No doubt there is a copy of the _Classical Journal_ in the Bodleian; and if BALLIOLENSIS can give me volume and page, I in turn shall be much obliged to him. HYPATIA. The lines to which your correspondent BALLIOLENSIS refers-- "Conscia ni dextram dextera pressa premat." are a translation of the song in Sheridan's _Duenna_, Act I. Sc. 2., beginning-- "I ne'er could any lustre see," &c. They were done by Marmaduke Lawson, of St. John's College, Cambridge, for the Pitt Scholarship in 1814, for which he was successful: "Phyllidis effugiunt nos lumina. Dulcia sunto. Pulcra licet, nobis haud ea pulcra micant. Nectar erat labiis, dum spes erat ista tenendi, Spes perit, isque simul, qui erat ante, decor. Votis me Galatea petit. Caret arte puella, Parque rosis tenero vernat in ore color: Sed nihil ista juvant. Forsan tamen ista juvabunt. Si jaceant, victâ mente, rubore genæ: Pura manus mollisque fluit. Neque credere possum. Ut sit vera fides, ista premenda mihi est. Nec bene credit amor (nam res est plena timoris), Conscia ni dextram dextera pressa premat. Ecce movet pectus suspiria. Pectora nostris Ista legenda oculis, si meus urat amor. Et, nostri modo cura memor nostrique caloris Tangat eam, facere id non pudor ullus erit." I have not sent the English, as it can be easily got at. The other translation I am not acquainted with. B. * * * * * FLORINS AND THE ROYAL ARMS. (Vol. viii., p. 621.) The placing of the royal arms in four separate shields in the form of a cross first occurred upon the medals struck upon the nativity of King Charles II., anno 1630; and adopted upon the reverse of the coins for the first time in 1662, upon the issue of what was then termed the improved milled coin, where the arms are so placed, having the star of the Garter in the centre; the crowns intersecting the legend, and two crowns interlaced in each quarter. The shields, as here marshalled, are each surmounted by a crown; having in the top and bottom shield France and England quarterly, Ireland on the dexter side (which is the second place), and on the sinister Scotland.[2] But on the milled money which followed, France and England being borne separately, that of France, which had been constantly borne in the first quarter singly until James I., and afterwards in the first place quarterly with England, is placed in the bottom shield or fourth quarter. Mr. Leake, in his _Historical Account of English Money_[3], after remarking that this irregular bearing first appeared upon the nativity medals of Charles II. in 1630, where the shields are placed in this manner, adds, that this was no doubt originally owing to the ignorance of the graver, who knew no other way to place the arms circularly than following each other, like the titles, unless (as I have heard, says he) that the arms of each kingdom might fall under the respective title in the legend; and this witty