"Who?" I exclaimed; "but who wants to move him? This monarch is, I suppose, the captain; but why should men in general wish to move _him_?" I suppose most of your readers see at the first what I saw at the second glance, that Byron meant "to move _as_ the monarch of this deck," that is, to be the captain. If I have satisfied T. W. and the rest of your readers of the construction of the first passage, I have, I think, also shown that the tendency to such transient mistakes in reading Byron is not uncommon. W. W. Cambridge, Oct. 10. 1851. Replies to Minor Queries. _MS. Note in a Copy of Liber Sententiarum_ (Vol. iv., pp. 188. 282.).--For the information of W. S. W. I beg to notify that the "mundane era" quoted by him is the Septuagint era of Venerable Bede, who, in his chronology of the world, uses two eras; one of which he calls "juxta Hebraicam veritatem," the other, "juxta septuaginta interpretes." He makes the concurrence of these with A.D. 1, at the birth of Christ, to be respectively as follows:-- A.M. 3952. A.M. Sep. 5300. A.D. 1. The two latter, as W. S. W. will perceive, are exactly in the same relation as those in the MS. note. I should also suggest that "S" may be the initial in the writer's name, and not "T": in which case "[q=]. T." probably signifies "quam tribuit." A. E. B. P.S.--Upon a second reference to the communication of W. S. W. I find that the above dates _are not_ consistent with those quoted by him, but differ by exactly a hundred years: that this should be the exact difference is very singular, and would lead me to suspect that there might have been a mistake in transcription, were it not that in his smaller work Bede has this sentence: "Hujus anno Dominus nascitur, completis ab Adam annis 3952.--_Juxta alios_, 5199." _Naturalis proles_ (Vol. iv., p. 161.).--Undoubtedly in Latin _naturalis_ is opposed to "adopted;" _e.g._ "P. Scipio ... _naturalis_ consulis Paulli, _adoptione_ Africani nepos." (Livy, xliv. 44.) I stumbled some time ago upon the following: "The Act of Settlement by which Napoleon, Emperor of France, was declared King of Italy, with the right of succession to his sons _natural_ or _adopted_, and male heirs.... He declared that he accepted, and would defend, the iron crown; and that even during his lifetime he would consent to separate the two crowns, and place one of his _natural_ or _adopted_ sons upon the throne."--Alison's _History_, chap. xxxix. §§ 38, 39. I have no means of ascertaining whether this is a literal rendering from the French document. If I may trust my _Dictionnaire de l'Académie_, this sense of the word is unknown to the French language, as well as to ours. CHARLES THIRIOLD. _Print cleaning_ (Vol. iv., p. 175.).--The following method is given as infallible by Mr. Stannard in the _Art-Union_ for 1847, pp. 179. 261.: