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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY !>, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 164.

NOTES : Baron Stulz, 121 Hugh Peters, 123 The Foot Guards in London, 124 The Rastells of Coventry Bib- liography of Theses: Duncan Liddel, 125 Stratford i 1760 Orchard House "Take his haste " Sheridan's School for Scandal,' 126.

^QUERIES : Stuart Portraits : Edgar Family Reference Wanted Ottery St. Mary The ' London,' ' British,' and 4 English ' Catalogues of Books, 127 Walter Gary Leigh Hunt at Hampstead Diogenes Laertius " Les Rochers" Cambridge : Ely : Hull Gothurst, 128' Testament du Chevalier Walpole 'Extraordinary Fountains in Ireland, Brittany, and Sicily Richard Simon : Lambert Simnel "Monk'" Lewis Thames Bridge at Walton, 129 Alms Tiouse near the Strand Author Wanted The Tailor on a Goat The Earldom of Somerset in the Mohun Family Robert Armour, 130.

REPLIES : Galignani, 130 Hymn by Gladstone R. Carr : T. Carter Vicars of St. John the Baptist, Little Missenden Baccarat " Notch," 133 Died in his Coffin "Dope" The Murder of Sarah Stout at Hertford, 134 General Beatson and the Crimean War Richard Andrewes " Apium," 135 "Sex horas somno "Refer- ence Wanted" Saraft" "Of sorts "Schopenhauer and Wimbledon, 136 Exciseman Gill First Folio Shake speare Brasidas's Mouse, 137 Irish Families : Taylor of Ballyhaise Horace Pearce Author Wanted "Thou ascended" Armorial Diary of Timothy Burrell of Cuckfleld William Somerville " Topping of the land"," 138.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Admissions to Peterhouse '-' The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse '' Prayers for Little Men and Women' 'The Dickensian ' " The People's Books."

Notices to Correspondents.

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BARON STULZ.

ON 7 Jan., 1913, Mr. George Adolphus Storey, A.R.A., completed his seventy-ninth year, and The Morning Post of that date contained an account of an interview which a representative of that journal had had with this distinguished painter. From this inter- esting record I venture to make the following extract :

" A friend of his [Mr. Storey's! family was the famous tailor Stultz, who had made a considerable fortune in business. Stories are told of Stultz that represent him in rather a ludicrous light. There is the one, for instance, about a little encounter he once had with his most distinguished customer, George Prince Regent. The Prince, so it is averred, asked him where he had been lately, and the honest tradesman said he had been shooting at a certain place in the country. ' How did you enjoy yourself ? ' he was asked. ' O, very well, sir,' he replied, ' but the fact is the company was rather mixed.' ' Hang it all,' retorted the Prince, ' did you expect them all to be tailors ? ' Stultz may or may not have had social ambitions, but there is no doubt that he

did a lot of good with his money. As one example, he built almshouses at Kentish Town for the accommodation of decayed members of his calling, and his friends and admirers had a bust of him prepared to commemorate the good deed. The sculptor was Behnes, of Osnaburgh-street, and Stultz took young Storey with him to Behnes's studio."

In this account there is apparently some confusion or misunderstanding, as the renowned tailor of the Regency period died without issue nearly two years before Mr. Storey was born. The business in Bond Street was, I believe, carried on for several years under the same name, and it was probably a successor to the original Stultz to whom Mr. Storey was indebted for his introduction to the celebrated sculptor. I am not sure if any memoir of Stultz or Stulz, as the name was more properly spelt has ever appeared in Eng- land, but perhaps a short sketch of his career, and of the historic house in which he passed the last years of his life, may prove to be not without interest.

George Stulz was born in 1762 at Keippen- heim, a small town in the territories of the prince who was then known as the Margrave of Baden. He was brought up to the trade of a tailor, and soon displayed such excellence in his calling that he became the arbiter of fashion in the Margrave's capital of Carlsruhe, in which he had estab- lished himself. It was in this town that he began to amass the fortune that subss- quently, wherever he resided, he devoted to the most charitable objects. He after- wards settled in London, where he gained the favour of the Regent and attained a very wide celebrity. In 1820 he gave up business, and was created by the Grand Duke of Baden Baron of Ortenberg and Knight of the Order of the Lion of Zahringen.

After his retirement Baron Stulz came to the south of France, and eventually settled at Hyeres, where, on 26 Nov., 1825, he became the possessor of a house to which some historic memories were already at- tached. Standing in the midst of a garden thickly planted with orange trees, and sur- rounded with high stone walls, this mansion, situated on the Western side of the open space which was formerly known as the Esplanade, but after one or two changes of nomenclature is now called the Place de la Rade, formerly belonge d to the Cordeliers, or Friars of St. Francis, whose convent was situated in the immediate vicinity. In 1768 this property was purchased by Victor Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, Comte de Beaumont, Premier Baron of Limousin, & c.,