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elude " an impartial relation of all transactions " from July, 1714, to Dec. 31, 1715, and then under the Historical Register "a complete narrative" of occurrences which had happened " during the whole reign of his present Majesty King George."

O. I. N.

Morning Dreams (2 nd S. i. 392. 463.) The quotation about which SARTOR inquires is not, I think, to be found in any of the illustrious drama- tists he names ; but if he will consult a play as celebrated in its way as their productions, called Bombastes Furioso, he will find some lines to the following effect (I quote from memory), which doubtless is the passage he is in search of:

Distaffina loq. " This morn as sleeping on my bed I lay, I dreamt, (and morning dreams come true, they say !) I dreamt a cunning man my fortune told, And all my pots and pans were turned to gold."

THE CHAPLAIN OF THE COCKED HATS.

The notion with regard to the truth of morning dreams is as old as Ovid :

" Namque sub Aurora, jam dormitante lucerna, (Somnia quo cerni tempore vera solent), " &c. &c. Epist. xix. Hero Leandro, vv. 195, 6.

To the above lines in the Delphin edition is appended the following note :

" Quia videlicet stomachus non sit vino ciboque dis- tentus."

N. L. T.

Duchesse VAbrantes (I st S. x. 29.) Having read in your No. of July 8, 1854, the remark taken from the Athenceum of January 7, No. 1367, that the Duchess of Abrantes died in a common hospital at Paris, I am able to state, on very good authority, that being severely afflicted with a com- plaint requiring continual attendance, this lady retired as a boarder (" en pension ") to a " maison de sante " at Chaillot, where eventually she died.

The duchess, although no longer possessing the enormous fortune she had formerly enjoyed, was by no means in indigent circumstances, but had at the time of her death an income of considerable amount. J. B.

Gibraltar.

Judge Jeffreys (2 nd S. i. 128.) My authority for stating that the reports published under Ver- non's name were Jeffreys' work is from Yorke's Royal Tribes of Britain, a work containing many curious genealogical and historical anecdotes re- lating to the chief families in the Principality; and from their being collected by the author from either the persons to whom the events occurred, or from their near relatives, there appears to be no reason to doubt their authenticity. As he was acquainted with the family of Jeffreys, whose grief for the ferocity of their relative he mentions, it is not likely that he would have made his assertion so positively about the Reports without some good

authority, though there may be some inaccuracy in attributing all of them to Jeffreys : not having any acquaintance with legal literature myself I gave the anecdote as I found it.

FKANCIS ROBERT DAVIES. Moyglas Mawr.

Original Letter of Nalson the Historian (2 nd S. i. 387.) On seeing in type the letter which I forwarded to you some time since, it struck me as strange that the writer should date it "Aug. 7, 1682," and the recipient indorse it " rec. 16 Aug*, 1681." On comparing the original, however, I find that my transcript is correct, and that the Duke of Ormond, -when docketing the letter, must have written 1 for 2 by mistake.

There is a slight typographical error in your pages ; for " charges," in the last paragraph, read "charged." JAMES GRAVES.

Kilkenny.

Flemings ''Rise and Fall of the Papacy" (2 nd S. i. 392.) I have an edition of this pamphlet, whose subject once attracted much attention in Scotland, entitled :

" A Discourse on the Rise and Fall of Papacy, wherein the Revolution in France, and the abject State of the French King, is distinctly pointed out, delivered at Lon- don, in the Year MDCCI, by Robert Fleming, V.D.M. Edinburgh, printed for John Ogle, Bookseller, Parliament Close, MDCCXCII, price 6d., 8vo., pp. 70."

The copy had belonged to the Rev. Dr. John Gillies, who was minister of the Blackfriars' (or College) Church of Glasgow, and the friend and biographer of George Whitefield. There are two pages of an Introduction prefixed ; one of the paragraphs of which Dr. Gillies had thought it worth emphatically to mark with his pen, and which may now be of service in transcribing, as showing the feelings and opinions of the men of 1792 in respect to the author's publication :

" The Spirit of Prophecy has long since failed ; but the events of the present day have a strong tendency to sup- port an opinion held by many men not more conspicuous for their piety than their learning and abilities, that the prophetic breathings of these holy men, who in the early ages of the world spoke of events that were to come as if they were already past, do in many particulars allude to the present age. That eminent divine, Mr. Robert Fleming (son of the Rev. Mr. Fleming, author of the Fulfilling of the Scriptures), who, at the beginning of this century, published in London his Discourse on the Rise and Fall of Pap icy, ranks himself with those who sub- scribe to this opinion. In that short, but valuable trea- tise, he assigns the reasons on which he grounds his conjectures ; and by exact calculations, and an accurate interpretation of the original text, he adduces proof tan- tamount to mathematical precision, to establish his asser- tion that the King of France, about the year 1794, shall be reduced to a state inferior to all the Kings of the earth. The present condition of that monarch seems to verify what our author has asserted ; and when we attend to the period at which he wrote this treatise, in 1701, and observe his prediction so literally fulfilled at the distance