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A. C. The elegance of form without the grace of action.

S. T. C. Elegance and grace are here properly distinguishod. Grace certainly implies motion. What is elegant cannot, indeed, be ungraceful ; Imt what is graceful need not be elegant. Much grace may occasionally be observed in rustics and f/risettcs, but only ladies can be elegant.

A. C. A department [portrait painting] wherein he [Hogarth] was not successful,

S. T. C. I do not think that Hogarth would have failed in delineation of living beauty, especially if it were of the florid and voluptuous cast. Lamb speaks highly of his portrait of Peg Woffington, and I have seen a fine copy of his ' Lavinia Penton ' (Polly Peachum), which makes the passion of the Duke of Bolton no mystery. There is a full-length of Lord some- body which looks as well as any [sic] these gentle- men in the old court dress need do. But he cer- tainly wanted elegance. His beauties are hardly gentlewomen. Used to represent figures in action or strong passion, he failed in given [sic] expression to repose.

A. C. Hogarth's portrait of Henry Fielding.

S. T. C. Hogarth's portrait is so very like the novelist that one half suspects its likeness to the man. The same remark applies to Rey- nolds's ' Stern[eV which is obviously compounded of Yorick and Tristram Shandy.

A. C. Hogarth's portrait of Captain Coram, the projector of the Foundling Hospital.

S. T. C. I well remember this portrait. It is in Smollett's history of England. Poor Coram little foresaw a time when his benevolent institu- tion would be censured by the loudest professors of philanthropy. Most philanthropists have strong, harsh features.

J. SHAWCROSS. (To be continued.)

FLEET/WOOD OF CALWICH, CO. STAFFORD.

FROM a careful examination of the evi- dence available, chiefly in wills, it appears probable that the male line has failed entirely, unless there be descendants Henry Fleet wood (sixth son of the first baronet), who married Agatha Giffard.

Henry and Agatha (Giffard) were the parents of Thomas Fleetwood of Gerard': Bromley, who married Frances, daughter of Richard Gerard of Hilderstone. She became heiress* to her brother Charles sixth Lord Gerard, Philip, the seventh lord, being a Jesuit, and therefore incapabl of succeeding to the estates. Their only son, Charles, was patentee of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and married Susanna Williams, an actress, by whom he hac two sons, Charles and Thomas.

James Douglas, fourth Duke of Hamilton, wh fell in the duel with Lord Mohun ; his wife Eliza beth was daughter of the fifth Lord Gerard.
 * Her title was unsuccessfully disputed bj

Charles Fleetwood the younger acted at Drury Lane under Garrick's management in 1758-60, and afterwards went to the East Indies, where he made a fortune ; he died in April, 1784. By his wife Mary Herdea he had two children. :

Frances Maria, baptized at St. Paul's, ?ovent Garden, 18 Feb., 1770.

Charles, living in 1786 at Burdway Burdwan ?), E.I., whose senior male repre- entative, if there be one, is presumably ntitled to the baronetcy, assumed to be extinct, created by James I. on 29 June, 1611. Should this line have failed, the male epresentative of Thomas Fleetwood (younger )rury Lane), who was also an actor, and died in Edinburgh some years before 1779, vould be the probable heir to the title.
 * on of the patentee of the Theatre Royal

Should both lines have failed, there can ae scarcely any doubt that the title is really extinct.

In arriving at these conclusions I place great reliance on the will of Sir Thomas Fleetwood, the fourth baronet, who settles, in the event of his half-brother John (after- wards fifth baronet) leaving no heir, the estates on Charles Fleetwood of Gerard's Bromley, the patentee of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and his heirs male ; it is sig- nificant that no other male Fleetwood is mentioned in the will.

The link connecting the Gerard's Bromley branch with the Calwich line was discovered by the late Sir Edmund T. Bewley, LL.D., F.S.A., in the course of his investigations into the history of the Irish branches of the Fleetwoods. That kinship existed had been known for some years through the wills of the fourth baronet and the Hon. Frances Fleetwood of Gerard's Bromley, but the precise relationship could not be discovered. A John Gerard Fleetwood,* an ensign in the 73rd Foot, died at Leeds intestate, and admon. was granted to his widow Margaret, 15 April, 1777 (P.C.C.), There are no records at the War Office bearing on his ancestry, but in the Admiralty Papers at the Public Record Office there is proof that a son, also named John Gerard, was born 5 June, and baptized at Leeds, 1 July, 1775. This son was a midshipman of the

with the Fleetwoods of Gerard's Bromley. As Gerrard Dutton Fleetwood, who died in 1795 (10 S. v. 403), appears to have been the last male representative of the Crawley branch, and the name of Dutton does not occur among the names of the. yieetwoods now under discussion, any connexion with the Orawley line is most im- probable.
 * The name of Gerard points to a connexion