_Count Konigsmark._--Horace Walpole, in his _Reminiscences_, says distinctly that Count Konigsmark, the admirer of the ill-fated Princess Sophia Dorothea of Zelle, was the same person as the instigator of Mr. Thynne's assassination. Sir E. Brydges, in his edition of Collins's _Peerage_, on the other hand, calls them brothers. Which of these writers is correct? The fact may not be important otherwise than as giving us an instance (if Walpole be correct) of the righteous judgment of heaven in visiting a murderer with such fearful retribution. I cannot find what became of Konigsmark, after the murder of Mr. Thynne, in 1681-2. It is said in the _Harleian Miscellany_, that he was taken by one of Monmouth's attendants, who seized him as he was going on ship-board. The three actual assassins were, we know, executed; but it is added, "by some foul play, Konigsmark, who had employed them, and came over to England expressly to see they executed their bloody commission, was acquitted." What was this foul play, and how came the greatest villain of the four to escape? I have not the _State Trials_ to refer to: that work may give some explanation. Walpole, who was familiar from childhood with the events of the courts of the first three Georges, is likely to have been accurate as to the identity of Konigsmark; but his occasional mistakes and misrepresentations, as we are aware, have been frequently exposed by Mr. Croker. J. H. MARKLAND. _"O Leoline! be absolutely just._"-- "O Leoline! be absolutely just, Indulge no passion and betray no trust. Never let man be bold enough to say Thus and no farther shall my passion stray. The first step past still leads us on to more, And guilt proves fate which was but choice before." Who is the author of the above? H. B. C. _Lyte Family._--When did the Lyte family first settle at Lytes Carey, Somersetshire? On what occasion, and by whom, was the _fleur de lis_ added to their crest? And when did a part of the family alter the spelling of the name from Lyte to Light? The family is an ancient one, and in the reign of Elizabeth of considerable literary distinction. J. L. _Sir Walter Raleigh's Snuff-box._--What has become of Sir Walter Raleigh's snuff-box? It was a favourite box, in constant use by the late Duke of Sussex, and was knocked down at his sale for 6_l._ It is the box out of which Raleigh took a pinch of snuff on the scaffold. L. H. L. T. "_Poets beware._"--Where are the following lines to be found: "Poets beware; never compare Women to aught in earth or in air," &c. E. F. L. _Guanahani, or Cat Island._--Why is this small island, one of the Bahama group, so called? It is supposed that cats of large size, and quite wild, used to be shot on this island; but none of the many writers on the West Indies have touched on Guanahani, or Cat Island. W. J. C. St. Lucia.