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resembling musk. Whether this is observed at the breeding- season only, or at other times too, I am not certain.

While I was at Tours I once noticed a man nea/ the bridge who had evidently been frog- fishing. He was carrying a large bunch of watery-green batrachians, all slung together, somehow, by their hind legs. As they hung head downwards in a wriggling mass the sight was not a pleasant one, although it may be supposed that the nervous system of a frog is scarcely capable of acute suffering. Frogs' legs may be seen exposed for sale in the markets of Switzerland near the French border.

I have heard a Dutchman say that his nation would not eat them. P. W. G. M.

A short time ago I talked over this subject with a French interpreter attached to the British Army in France. Frogs are eaten occasionally, and the hind legs only. There is a restaurant in Paris which has a reputa- tion for preparing this dish, but I cannot give its name, and cannot tell the mode in which the dish is prepared. It is a fact that the French have the reputation of being great eaters of frogs, but it is no more right to say this than it would be right to say that the English are great eaters of lark pie. An amusing result of the British Army s arrival in France is that the price of frogs has gone up enormously, as Thomas Atkins considers it the proper thing to partake of this dish.

In the Far East I have often eaten frogs' legs fricasseed, and a very delicate dish it is, rather like chicken. Roy GAKART.

AX ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151. 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311.)

The King's Dragoons (ante, p. 86).

JOSEPH GUEST of Halifax, Yorks, lieu- tenant-general, May 27, 1745 ; defended Edinburgh Castle against the rebels, 1745 ; d. Oct. 14, 1747, aged 85; buried West- minster Abbey.

Major Foley left the regiment, Aug. 1, 1741 : brevet lieutenant-colonel, June 5, 1743.

Alex. Mullen left the regiment or d. before 1745.

Wm. Ogle served at Dettingen, 1743.

Philip Honywood of Mark's Hall, Essex, nephew of Field-Marshal Sir Philip Hony- wood, K.B., the colonel of his regiment, was b. about 1711 ; cornet of Lord Mark Kerr's Dragoons, July 5, 1739; captain-lieutenant

of Honywood's Dragoons, July 12, 1739 ; captain thereof, July 11, 1741 ; major of the same, Aug. 1, 1741 ; lieutenant-colonel (of his uncle's) 3rd Dragoons, July 23, 1743, to 1755 ; when major, received twenty- three broad-sword wounds and two musket shots (never extracted) at Dettingen, 1743 ; and, when lieutenant-colonel, was severely wounded in the head at Clifton, Lanes, by the Scotch rebels, 1746. He was M.P*. Appleby, 1754-6, void, and March, 1756,- to 1784 ; A.D.C. to the King (and brevet colonel), March 17, 1752 ; major-general,. May 17, 1758 ; lieutenant-general, Dec. 18,. 1760 ; general, Aug. 29, 1777 ; governor of Hull, July, 1765, till he d. s.p. in London,. Feb. 2.0, 1785, aged 73 ; colonel 20th Foot,. April S, 1755 ; of 9th Light Dragoons, May 22,. 1756 ; of 4th Light Horse (now 7th Dragoon Guards), April 5, 1759, to 1782 ; of 3rd Dra- goon Guards, June 7, 1782, to 1785; m.. April 22, 1751, Eliz. Wastell of Tower Hill ; succeeded his nephew Richard Honywood of Mark's Hall in an estate of 6,OOOZ. a year in Essex, Sept. 24, 1758.

Capt. Thomas Brown, Lieut. Robinson r and Cornet Dawson were wounded, and Lieut .. Baily was killed at Dettingen, 1743. Brown was major of the regiment July 23, 1743, to 1746 or so.

Henry Whitley, majcr of Eland's 3rd 1 Dragoons from about 1746 ; lieutenant - colonel 10th Dragoons, March 15, 1748 ;. colonel 9th Dragoons, April 6, 1759, to Jan. 14, 1771 ; major-general, Aug. 13, 1761-

John Parsons (?sonof Lieut. -Gen. John Parsons, who d. 1764) was made captain- lieutenant 2nd Horse Grenadier Guards,. May, 1747 ; and was major 3rd Dragoons, March 5, 1751, to May 5, 1756.

Hon. George Carey, the younger son of 5th Viscount Falkland, lieutenant and captain 1st Foot Guards, May 25, 1744 ; captain- lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel,. Nov. 20, 1750 ;' captain and lieutenant- colonel, March 28, 1751 ; third major thereof and brevet colonel, June 18, 1759 ; colonel 64th Foot, Dec. 20. 1759 ; colonel 43rd Foot, Sept. 26, 1766, till he d. April, 1792 ; major- general, Aug. 15, 1761 ; lieutenant-general^ April 30, 1770 ; general, Nov. 26, 1782.

Hon. Josiah Child had two horses killed under him at Dettingen, and was made lieutenant in the regiment, Aug., 1743.

Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Dragoons (ante, p. 86).

Daniel Leighton, fourth son (first son by second wife) of Sir Edw. Leighton, 1st Bart. r M.P., of Wattlesborough, Salop, baptized at