_Has Execution by Hanging been survived?_--I have heard vague and indiscriminate tales of persons who, as criminals, have undergone infliction of the punishment of hanging without total extinction of life; but I have always been disposed to look upon such accounts as mere fables, till lately, in turning over some newspapers of the year 1740, I found a case mentioned, under such circumstances that, if it were untrue, its refutation might have been easily accomplished. By _The Craftsman_ of Saturday, Sept 27, 1740, it appears one William Dewell had been concerned in the violation, robbery, and murder of a young woman in a barn at Acton (which place has so recently been the scene of another horrible crime). _The Craftsman_ of Saturday, Nov. 29, 1740, states that Dewell, having undergone execution, and being brought to Surgeons Hall to be anatomised, _symptoms of life appeared, and he quite recovered_.[5] This strikes me as a most unaccountable story; but perhaps similar ones may have been met with in the reading of some of your correspondents. [Sigma]. [Footnote 5: [Matt of the Mint in the _Beggar's Opera_ says, "My poor brother Tom had an accident this time twelve-month; and so clever a made fellow he was, that I could not save him from those flaying rascals the surgeons; and now, poor man, he is among the 'otamies at Surgeons' Hall." The executed culprit noticed by our correspondent, however, seems to have been _re-animated_ at Surgeons' Hall.--ED.]] _Maps of Dublin._--In Gough's _Topographical Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland_, p. 689., it is stated that there is a map of the city and suburbs of Dublin, by Charles Brookin, 1728, and a map of the Bay and Harbour of Dublin, with a small plan of the city, 1728. I have Brookin's map of the city, 1728, but I have never seen or heard of any person who had seen the map of the Bay and Harbour of 1728. Possibly some of your correspondents could give information on the subject, and also state whether there be any map of the city, either manuscript or printed, between Speed's map of 1610 and Brookin's of 1728, and where? C. H. Dublin. "_The Lounger's Common-place Book._"--Who was the editor of this work? Any information as to its literary history, and especially as to that of the revised edition of it, will be very acceptable to W. H. S. _Mount Mill, and the Fortifications of London._--In a topographical account of Middlesex, published in the middle of the last century, I find the following: "_Mount Mill_, at the end of Goswell Street, was one of the forts erected by the Parliament for the defence of London." Will any of your correspondents be kind enough to inform me what the exact site was; at what period it was demolished; what were the names and sites of any _other_ forts erected by the Parliament at the time for the purposes of defence; and, lastly, in what work any record of them may be found? B. R. A. Y.