ny other definition than
that given by Johnson, "one who deals in cloth," may I ask whether the
word was ever in "good use" in the above sense?

My main purpose in writing, is to propound the foregoing Query; but
while I have the pen in hand permit me to ask,--

1. Whether it be possible to read the celebrated "defence," so called,
which was delivered by Aram on his trial at York, without concurring
with the jury in their verdict, and with the judge in his sentence? In
short, without a strong feeling that the prisoner would not have been
hanged, but for that over-ingenious, and obviously evasive, address, in
which the plain averment of "not guilty" does not occur.

2. Has not the literary character, especially the philological
attainments, of this noted malefactor been vastly over-rated? And

3. Ought not the "memoirs" of "this great man" by Mr. Scatcherd to be
ranked among the most remarkable attempts ever made, and surely made

"--in vain,
To wash the murderer from blood-guilty stain?"

D.

Rotherfield

_Latin Epigram._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the
author of the following epigram:--

IN MEMORIAM G.B.M.D.

"Te tandem tuus Oreus habet, quo civibus Orei
Gratius haud unquam misit Apollo caput;
Quippe tuo jussu terras liquere, putantque
Tartara se jussu linquere posse tuo."

The person alluded to was Sir W. Browne, M.D., the founder of the Browne
medals in the University of Cambridge. Some old fellow of King's College
may be able to inform me.

The medals were first given about the year 1780, and in the first year,
I presume, out of respect to the memory of the donor, no subject was
given for Epigrams. It has occurred to me, that perhaps some wag on that
occasion sent the lines as a quiz.

W.S.

Richmond, Surrey

_Couplet in De Foe_--

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,
And good men wicked liberties despise."

This couplet is at the end of the second letter in De Foe's _Great Law
of Subordination_, p. 42. Is it his own? If not, where did he get it?

N.B.

_Books wanted to refer to_.--

"Hollard's Travels (1715), by a French Protestant Minister,
afterwards suppressed by the author."

"Thomas Bonnell, Mayor of Norwich, Life of."

"Canterbury, Letters and Memoirs on the Excommunication of two
Heretics, 1698."

"The Book of Seventy-seven French Protestant Ministers,
presented to Will'm III."

If any of your