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to " Paardeberg." This seems a union of the services of the two regiments ; " Maida " is included, but the 28th was not there.

In The Journal of the Royal Artillery, March, 1908, pp. 541-64, is an account of the battle of Maida ; and on p. 563, in the "Field State" of the British Army, will be found the only mention of the 61st.

I have but my memory to guide me as to when the local naming of regiments took the place of numbering : I believe it was in 1881.

A. RHODES.

KING GEORGE V.'s ANCESTORS (US. iv. 87, 134). The following additions may be made to MR. A. R. BAYLEY'S reply :

(1) The wife of Francis, Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Saalfeld (1750-1806), was Augusta of Reuss, Countess of Plauen-Ebersdorf (1757-1831). His parents were Ernest Frederic, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1724-1800), and Sophia- Antoinette, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg (1749-1802).

(2) The wife of Augustus, Duke of Saxe- Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1822), was Louisa, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779 1801). His parents were Ernest II., Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745-1804), and Charlotte, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen (1769- 1827).

(5) The wife of the Landgrave Frederic of Hesse-Cassel (1747-1857), son of Frederic II. and Mary of England, was Caroline Polyxena, Princess of Nassau-Usingen (1762-1823).

It will be seen that through both her parents, King Christian and Queen Louise of Denmark, who were respectively the great- grandson and great-granddaughter of the Princess Mary, daughter of King George II., Queen Alexandra is in the line of succession to the throne of these realms. King Christian was also a great-grandson of the Princess Louisa, Mary's younger sister.

W. F. PRIDEATJX.

MISSES DENNETT (11 S. iv. 108). The Misses H. and F. Dennett, pupils of Mr. D'Egville, were in the pantomime of ' The Enchanters ; or, Harlequin Sultan,' pro- duced at Drury Lane Theatre, Dec. 26, 1806. In October, 1807, at the same theatre, Miss H. Dennett and Miss F. Dennett were wood nymphs, and Miss E. Dennett, a gnome, in ' The Forty Thieves ' ; in November they were in ' The Wood Demon ' ; and at Christ- mas Miss E. Dennett was in the pantomime of ' Furibond.' Miss Dennett was at the Windsor Theatre in the summer of 1810. At the Brighton Theatre in the autumn of

1812 the engagement was announced of " the three Miss Dennetts, from the Opera House," and they were there again the following year.

Miss S. Dennett was in the pantomime of ' Harlequin and Humpo ' at Drury Lane in December, 1812, and in February, 1814, Miss Dennett was Ursula in a ballet called ' Leander and Leonora.' WM. DOUGLAS.

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CARRACCIOLO FAMILY (US. iv. 69, 136). There are over twenty pages about this family in the ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana,' Anno XV., 1893, published at Bari under the direction of Cavaliere Gof- fredo di Crollalanza. This is the only edition I have. The family appears to have had a vast number of titles distributed among its branches (pp. 302-22).

The head of the whole family was in 1893 Marino Caracciolo, Neapolitan patrician, Prince of Avellino, of the Holy Roman Empire, and of Ginetti, Duke of Atripalda, Marquis of Sanseverino, Count of Serino and of Vespolati, born 1838.

The branch of the family which had the titles mentioned by MRS. FORTESCUE is the elder of Villamaina e Capriglia branches of the line of Caracciolo-Pasquizi.

The head of this branch was Luigi Marquis- Caracciolo, Neapolitan patrician, Duke of S. Teodoro, of S. Arpino, of Parete, of Casal di Principe, Marquis of Capriglia, and of Villamaina, born 1 Nov., 1826, died at Milan 29 Jan., 1889. He married 31 August, 1854, Augusta Selima (sic) Elisabetta, born Lock, widow of Lord Bourgherst (sic), i.e. Burghersh. The only issue of this marriage appears to have been a daughter, Teresa, born 1855, married 1875 to Marco Antonio Colonna of the Princes of Paliano and Dukes of Marino.

Apparently the above - named Luigi Mar- quis Caracciolo, Duke of S. Teodoro, &c,, was the last male of his branch of the family* For a short history of the Caracciolo family (if that be the meaning of " cenno storico ") we are referred to the ' Annuario ' of 1884.

Concerning the marriage of a Caracciolo to one Emilia mentioned 'by MR. MERCER (ante, p. 136) I find that Giovanni, brother of Giuseppe Giudice Caracciolo, Neapolitan patrician, Prince of Cellamare, Duke of the Gesso and of S. Elia, Marquis of Alfadena, Prince of Leporano, Duke of Schiavi, and Count of Piperno, married 4 March, 1876, Emilia, born Settanni, date of birth and parentage not given. These brothers are or were of the Villa e Cellamare branch of