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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd s. NO 13., MAR. 29. '50.

number of the Quarterly Review, where the author of an Essay on Menander is styled " Monsieur William Guizot" the Christian name being given for the purpose of distinguishing him" from his celebrated father. J. C. R.

Passage in Coleridge. In " A Short Defence of the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, by a Lay- man, Loncfan, 1839," the author, tracing the in- fluence of Spinoza and Paulus, says :

" Coleridge (Diss. 29.) gives several rationalistic in- terpretations, and particularly claims as his own the dis- covery that Elijah was not fed by ravens, but by some people with a raven-like name."

Can any of your readers tell me what work of Coleridge is referred to by " (Diss. 29.) " ?

A. N.

Aylesbury.

Military Portrait. Who is the military person, apparently of some distinction, whose portrait is in my possession ? It is of full length, in military costume, with left hand resting on a cane ; a brown hat with feather in right hand, which rests on his side. It is probably the one mentioned in Horace Walpole's Letters as seen by him at Le- theringham Abbey, Suffolk, then (I believe) be- longing to the Nauntons. In the background are some troops or trained bands marching rapidly, and bearing a banner with a St. Andrew's cross in the corner, and the lower part is striped. A person in command is at the head of the troops. On a stone in the corner is the date 1637 ; of the last two figures I am not quite certain. G. O. L.

Roger Ascham. Being about to republish Roger Ascham's admirable book, The School- master, I shall be obliged if any of your corre- spondents can give me the proverb referred to in the following passage :

" Acts of Parliament, many good Proclamations, divers straight Commandments, sore Punishments openly, pecial Regard privately, could not do so much to take away one Misorder, as the Example of one big One of this Court did still to keep up the same : the memory whereof doth j'et remain in a common Proverb of Birching Lane." *

B.

Black Hole at Calcutta. Can any of your readers inform me whether there is a list to be met with anywhere of the persons who were con- fined in the Black Hole at Calcutta, or even of the twenty-three sufferers who survived the horrors of their imprisonment ? Mr. Holwell, (Gent.'s Mag. vol. xxviii. p. 68.) in his account of that

[* Xares and others are of opinion that this is a pro- verbial phrase for ordering one to be whipped ; but ac- cording to Ftow, who quotes this "passage of Ascham under Birchen Lane {Survey, edit. 1720, book ii. p. 149.), it seems to have reference to some person notorious for resisting the laws relating to the sale of apparel ]

dreadful occurrence, mentions only three or four of the names of his fellow sufferers. F.

Lady Elizabeth Hatton. In what year did Lady P^lizabeth Hatton die ? Is the place of her sepulture known ? Does any portrait, painted or engraved, of her ladyship exist ? LYRPOLE.

Minat

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" Catechitm for the Swinish Multitude." Mr. William Maltby, the author of the Porsoniuna, appended to the Recollections of the Table- Talk of Samuel Rogers, recently published by Moxon, after having mentioned the Letters on the Orgies of Bacchus (reprinted in the Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797) as being the production of Person, proceeds as follows :

" The New Catechism for the use of the Swinish Multi- tude (which Carlile, of Fleet Street, reprinted) was also certainly by Person. I transcribed it from a copy in his own handwriting." (P. 337.)

To which the editor adds in a note :

" A gentleman informed me that Person presented to him a copy of the Catechism, a printed copy."

It seems from the title of this Catechism, and from its reprint by Carlile, that it was of a .Jaco- binical tendency. Can any of your corre- spondents give an account of it, or state whether it is preserved in any publication which admits of reference ? L.

[A notice of this satirical piece will be found in Facetiae Cantabriffienses, edit. 1825, p. 83., entitled " Porson's Po- litics." The writer remarks, " They never interrupted an harmonious intercourse with him, who pays this tribute to his memory, and to whom, in a moment of confidence, he gave, in his own hand-writing, a pamphlet, written in answer to Mr. Burke's Reflections on the French Revolu- tion. It is termed A New Catechism for the Natives of Hampshire. The humour of the tract consists in playing upon the expression ' swinish multitude? said to have been applied to the common people by Mr. Burke. The following is the beginning and ending of the tract :

" Question. What is your name ?

Answer. Hog or swine.

Q. Did God make you a hog ?

A. No ; God made me man in his own image : the right honourable Sublime and Beautiful made me a swine.

Q. How did he make you a swine?

A. By muttering obscure and uncouth spells. He is a dealer in the black art.

Q. Who feeds you ?

A. Our drivers, the only real men in this country.

Q. How many hogs are j'ou in all ?

A. Seven or eight millions.

Q. How many drivers ?

A. Two or three thousand."

This curious dialogue thus concludes :

" Q. What is the general wish of the hogs at present? A. To save their bacon.

[ Cliorus of Hogs. Amen."

Tv.-o editions of this tract are in the British Museum :