Your correspondent E. H. A., who inquires respecting the family of Michel Adamson, or Michael Adamson, is informed that in France, the country of his birth, the name is invariably written "Ada_n_son;" while the author of _Fanny of Caernarvon, or the War of the Roses_, is described as "John Ada_m_son." Both names are pronounced alike in French; but the difference of spelling would seem adverse to the supposition that the family of the botanist was of Scottish extraction. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. _Portrait of Cromwell_ (Vol. viii., p. 55.).--The portrait inquired after by MR. RIX is at the British Museum. Being placed over the cases in the long gallery of natural history, it is extremely difficult to be seen. JOHN BRUCE. {136} _Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"_ (Vol. iii., p. 493.; Vol. iv., p. 391.).--It is not, I hope, too late to notice that Burke's description of Junius is an allusion neither to the _Iliad_, xiii. 471., nor to Psalm lxxx. 8-13., but to the _Iliad_, xvii. 280-284. I cannot resist quoting the lines containing the simile, at once for their applicability and their own innate beauty: "[Greek: Ithusen de dia promachon, sui eikelos alken] [Greek: Kaprioi, host' en oressi kunas thalerous t' aizeous] [Greek: Rheidios ekedassen, elixamenos dia bessas.] [Greek: Os huios Telamonos]." W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. "_Amentium haud Amantium_" (Vol. vii., p. 595.).--The following English translation may be considered a tolerably close approximation to the alliteration of the original: "Of dotards not of the doting." It is found in the Dublin edition of _Terence_, published by J. A. Phillips, 1845. C. T. R. Mr. Phillips, in his edition, proposes as a translation of this passage, "Of _dotards_, not of the _doting_." Whatever may be its merits in other respects, it is at all events a more perfect alliteration than the other attempts which have been recorded in "N. & Q." ERICA. Warwick. When I was at school I used to translate the phrase "Amentium haud amantium" (Ter. _Andr_., i. 3. 13.) "_Lunatics, not lovers_." Perhaps that may satisfy FIDUS INTERPRES. [Pi]. [Beta]. A friend of mine once rendered this "_Lubbers, not lovers_." P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. _Talleyrand's Maxim_ (Vol. vi., p. 575.; Vol. vii., p. 487.).--Young's lines, to which Z. E. R. refers, are: "Where Nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal their mind." With less piquancy, but not without the germ of the same idea, Dean Moss (ob. 1729), in his sermon _Of the Nature and Properties of Christian Humility_, says: "Gesture is an artificial thing: men may stoop and cringe, and bow popularly low, and yet have ambitious designs in their heads. And _speech is not always the just interpreter of the mind_: men may use a condescending style, and yet swell inwardly with big thoughts of themselves."--_Sermons_, &c., 1737, vol. vii. p. 402. COWGILL.