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188 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. iv. sept. vw. ' N. & Q.' furnish me with a dated list of the bishops from 'Gronland Historiske Mindes- moerker,' that I may compare it with the Vatican finds 1 Also, can any one tell me if there is any instance of a Bishop of Green- land being also called Bishop of Vinland 1 Feancesca. " The cloud - capped towers," ' Tem- pest,' IV. i. — On what authority does the celebrated passage in 'The Tempest' take the form given in the inscription on Shak- speare's monument and in the words of the old glee entitled ' The Cloud-capped Towers' t In the editions which I possess of ' The Tem- pest ' the line "And, like the baseless fabric of this vision," precedes "The cloud-capped towers," and the penultimate line of the pas- sage quoted in the inscription runs" And Tike this insubstantial pageant faded." There is no hint of any other reading in foot-note or otherwise. The answer to my question is probably matter of common knowledge, and the question evidence of uncommon ignor- ance. I have, however, put it to many well-informed men without getting what I wanted. A. J. P. [Asked 7th S. v. 182; unanswered.] Napoleon : Marbeuf.—What is the known character of M. de Marbeuf, commander in the war against Corsica, 1768 t Was he Napoleon's father ? Was it from him came the love of bloodshed, plunder, and self ? Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, an easy, pro- fligate, impecunious man, Letitia's husband, we are told, had nothing remarkable about him, nor had any of his children, except his profligacy. They none of them had the won- derful power and determination of their terrible brother. Letitia was married 1767 ; war in Corsica followed in 1768; Napoleon was born 1769. Marbeuf paid for Napoleon's education at the Military School, Angers, Department of Maine et Loire, under the engineer Pigner. Arthur Wellesley (Wel- lington) entered the same school a year after Napoleon had left. When Marseilles was besieged by the Re- publican troops Napoleon sent a guard of honour to protect Marbeuf's family and house. The female members of Napoleon's family are not distinguished for their prudery ; so what is the trace of the atavism of Napoleon's cha- racter as opposed to his putative father and the rest of his family 1 „ r, _ „ Richard Hemming. 11, East Grove, C.-on-M., Manchester. Major William Gordon, op the Queen's Bays.—He was found guilty of the man- slaughter of George Gregory, private in the Queen's Bays, at Ramsgate, 25 March, 1814. Who was Gordon's father ; and what became of the major? J. M. Bulloch. 118, Pall Mall, S.W. The Montreux Churchyard Inscription. —The view from the terrace of the old church at Montreux and the inscription on the churchyard wall must nowadays be hardly less familiar to the English ex- cursionist than are the view from Richmond Hill and the Thomson verses. Possibly it has occurred to many to wonder, and to some (as was my case) fruitlessly to inquire, whether the French lines are a translation of the English, or the English of the French. If the original inscription was the English one, the French rendering is singularly neat. One is inclined to assume that the more wordy lines are the work of an English translator, who, sympathizing with the appeal, wished to extend its scope. If any reader of ' N. & Q.' will satisfy my curiosity as to its authorship and date, I shall be obliged. The verses are, perhaps, worth appending :— Stranger who wanderest through our smiling land, Gazing around thee with admiring eye, Drop some kind token from thy pitying hand To aid the wretched, ere thou passest by; And God, who o'er this spot such beauty shed, From Heaven shall send His blessing on thy head ! Toi qui viens admirer nos rians paysages En passant jette ici la pitie aux malheureux, Et le Dieu dont la main dessina ces rivages Te benira des Cieux. Ayez Pitie den Pauvres. Henry Attwell. Barnes. Robert Baker was elected from West- minster to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1603. I shall be glad to learn any further particulars concerning him. G. F. R. B. Thomas Lancwortii and Richard Dor- rinoton were elected from Westminster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1605. Can any correspondent give me par- ticulars of their parentage and careers ? G. F. R. B. Boss Family.—I am endeavouring to pro- cure all the information possible concerning the Boss family, or at least that portion of it with which I am connected. According to tradition, the family in America originated with three brothers, Hollanders, said to have been navigators, who settled in this country