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SCOTT AS A CORNET OF HUSSARS. A Abbotsford there is an oil painting of young Walter Scott as a cornet in the 18th Hussars together with his charger. Has this picture been engraved, or can photographs of it b obtained ? A direct reply would much oblige. HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

Racketts, Hythe, Southampton.

ARTHUR YOUNG. I am seeking a passage from Arthur Young's Journal. It refers to Lord Carrington's family prayers, anc to "a Suffolk parson" called Belgrave The date is 1801.

I cannot find it in Young's books, and I seem to think that it was published only few years ago, perhaps in a review or magazine. G. R.

ARCH AT HEAD OF CONSTITUTION HILL. Has this arch, formerly facing Apsley House, a distinct name ?

In The Penny Magazine of 1832, p. 172, it is called "George the Fourth's Gate, Hyde Park Corner."

James Elmes in his ' Metropolitan Im- provements,' 1827, p. 133 (see also first plate), describes it as " Entrance to the King's Palace, Hyde Park Corner."

In Peter Cunningham's ' Hand-Book of London,' 1850, it is mentioned, s.v. Hyde Park Corner, as " the Triumphal Arch at the top of Constitution-hill .... designed by Deeimus Burton and erected 1828."

In ' Tallis's Illustrated London,' by Wiliam Gaspey (1851), vol. ii. p. 247, it is erroneously described as " Nash's triumphal arch, surmounted with Wyatt's equestrian statue of the .Duke of Wellington."

John Timbs in his ' Wellingtoniana,' 1852, p. 133, and in his 'Curiosities of London,' new edition, 1867, p. 21, calls it " The Green Park Arch."

Thackeray in * Vanity Fair,' vol. i. chap, xxii., writes :

' ' And the carriage drove on, taking the road down Piccadilly, where Apsley House and St. George's Hospital wore red jackets still ; where there were oil-lamps ; where Achilles was not yet born ; nor the Pimlico arch raised ; nor the hideous equestrian monster which pervades it and the neighbourhood."

I suppose that Thackeray used the name "Pimlico" as a sneer. I think that the arch is sometimes called " Burton's " or " Decimus Burton's" Arch, after the archi- tect.

I may add that the engraving by Thos. H. Shepherd in Elmes 's ' Metropolitan Im- provements,' giving, presumably, the north side of the arch (described in the letterpress,

p. 134), has statues, sculptured frieze, &c. ; also " on the summit of the acroterium which surmounts the attic, is a figure in a quadriga or ancient four horse chariot." The quadriga appearing in the engraving is much smaller than that which was placed on the arch recently.

As in The Penny Magazine of 1832, p. 172, the print of the arch (north side) does not correspond with Shepherd's engraving, and especially has neither statues, sculptured frieze, nor quadriga, I suppose that Shep- herd produced in 1827 a tentative design of the arch to be erected eventually in 1828, and that the statues, &c., never existed, except on paper.

In Gaspey 's ' Tallis's Illustrated London,' vol. ii., facing p. 247, is an engraving of the arch, south side, which is similar to that of the north side in The Penny Magazine t excepting that on the top is the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, which is now at Aldershot.

The Penny Magazine and Gaspey 's ' Tallis ' present the arch as it is now (Wellington statue and recent quadriga excepted), and very different from the arch in Elmes 's book.

I have seen it stated on very poor autho- rity that the arch bore the name of " The Rutland Arch." I have found no confirma- tion of this, and I can see no reason for such a name. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

GALE FAMILY. (See 11 S. i. 209. ) Christo- pher Gale married, 13 Nov., 1798, at Whitby, Eleanor, daughter of William Lee of Guis- boro (and not Eleanor Pretty, as stated in error by me at the above reference).

Christopher's grandfather Matthew Gale of Goathland (?), North Yorkshire, is said

bo have married Webster, a Quakeress,

3ut my efforts to trace when and where
 * his marriage took place have been futile.

[ should feel grateful for information.

J. C. H. New York.

COUNT STEWARTON, OR STUARTON, was a frenchman, and " devoted to the Bourbon amily." He published a book called * The Revolutionary Plutarch,' an attack on Bonaparte. Particulars will oblige.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

JOHN DAVENPORT, LEXICOGRAPHER. Is anything known of John Davenport, author of an English-Italian dictionary, circa 1828,

o married Mary Anne Quick, a daughter of the famous comedian ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.