_Poets Laureate_ (Vol. ii., p. 20.).--Your correspondent S. H. will find "an account of the origin, office, emoluments, and privileges of poet laureate" in a recent work entitled _The Lives of the Poets Laureate, with an Introductory Essay on the Title and Office_, by W. S. Austin, Jun., and J. Ralph (Richard Bentley, 1853). From _The Memoirs of William Wordsworth_, vol. ii. p. 403., it would appear that there is a "very interesting literary essay on the laureates of England by Mr. Quillinan." In the year 1803, it would appear that Lord Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, "offered to create a laureateship in Ireland, with the same emoluments as the English one," if Mr. Moore would accept it. (_Memoirs of Tom Moore_, vol. i. p. 228.) From Mr. Moore's Letter to his Mother, dated May 20, 1803, we learn that-- "The manner in which Mr. Wickham communicated the circumstance to me would disgust any man with the least spirit of independence about him. I accordingly, yesterday, after the receipt of my father's letter, enclosed the ode on the birth-day, at the same time resigning the situation."--_Memoirs of Tom Moore_, vol. i. pp. 126--128. LEONARD L. HARTLEY. York. _Brissot de Warville_ (Vol. ix., p. 209.).--Since my last communication on the above subject, I have obtained _The Life of J. P. Brissot, &c., written by himself_, an 8vo. volume of pp. 92, published by Debrett, London, 1794. It is a translation, the original of which I have never seen. And if you do not think the subject exhausted, perhaps you will spare a few lines for his own account of his name.