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 434 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MAY 28, 1021. THE MONUMENT : INGOLDSBY LEGENDS ' {12 S. viii. 392). There is an account of the Monument in that indispensable book, Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates,' and the following extract answers this query : William Green, a weaver, fell from this Monu- ment, June 25, 1750. A man named Thomas Craddpck, a baker, precipitated himself from its summit, July 7, 1780. Mr. Lyon Levi, a Jewish diamond merchant of considerable respectability, threw himself from it Jan. 18, 1810; as did subsequently three other persons ; in conse- quence of which a fence was placed round the railing of the gallery in 1839. v HARRY B. POLAND. Inner Temple. Mr. Lyon Levi was not the first nor the last individual to commit suicide by jumping frcm the Monument. There are in all six recorded cases, viz. : Wm. Green, weaver, June 25, 1750, in whose case the coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death ; Thomas Cradock, a baker, July 7, 1788; Lon Levi, January 18, 1810; Mprgaret Moyes, Sept. 11, 1839 ; a boy named Hawes, Oct. 18, 1839 ; and a girl of 17 in Aug., 1842. It was after this list incident that the Monument was encaged, as it nov is, to obviate a recurrence of these fatalities. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. In the annotated edition of ' Ingoldsby Legends' .(1870) is the folkw irg footnote to ' Misadventures at Margate ' : Leone Levi, diamond merchant, committed suicide by throwing himself from the Monument, Jan. 18, 1810. There were six cases altogether, of which his was the second. The above appears not quite accurate. Wheatley's ' London Past and Present ' (vol. ii., p. 559) contains the subjoined list : William Green, a weaver, June 25, 1750 ; Thomas Cradock, a baker, July 7, 1788 ; Lyon Levi, a Jew, Jan. 18, 1810; Margaret Moyes, the daughter of a .baker in St. Martin's Lane, Sept. 11, 1839; a boy named Hawes, Oct. 18, 1839 ; and a girl of the age of seventeen, in Aug., 1842. This kind of death becoming popular, it was deemed advisable to encage and disfigure the Monument as we now see it. W. J. M. Many suicides occurred before 1810. In 1842 the gallery was enclosed with an iron cage ; vide Welch, ' History of the Monument,' p. 54. Broadsides, plain or coloured, illustrating " the authentic par- ticulars of the most determined and frightful suicides " were published. Lyon Levy, or Levi, was a diamond merchant of Haydon Square. He leapt from the east side and was picked up " quite dead " near the entrance. ALECK ABBAHAMS. According to Mr. Charles Welch's ' Guide ' to the Monument six persons have committed suicide by throwing themselves from the gallery, the last being Jane Cooper, a servant girl living in Hoxton. This was on Aug. 19, 1842, and after it the building was tem- porarily closed and the present cage erected. F. W. THOMAS. NAPOLEON AS A CHILD (12 S. viii. 391). Louis Leopold Boilly, the portrait painter, was born 1761, and died 1830. He was only seven years older than Napoleon, and it WPS consequently impossible for him to have painted an " original contemporary " por- trait of " Napoleon as a Child." Boilly, however, painted several later portraits of the great Emperor and also of other members of the Bonaparte family, including three of Napoleon's son, the " King of Rome," exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1812-13. Captain Wilberforce-Bell's picture is pro- bably a portrait of Napoleon II. No por- traits of Napoleon or any of his relatives were exhibited at the Salon, after the Restoration of the Bourbons, between 1815 and 1830. There were several in 1831, a year after the election of the Orleanist Louis Philippe as " Roi des Francais," and Napoleonic pictures have been prominent features ever since that period. ANDREW DE TERNANT. -1,36, Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. GHOST STORIES CONNECTED WITH OLD LONDON BRIDGE (12 S. viii. 330, 397). The novelist probably referred to that exceedingly popular work ' Old London Bridge : a Romance of the Sixteenth Cen- tury,' by G. Herbert Rodwell. This preserves most of the legends and traditions and has many interesting illustrations by Alfred Ashley, but I question the identification of " Ghost Stories." Apparently there were no parts of the bridge so endowed to terrify the imaginative. The author of this romance was not strictly accurate. One of his characters, Billy the Bridge Shooter, substitutes v's for w's in his conversation after the manner of Mr. " Samivel Veller," and many of his identifications are at fault. Apparently it was his one great success, and as late as October, 1856, was produced at the Queen's Theatre as a Grand Historical Drama. The scenery was of exceptional variety and magnificence. ALECK ABRAHAMS.