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de Genlis lived and where the royal princes and a select few persons of distinction, went two or three times a week to dance and amuse themselves.

Pamela's beauty, both of face and figure,

was quite out of the usual, and had nothing

! in common with the heavy and even ungainly

carriage of the Orleans family nor with the

tete d poire attributed to its members.

So far there is merely local discrepancy between Mr. Gerard Campbell's and Mme.

de la Tour's more personal testimony. By the former the selection of the child is

attributed to the Duke's trainer, and by the latter to a parish rector. In one account Shropshire is the " hunting ground," in the other Christ Church (query Hants ?) or " the neighbourhood of Bristol."

Here, however, Mme. de la Tour offers an explanation which may help to clear away vpart of the mystery. Mme. de Genlis had had a child by the Due d'Qrleans, but had .never been attached to her ; and, on the marriage of her own legitimate daughter to M. de Valence, Mme. de Genlis confided to her the child, then about 9 years old, on the ground that by educating her Mme. de Valence, whose husband was attached to the Due d'Orleans' household, would be better prepared for the bringing up of her own children. Meanwhile it was decided that the girl should be regarded as an enfant trouvee, although sister (maternally) to Mme. de Valence and (paternally) to Louis Philippe. Mme. de la Tour du Pin, whose intimacy with Mme. de Valence survived the Revolu- tion and broughjb them together later, only knew the child by the name of Hermine. Hermine was ultimately married to an agent de change named Collard, and had a iarge family, one of whom, Mme. Cappelle, was the mother of the notorious Mme. Lafarge. L. G. R.

Bournemouth

HUGH BEATTY. (See 8 S. vii. 108.) ^Twenty-five years ago a question was asked about this officer, and was apparently unanswered. He was there stated to have been an Irishman and a captain in the -British Army, and to have joined the Portuguese Army in 1762. Particulars of his family and regiment were asked for. I now venture to send these, in the hope that the querist may be still living. Hugh Beatty was second son of John Beatty of Monaghan, cornet Monaghan Militia (Colonel Oliver Anketell's Dragoons), by Sophia, daughter of Hugh Gilmore of Monaghan. John was ifchird son of John Beatty of Springtown, co.

Longford, by Anne (Pakenham) his wife, and the latter John was son of John Beatty of Corr, co. Cavan, by his second wife Mary, sister of Richard Young of Drumgoon, co. Cavan. John of Corr was eldest son of John Beatty of Farranseer, co. Cavan, who died in 1681.

Hugh became ensign 73rd Foot (Lord Blayney's Regiment), Jan. 17, 1760, which regiment was " broke " in 1763. On May 26, 1770, Lord Dartry brought an Exchequer Bill against Hugh's brother John, his sister Sophia, and her husband William Adams, and others, in which he stated that Hugh was dead. But in an amended Bill, dated Jan. 14, 1773, Lord Dartry altered this. Hugh was said to have died abroad, but " your suppliant is now informed that Hugh Beatty is still alive, and lives in Portugal."

Burke's ' Peerage,' under the title Earl of Longford, is manifestly wrong in stating that Anne Pakenham married Robert Beatty of Springtown. There was no Robert of that generation ; but John of Springtown had a wife Anne, and a son Pakenham, and so was evidently the person intended.

HENRY B. SWANZY.

The Vicarage, Newry, co. Down.

EMMA HAMILTON. Lord Dillon sends to The Times (12th inst.) a letter which it may be as well to preserve in ' N. & Q.' :

To the Editor of The Time*.

SIR, Some of your readers will be interested to learn that a plaque has been placed on No. 27, Rue Francaise, Calais, to the following effect : Emma Lady Hamilton, the Friend of Admiral Lord Nelson, died in this house, January 15,

1815. This Tablet is erected by British Officers

serving in Calais during the Great War, in memory of Lord Nelson's last request.

1918. Your obedient servant,

DILLOK. Ditchley, Enstone, April 8.

"PEREGRINXTS.

WELSHMEN'S ENGLISH. Darmesteter in his ' Morceaux Choisis des Auteurs du XVIe siecle,' p. 122, gives a story by Bonaventure des Periers called ' De trois freres qui cuiderent stre pendus pour leur latin ' (Edit. Lacour, ' Les Nouvelles recreations et joyeux devis,' Nouv. xx., tome ii., p. 94). Apart from this story's relation to reality (see 'Les Ecoliers,' by Larivey, Darmesteter, op. cit., p. 373), it would appear that the incidents of the above tale are to be found in an earlier and more curious setting, namely, the linguistic mistakes of Welshmen, as