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276-80. Ode to sculpture. By Dr. [James^ Scott, rector of Simonburn, Northumberland (' D.N.B.').

This appeared in The World, No. 200.

280. The resignation. By Mr. H**** [Mr. Hylton.J

281-2. Epistle from the King of Prussia to Mon- sieur Voltaire. 1757.

282-4. Translation of it into English, by J. Gilbert Cooper, Esq. ('D.N.B.').

284-6. On seeing Abp. Williams's monument in Carnarvonshire. By Dr. D. [Sneyd Davies, 1737, ' D.N.B.'].

This also is included in " A Collection of Original Poems and Translations, by John Whaley, 1745," as " by a friend." Whaley writes :

"Dr. Waller [senior fellow of St. John's Coll., Camb.] is exceedingly pleased with your verses on Archbishop Williams's monument, and begs hard for a copy to be writ upon vellum and hung under his picture in St. John s Library." G. Hardinge, ' Sneyd Davies,' p. 50.

286-9. Extempore verses upon a trial of skill be- tween the two great masters of defence, Messieurs Figg and Sutton. By Dr. Byrom (' D.N.B.').

290-94. Letter from Cambridge to [Master Henry Archer] a young gentleman at Eton School. By Dr. [Edward] Littleton.

This letter was printed in Gent. Mag., 1738, p. 42, as written " when a freshman of King's College to his schoolfellow (H. A****r) at Eaton."

294-5. The indolent. By Mr. Chancellor Hoadly, says Walpole.

295-6. Song of Simeon paraphrased. By Mr. Merrick.

Much altered in his ' Poems on Sacred Subjects,' 1763.

296-7. On the invention of letters and answers.

297. On wit.

298-9. On a spider. By Dr. Edward Littleton.

299. The plaything chang'd.

300-2. Fable of Jotham ; to the borough-hunters. By R. Owen Cambridge (' D.N.B.').

302-6. Elegy written in an empty assembly-room [parody on epistle of Eloisa to Abelard].

This was written on Lady Townsend not being invited to the Duchess of Norfolk's assembly. In the last line " N*** has murder 'd sleep," the blank must be filled with the word Norfolk. Hallet and Brom- wich in 11. 1 and 2 are described by Horace Walpole as "upholsterer and paperman." Hallet bought Canons, near Edgware, the seat of the Duke of Chandos, and on retiring from business built for himself a house on the site.

306-8. The fakeer, a tale.

309-10. To Mr. Whitehead, on his being made poet laureat. 1757. The last three pieces are also by Cambridge.

311-12. Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America. By the late Dr. Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (' D.N.B.').

One line,

Westward the course of empire takes its way, is now a stock quotation.

312-14. To Mr. Mason. By William Whitehead,. Esq. ('D.N.B.').

315-18. Ode to independency. By Mr. Mason ('D.N.B.').

318-20. Ode on Melancholy, to a friend. By the same.

321-5. Ode ["Awake, JEolian lyre, awake"]. By Mr. Gray ('D.N.B.').

326-32. Ode ["Ruin seize thee, ruthless king"]- By the same.

W. P. COURTNEY.

(To be continued.)

CASANOVA IN ENGLAND. (See 8 S. x. 171, 311 ; xi. 42, 242.)

THE account which this famous adventurer has given of his brief visit to London has been rendered more instructive by the copious documentation supplied by MB. RICHARD EDGCTJMBE, and any further notes must be of interest to students of the period. Since Casanova tells us that he crossed from Calais to Dover in the same vessel with John, Duke of Bedford, it is possible to ascertain the exact date of his arrival, for The Gazetteer of Tuesday, 14 June, 1763, contains the following para- graph :

" Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Bedford with the Marquis of Tavistock landed at Dover from France on Saturday evening. [Lloyds.'] "

Thus " the Chevalier " set foot on our shores: on 11 June.

The author of ' Casanoviana ' has demon- strated the wonderful accuracy of the memoirist in many ways, but occasionally the memory of the Italian is at fault in English nomenclature. A case in point is his description of an incident at the Countess of Harrington's assembly, where he played at cards, and was taken to task by his hostess for committing the gaucherie of paying his losses to a certain peeress in coin instead of in notes.

" I was impressed by the lady's beauty," said Casanova ; " who is she ?" " Lady Coventry, a daughter of the Duchess of Hamilton," replied Lady Harrington.

Obviously this is a lapse of memory. There never was a Lady Coventry who was the daughter of the Duchess of Hamilton. At that period there was no beautiful Lady Coventry alive. The famous Maria Gunning,, the first wife of the sixth Earl, died on 1 October, 1760, and the widower did not