REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Cremonas--James Chaloner --Irish Convocation--St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca --Captain Ayloff--Plan of London--Syriac Scriptures --Meaning of "Worth"--Khond Fable--Collar of S3. --Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian--Pic Nic--Canker or Brier Rose--Door-head Inscriptions--"Time and I"--Lowbell--Overseers of Wills--Detached Belfry Towers--Vincent Family, &c. 582 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 586 Notices to Correspondents 586 Advertisements 587 * * * * * Notes. TOM MOORE'S FIRST! It is now generally understood that the first poetic effusion of Thomas Moore was entrusted to a publication entitled _Anthologia Hibernica_, which held its monthly existence from Jan. 1793 to December 1794, and is now a repertorium of the spirited efforts made in Ireland in that day to establish periodical literature. The set is complete in four volumes: and being anxious to see if I could trace the "fine Roman" hand of him whom his noble poetic satirist, and after fast friend, Byron, styled the "young Catullus of his day," I went to the volumes, and give you the result. No trace of Moore appears in the volume containing the first six months of the publication; but in the "List of Subscribers" in the second, we see "_Master_ Thomas Moore;" and as we find this designation changed in the fourth volume to "_Mr._ Thomas Moore, Trinity College, Dublin!" (a boy with a black ribband in his collar, being as a collegian an "_ex officio_ man!"), we may take it for ascertained that we have arrived at the well-spring of those effusions which have since flowed in such sparkling volumes among the poetry of the day. Moore's first contribution is easily identified; for it is prefaced by a note, dated "Aungier Street, Sept. 11, 1793," which contains the usual request of insertion for "_the attempts of a youthful muse_," &c., and is signed in the semi-incognito style, "Th-m-s M--re;" the writer fearing, doubtless, lest his fond mamma should fail to recognise in _his own copy_ of the periodical the performance of her little precocious Apollo.