illiam Penn
(the son of William Penn and Miss Springett) was married?

A. N. C.

_Who were the Writers in the North Briton?_--The _Athenaeum_ of Saturday,
May 17, contains a very interesting article on the recently published
_Correspondence of Horace Walpole with Mason_, in which certain very
palpable hits are made as to the identity of Mason and Junius. In the
course of the article the following Query occurs:

"In the second Part of the folio edition of the _North Briton_
published by Bingley, in the British Museum, are inserted two folio
pages of manuscript thus headed:--

'The Extraordinary
NORTH BRITON.
By W. M.'

This manuscript is professedly a copy from a publication issued June
3rd, 1768, by Staples Steare, 93. Fleet Street, price three-pence. It
is a letter addressed to Lord Mansfield, and an appeal in favour of
Wilkes, on whom, the writer says, judgment is this day to be
pronounced. It is written somewhat in the style of Junius. The satire
is so refined that the reader does not at first suspect that it is
satire,--as in Junius's _Letters_, wherein the satirical compliments to
the King have been mistaken for praise, and quoted in proof of
inconsistency.

"Who was this 'W. M.'? Who were the writers in the _North Briton?_--not
only 'The Extraordinary' _North Briton_, published by Steare, but the
genuine _North Briton_, published by Bingley. These questions may
perhaps be very simple, and easily answered by persons better informed
than ourselves."

As the inquiries of your correspondent W. M. S. (Vol. iii., p. 241.) as to
the Wilkes MSS. and the writers of the _North Briton_ have not yet been
replied to, and this subject is one of great importance, will you allow me
to recall attention to them?

F. S. A.

* * * * *

Minor Queries Answered.

"_Many a Word_."--Your correspondent's observations are perfectly correct:
we daily use quotations we know not where to find. Perhaps some of your
friends may be able to reply whence

"Many a word, at random spoke
Will rend a heart that's well-nigh broke."

S. P.

[The lines will be found in Walter Scott's _Lord of the Isles_, Canto
V. St. 18.

"O! many a shaft, at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken
May soothe or wound a heart's that broken!"]

_Roman Catholic