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to, executed a deed of gift of all his worldly possessions in favour of his wife Elizabeth. Can this deed of gift and the alleged wills in reality be identical ?

While referring to Bunyan, I should like to remind the multitudinous correspondents of ' N. & Q.' that my genealogical inquiry concerning him, printed at p. 329 of the preceding volume, still remains unanswered. WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

JACOB AND MATTHEW UNWIN. Can any of your readers tell me where I can obtain a copy of ' The Naturalist's Album,' printed and published by Mr. Jacob Unwin, St. Peter's Alley, Cornhill, sixty or seventy

years ago I At the same

time may I inquire for

information concerning Matthew Unwin, who is referred to in Mr. Hill's book o ' The Printers and Bookmakers of Birming ham ' as the first printer to produce complete book in Birmingham ? The dat of his first production seems to have bee about 1702. T. FISHER UNWIN.

1, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.

ENGRAVINGS AFTER HOPPNER. I am anxious to see copies of the followin engravings after J. Hoppner, R.A., S am should be glad if any of your readers coulc help me. They are not to be found in the Print-Room, B.M., nor in the Sutherlanc Collection at the Bodleian.

1. Thomas Babington, engraved by Wag staff.

2. Sir F. F. Baker (died 1830), engraved

by Heath.

3. R. Eaton, Bromley.

lawyer, mentioned by

1. John Meyer, when a youth, engravec by J. Baldrey in 1783.

5. Lieut.-General Maitland, engraved by T. Lupton. Of this I have seen a proof, and am in want of the date of publication

Only. W. ROBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S. W.

THE TREATY OF TILSIT. On 25 June, 1 807, the secret meeting of the Tsar and the Emperor of Austria which led to the Treaty of Tilsit took place, and Mackenzie, the English spy, who overheard the conversa- tion, left on the same day for Memel. Having reported his information, he left on 26 June with Leveson Gower's dispatch, and arrived in London on 16 July. The Foreign Office date of the receipt of the dispatch is, however, 18 July. Orders were given to the fleet on 19 July, and it sailed on 27 July. The articles of the treaty were

revealed in Parliament in 1817, but, accord- ing to Alison, Lord Liverpool fully ex- plained the whole circumstances in Parlia- ment many years afterwards. Can any reader give the date of Lord Liverpool's speech and the reference to it in the ' Parlia- mentary Debates ' ? Further, is anything known as to the identity and subsequent career of Mackenzie ? Was he the Colin Alexander Mackenzie who is referred to in ' The Annual Register ' of 1851, and who died on 2 Nov., 1851, aged seventy-three. This Mackenzie was sent in 1810 to Morlaix to negotiate an exchange of prisoners, but his mission failed. It seems unlikely that this was the same Mackenzie, as the part which he played in connexion with the Treaty of Tilsit would probably have made his employ- ment on a diplomatic mission inadvisable. Is there any modern investigation of the secret history of the Treaty of Tilsit ? And has Leveson Gower's dispatch ever been

published

J. D.

[Dr. Holland Rose has written several articles on Canning and the Treaty of Tilsit. The most recent of them is discussed in The Athenwum of 15 June last (p. 730), a reply from Dr. Rose appearing a fortnight later.]

ENGLISH PXTLPITS. Is there any book on English pulpits like Paley's 'Fonts' or Pugin's ' Screens ' ? CANON.

[Dr. Cox and A. Harvey's ' English Church Furni- ture' (Methuen) notes that the only work on old English pulpits is by T. T. Dollmen, issued in 1849, and entitled ' Examples of Ancient Pulpits. 'English Church Furniture' includes the first list attempted of pre-Reformation pulpits arranged under counties.]

ROBERT STRATFORD BYRON. I have found a reference (circa 1770) to a gentleman of this name, who is said to have been a brother of William, fifth Baron Byron (1722- 1798). I can find no confirmation in Burke. Had the fifth Baron a brother named Robert Stratford Byron ? and is anything mown concerning him ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

COPENHAGEN EXPEDITION, 1807. Many years after the bombardment of Copenhagen and the surrender of the Danish fleet in

807, Bagger, a Danish poet, wrote a roman- >ecame very popular. In this he describes low one of the captains of Lord Gambier's
 * ic poem ' The English Captain,' which

eet showed his violent dislike to the under-

aking, and, rather than assist in such

proceedings against a friendly and unsus-

>ecting nation, jumped overboard and was

drowned. The poem is said to have been