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A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DIBDIN.

(See 9th S. viii. 39, 77, 197, 279; ix. 421; x. 122, 243; xi. 2, 243, 443; xii. 183, 283, 423, 462; 10th S. i. 463.) 1808. The Melange. A Table Entertainment, written and composed by Charles Dibdin. Hogarth gives no particulars of it, and I have been unable to trace a record of the performances, beyond the songs, the words of which are given in the following:

*Songs, Glees, Duettos, &c., in the Melange; written & composed by Mr. Dibdin, & performed at the Sans Pareil, Strand. London. Printed for the Author, by R. Cantwell, No. 29 Bell Yard, Lincoln's Inn. And sold at Mr. Dibdin's Warehouse, No. 125, Strand. Price One Shilling. 1808. 8vo, pp. 36.

The songs, &c., of which none can be traced as published with the music, in connexion with this entertainment, are as follows :1. The Flowing Bowl. (No. 3 in 'King and

Queen,' 1798.)

2. True Glory. (No. 9 in 'The Sphinx,' 1797.) 3. The Two Emperors.

4. The Sailor's Will. (No. 17 in 'New Year's Gifts,' 1804.) 5. The Pullet. (No. 5 in Heads or Tails,' 1805.) 6. The Anchorsmiths. (No. 6 in 'Tour to Land's

End,' 1798.)

7. The Union of Love and Wine. (A Glee, No. 18 in 'Most Votes,' 1802.)

8. The Soldier's Adieu. (No. 5 in 'The Wags,' 1790.)

9. The Ladies. (No. 11 in 'A Frisk,' 1801.) 10. Jack at the Windlass. (No. 20 in 'The Quizes,' 1792.)

11. Miss Wigley. (No. 20 in 'Professional Volunteers,' 1808.)

12. The Actor.

13. The Three Catalanis.

14. Duetto between a Tar and a Clown. (No. 5 in 'The Rent Day,' 1808.)

15. The Good Night (a Glee).

16. The Soldier's Funeral. (No. 9 in Castles in the Air,' 1793.)

17. The Sweets of Love. (No. 11 in 'The Cakehouse,' 1800.)

18. Bachelor's Hall. (No. 2 in The Oddities,' 1789.)

19. Tom Transom. (No. 7 in 'The Frolic,' 1804.) 20. Bottom. (No. 18 in Tom Wilkins,' 1799.) 21. The Brothers (a Duetto).

22. The Song of Songs. (No. 14 in 'The General Election,' 1796.)

1809. Commodore Pennant, a Table Entertainment, written and composed by Charles Dibdin. First performed 16 January, 1809.

This, which was probably a compilation from earlier entertainments, included an intermezzo, Cecilia; or, the Progress of Industry.' I have not discovered any list of songs, and I think none was published. Hogarth mentions the Intermezzo as a oneact entertainment produced after 'Heads or

Tails?' (1805) but I have found no mention of it in advertisements of that year.

1809. A Thanksgiving, A Glee. For 3 Voices, Written and Composed by Mr. Dibdin. Price 18. Printed & Sold at the Author's Music Warehouse No. 125 Strand, & Bland & Weller's, Oxford Street. 2 pp. folio, on a sheet of 4 pp., with 4 pp. 8vo attached, on which are the complete words of the song.

written by himself; together with the words of 1809. The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin, eight hundred songs, two hundred and twenty of which will have their appropriate music. Selected from his works, and embellished with an elegant engraving by Mr. Smith, From a portrait of Mr. Dibdin, a striking likeness, and an admirable Vol. I. [or II.]. London: Published by the Author. Picture painted by Mr. Devis. In six Volumes. At his Music warehouse, No. 125, Strand; and may be had of Mr. Asperne, bookseller, Cornhill; Bland and Weller, No. 23, Oxford Street; Clementi and Co. Cheapside; and by [sic] all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom. 1809. Cantwell, Printer, 29, Bell-Yard, Lincoln's Inn. 8vo. Portrait as in 1803 and 1804 editions. Only "Advertisement," dated 20 May, 1809. two volumes appeared. Vol. I. has viii, 251 pp., and Vol. II. iv, 279 pp., and also 4 pp. following, but not paged. Contains engraved songs Nos. 1 to 61 (excepting No. 37, which is not in any copy I have examined), then 'a Thanksgiving for three voices; also songs lettered A to K; in all issued fortnightly in parts, at 2s. each, con73 songs. This edition was apparently taining about 48 pp. and seven or eight songs. It was to have been completed in 36 parts, of which about 10 appeared.

1809. Songs written and composed by C. Dibdin for Bannister's Budget."

There was published in folio

1. The Veteran & the Volunteer, A Favorite Song, Written & Composed by Mr. Dibdin, And Sung with universal applause by Mr. Bannister's sic On his Tour In his New Entertainment, Called Bannister's Budget, Entd. at Stat. Hall Price 18. London Printed by Goulding & Co. 124 Late 117 New Bond Street & 7 Westmorland Street Dublin. Arrangement for two flutes on p. 4. Others

This is the only one I have seen. (probably issued in similar form) were as

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London: Printed by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row. 1809. 12mo, pp. iv, 174. This is certainly by Dibdin, for which reason I attribute to him 'Peter Nicked; or, the Devil's Darling' (1804), of which I have not been able to trace a copy. On a flyleaf following p. 174 of 'The Lion,' &c, there is announced for speedy publication another work by the same author, of which I have seen no copy: The Patriots Planet-Struck; or, Expulsion Anticipated: a Poetical effusion.'

1811. Songs written and composed by C. Dibdin 'expressly and exclusively." for La Belle Assemblée' Magazine, New Series. Oblong folio, 2 pp. each. 1. Life's Weather Gage [sic]. For No. 15 (January, 1811).

2. All Weathers. For No. 16 (February, 1811). 3. Friendship put to the test. For No. 17 (March, 1811).

4. Conversation between the old Pensioners Malplaquet and Hockstet on our recent Success. For No. 18 (April, 1811).

5. Jack's Alive. For No. 19 (May, 1811).
6. French Cruelty and British Generosity. For

No. 20 (June, 1811).

7. Jack's Discoveries. For No. 21 (July, 1811). 8. The Tizzies. For No. 22 (August, 1811). 9. The Riddle. For No. 23 (September, 1811). 10. The Queen of the May. For No. 24 (October, 11. The Cabin Boy. For No. 25 (November, 1811). 12. Valour and its Reward. For No. 30 (April, 1812).

1811).

1811. The Round Robin. A Musical Piece in

Two Acts. First performed Friday, 21 June, 1811. This piece, Dibdin's last, was unsuccessful, being only played twice; I have seen no copy of either the music or the libretto. The Biographia Dramatica' says the latter was not printed. Hogarth, however, found and included in his collection the words of fourteen lyrical pieces and the music of one. This is one of the most enduringly popular of Dibdin's songs. It was published by Dibdin in folio (2 pp. on a sheet of 4) as follows:

The Lass that Loves a Sailor, Written and Composed by Mr. Dibdin, and sung by Mr. Shaw (with universal applause) at the Theatre in the Haymarket, in The Round Robin. Price ls. This Song is now offered to the Public, as a Specimen of that Piece. To be Sold at Mr. Asperne's, No. 32 Cornhill, at the Sun Office, No. 112 Strand-by Mr. Milhouse, Instrument Maker, No. 5, Rupert Street, St. James's,-Mr. Dibdin, No. 17, Arlington Street, Camden Town,-and all the Music Shops. (Signed at foot of p. 1.)

1814. A collection of Songs, selected from the works of Mr. Dibdin. A New Edition. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [or II. ]. London: printed for R. Lea, Greek Street, Soho; John Richardson, Royal Exchange; and J. Walker & Co., Paternoster Row;

By S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey. 1814. 12mo. Vol. i. pp. iv, viii, 288. Vol. ii. pp. iv, vii, 294. This collection contains every song in the five-volume issue (1790 et seq.), with the exception of What a Plague, said Young Colin,' on p. 107 of vol. iii. The songs are in the same order, except that those of vol. iv. here precede those of vol. iii.

1814 (or later). A Selection [Portrait] of the most esteemed Songs Written and Composed by Mr. Dibdin. To be continued. Published by C. Wheatstone & Co. 436, Strand. Vol. I. [or II. ]. Price 5s. Jones sc. n.d. Watermark date 1814, 9 by 6 in. 2 vols. Engraved title, with portrait engraved by Mr. Smith. Vol. i. contains 20 songs, and index, 50 pp. The songs may have also been issued separately from same plates. Vol. ii. (in the only copy I have seen) contains 17 songs on 44 pp., and no index. It is possibly imperfect.

I have now brought this list of Charles Dibdin's productions up to the date of his death. It still remains to add an account of the subsequent collections of his works and of the existing portraits; after which I shall conclude with a list of such additions and of this I again invite collectors to oblige alterations as I have noted. In anticipation me by comparing their possessions with the corresponding entries in my bibliography, and correcting any errors and omissions. they may detect. I am fully conscious that the result of my labours is very far from perfect. Some allowance must, however, be made for shortcomings in the first serious attempt to give an exact account of the innumerable productions of a man so prolific and versatile. I have received very valuable assistance from a number of correspondents, and especially from three well-known collectors: Mr. W. T. Freemantle, of Rotherham, Mr. Frank Kidson, of Leeds, and the late Mr. Julian Marshall. To the last named I was for a number of years greatly indebted for assistance and encouragement. A correspondence in 'N. & Q.' (to the antiquary the best of introductions) was the beginning of a lasting friendship, to me most pleasant and profitable. His death robs me of one who taught me much as student and collector, of an ardent sympathizer, of a most charming correspondent, and of a valued friend.

E. RIMBAULT Dibdin. Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton.

DELAGARD, ONE OF THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S PREACHERS.-I have been allowed the perusal of a commonplace book

transcribed from the autograph of William Cowper's aunt, Judith Madan (née Cowper). On pp. 9, 10, is an account of Delagard, of whom I find no mention in 'The Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon.' The book is a 4to, half-bound in calf. I quote pp. 9, 10:

"False peace, delusive rest, and vain security. These just and fine epithets I heard from the pulpit at South Audley Chapel some years ago i.e. apparently before 1754] from poor Delagard, a man who preached, I think, 13 sermons, 13 successive Thursdays, under Lady Huntingdon's patronage, a post charitably designed to instruct

Both the great vulgar and the small, the service beginning at 12 o'clock, to render the attendance on it as easy as possible to the tender constitutions of those the world calls people of quality, but who, in the eye of reason and religion, must be comprehended under the only title poor mortals can justly call their own, that of 'miserable

sinners.'

Delagard was a man of a low stature and mean appearance, but in the pulpit assumed a dignity I scarce ever saw before, even where Nature had been more kind in bestowing a better look and more graceful stature. All he said, as it came from the heart, I believe, seldom failed to affect the hearts of his congregation: a force and energy not to be described accompanied every divine precept that fell from his tongue. Many were awakened, some converted; and in general, as in the Gospel preaching, fear fell on all.' Thus for a few weeks it pleased God to enable His servant to do His will; and not many more passed before

he was taken into eternity, I trust and hope, to

enjoy that reward ordained for those who turn many to righteousness, 'to shine like the stars in heaven.'

"I think this small recollection of what he was on earth due to the memory of this faithful servant of our glorious Master's, to whom be glory and honour, thanksgiving and power, love and obedience, for ever and ever! Amen!"

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success. The passengers awaited each morning's issue impatiently. News was received daily from the United States and Europe, and the result board. The Sun states that the Cunard Line agent exceeded the expectations of the pressman on here, Mr. Vernon Brown, has received a telegram from Capt. Pritchard, of the Campania, yesterday afternoon, stating that the Daily Bulletin had been that the daily sea paper has arrived, and is here to entirely successful. This is interpreted to mean stay. The Campania will continue to publish the journal daily on her eastward trip, and subseReuter." quently the Lucania will have a daily publication.—

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

[The Daily Telegraph of 13 June contained a of which the following sentences may be worth long account of this new departure in journalism, preservation in N. & Q.':-"The daily paper published aboard by means of the Marconi news service was entitled the Cunard Daily Bulletin. It was no bigger than a parish magazine, eight inches by five in size, but very well printed. Mr. Graham, purser of the Campania, was editor, with Mr. Kershaw, private secretary to Signor Marconi, as chief sub-editor......There were no leading articles, no advertisements, but plenty of miscellaneous news and gossip to break the monotony of the Atlantic passage. Above all, there was the news, short, crisp interesting items from all parts of the world, to which the passengers and crew looked forward daily with increasing interest. The paid circulation was 725 daily, and the cost 2d. per number."]

GUEST FAMILY. (See 9th S. ix. 508; x. 51.) this family in America may be of service :-A list of works pertaining to the history of

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, xlix., No. ccxc., p. 238, July, 1874.

American Historical Register, New Series, i., No. 2, p. 167, Philadelphia, April, 1897.

New York Geneal. and Biog. Record, xxix. 100, April, 1898.

American Monthly Magazine, xi., No. 6, p. 557, Washington, D.C., December, 1897.

The Spirit of Seventy-six, iv., No. 5, pp. 138, 139, New York, January, 1898.

Manuscripts relating to Guest Family, &c. No. ii., 31, 2, Catalogue No. 89030. Museum of Newberry Library, Chicago, Case

Tales of our Forefathers,' Albany, N. Y., 1898. 'Poems and Journal' (Moses Guest), Cincinnati, 1823-4.

The Guests of New Brunswick, New Jersey (fl. 1776), are said to have descended from those of that name in Birmingham, England. EUGENE F. McPIKE.

Chicago, U.S.

small town about four miles from Kirton-in"SUN AND ANCHOR" INN.-At Scotter, a Lindsey, there is an inn bearing the name of the "Sun and Anchor." In former days I well remember admiring the sign, which bore a resplendent sun and a very large anchor. This has now disappeared, and a mere inscription unhappily supplies the place of

this picturesque specimen of rural art. I held on Saturday evening in the village schools to have never heard of any other public-house in England with a similar title, and have long been puzzled as to its origin. The following passage in Guillim's 'Display of Heraldry' may possibly throw light upon it :

"Cosmus Medices, Duke of Hetruria, gave two Anchors for his Impress, with this word Duabus, meaning it was good to have two holds to trust to; but Richard the First, King of England, gave a Sun on two Anchors, with this Motto, Christo Duce; a worthy and Princely choice of so heavenly a Pilot."-Fifth edition, 1679, p. 231.

Guillim, as was his custom, gives no authority for what he says; but he was a careful and honest man, who did not write at random, as some of his successors who have cribbed from his pages have been wont to do. He must have had what he regarded as sufficient ground for what he stated. Can any one refer to what authority he depended upon? If what he said be true, there is an excellent reason for the sign, and at least a presumption of its antiquity, for Richard I. was a great benefactor to Scotter. He granted a charter of fair and market to the Abbot of Peterborough, who was its lord ('Monasticon Anglic., edition 1846, vol. i. p. 392). It is dated 24 March, and witnessed by Walter, Archbishop of Rouen, but no year is given. Within the memory of elderly people an important horse fair was held at Scotter, but, as has been the case with other rural fairs, the railways have well-nigh extinguished it.

Kirton-in-Lindsey.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

"EASTERLING" AND EAST HARLING.-There

is a singular error in Bardsley's useful 'Dictionary of Place-names' that should be corrected. Under Easterling' he tells us that it is a "local name," which is not precisely the case. See the 'New Eng. Dict.' He gives three examples, none of which are in any sense to the point. He tells us that there were men "de Eastherling" in 1273; a "Walter de Eastherling" in 1303; and a Ralph de Eastherling" at the same date. He says that "Eastherling" is described as being in Norfolk, but he cannot find it. But almost any county map will show that East Harling is not far from Thetford. You get to it from Harling Road Station.

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WALTER W. SKEAT.

"THE GALLANTS OF FOWEY."-A curious traditional grant from the Black Prince is referred to in the following cutting from the Morning Post of Monday, 11 April:

"A parish meeting of the occupiers of GolantSaint-Samson, on the Fowey river, Cornwall, was

consider what steps should be taken to resist the claim for dues made by the lord of the manor for stone raised or carted from the villagers' commons,. on which from time immemorial they have paid the poor rates by a twopenny impost on every cottager, in addition to the ordinary assessment by the overseer. It was stated that though no charter was in the possession of the parish their rights were traditionally inherited by a grant from the Black Prince, as Duke of Cornwall, in reward for services rendered at sea by the Gallants of Fowey,' from which the village takes its name, being one of two in all England dedicated to the memory of Saint Samson, the Apostle of Brittany and second Abbot of Caldy, on the Welsh coast." WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

Dowanhill Gardens, Glasgow.

COUNTY TALES.-There are several tales current in Lincolnshire which were used in former days, and perhaps are at the present time, for the purpose of showing contempt for neighbouring shires or boroughs within our own limits. I give two of these by way of example, and should be glad to know if they are confined to this county, or whether they are to be found in other forms elsewhere.

Grimsby. When this borough had dwindled so as to become a very inconsiderable place, the ignorance of its mayors was a standing joke among outsiders. An old gentleman who, if alive, would be upwards. of a hundred and ten years of age, told me a tale of a certain mayor who had a person brought before him for frying bacon. The culprit pleaded that this was not an offence; but the mayor retorted that it was a felony by common law. A scholar was, however, found, who explained the misinterpreted passage in the law-books. The felony consisted not in frying bacon, but in firing a beacon. In the days when this story had its origin there were beacons all along the East coast. If any one of the series had been wantonly set on fire, the whole population would probably have turned out in their war-gear from Thames to Tyne.

Rutlandshire.-In the days when only gentlemen were made high sheriffs of counties, Rutlandshire was a common jest, because, on account of its small size, men of but mean station had necessarily to be put up with. On one occasion, it was averred, when the proper official came to tell a plain farmer that he had been chosen for an office of such high honour and importance, he found him in his yard, in workaday apparel, thatching a stack. COM. LINC.

"GRAHAMIZE." "Grahamize" is defined in the H.E.D.' as "to cause letters to be opened when passing through the post," and it is

stated that "Sir James Graham, as Home this way are encouraged by the use of the Secretary, had Mazzini's letters so opened in word "actify" in the Times of 14 June, in 1814." No exception can be taken to the a case where the word enact did not jump to definition of "grahamize," but the statement the writer's mind at the moment. It might that Sir James Graham had Mazzini's letters also be questioned whether "barrage" is a opened is not quite accurate, though it repre- justifiable alternative to dam. sents the common opinion and is accepted EDWARD SMITH. by many historians and writers. In the Encyclopædia Britannica,' s.v. Graham,' we read that in 1844 the detention and opening of letters at the post office by his [Sir James Graham's] warrant raised a storm of public indignation." In Justin McCarthy's History of our Own Times' the charge of opening Mazzini's letters is brought against Graham; and the reference to the subject in Sir Spencer Walpole's History of England' is indexed as follows, "Graham, Sir J., opens Mazzini's letters," and "Mazzini, opening of his letters by Sir J. Graham."

The agitation of 1844 about the opening and detention of letters is now almost forgotten; but whatever odium attaches to the opening of Mazzini's letters is still borne by Sir James Graham. A secret committee of the House of Commons, which sat in 1844, reported that Mazzini's letters had been interrupted in the post under a warrant issued by Graham and were sent to the Home Office, whence they were dispatched unopened to the Foreign Office. The warrant for detaining the letters was issued by Graham at the request of his colleague Lord Aberdeen, the Foreign Secretary, and he, not Graham, opened and read Mazzini's letters. But, as is pointed out in the life of Graham in the "D.N.B.,'" Lord Aberdeen held his tongue, and allowed the whole storm to burst on Graham."

J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

"WITHERSHINS."-This is the most representative way that occurs to me of writing a word which was lately told me as meaning contra clockwise, or from left to right, the opposite of with the sun. I do not find it in Jamieson's 'Provincial Dictionary.'

Might I venture to guess that the first two syllables correspond to the German wieder? T. WILSON. Harpenden.

[The surmise as to the origin of the word is correct: Anglo-Saxon wider against, answers to the German wieder.]

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MACKLINIANA.-Judge Parry, at p. 120 of his excellent monograph on Charles Macklin, reproduces Kirkman's detailed statement of the receipts during the Smock Alley engagement of 1763-4, together with Macklin's moiety of the nightly takings. As he confesses his inability to explain on what principle the actor's profits were calculated, it may be as well to point out that the residue was shared equally between Macklin and the manager after 401. had been deducted for the nightly charges of the house. This applies to all save four of the items, viz., 2 and 22 Dec., 20 Jan., and 26 Feb., in which the shillings or the pence (mostly the latter) in Macklin's moieties will not work out. Doubtless this is due to miscopying on Kirkman's part or to subsequent misprints.

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I remark also that in the list of Macklin's plays given by Judge Parry at p. 196 The True-Born Irishman,' otherwise The Irish Fine Lady,' is spoken of as "not printed." This is incorrect. I have both seen and read a copy, and well remember its blunt satire and strong characterization. In this latter quality it recalled to me Holcroft at his best, say in The Road to Ruin.'

Judge Parry mentions a head of Macklin as Shylock, by Zoffany, in the National Gallery of Ireland. The same collection possesses an admirable full-length portrait of the sturdy old actor as Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, the work of De Wilde. It is probably a replica of the painting in the Garrick Club. W. J. LAWRENCE.

Dublin.

JAGGARD-PRINTED BOOKS. (See 4th S. iv. 409.) -It is a far cry back to 1869, when a query appeared with reference to books printed by William Jaggard and Ed. Blount.

Lengthy lists of the Jaggard press appeared in the Athenæum for 18 January, 1902, and following issues, and for 24 January, 1903. The querist seemed to doubt whether Wm. Jaggard really printed the works he published. Reference to the Registers of the Stationers' Company should set such suspicions at rest. WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

AMBAN.-It is well remarked that the peaceful intervention now in progress for Lhasa rouses an interest in philological

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