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different members of the L'nion. The ensign ; and I assume from this that it is present capital of Pennsylvania is Harris- j more probable that Hassell was then pro- moted from ensign to lieutenant in the Buffs than that a cornet in the Horse Guards should have been made a lieutenant in a marching regiment of foot (as cornets or ensigns in the Guards mostly had a company of foot when they transferred). Mulan, 1742 and 1744, gives his first commission as "L. '23" (lieutenant 1723). I feel more confident, however, in stating that HasselF was never major in the Blues, as Jenkinson* succeeded Beake as major on Nov. 26, 1739,. and was himself succeeded in regular sequence by Chamberlayne on May 27, 1745, till 1750- (as stated at 12 S. ii. 192). All the contem- porary lists agree as to this, and, moreover,- they equally support the statement that Hassell, who was still a lieutenant in the- Buffs in 1730 (Gradation MS. Army List, in.- Record Office), was promoted captain in. Wade's (3rd) Horse on May 22, 1735 ; and (passing over the head of Armstrong, whilst Townshend had transferred to the 1st Foot Guards, Feb. 8, 1741) became major (by purchase, I assume) of the same regiment in* Wade's room on July 11, 1741 (Millan, 1742),

burg, an otherwise unimportant town, some 100 miles west of Philadelphia on the River Susquehanna. N. W. HILL.

" SMALL BOOKS ON GBEAT SUBJECTS " (12 S. iii. 169, 278). To the list may also be added No. 11, 'Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century : in a series of letters to a Lady,' as the work of Caroline Frances Cornwall. The remaining volumes of the series now unidentified are :

No. 2. Connexion between Physiology and Intellectual Science.

No. 3. On Man's Power over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity.

No. 9. Introduction to Vegetable Physiology.

No. 13. Sketches of Geology.

No. 15. Thoughts and Opinions of a Statesman

[von Humboldt].

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ALEXANDER SMITH ON POE (12 S. iii. 230). The Edinburgh Review, vol. cvii. pp. 419- 442, for 1858, contains the article required by MR. HOGG. The words are used in a review of an edition of Poe's works issued in New York in 1857. The article opens by saying that Poe " was incontestably one \ **V U i of the most worthless persons of whom we ' A

T J< ? wa * brou g ht about '

have any record in the world of letters," |, , -, ,. _._., ma i a( and the opening sentence on p. 420 is the Ltl3 T? by u ,

following " WP . Ek *M a ' months before, and perhaps through Ul-

died in early middle

age five years later.

These are only two sentences out of very ^ offer ^ a poss ible suggestion that the- many, all equally plain-spoken. copyist of the entry in the Gray's Inn ChapeJ

ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Register relating to the second marriage v may have been misled by indifferent or

RUISSHE HASSELL (12 S. 111. 132).- Doubt- spraw i m g writ i n g into erroneously giving less some other reader better versed than e surn ame Stawell as Mackeerly (which, will be able to describe more accu- ' appears so unusual a name as to excite- rately the distinction between the uniforms suspicion as to its being genuine). This might , ( o ,/ H rs f and Y 1 e, Blues - ' appear far-fetched, but for the fact that when illan 1 / 42 (kindly lent me by MAJOR I searching at the Record Office for my book ESLIE), gives the Cloathing of the Blues on the ? We i sh Judges,' I myself detected blue and red, and that ot Wade s as red two most extraordinary mistakes made by and white, while the Army List 1761 says the C0 pyist in transcribing the names of the the uniforms of the former were blue, faced | judges from the original Latin documents, red, red furniture and of the latter " red, ' fc^* Snigge, miles? being rendered George fled white, half lapelled, white furniture." j S i ngl ; t on, and John Jeffreys appearing as the portrait that of a young or middle-aged Joh & n Ferriers in the printed 'Calendar of

man ? I cannot prove the direct negative that Major Hassell was never in the Blues, as it is possible that he may have entered it as cornet, say about 1722, but if so his commission as such is not to be found at the present day. The first mention of his name

State Papers,' causing me no end of trouble in trying to identify persons who never existed.

Possibly the major's father, John Hassell r was a wealthy merchant who built the block of houses called " Hassell' s Buildings,'*

appears as lieutenant in Thomas Pitt, named after him. I take it he was the

Earl of Londonderry's Regiment of Foot (the 3rd or the Buffs) on Dec. 26, 1726, on which same date Brian O'Rourke was made

"John Hassell, of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, who m. in Gray's Inn Chapel, Oct. 21, 1714,. Ann Drot (blotted) of St. Olave's, Old Jewry."