REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Vandyke in America-- Title wanted: Choirochorographia--Second Growth of Grass--Snail-eating--Sotades--The Letter "h" in "humble"--Lord North--Singing Psalms and Politics--Dimidiation by Impalement--"Inter cuncta micans," &c.--Marriage Service--Widowed Wife--Pure--Mrs. Tighe--Satirical Medal--"They shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig"--Hendericus du Booys: Helena Leonore de Sieveri--House-marks, &c.--"Qui facit per alium, facit per se"-- Engin-a-verge--Campvere, Privileges of--Humbug: Ambages--"Going to Old Weston"--Reynolds's Nephew--The Laird of Brodie--Mulciber--Voiding Knife--Sir John Vanbrugh--Portrait of Charles I.-- Burial in an erect Posture--Strut-Stowers and Yeathers or Yadders--Arms of the See of York-- Leman Family--Position of Font 228 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 234 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 234 Notices to Correspondents 234 Advertisements 235 * * * * * Notes. "THAT SWINNEY." Junius thus wrote to H. S. Woodfall in a private note, to which Dr. Good has affixed the date July 21st, 1769 (vol. i. p. 174.*) "That Swinney is a wretched but dangerous fool. He had the impudence to go to Lord G. Sackville, whom he had never spoken to, and to ask him whether or no he was the author of Junius: take care of him." This paragraph has given rise to a great deal of speculation, large inferences have been drawn from it, yet no one has satisfactorily answered the question, who was "that Swinney?" That neither Dr. Good nor Mr. George Woodfall, the editors of the edit. of 1812, knew anything about him, is manifest from their own bald note of explanation, "A correspondent of the printers." Some reports say that he was a collector of news for the _Public Advertiser_, and subsequently a bookseller at Birmingham, but I never saw any one fact adduced tending to show that there was any person of that name so employed. Others that the Rev. Dr. Sidney Swinney was the party referred to: and Mr. Smith, in his excellent notes to the _Grenville Papers_, vol. iii. p. lxviii., _assumes_ this to be the fact. I incline to agree with him, but have only inference to strengthen conjecture. What may be the value of that inference will appear in the progress of this inquiry, Who was Dr. Sidney Swinney? Reports collected by Mr. Butler, Mr. Barker, Mr. Coventry, and others, say that the Doctor had been chaplain to the Russian Embassy, chaplain to the Embassy at Constantinople, and chaplain to one of the British regiments serving in Germany. Mr. Falconer, in his _Secret Revealed_, p. 22., quotes a paragraph from one of Wray's letters to Lord Hardwick with reference to the proceedings at the Royal Society: