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 536 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th S. IV. DEC. 30,'99. Unless you can feel, when left by One, That all men beside go with him, . . . . . . . Oh, fear to call it loving ! As ' Parting at Morning' consists of only four lines, I subjoin it for reference:— Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim; And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me. R. M. SPENCE, D.D. Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B. COLERIDGE MARGINALIA. (See 8th S. vii. 361, 401, 443, 482, 502.) —The Rev. J. H. Gregory, of East St. Kilda, a suburb of Mel- bourne, Australia, in a letter to the Argus newspaper of that city for 25 March, 1882, described two volumes of Swedenborg's writings bought in the same city, twelve years earlier, by the writer of the letter, and believed to be annotated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Gregory's library was sold in London by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson in February, 1898, and the two volumes are now in the library of the Swedenborg Society, at its house, No. 1. Bloomsbury Street. The attribution of the annotations to Samuel Taylor Coleridge is, however, strongly con- tested by experts. The Argus letter is re- printed in the London weekly journal Morn- ing Light for 11 November last, with some particulars additional to those here given. The Swedenborg Society also possesses an autograph letter from Coleridge to Charles Augustus Tulk, defining with great precision the writer's mental attitude towards Sweden- borg. This letter is printed in the New Church Magazine for March, 1897, pp. 106-12, accom- panied by reference to the " whereabouts" of volumes of Swedenborg bearing Coleridge's marginalia. To this list may be added a copy of Swedenborg's ' Prodromus Philosophiae Ratiocinantis de Infinito,' 1734, which was sold at Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge's auction-rooms on 28 February last. CHARLES HIGHAM. WAR MEDALS. (See ante, pp. 459,506.)—As S. S, C. S. has revived the charge against the Duke of Wellington of having objected to the award of a medal to the soldiers who had served under him, it may be well to state succinctly the precise course which he took in regard to this question. Down to 1815 war medals were never awarded to any one under the rank of field officer; company and non-commissioned officers and men no more expected or were eligible for them under the rules of the service than a private soldier of to-day expects or is eligible for the Order of the Bath. Moreover, none even of the pre- scribed rank was eligible for a medal, unless he had been actually exposed to musketry fire. Thus I have seen a letter written in 1833 by Lord Fitzroy Somerset — then Mili- tary Secretary, and afterwards Field-Marshal Lord Raglan—to Field-Marshal Lord Beres- ford, who had applied to him for a medal on behalf of one of his officers. He reminds Beresford of the instances of Sir Rowland Hill, who commanded a division at the battle of Busaco, which, like Sir Miles Nightingale's brigade and the brigade of Guards, suffered severely from artillery fire in that engage- ment, yet none of the officers received the Busaco clasp, because their troops had not been within musketry range of the enemy. After Waterloo, writing on 28 June, 1815, to the Duke of York, Wellington was the first to propose a decoration for all ranks engaged in that battle:— " I confess that I do not concur in the limitation of the order [of the Bath] to field officers. Many captains in the army conducted themselves in a very meritorious manner, and deserve it; and I never could see the reason for excluding them, either from the order or the medal. I would like to beg leave to suggest to your Royal Highness the expe- diency of giving to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers engaged in the battle of Waterloo a medal. I am convinced it would have the best effect in the army; and, if that battle should settle our concerns, they will well deserve it."—'Des- patches,' xii. 520. It is quite true that the Duke, as Com- mander-in-Chief, did object when the officers of the army petitioned the House of Lords in 1845 to move the sovereign to grant them medals for the Peninsular War. He con- sidered that a highly irregular course, sub- versive of discipline, and infringing upon the prerogative of the Crown; but I have seen at Apsley House in his own handwriting the draft of a letter to Lord John Russell, in 1846, in which he says : " As soon as I was informed that it was the wish of the sovereign and her ministers, I eagerly adopted the plan, and suggested means to facilitate its execution." HERBERT MAXWELL. " PORTE-MANTEAU " IN DIPLOMACY.—" He would linger no longer, and play at cards in King Philip's palace, till the messenger with the port-mantick came from Rome," is given in the ' Century Dictionary ' as a quotation from Bishop Hacket's ' Archbishop Williams,' to show that " port-mantick" is a corrupt form of "portmanteau," which itself is chiefly defined as a case used in a journey for contain- ing clothing. But in the ' Cecil MSS.'(part vii.