265. _Lines on Cagliostro._--Mr. Carlyle, in _Miscellanies_, 3rd edit., vol. iii. p. 324., quotes the following "epigraph," as appended to a portrait of Cagliostro: "De l'Ami des Humains reconnaissez les traits: Tous ses jours sont marqués par de nouveaux bienfaits; Il prolonge la vie, il secourt l'indigence; Le plaisir d'être utile est seul sa récompense." Is there any possibility of ascertaining, at the present day, to which of the countless dupes of that "quack of quacks" we are indebted for this hyperbolical effusion? HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, Sept. 1851. 266. _The Names and Numbers of British Regiments._--Formerly the regiments in the British army were distinguished not by a particular _number_, but the _name_ of an officer of rank. I shall feel obliged by information on the following points:-- 1. What was the origin of thus _naming_, instead of numbering, regiments? 2. _Who_ conferred the name? Was it done at the War-office, or how? 3. If in honour of an officer commanding the corps, was the name changed when that officer died, or removed to another regiment; or what was the rule? 4. When did the present mode of _numbering_ regiments begin, and by whom was it introduced; and what was the rule adopted in applying the number to each corps? I mean, what was the principle followed in giving any regiment a certain number? Was it according to the length of time it had been embodied? 5. What is the guide now, in identifying a _named_ with a _numbered_ regiment? Ȝ. 267. _Praed's Charade._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the answer to the following charade by W. M. Praed? "My first's an airy thing, Joying in flowers; Evermore wandering, In Fancy's bowers; Living on beauteous smiles From eyes that glisten; And telling of love's wiles To ears that listen. "But if, in its first flush Of warm emotion, My second come to crush Its young devotion, Oh! then it wastes away, Weeping and waking, And, on some sunny day, Is blest in breaking." I have several of Praed's charades, but this is the only one of which I have not the answer. E. C. 268. _Cozens the Painter._--Can any of your correspondents give me information as to Cozens, the painter? The celebrated painter Turner has declared that for much of the poetry of painting he is indebted to Cozens. Now, on the wall opposite to which I am sitting, hangs a portrait of Cozens by Pine, which has been sometime in our family. I wish to know where I shall find mention of him, or where I can see any of his works. C. S. B. S.