_Anecdote of a Peal of Bells_.--There is a story, that a person had long been absent from the land of his nativity, where in early life, he had assisted in setting up a singularly fine peal of bells. On his return home, after a lapse of many years, he had to be rowed over some water, when it happened that the bells struck out in peal; the sound of which so affected him, that he fell back in the boat and died! Can any of your readers give a reference where the account is to be met with? H.T.E. _Sir Robert Long._--"ROSH." inquires the date of the death of _Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Long_, who founded, in 1760, a Free School at Burnt-Yates, in the Parish of Ripley, co. Yorks., and is said to have died in Wigmore Street, London, it is supposed some years after that period. _Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury._--It is stated in Mr. Martyn's _Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury_, that Dr. Whichcot was one of Shaftesbury's most constant companions, and preached most of his sermons before him; and that the third Earl of Shaftesbury, the author of the Characteristics, is said to have published a volume of Whichcot's sermons from a manuscript copy of the first Lord Shaftesbury's wife. Can any of your readers give any further information as to the intimacy between Whichcot and Shaftesbury, of which no mention is made in any memoir of Whichcot that I have seen? C. _Lines attributed to Henry Viscount Palmerston._--Permit me to inquire whether there is any better authority than the common conjecture that the beautiful verses, commencing,-- "Whoe'er, like me, with trembling anguish brings His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs," were written by Henry Viscount Palmerston, on the death of his lady at the Hot-wells, June 1 or 2, 1769. They first appeared p. 240. of the 47th vol. of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1777. They also have been attributed to Dr. Hawkeworth, but his wife survived him. There is a mural tablet under the west window of Romsey Church, containing some lines to the memory of Lady Palmerston, but they are not the same. Perhaps some of your correspondents are competent to discover the truth. INDAGATOR. _Gray's Alcaic Ode_.--Can any of your readers say whether Gray's celebrated Latin ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse? A friend of mine informs me that he could not find it there on searching. C.B. _Abbey of St. Wandrille_.--Will "GASTROS" kindly allow me to ask him a question? Does the _Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Wandrille_, which he mentions (No. 21. p. 338.), include notices of any of the branches of that establishment which settled in England about the time of the Conquest; and one of which, the subject of my query, formed a colony at Ecclesfield, near Sheffield?