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 iv. DEC. so. 1905.) NOTES AND QUERIES. 523 279. P. 195, The Military Exile and the Fair Violetta.—Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and 280. P. 243, The Billing Brewer and the amiable Letitia Lutestring. — Mentioned in Tht Rambler'* Magazine, 1789, p. 46, but no names given. 281. P. 291, The Dragooning Lover and the Female Capitulator.—Capt. Hawker and Mrs. Barttelot. 282. P. 361, The Reverend Adulterer and the Frail Cecilian.—Rev. William Sneyd and Mrs. Henry Cecil. 283. P. 387, The Chemical Lover and the Female Deserter.—Francis Newman and Mrs. Sheridan. 284. P. 435, The Special Pleader and the Winning Client.—Mr. Schoole and Mrs. Alicia Rybart Me Fowler). 285. P. 483, The Consular Artist and Venus de Medici. — Sir William and Lady Hamilton (?). 286. P. 531, The Amorous Ganger and Penelope Pigtail. — Mr. Rogers and Mrs. Mason. 287. P. 579, The Benedictine Monk and the Eloping Nun of Hampstead.— and Since ray list was sent to the Editor of ' N. & Q.' I have consulted that admirable work, compiled by Mr. Frederick George Stephens, the 'Catalogue to the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum,' where, in vol. iv., I find a key to the ' Tete-a Tete Portraits' during the years 1769 and 1770. To this 1 am indebted for the discovery of the identity of Mrs. Goreham (?) and Madame Meyer (vol. ii. pp. 233, 513), which I insertec on the proof. With regard to the former, it is interesting to observe how Mr. Stephens with his usual acuteness, followed the only clue, i e., " Mrs. G...h...mis said to have been the widow of an officer killed at the siege of Havannah." In like manner I turned to The Gentleman's Marjazine for 1762; but mine was a desultory search. The titje suggestec by Mr. Stephens for the portrait of "Ame ricanus " (vol. i. p. 57) is, I believe, a wrong one. Although the letterpress is applicabl either to the first Lord Amherstor to George third Earl of Albemarle, a reference to the print by Spooner after Reynolds will showtha the picture is intended to represent the latter With some misgivings, I have adopted Mr Stephens's solution of the portrait of th "Countess of L a" (vol. i. p. 394), on th ground that the editor of the ' Tete-a-Tetes always uses each initial letter in a dual name Although " the history " in this case seems t point undoubtedly to the celebrated La Kena it should be remembered that in January 1767, Lord March, writing to George Selwyn mentions a certain " cara Luisina," who ma have been one of his numerous mistresses. After comparing some of these 'Tete-a ete' portraits with contemporary prints, I ave come to the conclusion that in many ases the likeness is more true than I magined, often being copied from an exist- ng picture. Still, the resemblance to the- riginal is more useful in confirming than in uggesting the identification. There are- wo plates which I am anxious to name,, iz.,' The Complying Colonel and the Wanton Widow'(vol. ix. p. 513) and 'The Nautical Scribe' (vol. xiii. p. 289). The lady is de- cribed as being " descended from a noble family, the widow of Lord A. H., and was painted by Sir Joshua Rey- olds"; while 'The Complying Colonel' i» aid to be " very fond of the game of lilliards, was a particular friend of Lady Jarrington, Miss Ash, and the elder Miss "uniting, a great favourite with the ladies, and had a famous quarrel with a certain Mr. ~—k—p at Bath." As he is spoken of as ol. C—, I suspect his name to be Crawford. any_ clues are given in the case of * The Nautical Scribe,' for it is stated that when very young he went abroad as second' secretary to a certain lord [Lord Sandwich ?] who- was afterwards head of a great board [Admiralty], where our hero was introduced under his auspices,, and in which line he advanced to his present slevated station He succeeded the late Mr. C— n his present department a member of parlia- ment a friend of the late Beau Nash Lady Harrington had her eye on him for Miss Ash Signora Frasi never thought her parties complete without him he is fond of music " One of the secretaries of the Admiralty [1781) seems to be indicated.* Perhaps Mr. Stephens, who has written so eloquently of the value of satirical prints ih throwing a light upon the history of those times, may be induced to turn once more to- The Town and Country Maf/azine. No doubt, if he has the leisure, he can fill up all the blank spaces I have left. HORACE BLEACKLEY. Fox Oak, Walton-on-Thames. BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.' (See 9th S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441; xii. 2, 62, 162, 301, 362, 442; 10"> S. i. 42, 163, 203, 282; ii. 124, 223,442; iii. 203; iv. 25.) Vol. I. (Shilleto), p. 11, 1. 20; 1, 21 (ed. 6), "some ridiculous treatise some prodigious tenent [misprinted " tetent," ed. 6], or para- dox of the earths motion." Cf. Burton's comedy of ' Philosophaster,' IV. ii. 48 (p. 71, ed. W. E. Buckley for the Roxburghe Club, • " The Nautical Scribe" I have found to be Sir Philip Stephens (1725-1809), who was Secretary to the Admiralty 1763-95.