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The old soldier goes on to say that in the winter of that year he promised the Arch- duke Albert to take his reflections with him to the grave : " This promise was, perhaps, a hasty one, but it is the best testimony I can give to my character as a soldier." He goes on to mention the rebuke administered to him by the Austrian Government for the con- duct of the campaign, and its publication in the press, and a sob seems to break through the veteran's voice as he does so:

" I have taken it in silence, and now for seven years past bear my hard and painful lot with philosophy and resignation. I am at peace with myself and all the world but all my soldier's poetry is gone."

He speaks of his wife, and thanks her from

his heart

" for all her love and goodness to me : above all

dp I thank her that she bore my soldier's unhap-

piness by my side with such reasonableness and

resignation."

J. H. RIVETT-CAENAC, Colonel Volunteers, A.D.C. to the Queen. Schloss Wildeck, Switzerland.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" INTENTIONS." We want an early use of this in the sense "purposes in respect of a proposal of marriage," as in " to ask a man his intentions," "declaration of intentions," and the like. These must be common enough in novels, and are remembered before 1850, but we have no quotation before 1884. Will readers of *N. & Q.' send a few? Address simply Oxford. J. A. H. MURRAY.

" INVISIBLE GREEN." We want one or two quotations for this phrase, which goes back to early in the century. Will some of our friends in *N. & Q.' send one? (Address Dr. Murray, Oxford.)

I have had only two replies to my inquiry about the pronunciation of inundate, Doth from correspondents who know no other pro- nunciation than inun'date. J. A. H. M.

"LAKOO." In Science Gossip, 1876, p. 119, it is said that in Guernsey the herb Galium aparine is called "lakoo." Can anybody tell me what may be the French original of this plant-name? A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

THE GAME OF TABLES. I wish to learn in what work or works the early English game

of tables, in its different varieties, is described. And I especially wish to ascertain whether in any variety of tables, or in any similar game, one of the pieces was ever styled the "knave." Has that word ever been used in any other games than card games ? What relation did tables bear to chess ? Are there any sets of men employed in playing tables say in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries still preserved in any museum or private collec- tion ? K. E.

[Tables is another name for backgammon, and was, accordingly, played with draughts. Consult Brand's ' Popular Antiquities,' ed. Hazlitt, ii. 337.]

THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE. I am anxious to settle the question whether our familiar song

The Chesapeake so bold, Out of Boston, we've been told, Came to take the British frigate neat and handy, oh!

or its American counterpart celebrating the capture of the Guerriere by the U.S. frigate Constitution on 19 August. 1812, is the ori- ginal. That one is a parody or imitation of the other is certain ; but it is not so easv to say which is the one and which is the other. Apart from a lifelong prejudice, there are many indications which persuade me that our version is the original ; but nothing can be conclusive that is not based on recorded facts. I want, then, a reference to the earliest ap- pearance in print or contemporary mention of either ; and I do not want a statement that A. B., aged 100, remembers hearing one of them sung in a music-hall in 1812 or other- wise. I do not call such a statement evidence, and it is evidence that I want. Can any of your readers help me ? J. K. LAUGHTON. King's College, Strand.

LOVELACE A GLOVER. What authority is there for the statement that Richard Love- lace, the Cavalier poet, sold gloves in King Street? N. L. H.

FEARY. One of this name was admitted to Westminster School on 30 May, 1769. Can any correspondent of 'N. & Q.' help me to identify him? G. F. E. B.

SHIPPEN LEYBORNE, who was admitted to Westminster School on 22 July, 1779, is said to have been the son of William Ley borne, of Oxford. I should be glad to obtain further particulars concerning him. G. F. E. B.

BRAIKENRIDGE. In L 'Interme'diaire des Mathe'maticiens for March I find a request for biographical notices of the English mathematician (of the first half of the eigh-