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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1865.

CONTENTS.-No 158.

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"The next three are memoranda for letters or reports in

the Prince's handwriting.

the first two written on torn

scraps of paper; the third, on a thin card.
6th, parted from thence ve 12th Sept. Eng-
ye 2d Sept. Arrived to A[ntwerp] ye

land ye 14th, and at London] ye 16th. Parted

from London] ye 22d, and arrived at Paris]

ye 24th. From Paris] parted ye 28th, arrived

here ye 30th Sept. If she dos not come, and

yr M. agreed on to send bac for yr Letter and

Procuration; ye House here of P. C. and her

being either a tretor or a hour, to chuse which,

not to send to P. even after her coming, unless in

absolute necessity, or her requiring it then at her

dor."

Verso. "The letter to Godie retarded a post,

ye Lady being arrived or her retard to be Little if
she is true stille."

"Ye 5th Sept., O. S., 1750, arrived; ye 11th,
parted to D[over]; ye 12, in ye morning, parted
and arrived at Boulogne]; and ye 13th at Paris].
N.*S., ye 16th Sept., ye 22d, 23d, and 24th.

"Either ill counsiled or She has made a Con-
fidence. Mr. Lorain's being here ye 12th Sept.
Mr. Duran his discorces to amuse not having to do
with anybody but ye Lady, and Mr. Lisle's not
marrieeng, or appearing; to go ye same day with
ye King, speking to W. ye last day.

"Md. H. here this six weeks."

Verso. "The Vignion for W., and letters K
and L, the money and adresses. (In pencil, “The
money for Dormer.")

subson et si jenvoi pas je done encore."
"Je ne puis pas envoie pour ne pas doner du

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clearly indicative of the Prince's growing hopelessness in
"The last sentence, notwithstanding its bad French, is

"Lux. Novemr. ye 26th. Mrs. Tomson. Ye

visavi La Rue Ste. Marie faug. St. Germin, Ju.
P.M. is the best time for me to go. Rue Verneuil,
ye Ordonances; ye Lady; my
being sent; Sr. J. Stuard; ye Envoy of P.[russia?]
being a Republican; Sr. J. Grems [Graham's]
at Lu.; Charles Smit; Mr. Heborn [Hepburn];
my resons of Declaring myself a Protestant at ye
of Prussia's?] uniform for to go Lu. ye 50 Loui-
age of 30ty. my being at London ye yr. 50ty. K.
dors for Ca: Kely; Wm. Murray," &c.

* In The Times this was erroneously printed R. S.,
which gave rise to an opinion that there was a discrepancy
that of eleven days, the difference between the Old and New
in the dates. But it will be seen that the difference is only

Styles.

"On the verso of the card are some memoranda of money matters, and the date ye 21rst March, 1754.'

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"The letter now to be given contains neither date nor signature; but I think the name of the writer (evidently a Scotchman) will be ascertained from a comparison of the writing and with other papers of the same period. The date is approximately determinable as 1769 or 1770,

from the references to the death of the Chevalier de St. George (the Old Pretender) and to the flight of Miss Walkinshaw with their child. The proposal to repudiate the National Debt is very curious and amusing: —

"It was most certainly a very great affront and Injury done to the Prince to carry from him his Daughter, that behoved to be a fine amusement to Him in his solitary way of liveing, while still expecting better Times.

"When He Discovers Him that acted it, or had a share in the Crime, He or they should be punised, tho' with much goodness, to imitate our great Creator. In the meantime it should not be resented to His own Disadvantage, or that of his most sincere Weal Wishers, but a proper time waited when it can be done more effectualy. If his Majesty had any share in it, It can be imputed to nothing else than a wrong principle in his Religion, and ought therefore to be heartyly forgiven, and a good Understanding fully reestablish'd. It must be a great Loss to His Royal Highness and all true subjects to have the intercourse betwixt Him and them intirely cutt off by his Resolution of so strict a Retirement which they most earnestly wish and beg He would change to their Vast Comfort; and it is the greatest Glory of a man to forgive ane Injury. I hear'd more than three years ago, That the Prince (upon the King's Death) was resolved to goe to Rome, of which I took no notice, haveing heard long before, That he said That He would never return to Rome. It is most earnestly Wished That He would be so good as Change his intention of goeing there, if IIe ever had it. It may happen That his Affairs in Britain might be at the Crisis in his favours at the time he was there, which could not faill to make a very bad turn, even with his friends upon hearing it. But hou would his Enemies Triumph and be Overjoyed. Yea, his best Wishers might justly belive. That he was not fully settled in his principles of religion, which being the same with their Own, gave them the best grounds to believe, That they would get Him safely settled on the Throne of his Fathers, as there was no other possible objection against Him But upon his being there, they might suspect; That He was resolved at the bottom to continue in his Father's Principles of Religion. Besides if IIe should go there and retain his present Opinion He might be exposed to great Hazards amidst a People so bigotted to a different way of thinking, and Its not to be Doubted but they would contrive something against Ilim, at least to disappoint Him of the

Desine he had for goeing, and whatever View He has, It is not to be compared with the gaining the Crowns of Scotland, England, and Ireland; But not to pry into what the Desine of his Journey may be He is sure to Obtain it more easiely when he is possessed of these Crowns. [turn over "The Present State of Britain is in a very Unsettled way, Their Vast Load of Debt must Ruin them, And they have no other way to get Clear of it but by settleing the Royal Family on the Throne. When One Act of Parliament will Discharge It, As haveing been contracted to Exclude and keep them from their Just Right, and Those who suffer will have themselves only to blame, tho' These who shall be reduced to great Indigence by this Act, can from time to time, be provided so as to live, they and their Familys in a Comfortable Way. Every Reasonable Man would aprove of this Conduct, as the most effectual Beacon against new Usurpation; But If the Debts should be annulled dureing the Present Usurpation, It would bring ane Indelible Ignominy upon the whole Nation.

"I most sincerely wish his Royal Highness would frequently correspond with his Friends in Britain; And if He would allow me to his Prescence I would Begg on my Knees That He would never goe to Rome on any Account Whatever.

"This is from a faithfull Subject who does not want five months, of being seventy two years of age Compleat."

which Lord Stanhope has printed, as Lays of the Last "I append the following fragments, which are of the class Stuart. If they do not illustrate the poetical genius of the Prince, they show, I think, that he was negatively sincere in his profession of Protestantism. They occur among the numerous scraps of paper on which he was accustomed to scribble memoranda of every conceivable kind:

"Papish, Irish, such is fools,

"Such as them Cant be my Tools."

"I hete all prists, and the regions they rein in, "from the pope at Rome to the papists of Britain." "And to this he has added a couplet from Rochester's wellknown poem, which similarly illustrates his being a 'Republican':

"I hete all Kings and the Throns they sit on, "From the II[ector] of France to the Culia [Cully] of B[ritain].”

"Vice versa at present,' he adds, which seems to show that he appreciated the difference between the wretched Louis XV. and our valorous George II., who certainly were 'vice versa to Louis XIV. and Charles II. in Rochester's time."

Thus far Mr. Woodward. Let me add that this visit to London is confirmed by Dr. King, in his well-known Anecdotes of his Own Time, and in a very striking manner by the interesting Diaries of a Lady of Quality, recently published

under the editorship of Mr. Hayward, where we read, on the authority of the lady's brother, Mr. Charles W. W. Wynn, not only that the Young Pretender was in England in 1750, and then conformed to the Church of England, but that such conforming took place at St. James's, Piccadilly.

Allan's picture of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp, which arrangement led to the following lines being written: —

"On Graham the Avenger.

"What, tho' the bigots of our own more peaceful times
May paint thee still a monster stained with crimes,
Breathes there a man unwarped by party lore,
Could hear that struggling orphan pour
To deafened ears her agonizing prayers
For mercy on that old man's silver hairs,
Nor feel they had earned the avenging rod,
Who sold their king, and slew the priests of God?"

"My grandmother often repeated to me the account which she had herself received from Lady Primrose of Charles Edward's visit to London in 1750 (a letter from the historian Hume to Sir J. Pringle, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, May 1788, relating the same incident, assigns to this visit the date 1753).* She described her consternation when Mr. Browne (the name under which he was to go) was announced to her in the midst of a card party, among whom were many who she felt might have seen him abroad and would very probably recognise him. Her cards almost dropped from her hands, but she recovered herself, and got him out of the room as quickly as she could. He slept at her house that night only, and afterwards went to that of a merchant in the city. The impression he left on the mind of Lady Primrose, a warm and attached partisan, was by no means favourable. I have read myself among the Stuart papers a minute of the heads of a manifesto in Charles Edward's own handwriting, among which appeared, My having in the year 1750 conformed to the Church of England in St. James's Church. Some idea may be formed of the extent of the panic felt at the time of his advance to Derby from the account given by an old workman at Wotton, of his hay-light." ing at that period assisted in burying by night all the family plate in the garden.-C. W. W. W."

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One word more. Would the books of St. James's Church record the "conforming" of "Mr. Browne?" As the search would necessarily be limited to five days, namely, between the 16th and 22nd Sept., 1750, Old Style, it is to be hoped some reader of "N. & Q.," who may have the opportunity of examining the Registers at St. James's, will do so, and give us the result of his inquiries. T. P.

SCOTTISH HISTORICAL GOSSIP.

I do not know that the Dalkeith portrait of Claverhouse has ever been copied, engraved, or photographed; but I cannot agree with F. M. S. 134 S. vi. 472) that it is the only one that does Dundee justice, when I recollect those at the Lee and Milton-Lockhart. At the latter place, Claverhouse's most interesting portrait hangs over

Hume speaks of a second visit on the authority of Lord Holderness, and adds, 'You see this story is so near traced from the fountain-head as to wear a great trace of probability. Query, what if the Pretender had taken up Dymock's gauntlet?' Miss Strickland, in her Life of Mary II., says, "This incident has been told as a gossip's tale pertaining to every coronation of the last century which took place while an heir of James II. existed. If ever took place, it must have been at the coronation of William and Mary. That there was a pause at this part of the ceremony of above two hours, and that when the ampion appeared the gauntlet was heard to be thrown, bat nothing that was done could be seen on account of the darkness of the evening, all this rests upon the authority Lamberty, the historian and diplomatist.""

This allusion to the sale of the king by the Scotch army reminds me to call attention to the extraordinary blunders in regard to its constitution, and the appointment of its officers, published by Mr. Bisset in his Omitted Chapters in the History of England, especially his confounding Lord Loudon, Chancellor of Scotland, with the Laird of Lawers, who commanded a regiment. Mr. Bisset tells us, that the appointment of these officers is "a subject somewhat dark, but after much digging in the rubish heaps and fossil remains of the Scottish Records, and Scotch peerages and baronages, we obtain some glimpses of

Although I could not conceive why our admirably kept records (almost perfect, except where they were taken away from us by Edward I. and Cromwell), should be called "rubish heaps, and fossil remains" more than those in the English Record Office, still I did hope that on reading further I should have received some new information as to the officers of the Scottish army at the period. Guess my astonishment when I found that the extent of the diggings of this would-be Macaulay was the Douglas Peerage and Baronage, with Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, the latter originally being merely a hasty set of sketches, dashed off to amuse an invalid child, and hurriedly got up as a publication, under the pressure of pecuniary circumstances.

The extent of Mr. Bisset's digging (I should call it scratching) may be estimated by the fact, that he has never consulted such an obvious

source of information as "The Books of Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum." He would there have found a collection, entitled The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, published by the Record Commission. Had he done so, he would probably have dropt upon such an entry as this-showing that, although the Earl of Loudon was a Campbell of Lawers, he had nothing to do with the regiment of the Laird Lawers (vol. vi. p. 415): —

"At Edinburgh, the 9th day of March, in the year of God 1649. The which day was presented and produced in face of Parliament, in name and behalf of Colonel James Campbell, son to the late Colonel Sir Mungo Campbell of Laweris, ane particular list and roll of persons from whom money is to be borrowed; which, being

heard read, the Estates ordain the same to be submitted by the Lord Chancellor, and have remitted the same to the Committee to be appointed for borrowed monies.” This document is endorsed: "Produced by the Laird of Laweris, and remitted to the Committee." Signed, "LOUDOUN CANCEL. I.P.D.P."

In fact, there are numerous entries in this volume of the Acts of Scotland; as for instance, the Petition of Colonel James Campbell of Laweris, p. 366. The List of Colonels, p. 389, contains the name of Col. Colline Campbell, of Laweris, as commander of the Foot, raised in Linlithgowshire. But it would be endless to continue; suffice it to say, that these Acts of Parliament contain the most complete information as to officers in command of regiments in the Scottish

service.

I would further ask, on what authority Mr. Bisset founds his assertion, that any one of our Scotch families sets up a pedigree, commencing at the flood?

My old Milton-Lockhart recollections lead me also to take this opportunity of correcting an error in another book, which I approach in a totally different spirit than the senseless and coarse abuse of Scotland contained in the Omitted Chapters of the History of England. To Mrs. Gordon all Scotchmen, and especially those who, like myself, had the good fortune to be pupils of her father, owe a deep debt of gratitude for her admirable Memoir of Professor Wilson. There are, however, spots in the sun; as the following passage in her work (vol. ii. p. 94, note) is calculated to give an erroneous idea of the character of my old friend John Gibson Lockhart, and is an instance how a literary anecdote may lose its point in passing from hand to hand.

"On a later occasion Mr. Lockhart amused himself, in a similar manner, by appending to a paper on Lord Robertson's Poems, in the Quarterly Review, the following epitaph:

Here lies the peerless paper Peer, Lord Peter,

Who broke the laws of God and man, and metre.' These lines were, however, only in one copy, which was sent to the Senator [of the College of Justice]; but the joke lay in Lord Robertson imagining that it was in the whole edition."

The article in the Quarterly Review on Lord Robertson's Poems (vol. lxxvi. p. 424), com

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“This is a very pleasing, as well as a beautiful little volume;" and concludes, "we should ill-discharge, even our critical duty, if we omitted the praise so justly due to the amiable tone which in the little volume before us is constantly perceived. The sound good sense and purely moral feeling of the learned and ingenious author is not more remarkable than the tenderness of heart which everywhere shines through his verses."

Into an article with such a heading and such a conclusion it is of course needless to say that a sarcastic epitaph like the above could not be

dovetailed with any chance of a successful hoax. The real facts of the case were as follows:Lord Robertson and John Lockhart met in the autumn of 1845 at the hospitable table of William Lockhart of Milton-Lockhart, the brother of the editor of the Quarterly. His lordship, better known as Peter Robertson, had, as is not unusual, under the mass of jocularity and even buffoonery which attaches to his memory, a deep underlying current of sentiment, which first broke out in the conclusion of his well-known speech in defence of the Glasgow cotton spinners. On being raised to the Bench, he published a small book of sentimental poems entitled Leaves from a Journal and other Fragments in Verse. When on this occasion he visited Milton-Lockhart, he had become aware that this brochure was to be reviewed in the December Number of the Quarterly for 1845, and tried all he could to get out of Lockhart the nature of the forthcoming critique, but without success. The next morning after breakfast, Lord Robertson renewed the attack, when J. G. Lockhart, after tantalising him for some time, walked over to the table in the oriel window, where there were always writing materials, scribbled a few words, and returning said, "Peter, you have been trying all you can to find out what the Quarterly is going to say about your poems. You know that it is against all rule for me to tell you; but as you are an old friend, I will give you the epitaph with which it concludes, from which you may judge of the general tone."

Of course Robertson was too shrewd a man not to know that the critique was favourable, and after lunch he and John Lockhart started in the highest spirits to dine with another old friend and distinguished literary character, at whose house the Quarterly having come of age. . . . "Every thing would be on the scale of the greatest magnificence, and an author roasted whole." Quarterly Review, vol. lxxvi. p. 247.)

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GEORGE VERE IRVING.

REGIMENTAL BADGES.

Many years since my lamented friend, the late Colonel Thomas Sidney Powell, C.B., 53rd regiment, placed in my hands the following letter, which must interest your numerous military readers. The author holds the rank of MajorGeneral in the British army, and served with Colonel Powell in the 6th, or Royal 1st Warwickshire Regiment of Infantry. I feel certain that he shares with me my sorrow at the murder of Colonel Powell by the mutinous sepoys, in India, on the first of November, 1857 :

:

"Mr. Cannon, in his Records of the Sixth Regiment of Infantry, states that, Tradition has connected the

badge of the Antelope with the services of the regiment in Spain, in the year 1710; and, as several stands of colours were taken by the regiment at Saragossa, and presented by Colonel Thomas Harrison to Queen Anne, it has been considered probable that one colour taken from an African regiment in the service of Philip, which bore on it the Antelope, was among the number, and that Colonel Harrison obtained the Queen's permission to adopt the Antelope for a regimental badge.'

"Mr. Cannon, however, admits that no documentary evidence has as yet been found which would substantiate the tradition.

The late Colonel Hugh Maurice Scott, of the sixth regiment, told me, when I was an ensign in the corps, that his father, who had been lieutenant-colonel of the sixth regiment for very many years, and had been born in the corps, believed that the badge of the Antelope was as old as the time of Queen Elizabeth; and that the regiment, then in the service of the States of Holland, adopted the badge owing to the Antelope being the crest of its colonel, Sir William Russell. For many years I thought this the most probable of all the conjectures which I had heard.

Some years since I suggested to the editor of a military journal my opinion, that the badges of the first nine old regiments of infantry had one and the same origin, and that they all obtained their badges in the reign of King William the Third, or, at least, that the badges were then confirmed to these regiments. Let us now see how the matter stands.

"All persons will have noticed that most of the badges have been derived from parts of the arms of the English Crown. The following may suggest sources of investigation to those persons who have time for examining military documents and histories:

The Royal Regiment Badge, The Royal cypher, within the collar of Saint Andrew, and the crown over it.' This badge is manifestly derived from the Scottish crown, The King's cypher, within Saint Andrew's collar, and the crown over it.'

The Queen's Royal Regiment Badge, The Paschal Lamb," from the royal arms of Portugal; the regiment being raised for service in Tangiers, part of the dower of Catherina, Queen of King Charles the Second, and who was previous to her marriage, Infanta of Portugal.

-Third Regiment Badge, The Dragon,' one of the supporters of the royal arms in the times of the Tudors I believe.

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"Sixth Regiment Badges, The Antelope,' and the "Rase and Crown.' The Antelope was one of the supporters of the royal arms before the Unicorn was assumed.

"Seventh Regiment Badges, The Rose within the Garter, and the Crown over it,' and the White Horse.' The Rose within the Garter and the Crown over it,' come from the royal arms, and the White Horse' comes from the Saxon dynasty.

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Eighth Regiment Badge, The White Horse.' This torps bore the badge of the White Horse' before any Haverian sovereign ascended the throne of England. "The Ninth Regiment Badge, 'The Figure of Britan'This badge was borne by the regiment long before I served as a marine corps, and was confirmed to the ement by the commander-in-chief, on July 30th, 1799.

Now, the common origin of these badges leads me to er that they were not conferred for any particular serVe, but that they were granted as crests to each of the tame old corps,' as they used to be called. In after times,

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PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD.

Wishing to test the current accounts of a certain incomparable pair of brethren, successively lords chamberlain of the royal household, and chancellors of the university of Oxford, I had recourse to a semi-official periodical work in high repute-whence I transcribe the paragraph which follows:

"PEMBROKE COLLEGE. This college, originally Broadgates Hall, was founded in the year 1624, by king James the first, at the costs and charges of Thomas Tesdale, esquire, of Glympton in Oxfordshire, and Richard Wightwick, B.D., rector of Ilsley, Berks, for a master, ten fellows, and ten scholars, or more or fewer; and obtained its name from Philip Herbert, earl of Pembroke, who was chancellor of the university when it was founded."

More than suspicious of this accredited guide, with regard to one part of the information which he gives, I consulted a guide who wrote two centuries before him, and published his curious volume with academic sanction. It is entitled Academiæ Oxoniensis notitia. Oxoniæ, typis W. H. Impensis R. Davis, 1665.-and calls for another extract:

"COLLEGIUM PEMBROCHIANUM. Collegium quod hodie Pembrochianum audit, olim Latarum Portarum Aula dicta est. Cum vero Thomas Tisdale, etc.* * *Collegium ibi loci instituendum concessit Jacobus rex; quod in honorem D. Guilielmi Herbert, Penbrochiæ comitis, Academiæ tunc temporis cancellarii, Penbrochianun appellari visum est.'

The author of this anonymous tract was William Fulman; ob. 1688. The copy in my hands was formerly in the collection of Alexander Chalmers, and subsequently in that of the learned and estimable Philip Bliss-who records an edition of 1675.

Now, as to the modern guide, I presume to make two observations, 1. William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, was chancellor of the university of Oxford from 1616-17 to 1630; 2. Philip Herbert, who was created earl of Montgomery in 1605, was elected steward of the university in 1615; but he did not become earl of Pembroke till the death of his brother in 1630, nor did he obtain the chancellorship before the resignation of archbishop Laud in 1641. (Camden, Annales Jacobi I.; Antony Wood, History, etc. by Gutch; Laud, Autobiography.)

Do the members of Pembroke ever condescend to examine The Oxford university calendar? Seldom, I conceive-for the error now pointed out has been in existence for twice-seven years! BOLTON CORNEY.

Barnes, S.W.

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