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his Condition will admit of ; his Regular Life, and the Soundness of his Morals, may serve for an example to many older Prelates, that are not so powerful nor so nobly descended." Baron de Poelnitz's ' Memoirs,' ii. 341.

IV. 330. Le jeune Due de Rosebury. Neil, third Earl of Rosebery, born 1729. His elder brother died in 1755, and he travelled abroad " some time on the Con- tinent.'' He returned home, and was elected a Scottish representative peer in 1768 (' The Scots Peerage,' vii. 224).

IV. 479. Parcalier, Marquis de Prie\ See L. Dtstens, ' Me" moires d'un Voyageur qui se repose,' pp. 132-4.

V. 288. Lord Talon. See ' Jacobite Peer- age,' by the Marquis de Buvigny, pp. 76-7.

V. 331. " Pendant la semaine sainte les Juifs n'osaient pas se montrer dans les rues dc Turin."

" The Jews here have a quarter called Gheto, with a Synagogue and burial-place. Every JVw is obliged to wear a yellow ribbon sewed on to the breast of his coat." Swinburne's ' Letters,' i. 272, Turin, 6 June, 1779.

V. 388. La Renaud. Catherine Renaud married (contract dated 23 June, 1768) M. Bohmer, Jeweller to the Crown, so well known through " 1' Affaire du Collier." He died at Stuttgart, 18 Sept., 1794, and she remarried at Bale, 28 July, 1796, his partner, Paul Bassenge, by wjiom she had a son. She died at Dresden, 12 Sept., 1806 (Funck Brentano's ' The Diamond Necklace,' p. 349).

V. 515. " Bal du theatre de Carignan."

" \Vi- went to the little opera-house of Carignan, which is the only one open at this time of the year. No one seems to attend to the music or representation. . . .This theatre is but ill lighted ; it does to dance in during the Carnival, when the Opera is held, at the Grand Theatre adjoining t he Palace, which is very large, and one of the most magnificent in Italy. ' 6 June, 1779. Swin- burne's ' Letters,' i. 21'1.

Miss Berrv describes it also in her Diary, 2 July, 1183.

VI. 195. La Princesse de Monaco, nee Catherine de Brignole. She married secondly, 24 Oct., 1798, Louis Joseph, Prince de Conde\ Her first husband, Prince Honore III., died in France, in exile, 1795. She, the niece of Rodolfo Brignole, Doge of Genoa, died in 1813.

VI. 236. Babet Rangoni. Prince Aloys III. (Luigi II.) of Gonzague-Solferirio, born 1745, married Elizabeth Rangoni. He suc- I his grandfather, Prince Luigi, in 1768, and died in 1819 (Betham, 'Genea- logical Tables,' and also Stokvis). The wife of his father, Prince Leopold, is called by Betham " Helena Medina."

VI. 318. " Je fis arreter a Paris.... et m'etant fait apporter des montres dans ma voiture, j'en achetai une pour quinze louis." William Cunninghame, writing in 1751,. says that the Parisians offered wares to- each post-chaise,

" so that in a few hours you are as well fitted out in equipage and everything at Paris as in other- places in as many days."

VI. 468. " Comte de Schwerin, neveu de 1'illustre feld marochal." Marshal Chris- topher Schwerin, the Prussian general,, killed at the battle of Prague, 6 May, 1757. A. FRANCIS STEUABT.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS

HOLCROFT.

(See ante, p. 1.)

1780. Contributions to The Westminster Magazine- (' Memoirs,' p. 87) :

' The Actor,' No. I., January, p. 7. No. II., March, p. 121.

No. III., April, p. 180. No. IV., May, p. 241. No. V., August, p. 419.

1780. " Alwyn, or the Gentleman Comedian..

London : Fielding and Walker, 1780." 2 vols.,

12mo.

European Magazine (I: 49) says 1779, but later (22: 403) corrects the date to 1780. The volume was noticed cursorily and un- favourably in the September, 1780, number of The Monthly Review (63: 233). It is almost entirely the work of Holcroft, but William Nicholson (1753-1815) assisted some- what in its writing ('Memoirs,' p. 95) the same Nicholson who was living with Holcroft at the time, and who did the Prologue to ' Duplicity.'

1780. (June or early July probably last of June.) " A plain and succinct narrative of the late riots and disturbances in the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark. Containing particulars of the burning of Newgate, the King's Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridewell Prisons. Also, the Houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, Messrs. Langdale, Bainsforth, Cox, Hyde, &c. Bomish Chapels, Schools, &c., with an account of the Commitment of Lord George Gordon to the Tower and anecdotes of his life. To which is prefixed, An Abstract of the Act lately passed in favour of the Boman Catholics. And an account of the Bill, as moved for in Parliament by Sir George Savile, with the observations of Sir George and Mr. Dunning on tho Papist penal Laws. By William Vincent, of Gray's Inn. Paternoster Bow. (Price one shilling.) London, printed for Fielding and Walker, 1780. Entered at Stationers' Hall."

1780. " ....The Second Edition, corrected:. with an appendix." Octavo, 02 + 11 pp same date.