had sent
in his famous 'Third part of Christabel.' It is only to be found in the
Magazine; and as many of our readers must be unacquainted with the
poem, we here subjoin it."

{112} The poem follows, containing the lines which led to the first inquiry
on this subject.

It was having read the Memoir in _The Irish Quarterly_ which enabled me so
promptly to remember where the lines were to be found; but I had long
before heard, and never doubted, that the clever parody was composed by Dr.
Maginn.

A. B. R.

Belmont.

_Mitigation of Capital Punishment_ (Vol. viii., p. 42.).--I am sorry MR.
GATTY takes the phrase "mythic accompaniments" as an imputation on himself.
I did not intend it for one, having no doubt that he repeated the story as
he heard it. In it were two statements of the highest decree of
improbability. One I showed (Vol. v., p. 434.) to be contrary to penal, the
other to forensic practice. One MR. GATTY found to have been only a report,
the other to have occurred at a different place and under different
circumstances. Had these been stated in the first version, I should not
have disputed them. Whittington was thrice Lord Mayor of London--that is
history, to which the prophecy of Bow-bells and the exportation of the cat
are "mythic accompaniments."

A word as to "disclosing only initials." I think you, as a means of
authentification, should have the name and address of every correspondent.
You have mine, and may give them to any one who pays me the compliment of
asking; but I do not seek farther publicity.

H. B. C.

Oxford.

_The Man with the Iron Mask_ (Vol. vii., pp. 234. 344.).--I think that Mr.
James, in his _Life and Times of Louis XIV._, has, to say the least, shown
strong grounds for doubting the theory which identifies this person with
Mathioli; and since then several writers have been inclined to fall back,
in the want of any more probable explanation, on the old idea that the
captive was a twin brother of Louis. What has become of the letter from M.
de St. Mars, said to have been discovered some years ago, confirming this
last hypothesis? Has any such letter been published, and, if so, what is
the opinion of its genuineness?

J. S. WARDEN.

_Gentleman executed for Murder of a Slave_ (Vol. vii., p. 107.)--Sometime
between 1800 and 1805, Lord Seaforth being Governor of Barbadoes, a
slaveowner, having killed one of his own slaves, was tried for the murder
and acquitted, the l