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sometimes had the worst of it. In a ' God-governed ' country like Central Arabia it may even be that the ' writing on the wall ' has appeared to him. We make not this remark to speculate or prophecy of the future. In the prime of life, and full of activity and projects, the Ja-bal Sham-mar chief may not even yet have reached his limits."

This was in 1894. Can any student of modern Arabic history give us later details ?

ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A. Stromness, Orkney.

NEWSPAPERS c. 1817-27. Will any reader of ' N. & Q.' oblige me with the names of all English newspapers in circulation between the years 1817 and 1827 inclusive ? Please reply direct. CECIL HUDSON

(Merchydd Ddu).

Ravenhill, Forestfach, Swansea.

REINDEER : ITS SPELLING. Will some reader tell me where I can find the story of the bet on the spelling of the word as " raindeer " ? I think it occurred at Mam- head in the early fifties.

JOHN LANGLEY.

SIR THOMAS DALLAS. I should be obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who could refer me to a notice or biography of this dis- tinguished Indian cavalry officer, who died in 1839. He was, I believe, lieutenant- general in H.M. forces and G.C.B.

A. CALDER.

15, Walton Well Road, Oxford.

[There is a brief account of him in Buckland's ' Dictionary of Indian Biography ' (1906).]

BRIGHT'S ' TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER HUNGARY.' Who are the " recent traveller in Transylvania " and " another writer in the Vaterldndische Blatter for 1811 " quoted by Richard Bright, M.D., in his ' Travels through Lower Hungary,' Edinburgh, 1818 ? Both writers are cited on p. 524 of chap. xi. on gipsies. ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A.

Stromness, Orkney.

GOURBILLON. Madame Gourbillon, who rescued Louis XVIII. as Comte de Provence, was in England in 1807, and wrote to the papers on the subject. I shall be grateful to know where she was living and where she died. Is the name the same as Gobillon ?

FRENCHMAN.

HUSTINGS COURTS. Can any reader kindly inform me where I can find a record of the Hustings wills of Cheshire ? If an individual had property in two or more counties, is it possible that he may have had enrolled two (or more) Hustings wills ? B. W.

Fort Augustus.

HEACOCK AND DAVIS FAMILIES. Can any Irish correspondent give me additional information concerning the following families of Heacock and Davis, whose marriage licence bonds appear in the diocese of Cloyne, co. Cork ?

Richard Heacock, of Cove, Great Island, co. Cork, and Hester Davis, of the parish of Clonmel, in Great Island, married 19 Nov., 1728, and had, inter alios

1. George Heacock, gent., married in Clonmel to Elizabeth Trevin or Trewin, 15 Feb., 1750.

2. Hester Heacock, married in 1757 to

3. Anne Heacock, married in Clonmel to Alexander Durdin, gent., of Dublin and Shaunagarry, co. Cork, and afterwards of Huntington Castle, co. Carlow. Cloyne marriage licence bond dated 4 Nov., 1758. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

MAJOR MONEY AND HIS BALLOON-. Is it known in what collection is the following picture, which is mentioned by J. T. Smith in his 'Book for a Rainy Day,' under the date 1787, and said to have been engraved ?

" Major Money, who had nearly been lost at sea with his balloon, at that time lodged in the same house. Of the Major's perilous situation at sea the elder Reinagle made a spirited picture, of which there is an engraving."

I can remember a small engraving of this in The Saturday Magazine of some fifty years ago, representing the Major clinging to the cordage of the balloon, which was floating on the sea. This, however, cannot be the engraving alluded to.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

' JACK TENCH,' BY " BLOWHARD " :


 * PERCH." Who was the author of " Jack

Tench ; or, the Midshipman Turned Idler.

By Blowhard. London : published by W.

Brittain, 11, Paternoster-Row," 1741 ?

My copy has a good many whole-page engravings, most of them signed " Perch," as well as woodcuts. The engraved title- page is dated 1842. The book contains a good deal of sailor slang and West Indian negro " lingo." Who was Perch ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

SAMUEL NETTLESHIP, 1831. I should be obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could give me information respecting the family of Samuel Nettleship, Clerk to the Grocers' Company, of Sunninghill, Berks, 1831.

A. J. C. G.