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of women using their husbands' crests on note-paper and silver is quite unjustified, as no woman wears a helmet. MERVARID.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY (9 th S. x. 242). There were but few present, I am told, con- sidering his former fame, at the funeral of Philip James Bailey, but one of them sends me a copy of the memorial leaflet distributed to those who were, which I now forward to the Editor. The hymn sung at the church (St. Andrew's) was one of the poet's own, from ' Festus ':

Call all who love Thee, Lord ! to Thee,

Thou knowest how they long To leave these broken lays, and aid

In Heaven's unceasing song.

For the graveside that noblest of all our English hymns, ' O God, our Help in Ages Past,' was chosen. C. C. B.

[We thank C. C. B. for the memorial leaflet, which we also received from the family.]

EDWARD MOORE : JAMES MOORE (9 th S. x. 226). That Edward Moore, the author of ' Fables for the Female Sex,' wrote the comedy of ' Gil Bias ' cannot reasonably be doubted. We have the very trustworthy testimony of his contemporary Richard Cumberland, who in- forms us that ' Gil Bias ' was produced in 1751 and ' The Gamester ' in 1753. He also tells us what may now be forgotten, that it was said Moore's wife assisted him in writing the tragedy of 'The Gamester.' He married a lady of the name of Hamilton, " who had herself a poetical turn. One specimen of her poetry was handed about before their marriage, and has since appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1749, p. 192. It was addressed to a daughter of the famous Stephen Duck, and begins with the following stanza :

Would you think it, my Duck, for the fault I must

own,

Your Jenny at last is quite covetous grown ; Tho' millions if fortune should lavishly pour, I still should be wretched if I had not More.

His works were printed in one vol. 4to, 1756."

B. D. MOSELEY.

MINAS AND EMPECINADOS (9 th S. ix. 188, 349 ; x. 257). While regretting to hear that MR. F. ADAMS has had to undergo a very serious surgical operation, yet at the same time I entertain the hope that he will forgive me for remarking that if he had referred to other authorities, in addition to the one he has named, for the year in which Mina was born, there would have been, I opine, no occasion for him to assert that there are " two errors " in my statements anent Mina in ' N. & Q.' (9 th S. ix. 349). My information about the formidable guerilla chieftain was derived

from the 'Nouvelle Biographie G^nerale' (Paris, Firmin Didot Freres), wnich states that Francisco Espoz y Mina was " ne en 1784, dans un village de la haute Navarre, mort en 1835"; and from Mr. Thompson Cooper's 'New Biographical Dictionary ' (London, Bell & Sons, 1873), which supplies the following data: " Francisco Espoz y Mina, a Spanish general, born in Navarre in 1784. He became a guerilla chief at the time of the French invasion in 1809. He signed a capitulation (1823) and retired to England. In 1834 he again returned to Spain to oppose Don Carlos."

In connexion with the subject in question it may not be out of place to mention that there are really many interesting anecdotes of Mina and his desperate followers men of the most dissimilar professions : among the leaders were friars and physicians, cooks and artisans related in William Hamilton Max- well's (1795-1850) ' The Bivouac,'

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W

MONUMENT TO GENERAL CURETON (9 th S. x. 227). It may interest your correspondent DE ST. to know that there is a portrait of this gallant officer, and another or his death at Ramnagar in .a skirmish which preceded the battle of Chilian wallah, in the Illustrated London News, and both on the same page. The exact date I cannot remember, but think that it was in 1849. An officer who was at that great battle told me that Brigadier Cureton had got his cavalry in a defile, and when striving to withdraw them he was shot through the heart. According to Murray's ' Handbook of Shropshire and Cheshire,' the monument in Caen stone to General Cureton in St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, was sculp- tured by Westmacott. He was a gallant soldier, and had seen a great amount of ser- vice from his earliest youth. In my boyhood I once saw a large portrait in crayons of him as a young officer. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

I have examined this monument this after- noon, and will, if possible, get a photograph taken when the light is good enough. I can- not find the sculptor's name on it, but in Kelly's ' Directory ' it is said to be the work of Westmacott. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

DICTIONARY OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY (9 th S. x. 48, 176). Possibly the following may be of use : ' The Pantheon, representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and Most Illustrious Heroes,' by Andrew Tooke, AM., London, 1774 (the thirty-sixth edition was published in 1831) ; ' Archseo-