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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. VIL JUNE 22, 1907.

and Dr. Burney's MS. catalogue of them is reliable guide not so the printed genera Catalogue. J. B. W.

WILLIAM LEWIS HEBTSLET (10 S. vii. 326 I regret that my communication at th above reference turns out to be for the mos part erroneous. I was misled, partly bj misstatements in print, partly by incorrec oral information, and partly by a defectiv memory. With apologies, therefore, I ask for space for corrections, for the greate part of which I am indebted to a member o the Hertslet family.

William Lewis Hertslet was born on 21 Nov., 1839, and was the eldest son o William James Hertslet and Emma Wilhel mina (nee Holtzendorff) his wife. He married on 6 June, 1880, Louise Coeler, and died at Friedenau, near Berlin, on 2 May 1898, without leaving issue him surviving For several years he had a free pass over al the German railways, but at no time was he a member of the 1 German Reichstag (or of the Austrian Reichsrat). Besides ' Der Treppenwitz ' he wrote a book on Schopen- hauer, and he also wrote and published in Berlin in 1877 a tractate on the reform oi the German coinage. He was also editor for many years of Saling's ' Borsenjahrbuch. The above-mentioned William James Hertslet was born on 29 Feb., 1816, and was the second son of Lewis Hertslet, the subject of a notice in the ' D.N.B.,' xxvi. 275. He was appointed Vice-Consul at Memel on 18 Sept., 1835 ; Consul for Konigsberg and Pillau on 7 June, 1856 ; and Consul for Prussia (E. and W.), Posen, and Silesia, to reside at Konigsberg, on 15 June, 1875. He died at his post on 12 Jan., 1885.

The above-mentioned Lewis Hertslet was born on 25 Nov., 1787, and was the eldest son of Jean Louis Pierre Hiertzelet and Hannah (nee Caldecourt or Caldecott) his wife. He was twice married, first on 25 Jan., 1812, to Hannah Harriet Jemima, d. of George Cooke, of Westminster (she died 23 Aug., 1828), by whom he left five sons and two daughters ; and secondly to Mary Spencer, d. of William Wainewright, of Westminster, by whom he left a daughter.

The above-mentioned J. L. P. Hiertzelet was born at Rusille, parish of Les Clees Cercle Romainmotier, Canton Vaud, Switzer- land, on 1 1 June, 1749. There is no evidence that he had any connexion with the Foreign Office before 24 May, 1797, the date of his warrant of appointment as messenger in ordinary to his Majesty King George III.,

in which he is called Lewis Hertzlett. He died at Westminster on 19 June, 1802, leaving three sons and a daughter.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE " (10 S. vii. 367, 470). The Editor asks for Horace Walpole' s exact words in his letter of 26 Aug., 1785. They are as follows (copied from Mrs. Toynbee's edition of the ' Letters/ xiii. 314) :

"Sir Robert died, foretelling a rebellion, which happened in less than six months, and for predict- ing which he had been ridiculed : and in detesta- tion of a maxim ascribed to him by his enemies, that every man has his price, the tariff of every Parliament since has been as well known as the price of beef and mutton ; and the universal electors, who cry out against that traffic, are not a jot less vendible than their electors."

In a letter written by Horace Walpole on 4 May, 1771, he said :

"My father is said to have said, that every man has his price." 'Letters,' viii. 452.

Finally, in a letter dated 25 Feb., 1742, Horace Walpole wrote :

" The House met last Thursday, and voted the army without a division : Shippen alone, unchanged, opposed it." ' Letters,' i. 183. To this passage is appended the following note, written by Walpole himself, though of course at a much later date :

'William Shippen, a celebrated Jacobite. Sir R. Walpole said, that he was the only man whose price he did not know."

The italics in the first extract are Walpole's. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.A.

PAYNE AT THE MEWS GATE (10 S. vii. 409). The well-known lines in Mathias's ' Pur- suits of Literature,' commencing

Or must I, as a wit with learned air, Like Dr. Dewlap to Tom Payne's repair ? seem to me sufficient evidence of the literary haracter of Tom Payne's shop at Mews Jate particularly as those lines continue, , little further on :

And then to edify their learned souls

Quote pleasaunt sayings from ' The Shippe of Poles/

Another authority for the statement that ?om Payne's was a literary coffee-house is ound in The Gentleman s Magazine, vol. Ixix. p. 171-2, where it is stated that Payne's little shop in the shape of an L was the first that btained the name of a Literary coffee-house in Condon, from the knot of literati that resorted o it."

n the ' D.N.B.' Payne is dealt with by hat very able biographer Mr. W. P. ourtney, and referred to as " a convivial, heerful companion." There is a portrait