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pounder shot also, which had been dug up on the hill side, were presented to me, together with numbers of musket and pistol-balls, and some of the large plated buttons, an inch in diameter, worn by gentlemen in that day ; these latter relics I have distributed among various antiquarian friends. The carnage in and after the battle was tremendous; and in a visit which several years ago I made to that country, fields were pointed out to me extending for some miles along the course taken by the fugitives, which were stated to have been strewn with dead and dying.

FBANCIS ROBERT DAYIES. Moyglass Mawr.

Henry Dodwell. It may be as well, for the sake of historic accuracy, to point out some mis- statements made by Mr. Macaulay respecting Henry Dodwell and Charles Leslie. In his Hist. of England, vol. iii. p. 462., we read,

"Dod well's Discourse against Marriages in different Communions is known to me, I ought to say, only from Brokesby's account of it. That Discourse is very rare. It was originally printed as a preface to a sermon preached by Leslie. When Leslie collected his Works he omitted the Discourse, probably because he was ashamed of it."

What company has Mr. Macaulay been keeping of late, to lead him to pen such a sentence ? Has Gilbert Burnet, that gifted trimmer, bewildered him ? Francis Brokesby, as is well known, was too honest to impose on him, as any one may see on turning to chap, xxxii. of his valuable work. The fact is, instead of Dodwell's Discourse having been " originally printed as a preface to Leslie's Sermon," as stated by Mr. Macaulay, Leslie's Sermon forms a prefatory article to Dodwell's Discourse, the former making sixty-three pntres, whilst the latter extends to two hundred and fifty - four !

Again, so far from Leslie having omitted Dod- well's Discourse in his collected Works, " because he was ashamed of it," he has actually reprinted his original preface, containing the following com- mendatory notice of it :

"Before T adventured to commit this Sermon to the press, I sent it to the most learned and judicious Mr. Dod- well, who returned the following letter, with his leave to make it public, and to go along with this; which will make this valuable, as being the occasion of showing so learned a treatise to the world ; and so necessary at this time, to revive the true notion of the peculium, the holy seed, or city of God."

To the word letter, in the foregoing extract, is appended the following editorial note :

"This was a large Discourse, and printed with the Ser- mon in the 8vo. edition; but not thought proper to be inserted here among a collection of this author's Works." ("See the folio edition of Leslie's Works. 1721, vol. i. p 737.)

Charles Leslie's Works were collected and pub-

lished by himself in 1721, the year preceding his death. They occupy two volumes folio : and his worthy friend R. K., whom he thanks for the pains he has taken in procuring the publication of these works, was Roger Kenyon, a physician and nonjuror, who died at St. Germains. J. Y.

Death of Charles II. In the first edition of Macaulay's History, vol. i. p. 439. (note), we read as follows :

" I have seen in the British Museum, and also in the library of the Royal Institution, a curious broadside ; con- taining an account of the death of Charles .... No name is given at length; but the initials are perfectly intelligible, except in one place. It is said that the D. of Y. was reminded of the duty which he owed to his brother by P. M. A. C. F. I must own myself quite unable to decipher the last five letters."

The meaning of those letters is what I now propose to attempt to unfold. The "curious broadside" is printed in the very rare volume, whose title is given below in full*; and there the passage, in which the refractory letters occur, runs as follows :

" P. M. a C. F. came to the D. upon the Doctor's telling him of the State of the K., and told him, ' that now was the time for him to take care of his brother's soul, and that it was his duty to tell him so.' "

From the way iii which those letters are printed, it is evident that the two first (P. M.) stand for the name of the party indicated ; that the third letter (a), is the indefinite article; and the two last (C. F.) signify something respecting the be- fore-mentioned party. Now, from Macaulay's own narrative we learn, that James received the first intelligence of the dangerous state of his brother through the medium, in the first place, of the notorious Louisa de Querouaille, whom Charles had created Duchess of Portsmouth. I would therefore suggest, that the letters stand for "Portsmouth a Catholic .French lady." The only objection that I can see to this is, that the party alluded to in the passage quoted, is spoken of as a man ; but this I must leave to your readers!, to get over as they best can. E. W.

The Two Leslies. In Mr. Macaulay's History (vol. iii. pp. 266-7.), the following passage occurs :

" Such an agent was George Melville Lord Melville, a nobleman connected by affinity with the unfortunate

Pieces, from the remotest Antiquity dotcn to the present Times. Being a Collection of Manuscripts and printed Tracts, nowhere to be found but in the Clouts of the Curious. By a Gentleman who has made it his Business to search after such Pieces for Twenty Years past. . London : M.nccvn. It is strange that Macaulay has not noticed this volume ; for it contains, among other things, several valuable and interesting documents relating to William, Prince of Orange,
 * The Phami.v; or a Revival of Scarce and Valuable