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rgrandfather Sir Charles Hanbury, who married a Miss Tracy of Stanway, and took the name of Hanbury-Tracy ? Sudeley Castle, near Winchcombe, is now the property of Mr. H. Dent Brocklehurst ; and 'Toddington, formerly the seat of Lord 'Sudeley, in the same neighbourhood, belongs to Mr. Hugh Andrews. Lord Wemyss still owns Stanway House, within a few miles of tooth Toddington and Sudeley Castle.

Are the statements in the above quotation, o far as they refer to Lord Wemyss and Lord Sudeley. correct ? F. O. A.

PITT'S ' LETTEB ON SUPERSTITION ' (11 S. v. 205). MR. B. WILLIAMS'S conjecture as to the authorship of this * Letter ' is confirmed by a passage in Eustace Budgell's Bee for February, 1733, which is printed in the "* Catalogue of the Hope Collection of News- papers, &c., in the Bodleian Library,' 1865, p. 45 :

" The London Journal first gained reputation "by containing ' Cato's Letters ' [on the South Sea scheme] in the fatal year 1720. . . .The person who writes at present, and has assumed the name of Osborne, is Mr. P t. This gentleman, not long ago, kept a school in the country, and had a, small place in the Revenue, but about two years since a better post given him in the Custom House by Sir Robert Walpole. As to his principles in religion, he appears to be a Deist, and a zealous admirer of the writings of the late Lord Shaftes- bury ; he has read a good deal of Morality, and some of his papers upon moral subjects, to which he has subscribed the name of Socrates, have been well written."

W. D. MACRAY.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND ANNA BARBATTLD (11 S. v. 181). It is too late now to tell S. T. C. that dates are not a shell- fruit, and that it was with a date-stone that the merchant of Scheherazade's story killed the son of the Genius. Other people may like to be reminded of the fact.

ST. SWITHIN.

CASANOVA AND THE ENGLISH RESIDENT AT VENICE (11 S. v. 207). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her letters makes many allusions 10 Casanova's friend :

" To say truth, I am very uneasy, knowing nobody here I can confide in, General Graham being gone for a long time, and the British minister here [John Murray] such a scandalous fellow, in every sense of that word, he is not to be trusted to change a sequin, despised by this Government for his smuggling, which was his original profession, and always surrounded with pimps and brokers, who are his privy councillors." II. 316. Venice, 30 May (1757).

" Our resident has not the good breeding to send them [the public papers] to me ; and after having asked for them once or twice, and being

told they were engaged, I was unwilling to demand a trifle at the expe/ise of thanking a man who does not desire to oblige me ; indeed, since the ministry of Mr. Pitt, he is so desirous to signalise his zeal for the contrary faction, he is perpetually saying ridiculous things to manifest his attachment ; and, as he looks upon me (nobody knows why) to be the friend of a man I never saw, he has not visited me once this winter. The misfortune is not great." II. 325. Venice, 21 Feb., 1758 (?). " I am surprised I am not oftener low-spirited, considering the vexations I am exposed to by the folly of Murray. I suppose he attributes to me some of the marks of contempt he is treated with ; without remembering that he was in no higher esteem before I came." [She also alludes bitingly to the marriage of Murray's sister to Joseph Smith, Esq., " who is only eighty-two," Consul at Venice.] II. 327, 329. 13 May (1758).

He is mentioned (by implication) as vexing Lady Mary " by the misbehaviour of a fool " (9 May, 1760 ; ii. 389). on which she desires " not his ruin, but much less that he should be preferred " ; and on 20 Nov., 1761 (Rotterdam, ii. 396), as " that excellent politician and truly great man, M. and his ministry." A. FRANCIS STEUART.

CARLYLE'S ' SARTOR RESARTTJS ' (11 S. v. 209). " Bangs sweated down into Berlin- and-Milan Custom House officers " refers to the condition of obedience to which Napoleon reduced the monarchs of Europe, compelling them to enforce against British commerce his decrees rendering it contra- band ; these decrees, on account of the towns from which he issued them, were always known, and are still known, in history as the " Berlin and Milan decrees." The refusal of the Czar to enforce them to Napoleon's satisfaction led to the Russian campaign of 1812, G. M. TREVELYAN.

SIR PHILIP FRANCIS'S DESCENDANTS (11 S. v. 188). The following book was published by Messrs. Longmans & Co. in 1894 : "Junius Revealed. By his Surviving Grandson, H. R. Francis, M.A., formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge." Mr. H. R. Francis died 10 June, 1900, and a search at Somerset House might be advisable.

WM. H. PEET.

ORGANISTS AND LONGEVITY (11 S. v. 206). For "p. 123 "read p. 2/3, and for "Ebden " read Ebdon. Dr. Armes died 10 Feb., 1908, aged 71, and was succeeded by the Rev. A. D. Culley, Minor Canon and Pre- centor. For particulars of Durham organ- ists from 1557 see ' Rites of Durham ' (Surtees ed., 1903), 161-3, 231, 297-9.

J. T. F.

Durham.