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swords bearing oval shield showing crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. Inscription, " Preliminaries of peace between Great Britain and France signed October 1st, 1801." The name '-'Kettle" is on the obverse, apparently that of the designer.

W. B. H.

CAPT. JOHN WESTGARTH : WEST- GARTH, INVENTOR. John Westgarth was captain in 99th Regiment c. 1750. Parent- age, date of birth, career, date of death, and any other particulars wanted.

Can any reader give biographical details of the Westgarth who invented the water wheel in lead-mines ? W. A. H.

CHARLES WESTGARTH. In The Gent. Mag. for 1733, amongst the ' Deaths ' under July 1, occurs : " Mr. Charles Westgarth of the Western Road in the General Post Office, a gentleman of many valuable accomplishments. 1 ' Is anything more known of him ? W. A. H.

JANE AUSTEN'S ' EMMA.' In ' Emma,' chap, xxxviii., Miss Bates, as soon as she enters the ball-room at the Crown, says, in the course of a torrent of words :

" Thank you, my mother is remarkably well. Gone to Mr. ^Wbodhouse's. I made her take her shawl for the evenings are not warm her large new shawl Mrs. Dixon's wedding present. So kind of her to think of my mother ! Bought at Weymouth, you know. Mr. Dixon's choice," &c.

Why should Mrs. Dixon, a bride of the previous autumn, give presents on the occasion of her own wedding ?

And what is meant by the following sentence from chap, xlv., just after the death of Mrs. Churchill ?

" Mr. Churchill was better than could be expected ; and their first removal, on the de- parture of the funeral for Yorkshire, was to be to the house of a very old friend in Windsor, to whom Mr. Churchill had been promising a visit the last ten years."

This almost implies that Mr. Churchill, not described as an invalid, did not attend his wife's funeral. B. B.

Miss FRANKS. The Sphere for Aug. 17, 1901, contains a portrait of ' Miss Franks, Daughter of Aaron Franks,' with the accom- panying note : "A newly - discovered Reynolds. This picture, which belongs to the Dowdeswells, was painted by Sir Joshua in 1766. He also painted the father and the sister of the lady."

Messrs. Henry Graves & Co., 6 Pall Mall, are the publishers of a small photogravure of ' Miss Franks ' after a portrait of Sir

Joshua which may be the sister referred to. Aaron Franks had only two daughters : Phila (1744/5-1802), who married her cousin Moses Franks of New York, and Priscilla (1746-1832), who married her second cousin Jacob or John Franks of New York. I am anxious to identify the portraits of the sisters.

A small mezzotint of ' Miss Franks ' by Gainsborough, engraved by R. B. Parkes from the original picture in the possession of Col. Honywood, was published by Graves in 1876. It is a portrait of a young child with a lamb. Isabella Bell (1769-1855), the only issue of the marriage of Moses and PhUa Franks, married Sir William Henry Cooper, Bt. (1766-1834). Their daughter Mary Anne was the wife of Sir John Courtenay Honywood. I should like to identify this " Miss Franks." Sir Joshua also painted the portrait of Moses Franks. It was engraved by S. H. Gimber, and pub- lished by Graves in 1856.

In whose possession are the five portraits of the Franks family referred to ?

ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

CASTLEHILL. In Chambers' s Miscellany, 1845, it is stated that the barons of Castlehill are the common descendants of the Scotch and French Colberts. I wish to know where this Castlehill was situated, and further particulars relating to the barons.

(Miss) E. F. WILLIAMS.

10 Black Friars, Chester.

ST. CHRISTOPHER AND THE MILLER. Can any correspondent tell me why a miller and his mill are represented in the celebrated early wood-engraving of St. Christopher, which is now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester ? I have never met with any version of the St. Christopher legend in which a miller was mentioned. Is he merely figured in the engraving as a natural adjunct to the stream over which the saint carries wayfarers, or does he play a part in some version of the story which is unknown, tome? S&;:3H.:- ' *-'. P- W. G. M.

BEAUDESERT, STAFFORDSHIRE. I possess a curious print in aquatint (now very scarce) of Beaudesert, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesey, showing a design by Humphrey Repton for improving the grounds. A succession of cascades leaps down from the front of the house into the glen below, and then expands into a lake, with bridges, terraces, and other landscape-gardening embellishments. It was published by J.