Spirit that art flown away."
C. S.
Ink.—From the following lines by Whitehead, which I find in my note-book, I am induced to ask who was the inventor of ink?
"Hard, that his name it should not save,
Who first pour'd forth the sable flood."
Philip S. King.
Hamilton Queries (Vol. vi., p. 429.).—Lord Brayboooke says, in writing of Lord Spencer Hamilton, that he "was a younger son of James, third Duke of Hamilton." I find, on referring to a Peerage, date about 1720 (I cannot quote it more particularly, as it has no title-page), that the third inheritor of the dukedom of Hamilton was Anne, daughter of the first and niece of the second Duke of Hamilton; and that she married William, Earl of Selkirk, eldest son of the Marquis of Douglas. The date would better accord with Lord Spencer's being a son of James, fifth Duke of Hamilton. Was it not so?
Sir William Hamilton.—Who was the first wife of Sir W. Hamilton, the celebrated ambassador, and when did he marry her? Who was the second, who has attained such notoriety in connexion with Nelson's name; and when and where were they married?
Was Single-speech Hamilton a member of the ducal family of Hamilton? If so, his lineage from that house?
Tee Bee.