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scarce pamphlet of forty-six pages. The sentence wanted occurs upon p. 30. Bacon's executor, Dr. William Rawley, published in the same year a thin quarto entitled * Certaine

Miscellany Works of Francis Lord Veru-

lara,' and in the preface writes that he has done so " to vindicate the wrong, his Lord- ship suffered, by a corrupt, and surreptitious edition, of that Discourse of his Touching a Warre with Spaine, lately set forth." In this edition the quotation is upon p. 48.

FRA. J. BUEGOYNE. The Tate Library, JBrixton.

' CASTLE OF KILGOBBEN ' (9 th S. viii. 423). DR. G. KRUEGER must refer to Charles Lever's ' Lord Kilgobbin.'

W. G. BOSWELL-STONE.

Oxford.

LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES AND TAVERNS (9 th S. viii. 224, 345). Respecting " Caviac's," Macky, in his 'Journey through England,' fourth edition, 1724, vol. i. pp. 169-70, states that

"near this [the Royal] Exchange are two very good French Eating-Houses, the one at the Sign of Pontack, a President of the Parliament of Bour- deaux, from whose Name the best French Clarets, are called so, and where you may bespeak a Dinner from four or five Shillings a Head to a Guinea, or what Sum you please ; the other is Caveack's, where there is a constant Ordinary, as Abroad, for all Comers without Distinction, and at a very reasonable Price."

W. I. R. V.

Although in Macky's 'Journey through England ' as MR. MAcMiCHAEL states in his interesting communication "Kivat's" is mentioned as one of the two good French eating-houses near the Royal Exchange, yet James P. Malcolm in his 'Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London in the 18th Century ' (London, 1808), when purporting to cite in extenso at p. 157 this passage from Macky's 'Journey,' gives " Caveack's " as the name of the second of these French eating- houses. In a MS. diary now before me of a New York merchant who spent six months in England in 1765-6, he mentions, under the date of 1 May, 1766, that he dined at "Caveac's" with his brother and cousin. It would appear then that " Caveack's " was at this date the name of the eating-house referred to by Macky as " Kivat's."

E. T. B.

The following interesting and, I think, unnoted allusion to the political character of the taverns and coffee-houses in the earlier part of George III.'s reign occurs in 'The Duenna : a Comic Opera in Three Acts,' a parody of Sheridan's play, by I. Pottinger,

London, 1776, 8vo. The copy in my possession has a curious woodcut of the last scene in the third act, which might represent a " Tammany " committee in its last desperate straits. The " King's Arms " in Cornnill is among the political meeting-places satirized :

Boreas. Ha ! ha ! ha ! And this song was really sung, Mungo?

Mungo. Yes, my lord, at the Lumber-Troop-house in Shoe-lane ; and at Sister Wills's Hole-in-the- Wall, Fleet-street.

Boreas. Why, do you belong to those societies, Mungo ?

Mungo. Undoubtedly I do, my Lord or I could not be of the service I am in city elections, which are governed by tavern-meetings, and ruled by the influence of alehouse clubs. Why half the business (the political business I mean) of the first mercantile city in the universe, is adjusted at the Half Moon in Cheapside, the King's Arms in Cornhill, the Paul's Head in Cateaton Street, the Three Pigeons, Butcher hall-lane, and the two places I have already mentioned.

As to "Caviac's," the following may be of use from Mist's Journal, 1 April, 1721 :

" Advices from the Royal Exchange inform us that the minute in the great Coffee Houses of the Routs of the Brokers are strangely altered of late ; for instead of being gone to Pontack's, gone to Brand's, gone to Caveach's, they now run, gone to the Chop House, gone to the Grill House. These advices add too that the Jews and late South Sea House Directors have left off boiling their West- phalia hams in Champagne and Burgundy."

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

Wimbledon Park Road.

NAPOLEON'S LAST YEARS (9 th S. viii. 422). On my shelves are two volumes entitled " The | Last Days | of the | Emperor Napo- leon. | By | Doctor F. Antommarchi, | his

Physician. | | London: | Printed for

Henry Colburn, | New Burlington Street | 1845." Herein the last illness of Napoleon is described most minutely, and it seems to me that one could hardly desire a more authoritative pronouncement upon the sub- ject. I know not what present-day writers may have to say, but I imagine that it would be a hard task for any one to write upon the last days of Napoleon without drawing largely upon Antommarchi.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"HALSH" (9 th S. viii. 81, 255, 327, 411).- It is a small matter, but Q. V.'s knot should have its name ; for 'N. & Q.' is exact, though not exacting. The knot is a weaver's knot, teste Darcy Lever. J. P. STILWELL.

Hilfield, Yateley, Hants.

FAIRY TALES (9 th S. viii. 424).-E. B. L. will find 'The Golden Touch' (story of Midas) in 'A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, by