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regiments in khaki and otherwise engaged, are being sold at a little linendraper's shop opposite Catnach's in Seven Dials. They are curiously interesting little mementoes, and bear verses such as the following :

If they want to get the pull On old John Bull

They '11 have to get up early out of bed, As again they've had a slap, And we shall paint a certain map

With just another little patch of red.

Prom this we must conclude that patronage of the objet moralisateur is by no means con- fined to the Salvation Army.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

ESCAPE OF ADMIRAL BRODRICK (9 th S. v. 315). Admiral Brodrick is entered in Foster's 1 Peerage ' as son of William Brodrick (fifth son of Sir St. John Brodrick, by Alice, daughter of Sir Handle Clayton), who was Attorney-General of Jamaica 1692, 1710, and 1715 ; King's Serjeant 1718 ; Justice of the King's Bench, Ireland ; and M.P. for Mallow. The admiral is described as Thomas, of Peper Harow, Surrey ; Vice- Admiral of the Red ; and M.P. for Middleton 1761-8; died 1 Jan., 1769, having married Mary, daughter of Benj. Robins, Esq., and had with other issue a son, Edward, M.P. for Middleton 1769-76. According to the ' Book of Dignities ' he was appointed Rear-Admiral in 1756. He was one of the officers who formed the court-martial on Admiral Byng and took part in most of the naval campaigns which followed Byng's execution. Much may be read about him in Campbell's ' British Admirals,' vol. iv. (Lon- don, 1779). In that volume, pp. 111-12, is recorded the episode which forms the subject of MR. PICKFORD'S query :

" On the 13th of April [1758] the Prince George of eighty [ninety?] guns, commanded by Rear- Admiral Broderick, in his passage to the Mediterranean, took fire between one and two in the afternoon, -and not- withstanding the utmost exertion of human skill and labour, aided by despair, burnt with such rapidity, that in the space of a few hours she burnt down to the water-edge. A little before six in the evening she sunk entirely, and more than two-thirds of her crew perished in the ocean. The admiral, after buffeting the waves near an hour, was at length taken up by a boat belonging to one of the merchantmen under his convoy."

A foot-note gives as the authority for this statement the ' Annual Register,' p. 306.

RICH. WELFORD.

MR. PICKFORD will find this mentioned in 'D.N.B.,' under 'Brodrick, Thomas.' On 13 April, 1758, the admiral's flagship the Prince George of 90 guns was burnt off Ushant, only about 250 escaping out of a complement of some 800. The admiral was

picked up stark naked by a merchantship's boat, after he had been swimming for about an hour. C. S. WARD.

Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke.

GROSVENOR MANUSCRIPTS (9 th S. v. 315). May not these be MSS. in the private library of the Duke of Westminster? See the de- scription of some of them in the report by the Historical MSS. Commission. His (late) Grace was so good as to lend me a MS. of ' Piers the Plowman,' and I observed in it the name of Robert Grosvenor.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

"CHILDERPOX" (9 th S, v. 128, 235, 297). The work to which I referred is 'Synopsis Medicinse ; or, a Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Physick,' by William Salmon (third edition, London, 1695). C. C. B.

DELAGOA AND ALGOA (9 th S. v. 336). Delagoa Bay was discovered in 1498 by Vasco da Gama and called Bahia de Lagoa, the " bay of the lagoon," of which Delagoa Bay is a jumbled version. That Algoa Bay was also discovered by the Portuguese is proved by the cape at its extremity being called Cape Padrone. In Portuguese padron means " the stone pillar." The King of Portugal ordered that stone pillars carved with the arms of Portugal, and inscribed with the names of the king and the discoverer, should be erected by explorers in conspicuous places. Hence Algoa is probably a corruption of some Portu- guese word. ISAAC TAYLOR. [Other replies acknowledged.]

"NE AND ALL" (9 th S. v. 148). This famous Cornish motto is thus alluded to by Polwhele (' History of Cornwall,' vol. iii. p. 48) :

" On military expeditions they [the Cornish folk] generally avoided promiscuous intercourse with the rest of the army. This seems to have been their character from the days of Arthur, when, as merry Michael sings, they led the van, to the re- bellion of 1745, when, at Exeter, they ' one and all ' fled to arms at an imaginary insult, and, secure in their combined force, set the city at defiance."

I believe nothing is really known as to the origin of the motto. HARRY HEMS.

" BIRD-EYED " (9 th S. v. 168, 235, 293). My oversight has at least caused a useful dis- cussion. In answer to Q. V., I think the meaning of this epithet is now clear. " Bird- eyed " indicates the startled look of a disturbed bird or a shying horse. I do not think that MR. ADAMS'S suggestion "sharp-sighted" is adequate, and I question his interpretation of the passage from ' The Fox.' At the words " when it did so forsooth," I suspect that Lady Would-be turns upon the tirewoman with a