The subjoined song is copied from a _Collection of English Songs_ in the British Museum (G. 310-163.). The Catalogue gives the conjectural date of 1775. In the _History of the American Revolution_ (published by the Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge), p. 22., is an anecdote referring to Lord Percy having, in 1775, caused his band to play "Yankee Doodle" in _derision_ of the Americans: but I infer, from the Earl of Carlisle's Lecture on his Travels in America, that it is _now_ used by the Americans as their _national tune_. YANKEE DOODLE; OR, THE NEGROE'S FAREWELL TO AMERICA. _The Words and Music by T. L._ 1. "Now farewell, my Massa, my Missey, adieu! More blows or more stripes will me e'er take from you, Or will me come hither or thither me go, No help make you rich by de sweat of my brow. Yankee doodle, yankee doodle dandy, I vow, Yankee doodle, yankee doodle, bow wow wow. 2. "Farewell all de yams, and farewell de salt fish, De bran and spruce beer, at you all me cry, Pish! Me feed upon pudding, roast beef, and strong beer, In Englan', old Englan', when me do get dere. Yankee doodle, &c. 3. "Farewell de musketo, farewell de black fly, And rattle-snake too, who may sting me to dye; Den Negroe go 'ome to his friends in Guinee, Before dat old Englan' he 'ave a seen'e. Yankee doodle, &c. 4. "Farewell de cold winter, de frost and de snow, Which cover high hills and de valleys so low, And dangling and canting, swearing and drinking, Taring and feath'ring for ser'ously thinking. Yankee doodle, &c. 5. "Den hey! for old Englan' where Liberty reigns, Where Negroe no beaten or loaded with chains; And if Negroe return, O! may he be bang'd, Chain'd, tortur'd, and drowned,--or let him be hang'd! Yankee doodle," &c. C. H. COOPER. PERPETUAL LAMP. (Vol. iv., p. 501.) The reported discovery at the dissolution of monasteries of a lamp that had burned in a tomb nearly 1200 years, to which your correspondent B. B. adverts, is, I presume, the discovery referred to by Camden (Gough's ed. vol. iii. p. 242.), where he says: "I have been informed by persons of good credit, that upon the dissolution of monasteries in the last age, a lamp was found burning in a secret vault of a little chapel, where, according to tradition, Constantius was buried. For Lazius writes that the ancients had the art of reducing gold to a consistent fluid, by which they kept fire burning in vaults for a long time, and even for many ages."