NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--Captain Cuttle. * * * * * No. 5] Saturday, December 1, 1849. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Lord Chatham--Queen Charlotte, Original Letter respecting Cibber's Apology Ancient Tapestry, by J.R. Planché Travelling in England Prison Discipline and Execution of Justice Medal of the Pretender, by Edw. Hawkins John Aubrey, by J. Britton Inedited Song by Suckling White Gloves at Maiden Assizes, by William J. Thomas Adversaria--Don Quixote--Dr. Dove Inscription on Church Plate Anecdotes of Books, by Joseph Hunter Queries answered, No. 3.--Flemish Account Answer to Minor Queries:--Richard Greene, &c. QUERIES:-- Sanuto's Doges of Venice MSS. of Sir Roger Twysden Minor Queries:--Honnore Pelle--Bust of Sir Walter Raleigh, &c. MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements * * * * * LORD CHATHAM--QUEEN CHARLOTTE. _Original Letter, written on the Resignation of Mr. Pitt, in 1761--Public Feeling on the Subject, and Changes at Court in consequence--First Impressions of Queen Charlotte._ [The following valuable original letter is now published for the first time. It will be found to be of very considerable historical curiosity and interest. The resignation of the Great Commoner in 1761, and his acceptance at the same time of a pension and a peerage for his family, were events which astonished his admirers as much as any thing else in his wonderful career. Even now, after the recent publication of all the letters relating to these transactions, it is difficult to put any construction on Mr. Pitt's conduct which is consistent with the high-spirited independence which one desires to believe to have been a leading feature of his character. There may have been great subtlety in the way in which he was tempted; that may be admitted even by the stoutest defenders of the character of George III; but nothing can excuse the eager, rapturous gratitude with which the glittering bait was caught. The whole circumstances are related in the _Chatham Correspondence_, ii. 146, coupled with Adolphus's _Hist. of England._ A kind judgment upon them may be read in Lord Mahon's _Hist. of England_, iv. 365, and one more severe--perhaps, more just--in Lord Brougham's _Historical Sketches_, in the article on Lord Chatham. See also the _Pictorial History of the Reign of George III_, i. 13. After consulting all these authorities the reader will still find new facts, and a vivid picture of the public feeling, in the following letter.]