In looking over the second volume of "N. & Q.," I find the use of the word _blackguard_ is referred to, and passages illustrative of its meaning are given from the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Hobbes, Butler, &c. To these may be added the following fanciful use of the word, which occurs in the poems of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; the author of the well-known naval song "To all you Ladies now at Land:" "Love is all gentleness, all joy, Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace. Her [Belinda's] Cupid is a blackguard boy, That rubs his link full in your face." CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A. _Talleyrand_ (Vol. vi., p. 575.).--Talleyrand's maxim is in Young. I regret that I cannot give the reference. Z. E. R. _Lord King and Sclater_ (Vol. v., pp. 456. 518.).--By Sclater's answer, "as I am informed, the Lord Chancellor _King_ was himself fully convinced."--Zach. Grey's _Review of Neal_, p. 67., edit. 1744. _"Beware the Cat"_ (Vol. v., p. 319.).-The "dignitary of Cambridge" was probably Dr. Thackeray, provost of King's, who bequeathed all his {488} black-letter books to the college. Perhaps _Beware the Cat_ may be among them. Z. E. R. "_Bis dat qui cito dat_" (Vol. vi., p. 376.).--The following Greek is either in the _Anthologia_, or in Joshua Barnes: "[Greek: okeiai charitos glukeroterai, en de bradunei pasa charis phthinuthei, mede legoito charis.]" "Gratia ab officio quod mora tardat, abest." Z. E. R. _High Spirits a Presage of Evil._--The Note of your correspondent CUTHBERT BEDE (Vol. vii., p. 339.) upon this very interesting point recalls to my recollection a line or two in Gilfillan's _First Gallery of Literary Portraits_, p. 71., which bears directly upon it. Speaking of the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the author says, "During all the time he spent in Leghorn, he was in brilliant spirits, _to him a sure prognostic of coming evil_." I may add, that I have been on terms of intimacy with various persons who entertained a dread of finding themselves in good spirits, from a strong conviction that some calamity would be sure to befall them. This is a curious psychological question, worthy of attention. W. SAWYER. Brighton.