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Is there in British records, naval or other,
any account of such a man ? I am sceptical
regarding his rank, but, whatever his
position, I desire to ascertain when and
where he died, and, incidentally, any other
facts relating to his personal history.
J. H. REED. 7, Hervey Street, Brockton, Mass.
- SWEET NAN OF HAMPTON GREEN.'
I have a nice hand-coloured print bearing this title. "Nan" is seated on a bank under the shade of a tree, her "swain" seated on her left, piping upon a flute after the manner so often shown in old prints. The dresses of both Nan and her swain show resplendent colours. The print is shorn of margin except at the foot. It is dated 15 July, 1803, and was issued by Valen- tine Bernada and Cermenati, London, and at North Row, Boston. Is anything known about * Sweet Nan of Hampton Green ' ?
THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.
' THE NATIONAL JOURNAL,' 1746. George Gordon of the Middle Temple was arrested on a charge of admitting a treasonable article into his paper, The National Journal, or The Country Gazette (No. 35), which was printed by John Purser at Red Lion Court, Fleet Street (S.P. George II. Dom., Bundle 84). Was he the George Gordon who wrote * The Annals of Europe ' in six volumes (1739-43) ? What is further known of the aforesaid prosecution ?
J. M. BULLOCH.
118, Pall Mall, S.W.
TITLES CONFERRED BY CROMWELL. Can any one tell us where we can see a list of the titles given by the Protector ? That he made several baronets and knights we are aware ; and we have heard it stated that .he also created some one a Howard, we think a peer, quite independently of those whom he summoned to his new House of Lords. We are anxious to know whether this was so, and, in case the statement be correct, where the form of the writ used on the occasion may be seen. N. M. & A.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE. Can any of your readers tell me of any periodical or periodicals in addition to Blackwood's Magazine, The London Magazine, The Winter's Wreath, and The Janus, in which contributions from the pen of Hartley, either in prose or verse (essays, letters, sonnets, stanzas, &c.), are to be found ? If not, can any one suggest periodicals of a like nature, or small and ephemeral publications, to which Hartley
Coleridge would be likely to contribute ?
Hartley's chief period of contribution to
periodicals seems to have ranged from 1820
to 1832, but he may have contributed
essays and verses to various magazines any
time up to his death in 1849. There is a
posthumous edition of his works, but the
names of the periodicals in which the essays
or verses first appeared are not stated.
J. B.
"DANDY AFFAIR," 1816: "RATS' CLUB DINNER." Can any one give explanations of the following quotations from a letter of May, 1816 ?
1. " The Dandy affair is a very, very bad one, get out of it how they will. I hate the idea of Alvanley being tarnished, because he is wanted. As to Brummell, tempus abire est"
2. "Who wrote the account of the Rats' Club dinner ? It is inimitable."
J. F. B.
GILBERT IMLAY'S * EMIGRANTS.' Can any one tell me where I can get or see a complete edition of * The Emigrants,' a novel in 3 vols. by Gilbert Imlay (Mary Wollstonecraft's first husband), published in 1793 by A. Hamilton, Holborn ? The copy in the British Museum has only the first volume.
CA. J.
STEELE AND ADDISON. Says Thackeray in his ' English Humourists ' :
" Could not some painter give an interview be- tween the gallant Captain of Lucar's, with his hat cocked, and his lace, and his face, too, a trifle tarnished with drink, and that poet, that philo- sopher, pale, proud, and poor, his friend and monitor of schooldays, of all days?"
Has any painter ever ventured to stake his reputation on such an " interview " ? There is a woodcut in Thackeray's volume beneath the words :
" Cannot one fancy Joseph Addison's calm smile and cold grey eyes following Dick for an instant, as he struts down the Mall to dine with the guard at St. James's, before he turns, with his sober pace and threadbare suit, to walk back to his lodgings up the two pair of stairs ?"
But it is only a woodcut.
J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
UNION LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1780. I have been asked to ascertain the history of a large damask tablecloth, in the centre of which is a soldier on horseback. Above appear the words " Union Light Dragoons " ; and below, " Formed September 12th, 1780." Who were these dragoons ? Was the table- cloth for ordinary mess use, or for a special occasion ? B. S. B.
