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latter confirmed the title of their new allies to the seven Brazilian provinces which they had conquered. This division of territory gave rise to the name of the Brazils an appellation which long remained in common use. The Dutch, however, soon began to oppress the Portuguese colonists ; and, after several conflicts, the matter was at last settled by a pecuniary compensation, which left Portugal in peaceful possession of the whole country. A spirited sketch of the early history of Brazil will be found in the ' Ency. Brit. a

The present official title, " Republica dos Estados Unidos do Brazil,' 1 seems reminiscent of the old-fashioned name.

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

The name was used in the plural evidently in allusion to the twenty great provinces into which the country is divided. Brazil is spoken of as the Brazils in Brookes -Findlay's ' Gazetteer,* 1857, but not in Keith John- ston's ' Library Gazetteer/ 1880.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

With regard to the name the Brazils, the plural name of countries was common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The East and West Indies is a case in point. Bomba was described as King of the Two Sicilies ; where the other Sicily was situate it is difficult to say, probably on the main- land. The Czar Nicholas was called "Emperor of all the Russias,'* as Russia extended from Europe and Asia to America in those days. BRUTUS,

[MR. W. SCOTT also thanked for reply.]

' THE HISTORY OF BULLANABEE ? (11 S. i. 48). Between 1824 and 1826 Otto von Kotzebue, a captain in the Russian naval service, and son of Kotzebue, the German novelist and dramatist, made a voyage into the Pacific Ocean, and discovered two islands. His companion Dr. Eschholz pub- lished an account of the voyage and dis- covery in London, while Kotzebue himself issued his narrative in St. Petersburg after his return. I presume the London publica- tion to be the book which bears the name of ' The History of Bullanabee.'- Dr. Esch- holz, no doubt, was the author.

W. SCOTT.

CLOTHES AND THEIR INFLUENCE (10 S. xii. 468; 11 S. i. 76, 152, 212). M. N. G. refers to a story in a book on Italy by Rudolphe Rey, telling that King Bomba, when a youth in command of_a Neapolitan

regiment of foot soldiers, desired to alter the uniform thereof, and received the reply of his father as follows: "Dress them as you like, they will always run away." I plead ignorance of Rudolphe Rey ; but a similar story, more emphatic and to the point, is still in vogue at Naples concerning the early military experiences of some Bourbon prince (as witness the toys existing in my time at the palace of Caserta), who, on being shown a new form of breastplate in metal, asserted it would more suitably adorn another portion of the wearer than that intended by the inventor.

This answer is indicative of the gross wit which King Bomba was noted for sharing all his life with his lazzaroni subjects.

WILLIAM MERCER.

NOTTINGHAM EARTHENWARE TOMBSTONES : CODE OR COADE (11 S. i. 189, 255, 312). I am under the impression that the monu- ment erected to Warren Hastings in Dayles- ford Churchyard is of buff terra-cotta. It has the name of Code or Coade cut or im- pressed upon it where the sculptor's or mason's name is usually marked. Can any reader refer me to sources in which informa- tion as to this Code or Coade may be found ? There are some vases by him in the grounds of Marino at Clontarf, near Dublin (formerly the seat of Lord Charlemont, but now in the occupation of the Christian Brothers). Other works of his are a monument in Old Battersea Parish Church, and the enrich- ments of a memorial fountain (erected, I think, by the Duke or Duchess of Rutland) on the west side of Merrion Square, Dublin.

Code or Coade is not to be found in the ' D.N.B., ? and I have made sporadic in- quiries about him for many years without success. His work is of the style popularly known as that of the brothers Adam, and is of great beauty and high artistic finish, and is, so far as I have seen examples of it, always in light buff or biscuit-coloured terra-cotta. I am sorry not to be more accurate as to the spelling of Code or Coade' s name, but I am writing this away from home, and am unable to " verify my references."

L. A. W.

>'ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN ? : THE COMMAND- MENTS (11 S. i. 185, 252). On the various ways of dividing the Ten Commandments see the articles entitled ' Commandments of God ' in ' A Catholic Dictionary l and in ' The Catholic Encyclopaedia ? now in course of publication. The Council of Trent, and the Lutherans, except those*of the school of