ii s. ix. JUNE 13, low.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
477
THE ADELPHI (11 S. ix. 345). MB.
ALECK ABRAHAMS complains that Mr. Allen
S. Walker in a recent lecture stated that
the building of the houses in the Adelphi
- ' was only completed by means of a Lot-
tery." MB. ABRAHAMS adds :
" This is not the first occasion on which this inaccurate statement has been made, but 1 cannot trace its source."
He will find it in my pamphlet ' The Adelphi and its Site' (1885), in which I gave an account of the lottery, drawn from the news- papers of the period. I then said :
" The prizes were not instantly realizable, for the houses were to be divided among the prize- holders, and the houses were not yet finished." No doubt many of the houses were finished in 1774, but the building came to a com- plete stop from want of money, and the lottery was applied for in order to obtain money to complete what was unfinished.
Mr. Austin Brereton in his ' Literary History of the Adelphi ' (1907) quotes from
- Particulars composing the Prizes in the
Adelphi Lottery,' published on 18 Jan., 1774, by Messrs. Adam. They refer to the inhabitants of the Adelphi buildings, who expressed the greatest satisfaction with their houses. They then go on to say :
" The Messrs. Adam, ever since the obtaining of the Act for their lottery, have proceeded with an amazing rapidity in finishing their houses, in the same substantial manner with those formerly finished and sold in the Adelphi ; they are happy to think the whole will be completed, and ready to be assigned, by the time they have ascertained in their scheme and allotment, as no attention and no expense shall be spared for that purpose."
To show that the houses were not all finished at the same moment, I may add that Garrick removed from Southampton Street to the Terrace in 1772, and that the first stone of the building erected for the Society of Arts was laid on 28 March, 1772. Possession of this house was taken in 1774. HENBY_B. WHEATLEY.
JOHN GILPIN IN LATIN ELEGIACS (11 S. ix. 430). In Walter Hamilton's ' Parodies of English and American Authors ' (1888), v. 71, it is stated that ' John Gilpin,' trans- lated into Latin, was published some years ago by Mr. J. Vincent of Oxford. The pamphlet was entitled ' Johannis Gilpiniiter, Latine Redditum, and may probably still be obtained in Oxford. R. A. POTTS.
The book wanted is evidently " A Latin Elegiac Version of John Gilpin.... by H. Hayman," in 12 pp., published by David Nutt, London, in 1891.
ARCHIBALD SPABKE, F.R.S.L.
TIPPOO SAHIB'S STICK (11 S. ix. 408).
In the Historic Loan Collection formed by
me at the Royal Military Exhibition, ait
Chelsea in 1890 were the following Tippoo
relics :
A fragment of Tippoo 's turban, secured by Lieut. Hugh Mitchell, Scots Brigade, one of the storming party.
A part of his tent now in St. Stephen's Church, Westminster.
A pair of his pistols, from the Royal United Service institution.
His sword lent by Queen Victoria.
His ring taken off by Col. the Hon. A. Wellesley (Duke of Wellington).
His portrait miniature, a fowling-piece, and his howdah cover, &c.
Mr. S. Babbage snowed a walking-stick taken from the palace after the 1799 siege. HAROLD MALET, Col.
February, 1792, was the month in which Tippoo Sultan's capital, Seringapatam, was invested by the British, Mahratta, and Hyderabad confederate army under General Abercromby, and under the personal super- vision of Lord Cornwallis, the Governor- General of India; and 23 Feb., 1792, was the date on which Tippoo Sultan signed the treaty of peace which prevented the capture of Seringapatam by Lord Cornwallis.
The owner of the stick should know its history more accurately than any one else, but in the absence of any tradition concern- ing it, one cannot suppose that it was ever the property of Tippoo Sultan himself. Most probably it was the creation of some British officer, who inscribed it with the Sultan's name and the date to commemo- rate his presence at the military operations against him, the cessation of which was viewed by British officers and soldiers alike with intense indignation. F. DE H. L.
"COBVICEB" (11 S. ix. 308, 395). MB. ABCHIBALD SPABKE says he only knows three instances of " Corvicer " being mentioned in forty-six registers. But then there are comparatively few trades given in registers. The name appears very frequently in Strat- ford-on-Avon records, where " corvizer " is generally added to the name of the other John Shakespeare, to distinguish him from the poet's father. C. C. STOPES.
" AMONG THE BLIND THE ONE-EYED MAN is KING" (11 S. ix. 369, 412). An exact equivalent of these words is proverbial in Urdu : " Andhon men kana badshah."
R E. B.
