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NOTES AND QUE1RIES. [11 s. ix. JAN. 31, wu.

It may be added as a curiosity that there was advertised in The Boston Gazette of 13 March, 1721, as " Just Published, The Mount Hope Packet. And News from the Moon, both to be sold by Benjamin Gray, Bookseller." ' The Mount Hope Packet ' was, no doubt, ' A Letter from a Gentleman in Mount Hope to his Friend in Treamount,' a political pamphlet. ' News from the Moon ' was a reprint of "A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 7. Numb. 14. Page 53. Tuesday, May 2. 1710." This precise description proves that the Boston reprint of 1721 was from the Edinburgh edition, as the paper in question formed No. 15 of the London edition of vol. vii., and was dated 29 April, 1710. See Andrew McF. Davis's ' Colonial Cur- rency Reprints," Prince Society, Boston, 1911, ii. 257-77; and Publications of the Colonial Soc. of Mass., xiii. 2-15.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, Mass.

THOMAS HUDSON, PORTRAIT PAINTER, 1701-79 (11 S. viii. 489 ; ix. 36). To the very desirable list of portraits painted by this artist, and given at the latter refer- ence, may be added the following :

John Hobart, 1st Karl of Buckinghamshire.

George Gresham, clockmaker, &c.

Thomas Griffin, Admiral.

Rev. Stephen Hales, Rector of Teddington.

Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Beau Nash.

Duke of Roxburgh.

1st Marquis Townshend.

Tyrrell, Admiral.

Stephen Weston, Bishop of Exeter.

The above are from a list of engravings offered for sale by Mr. Daniell of Cran- bourn Street in March, 1913.

Sir Thomas Gooch, Bishop of Bristol (1754)

Richard Grindall, surgeon ... . (1772)

Miss Hudson, the artist's daughter. (1740)

Edward Maurice, Bishop of Ossory. (1745)

Sir John Philipps, M.P (1748)

Francesco Bernard! Senesius, singer. 1735) Sir John Willes, M.P., L.C.J. Com

mon Pleas (1744)

Edward VVilles, Bishop of St. David's (1750)

John Christopher Pepusch, musician (1740)

James Quin, actor (1744)

These are from a list of engravings offered by Mr. Tregaskis of High Holborn during the years 1906-7-8, and the dates in paren- theses are those, approximately, of the

engravings.

WM. NORMAN.

I have read with much interest the notes on this subject printed in the columns of <N. & Q.,' and most of the articles and letters to which the various contributors

have referred. It is, perhaps, worth men- tioning that * The History of English Patriotism,' by Mr. Esme Wingfield-Strat- ford (John Lane), contains more out-of- the-way information on art and literature than any other book known to me. The chapter on ' Patriotism in Art ' (pp. 240-61 of vol. ii. ) deals very exhaustively with the work and influence of such English painters as Dobson, Beale, Riley, the Gandys, High- more, the Richardsons, Dandridge, Knap ton r Wilson, Hudson, Hogarth, Hayman, Lam- bert, Wootton, and Scott, not to mention a host of well-known artists, from Reynold* to Whistler. BENJAMIN TRAVERS.

Mole Cottage, Westhumble, Dorking.

SMITH : NAME IN THE VASCONCELLO& FAMILY (11 S. .viii. 510). It was with some trepidation that I read MB. ALBRECHT'S courteous invitation to solve a Smith problem, and my satisfaction was considerable on discovering information which I trust may be acceptable in spite of its incompleteness. According to the family pedigree, Jose- Ignacio Paes Pinto de Souza e Vasconcellos (born 1767, d. at Oporto 1831), who was a Councillor of State, married twice. Hi* second wife was Mary Tusten Smith of Ulster, where she was born 2 July, 1785. She died 23 June, 1886, at Fortaleza, in Brazil. Their son, or one of their sons, was named Jq.se Smith de Vasconcellos,. born at Lisbon 1817, died at Rio de Janeiro in 1903. There are no further details given about the Smith family. " Ulster " is rather vague, but at present I can add nothing. LEO C,

Perhaps the following may be of interest- About the year 1870 onwards there was a firm of merchants in Liverpool in the Brazil trade styled J. S. de Vasconcellos & Co., the senior partner being an Englishman named Joseph Smith, who, it was said, for financial services rendered to the Portuguese- Government, was created a Portuguese baron, with the title of Barao de Vascon- cellos. There was another partner his son, I fancy called Leopoldo-S. de Vascon- cellos. I well remember seeing the family driving on Sundays from their residence a suburban villa near the Prince's Park called Ceara House to the Roman Catholic Pro -Cathedral, Copperas Hill, Liverpool, in an open pair-horse landau, with coachman and footman in a rather gorgeous blue livery with silver lace and white-looped cords. The firm afterwards failed, when the partners retired to Brazil, I believe.

T. G.