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observaciones del Don Javier, ni la prudente in- tervencion del general Alava bastaban a mitigar la desdenosa y altiva actitud de Wellington, como ni tampoco los accesos mal repriniidos de ira que se dibujaban en el rostro del artista ; y a todo esto Don Javier, que observaba al uno y al otro ; que veia ii su padre echar siniestras ojeadas a las pis- tolas que tenia siempre cargadas sobre la mesa y que temia un desenlace espantoso de aquel con- flicto, no sabia ;i cual acudir, hasta que vio levan- tarse al Lord con mucha arrogancia y ponerse el sombrero en actitud de partir. Entonces Goya, sin poderse ya contener, echo mano a las pistolas, mientras el Lord requeria el puiio de su espada, y solo merced a los gigantescos esfuerzos del general Alava, diciendole que el artista estaba atacado de nagenacion mental, y los del hijo de Goya conte- niendo por fuerza la mano de su padre, pudo al fin terminar una escena lamentable, que acaso hubiera atajado inopinadamente la serie de triunfos del yencedor de los Arapiles, del heroe future de V itoria, de Toulouse y Waterloo."

En feuilletant 1'histoire il ne serait peut- tre pas difficile de trouver des faits pareils, ou^des personnages de grande notoriete' ont te sur le point de perdre leur position et meme 1'existence pour de futiles raisons.

Peut-on me citer ces faits dans 1'histoire de 1'Europe ? FLORENCIO DE UHAGON.

46, Gran Via, Bilbao, Spain.

"BOTTLEMAN." The following letter was received in 1837. Can any one tell me what were the duties of "a bottleman" on this occasion 1

Guildhall, 2nd November, 1837. OIR, 1 our name having been proposed to the Committee appointed to conduct the entertain- ment to Her Majesty in the Guildhall, on the 9th day of November, instant, in order that you may be appointed a Bottleman upon that occasion, I am directed by the said Committee to request that you will attend them at Guildhall on Tuesday next, the 7th instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant, HENRY WOODTHORP*;. C. L. E. C.

[Bottleman is denned in the 'N.E.D.' as "a servant or official who has charge of bottles," but the word is marked obsolete. The two quotations given belong to the seventeenth century.]

Moscow CAMPAIGN. I should be glad to know what is the best book (in English) dealing with the Moscow campaign. I want one with as little as possible of the political events, but with full information of the regiments engaged, the battles, &c.

VALTYRE.

TURING: BANNERMAN. Can any of your readers give me information respecting the parentage of Janet Turing, who on 9 bept,, 1750, married the Rev. David .bannerman, who on 2 June, 1810, died,

Father of the Church of Scotland, in his ninety-eighth year, at St. Martin's, Perth- shire ? H. C. SURTEES, Colonel. Bath and County Club, Bath.

TRANSLATIONS OF DOMESDAY. In 1862 Vacher & Sons announced that they were prepared, on receipt of 100 subscribers' names, to issue an extension and translation of the survey of any particular county. Does such an extension and translation, or any indexed edition, exist for Notts 1 Q. V.

EIPLEY. I should be obliged if any one could furnish me with an accurate description of the heraldic seal of any member of the old Yorkshire family of Ripley of Ripley, which terminated in an heiress married to Sir Thomas Ingelby, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the reign of King Edward III. Has any pedigree of this family ever been printed ? A. CALDER.

PERSEHOUSE : SABINE. Can you or any of your readers give me information of (1) Ann Persehouse, who married a vicar of Tipton, Staffs ; (2) the Persehouse who used a book-plate for some at least of his books (his date was after 1690), and the present situation of any part of his library, now, I believe, dispersed ; (3) the John Richard Churchill Sabine who used a book- plate for his books ? P. MONTFORT.

SIR JAMES COTTER. In Harris's 'Life of William ' (p. xxxiv, Appendix) it is stated, " This is he who murdered Lord Lisle in Switzerland." This Cotter was, according to The Cork Historical and Archaeological Journal, April-June, 1904, p. 109, "of Anne- grove, county Cork, who had commanded in chief for King James [II.] in Munster during the wars of 1690-1. He had been Governor of Cork City, and represented it in King James's Irish Parliament. He is mentioned in the Carte MSS. as a collector of H.M. Revenue." What ground had Harris for this charge of murder ? Cotter seems to have been a worthy man, and incapable of such a crime ; but if perpetrated it must have been due to political rather than personal motives. The 'D.X.B.' has, curiously enough, no notice

f him alphabetically, though it does mention that a Sir James Cotter had murdered some one in Switzerland. His house at Annegrove, in which James II. is stated to have slept, is still standing and occupied, and he is buried some five or six miles from Cork. A narrative of, or references to, the alleged murder will be acceptable.

J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.