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To swell the list the fo llowing may be added : President Abraham Lincoln ; first Lord Houghton ; the Scottish historio- grapher, John Hill Burton ; Samuel Morley, the philanthropist ; William Rathbone Greg; Gogol, the Russian novelist ; Sir James Erasmus Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S. ; W. F. Skene, D.C.L., famed Celtic scholar ; Mar- shal Manteuffel ; Hon. Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Prof. Harrison in his biography of Edgar Allan Poe (vol. i. p. 8, Virginia edition), speaking of the year of Poe's birth, 1809, mentions the following as born in the same year : Elizabeth Barrett, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Abra- ham Lincoln, Gladstone, Fanny Kemble, -and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

R. M. HOGG.

Irvine.

At 1 S. xii. 399 is an article ' Remarkable Men born during the same Year,' from 1748 to 1821. Under 1809 will be found : Richard ^Monckton Milnes, M.P., poet ; Mendelssohn, composer ; Joseph Mazzini, revolutionist ; Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer ; Rt. Hon. William Gladstone, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Signor Gavazzi ; Canrobert, French commander.

Tennyson is under the year 1810.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740 (12 S. ii. 483 ; iii. 132). I regret I can add little to PROF. BENSLY'S note, but as he is good enough to invite my views respecting the JEdmund Fielding who received his first commission in 1733, and a later commission in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on Mar. 22, 1739/40, I write to say that the young ensign would appear to be unques- tionably Henry Fielding's younger brother. That Edmund Fielding, jiin., followed the army as a profession is fairly well established on the following evidence :

(a) In the ' Voyage to Lisbon ' it is re- corded under date July 24, 1754 (corrected date July 19, see 12 S. ii. 515 ; iii. 100) :

" As we passed by Spithead we saw the two regiments of soldiers who were just returned from Gibraltar and Minorca .... I found that the troops in general embarked from England to thse garrisons, since they had been changed every third year, with the utmost cheerfulness ; but that, before this time, they looked upon going to Gibraltar and Port Mahon in the light of banishment ; which made many of them melancholy, and some of the soldiers, it is said, had such a strong desire of revisiting their native country, that they absolutely pined away, which

I am inclined to believe ; for a brother of mine, who was at Minorca about fourteen years ago, inform'd me that he came to England in the same ship with a soldier who shot himself thro' the hand, merely that he might be sent home, having been in that island for many years."

(6) Arthur Murphy, writing in 1762, stated that Henry Fielding's brother, Ed- mund, had been " an officer in the Marine service."

(c) In the ' Whitefoord Papers,' 1898 (p. 25), the name appears, under date 1743, as a first lieutenant in a list of Col. James Cochran's Regiment of Marines.

It is known that Edmund Fielding died young, but the exact date of death is as yet unascertained. Hitherto the reference in the ' Whitefoord Papers ' was the latest point to which he had been traced, but I have turned up a document in the Public Record Office to which his signature is attached, together with those of his brother and sisters, bearing date 1744.

PROF. BENSLY also desires further par- ticulars concerning the military career of General Edmund Feilding. It will be well, perhaps, to await the remainder of this important Army List, which may throw light on the regiment of Invalids which he commanded ; but I may add that in addition to being occupied in London, as described by Miss Godden, General Feilding, can be traced in official documents and con- temporary newspapers, as stationed at various times at Exeter, Greenwich, and Portsmouth. J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

C. H. Dalton gives in ' George the First's Army, 1714-27,' vol. ii. p. 141, the following note concerning General Edmund Fielding:

"1. Appointed ensign in the 1st Foot Guards, Dec. 15, 1696 ; | captain in Brig.-General Webb's Regiment (8th Foot) before 1704 ; | fought at Blenheim ; | major of Lord Tunbridge's Regi- ment of Foot, April 12, 1706 ; | succeeded Col. Brasier in command of a Regiment of Foot in Ireland, Aug. 1, 1709 ; | half-pay, 1713 ; | colonel of a newly raised Regiment of Foot (41st), Mar. 11, 1719 ; | brig.-general, Mar. 16, 1727 ; I major-general, Nov. 8, 1735 ; | lieutenant- general, July 2, 1739 ; | died June 20, 1741."

J. H. LESLIE.

HYPHENATES (12 S. iii. 10). In speaking of " the American Germans," L. L. K. has put the cart before the horse. For in this country American citizens of foreign birth and those descended from such are always called " German Americans," " Irish Ameri- cans," &c., as the case may be, sometimes with and sometimes without a hyphen joining the two words. Thus we have the following societies : " British- American As-