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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. v. FEB. 10, im

' ; The one sought to picke a hole in his [Christ's] romiseth mountaines of gold, but performeth molehills of nifles." P. 443.
 * 'The world is a Cosiner and a Cheater, it

"The lust shal haue their food good cheape." IP. 444.

"But some one will say, How can I want, or bee on need, if I keepe my fruits safe vnder locke and .key?"-P.444.

"Riches that are ill gotten, flie vp to Gods tribunall seat, and there like so many tiscalls or busie Attornies accuse thee for an vniust possessor of them." P. 456. [This quotation vividly recalls 8ir Henry Taylor's beautiful lines in his 'Isaac Comnenus' (Act III. sc. iii.):

Words though from earth with wings they fly

away

Yet perish not nor lose themselves in space, 33ut bend their course t9wards eternity, And roost beneath the judgment-seat of God.]

" There is a new kind of tyranny nowadayes, he that sells, wraps and wrings all he can vnto him, but returnes nothing ; takes all but giues not a dodkin to the poore." P. 457.

"And of Demosthenes, That he would Scotch and notch his hayre crosse-wayes, that he might keepe in for three moneths together, and follow his study." P. 464.

"Though ye have lien amongst the Triuets and blackest Pots of Egypt." P. 486.

" And at continuall oddes with my selfe from top rto toe." P. 521.

"Knights of the Post to lie and sweare." cP. 541.

" Penitence must rent the sailes wherewith thou sailest in this world with the wind in the poupe." -P. 560.

"For if Palam be to publish a thing openly, and not to doe it in hugger-mugger." P. 565.

"It were a great lasinesse and foule slothfulnesse >in vs not to take occasion by the foretop." P. 576.

" One Elias consumed with fire, Ahabs Quin- quagenarian Captaines, and their souldiers." P. 592.

" There is not that meere Polititian or Statesman, 'that is not desirous to sleepe in a whole skin, and to looke well enough to himselfe for one, without thrusting himselfe into quarrels and contentions for points of Religion." P. 593-

"The King (said they) hath the report of a good honest gentleman, but that the State was neuer worse gouerned than now, for it is serued by the greediest and the gripiugest Ministers that were in the world." P. 610.

"The people making a confused noyse, the Trumpets send forth a hoarse voice, the drums a dead sound, the theeues go cheeke by iole close to our Sauiors side, the cryers lift vp their voyces, and ball out aloud/'-P. 642.

A. S.

A WEST INDIAN MILITARY BURIAL- GROUND.

(Concluded from p. 63.)

BUT it is in its historic connexions that lie the most interesting associations of the old dockyard at English Harbour. Who can say what those records and entries of the last century and a quarter could un- fold ? I have been informed that the Ad- miralty has recently removed these records to headquarters at Bermuda, owing to their having been so mutilated by autograph hunters, <fcc., in search of names like Rodney, Nelson, and other bygone heroes of Eng- land's naval glory. Here, too, occurred what at the time was believed to be the very brutal killing of Lieut. Peterson, of H.M S. Per- drix, by Lord Camelford, in command of H.M.S. Favourite, in 1798, which has been well told by the author of 'Antigua and the Antiguans/ at p. 275 of the first volume. The work, in two volumes, was published in 1844, and is said now to be very scarce.

From her account we learn that a dispute took place between the two officers as to which of them was the senior. Mr. Peterson declining to execute a command given him by Lord Camelford, and persisting in his refusal, was instantly shot dead by his lordship, who, it being a time of war, viewed the refusal as an act of mutiny which justified death. The event created a great stir at the time, and public feeling in Antigua ran high in favour of the deceased officer, who was quite a youth and a member of a good family in Nevis.

But as Mrs. Lanaghan states, this circum- stance was not the only one that caused the name of Lord Camelford to be well known in Antigua. It appears that he had required the local superintendent of the dockyard, Mr. Kitto, to do something which the latter declined to do, as he considered it "beyond his warrant"; whereupon his irate lordship had him strung up and two dozen lashes administered. For this illegal and brutal conduct a complaint was laid against Lord Camelford, and he was summoned to appear at the very Court House in St. John's in which it is now my duty frequently to preside.

But Lord Camelford did not wait to meet his accusers, and effected his escape on horseback, but was recaptured in his en- deavour to regain his ship at English Har- bour, some twelve miles distant. On being brought back to the Court House, and, in the words of Mrs. Lanaghan, who graphically describes the whole scene, " placed upon a horse, bare - headed, surrounded by the