The miscalled statue of Apollo, was discovered in France by some labourers while digging for clay for brick-making, on July 24, 1823, at the distance of about 800 metres from the town of Lillebonne, below and a little beyond the old castle, on the north of the new road to Caudebec, six hundred paces from the Roman Theatre. Being found beyond the boundary of the land purchased by the Government for excavation; it was, as private property, almost immediately purchased by the Messrs. Woodburn, of St. Martin's-lane; by them offered to the Trustees of the British Museum, and rejected. The statue remained unnoticed with them, but since the death of Mr Samuel Woodburn it was by the keener and better directed appreciation of its value, secured by the present Government of France, with what effect the query of our correspondent affords indubitable proof. The statue of gilded bronze is more than six feet high, but the right arm and hand, and the right leg, are wanting; the broken fragments were found with the statue, and on an analysis of the metal, the constituents of the material were found to be 95 parts of copper, to 5 of tin, as the proportions.

As an Apollo, the statue, though admirable for its merit, is wholly devoid of claim; but, supposing it to be of the period of the Emperor Hadrian, of which there is little doubt of controverting, it may possibly be intended for Antinous, a youth of Bithynia, who was so great a favourite of the Emperor Hadrian, that after his death he was deified, and statues and temples were raised to him as to a god. The subject has obtained considerable elucidation in the third volume of Mr. C. Roach Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, pp. 83, 87, that doubtless F. S. A. will find in the Athenæum Club Library; if not, the erudite and eminently literary character of its members impose an almost indispensable requirement, the work in question should

in future be found there.

EDITOR.

TOWN ARMORIAL INSIGNIA, Current Notes, p. 90.I am apprehensive, that if ever an historical research were gone into respecting the antiquities of Nottingham and Colchester, we should never arrive at the reasons why the arms of both towns should be so similar. The arms in question were probably borne in very early times, and both are recorded in the visitations. Those of Nottingham having the cross vert, and those of Colchester, the cross argent. In most cases it would be difficult to assign any cause why particular bearings were introduced into arms of remote antiquity; and in the instance now in question, still more difficult to say whether the arms of Nottingham and Colchester could have any common origin. A. A. A.

JOHN DUNTON, LIFE AND ERRORS. (Continued from p. 19.)

Dunton was fond of speculation. His restless mind was always coining new projects. One of the most ingenious productions of his prolific brain was 'The

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The Athenian

Athenian Gazette,' afterwards called Mercury.' Dunton, Richard Sault, Dr. Norris, and Samuel Wesley were its contributors. It was printed twice a week on a single leaf, and cost a penny. Its plan was something similar to the modern Notes and Queries,' but literary and antiquarian subjects were not fashionable then, and the topics discussed were religion, philosophy, morals, and quaint paradoxes suited to the letters were sent to Smith's coffee house, where the age. Its singularity made it popular. Hundreds of editors met to concoct their plans. Dean Swift wrote his first ode in its pages. Sir William Temple honoured it with frequent contributions. Tom Brown started in opposition the ‘Lacedemonian Mercury.' Dunton immediately advertised that he would answer all his rival's questions with amendments, and publish his life. This bold stroke silenced his opponent. The Athenian Mercury eventually swelled to nineteen folio volumes; a selection of the best papers afterwards appeared under the title of the Athenian Oracle. "In 1697 Dunton

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lost his wife, whose death he bitterly lamented, though the same year he consoled himself by another marriage with Sarah Nicholas of St. Albans." With this lady," remarks his biographer Nichols, he does not appear to have added much to his comforts or his fortune." Two days after the marriage they separated. His wife went hoine to her friends, and the forlorn husband went on an expedition to Dublin with a large cargo of books. The particulars of his journey are amusingly told in The Dublin Scuffle,' printed in 1699. He apologises for the "When rambling humour of his digressions by saying, look upon myself as mounted on my horse to ride a journey; I have my pen in my hand, and subject in my head, I wherein, although I design to reach such a town by night, yet will I not deny myself the satisfaction of going a mile or two out of the way to gratify my senses with some new and diverting prospect." His books sold well by auction; though he bitterly complains of the conduct of a wily Scotchman, who "took the room over his head by offering to pay double rent." Patrick Campbell, he sarcastically remarks, "pretends extremely to religion, and has got many a penny by the bargain. He will commonly say grace over a choppin of ale, and at the same time be contriving how to overreach you." He hints that he would sell the same book under two titles, and "turn Hodder into Cocker, according as his customer wanted, with as much dexterity as the suttler in King James' camp, who drew ale out of one end of the barrel and beer at the other."

The remainder of Dunton's career was clouded by misfortune. In 1700 he published "The Case with regard to his mother-in-law." Money matters seem to have been the cause of their estrangement. He has summed up her character in one sentence, "She would

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slander her own husband to save two-pence." In 1701 appeared another sarcastic effusion, entitled 'The Case is altered, or Dunton's re-marriage.' This was followed in 1705 by his Life. He bitterly exclaims against the conduct of his friends who had deserted him in the hour of distress. Except I would put myself in the Gazette, or stand at the Exchange like an Irishman, with my breeches full of petitions, delivering them like doctor's bills to all I see, I shall get nothing; for now my purse is empty, nobody knows me. There's the Rector of Epworth, that got his bread by the Maggot' I published, has quite forgot me. There is stuttering D'Urfey will scarce own who bid him write the Triennial Mayor. Not a line have I received from my sister Tever since my misfortunes, not so much as the poor offer of a week's diet." Dunned by his creditors, separated from his wife, and neglected by his summer' friends, his mind seems to have become tinctured with insanity. However, he still bore up against his troubles, and wrote for the press "that he might not starve.” He thus cheerfully sums up his own character. "I love travelling, do not love fighting, love Valeria, do not love money, love my friend, do not fear nor hate my enemy, love writing, do not love starving, love fair dealing, had rather be called fool than knave, let people laugh while I win, can be secret if trusted, or woe be to Parson Grub, I am owed more than I owe, and can pay more than that, make my word as good as my bond, will not do a foul thing, can live in a cell till I pay my debts, and bid the world go whistle."

In 1706 he addressed "A Word of Comfort to his Creditors, or the Living Elegy," in which he promises to satisfy all demands if they will but wait two years. Hope still buoyed him up. In 1707 he wrote Athenian Sport. In 1710 appeared "Athenianism-a strange mixture of sense and folly; it contains some good articles in prose and verse, a few of a licentious turn, and some deeply tinged with insanity." In the latter part of Queen Anne's reign, continues his biographer Nichols, Dunton published A Cat may look at a Queen, or a Satire upon her present Majesty.' He became a flaming patriot, and published his noted pamphlet, • Neck or Nothing,' which passed through several editions. On the accession of George I., Dunton continued his patriotic effusions, but was disappointed in the patronage he expected which produced" Mordecai's Memorial, or there's nothing done for him." Soon after, in conjunction with De Foe, he projected a new weekly paper-The Hanover Spy.',

His second wife died at St. Alban's, 1720-1. In 1723 he published his Dying Groans from the Fleet Prison, or an Appeal to George I.,' with a list of his political pamphlets; amongst which were Queen Robin. The shortest way with the Ring. The Impeachment. Whig Loyalty. The Golden Age. The Medal. Dunton's Ghost. The Hereditary Bastard. Ox and Bull, King Abigail. Bungey. Frank Scamony. Seeing's Believing. High Church Gudgeons. The Devil's Martyrs. Royal Gratitude. King George for ever. Manifesto of King John the Second. The Ideal Kingdom. The Mob War. King William's Legacy. Burnet and Wharton. Pulpit Lunatics. The Bull Baiting, or Sacheverell dressed up in fireworks. The Conventicle. Dun

ton's Recantation. The Passive Rebels. The Pulpit Trumpeter. High Church Martyrology. The Pulpit Bite. The Pretender. God save the King. Protestant Nosegay. George the Second. The Queen by Merit. The Royal Pair. The Unborn Princes. All's at Stake. The titles at full length are most extraordinary. No man understood better how to captivate the vulgar with a 'taking title page.' Besides the works we have enumerated, Dunton was also the author of the Neck Adventure, 1715. Petticoat Government, 1702. The Whipping Post, 1706. Plain French, or a Satire upon the Tackers. The Merciful Assizes. Religio Bibliopolæ, 1691. Athenian Spy. Serious Thoughts on a Future State. Art of Living Incognito, 1700. Stinking Fish. Essay on Death Bed Charity, 1728. England's Alarum, 1693. The Post Angel, 1701. Female War. The Christian's Gazette. The Preaching Weathercock. Hazard of a Deathbed Repentance, 1708. The Night Walker, 1696. It is probable that The Heavenly Pastime, 1685, Pilgrim's Guide, with Sickman's passing bell, and Sighs and Groans of a Dying Man, Hue and Cry after Conscience, and the Dying Pastor's last legacy, 1684, professedly taken from his father's short hand notes were in reality his own composition. The Popish Champion or the history of the Earl of Tyrconnel, 1689. Wonders of Free Grace, or the History of remarkable Penitents executed at Tyburn, &c. 1690. Visions of the Soul before it comes into the Body, 1692. Ladies' Dictionary, 1694, issued from his press, and has been also attributed to him. In the British Museum are most of his numerous publications; and in the Bodleian Library are preserved a number of his MS. letters, together with a Summer Ramble through Ten Kingdoms, by J. Dunton, prepared for the press, but never printed. This heterogeneous character died “in obscurity in 1733, at the age of 74."

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DIAL MOTTOES.-Macky, in his Notes on London,* says, "I cannot but observe to you, the motto on the sun-dial of London Bridge, that is, "Time and Tide stays for no man." I have remarked several other adapt mottoes on dials, in which the English excel. On Newgate, where malefactors are confined, it is, “VENIO ET FUR;" and in the Temple, where the lawyers reside, one think, close by the great hall there, "Pereunt et Imhas, "Begone about your business!" but the best is, I putantur." Possibly your correspondents may have

noticed others?

P. C.

The Temple motto, "Begone!" has an amusing tradition as to the appropriateness of the adoption. The painter of the dial had been several times deferred for the words which were to be below the indications of the hours, and having lastly applied to the party in whom the direction was vested, just as he was about to dine in the Hall, he someand abruptly passing to dinner, the painter took it, as his what petulantly replied, " Begone about your business! instructions, and painted it accordingly on the dial.

"Journey through England," edit. 1724, vol. i. p. 275.

NICHOLAS MANN, MASTER OF CHARTER-HOUSE. NICHOLAS MANN, born about 1685, was bred at Eton, and from thence went to King's College. Bishop Hare was his tutor: he became a learned and acute scholar, and was, I believe, a Fellow of King's College many years. He travelled with the Marquis of Blandford, only son to the Duke of Marlborough, who died of the small-pox about 1724; and Mr. Mann had a pension from that family for some years. On the death of Dr. King, by Lord Godolphin and that family's interest he obtained, in or about 1739, the Mastership of the Charter-house. Dr. Middleton would have been more acceptable to that society, as he had much more politeness and sociability; but his losing it, was by his disobliging the clergy. Mr. Mann, though a sensible man, and a very good scholar, had much moroseness and pride in him, which rendered him not agreeable to those of Charter-house, nor did he mix much in social life.

He wrote, about 1742, a treatise in Latin, De Annis Christi, printed in 8vo. This he afterwards published in English, "On the Years of Christ's Ministry;" but the learned did not agree in his notion in general. He then published Critical Notes on some Texts of Scripture, and a second edition, enlarged, about 1746. This work was in general esteemed.

He died in 1749, and they at Charter-house were not sorry for his loss. He left his fortune, about 10,000l., to his nephew, Mr. Jackson, a brewer; and of the fine library he possessed at his death, he gave to Eton College all such books as they had not, with all such books as had his manuscript notes, which were many. He had filled Dr. Waterland's book, "On the Importance of the Trinity," with manuscript notes, tending to confute the Doctor, all the way, and treating him very sharply. Charles Davis and I were employed, at Christmas 1749, in dividing the library. I was employed by Eton College, he by Mr. Jackson; and Dr. John Burton came up from Eton College, to meet the executor on that account. Dr. Burton brought up the Catalogue of Eton College Library, and it was done very amicably.-Notes by a Bookseller, 1764, MS.

JAMES THE SEVENTH'S DESCENDANTS.-Your correspondent, Current Notes, p. 92, errs in supposing that any of the descendants of James the Second of England and Seventh of Scotland, now exist. Of his numerous children but four lived to maturity:

1. MARY, the wife of William the Third, who died without issue.

2. ANNE, who became Queen of England, and whose children all died in their infancy.

3. LOUISA, who died unmarried, and-

4. JAMES, commonly called the OLD PRETENDER, who left two sons; Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, and Henry, Cardinal York, both of whom died without issue. On the death of the Cardinal, in 1807, the whole issue of James the Second became extinct.

BALLAD LORE. CORNWALL.

ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT. Now first printed.

ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT, the venerable name of an ancestor of Sir William Molesworth, the present M.P. for Southwark; and one of the last of the western squires who kept open house and open hand. Many a legend and record of his times and deeds a century since, still float unembodied around the Oaks of old Tetcott, on the Tamar side. There, are still held in remembrance, The dogs that knew the accent of his voice, From the grim foxhound to my lady's choice; Oft o'er those fields, beneath his stately form, Rush'd the bold steed with footsteps like the storm; Foal of a hundred sires! his glancing eye, Shared in his master's pride and flash'd with victory. Morwenstow, Nov. 22. R. S. HAWKER.

On the ninth of November, in the year Fifty-Two,
Three jolly foxhunters, all sons of true blue,
They rode from Pencarrow, not fearing a wet coat,
To take their diversion with Arscott of Tetcott.
He went to his kennel, and took them within;
'On Monday,' said Arscott, our joys shall begin;
Both horses and hounds, how they pant to be gone,
How they'll follow o' foot, not forgetting Black John."
When Monday was come, right early at morn,
John Arscott arose, and he took down his horn;
He gave it a flourish so loud in the hall,
Each heard the glad summons, and came at the call.

They heard it with pleasure, but Webbt was first dress'd,
Resolving to give a cold pig to the rest;
Bold Bob and the Briton, they hasten'd down stairs,
"Twas generally supposed they neglected their pray'rs.
But Webb was impatient that time should be lost,
At breakfast they scrambled for butter and toast,
So old Cheyney was ordered to bring to the door,
Both horses and hounds, and away to the moor.
'On Monday,' said Arscott, as he mounted his nag,
'I look to old Blackcap, for he'll hit the drag!'
The drag it was hit, they said it was old,
For a drag in the morning could not be so cold.
They prick'd it along, to Becket and Thorn,
And there the old dogs they set out, I'll be sworn,
'Twas Ringwood and Rally, with capital scent,
Bold Princess and Madcap, Good God! how they went!

He

lived with the hounds, and ran with the hounds, and rare Black John, the last of the household jesters.

was the run when Jack was not in at the death. It was his office to amuse Mr. Arscott's guests by many a practical joke; among them, the swallowing of living mice and sparrow-mumbling had frequent place. There they go,' shouted John, when the fox was found and the dogs went off in full cry, 'There they go, like our Madam at home!' + A neighbouring squire, of Bennett's, in Whitstone. One of the Tickells.

ON EAGLE'S WING,-Current Notes, p. 76, Pope in one of his usually caustic lines, has

'On eagle's wing immortal Scandal flies.' A fable or story I remember to have heard as a boy, but which I never have seen in print, suggests itself to me as a probable germ from which the idea of the wren perched on eagle's wing' may be taken. It is to the effect, that once upon a time,' the birds being in a state of anarchy for want of a king, determined to elect him who could soar the highest. The eagle, upon this, mounted aloft, and had attained his utmost elevation, apparently far above that of any other eompetitor, when a wren, who had concealed himself under his wing in anticipation of the result, hopped out, and, rising a little higher than the eagle, exclaimed, "I'm king of the birds." The Latin and French names for this bird, regulus and roitelet, may possibly owe their source to some similar fable, though the tuft of the golden-crested wren may also have contributed to them.

C. S.

PILLAR SAINTS of the Fifth CENTURY.-Can any of your correspondents kindly direct me as to where may be found confirmation of what Cedrenus writes concerning the pillar saints of the fifth century, on the northern shores of the Sea of Marmora, and as to how and by whom were these pillars constructed, and how were they sustained upon them?

Butler, in his so-called Lives of the Saints, leaves us to consider their history to be little more than a popish legend. I would also ask, What was the end of Peter the Hermit, of Crusade celebrity? H. M.

DALLEUS, Current Notes, p, 40.- No translation.

SHAKESPEARE'S PUCK, OR ROBIN GOODFELLOW. THE following ballad, that Bishop Percy supposed to have been originally intended for some masque, was doubtless popular in the days of Dick Tarlton, who died in September, 1588, and was, without doubt, the source whence Shakespeare derived many of the points he has embodied in the character of Puck, more particularly of the traces which are shown, in the third act of his "Midsummer Night's Dream." An anonymous tract, possibly by Henry Chettle, entitled "Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie," published by an old companion of his, Robin Goodfellow, entered on the Stationers' books, June 26, 1590, and printed without date in that year, as in the same year appeared "The Cobbler of Canterburic," an answer, or rather as the titlepage asserts, "an invective against Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie." After the "Cobbler's Epistle to the Gentleman Readers," follows Robin Goodfellow's epistle, subscribed "Yours in choller!" This is an invective on the crank feats of the cobbler in his abuse of Robin's associate, Dick Tarleton; "A cobler become a corrector! ho, ho, ho it was not so when Robin Goodfellow was a ruffler, and helpt the country wenches to grinde their mault." Here, it will be observed, occurs the whimsical laughing jocund ho, ho, ho, that terminates every last line, in each verse of the ballad.

THE MAD MERRY PRANKS OF ROBIN GOODfellow. To the Tune of Dulcina.

From Oberon in Fairy Land,

The King of ghosts and shadows there,
Mad Robin, I, at his command,

Am sent to view the night sports here;
What revel rout,

Is kept about,

In every corner where I go,

I will o'er see

And merry be;

And make good sport, with Ho, ho, ho! More swift than lightning can I fly,

And 'bout this ayrie welkin soon: And in a minute's space descry

Each thing that's done beneath the moon, Thus not a Hag,

Nor Ghost shall wag,

Nor cry, ware Goblin ! where I go,

But Robin, I,

Their feats will spy,

And fear them home with Ho, ho, ho!

If any wanderers I meet,

That from their night sports do trudge home, With counterfeiting voice I greet,

And cause them on with me to roam;
Through woods, through lakes,
Through bogs, through brakes,
O'er bush and briar, with them I go;
I call upon

Them to come on,

And wend me laughing Ho, ho, ho!