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431. C. I. S. Nixon, wid. of the late W. Nixon, 44th Regt., b. at Halifax, N.S. ; ob. 21 Nov., 1841, a. 46. Erected by her daughter.

432. Frances B. Parkyns, co. of Nottingham, niece of the late Sir John Borlace Warren, Bt., ob. 3 Jan., 1839.

433. Blanche V. Mater, ob. 29 Ap., 1891.

434. *Henry Hadwick, seaman, H.M.S. Howe.

435. *Maggie Matthews, nee Jackson.

436. John Harper, Esq., of York, ob. 18 Oct., 1842, a. 34.

437. *Elizabeth, w. of Win. Robt. Williams, ob. 1 May, 1847, a. 30. Caroline Elizabeth, d. of the above, ob. 12 Ap., 184(2?), a. 14 mths.

438. Mary Lowe, w. of James Storey, ob. 20 Mar., 1850, a. 32.

A walled-in enclosure on the south side has a few monuments, of which the following were in English.

439. *Arthur Hankey, b. 31 Oct.

440. Wm., s. of Wm. and Mary Ann Strike, ob, 26 Oct., 1865, a. 27-

441. Letitia, 4th d. of Arthur Chiehester Mac- artney, Esq., of co. Down, ob. at Portici, 19 Sept., 1854, of Cholera. Her sister Anne Macartney, ob. 24 Aug., 1855, a. 60. Matilda Macartney, their sister, ob. 15 Dec., 1857, a. 50.

G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col.

18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne.

Among these sad memorials of the dead, I find in No. 303 the name of Gabriell Augusta, who died on 8 Dec., 1872, at Cas- tellammare di Stabia, of typhoid fever. She is recorded to have been the great- granddaughter of Horrocks, the founder of the well-known thread manufactory of Preston, Lancashire.

My own impression (after thirty-five years) remains that this young lady died in Capri, and may possibly have been trans- ferred for burial to Naples, for the good reason that in 1872, and for years after, there was no cemetery in the island, except below the floor of the Cathedral !

Anyway, the painful memory survives vividly in my recollection that I shared her hymn-book on a Sunday or two prior to her death, either at Hotel Luisisana, Capri, or Pensione Belvedere, Castellammare. She was accompanied by her aged aunt Miss Horrocks, who loved to recount the details of the famous Horrocks house and firm, although communication was difficult, as, owing to her nearly total deafness, all my replies required first committing to her notebook. The venerable lady's grief used to overwhelm her whenever we met casually in Naples ; and our correspondence lasted for some time after the fatal event registered on the Neapolitan tombstone.

WILLIAM MERCER.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S LETTERS. On p. 118 of vol. ii. occurs the following passage :

" We landed at St. Heliers the next morning, and met with a most brilliant and enthusiastic recep- tion from the good people."

" St. Heliers " is a common error for St. Helier, the capital of Jersey.

Again, on p. 171 of the same volume :

" Je ne voulais pas suivre 1'impulse de mon coeur.' "Impulse" is a word unknown to Littre. As the German letters have been translated into English, it might have been well to do< the same with the French.

DE V. PA YEN-PAYNE.

HENRIETTE MARIE, PRINCESS PALATINE. I may perhaps correct some small slip& in Miss Eva Scott's recently published ' Travels of the King: Charles II. in Germany and Flanders.' The princess married Sigis- mund Rakoezy, the brother of the Prince of Transylvania, and not the prince himself. Neither brother had ever visited the Spa. The bridegroom was not even present at the preliminary wedding ceremony at Krossen in May, 1651 ; and the bride died of fever the following September at Saros- patak, in Hungary. Cf. Sigismund's bio- graphy by Alexander Szilagyi (Budapest,. 1886, pp. 152-62) in the British Museum.

L. L. I\.

WILIJAM RUFTJS CHETWOOD AND ' THK GENEROUS FREEMASON.' In ' D.N.B.,' vol. x. pp. 211-12, it is observed concerning William Rufus Chetwood, bookseller and dramatist, that his opera ' The Generous Freemason ' "is said to have been played at Bartholomew Fail-," a cautious statement which can easily be turned into a positive one. Though that work has little value as literature having been printed in 1731, it is still to be seen it is of curious interest in regard to the history of early organized Freemasonry in .this country ; and it has its attraction for music-lovers in that certain of its airs are expressly asserted to have been " Set by Mr. Hen. Carey."

The opera was originally produced at Bartholomew Fair, and in The Grub-street Journal of Thursday, 27 Aug., 1730, it wa& reported concerning the various perform- ances at the Fair, which had been proclaimed in state by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs on the previous Saturday, that " at Oates's and Fielding's great Theatrical Booth is presented ' The Generous Free Mason ; or, the- Constant Lady,' with the comical Humours of Noodle and his man Doodle: both whom we sup- pose to be Free-Masons."