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 216 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MARCH -12,1021.. Henri- Pant aleon Macnemara was born at Rochefort in January, 1743, and entered the French navy, that he was created Chevalier de St Louis in 1775, and Count in 1782, and that he was hanged by a revolutionary ?rob in Mauritius, Nov. 4, 1790. At p. 54, Mr. Twiejge says that the above mentioned Count Macnemara " died unmarried, and consequently his title became extinct ; but, on the return of the Bour- bons, it was assumed by a certain Comte Albert- Joseph Macnemara " of Castel-town " (son of Gerard Macnemara and his wife Marie-Elisabeth Garbe), who was born at Arras 9 April, 1766, served among the French emigres, was created a Chevalier of St. Louis in 1796, nominated Governor of the Pages of Louis XVIII. in 1815, and died 13 May, 1822, leaving no issue by his wife, Louise- Alexandrine-Laure de Chasi." MR. DE TERNANT tells me that this lady was an Italian, and died in 1812; so she cannot have been the Countess Macnamara who was at Richmond in August, 1832. JOHN B. WALNEWRIGHT. ORIGINAL PORTRAITS OF JOHN HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST (12 S. viii. 169). Portraits of John Howard occur upon the following tokens of the eighteenth century. The reference numbers are those of Dalton Hamer's ' Token Coinage of the Eighteenth Century,' 1910-1917: Westminster. Dalton 182, No. 929. O. Bust to rierht, IOHN HOWARD, F.R.S. R- Cypher H. H. ornamented, WESTMINSTER "* HALFPENNY 1792. Edge. PAYABLE AT THE IRON WAREHOUSE NO. 3, EDGBASTON STRT. BIRM. It is not now known why H. Hickman the iron merchant of Birmingham called this issue a Westminster halfpenny. Dalton 279-144. O. Similar to last. B" Cypher H. H. not ornamented. BIRMINGHAM PROMISSORY HALFPENNY 1792. Edge. PAYABLE AT H. HICKMAN'S WAREHOUSE, BIRMINGHAM. Farthing Dalton 312-481. O. Bust to right, IOHN HOWARD, F.R.S. R. Similar to last but BIRMINGHAM PROMISSORY FARTHING 1792. Edge. H. HICKMAN'S WAREHOUSE BIRMINGHAM. Portsmouth Dalton 45-53. - Bus t to right, IOHN HOWARD, F.R.S. PHILAN- TROPIST. R- A castle with crescent and star above it. PORTSMOUTH AND CHICHESTER HALFPENNY 1794. Edge. PAYABLE AT SHARP'S PORTSMOUTH AND CALDECOTT'S CHICHESTER. There are slight varieties of the dies and that with Howard's bust is known with reverses Liberty standing and Britannia See Dalton 46, Nos. 56 and 57. Chichester Dalton 256-18 and 19. O. Similar to last. R. Similar but legend reads : CHICHESTER AND PORTSMOUTH. Edge Same as last. O. Similar to last. R. View of Chichester Cross. CHICHESTER HALF- PENNY 179E. Edge. PAYABLE IN LONDON. This is what is known as a mule, that is- to say concocted from using mixed dies. Bath, Dalton 230-35. O. Bust to right, IOHN HOWARD F.R.S. HALF- PENNY. R. Female seated pointing to a prison above- the legend : GO FORTH. Outer legend : REMEM- BER THE DEBTORS IN GAOL. This occurs with various edge readings. Dalton 115-207. O. Bust to right, IOHN HOWARD F.R.S. In small letters below the bust : w. MAINWARING FECIT. R. HAUD ULLI, &c., in seven lines. This is not an eighteenth -century penny,, but a medal struck soon after Howard' & death. It occurs in white metal and copper.. ARTHUR W. WATERS. Leamington Spa.- " PERFIDE ALBION " (12 S. viii. 171). Bossuet's references to. " La pernde Angle- terre," ^occurs in his ' Premier Sermon pour- la Circoncision.' The alteration from. " Angleterre " to " Albion " has been usually attributed to NaDoleon I. r who used it as the- Romans used Punica fides. But Madame- de Sevigne (letter 511) said : " Je crois, en ve"rite~ comme vous, que le ro et la reine d' Angleterre sont bien mieux a Saint Germain que dans leur pernde royaume." DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE. WILSON, THE " RANGER OF THE HIMA- LAYAS " (12 S. viii. 151, 194). The Pioneer Mail of Aug. 12, 1883, contains the follow- ing obituary notice of this interesting traveller and sportsman : " The circle of those who knew c Mountaineer *" in his prime has narrowed to so small a number that few, who casually read of the death at Mussoorie, a few days ago of Mr. Frederick Wilson, will have been conscious that a remark- able man has passed away. An ex-private soldier, some forty years ago he started from Calcutta with five rupees and a gun, on his long- march to the Himalayas, accomplishing it successfully. There, amid the scenes he loved with passion to the last, he lived for many years- by the sale of what he shot, and finally embarked in timber contracts in the forests with which he- was so familiar until he amassed a considerable fortune. A short, wiry, hard man with a cheerful, generous spirit and indomitable pluck : a genial and instructive companion ; though wholly self- educated, he added to the lore of the sportsman and the naturalist contributions full of bright