While upon the subject I may further note, that among many other carpers at the "Burnomania" was James Maxwell, better known as the "Poet in Paisley," who attacked Burns and his friend Lapraik in a _brochure_, entitled "_Animadversions on some Poets and Poetasters of the present Age, especially R----t B----s and J----n L----k, with a Contrast of some of the former Age_: Paisley, Neilson, for the Author, 1788. In this curious piece, which was unknown to Motherwell,--our pair of poets, with all their patrons and friends,--among whom Maxwell is _shocked_ to find both _ministers_ and _elders_,-- "For some of our clergy his poems esteem, And some of our elders think no man like him,"-- all these, and such like, are severely censured by the moral poet for admiring "this stupid blockhead," besides being menaced with a certain place, to which their favourites are certainly doomed, should they continue to support such arch-enemies of the Kirk and order. How appropriate, then, is the remark of the Rev. Hamilton Paul, one of Burns' warmest admirers and editors, when, _lumping_ all these envious spirits together, he says,-- "Some weak attempts have been made by narrow-minded men to expose to ridicule this 'Burnomania,' as they term it; but like self-love converted by the plastic power of the poet into social affection, it is spreading wider and wider every day." "Friends' kindred, neighbour, first it doth embrace; Our country next, and next all human race." J. O. _Cagots_ (Vol. iv., pp. 190. 331. 387.).--THEOPHYLACT will find an account of the _Cagots_ in the _Magasin Pittoresque_ for 1838, where they are stated to be descended from the Goths, their name of _Cagots_ being derived from _caas Goth_ (_chien de Goth_), which corresponds with the derivation given by Scaliger. In Brittany they were known under the name of _Cacous_ and _Caqueux_: in Guienne and Gascony under that of _Cahets_; in Navarre, _Caffos_; in the mountains of Bearn, &c., as _Cagots_ or _Capots_. The same work for 1840 contains an account of the _Cretins_; also noticed by Kohl in his _Alpen-Reisen_ (reviewed in _Westminster Review_, July, 1849). PHILIP S. KING.