Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me in whose possession the portrait now is, and whether any engraving of Combe's portrait from that or any other picture is now to be obtained?
E. T.
"Quod non fecerunt barbari," &c.—Who is the author of the epigram—
"Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barbarini,"
which commemorates the destruction of the Coliseum at Rome, both by the barbarians who overran Italy about the middle of the fifth century, and, at a later period, by certain Popes of the family of the Barberini?
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.
Lines on English History (Vol. iii., p. 168.; Vol. v., p. 405.).—I shall be extremely obliged to Mr. Edward Charlton to procure me, if he can, a copy of the above lines, and forward them, through Mr. Bell, to
An English Mother.
[We should also be most glad to receive from any correspondent who can supply it, the Metrical and Logical History, asked for by our lamented correspondent Mæris, which commences—