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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xii. AUG. 29, 1903.

VETO AT PAPAL ELECTIONS (9 th S. xii. 89). Cardinal della Genga was not vetoed by France in the Conclave of 1823. Louis XVIIL, through his ambassador, the Due de Laval, strenuously opposed the election of any cardinal of the party of the " zelanti," to which Delia Genga belonged, but he did not carry his opposition to the length of a formal veto. It was in this Conclave, and not in that of 1829, that Cardinal Severoli was vetoed by Austria. This Power seems to have made a freer use of its privilege than the others. Through Cardinal Hertzan it excluded the illustrious Cardinal Gerdil from the Papal throne in the Conclave which ultimately elected Pius VII. ; and in 1846 the Cardinal of Milan was authorized by it to veto Cardinal Mastai Ferretti, but, being delayed on the road by indisposition, arrived in Rome only to find him proclaimed Pope under the title of Pius IX. after what was then an unpre- cedentedly short Conclave. W. T. H.

DOG WHICH FOLLOWED THE DlJC D'ENGHIEN

(9 th S. xii. 28, 92). I also have an illustration of the 'Execution of the Duke of Enghien at Vincennes, 21 March, 1804.' It is in 'The Student's France,' edited by William Smith, LL.D. (John Murray, 1864), p. 583. The prince is represented in an open jacket, pantaloons, and long boots ; his right hand rests in the front of his shirt ; bareheaded, he is standing in a dignified attitude beside the grave that was prepared for him the day before the midnight murder. An officer is reading from a paper the sentence of the mock court-martial. A soldier holding a torch is on the right, an officer holding a lantern is on the left, and a party of Savary's gendarmes stands at attention in front of the unhappy and last scion of the warlike house of Condi'. I need hardly point out the fact that this description of the appearance of the Due d'Enghien immediately before his execu- tion does not in the least correspond with that of the picture in MK. G. T. SHERUORN'S possession ; nor need I add that the dog mentioned by your correspondent is con spicuous by his absence from the awful scene. However, with regard to the last moments on earth of the grandson of the Prince of Conde, I take permission to call attention to the following, culled from the ' History of Napo- leon the First,' by P. Lanfrey (MacmilJan & Co., 1872), vol. ii. p. 339 :

" After remaining half an hour with closed doors for the semblance of a deliberation, and the draw' ing up of a decree signed in blank; the prisoner was fetched. Harel appeared with a torch in his hand ; he conducted them through a dark passace to a staircase which led down to the ditch of

the chateau. Here the prince's sentence wasi read to him by the side of the grave that wasi dug beforehand. The condemned man then, addressing the bystanders, asked if there was any one among them who would take the last message of a dying man. An officer stepped out of the ranks ; the duke confided to him a packet of hair to give to a beloved one. A few minutes after he fell under the fire of the soldiers."

I think it is only right to mention that a different ending to the life of the duke is recorded in what may now be considered the standard l Life of Napoleon I.,' by John Holland Rose, M.A. (George Bell & Sons, 1902), p. 461, vol. i., viz. :

"The duke was forthwith led into the moat of the castle, where a few torches shed their light on the final scene of this sombre tragedy ; he asked for a priest, but this was denied him : he then bowed his head in prayer, lifted those noble features towards the soldiers, and begged them not to miss their aim, and fell shot through the heart. Hard by was a grave, which, in accordance with orders received on the previous day, the governor had caused to be made ready ; into this the body was thrown pell-mell."

"It was worse than a crime it was a blunder." HENRY GERALD HOPE.

EDWARD GWYNN (9 th S. xi. 467). There are two books in the library of this college having Edward Gwynn's name stamped on the binding :

(1) Hugonis Grotii de Jure Belli ac Pacis. 4to, Parisiis, 1625. Plain dark calf, with " Edward * Gwynn ' on front cover, and " E. G." on back cover.

(2) Compendium Medicine Gilbert! Anglici. Small 4to, Gothic letter. Lugduni, 1510. Panelled calf; name "Edward* Gwynn" on front cover.

There is on both covers a (French 1) coat of arms, with the motto "Bart. Sylva subit aspera." The two books are so different in date and subject that it is difficult to form any general idea of Edward Gwynn's library.

J. F. PAYNE. Royal College of Physicians.

CARDINALS (9 th S. xi. 490; xii. 19). In 1607 Richelieu, by means of a false decla- ration as to his age, got consecrated Bishop of Luc. on (Vendee) at the age of twenty-one (his elder brother having resigned the see to become a Carthusian monk), in order to keep the revenues in the family. After several requests, some sent direct to Rome, he ob- tained the cardinal's hat, through the inter- mediary of his queen, in 1622. He signed the deed of renunciation of the See of Lucon on

> May, 1623, so as to give himself up en- tirely to politics, and was succeeded in the bishopric by De Bragelonne, of Tours. As Kicheheu was bishop when made cardinal, cardinal-bishop would be more correct than cardinal-priest, JOHN A. RANDOLPH.