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" guides " mentioned by him were issued by the former owners of the property ! Also that the massive staircase of Elizabethan period was brought from another old house in Bristol since the fire.

JOHN E. PRITCHARD. 22, St. John's Road, Clifton.

GORE OF WEIMAR (11 S. vi. 402, 423, 512). Having again visited the " Wittumspalais," I should like to add to the information already printed in ' N. & Q.' There are preserved two portraits of ladies belonging to the Gore family, viz., Miss Emilie Gore and Miss Elisa Gore. Reproductions of the latter portrait can be obtained from the caretaker (Kastellan), and permission to have the other photographed would no doubt be granted on application. Both portraits are by Graff.

HEINRICH MTJTSCHMANN.

\Veimar.

HON. JAMES BRUCE OF BARBADOS (US. viii. 167). The Hon. James Bruce had nothing to do with the family of the Earl of Elgin. He was the son of Alexander Bruce, who was second son of Robert Bruce of Kennet, an ancestor of the present Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Alexander Bruce was born in 1637, and married 17 April. 1677, Margaret, eldest daughter of James Cleland of Stonepath, Peeblesshire. On 11 June, 1663, he had a grant of the lands of Garlet from his father. He graduated at the University of Edinburgh 26 July, 1657, and was ordained minister of the parish of Kirkurd, Peeblesshire, in 1690, more than thirty years after his graduation. Three years later he resigned his charge and went to Ireland, serving first at Donaghadee, co. Down, and later, in 1697, at Veincash, co. Armagh, where he died 16 April, 1704 ; his widow died in 1722. He left several sons : of these, James, the third, was born in 1691. He went to the West Indies and resided at Barbadoes for many years, being a member of the Assembly there and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (whence, I presume, his title " Hon."). He is said to have acquired a handsome fortune, and at the time of his death, on the date mentioned by MR. PINK, was returning to Scotland to settle for life. J. B. P.

In the West Indies all members of H.M. Council were styled " Hon.," so that this title affords no clue. James Bruce is stated to have purchased in 1719, from the executors of his uncle Col. Cleland deceased, a plantation in the parish of

St. Andrew, afterwards known as " Bruce Vale." He became later an active member of the Assembly and Chief Justice. His sister Rachel was wife of Mr. John Cleland of Edinburgh, who acted in 1769 as guardian of Keturah Bruce, a granddaughter of the above James. In several obituary notices it has been stated that this family was of Gartlet, and that the Chief Justice was grandson of Robert Bruce of Kennet, both places in the shire of Clackmannan.

V. L. OLIVER. Sunninghill.

In Banks's ' Dormant and Extinct Peerage ' it is stated that Robert and James Bruce, the two youngest sons of Robert Bruce, second Earl of Elgin and first Earl of Ailesbury, died unmarried, and in my copy a MS. note has been added that Robert died on 19 May, 1729, and James 19 September, 1749. F. DE H. L.

NAPOLEON I. AND DUELLING (11 S. viii. 50).- I cannot remember having ever read of Napoleon having issued any positive prohibition of duelling in his army, though there were frequent instances of the expres- sion of his disapproval of particular cases.

Perhaps the following extract from Saint- Hilaire's ' Histoire populaire de la Garde Imperiale,' p. 18, describes accurately his action at all events, as regards such inci- dents connected with his Guard :

" Le duel enfin etait rare entre militaires appar- tenant a la Garde imperiale. Lorsque, par hasard, un de ces eVenements arrivait, Napoleon se faisait adresser un rapport circonstancie des causes de la rencontre et du resultat. Puis, quand sa religion etait bien eclairee, il sevissait avec un rigueur qui tombait de preference sur le provocateur, qu'il cut et6 vainqueur ou qu'il eut e"td vaincu. Cependant il ne fit jamais revivre les anciennes lois contre les duels, et n'en institua pas de nouvelles : c'est unc justice t\ lui rendre."

C. HAGGARD.

HEBREW OR ARABIC PROVERB (US. viii. 30, 115, 136). See Burton's 'Anatomy of Melan- choly,' i. 2, 3, 14 : " ut Camelus in pro- verbio quaerens cornua, etiam quas habebat aures amisit." A. R. Shilleto in his edition, i. 343, refers to ' Erasmi Adagia,' 829, 830. EDWARD BENSLY.

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

OLD NOVEL WANTED (US. viii. 167). The old novel asked for by J. D., containing an account of " The Star Inn " at Lewes and the martyr-prisoner there, is probably ' Cardinal Pole,' by Ainsworth.

LEWINNA.