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but d. s.p. at Sidburg, Yorks, July 28, 1788, aged 73.

George Eyre of West Retford, and after- wards of Doncaster, third son of Gervase Eyre, M.P., of Rampton, Notts; became captain in the Blues, and d. s.p., April 28, 1761. W. R. WILLIAMS.

(To be continued.)

I have a copy of this list as described by MAJOR LESLIE. Bound up with it are two lists of reduced officers entitled to receive half-pay, viz., for 1739 and 1740.

First Troop of Horse Guards

(ante, p. 4).

John Elves (Elwes) was probably a son of Capt. John Elwes, who was a younger brother of Sir Hervey Elwes, and uncle to John Meggott alias Elwes, the well-known miser.

The King's Own Regiment of Horse (ante, p. 44).

Henry Harvey, captain, was fourth son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol. He be- came a clergyman and took the name of Aston in lieu'of Hervey ; b. 1701, d. 1748. Further particulars of him will be found in the Introduction to the Journals of Hon. William Hervey, and in Shotley Parish Records, pp. 329-32.

George Harvey, lieutenant in the same regiment, I take to be his nephew, who suc- ceeded as 2nd Earl of Bristol in',1751, and died in 1775. But this is not quite certain. The first I'ommission of each of them is dated on the same day, March 11, 1726/7. George would have been only 5 years old then, but I suppose that is no objection. His com- mission as lieutenant is dated Dec. 21, 1738. On Dec. 20, 1738, his grandfather had written to his father protesting against George being sent into the army. That seems to settle the identity of this George with the lieutenant. In this same Army List, Hon. George Harvey appears as ensign in Lieut.-General Dalzell's Regiment of Foot, his commission dated June, 1739. It looks as if his grandfather's protest caused him to be taken out in 1738, but allowed to go in a few months later.

S. H. A. H.

David Chapeau (ante, p. 122), lieutenant- colonel, d. about March 29, 1763.

Thomas Fowke (ante, p. 123), colonel of 43rd Foot, Jan. 3, 1741, to Aug. 12, 1741 ; of 2nd Foot, Aug. 12, 1741, to Nov. 12, 1755 ; of 14th Foot, Nov. 12, 1755, to Sept. 7, 1756 ; Governor of Gibraltar, 1752-6 ; lieutenant- general, April 30, 1754 ; d. March 29, 1765.

John Owen, colonel of 59th Foot, Xov. 27, 1760, to his death, Jan. 12, 1776 ; lieutenant- general, May 26, 1772.

La Meloniere, lieut.-colonel, d. Dec. 13, 1761.

John Jorden, colonel of 15th Foot, April 15, 1749, to his death, May 21 or 22, 1756.

Thomas Jekyl, major of Dragoons, d. Aug. 31, 1744.

John Tempest, major Horse Guards, d. Jan. 6, 1786.

Hugh Warburton (ante, p. 124), colonel of 45th Foot, June 3, 1745, to Sept. 24, 1761, and of 27th Foot, Sept. 24, 1761, to his death, Aug. 26, 1771 ; general, April 13,1770.

Guilford Killigrew (son of Charles Killi- grew of Somerset House, who d. 1725) ; lieutenant-colonel of Lord Mark Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons, d. Feb. 18, 1751.

John Gore, colonel of 61st Foot, May 9, 1760, to Feb. 19, 1773, and of 6th Foot, Feb. 19, 1773, to his death, Nov. 12, 1773 ; lieutenant-general, May 26, 1772.

FREDERIC BOASE.

BURTON AND SPEKE : AFRICAN TRAVEL (12 S. ii. 148). Speke's ' Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile ' was issued by Blackwood in 1863. In Black- wood's Magazine for January, 1864, and in The Edinburgh Review for July, 1863, there were long articles upon Speke's remarkably interesting book. I have looked at both these articles, but I have not in a cursory reading of them detected the passage Dr. REDMOND is looking for. But I hazard the suggestion that the passage he is seeking may be found in Speke's book, pp. 209-10. It is of such interest that it was probably quoted in many reviews :

" In the afternoon, as I had heard from Musa that the wives of the King and Princes were fattened to such an extent that they could not stand upright, I paid my respects to Wazezeru, the King's eldest brother who, having been born before his father ascended his throne, did not come in the line of succession with the hope of being able to see for myself the truth of the story. There was no mistake about it. On entering the hut I found the old man and his chief wife sitting side by side on a bench of earth strewed over with grass, and partitioned like stalls for sleeping apartments, whilst iu front of them were placed numerous wooden pots of milk, and, hanging from the poles that supported the beehive - shaped hut, a large collection of bows six feet in length, whilst below them were tied an even larger collection of spears, intermixed with a goodly assortment of heavy headed asaages. I was struck with no small sur- prise at the way he received me, as well as with the extraordinary dimensions, yet pleasing beauty, of the immoderately fat fair one his wife. She could