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 384 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. NOV. n, IMS. Then for the Gemma, their quality and worth will fee discover'd from their Engr'en in Copper Plates, •one hundred iu number and their Illustrations in the printed work before mention'd; which work, my design was to begg His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, now the most gracious Sovreign to permit might be ushered into the world under his Royal Patronage ; and I most ardently wish this scheme could be still pursued and perfected ; and I recommend, that prior to all others, an offer be humbly made to His Majesty that they might be honoured to be in his Cabinet; so likewise if His Majesty should signify his Pleasure to have the -drawings also, Books etc., this would be the utmost bound of my ambition, that this whole collection, the work of 40 years uniting together, should be so •honourably and advantagiously placed. As for my Pictures, they are distinctly detail'd in the Catalogue among my Papers, which particularly describes the authors their subjects and measures ; under this article are comprehended the celebrated •Cartons of Carlo Cignani, which he designed for the work executed and now perishing at Parma,* and seaven Peices of Sacred Story, the most copious and labpur'd work of Sebastiano Ricci; both these, which were the Furniture of two Rooms, are excel- lently well engraven on Copper Plates, by John Michel Liotard, of Geneva, for which 1 paid him •One Thousand Pounds sterling, and both these works are elegantly described by Abbate Girardi of Modena, and printed by Pasquali in a Quarto Volume. This is all I think needful to observe concerning these collections, intended to serve as a sort of guide for the Instruction of my Relict, and for her greater advantage in disposing of them, and "for those who shall assist her therein. And this I declare to be my last Will and Testa- ment, all written with my own hand, and comprized on six* sides of Paper, numbered from No. 1 to No. 6, and sign'd and seal'd in the Presence of the under mentioned Witnesses, in Venice the 5th April 1761. " I say comprised on Seaven sides of Paper (in- cluding this last), and numbered No. 1 to 7, sign'd and seal'd in the Presence of the underwritten Witnesses, in Venice, the 5th April, 1761. J. SMITH. Vinct. Warren, A. G. N. Guyon. Seal. William Murrell. Codicile.—Venice, 19 March, 1770. By reason of the frequent absence from Venice of Mr. John Udny, and that it may therefore happen he may not be present at the time it may be thought •proper to execute this Will, I therefore Institute in his stead, Mr. Robert Richie,f to act in conjunc- tion with M r. Conraed Martens, and I desire that he will accept of the same present of 100 oz. of -wrought silver Plate as a Memorial of his departed Friend. And whereas the sundry legacys to my Nephew and Nieces, of whom the Nephew is since dead, to the survivors (the children of my sister Margaret Bagwell) and to no others I bequeath the said Ranuccio II. at Parma. After finishing it Cignani was knighted. His chief work now extant is at the Madonna del Bosco, Bologna. t Robert Richie succeeded John Udny as Consul •at Venice, 1780-90. See ' Cal. S. P. Ven.,' i. clii. legaeys, and to such only as shall be living and unmarried at the time of my decease and not other- wise, which Nieces I take to be two and no more. As for the two portraits assigned to be given to Mr. John Udny, these are to appertain to my Widow along with my other Effects. Thus done in Vence [sic] this 19th day of March 1770 and comprized on part of the Eight Side of this Will with my own hand and seal'd in the presence of the three under written Witnesses, the day and year above written. J. SMITH. John Symonds, Witness. John Watson,* Witness. Seal. Alexr. Watson, Witness. In accordance with his wishes, Joseph Smith was buried at San Nicolo del Liao, where his wife put up a tomb to him with the following inscription :— Josepho Smith Apud rempublicam Venetam Consult Britannico Optimo Conjugi Memories ergo M. P. Eliza Murray, MDCCLXX. The arms of Smith, as on his tomb, his book-plate, and his seals, are Argent, on two chevronels sable^six fleurs-de-lis of the field; on a chief azure a lion passant. HORATIO F. BROWN. ELIZABETH GUNNING, DUCHESS OF HAMIL- TON AND ARGYLL. (See 2n(1 S. iv. 104 ; 4th S. viii. 278 ; xii. 188, 238, 297 ; 7th S. viii. 88,194; 8th S. v. 268 ; 9th S. xii. 32, 297.)—There seems to be some obscurity with regard to the mar- riage of this famous beauty with Col. John Campbell, afterwards fifth Duke of Argyll. The ' Dictionary of National Biography,1 ' Burke's Peerage,' and the recent edition of the ' Scots Peerage,' following, I presume, the statement of her obituary notice in The Gentlernan's Magazine (December, 1790, p. 1154), give the date as 3 March, 1759, yet The Gent. Mag. (February, 1759, p. 94) and The Scots May. (February, 1759, p. 101) state that the marriage occurred on 21 February. These dates are controverted by no less an authority than Lord Chesterfield (v. 'Letters.' Lord Mahon's edition, iv. 326), who, writing to his son on Friday, 2 February, 1759. declares, "Duchess Hamilton is to be marrieil to-morrow to Col. Campbell, the son of General Campbell, who will some day or other be Duke of Argyll." This data is con- firmed by The London Magazine, The Puilie Advertiser, JieacTs Weekly Journal, The L»n- don Chronicle, and The Universal Chronicle, SB* John Watson succeeded Richie as Consul, 1790- 1797. He was the last British Consul to toe Republic.
 * This is the Gallery decorated for Duke