"December 13, Monday. I received letters from Brecknock; that the saltpeter man was dead and buried the Sunday before the messenger came. This saltpeter man had digged in the Colledge Church for his work, bearing too bold upon his commission. The news of it came to me to London about November 26. I went to my Lord Keeper, and had a messenger sent to bring him up to answer that sacrilegious abuse. He prevented his punishment by death."
John S. Burn.
Major André (Vol. viii., p. 174.).—There is in the picture gallery of Yale College, New Haven, Conn., an original sketch of Major André, executed by himself with pen and ink, and without the aid of a glass. It was drawn in his guard-room on the morning of the day first fixed for his execution.
J. E.
Longevity (Vol. viii., p. 182.).—A Doubter is informed that the National Intelligencer (published at Washington, and edited by Messrs. Gales and Seaton) is the authority for my statement respecting Mrs. Singleton, and her advanced age. If A Doubter is desirous of satisfying himself more fully respecting its correctness, he has but
to write to the above-named gentlemen, or to the English Consul at Charleston, S. C., and his wish will doubtless be gratified. I cannot but hope that your correspondent's "fifty cents worth of reasons" for doubting my statement is now, or shortly will be, removed.
If A Doubter intends to be in New York while the present Exhibition is open, he will have an opportunity of seeing a negro of the age of one hundred and twenty-four, who once belonged to General Washington, and from whom he could very possibly obtain some information respecting the aged "nurse" of the first President of the United States mentioned in his note.
W. W.
Malta.
Passage in Virgil (Vol. viii., p. 370.).—The passage for which your correspondent R. Fitzsimons makes inquiry is to be found in the Eighth Eclogue, at the 44th and following lines: