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 10 s. x. SEPT. 5, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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ROMAN INSCRIPTION AT BAVENO (10 S. x. 107). This is No. 6638 in vol. v. part ii. (1877) of the ' Corpus Inscr. Lat.,' where it is given in the following form :

TROP^IMVS TI CLAVDlI * CAES

AVGVSTI GERMANIC ' SEK DAP-INIDIANVS

MEMORIAE aeTCRWAE ' SACRVM

Mommsen examined the inscription himself in editing the ' Corpus.' In 1. 7, which was illegible, he made use of a copy published by P. Galleratus, a lawyer of Novara, in his * Antiqua Novariensium monumenta collecta ac divulgata nunc primum ' (Novara, 1612). See under ' Novaria,' p. 718 in the same part of the ' Corpus.'

The copy of 1885 quoted by COL. PRIDEATJX is Galleratus' s version. On what additional material the address to the " Historise cul- tor " is based I cannot say, but he seems to be asked to believe more than historical evidence warrants. EDWABD BENSLY.

Bad Wildungen, Waldeck.

DANZIG : ITS SIEGE IN 1813 (10 S. x. 130). The chief authority is Charles Auriol's Siege : Journal personnel et notes du general de division de Campredon, commandant le genie du 10 e Corps.' Lettres diverses,' Paris, 1888 (Plon). Compare also Revue Historique, torn. xl. pp. 89-106 and 305-28, Paris, 1889.
 * Defense de Dantzig en 1813, Journal de

For English accounts see J. Philippart's ' Campaigns in Germany and France in 1813 ' (pub. 1814 ?) and Alison's ' Europe,' chap. Ixxxii. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

[MR. W. T. LYNN also refers to Alison.]

ZOFFANY (10 S. x. 130). Zoffany intro- duced portraits of himself in his group of ' Painters of the Royal Academy,' 1772, and in Col. Mordaunt's ' Cock Match,' 1786. ' Evans's Catalogue of Engraved Portraits ' mentions an etching of Zoffany by Daniell after Dance. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

THE NATIONAL FLAG (10 S. ix. 502 ; x. 72, 130). Although, thanks largely to the action of MR. JOHN C. FRANCIS, the question of the National Flag has at last been satis- factorily settled, I desire, before the corre- spondence in ' N. & Q.' is closed, to say a word in answer to those who hold that it was quite unnecessary to raise the question, and that every one knew that the Union Jack was the National Flag which every

Briton had a right to use. In former numbers of ' N. & Q.' I have already ad- vanced evidence in opposition to the above view. But if this is not enough, the follow- ing answer, given in the House of Commons on 22 Oct., 1892, will show that the subject was not agitated by MR. FRANCIS and myself unnecessarily, and that were it not for the recent action of the present Government, we should still be without a National Flag :

" Mr. Balfour said : * The questions which have been raised as to the proper use of flags have received the careful consideration of the Govern- ment, but they are unable to adopt the course suggested. Nor does it appear desirable to under- take the legislation which would be necessary in order to regulate the general use by civilians, or any class of civilians, of any particular flag on land. It is a matter which is best left, as hitherto, to the guidance of custom and good taste.' "

" Custom and good taste " meant that, as recently noticed by Lord Meath in the House of Lords, the police sometimes hauled down the flag ; whilst in India, as mentioned by me, a European was once confined in the military prison for hoisting the Union Jack.

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC.

Schloss Rothberg, Switzerland.

When James I. had the Union Flag first arranged, there was as much white in the fimbriation round the cross of St. George as there was blue on the field of the cross of St. Andrew. This was but just to Eng- land, as her men had fought for many cen- turies under the cross of St. George on a white field.

The fimbriation down one side of each arm of the cross of St. Patrick in the Union Flag of 1 Jan., 1801, is a reminder that the cross of St. Andrew had occupied that position on the Union Flag for nearly two centuries occupies it still, in a way, under the cross of St. Patrick. That fimbriation is something in the nature of the board with " Ancient lights " on it which one sees on an old house when a new one is being built quite near it ; yet the crosses of SS. Andrew and Patrick, or Patrick and Andrew, are exactly equal in size in the Union Flag of 1 Jan., 1801, without the fimbriation, as they should be, though the St. Andrew's cross on the Union Flag of James I. was a little wider than it is on the Union Flag of 1801. The fimbriation on the arms of the cross of St. Patrick should be fully as wide as that round the cross of St. George.

I suspect that the real reason why the cross of St. Patrick is made a little narrower the width of the narrow fimbriation on one side of its arms is a purely economic