'Tiger Hunting in the East Indies. This plate represents the attack and death of the Royal Tiger near Chandernagur in the Province of Bengal in the

year 1788, by a party of gentlemen and their attendants mounted on elephants according to the custom of that country."

Unfortunately, my copy of the excessively rare index plate has been mislaid, or I would have communicated the names of the persons introduced.

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The central figure of the Cock-fight' picture is Colonel (not Captain, as stated by MR. CORFIELD) Mordaunt, who was natural son of the Earl of Peterborough, and at the time of the cock-fight-1786-in command of a king's regiment of Dragoons at Cawnpore. The Colonel and several of his officers, and those of other regiments, frequently visited Lucknow for the cocking for which it is still celebrated.

Col. Mordaunt died at Cawnpore, and his tomb is in the "Old European Cemetery,' close by the quarter called Colonel Ganj.

An engraving of Zoffany's portrait of Warren Hastings forms the frontispiece to 'Memoirs relative to the State of India,' London, 1787, 8vo.

In the Martinière College at Lucknow there hangs the very fine portrait of the founder, General Claud (not Claude, as often misprinted) Martin, by Zoffany; also a fine painting by the same artist of the Ghori Beebee ("Fair Lady ") with her slave boy Zulficar, otherwise known as "James Martin.' The Ghori Beebee was a Persian girl bought by General Martin from a Frenchman, and died childless. Her tomb is the well-known building near Hodson's grave in the Martinière Park.

These two Zoffanys were acquired about 1872 from a descendant of Zulficar's who had concealed them in his house during the Mutiny, when the Martinière was looted, and the General's tomb in the vault under the central tower was desecrated by the rebels. ALDOBRAND OLDENBUCK. Fairport.

Robert GRAVE, PRINTSELLER (10 S. viii. 28, 110).-I have a quarto portrait of Robert Grave the elder (size of engraved surface 4 in. by 3 in.), with the following inscripsimile autograph), Engraved by his Son tion engraved below: "Robt. Grave (facfrom a Picture by J. Hoppner, Esq. R.A. 1809." (All in round script hand.) It is three-quarter length, looking to the right of the spectator, and in the left hand is an Hollar," probably signifying Grave's preengraved portrait, on which appears " W. dilection for that engraver's works.

E. E. NEWTON.

7, Achilles Road, West End, Hampstead, N.W.

THE SUBTERRANEOUS EXHIBITION (10 S. viii. 86).-The Lowther Bazaar was on the south side of the Strand, between Villiers and Buckingham Streets, and opposite to the Lowther Arcade, which, as is better known, was on the north side of the Strand. See further The Story of Charing Cross,' pp. 101, 119, 314-15.

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R. B. P. is in error in supposing that the entrance to the exhibition seems to have been in the Lowther Arcade,' the two buildings being on different sides of the Strand. Walford in Old and New London speaks of the Bazaar flourishing for a period at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and I remember going there, as a lad, fully four or five years after that time. The façade as we see it now, from the first floor upwards, is the same as it was in those days, but I think I am right in saying that the ground floor has been altered more than once as its uses have been changed. The upper portion is now known as Osmond's Hotel, used largely by Derbyshire folk when in London, the ground floor being one of Messrs. Lyons & Co.'s refreshment depots. It is noteworthy that in a thoroughfare where changes have abounded the number of these premises has remained the same through so many years. Westminster.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

VIRGINIA AND THE EASTERN COUNTIES (10 S. vii. 329, 412).-Virginia was founded by certain of the nobility, gentry, and merchants of London, and tobacco, its chief product, which was strictly protected, had to be delivered, under heavy penalties, to the King's Commissioners in London, and the ships which brought it over returned Doubtless with arms, stores, and emigrants. many persons from East Anglia followed the trade route, but there was no such

wholesale emigration as there was later to New England under Winthrop.

The Virginians included a very large number of cadets of gentle families, and to subdue these Royalists Cromwell dispatched a powerful squadron. The passive resister seems to have settled in the Northern colony, and the roistering Cavalier in the Southern one. Next to London, Bristol had, it appears, the largest ventures in Virginia, her ships doing an extensive trade.

Unfortunately, there are scarcely any lists of emigrants extant. Mr. Hotten published those of the year 1635, relating chiefly to London; but of Ipswich, Southampton, Weymouth, Plymouth, Dartmouth, and Bristol no such records (or merely fragments) exist, although we know of many ships which sailed from those ports to the West Indies, Virginia, and other plantations beyond the seas. V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill, Berks.

DEVIL'S ISLAND (10 S. viii. 108).-I am greatly obliged to the Editor for the information appended to my query; but, looking to the description given to me quite recently of the Iles du Salut, I am much surprised at the statement as to the salubrity of the climate. My informant gave the islands the worst of characters-almost uninhabitable by Europeans from the extreme heat, and unusually pestiferous-a place where meat goes putrid before it can be issued to the condamnés, and where the mortality among them reaches an unheard-of percentage. I venture to draw the attention of contributors to the discrepancy in the evidence. S. H. S.

BAFFO'S POEMS (10 S. vii. 449).—I have a copy of "Le Poesie di Giorgio Baffo, Patrizio Veneto, 1771," which I bought in London for about two shillings over twentyfive years ago. It is very likely that the book is scarce, seeing that the Biographie Universelle' speaks of Baffo as "le rimeur le plus obscène et le plus sale de son temps. Perhaps the fact that Baffo wrote in Venetian has saved some copies. According to the Biographie,' his poems were published in Venice (under the place-title of "Cosmopoli ") in 1789 in four volumes 8vo. Presumably this was a much larger book than that published in 1771, whose place of publication does not appear even as Cosmopoli." In the query the comma between "Patrizio " and "Veneto " should be eliminated.

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ROBERT PIERPOINT.

GOOD KING WENCESLAUS (10 S. vii. 426; viii. 33). Following the reply of my good friend H. K., and in recognition of the labours of Profs. Kalousek and V. Zeithammer in connexion with our carol, I beg to submit an attempt at translation of a poem on the episode by Vladimir Stastny. The familiar features of Neale's rendering occur here, and it is probable that Stastny has followed the Latin original mentioned by H. K. I am assured that the history and personality of the martyred prince Vacslav are shrouded in folk-lore.

Streatham Common. HIGHLANDERS

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AFTER THE

1715 AND '45 REBELLIONS (10 S. viii. 68, 135).-Hotten printed only a few lists of prisoners transported. I have since discovered all the other lists, and they contain many thousands of names.

Apart from the Jacobites and a riot at Glasgow c. 1727, very few of them would be political prisoners; in the record they are called felons. The exact offence could be traced in the records of the Clerk of the Peace.

The following heading and a copy of the first ten names describe the contents and value of these records :

"A true list of all the Prisoners taken from the Counties of Surry, Sussex, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and shiped on board the Cæsar, Wm Loney Com', for Virginia, which were ship by Mr Jonan Forward of London, Merchant, Oct. 26, 1732, Surry :

"1. Ann Wood; 2. Ann Jones; 3. John Chick; 4. Benj. Gurney; 5. Tho. Lee; 6. Wm Wilkinson; 7. Jesse Addison; 8. John Harvy; 9. Ric. Batchelor; 10. Hanah Salter."

The Cæsar on the same journey also carried 117 prisoners from Newgate.

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S. W. MR. CRUICKSHANK has given himself a most useful and a most difficult task in trying to trace the destination of the Jacobite prisoners who were deported to the West Indies. I have been able to verify one or two cases. It has always been a family tradition, for example, that James Gordon, the son of Charles Gordon, Laird of Terpersie (who was executed in November, 1746), went to the West Indies after being reprieved at Southwark on account of his youth. A confirmation occurs in the extremely interesting list of Scotsmen whom Lord Adam Gordon met in 1764 on his way to America. Among others he encountered in Jamaica on 18 July, 1764, was James Gordon, whom he describes as "late Terpercy," a mahogany cutter (Genealogist, xiv. 16). J. M. BULLOCH.

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (10 S. viii. 47). There is a slightly different wording of this proverb occurring in a poem possibly older than that quoted by MR. PLATT. In the 'Historiettes of Tallemant des. Réaux (2nd edition, ed. Monmerqué, Paris, Rien n'est 1861, vol. i. p. 38) is a ballade,

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si beau que la jeune Doris," &c., ascribed to Tallemant. The three complimentary dizains need not be quoted here; the envoy will suffice :

Jeunes blondins, qui soupirez pour elle,
Et qui souffrez ses rigoureux mépris,
Si vous vouliez estre aimés de la belle,
Il faudroit estre amants à cheveux gris
Et ne l'aimer que d'amour fraternelle.
Mais de vous tous on diroit par la France,
Comme de moy, l'on dit par tous pays:

Que honni soit celui qui mal y pense! A note in the third edition of the 'Historiettes' (Paris, 1862, ed. Monmerqué and Paulin Paris, vol. vi. p. 406) declares that Menage was the author of the verses, and not Tallemant.

Relying on memory only, I am not quite certain of my authority, but some information relating to the origin of this sentiment will, I think, be found in the first volume of Hargrave Jennings's 'History of the RosiR. L. MORETON.

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possess a copy of A List of the Burgesses and Freeholders in the Order they Polled at the late Election at Nottingham from 17th to 27th June, 1818.' Candidates: Right Hon. Lord Rancliffe, Joseph Birch, Esq., and Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq. Result Birch 2228, Rancliffe, 1863, Smith 1839. MERCURIUS.

DR. JOHNSON: DR. JOHN SWAN: DR. WATTS (10 S. vii. 348, 475).—I have been informed by Mr. C. A. Markham, of Northampton, that Dr. William Watts, referred to in the letter by Dr. Swan to Dr. Johnson, was born at Milbourne, in Leicestershire, circa 1725; appointed physician to Northampton Hospital, 1757; afterwards went to reside in Leicester, where he was instrumental in establishing a hospital; and died there in 1774.

It would be interesting to learn more about him, particularly whether he was successful in obtaining any appointment. Possibly some of your Leicester readers may be able to supply something more.

Dr. John Swan, the translator of Sydenham's works, was the friend and correspondent of most of the literary men of the middle of the eighteenth century. Any personal or other facts concerning him, details of MS. or printed materials relating to, or by, him, and anything relative to his own or his wife's family, will put me under a great obligation. He was buried in St. Giles's Churchyard, Newcastle, Staffordshire, on 9 April, 1768, and seems to have been a very religious person, as is clearly shown by his own letter-books (2 vols., 4to), now in the possession of Mr. Markham, and a small 32mo New Testament penes myself. R. SIMMS.

I got into a field which I had often crossed, a lantern, I roamed round and round that within a mile of home, and although I had field for some time, but utterly failed to find the stile leading out of it. At last it occurred to me to look for the light above the town, and when I saw it, I made straight for it, having to work my way through a thick hedge. I put it down as a case of " piscon-led," or rather an illustration of the commonly understood meaning of the phrase in Pembroke. I may add that at the place and time mentioned the word piscon or piskin was applied to ants. With regard to the foxglove, MR. OWEN says he never heard it called rapper" in South Wales. At the above place and time it was seldom called anything else. It was so called because we boys used to pluck a flower, press the open end firmly between the thumb and the first and second fingers, and strike it sharply on the palm of the hand, causing a kind of rap by the bursting of the flower. J. BROWN.

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PIE TART (10 S. viii. 109, 134, 157).— I can confirm the statement of G. M. T. as far as my own family is concerned. As children, we were always taught to use the word "pie" when speaking of baked paste, whether containing meat or fruit, where there was a top crust, and "tart" where the top crust was absent; and I have remained a stickler for the distinction ever since. I have many times corrected what I have considered an error in description.

Since the query appeared I have consulted several dictionaries, and find that "tart is defined as a fruit pie or a small fruit pie. This, however, does not settle the question of its modern usage. The only edition of Johnson's dictionary I possess is the last published under his supervision, 1779; there I find “ tart defined as a small pie of fruit." This would seem to settle the usage nearly 130 years ago, but Johnson gives as an illustrative quotation for the word a passage from one of Bacon's essays, where it appears to me that the writer is plainly alluding to an open piece of pastry. There is no doubt that the modern restaurant keeper and waiter both invariably use the word tart," as distinct from a pie," when the material of which it is composed is fruit. Still, my belief is that the distinction should refer not to the material, but to the architecture of the pastry.

F. A. RUSSELL.

4, Nelgarde Road, Catford, S.E.