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vert's ' Journals and Letters, Campaign of 1793-4,' and L. T. Jones's ' Historical Journal of the Campaign 1794-5.' The histories of the regiments of Guards and the published historical records of other regiments that took part in the campaign give interesting details from their point of view. One natur- ally turns to the history of the Guards to read about Lincelles, to that of the 14th Foot for Famars, and to that of the 15th Hussars for the brilliant affair of Villers-en-Cauchie, which took place two days before the battle in question near Troisvilles, which the late MR. PIGOTT found mentioned in the records of the 3rd Dragoon Guards. KILLIGREW.

A good deal of information about this campaign may be found in the ' British Military Library,' 1799-1800, in the Royal United Service Institution Library. One may also consult Sir Ed. Cust's 'Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century ' and Alison's ' History of Europe.' The action of Villers-en- Cauchie, 24 April, 1794, in which the 15th (English) Light Dragoons (now Hussars) dis- tinguished themselves, was even more brilliant than that of Cateau.

H. W. L. HIME, Lieut.-Col. 24, Haymarket, S.W.

An account of this campaign will be found in 'British Battles' (vol. ii.). The action alluded to was that at Caudry, when the Blues and Dragoons covered themselves with glory. Brilliant cavalry fighting was a feature of the campaign. Two days before the action at Caudry some great work was done by two squadrons of the 15th Light Dragoons, with two more of Austrian cavalry, at Villers-en- Cauchie (24 April, 1794). They came on the French in position, and, after swearing on their swords to charge home, attacked and dispersed 3,000 men and captured three guns. This brilliant affair forms No. 1 of Sir Evelyn Wood's 'Achievements of Cavalry.'

GEORGE MARSHALL.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

AUTOGRAPHS (9 th S. i. 268, 336 ; ii. 35, 175). Much must depend upon the value of the document. It would appear to the exigent collector to be sacrilegious to affix strips of paper, however thin, to the edge of a letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, Pepys, or Nelson, thus modernizing and almost vulgarizing an original. Many collections, however, deal with writers as to whose productions it is quite unnecessary to be so discreet. I find it convenient to put each document loose into a chemise of paper of the uniform dimension of 18 in. by 11^ in., which is sufficiently large to contain any ordinary document, i write,

or cause to be written, on the first page, if that suffices, if not on one or more of the remaining pages, the whole text of the letter or document. This saves the reader much trouble, especially if the writing of the original be "difficult to decipher. I nead this transcript with a full description of the letter or document, and a note of its date, and place inside the chemise such loose papers as may be needful for its elucidation. I arrange the whole under sub- jects, keeping everything in chronological order, pack them in ordinary flap portfolios, lettered at the back, and can thus refer to any of the somewhat numerous papers in five minutes or less. No damage can occur to the documents, as is likely to be the case when any portion is secured by " stickphast " !

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

PRINCESS BAGRATION (9 th S. ii. 167). The famous Russian general Prince Bagration married Catherine, the daughter of Count Skawronski. On her father's side she was the great-niece of Catherine I. The princess played a conspicuous part among the ladies who busied themselves in diplomatic intrigue at the Congress of Vienna.

T. P. ARMSTRONG. Putney.

SEDAN CHAIRS (9 th S. ii. 165). Sedan chairs were in common use in Chichester as late as the fifties, and I have seen ladies come to balls in them, the gentlemen walking. D.

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CHRISTIAN NAMES (9 th S. i. 461 ; ii. 74). The Connecticut family of Strong show for a boy (about 1720) Return, and for girls (about 1693) Supply and (in 1704) Freedom. Another boy, date unknown, was christened Preserved. Some of the Strongs sprung from this family became United Empire Loyalists, and were the ancestors of Col. Strong, of Bournemouth, and his sister, Lady Dilke; others "went South." C. N. T.

THACKERAY'S BALLAD OF 'LITTLE BILLEE' (9 th S. ii. 145). About thirty years ago I saw this ballad confidently ascribed to O. W. Holmes I think in a collection of that author's poems. Was the assertion a mere guess ; or had there been any previous con- troversy upon the subject of the authorship 1 EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

DR. GEORGE LLOYD, BISHOP OF CHESTER (9 th S. ii. 29). SIGMA TAU will find some par- ticulars respecting Bishop Lloyd's ancestry in 'The Cheshire Sheaf,' First Series, ii 312. These particulars are mainly extracted from