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richness ? I am particularly wishful for information about H.M.S. Thunderbolt, which in 1845 called at the island to put down disturbances among the labourers working there. R. L. B.

Paris.

REV. TIMOTHY THOMAS, M.A. He was of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and was said to be of Suffolk family. He was vicar of Preston next Wingham, 1691-1706 ; master of the Manwood Grammar School, Sandwich; and also vicar of St. Mary's in the same town, 1689-1706. He married Ann Knowler, of Canterbury, and their daughter Hester became the wife of Minor Canon William Gosling, author of 'A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury.' I should be glad of further information. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

CHARLES DORIS. Perhaps some of your readers may be good enougn to enlighten me with regard to the personality of the author of " Secret Memoirs of Napoleon, by One who never quitted him for Fifteen Years." The work was originally published by Colburn in 1815, and reprinted by Gowans & Son in 1896 ; but the author's name does not occur in any dictionary of biography with which I am acquainted, and as both the publishers are extinct, the ordinary sources of informa- tion seem to be exhausted. From his own account, Doris seems to have been em- ployed about the person of Napoleon, but in what capacity does not appear ; nor so far as I am able to discover is ne mentioned by De Bourrienne, Las Cases, De Meneval. or others who might naturally be expected to refer occasionally to a person in constant attendance upon their master during the most important part of his life. W. H. C.

[The 'Memoirs,' which are entirely apocryphal? were first published in French in 1812. They are attributed to Charles Doris, de Bourges. Later editions were announced as by M. le Baron de B***. Nothing further is known about the writer.]

Miss COLLIER. Who was Jane Collier, who accompanied Fielding to Lisbon ; and what book was written by her which led to her estrangement from her family ?

FRED. A. RENSHAWE.

[Her name was Margaret, not Jane. See concern- ing her Mr. Leslie Stephen's article in ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' and Richardson's 'Correspondence,' ii. 77.]

MAJOR JOHN ANDRE : COL. WILLIAMS. I send you a copy of a prospectus of my book on Major Andre, and would ask you to say that I seek to know if any of the Andre family remain in England. I should also be glad to

know about Col. Williams, of the 80th Regi- ment, at whose quarters Andre is said to have dined the night before leaving New York on his errand. I cannot find in the records pub- lished here any Williams who was either colonel or in the 80th. Possibly you can throw some light on the matter.

W. ABBATT. 31, Nassau Street, New York.

[It is to be hoped you have seen the allusions to Major Andre in ' N. & Q.' See indexes to 1 st. 2 ml , 4 th, 5 th , 6 th , and 8 th Series. The references are too numerous to be here supplied.]

CRYPTOGRAPHY. There appeared, I think in the late fifties, a long article in one of the quarterly or monthly reviews on crypto- graphy. I fancied it was in the Quarterly or Edinburgh, but I cannot find it in either, and should be obliged for the reference. S.

BESIEGED CITY SAVED BY A PIG. Can any of your numerous readers oblige me by saying what was the besieged city which was saved by a pig 1 G. C.

LISTENING WHEAT. What is this 1 ? Mr. Leo H. Grindon ('Fruits and Fruit Trees,' 1885, p. 250) refers to blackberries transmuted perchance into lotus or " listening wheat."

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

M.P.P. On a prospectus just received is the name " J. H. Turner, M.P.P., ex-Premier, British Columbia." What do these letters mean ? Q. V.

'HISTOIRE DE SABLE.' In the Spalding Gentlemen's Society's Minute Book for 1726 is the following :

" The Foundation of Spalding Priory from 'His- toire de Sable,' a very rare book in the library of Sir Hans Sloane, as communicated from Dr. Stukeley."

Can any one tell me where this book is to be found ? ASHLEY K. MAPLES.

Spalding.

STATUE OF THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. Could any of the many readers of ' N. & Q.' tell me what has become of the statue of the Duke of Cumberland formerly standing in Cavendish Square ? It was erected in 1761 by a general officer of the German army who had been promoted by the Duke from the ranks. It was removed in 1868, but by whom and where ? CHARLES G. HARPER.

DAWSON OF CASTLE DAWSON. I see in Burke's ' Commoners,' vol. iii. p. 581, that Henry Richard Dawson, Dean of St. Patrick's,