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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF CASANOVA.

(See ante, p. 42.)

THROUGH the kindness of two correspondents, I am enabled to add considerably to my own comments and notes on the experiences and the Slavonic acquaintances of Casanova in Russia and Poland.

Vol. VII. (Edition Gamier) p. 146. Bal masque, a la Cour. Sir George Macartney wrote in February. 1766, to Lady Holland :

" It is now high Carnival, but indeed differs very little from the rest of the year, except with r<-uMr.l to the masquerade. There are two kinds of these one at a public room kept by an Italian adventurer, where everybody pays for admission; the other at the Palace, where the entry is free to every one that can procure a ticket, a point by no means difficult, as there are generally five or six thousand distributed on these occasions . . . .These Court masquerades are highly magnificent, being held at the Palace, where all the great apartments are thrown open." ' Our First Ambassador to China,' by E. Bobbins, p. 21.

Ibid., p. 147, Gregoire Orloff, born 17 Oct., 1734, died 30 April, 1783. Son of Gregory Ivanovitch and his wife, nee Zinovieva.

P. 149. Le Comte Rzewuski, Ambassadeur de Pologne. Can tfriis be WacJaw (Vin- ci.slaus) Rzewuski, Hetman of the Crown ? II" strongly opposed the election of King Stanislas Poniatowski, and was exiled to Kaluga 1768-72 He returned to Poland, and died in 1779.

P. 153. Melissino. Peter Ivanovitch, the General. Took part in the Seven Years' War.

Pp. 153-9. Zinowieff. . . .parent des Or- loffs. Stepan Stepanovitch ZinovierT, Am- bassador to Spain, died in 1764. The family were cousins of the Orloffs, and one of the daughters married in 1777 (in spite of great opposition) Gregory Orloff.

Ibid. La demoiselle Chitroff. Perhaps " .Madlle. Keyshoff," of whom Lord Macart- ney wrote that she was

" of a great family, but neither young, hand- some, nor clever. . . .Her only merit in my eyes passion which she either had, or affected to Ii;ivc. forme." ' Our First Ambassador to China,' vl Hpr<i, p. 25.

P. 154. Le Grand Veneur Narishkin. . . . (p. 155) etait 1'epoux de la celebre Maria jnaulowna. Simon Cyrillovitch Narishkin, born 1710, had been Ambassador to Eng- land 1740-41, and Marechal de la Cour to the Tsarevitch. He died in 1775. His wife ( 1 728-93 ) was daughter of General Balk-Poler.

P. 16H. Les deux freres Lunin. Sons of .Michael Ciprianovitch Lunin (d. 1776). Alexander Michaelovitch was General Major, Governor of Polotsk, and Director of the

Hospital of Pavlovsk. Born 15 Nov., 1745, died 4 June, 1816.

P. 176. Son grand ecuyer le Prince Repnin, Perhaps Prince Nicolas Vassilievitch Rep- nin (1732-1801), Field-Marshal, Governor- General of the Baltic Provinces.

Pp. 178-81. M. le Comte Demidoff. At the time there were two brothers Demidoff: Prokofi Akimovitch (1710-86), famous for his charity and " originality," and Nikita Akimovitch (1724-89), a scientist and art lover, who corresponded with Voltaire.

P. 211. Comtesse de Flemming, Princess Adam Czartoryska. Her son, Prince Adam Czartoryski, was born in 1770.

P. 2 1 2. Mgr. Krasinski, Prince eveque de Warmie. Ignaty Krasinski, Bishop of Ermeland.

Ibid. Le Palatin de Wilna, Ogniski. Michael Casimir Ogniski, married to a Czartoryska, and an unsuccessful candidate for the throne of Poland. He died at War saw in 1800.

Ibid. General Roniker. Of a Lithuanian family, Gentleman-in-Waiting to the King.

P. .214. Le magnifique Palatin de Russie. Augustus Prince Czartoryski, uncle of King Stanislas Poniatowski, died 1782; father of Prince Adam, who married Isabel' ^mQoesse de Flemming. P. 215. Son epouse . . . .etait de la famille d'Enoff. . . .heiress of the Dunhoff family. Son frere, Prince Michael, Prince Chancellor.

P. 216. Mgr. Zaluski, eveque de Kiowie. Joseph Zalucki, Bishop of Kiev. In 1775 he gave his magnificent library to the Government.

P. 220. Le Comte Poninski. Adam Poninski, Vice -Treasurer.

Pp. 222-6. Xavier Branici, Postoli de la Couronne. Francis Xavier died 1817. Pod- stoli w Kor. 21-12-1764 (' Genealogie Zyjacych Rodow Polskich').

P. 248. Prince Auguste Sulkowski. (Pala- tin of Kalisz, 1772.) Writer to the Crown (1764-5). Took part, with Frederick the Great, in the Partition of Poland.

P. 255. M. le Comte de Briihl, qui est a Dresde, et dont la femme est fille du palatin. This was Francis de Sales Potocki, palatin de Kiovie (p. 259), 1700-71, the richest Polish magnate and the "power" in the Ukraine. His daughter Marianna Cle- mentine (died 1779) married Frederick, Comte de Bruhl (1739-93), son of the chief Minister of Augustus III.

P. 257. Comte Zamoiski. Count Andrew Zamoiski (1716-92), Chancellor of Poland from 1764-7. The first to free his serfs of any of the Polish magnates.