amily to whom I could apply
for such information.

G.

_Caricature; a Canterbury Tale._--Many facts are recorded in the
caricatures of the day, of which there is no other account. The reference
of the following may be well known, but I should feel obliged by any of
your correspondents explaining it. Fox, the Prince of Wales, and a third
figure (?), are in a boat pushing off from shore, with Burke looking over a
wall with a large bag in his hand. He says, "D----me, Charley, don't leave
me in the lurch;" who replies, "Self-preservation is the first law of
nature." His companions joining with "Push off, Charley, push off."

H.

_Perpetual Curates not represented in Convocation._--In _Lectures on Church
Difficulties_, by the Rev. J. M. Neale, I find this statement:

"Under the old regime rectors and vicars were alone, generally
speaking, allowed a vote in the election of proctors, to the exclusion
from that privilege of even perpetual curates."--Lecture xi., p. 133.

I believe that this is correct, and that the curates spoken of as having
their votes rejected in Day _versus_ Knewstubbs, were perpetual curates:
but can some of your correspondents confirm this view by facts?

WM. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_Dr. Whichcote and Dorothy Jordan._--In the preface to the edition of the
plays of Wycherley and others, edited by Mr. Leigh Hunt, the following
passage occurs:

"The two best sermons we ever heard (and no disparagement to many a
good one from the pulpit) were a sentence of Dr. Whichcote's against
the multiplication of things forbidden, and the honest, heart and soul
laugh of Dorothy Jordan."

I feel rather curious to read a sentence which is said to possess so much
instruction.

[Greek: Xanthos].

_Moral Philosophy._--What English writers have treated of the obligation of
oaths and promises, or generally of moral philosophy, between the
Reformation and the time of Bishop Sanderson?

H. P.

_Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound."_--Can any of your correspondents, by
conjecture or reference to the original MS., elucidate the meaning of the
following passage, which occurs in Act II. Sc. 4. of this extraordinary
poem? It sounds so sweetly that one cannot but wish it were possible to
understand it.

"_Asia._ Who made that sense which, when the winds of spring
In rarest visitation, or the voice
Of one beloved heard in youth alone,
Fills the faint eyes with falling tears which dim
T