In the year 1815, the University of Oxford determined to reprint Clarendon's _History of the Rebellion_, and to add to it that of the Irish rebellion; but as it was suspected by one of the delegates of the press, that the edition from which they were printing the "Irish Rebellion" was spurious, as it attributed the origin of the rebellion _to the Protestants instead of the Catholics_; a much earlier copy was procured from Dublin, through the chaplain of the then Lord Lieutenant, which _reversed the accusation_ which was contained in the copy from which the University had been about to print. J. T. A. September 30. 1850. _Macaulay's Country Squire._--I suppose I may take it for granted that all the world has long since been made merry by Mr. Macaulay's description of "the country squire on a visit to London in 1685." (_History of England_, vol. i. p. 369.) I am not aware that Steele's description of a country gentleman under similar circumstances has ever been referred to; it is certainly far from being as graphic as Mr. Macaulay's; but the one may at all events serve to illustrate the other, and to prove that Urbs had not made any very great progress in _urbanity_ between 1685 and 1712. "If a country gentleman appears a little curious in observing the edifices, signs, clocks, coaches, and dials, {358} it is not to be imagined how the polite rabble of this town, who are acquainted with these objects, ridicule his rusticity. I have known a fellow with a burden on his head steal a hand down from his load, and slily twirl the cock of a squire's hat behind him; and while the offended person is swearing or out of countenance, all the wag-wits in the highway are grinning in applause of the ingenious rogue that gave him the tip, and the folly of him who had not eyes all round his head to prevent receiving it."--_Spectator_, No. 354. C. FORBES. October 11. _Miching Mallecho._--The Writer of the review of _Urquhart's Travels_ in the _Quart. Rev._ for March 1850, who is, in all probability, identical with the author of the _Handbook of Spain_, felicitously suggests that _Miching Mallecho_ is a mere misprint for the Spanish words _Mucho Malhecho_, _much mischief_: _Hamlet_, iii. 2. Imagining that I had seen this ingenious conjecture somewhere in print before, I referred to, and was disappointed when I found it not in Knight's _Shakspeare_ (library ed.). Recently, in looking over Dr. Maginn's admirable dissections of _Dr. Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare_, I discovered what I was in search of, and beg to present it to the notice of your readers. "That the text is corrupt, I am sure; and I think Dr. Farmer's substitution of _mimicking malhecco_, a most unlucky attempt at emendation. In the old copies it is _munching malicho_, in which we find traces of the true reading, _mucho malhecho_, much mischief.