARGHERETA PALMER (now DONKIN).

ELIZABETH

"In recognition of the services of her late husband, Prof. Palmer, and in view of all the circumstances of the case. 2007."

Edward Henry Palmer (1840-82), Orientalist. In 1860 he made the acquaintance of Seyyid

1894, March 12th (W. E. Gladstone). LADY ALICE PORTAL (now REYNTIENS).

"In recognition of the distinguished services of her late husband, Sir Gerald Herbert Portal, K.C.M.G., C.B. 150l."

Gerald Herbert Portal (1858-94), diplomatist. June, 1882, he was attached to the Consulate-General at Cairo, and was present at the bombardment of Alexandria. In the summers of 1886 and 1887, during Lord Cromer's absence, he took charge of the Residency. On October 17th, 1887, he was ordered to attempt a reconciliation between the King of Abyssinia and the Italian Government ('D.N.B.,' vol. xliii.).

1894, June 19th (Earl of Rosebery).

MRS. ALICE MARGARET Hassall (now PHILIP). "In consideration of the services of her late husband, Dr. Arthur Hill Hassall. 50." Dr. Hassall, born at Teddington, 1817, died April 10th, 1894 (Lancet, April 14th, 1894). Most eminent chemist of his time, he became associated with the Lancet Analytical Sanitary Commission, 1851-4, which led to the framing of the Adulteration Act of 1860, and finally to the adoption of the Foods and Drugs Act, 1875.

1900, March 13th (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. CHARLTON JAMES WOLLASTON.

"In recognition of his services in connexion with the introduction of submarine telegraphy. 100%."

1900, March 21st (Marquis of Salisbury). EMMA LADY ELLIS.

"In consideration of the public services, in West Africa, of her late husband, Lieut.-Col. A. B. Ellis, C. B., and of her inadequate means of support. 301."

1900, May 25th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ELIZA ARLIDGE.

"In consideration of the labours of her

late husband, Dr. John Thomas Arlidge, in the cause of industrial hygiene, and of her

straitened circumstances. 50l."

Born at Chatham, 1822; died October 27th, 1899. Author of State of Lunacy in the Legal Provision for the Insane,' 1859, and of the best treatise on the diseases of occupations-Plumbism,' Phosphorism,' &c. (Lancet obituary notice, November 4th, 1899).

1901, February 13th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. MARY JANE LITTLE.

by her late husband, Mr. William Cutlack Little, in the investigation of rural and agricultural problems. 50%."

MISS

PUBLIC SERVICE (POLICE).

1872, June 18th (W. E. Gladstone). SARAH FANNY MAYNE (now MRS. MALDEN).

"In consideration of the personal services of her late father, Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.B., to the Crown, and of the faithful performance of his duties to the public. 907." missioner. Educated at Trinity College, DubSir Richard Mayne (1796-1868), Police Comlin, graduated B.A.; then at Trinity College, Cambridge; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1822. On the institution of the Metropolitan Police, 29th of September, 1829, Col. (afterwards Sir) Charles Rowan and Mayne were appointed joint commissioners, and on the resignation of the former in 1850 the latter became Chief Commissioner, the number of police under his command reaching about seven thousand men. For his services, including those on the day of the Chartist meeting on Kennington Common on the 10th of April, 1848, he was on the 29th created a C.B., and on the close of the 1851 Exhibition was made K.C.B. He was injured in the Hyde Park riots in July, 1866. There is a monument to him at Kensal Green ('D.N.B.,' vol. xxxvii.).

MESSENGERS.

1880, January 26th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MISS LOUISA EMILY VARGAS and MISS HENRIETTA VARGAS.

"In consideration of the long and meritorious services of their father, the late Mr. Peter Vargas, Superintendent of the Parlia mentary Messengers under the Secretary to the Treasury. 25l. each."

This Civil List forms an extremely interesting record of many of the most important events of the nineteenth century. We get a glimpse of Napoleon and Sir Hudson Lowe at St. Helena, of the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the bombardment of Alexandria, the of our Metropolitan Police, and, in the more Phoenix Park assassinations, the institution peaceful portion of the record, the 1851 Exhibition, submarine telegraphy, the formation of the Suez Canal, and the discovery of the sources of the Nile; while under Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts we find many of the illustrious names of the past

CHARLES LAMB AS A JOURNALIST.

MORE light on Lamb's connexion with the Albion and, indeed, upon his journalistic career in 1800-3 generally-is badly needed. The Albion presents peculiar difficulties, since there is no copy of the paper, in Fenwick's and Lamb's time, in the British Museum.

Lamb's own references to the Albion and his share therein are contained in his Elia essay Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago,' and in his letters to Manning dated, in Canon Ainger's edition, August, 1801, and 31 August, 1801. In the former letter he tells of the Albion's death: "The poor Albion died last Saturday of the world's neglect, and with it the fountain of my puns choked up for ever." He then quotes his epigram on Mackintosh-

66 one of the last I did for the Albion":

Though thou'rt like Judas, an apostate black, In the resemblance one thing thou dost lack: When he had gotten his ill-purchased pelf, He went away, and wisely hang'd himself: This thou may'st do at last; yet much I doubt, If thou hast any bowels to gush out! Mackintosh, as Lamb says in his essay on

on the eve of departing to India to reap the fruits of his apostasy." If we then take the date of this letter to be accurate, the Albion died in 1801. But in the essay on 'Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago' we find a different story as to date. There Lamb says that when the Morning Post was sold he left it for the Albion. In this case it must have been 1803, for it certainly was in 1803 that Daniel Stuart sold the Morning Post. Another argument in favour of 1803 is that it was in that year that Mackintosh was offered and accepted the Recordership of Bombay by Addington, although the charge of apostasy, I take it, had reference to his renunciation of the views expressed in his 'Vindicia Gallicæ.' In this case the letters both of August, 1801, and 31 August, 1801, in Canon Ainger's edition, are two years out of their true date.

In the absence of the file of the Albion a reference to the life of John Fenwick, its owner and editor, might put things right; but unfortunately of Fenwick we know very little. He is not in the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' Daniel Lovell, from whom he bought the paper, is there, but without reference to his connexion with the Albion or to the libel on the Prince of Wales for which, Lamb says, he stood in the pillory. Fenwick, who is the Men,' was always in difficulties. In the letter Bigod of Lamb's essay 'The Two Races of to Manning dated in Canon Ainger's edition 24 September, 1802, he is described as a ruined man hiding from his creditors. This been a very little while after that, if my date there is no questioning. It must have surmise as to the date of Lamb's epigram is correct, that he came into possession of the Albion.

more of this anticipatory Micawber. It would be interesting to know

The chronology of Lamb's connexion with the Morning Post is also complicated. On 17 March, 1800 (I give Canon Ainger's revised engaging to a newspaper "--the Morning Post dates throughout), he is "on the brink of

and is preparing an imitation of Burton. On 6 August, 1800, he has written something in verse to follow the prose imitation of Bur1800, Stuart has two imitations of Burton, ton, but Stuart declines it. On 5 October, with an introductory letter, but gives no reply, and Lamb is asking to-day" for a

final answer. (Then come the two letters to Manning mentioned above-August, 1801, and 31 August, 1801-wherein the Albion's death is recorded, and Lamb is meditating trying Mr. Perry of the Morning Chronicle.) On 15 February, 1802, Lamb transcribes for Manning his essay "The Londoner, which,

although he does not say so, was printed in the Morning Post, 1 February, 1802, and not, as Canon Ainger says, in the Reflector. In a letter dated merely February, 1802, he tells Manning that he has given up two guineas a week at the Post. "I grew sick and Stuart unsatisfied." This is probably right, for the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, in a communication to the Athenæum, 4 August, 1888, stated, on the evidence of an unprinted letter of Lamb's, that Lamb gave up his two guineas at the Post early in February, 1802, chiefly because Stuart wanted his dramatic criticisms written on the same night, and Lamb could not manage this. On 11 October, 1802, Lamb is negotiating to supply Coleridge with light things for the Morning Post, which Stuart is to believe are by Coleridge. On 23 October, 1802, he refers to the matter again; and that is the end.

These Morning Post difficulties are to a certain extent soluble by a study of a file of the period. But in the absence of a file of the Albion the student is necessarily perplexed. Perhaps some reader of N. & Q' knows of a file of the Albion in Fenwick's day.

E. V. LUCAS.

THE MARSEILLAISE.'-Mr. Karl Blind in the Nineteenth Century, among "some facts not generally known concerning the origin of the 'Marseillaise,'" tells us, as the reviewer (ante, p. 27) says, that it was "made in Germany, being part of a mass composed in 1776 by Holtzmann, the Kapellmeister of the Elector of the Palatinate." This is an old false story (see the Gartenlaube, 1861, p. 256), which more recent inquiry (August, 1879) on the spot from the curate of Meersburg, where the mass is preserved, has proved to be entirely unfounded. It is a pity that any one with a character for honesty to lose should go on repeating such ill-natured fiction as this. See Grove's 'Dictionary of Music and Musicians,' vol. ii. p. 220, for evidence, where the writer states that Rouget did receive a pension, which he did not decline, from Louis Philippe.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

"JENKINS'S EAR."-It may interest some of your readers to know that, having occasion to go somewhat minutely into the correspondence between the Duke of Newcastle, as Secretary of State, and Benjamin Keene, the British envoy at Madrid, for the year 1731, I came on the original affidavit on which the famous story of "Jenkins's ear," one of the main factors in bringing about the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole, is based. It will be found, in State Papers, Foreign, Spain

199, at the Record Office, under date 18 June, 1731, and does not contain the famous exclamation "I recommend my soul to God and my cause to my country." The name of the Spanish officer by whom the ear was slit is given as De Freeze, of the guarda costa San Antonio of Havana, and the incident is alleged to have taken place off Havana on 9 April, 1731.

The affidavit was sworn to by Jenkins shortly after his arrival in the Thames, before an official of the Admiralty, and appears to have excited but little attention at the time, as it is not even alluded to either by Keene himself or the Commissaries then at Seville, who were endeavouring to come to an agreement with Spain as to damages due to merchants under the Treaty of Seville.

On the whole, I am inclined to think that Jenkins's story was true in its main particulars, as the reports of the consuls at Alicante and Malaga at that moment are full of complaints of the insults offered to British merchantmen in the Mediterranean by Spanish war vessels, whilst, on the other hand, a formal complaint was laid by inhabitants of Malaga against a captain of one of his Britannic Majesty's vessels for kidnapping five of their slaves and conveying them to Gibraltar.

H.

GENERAL SIR JAMES VINEY, K.C.H.- It is stated in biographical sketches of Lord Beaconsfield that his wife, Lady Beaconsfield, was the niece and heiress of the above General Sir James Viney, K.C.H. He owned an estate at Tainton, near Gloucester. It would appear that Lady Beaconsfield came into possession of that estate, for it was sold by auction at the "Bell" Hotel, Gloucester, by Mr. Knowles, the auctioneer. Benjamin Disraeli was present at the sale. It was sold to Mr. Laslett, a barrister, and M.P. for Worcester or one of the divisions of the county. I am certain he was the purchaser, for he many years ago lent me the title-deeds and papers connected with the estate. Mr. Laslett caused some astonishment by coming