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and Edward, the youngest, in 1880, having been predeceased by his only son, Edward James, who was drowned, at the age of seventeen, in the Lake of Geneva. H. W.

OTWAY BALE (10 S. xi. 170). Otway Bale was the second son of the Rev. Sack- ville Stephens Bale, Rector, as was his father before him, of Withyham in Sussex, by his marriage with Alicia, daughter of Francis Otway. He and his three brothers, who were all educated at Westminster, will be found recorded in connexion with a pedigree of the Huguenot Refugee family of Godde in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, New Series, iii. 221. H. W.

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REV. HENRY YONGE (10 S. xi. 129). Son of William of Caynton, Salop, arm. ; Christ Church, Oxon, matric. 25 May, 1733, aged 18; B.A. 1737; M.A. 20 March, 1739/40 ; Vicar of Great Torrington, Devon, 1746, until his death 23 Nov., 1784. See Foster's ' Our Noble and Gentle Families,' ii. 817 ; and ' Alumni West.,' 308.

A. R. BAYLEY.

Rev. Henry Yonge was Rector of Great Torrington. B. 1715 ; m. 1746 Sarah, dau. of John Woolley of Ludlow. Issue William, Archdeacon and Chancellor of Norwich, and Vicar of Swaffham ; Dennis, clerk in Holy Orders ; Sarah, m. Rev. William, Earl Nelson ; and three sons d.s.p. His elder brother William, 06. 1768, was the last owner of Caynton, which had been in the possession of this ancient family since the twelfth century. Extracted from the^Yonge pedigree. MONTAGU SHARPE.

JjRiCHARD BLIGH, 1780-1838 (10 S. xi. 149). Richard Bligh was the second son of John Bligh of Abingdon Street, Secretary of the Chelsea Waterworks, by his first wife, Lucy, daughter of William Shuter of London. The confusion as to his parentage seems to have arisen from his marrying his second cousin, Elizabeth, third daughter of Admiral William Bligh. I have a pedigree of the family from John Bligh, buried at Hols- worthy, Devonshire, 1597. R. PEACOCK.

I*, J)R. ROBEBT GURNEY (10 S. xi. 149). Robert Gorney matriculated at Trin. Coll., Dublin, 8 Jan., 1677/8, as Sizar, being son of William, "Gregarii," born in London, age 16, educated (at Dublin) under Mr. Rydar. He became Scholar (as Gourney) 1681, B.A. 1682, M.A. 1686, B.D. and D.D. 1704.

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MUBAT'S WIDOW : EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE (10 S. xi. 107). Hiort Lorenzen, who devotes the fourth part of the ' Livre d'Or ' to the morganatic marriages of royalties, is silent as to any remarriage of the Queen of Naples.

The Empress Marie Louise m. secondly, 1822, Adam Adalbert, Count of Neipperg, Lieutenant-Field-Marshal in the Austrian service, who d. 22 Feb., 1829 ; and thirdly, 17 Feb., 1837, Charles Rene, Count of Bom- belles, Grand Master of the Court to the Emperor, Ferdinand I., who d. 30 May, 1856. She had by her second marriage a son William, created Prince of Montenuovo (who has twelve living descendants : see 'The Blood Royal of Britain,' p. 101), and a daughter Marie, Countess of San Vitali.

RUVIGNY.

PHILLIS WHEATLEY AND HER POEMS (10 S. x. 385; xi. 30, 78). A few remarks on MR. THORNTON'S reply may not be out of place. The article by " Phocion," to which he alludes, was the second of twenty- five articles which appeared in The Gazette of the United States, beginning 14 Oct. and ending 24 Nov., 1796. They were a bitter attack on Thomas Jefferson, who was then a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and was actually elected Vice- President. Who " Phocion " was I do not know ; but MR. THORNTON is mistaken in thinking that the remark about Phillis was written by " Phocion." As a matter of fact it was written by Jefferson, being merely quoted by " Phocion." Nor is it certain that the remark necessarily bears the interpretation put upon it by MR. THORNTON. In his ' Notes on Virginia ' (1782), p. 257, Jefferson said :

" Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oastrum of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination. Religion, indeed, has produced a Phyllis Whately ; but it could not produce a poet. The compositions published under her name are below the dignity of criticism. The heroes of ' The Dunciad ' are to her, as Hercules to the author of that poem."

This is probably one of the earliest allu- sions to Phillis in a book. In his ' Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species,' published in 1786, the Rev. Thomas Clarkson quoted several extracts from Phillis's poems, and remarked :

" But where these impediments have been removed, where they [negroes] have received an education, and have known and pronounced the language with propriety, these defects have