subjoined the following note:--"The
singularity of this name has occasioned much curiosity; but no
information can be obtained besides that of _True Blue_ having been a
stranger, who settled here, and acquired some property, which after his
decease was disposed of. It has been conjectured that he lived here
under a feigned name. One Hercules True, about 1645, kept a house at
Windsor, to which deer-stealers were accustomed to resort; and he
uttered violent threats against a person, whose son, having been killed
in attempting to resist the deer-stealers in the Great Park, Thomas
Shemonds prosecuted the murderers, and True declared he would knock his
brains out, and is believed to have afterwards absconded."]

_Charge of Plagiarism against Paley._--Has any reply been made to the
accusation against Paley, brought forward some years ago in _The
Athenaeum_? It was stated (and apparently proved) that his _Natural
Theology_ was merely a translation of a Dutch work, the name of whose
author has escaped my recollection. I suppose the archdeacon would have
defended this shameful plagiarism on his favourite principle of expediency.
It seems to me, however, that it is high time that either the accusation be
refuted, or the culprit consigned to that contempt as a man which he
deserved as a moralist.

FIAT JUSTITIA.

[We have frequently had to complain of the loose manner in which
Queries are sometimes submitted to our readers for solution. Here is a
specimen. The communication above involves two other Queries, which
should have been settled before it had been forwarded to us, namely, 1.
In what volume of the _Athenaeum_ is the accusation against Paley made?
and, 2. What is the title of the Dutch work supposed to be pirated?
After pulling down six volumes of the _Athenaeum_, we discovered that
the charge against Paley appeared at p. 803. of the one for the year
1848, and that the work said to be pirated was written by Dr. Bernard
Nieuwentyt of Holland, and published at Amsterdam about the year 1700.
It was translated into English, under the title of _The Religious
Philosopher_, 3 vols. 8vo., 1718-19. The charge against Paley has been
ably and satisfactorily discussed in the same volume of the _Athenaeum_
(see pp. 907. 933.), and at the present time we have neither "ample
room nor verge enough" to re-open the discussion in our pages.]