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BARLEY AND BLINDNESS (11 S. xii. 380, 429). It is said that rice is bad for the eyes, but that, I hope, may not be true. However, in ' My Confidences ' (p. 87) Frederick Locker- Lampson tells posterity of his sister Ellen's poultry-keeping, and says : ,

" Once for economy, and by the advice of a Mrs. Pawsey, femme alors celebre, she fed her cocks and hens on paddy (rice in the husk), and in conse- quence half her stock became stone-blind."

ST. SWITHIN.

REV. PHILIP ROSENHAGEN (US. xii. 442). The garrison of Madras troops at Colombo were without a chaplain till 1796, when the Rev. Philip Rosenhagen whose name is thus spelt in the Madras records arrived as a naval chaplain in spiritual charge of H.M.S. Suffolk. He was at once appointed to do duty ashore with the British troops ; and he retained the appointment till his death in April, 1799. The Madras Govern- ment informed the Directors of the ap- pointment, in their Military Letter dated 20 Jan., 1797, paragraphs 40 and 41 ; and they quoted the Court's orders of April, 1796, in justification of their action (see Disp. to Madras, 22 April, 1796, 10 Pub.). The Directors did not approve of the ap- pointment, and ordered it to be revoked ; but, as they did not send out any one to take Rosenhagen' s place, he retained it till his death (see Disp. to Madras, May, 1798, Pub.). As the appointment was not made by the Directors, there is no record at the India Office about this chaplain. No covenant was entered into. It was merely a temporary appoint ment to suit the con- venience of the Madras Government. Rosen- hagen was not looked upon as being in the regular service of the Company. I suggest a reference to the Admiralty in less busy times. He was succeeded by James Cor- diner in May, 1799. It is on record at Fort St. George that Mr. Rosenhagen solemnized a marriage on 4 Aug., 1798, at Colombo, between Lieut. John De Morgan and Miss Elizabeth Dodson. These were- the parents of Augustus De Morgan, the mathematician. FRANK PENNY, LL.M.

For an anecdote about the Rev. Philip Rosenhagen, see ' N. & Q.' 2 S. x. 216, 315 There is a short account of his life in the to obtain a pension, he told Lord North that he wrote the ' Letters of Junius ' ; bu Woodfall, who knew him well, did not believe it : " The autograph of Junius was
 * Dictionary of National Biography.' In
 * The Georgian Era ' it is said that, in order

3old, firm, and precise ; Rosenhagen's was-

a feeble, half -illegible scrawl. ' ' Robert Eyres

Candor, in a letter quoted by Forster

' Landor : a Biography,' 1869, ii. 392), says

hat Philip Rosenhagen's son " always

relieved that the ' Letters of Junius ' were

written by his father, but felt no wish to

prove the fact." This son married, 2 Oct.,.

.821, Frances, daughter of Fleetwood Park-

lurst of Ripple Court, Worcestershire. For

/Valter Savage Landor's verses about the

Parkhursts and Rosenhagens see his ' Works,*

1846, ii. 653; and for a reference to the

younger Rosenhagen, his * Letters Private

and Public,' 1899, p. 110.

STEPHEN WHEELER. Oriental Club, Hanover (Square, W.

A long and interesting biographical notice- of the Rev. Philip Rosenhagen (1737 ?-98) r Platt Fellow of St. John's College^ambridge^ 1761-71, "a loose fish and not a member of whom the College can be proud," appears* in ' Admissions to the College of St. John the Evangelist in the University of Cam- bridge,' part iii. (1903), p. 640. See also 'D.N.B.,' xlix. 248.

The chief interest in his life is his connexion with Sir Philip Francis, the reputed author of the ' Letters of Junius.' It seems that he spent most of his life abroad, chiefly in France. DANIEL HIPWELL.

[MR. A. R. BAYLEY thanked for reply.]

" LE BRAVACHE ItlcossAis " (11 S. xii. 441). SOTJTHUMBRIAN may possibly be in- terested in Sir Thomas Browne's comment on the lines he quotes. It occurs in that author's ' Religio Medici,' pt. ii. sect. iv. :

" There is another offence unto charity, which no author hath ever written of, and few take notice of, and that's the reproach, not of whole professions,, mysteries, and conditions, but of whole nations, wherein by opprobrious epithets we miscal each other, and, by an uncharitable lpgick,from a dis- position in a few, conclude a habit in all. Le mutin Anglo is, et le bravache Escossois, Le bougre Italien, et le fol Francois ; Le poltron Remain, le larron de Gascogne, L'Espagnol superbe, et 1'Aleman yvrogne."

S. BUTTERWORTH.

SOITTHTJMBRIAN'S quotation, " Le mutin Anglois," &c., is taken from some lines which may be found in ' Religio Medici,' pt. ii. sect. IV. In introducing them Browne observes :

" There is another offence unto Charity, which no Author hath ever written of, and few take notice of," &c., ut svpra.