[In the year 1787, the late Professor Langlés of Paris published a French translation of the _Institutes_, under the title of _Instituts Politiques et Militaires de Tamerlane, proprement appellé Timour, écrits par lui-même en Mogol, et traduits en François sur la version Persane d'Abou Taleb al Hosseini, avec la Vie de ce Conquerant_, &c. And in 1830 another English translation was published by Major Charles Stewart, late Professor of Oriental Languages in Hon. E. I. Company's College, entitled, _The Mulfuz[=a]t Tim[=u]r, or Autobiographical Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Tim[=u]r_. In the Preface to this edition our correspondent will find an interesting bibliographical account of the work and its various translations.] Replies. THE EARL OF ERROLL. (Vol. v., p. 297.) I am somewhat of opinion that your correspondent PETROPROMONTORIENSIS is correct, about this nobleman being by _birth_ the first subject in Scotland, only he has apparently omitted the word "hereditary" before those of Great Constable of Scotland, or Lord High Constable of Scotland. Indeed, some writers make him _by birth_, not only the first subject in Scotland, but also in England. Dr. Anderson, the learned and laborious editor of _The Bee_, at p. 306. of vol. v. of that publication, in the article on James, Earl of Erroll, who died 3rd June, 1778, says: "As to rank, in his lordship's person were united the honours of Livingston, Kilmarnock, and Erroll. As hereditary High Constable of Scotland, Lord Erroll is _by birth_ the first subject in Great Britain, after the blood royal, and, as such, had a right to take place of every hereditary honour. The Lord Chancellor, and the Lord High Constable of England, do indeed take precedence of him, but these are only temporary honours which no man can lay claim to _by birth_; so that, _by birth_, Lord Erroll ranks, without a doubt, as the first subject of Great Britain, next after the Princes of the blood royal." It would appear that the personal appearance of Earl James was in good keeping with his high rank. He was accounted the handsomest man in Britain, and at the coronation of George III. he attended in his robes, and by accident neglected to take off his cap when the king entered. He apologised for his negligence in the most respectful manner; but his majesty, with great complacency, entreated him to be covered, as he looked upon his presence at the solemnity as a very particular honour. The Earl of Erroll's charter of appointment to this high office, is dated at Cambuskenneth, 12th November, anno 1316; and is still preserved in the charter room of the family seat, Slains Castle, Cruden, Aberdeenshire. The youthful inheritor of this high office is the Right Honourable William Harry, Earl of Erroll, Baron Hay of Slains, Baron Kilmarnock of Kilmarnock, in the county of Ayr, Captain in the Rifle Brigade, born in 1823, succeeded his father, seventeenth Earl, in 1846.