The very depreciatory terms in which the Emperor Napoleon used to speak of the Duke of Wellington as a general is well known. The following extract from Forsyth's _Napoleon at St. Helena and Sir Hudson Lowe_, appears to me worthy of being brought under the notice of the readers of "N. & Q.:" "After the governor had left the house (upon the death of Napoleon he had gone to the house of the deceased with Major Gorrequer to make an inventory of and seal up his papers), Count Montholon called back Major Gorrequer to ask him a question, and he mentioned that he had been searching for a paper dictated to him by Napoleon a long time previously, and which he was sorry he could not find, as it was a _eulogium on the Duke of Wellington_, in which Napoleon had spoken in the highest terms of praise of the military conduct of the Duke."--See vol. iii. p. 299. J. W. FARRER. [Footnote 1: Jarvis translates the passage in _Don Quixote_,--"Him you are to punish with deeds, do no evil; intreat with words, for the pain of the punishment is enough for the wretch to bear, without the addition of ill-language."] _Romford Jury._--The following entry appears on the court register of the Romford Petty Sessions (in Havering Liberty) for the year 1730, relating to the trial of two men charged with an assault on Andrew Palmer. As a curious illustration of the manner in which justice was administered in country parts in "the good old times," I think it may be interesting to the readers of "N. & Q." "The jury could not for several hours agree on their verdict, seven being inclinable to find the defendants guilty, and the others not guilty. It was therefore proposed by the foreman to put twelve shillings in a hat, and hustle most heads or tails, whether guilty or not guilty. The defendants, therefore, were acquitted, the chance happening in favour of not guilty." E. J. SAGE. _Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough), Chief Justice._--J. M.'s quotation of the song in the _Supplement to the Court of Sessions Garland_ (Vol. ix., p. 221.), reminds me of the lines on Mr. Law's being made Chief Justice: "What signifies now, quirk, quibble, or flaw, Since _Law_ is made _Justice_, seek justice from _Law_." W. COLLYNS. Drewsteignton. _Chamisso._--Chamisso, in his poem of "The Three Sisters," who, crushed with misery, contended that each had the hardest lot, has this fine passage by the last speaker: "In one brief sentence all my bitter cause Of sorrow dwells--thou arbiter! oh, pause Ere yet thy final judgment thou assign, And learn my better right--too clearly proved. Four words comprise it--I was never loved: The palm of grief thou wilt allow is mine." "He knew humanity--there can be no grief like that grief. Death had bereaved one sister of her lover--the second mourned over her fallen idol's shame--the third exultingly says,--