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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATf'MDAY, AUGUST 1, 191L

CONTENTS. No. 240.

NOTES: A Note on Sheridan, 8t A Bibliography of Holcroft, 83 Cryptic Utterance of Fielding's, 85 Grin- ning Matches Old St. Pancras Church Dover and Calais temp. James I., 86 -Falstaff's Nose" Christening of the apples " Dwight, anciently Dyott, 87.

QUERIES : St. Angus Cairns Family Reference Wanted-Seventh Child of a Seventh Child Moriarty : Barristers, Inner Temple Nidderdale Theodore Haak Galdy Family of Port Royal Puritans in Newfoundland, 88 Schubert Queries Judges addressed as " Your Lord- ship " Dr. Croly on a Servian Hero Reference for Quotation Wanted Maguires of Fermanagh Medallic Legends, 89 Scott: 'The Antiquary ' Grimes Sloe Fairs The Cusani Heraldic M.sS. London Bushel in the Fourteenth Century Biographical Information Wanted, 90 Neckinger, Bermondsey Fielding's Letters, 91.

REPLIES : Sir Gregory Norton, 91 Bence, 92 ' Bon Gaultier Ballads ' Registers of Protestant Dissenters William Bell Scott, 93 Christopher Columbus "Master" and "Gentleman" Anne Bronte "Speak to me, Lord Byron," 94 Gladstone on the Office of Chancellor of the Exchequer " Bjood - boltered " "Galleon" in English Verse, 95 Action of Vinegar on Rocks General Francis Columbine Rev. James Thomas First Barmaid Dr. A. Innes Orlebar, 96 Oxford University Print Devices on Encaustic Tiles Judith Cowper, 97 Signs of Cadency Smith's 'Dream thorp' " Felix Summerly "Life of M. de Renty, 98.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Putnam's ' Memories ' ' Edinburgh Review'' Quarterly Review.'

Notices to Correspondents.

A NOTE ON SHEBIDAN.

(See ante, p. 61.)

MRS. ANN CARGILL, born about 1748, was the original Lauretta in Sheridan's short farce of ' St. Patrick's Day ; or, The Scheming Lieutenant,' on its production at Covent Garden on 2 May, 1775. On her return from India in 1784, the Nancy packet, in which she had taken her passage, was lost. Her body was found " on the rocks of Scilly, floating in her shift," with an infant in her arms.

The charming Gainsborough in the Dul- wich Gallery is the picture of the two sisters. Elizabeth Ann and Mary Linley : the elder, Mrs. Sheridan, stands gazing three-quarter face to the left ; the younger, Mrs. Tickell is seated facing the spectator.

Mehetabel Patrick married Stratford Can- ning, the banker, who sent his nephew George, the future Prime Minister, to Eton and Oxford. At her cottage in Clement's

Lane, near Putney Hill, the first Mrs. Sheridan and her sister often stayed. Her youngest son, Stratford, was the celebrated diplomatist, who was created Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe. Mr. Sichel says, " Tickell wrote ' Anticipation,' a political skit of 1778, the greater part of which seems to have been due to Sheridan " (ibid., i. 4).

For the Catch Club, attended for a time ay Fox, Selwyn, and Sheridan, see John Bernard's ' Retrospections of the Stage ' (1830), ii. 150.

The third insertion is :

A Sermon on the Abuse of Riches.

Text : " For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord : I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him." Ps. xii. v. 5.

Among the various calamities to which human nature is subject, there is no misfortune so great or Oppression which appears so strongly to re- commend the Sufferer in the sight of our all merciful Creator, as a state of helpless poverty. The poor Man is every where mentioned in Scrip- ture as so peculiarly entitled to divine protection and commiseration, that arguments might almost be drawn against those efforts of industry which tend to raise a man from the state which appears to be " the lot most favored in the eye of God." But it is to be remembered that the poverty and humbleness of station which are here so favorably spoken of, must proceed from guiltless disasters, or disappointed industry, and not be, the merited effects of indolence or prodigality. " The poor committeth himself to God," saith David, but his trust in the Lord must be founded on a conscious- ness that no honest endeavor has been omitted on his part to avoid the state of helplessness to which he is reduced, and then he may be assured his lamentation will be heard and, in the words of our text, " For the sighing of the needy the Lord will arise."

This confidence is warranted from the extreme indignation which is every where expressed in the Psalms against the pride and oppression of tha rich. Indeed there seems to be no vice or in- feriority of the human heart more abominable to God, than the insolent, and persecuting spirit which ever accompanies the Pride of Riches. Pride of whatever sort, or however supported, is strongly rebuked by Scripture. But that pride which is founded solely on a superiority of worldly treasure is the most offensive to God and to reason. To God whose impartial bounty gave the goods of this world in common to all man- kind, to reason, which teaches that such posses- sions themselves, form no part, quality, or attribute of the Creature whom we are to respect for possessing them.

Jt is not difficult to trace the cause why this sort of pride is considered in so odious a light. There is no vanity or self-sufficiency beside, but what originates in a better principle, and may be productive of some better consequence. The pride of birth is in itself, empty and ridiculous, but where it is encouraged, it is frequently asso- ciated with ideas of hereditary virtue, and a fear of disgracing those from whom our title to pre- eminence is derived. There is nothing in the