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P. 9. 7 Sept., 1745. " Collins has been some Time return'd from Flanders, in order to put on ye Gown as I hear, and get a chaplaincy in a Regiment. Don't laugh, indeed I don't on these occasions : This will be ye second acquaintance of mine who becomes ye Thing He most derides."

P. 14. [London] 28 May, 1746. " I can't help telling You, tho' 'tis a little uncharitable, that Collins appears in good cloaths and a wretched carcass, at all ye gay Places, tho' it was with ye iitmost Difficulty that He scrap'd together 5 pound for Miss Bundy at whose Suit He was arrested and whom by his own confession He never intended to pay. I don't believe He will tell ye Story in Verse, tho' some circumstances of his taking would be burlesque enough. The Bailiff introduc'd himself with 4 Gentlemen who came to drink Tea, and who ,!! together could raise but one Guinea. The (a word He is fond of) was quite

striking and ye catastrophe quite poetical and interesting."

P. 15. 1 Aug., 1746. "I have just reciev'd a Letter from Collin's [sic], dated Antwerp. He gives me a very descriptive Journal of his Tra veils thro' Holland to that Place, which He is in Raptures about, and promises a more particular Account of : He is in high Spirits, tho' near ye French. He was just setting out for ye Army, which He says are in a poor way, and He met many wounded and sick Countrymen as He travell'd from Helvoet-Sluys."

P. 188. 2 April, 1764." I have read Collins' s Life. Not enough is said, if it was right to say any Thing at all : His Genius is not enough called forth to Light, to whet ye Reader to buy one of hia Works. As to Hampton, we had always a Dislike to ye Man, tho' ingenious, and his present Life does not take off that Prevention."

The 'Life' referred to is that in Gent. Mag., 1764, pp. 23-4, by the Rev. William Hampton, for whom see Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.' ; it contained Johnson's character of Collins from the ' Poetical Calendar ' of Fawkes and Woty, vol. xii.

W. P. COURTNEY.

" SLAVEY." A curious instance of the -use of this slang word, mainly employed by the lower-class Cockney to describe a domestic servant, is to be found in the recently published ' Letters of Queen Vic- toria.' Leopold I. of Belgium, writing to the then Princess Victoria in 1836, said :

"Now that slavery is even abolished in the British colonies, I do not comprehend why your lot -alone should be to be kept a white little slavey in Jingland, for the pleasure of the Court, who never bought you, as I am not aware of their having gone to any expense on that head, or the King's even having spent a sixpence for your existence.'"

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

COMLOQUOY SURNAME. This Orcadian name is worthy of record in ' N. & Q.' as the holders of it boast that they are the only family in the world with this name.

ALEX. RUSSELL. Mromness, Orkney.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

HAMPSTEAD IN SONG. I am compiling a list of all the references to Hampstead in song and verse, sentimental, humorous, or otherwise. I also wish to include single verses as well as complete poems, and should be glad of any help in the matter, especially in the direction of privately printed items, of which there must be a good many. It might save time if I state that I am aware of the existence of the ' Hampstead Garner.' Kilburn and Primrose Hill might be in- cluded, as they are partly within our borough. E. E. NEWTON.

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

ARABIC NUMERALS ON A BRASS AT WIN- CHESTER. I shall be obliged to any one who will throw light on the date 1410 published in The Antiquary (vol. xxxviii. p. 258), from a rubbing by W. C. Banks, as existing on the brass of John de Campden in Holy Cross, Winchester. Rubbings of this brass show no date at all, nor is such a date mentioned in any of the publications of the brass known to me. G. F. HILL.

SMALLPOX HOSPITAL IN 1804 : ALEX- ANDRA INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND. A Smallpox Hospital is named in some papers I recently read as existing in London during 1804. Can any reader say where it was situated ?

I should also like to discover what the Alexandra Institution for the Blind was, and its location. It was apparently existing in 1875. J. E. D. H.

WESLEY IN GERMANY AND HOLLAND. In July, 1738, Wesley travelled via the Rhine to Frankfort, and thence to Herrn- hut, by the great road through Gelnhausen to Fulda, Eisenach, and onwards. By the help of atlases, Baedeker, and cyclists' road- books, I have located, and have found the modern spelling of most of his place-names, some of these being strangely disguised. Can any of your readers help me to the following? (1) " Ulph," from which he writes letters to his mother and his brother Samuel. It is probably in Palatine Bavaria, and is perhaps the castle of " the Count of Solmes." (2) " Offenau " and " Steinau," which follow Gelnhausen as Wesley moves eastward ; the ' Journal,' 1st ed., gives