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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vin. JULY 6, 1907.

Otherwise it is impossible to reconcile the fact .of his interment there with his will, which, though it does not (as I previously remarked) specifically name the bury ing- place, yet directs burial in the parish he may die in. Several writers, more or less contemporary, state that he " lived and died at Camden House, Maiden Lane," which would involve interment in St. John Zachary's. On the other hand, the length of time which was mentioned at the last reference as having elapsed between the respective dates of death and interment favours the supposition that he was con- veyed a distance to be buried. If, there- fore, he really died in the City at his town residence, and was carried into Surrey to his country seat for sepulture, how is the non-compliance with the direction contained in the will to be accounted for ?

A briefer, but even more pungent version of the story to which G. E. C. alludes is given by Allen in the first (1827) volume of his history of London.

WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

'WOODLAND MAKY ' (10 S. vi. 347). If the inquirer regarding this old ballad will send his or her address to Mrs. Law, 12, Albert Terrace, Edinburgh, a copy of it will be forwarded. J. LAW.

ZOFFANY'S INDIAN PORTRAITS (10 S. vii. 429). Quite a number of Zoffany's portraits and conversation pieces (some of them unidentified) were shown at the interesting Georgian Exhibition held in the White- chapel Art Gallery in April of last year. In & brief memoir of the painter, given on p. 71 of the catalogue, it is said that after his return to England from Italy, he

providing the Anglo-Indian nabobs of the time with portraits. Some of these still remain in India, but many were carried back by their purchasers with their rare china and curios to the country houses of England, where they are still to be found."
 * ' set off to India in 1783, and made much money,

One of these imported pictures, lent by Mr. Humphry Ward, was shown at the exhibi- tion. It was No. 280 in the Lower Gallery, and catalogued as ' Two Children and a Dog.' Zoffany's portrait of Warren Hastings was No. 238 in the same gallery ; but -whether this was painted at home or abroad I have no means of determining.

W. J. LAWRENCE. Dublin.

A friend of mine has a large full- length Zoffany Indian portrait of a beardless man with curious cap, scarlet robe, and Eastern arms, while in the background

Indian architecture is shown, as well as some horsemen exercising. It has been long wished to find the name of the original of the portrait. RED CROSS.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE SUFFERINGS OF SLAVES (10 S. vii. 248). There is no doubt as to the genuineness of the passage in the Second Inaugural Address of President Lincoln (4 March, 1865), about which MR. MATTISON inquires. Why Mr. Bryce should have omitted the passage can be answered only by Mr. Bryce himself.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.A.

" PRINCE " BOOTHBY (10 S. vii. 405). In The Connoisseur, vol. ii. (1902) p. 37, will be found an article by Mr. Algernon Graves on the subject of this gentleman, illustrated by two portraits of him and one of (most probably) Miss Elizabeth Darby, all painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Mr. Graves says that the first of the portraits of Mr. Boothby was " among the unknown " until just before the date of the article in question, and was then in the possession of Francois Kleinberger, of Paris. It has an inscription on the back : " Charles Boothby Scrimshire, Esq., of Tooly Park, Leicester, aged 18. 1758."

The second portrait of him was painted in 1784 ; and this, as well as the portrait of Miss Darby, is in the collection of Lord Leconfield at Petworth. Tradition has it that he was at one time engaged to her, and by his will he bequeathed to her " my three half-length pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds." Probably the two at Petworth were pur- chased by the Earl of Egremont at the sale of " Prince " Boothby's effects in September, 1800, after his death.

An account of the suicide of " Charles Scrimpshire Boothby Clopton, of Clarges St., Piccadilly," is given in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1800, and this confirms MR. READE'S statements as to his family and his properties.

Miss Darby died in 1838, and was buried in St. George's Burial-Ground in the Bays- water Road. ALAN STEWART.

See Jesse's ' Life of Beau Brummell,' 1854, p. 64 :

" 'Civility, my good fellow,' observed the Beau, ' may truly be said to cost nothing : if it does not meet with a due return, it at least leaves you in a creditable position. My friend Prince Boothby had a large fortune left him by an old lady, a perfect stranger, simply because he handed her into a sedan-chair in the lobby of the Opera.' "

A MS. note in my copy of the above adds