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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. OCT. 26, 1901.

ALLEN, its present possessor, appears to think, and its chief interest consists m show- ing that the alleged fabulous profits on the sale of the powders during the period embraced had no foundation in fact. That it should, as he suggests, be "deposited in the British Museum" or in "some national collec- tion " might also be questioned, and it may interest him to know that, as I understand, the first-named institution and the Guildhall Library, as well as the representative of the firm as above, declined to acquire it on moderate terms when offered to them respec- tively many years ago. The latter, indeed, with commercial shrewdness, rather courted as a gratuitous and valuable advertisement the publicity which might be given to the MS. in print by a literary man or collector as its owner. If it is to be given away, no doubt one of our liberal public bodies interested in the like would condescend to accept it " for safe custody," if not to gratefully embrace it in its ever -open arms but, otherwise, in those quarters it would, I fear, meet with the fate of so many other things of far greater interest in being " declined with thanks " on a printed form. W. I. R. V.

REGINALD HEBER (9 th S. viii. 285). The book entitled in the query ' Horse Matches ' is a volume of the ' Racing Calendar,' which was first issued in 1709. Reginald Heber edited the work from 1751 to 1768. He may have been one of the Heber family of Marton, co. York. I find in the pedigree Reginald, son of Pennington Heber, born in 1701, and a Reginald, son of Thomas, who died unmarried about the same period.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

This is the third occasion on which the question of the authorship of the 'Racing Calendar ' has appeared in ' N. & Q.' See 5 th S. ix. 128, 193 ; 6 Ul S. iv. 449.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

LIEUT.-COL. MOORHOUSE (9 th S. vi. 410; vii 18, 70). I wrote in January last from Forl St. George that Col. Moorhouse was noi buried at Madras, as your correspondem J. H. L. thought, and as he has recorded ir his valuable list of Madras Artillery Officers from 1748 to 1861. 1 was mistaken, being misled by the absence of any entry in the burial register of St. Mary's, Fort St. George concerning the event. J. H. L. sent me in May a copy of the garrison order, datec 31 October, 1791, regarding the military arrangements at the interment ; this, o course, prompted me to make furthe

nquiry. My friend Mr. A. T. Pringle, of he Secretariat, Fort St. George, has found, nd has been kind enough to supply me with, i copy of the civil proceedings in the case. A hese papers clearly establish the fact that 3ol. Moorhouse was buried within the walls >f St. Mary's Church at the expense of the lirectors, and that a monument was placed n the south wall of the south aisle of the hurch over the place of his interment. The Government appointed the following officers as a committee to carry out the arrangements : Jol. J. Capper, Major George Hall, Capt. Gromonde, and Josias du Pre Porcher, Esq. able the President of the Council, Sir Charles 3akeley, Bart., the members of Council, and V[aj or -General Musgrave were the chief mourners, and that they were supported by the members of the Grand Lodge of Free- masons. The pall - bearers were six field officers. The funeral party consisted of three nundred men under the command of Lieut. - Jol. Collins, and the firing party of a hundred men under the command of Major Spangen- 3urg. Forty-seven minute guns were fired trorn the ramparts, and the colours of the garrison were hoisted half-mast high. The Presidency chaplains Mr. Millingchatnp, Mr. Archdeacon Leslie, and Dr, Andrew Bell waived their claim to the usual fee of one hundred pagodas for breaking ground in the church. Their " handsome " conduct was acknowledged by the President and Council.
 * t may be of interest to add that the Honour-

FRANK PENNY, LL.M., Senior Chaplain. Madras.

THOMAS SAMUEL MULOCK, 1789-1869 (9 th S. vii. 482, 501). I was wrong in describing the Rev. David Thorn, D.D., as a Baptist. He started as a Scotch Presbyterian, but when Mr. Mulock preached for him had become a " Universalist " (see ' D.N.B. ' under James Hamilton Thorn).

I find that Mr. Rupert Simins in his valuable compilation ' Bibliotheca Stafford- iensis ' has a short note on Mr. Mulock, and gives a list of eight of his publications.

It appears that Louis Napoleon was so pleased with Mr. Mulock's advocacy when the latter was stopping at Boulogne that he presented him with a gold ring ; but later, when Mr. Mulock's opinions became too independent, he promptly had him run out of the country,

When Mr. Mulock was in Stafford Prison in 1865, he gave orders that no callers were to be admitted to him save Mr. Brindley and the Earl of Lichfield.

Mr. George Lillie Craik tells me that a few