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 ii s. vi. DEC. 21, 191-2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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I have been familiar with this phrase in common speech for many years, and must, I should say. have seen it in print long before the ' N.E.D.' reached the letter O. It does not mean precisely what DR. KRUEGER seems to think not "to do " a thing, but to design or attempt to do it ; that, at least, is the ssnse in which I have known it used. " I am out for plunder " = "' I am out with the intention of plundering."

C. C. B.

GAXIGNANI (11 S. vi. 409). It may, perhaps, interest readers of 'X. & Q.' to know that A. & W. Galignani & Co. in 1835 published in one volume ' The Complete Works of Lord Byron,' with "Notes and Illustrations " by a number of distinguished men, and " a Life by Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M.P." This edition is valuable as it oontains " A Complete Index." The Index is very useful as there is no " Concordance " to Byron. HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

EAST ANGLIAN FAMILIES (11 S. vi. 230, 312). There was an eminent Dutch painter named Hugo van Goes (1430-1505). Also four famous Portuguese bore the same patronymic : Benito de Goes (1562-1605), a traveller in India and China ; Damian de Goes (1501-73), the historian ; and his two brothers, Luis and Pero, both travellers in Brazil. Possibly the English printer may have sprung from one of these families.

X. W. HILL.

San Francisco.

ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS (US. vi. 408, 475). Miss CROCKER says it would be inter- esting to know the names of other places upon which the privilege of using the prefix " Royal " has been conferred. On 25 Sept., 1821, King George IV. embarked at Rams- gate on the Royal George on a visit to his Hanoverian dominions, from which he returned in the same vessel on 8 Xov. On the first occasion he passed a night at Ramsgate, sleeping at Cliff House on Sion Hill, the residence of Sir William Curtis. On his return he proceeded immediately to London, but on both occasions he was loyally welcomed by the men of Thanet. He was much pleased with his reception, and gave the order embodied in the following letter :

Whitehall, Xov. 27, 1821.

SIR, I am commanded by the King to signify j to you His Majesty's pleasure that in consideration | of the zeal and loyalty so eminently displayed j by the inhabitants of Ramsgate, when His I Majesty lately embarked and disembarked at |

that port : the Harbour of Ramsgate be hence- forth denominated a Royal Harbour ; and that the Royal Standard should be hoisted there on the day appointed for the celebration of His Majesty's birth-day, and on the anniversaries of His Majesty's Accession and Coronation.

I have the honour to bi)>

Sir, Your most obedient humble servant,

SIDMOUTH.

To Sir Win. Curtis, bart., Chairman of the Trustees for the improve- ment of Ramsgate Harbour.

In commemoration of the Royal visit an obelisk of Devonshire granite was erected in the harbour yard by private subscrip- tion :

' ; The proportions of this obelisk [which must be well known to every visitor to Ramsgate] were those of the largest of the two at the entrance of ancient Thebes in Upper Egypt, the exact size being two-thirds of that celebrated monu- ment." Hunter's ' Short Account of the Isle of Thanet,' 1825, pp. 42-8.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST (11 S. vi. 411). There is a verse curiosity with the following title, ' Belshazzar, a Wild Rhapsody and Incoherent Remonstrance, abruptly written on seeing Haydon's Celebrated Picture of Belshazzar's Feast, ' 1845. The author was Josiah Xuttall, an ornithologist and taxidermist, of Heywood in Lancashire. An epic poem in ten books written

abruptly " is certainly unusual.

C. W. SUTTON.

I have on my shelves " Belshazzar : a Dramatic Poem. By the Rev. H. H. Milman. London, John Murray, 1822." Dean Mil- man's poems are not much read nowadays, but there is stately music in ' Belshazzar.' G. L. APPERSOX.

The names of four authors at least who wrote on this subject are : Thomas Harrison, ' Belteshazzar ; or, The Heroic Jew,' London, 1727. Hannah More, 'Bel- shazzar,' a drama, 1782. Henry Hart Mil- man, ' Belshazzar,' 1822. Barry Cornwall, ' Babvlon, with the Feast of Belshazzar.'

R. A. POTTS.

It must be some forty years since I heard that great elocutionist John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew recite Edwin Arnold's ' The Feast of Belshazzar,' the poem which in 1852 won him the Xewdigate Prize when an undergraduate of University College, Oxford. If I remember rightly, it appeared anonymously in his programme, being de- scribed merely as a Xewdigate Prize Poem. ROBERT PIERPOIXT.