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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a.m. SEPT., 1917.

Exchange to the amount of 13000 rs. as I desired. The Barrs Perceave likewise the Merchants sent away for Rajemaul the 14th Currt., and that they went in Gurreebs Charge as I left ord[er] about it with Sittull- mull and Collo Cawn,* and agreed with the Merchant [t]hat the siccaes should be re- turned in Charge of my Servant and kept in our Factory till we had advice from our friends in Pattana either of the acceptance or payment of the Bill, which might have cleer'd all trouble and jangling on that score. I suppose before they will be coyn'd into Siccaes and return' d for Cassambuzar, I shall be arrived with you, intending, God willing, to leave this place and Proceed towards You on Thursday Evening, and have this day sent forwards pur Budgraj to stay for us about 2 dayes journey from hence, and then at my arrivall with her on the Company s boate here to proceed on her for Pallassy, J where hope to arrive on Sunday [next therefore intreate you on satturday to send away a Pa[llanke]en with 8 Cahors for Mr Vincent, to await our arrivall them, inordr[ing] two horses to stay for us at Burwa-Surray.H Let them pu[t my] Sadie and furniture on the Bay horse (if well) and Mr Vincen[ts on] the Turky or white horse and speake to Collow Cawne t[~> thir]e and [?send] 5 or 6 Pions with them and the Pallankeen, if my Punes be [not return]ed from [torn away]. The [torn awayjf have now a Correspondency here, and we are now goeing to give them a Visit, soe shall not inlarge at Present, referring all buissness till our meeting, and now Conclude with the subscription of

Your Faithfull friend to serve you

JNO: MARCH

[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant

Present In Cassumbuzar

R. C. TEMPLE.

(To be continued.)


 * Kalu Khan.

t Travelling boat. See Letter X.

Plassey (Palasi), about 20 miles south of Kasimbazar, on the left bank of the Bhaglrathi, the scene of Olive's victory in 1757.

Kahar, palanquin-bearer.

II Barwa Sarai, the " Barrua " of Bennell's ' Atlas of Bengal.' It is on the road from Hugll to Kasimbazar, some ten miles north of Plassey.

H The initial letter, which is all that is left of this word, is D, and the word is probably Danes. The Danes at this period made an ineffectual attempt to establish themselves in Bengal. See Bowrey, ' Countries round the Bay of Bengal,' ed. Temple, pp. 184-90.

AN ENGLISH " COMMANDANT " AT BRUS- SELS IN 1815-16. When Wellington's army advanced to Paris in 1815, my grand -uncle Major George Evatt, 55th Foot, Assistant- Adjutant-General at Waterloo, and re- cipient of the Waterloo Medal, was appointed Commandant de Place for English and Hanoverian troops left behind at Brussels. He is the " Major Evatt " referred to by the Duke of Wellington in his letter to the Duchess of Richmond (written from Paris) as to the sick and wounded soldiers at Brussels ; see Wellington's 'Correspondence/ 1815.

In 1816 Major Evatt was promoted to lieutenant-col oneJ, and later to colonel, and died in 1840 as Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum at Southampton. His brother Capt. John Hamilton Evatt, 57th Foot, commanded No. 7 company of that regiment at Albuera, 1811. Capt. Evatt' g great-grandson, my son Capt. G. R. K. Evatt, 1st Middlesex Regiment, late 57th Foot, was killed in action in the trenches at La Boutillerie, 3 miles south of Armen- tieres, North France, Nov. 14, 1914, com- manding " A " company in his great-grand- father's regiment, the old 57th Foot, "the Die-Hards." GEORGE J. H. EVATT,

Sxirgeon-General.

Junior U.S. Club, Charles Street, St. James's.

THE ANTI-VAUXHALL. At Denbies, near Dorking, Jonathan Tyers, the first true founder of Vauxhall Gardens, lived for several years. A MS. note occurring amongst some Surrey documents furnished information on the arrangement of the grounds as intended to provide an antithesis to the popular London resort. This wanted confirmation until I found it had also been described in J. W. Anson's Dramatic Almanack for 1871, p. 17. The writer, H. C., is probably accurate, although his style lacks conviction :

" At Denbies Tyers passed much of his time in planning several theatrical allusions [illusions ? and in rendering the spot a perfect contrast the bewitching routine of gaiety or merrime with which he electrified his metropolitan votarie This anomaly is said to have been conducted \ strict adherence to effect .... The principal sc was a wood of eight acres denominated Penseroso,' where he contrived to represent terrific similitude ' The Valley of the Shadow ol Death.' Here instead of protracted vistas < festive lamps with their matchless reflection, ai long rows of boxes containing groups of live gallantry, was the stillness of the mazy w" Instead of the choral [ic] orchestra, a s. temple on which were numerous inscriptioi calculated to produce the most gloomy effect their reader."