1. In answer to the communication of A COLLECTOR, allow me to remark, that although Bruce did not publish his _Travels_ till about seventeen years after his return to Great Britain, various details had got abroad; and, as usually happens, the actual facts, as given by himself, were either intentionally or accidentally misrepresented. Latterly, Bruce, indignant at the persecution he suffered, held his tongue, and patiently awaited the publication of his _Travels_ to silence his accusers. Amongst other teasing occurrences, Paul Jodrell brought him on the stage in a clever after-piece which was acted in the Haymarket in 1779, and was published in 8vo. in 1780. A copy of this piece, which is called _A Widow and no Widow_, is now before me: and Macfable, a Scotch travelling impostor, was acted by Bannister; and the hits at Bruce cannot be mistaken. Further, Bruce himself understood that he was the party meant by "Munchausen," and he complained of this and many other attacks to a distant relative of mine, who died a few years since, and who mentioned the circumstances to me; adding, that Bruce uniformly declared that the publication of his work would, he had no doubt, afford a triumphant answer to his calumniators. Whilst on the subject of Munchausen, I may observe, that the story of the frozen words is to be found in _Nugæ venales, or a Complaisant Companion_, by Head, the author or compiler of the _English Rogue_. It occurs among the lies, p. 133.: "A soldier swore desperately that being in the wars between the Russians and Polemen, there chanced to be a parley between the two generals where a river parted them. At that time it froze so excessive that the words were no sooner out of their mouths but they were frozen, and could not be heard till _eleven_ days after, that a thaw came, when the dissolved words themselves made them audible to all." As my copy has a MS. title, I should be obliged if any of your readers could furnish me with a correct one.