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 202 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9'"s.iv.sEpt.9,'9 dorsed by Lord Grenville " To be destroyed after my death," Lady Grenville preserved it thirty years later, no doubt in obedience to his instructions. 16. The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Gren- ville's nephew, said in the hearing of different persons at different times that he knew who Junius was, as did also Lord Nugent. Lord Grenville recognized the packet and promised to provide for its publicity after his death. Thomas Grenville, his brother, said he knew the secret of Junius, but it must be kept for family reasons. From words dropped by the Duke of Buckingham, his relatives Lady Delamere, Miss Wynne, and Mrs. Rowley inferred that Earl Temple was Junius. 17. On leaving England, 1828, the Duke of Buckingham wrote to a friend: " What will you give if I tell you who was the author of Junius? I know it, but the secret must be kept some time longer." Mr. Grenville, brother of Earl Temple, received a letter from Junius cautioning him to refrain from attempting to discover Junius; it might do him harm, but no good, and in proper time he would declare himself to him. 18. The Duke of Buckingham found a letter removing all doubt as to Junius, and wrote to Lord Grenville offering to exchange secrets. Lord Grenville made no reply. 19. Lord Temple wrote :— " They [wise men] have above all a special care into whose hands their secret papers shall come after they are dead, a precaution that every man owes, not only to himself, but to his family and friends, perhaps to his country " ! 20. Observe the similarity between the handwriting of Lady Temple and of Junius —many words are precisely alike. The capital C subscribed to the originals of Junius closely resembles that written by her ladyship, ne'e Chambers. 21. The handwriting of the poem by Lady Temple found among Almon's papers, and the sentiments it contains, leave little doubt that her ladyship had a hand in writing ' Junius.' 22. Almon, who visited Stowe, published a tract attributed to Junius, ana said the author of it " was a noble peer," assisted by Lord Camden (see 1, 2, 3 above). 23. Two letters to Woodfall were " written on War Office paper, obliterated coronet wax seal (Barrington's) stamped over with a watch key." "Barrington's" seems gratuitous, a surmise, as Lord B. was War Secretary; but Francis, a War Office clerk, would not have written his secrets on official paper. Lord Temple might, from habit, have used his own seal; but the hand that destroyed one clue would not have permitted the other to escape. Lady Temple might have called at the War Office and written such a letter, for example. OZdipus. [See 7th S. xi. 104, 133, &c. ; 9th S. ii. 155, 169, 329; iii. 250.] MODERN ZODIACS. (Continued from p. 125.) 40. A lamp of classical form, black basalt, Wedgwood, has a red cameo of Jupiter sur- rounded by the signs, height If in., length 5j in., eighteenth century. In Ceramic Gal- lery, V.A.M., No. 3534, 1853. 41. Wedgwood tea set in jasper ware, blue ground with white cameo ornaments; basin for sugar with Aries on it, height 5j in., dia- meter 4 in., No. 1273, 1855 ; cup with Scorpio, height 2|in., diameter 2 in., No. 1277, 1855 ; cream jug with Sagittarius, No. 1276, 1855. All in Ceramic Gallery, V.A.M. 42. Engraved on a brass perpetual calendar, eighteenth century. In V.A.M., No. 120. 43. An engraving of the circular plani- sphere at Dendera is in ' Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte,' by Baron D. V. Denon, Paris, 1802. 44. An engraving of the circular Dendera planisphere, in a little dark apartment built over the nave of the temple, is in Denon, 'Travels in Egypt,' by Aikin, 1803, pi. lviii., p. 314 : Pinkerton, i. 420. 45. An engraving of the rectangular zodiac, still in situ, in the portico of the Dendera temple, in which the astronomical figures give a.d. 29 for its formation, is in Denon, 'Voyage dans l'Egypte,' 1802, pi. xiv. 46. Around the portrait of Nicholas Cul- pepper, engraved in Grainger, 'Wonderful Museum,' 1808, vol. vi. p. 3231. 47. The circular Dendera planisphere is engraved in Panckoucke, ' Description de l'Egypte,' Paris, 1809-28, vol. iii. pi. 4. 48. An engraving of the "Astrological Heavens of the Ancients" is in the 'Ruins of Empires,' by Count Volney, 1811, p. 1. In one hemisphere are the "Propitious (or favourable) Signs, Heaven of Summer or of Ormuzd, Reign of Good "; where Virgo, with wings, is called Eve, Sibyl, Isis • Bootes is Adam, Osiris; Serpens is Eve s serpent; Ahrimanes, Satan; Asinus is Typhon. In the other hemisphere are the " Reversed (or adverse) Signs. Heaven of Winter or Ahri- manes, Reign of Evil," where Hydra is Nile, Corvus is Noah's raven, Argo is ark. 49. In Drummond, 'Memoir on the Anti- quity of the Zodiacs of Esneh and Dendera,' 1821, p. 54, is engraved the Esneh zodiac, of the reign of Adnan, according to Bankes.