LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1865.
CONTENTS. No 158.
NOTES : — The Young Pretender's Conforming to the Church of England and Visit to London in 1750, 1 — Scottish Historical Gossip, 3 — Regimental Badges, 4 — Pembroke College, Oxford, 5 — Rope-tying — "Cooper" — Duchess of Queensbury —A London Book Auction, 1698 — Johnsoniana — American Depreciation of Currency — "Turning the Tables," 6.
QUERIES: — Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset, 7 — The Blue Coat School, 8 — Mr. Baskett — Bedstead Superstition — Bernardino — Sir Richard Braham — Caryll Family — The Princess Charlotte of Brunswick — Comets — "Deadly Manchineel" Tree — Guiling — Who, or what were Hengist and Horsa? — Irish Poor Law — Irish Song — Patrick Keir, M.D. — Ladies of the Order of the Garter — Omar Cheyatn, Aboulhassan Kuschiar, and Jamal'u-din — Herbert Palmer's Burial — Quotation — Romney's Portrait of Wesley — Tombstone Inscriptions, St. John's, Horslydown — Hymn to the Virgin — The Universal Accommodation Office, established in 1778 — Washington Arms, 9.
QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: — Civitas Lucronii — Marriage Rings — Hospitals for the Sick — Old Inns of Southwark — Hagbush Lane — Leycester's Progress in Holland, 12.
REPLIES: —Greek Drama: Ezechiel's "Exagoge," 14 — Fisher's "Garlands," 17 — "Cousins," a Song: Praed's Poems, 18 — The Grotto of the Nativity and other Christmas Matters, 19 — Passage in "Hamlet," 21 —Thomas Sydserf, Bishop of Brechin, Ib. — Christmas Waits — Viel-Liebchen — Street Melody, &c., 23.
Notes on Books, &c.
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THE YOUNG PRETENDER'S CONFORMING TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND VISIT TO LONDON IN 1750.
Some peculiarly interesting documents illustrative of the history of the time having been discovered among the Stuart Papers, which are now in the process of arrangement at Windsor, under the superintendence of Mr. Woodward, the Queen's Librarian, Her Majesty "was pleased to command him to make them publicly known, considering them to be too valuable a contribution to the exact knowledge of our history at that time to wait until the Calendar of the Stuart Papers should be published." Acting upon this command, Mr. Woodward has printed them in The Times, in a communication which appeared in that Journal on the 27th ult., and I venture to hope you will transfer to "N. & Q." the following interesting extract from it, and will consider its interest a sufficient excuse for its length. Let me first observe (which Mr. Woodward has not considered it necessary to notice), that the first of these documents, the "Remarks" on the Commission, were obviously added to it at a subsequent period.
"The first of these papers is a copy of a 'Manifesto,' dated 1745, and addressed by the Prince to Scotland. It is appended to a 'commission' from his father, dated in 1743. At the end of it we find some 'remarks,' one of which is this :—
"8ly. To mention my religion (which is) of the Church of England as by law established, as I have declared myself when in London the year 1750."
" The next three are memoranda for letters or reports in the Prince's handwriting —the first two written on torn scraps of paper ; the third, on a thin card.
"Parted ye 2d Sept. Arrived to A[ntwerp] ye 6th, parted from thence ye 12th Sept. E[ngland] ye 14th, and at l[ondon] ye 16th. Parted from L[ondon] ye 22d, and arrived at P[aris] ye 24th. From P[[aris] parted ye 28th, arrived here ye 30th Sept. Iff she dos not come, and yr M. agreed on to send bac for yr Letter and Procuration ; ye House here of P. C. and her being either a tretor or a hour, to chuse which, not to send to P. even after her coming, unless in absolute necessity, or her requiring it then at her dor."
Verso. "The letter to Godie retarded a post, ye Lady being arrived or her retard to be Little il she is true stille."
"Ye 5th Sept., O. S., 1750, arrived ; ye llth, parted to D[over] ; ye 12, in ye morning, parted and arrived at B[[oulogne] ; and ye 13th at P[aris]. N.S[1]., ye 16th Sept., ye 22d, 23d, and 24th.
"Either ill counsiled or She has made a Confidence. Mr. Lorain's being here ye 12th Sept. Mr. Duran his discorces to amuse not having to do with anybody but ye Lady, and Mr. Lisle's not marrieeng, or appearing ; to go ye same day with ye King, speking to W. ye last day.
"Md. H. here this six weeks."
Verso. "The Vignion for W., and letters K and L, the money and adresses. (In pencil, "The money for Dormer.")
"Je ne puis pas envoie pour ne pas doner du subson et si jenvoi pas je done encore."
"The last sentence, notwithstanding its bad French, is clearly indicative of the Prince's growing hopelessness in his own cause :—
"Lux. Novemr. ye 26th. Mrs. Toinson. Ye P.M. is the best time for me to go. Rue Verneuil, visavi La Rue Ste. Marie faug. St. Germin, Ju. Waters. . . . ye Ordonances ; ye Lady ; my being a Republican; Sr. J. Grenis [Graham's] being sent ; Sr. J. Stuard ; ye Envoy of P[russia?] at Lu. ; Charles Smit ; Mr. Heborn [Hepburn?] ; my resons of Declaring myself a Protestant at ye age of 30ty. my being at London ye yr. 50ty. K. of P[russia's?] uniform for to go Lu. ye 50 Louidors for Ca: Kely; Wm. Murray," &c.
- ↑ In The Times this was erroneously printed R. S., which gave rise to an opinion that there was a discrepancy in the dates. But it will be seen that the difference is only that of eleven days, the difference between the Old and New Styles.
