To come to a minor question; your correspondent reads the passage _qua delata gravitate_--so I should read, decidedly. The whole sentence, which is a long one, is a series of questions (which, by-the-bye, is an additional reason against quoting it as an assertion). "Inde est indagatio nata ... unde essent omnia orta ... quæque cujusque generis ... origo quæ vita, ... quæque ex alio in aliud vicissitudo ... unde terra, et quibus librata ponderibus, quibus cavernis maria sustineantur; qua omnia, delata gravitate, medium mundi locum semper expetant." It is _in qua_ in Ernesti, unnoticed. _In_ was inserted by those who thought that _qua_ agreed with _terra_; which, if otherwise probable, is negatived by the use of the word _mundi_ in the clause. C. B. Sir Isaac Newton's discovery was the law of _universal_ gravitation, viz. that the solar system is kept together by the gravity of the heavenly bodies towards the sun. This was founded on _terrestrial_ gravitation, of which the falling apple _put him in mind_, applied first to the moon, and then _universally_ to the universe. (See _Penny Cyclopædia_, art. "Gravitation;" Biot, "Life of Newton," in the _Biographie Universelle_; or the translation of it in the "Life of Newton" in the _Library of Useful Knowledge_, p. 5.) This is very different from Cicero's words; in which[5] (_sc._ the earth) all things borne downwards by their weight ever seek to reach the middle point of the universe, which is also the lowest point in the earth (qui est idem infimus in rotundo). [Footnote 5: Moser's text has _in qua_, &c. terra.] ED. S. JACKSON. Saffron Walden. DEFERRED EXECUTIONS. (Vol. iv., pp. 191. 243.) Although your correspondent E. S. attempts to throw discredit on M. W. B.'s narration of a deferred execution at Winchester, and carps at the mention of a "warrant," as if that militated against the fact; yet doubtless, in times when carelessness among official personages was not uncommon, many deferred executions may have taken place. It must be evident, that in the case of a convict _respited during pleasure_, that _an order_ must at last be formally made for such person's execution or commutation of punishment; during which interval the prisoner would remain in custody of the gaoler. This in effect would be tantamount to a warrant, and of course communicated to the unfortunate delinquent.