Mr. Willis.
Mrs. Boddington.
29th March, 1852.
Sir—Perhaps some of your readers will kindly afford me some information relative to Mrs. Boddington, authoress of The Gossip's Week, Reminiscences of the Rhine, Sketches of the Pyrenees, and a volume of Poems, published by Longman & Co. in 1839?
Yours obediently,
W.
The Arctic searching Expedition.—No less than twenty Flags have been presented to Captain Sir Edward Belcher, designed and embroidered by the fair fingers of his relatives and friends. Previous to the sailing of the "Assistance," they were displayed on the quarter-deck of that ship, for the inspection of the distinguished visitors who repaired on board to take leave of this distinguished, gallant, and enterprising officer. The following list of their devices and mottoes may not be an uninteresting record:—
1. Black pouncing eagle, white ground, scarlet border. Motto, on scarlet ground,