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EDWARD RAVENSCROFT. Can any reader of 'X. & Q.' give particulars of the descent and marriage of Edward Ravenscroft of Portland Place, W. ? One of his daughters married in 1813 Vice-Admiral Lord Henry Paulet, and another daughter married General Thewles. C. E. P.

COUNT LEININGEN'S MEMOIRS. I saw an announcement a short time ago that the Correspondence and diary of Count Charles Leiningen were to be published in English, but forgot to make a note of the publisher's name. Can any correspondent tell me ?

L. L. K. [Messrs. Duckworth have just published the work.]

in ' Tom Jones,' Book VI. chap. ix. :
 * TOM JONES ' : DOWDY. Fielding writes

" Or, as when two gentlemen, strangers to the wondrous wit of the place, are cracking a bottle together at some inn or tavern at Salisbury, if the great Dowdy, who acts the part of a madman, as well as some of his setters-on do that of a fool, should rattle his chains, and dreadfully hum forth the grumbling catch along the gallery, the frighted strangers stand aghast ; scared at the horrid sound, they seek some place of shelter from the approaching danger ; and if the well-barred windows did admit their exit, would venture their necks to escape the threatening fury now coming upon them. So trembled Sophia," &c.

Any elucidation of the meaning of this passage would be welcome to

A. E. ALD WORTH.

Manor Farm Road, Salisbury.

GEORGE AARONS, P.M. I should be glad of a few biographical details of this Free- mason. There is an engraving bearing the following inscription :

"A distinguished Freemason, member of the Royal Athelstan Lodge, No. 19, and honorary mem- ber of the Lodge of Good Report, No. 158, to which lodge this Portrait is dedicated by permission.

" Drawn and Engraved by Henry Meyer, London. Published April 3rd, 1837, by H. Meyer, 30, Gerrard Street, Soho."

ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

118, Sutherland Avenue, W.

ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, R.N. I should be glad of any information concerning this officer and his family history. He was the son of Capt. Cunningham, R.N. (Christian name unknown), who is said to have married a Pelham, a relative of the Duke of New- castle, foolishly described in an old pedigree in my possession as ''the last of the Pelhams.' 1

He appears from the Admiralty records to have become a lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 10 April, 1759, and to have attained the rank of captain on half-pay on 6 April, 1783, in which capacity he remained until his

death on 12 March, 1799. It is said that he was employed from 1783 to the date of his death in the Russian Navy, having been elected by the Empress Catherine II. for the task of reforming the naval service of that country* and having been granted the rank of Admiral in that service.

His wife was Elizabeth Walter, sister of the Rev. Philip Walter, who was Rector of Cray- ford in Kent for nearly 50 years (1758-1806) and they seem to have had a son Alexander who died in 1833, at the age of 82, at Rio de Janeiro, where he held some appointment connected with the slave trade and a daughter Jane, who married Robert Williams of Warfield Lodge in Berkshire.

F. DE H. L.

THE " ALEPPO MERCHANT " INN. This is the name of an inn at Carno, Montgomery- shire. Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' can explain the origin of the title.

T. F. D.

BISHOP BARTHOLOMEW VIGORS. Bar- tholomew Vigors, Dean of Armagh, was consecrated Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in 1691, and held the see until his death in 1721. He was born at Bishop's Tawton, Devon, 18 February, 1643, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1663 ; but in the mean time he is said to have been educated at the Launceston Grammar School. Is there any contemporary record of this, either in Dublin or elsewhere ? DUNHEVED.

MARSHAL TALLARD, PRISONER OF WAR. The present is the bicentenary year of the liberation of Marshal Tallard after five or six years of exile in England, he having been taken prisoner at the battle of Blenheim, 1704, and ultimately brought to this country, in company with many of his fellow-officers. I possess much information relating to the chronicles of their English sojourn, largely gleaned from contemporary newspapers and from the Historical Manuscripts Com- mission reports, beyond what I published in a pamphlet in 1905. I should be glad to learn anything new connected with the English sojourn of Marshal Tallard and his compatriots, for the purpose of a book on the subject. I am familiar with the ordinary sources of information, and with what has appeared in ' N. & Q.' What portraits are known of the Marshal ? It would be inter- esting to learn whether any of the captives compiled, after their return to France, accounts of their English experiences. (They