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Throughout Prague then from cottage to cottage he
speeds, Thus St. Wenceslaus serves our Lord Christ in His
needs.
When at rest on his bed from the toils of the way, God's Son stands before him in glorious array.
" Faithful servant," thus spake He, " tell out thy
desire ; Gifts eternal dost thou for thy service require ? "
"Nought but this, Lord, that I at each instant
may be To my people a servant thus ever serve Thee."
FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.
HIGHLANDERS " BARBADOSED " AFTER THE 1715 AND '45 REBELLIONS (10 S. viii. 68, 135). Hotten printed only a few lists of prisoners transported. I have since dis- covered all the other lists, and they contain many thousands of names.
Apart from the Jacobites and a riot at Glasgow c. 1727, very few of them would be political prisoners ; in the record they are called felons. The exact offence could be traced in the records of the Clerk of the Peace.
The following heading and a copy of the first ten names describe the contents and value of these records :
" A true list of all the Prisoners taken from the Counties of Surry, Sussex, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and shiped on board the Csesar, W m Loney Com r , for Virginia, which were ship' 1 by M r Jon an Forward of London, Merchant, Oct. 26, 1732, Surry :
"1. Ann Wood ; 2. Ann Jones ; 3. John Chick ; 4. Benj. Gurney ; 5. Tho. Lee ; 6. W m Wilkinson ; 7. Jesse Addison ; 8. John Harvy ; 9. Ric. Batchelor; 10. Hanah Salter."
The Caesar on the same journey also carried 117 prisoners from Newgate.
GERALD FOTHERGILL.
11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W.
MR. CRTJICKSHANK has given himself a
most useful and a most difficult task in
trying to trace the destination of the
Jacobite prisoners who were deported to
the West Indies. I have been able to verify
one or two cases. It has always been a
family tradition, for example, that James
Gordon, the son of Charles Gordon, Laird of
Terpersie (who was executed in November
1746), went to the West Indies after being
reprieved at Southwark on account of his
youth. A confirmation occurs in the ex
tremely interesting list of Scotsmen whom
Lord Adam Gordon met in 1764 on his ,
to America. Among others he encounterec
in Jamaica on 18 July, 1764, was Jame
Gordon, whom he describes as " late Ter
percy," a mahogany cutter (Genealogist, xiv
16). J. M. BULLOCK.
DTJKE OF WELLINGTON ON UNIFORMS (1O
viii. 8). I have not been able to trace
he saying referred to by KOM OMBO, though
o doubt it might be found by some diligent
earcher in Col. Gurwood's monumental
dition of ' Wellington's Despatches.' At
he same time the sentiment seems to be-
omewhat at variance with what is known
o have been his usual attitude on the subject ;.
ee Prof. Oman's ' History of the Peninsular
,Var,' vol. ii. pp. 295-6, where the author
[uotes Grattan's ' Adventures in the Con-
laught Rangers.'
The most direct testimony on this point may perhaps be found in Sir Herbert Max- ell's ' Life of Wellington,' vol. i. p. 318- note), where the following quotation from me of the Duke's letters is given :
I think it indifferent how a soldier is clothed, >rovided it is in an uniform manner ; and that he ia orced to keep himself clean and smart as a soldier hould be."
Apropos of Maxwell's ' Life,' just referred
,o, I find that the frontispiece of the second
dition is a portrait purporting to be " Major-
General Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B., aetat.
36, 1806." In this portrait, however, he is
depicted as wearing the Order of the Golden,
leece and the Peninsular Gold Cross, with
four clasps ! T. F. D.
" HONI SOIT QtTI MAL Y PENSE " (10 S. viii.
47). There is a slightly different wording of this proverb occurring in a poem pos- ibly older than that quoted by MR. PLATT. [n the ' Historiettes ' of Tallemant des- Reaux (2nd edition, ed. Monmerque, Paris, 1861, vol. i. p. 38) is a ballade, " Rien n'est si beau que la jeune Doris," &c., ascribed to Tallemant. The three complimentary dizains need not be quoted here ; the envoy will suffice :
Jeunes blondins, qui soupirez pour elle, Et qui souffrez ses rigoureux mepris. Si vous vpuliez estre aime"s de la belle, II faudroit estre amants cheveux gris Et ne 1'aimer que d'amour fraternelle. Mais de vous tous on diroit par la France, Comme de mpy, Ton dit par tous pays : Que honni soit celui qui mal y pense !
A note in the third edition of the ' His- toriettes ' (Paris, 1862, ed. Monmerque and Paulin Paris, vol. vi. p. 406) declares that Menage was the author of the verses, and not Tallemant.
Relying on memory only, I am not quite certain of my authority, but some informa- tion relating to the origin of this sentiment will, I think, be found in the first volume of Hargrave Jennings's ' History of the Rosi- crucians.' R. L. MORETON.
