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though not a very good one, but yet necessary to be read, ' L'Histoire ancienne par Rollin ' ; the little period of his own time, wrote by the Cardinal de Betz, with inimitable beauty ; and in belles lettres there are Boileau's ' Satires ' and ' Epistles,' and M. de Voltaire's works, with many lesser compositions of wit and humour, and to these must be added the French critics and their translations of the Greek and Latin authors." P. 33.

Of the date of August, 1757, are some verses by Richard Cumberland in praise of Eastbury and Dodington, which, with palpable allusion to Strawberry Hill, lament the " gothic taste ' ? that runs after " way- ward fabrics n without "fence from winds or shelter from the sky,' ? or after

Some puppet shrine, where antick Folly dwells Bedawbed with dragons and behung with bells.

P. 41.

On 22 Dec., 1760 two months after George II. 's death, immediately upon which Dodington had applied to Bute to obtain for him some mark of the royal favour from the young King and his mother, the Princess of Wales, " who has ever been my most gracious mistress " he wrote to that same Prime Minister in relation to the measures to be taken ' ' to recover monarchy from the inveterate usurpation of oligarchy. '* In this communication he sent these lines, " which must not be seen by anybody, unless his lordship has a mind to make the King or the Princess laugh n : Quoth Newcastle to Pitt, 'tis in vain to dispute ;

If we 'd quarrel in private, we must make

room for Bute. Quoth Pitt to his Grace, to bring that about,

I fear, my dear lord, you or I must turn out. Not at all, quoth the Duke, I meant no such thing,

To make room for us all, we must turn out

the King.

If that 's all your scheme, quoth the Earl, by my troth,

I shall stick by my master, and turn ye out Both. P. 47.

In the ensuing April Dodington was rewarded by being created Baron Melcombe of Melcombe Regis ; and in October, 1761, we find (p. 50) Young forwarding to his x ' good and honoured Lord " certain " fancied amendments " to the new peer's metrical ' Epistle to the Earl of Bute.' This was not published until 1776, and then with Young's emendations as foot-notes ; and it is to be observed that, while the latter's communica- tions, now given, were dated 6 and 1 7 October, 1761, the poem itself is dated 26 October, as if its author had waited specifically for these " corrections n as Young himself termed them on the title-page of 1776 foefore regarding his work as complete.

ALFBED F. BOBBINS.

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE ENGLISH CEMETERY AT MALAGA.

MURRAY'S * Handbook for Travellers in Spain,* 1890, says this is

" the first Protestant burial-ground permitted in Spain. Mr. Mark, formerly Consul, planted and enclosed the ground in 1830.... The first Englishman buried here was Capt. Boyd, who was one of the 49 patriots executed without even the form of trial by the dastardly scoundrel Moreno, the English Consul being unable to obtain even 24 hours' respite for our countryman."

After passing the gate of this charming, nightingale -haunted oasis on the side of a hill, one first reaches a series of tombs on the right, arranged roughly in rows running east and west. In the first row, that nearest the south side, they are either nameless or the names are not English. My notes were taken on 27 April, 1909.

SECOND Row.

1. Walter Samuel Price, b. 21 Feb., 1830, ob. 23 Dec., 1865.

THIRD Row.

2. Mary Prioleau, d. of R. F. and M. P. Bevan, b. 27 Jan., 1906, ob. 5 Nov., 1906.

3. Henry Thomas Bullen, native of Maestrum, Surrey, b. 21 May, 1821, ob. 31 Oct., 1864.

4. John Alfred Ikin, ob. 26 Aug., 1867, a. 49.

FOURTH Row.

5. Mr. Edward John Mauger, Master of the schooner Lady Mansell, of Guernsey, ob. 14 Sep., 1855, a. 42.

FIFTH Row.

6. Mary, w. of Rxipert Heaton, of Bolton, Lanes, ob. 14 Nov., 1884, a. 48.

7. Francis Fothergill Hood, of Nettleham, Lines, late Lieut. 64th Regt., ob. 28 Feb., 1853, a, 25.

8. John Thomas Bonafinte, fifth s. of Aaron Hogsett, Esq., of St. John's, Newfoundland, ob. 16 Jan., 1863, a, 36.

9. Ethelbert Francis Coddington, Midship- man, U.S. of America, s. of Jonathan I. Codding- ton,^ in New York, 22 May, 1830, ob. 8 Nov., 1853.

10. Capt. Thomas Battersbee, Royal Engi- neers, ob. suddenly, 7 Dec., 1851, a. 57, while on a tour through Spain.

SIXTH Row.

11. Charles Durie, Esq., M.D., of Craighescar, Fifeshire, ob. 1 Mar., 1845, a. 29.

12. Launcelot Edward Stewart, s. of Henry Stewart and Emma Trough ton, b. 1 Nov., 1874, ob. 6 July, 1876.

13. Joseph William Noble, M.B. (Cantab.), late of (Danett's) Hall, near Leicester, M.P. for Leicester, while travelling in Spain was attacked by cholera and died after a few hours' illness,

5 Jan., a. 65. Erected by his children.

(The above is very indistinct.)

14. Harry, a. 3 yrs. 3 mths. ; Leonard, a. 10 weeks, sons of Henry and Margaret Heaton.

15. Virginia Quarles, d. of A. M. and Fanny D. Hancock, b. 20 Nov., 1862, ob. 25 May, 1863.

16. Georgina Mary, d. of George and Janet Hawes, b. 31 Jan., 1904, ob. 9 July, 1904.