will whip about your infamy _circum circa_; a gig of a cuckold's horn!" It is enough to add that the gig was made of the tip of the horn, and looked, while spinning, like an inverted extinguisher. It was hollow, but my impression is that there was sometimes lead at the bottom of the inside. Even with the ballast, it was a ticklish, volatile, kickety thing, much more difficult to set up and to keep up than the sober whipping-top, and bearing somewhat the same relation to one in bulk and motion, {284} that a ship's gig may do to herself, or a gig on land to a coach. As to Gig Hill, however, unless it has a conical top, some other explanation must be sought. N. B. [C., E. H., and numerous other correspondents, have also kindly replied to this Query.] _Epigram against Burke_ (Vol. iii., P. 243.).-- "Oft have I heard that ne'er on Irish ground, A poisonous reptile ever yet was found; Nature, though slow, will yet complete her work, She has saved her venom to create a Burke." The author of these lines was Warren Hastings himself; his private secretary (Mr. Evans) sat by his side during the trial, and saw him write the above. My authority is a niece of Mr. Evans, who formed one of her uncle's family at the period of the trial. N. M. _Engraved Portrait_ (Vol. iii., p. 209.).--This is the portrait of Samuel Clarke, the ejected minister of Bennet Fink, London. I have three impressions of this engraving now before me. Two of these are in an illustrated Granger, and are in different states, the earlier one having no shading in the background. The third copy is prefixed to-- "A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines, Famous in their Generations for Learning, Prudence, Piety, and painfuless in the work of the Ministry, &c. By Sa. Clarke, Preacher of the Gospel in St. Bennet Fink, London, 1662." 4to. Very likely the same plate had been previously used for some other of Clarke's numerous publications. At the end of the verses beneath the portrait, my copies have "P.V.A.M. _fecit_," which, I suppose, are the initials of Peter Vinke. JOHN I. DREDGE. A full and interesting account of this worthy divine is given in _Granger_, vol. v. p. 73.; and the quatrain will be found annexed to a brief account of the same portrait in Ames's _English Heads_, p. 43. J. F. Y.