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thousand years or so before the eighteenth Mikado are said to have little value as his- tory. See 'Japan,' by Chas. Macfarlane, 1852, p. 170; and 'Japan in History, Folk- lore, and Art,' by Wm. Geo. Griffis, 1892, p. 25.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

' THOMAS COOPER (10 th S. iii. 229, 270). 2 vols. pp. 312 and 295, I read in June, 1876, at Newton - le - Willows, Lancashire (hence Willowacre). It was lent to me by Mr. David Davidson, for many years chief cashier, until his death, to Messrs. McCor- quodale & Co., printers, of Newton - le - Willows. He informed me it was taken from an incident there. I forget the particulars something about a toll-bar. I have kept a record of my readings since September, 1852, which enables me to give these particulars. RICHARD HEMMING
 * Alderman Ralph,' by Adam Hornbook, 1853,

ENGLISHMEN HOLDING POSITIONS UNDER FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS (10 th S. iii. 87, 129, 213). In The Windsor Magazine of Sep- tember, 1899 (vol. x. p. 393), is an article entitled ' Britons in the Service of Foreign Countries,' by A. de Burgh. The names given are numerous. There are portraits of the following : William Henry Waddington, formerly French Ambassador in this country ; Marshal MacMahon, President of the French Republic ; Field-Marshal Count Laval Nugent, of the Austrian army ; Kaid Maclean, Com- mander - in - Chief of the Morocco army ; Charles O'Donnell, Duke of Tetuan, formerly Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Premier; Count Ludwig Douglas, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Norway and Sweden ; Baron Aeneas Mackay d'Opperment (sic), ex- Premier of Holland ; Count Taafe, formerly Prime Minister of Austria ; General O'Brut- scheff (O'Bryan), Chief of the General Staff of the Russian army.

Count Taafe (Austrian Prime Minister 1879-93) was eleventh Viscount Taafe and Baron Bally motte in the Irish peerage, and Count of the Holy Roman Empire. His son Henry, twelfth Viscount, serves now (1899) in the Austrian army.

The Duke of Tetuan claims to be Lord of Donegal.

Baron Mackay is heir to the Scotch peerage of Lord Reay and the chieftaincy of the Mackay clan. According to Debrett (1897) the tenth Baron Reay was Eneas, Baron Mackay d'Ophemert, Minister of State and Vice- President of Privy Council of the Netherlands (died 1876). Mr.de Burgh gives "Aeneas" and "Opperment," Debrett "Eneas" and " Ophemert"; Ophemert is, I think, correct.

A foreign nobleman who is a Scotch peer is the Earl of New burgh. He is Sigismund Nicholas Venantius Gaetano Francis Gius- tiniani, fifth Marquis Bandini in the Roman States (1850), created Prince Giustiniani by Pope Pius IX. (1863); and Duke of Mont- dragone (kingdom of Naples, 1878). This according to Debrett ; Mr. de Burgh speaks of him as Prince Bandini.

It is perhaps worth noting that an account of Mr. Baker, of Tonga, mentioned ante, p. 130, is given in The Temple Magazine of July, 1900 (vol. iv. p. 862), entitled 'A Mis- sionary who "Ran' 3 a Kingdom," by Arthur Fratson.

MR. LEYBURNE YARKER (ante, p. 214) men- tions an Irishman, Martin Waters Kirwan, who was a captain in the Foreign Legion in the Franco-Prussian war. Perhaps he was related to the former owners of the Chateau Kirwan, which gives its name to a Bordeaux wine of the 3 me Grand Cru. It is in the district of Cantenac, and belongs now, I think, to the town of Bordeaux.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

" Henry Bailie, a son of a gentleman of the same name, was born in Killyleagh, about 1752. He entered the Russian service and attained the rank of rear-admiral, after having served on many occa- sions with great credit. He died at Sebastapol in 1826." Knox's 'History of County Down,' 8vo,

Dublin, 1875, p. 508.

JOHN S. CRONE.

The Publishers' Circular of 18 March re- cords on p. 303, under the heading ' Govern- ment Bibliography in the United States,' that a ' Calendar of John Paul Jones Manu- scripts ' has been compiled under Dr. C. H. Lincoln (pp. 316). Paul Jones, born in Scot- land (where 1) in 1747, as an American colonial captain harried the English and Scottish coasts, and burnt or captured several British ships. The frontispiece is a portrait of John Paul, who became a Russian rear-admiral, and died in Paris in 1792.

ROBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE.

71, Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.

[The 'D.N.B.' states that Paul Jones was born in Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire.]

DIVING-BELL (10 th S. iii. 247, 349).-Cf. Hone's ' Table Book,' 1827 (index), reprinted by Ward, Lock & Co., 1891, p. 382.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

SATAN'S AUTOGRAPH (10 th S. iii. 268, 356). Allow me to refer MR. A. R. BAYLEY to 6 th S. vi. 248, where he will find an article by me entitled 'The Devil's Handwriting at Queen's College, Oxford,' chiefly taken from ' The Private Journal and Literary Remains