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Erie when defeated 10 September, 1813, by Capt. Perry of the United States? Capt, Barclay lost an arm when fighting under Nelson. He was living in Saxe-Coburg Place, Edinburgh, 1830-2, and died at Edinburgh, 8 May, 1837.

R. BARCLAY ALLARDICE. Lostwithiel, Cornwall.

LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES AND TAVERNS. Information is sought as to the localities and other particulars of the following coffee- houses and taverns that existed in London in 1765-6 : "Antwerp," "King's Arms," "New York," " Grigsby's," and " Caviac's." A club appears to have "been held at the "Antwerp^" Coffee-house, and was moved to the " King's Arms" in April, 1766. E. T. B.

' THE MODEST CRITICK ' : SOCIETY OF THE PORT-ROYAL. I shall be glad to know who was the author of

The Modest Critick : or Remarks upon the most Eminent Historians, Antient and Modern. With Useful Cautions and Instructions, as well for Writing, as Reading History : Wherein the Sense of the Greatest Men on this subject is faithfully Abridged. By One of the Society of the Port- Royal. London : Printed for John Barnes, at the Sign of the Bear and Ragged Staff, in Green-Street, near Leicester-Square. 1689. l'2mo, pp. xxiv-151. And where is to be found an account of the Society of the Port-Royal, London, and its members? C. D.

SIR IGNATIUS WHITE, BART., of Limerick, also Marquis d'Albaville, was created a baronet by King Charles II., 29 June, 1677. In April, 1688, he was English Ambassador to the Hague, where he had a medal struck to commemorate the birth of Prince James. This medal was on view in London at the exhibition held at the New Gallery, Regent Street, 1889. For his active adherence to the Stuart cause Sir Ignatius was attainted in 1691. He resided at St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, and was married to the Hon. Maria Fitzmaurice, daughter of the nineteenth Lord of Kerry. I shall feel obliged if any of your readers will be good enough to give me information as to where the marriage cer- tificates of his son and of his grandson are to be found. His grandson is said to have fallen at the battle of Culloden. On 8 September, 1694, an Ignatius White was gazetted ensign in Brigadier-General Thos. Erie's Regiment of Foot. Would the records at Whitehall reveal the name of his father ? Where could particulars be found of the writ of attainder of 1691 ? Where could a list be obtained of the officers who joined Prince Charles Ed- ward's expedition in 1745 -6 ] Or if attainders

or decrees of outlawry issued against them, where are particulars to be had ?

R. G. MAUNSELL.

Cork.

RAPHAEL'S CARTOONS: ENGRAVINGS. Can you inform me where the engravings by Hollo way of the famous Raphael cartoons are now to be had *? The subjects are from John xxi. 6, 15, and chaps, iii., v., xiii., xiv., xvii. of the Acts of the Apostles. The en- gravings were published in 1806, 1810, 1816, 1820, 1826, 1830, and 1839. The cartoons are now at South Kensington. MRS. DAGLISH.

Abbot's House, Gateshead.

FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES. Who was the author of the lines on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II., ending

But as it is, Fred,

There 's no more to be said ?

In one of Chesterfield's letters to his son something like the same idea as that with regard to Frederick is expressed in the fol- lowing lines :

Colas est raort de maladie,

Tu veux que j'en pleure le sort ; Que diable veux-tu que j'en die? Colas vivoit, Colas est mort.

Chesterfield to his son, 20 Nov., 1739.

And it is just possible that Chesterfield may have made use of these lines. The epigram on Frederick must have been written by somebody at Court, and nobody was better able to judge of Frederick's character than Chesterfield. JOHN HEBB.

[We have heard the lines attributed to Landor, but fail to trace them in his works.]

STAFFORD ARMS. In a list of disclaimers at the Heralds' Visitations I find John Stafford, Shawe, Derby, 1634 ; Mr. Robert Stafford, Thweng, Yorkshire. 1668. What arms did these families bear? JUBAL STAFFORD.

Edgeley, Stockport.

CASTOR-OIL PLANT. A venerable clerical friend asked me lately whether this plant, or a variety of it, was fatal to flies. As his susceptible head and face had been sorely plagued during the hot weather, he had in- troduced a castor-oil plant into his room, but found no relief from the incessant annoyance. My friend, who is a great scientific and lite- rary scholar, acted on the opinion of some French chemist. Is there any foundation for such opinion 1 FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Brixton Hill.

ANCESTRY OF JOSIAH TUCKER, DEAN OF GLOUCESTER. In his account of the Tuckers of Sealyham, Pembrokeshire (to be found on