[Mirabeau left a natural son, Lucas Montigny, who published Memoirs of Mirabeau, Biographical, Literary, and Political, by Himself, his Uncle, and his adopted Child, 4 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1835.—Memoirs of C. M. Talleyrand, 2 vols. 12mo., Lond., 1805. Also his Life, 4 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1834.—Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, translated from the French, 2 vols. 8vo., Lond., 1825.]
"The Turks in Europe," and "Austria as It Is."—I possess an 8vo. volume consisting of two anonymous publications, which appeared in London in 1828, one entitled The Establishment of the Turks in Europe, an Historical Discourse, and the other Austria as It Is, or Sketches of Continental Courts, by an Eye-witness. Can you give me the names of the authors?
Abhba.
[The Turks in Europe is by Lord John Russell: but the author of Austria as It Is, we cannot discover; he was a native of the Austrian Empire.]
"Forgive, blest Shade."—Where were the lines, commencing "Forgive, blest shade," first
published? I believe it was upon a mural tablet on the chancel wall of a small village church in Dorsetshire (Wyke Regis); but I have seen it quoted as from a monument in some church in the Isle of Wight.
The tablet at Wyke, in Dorset, was erected anonymously, in the night-time, upon the east end of the chancel outer wall; but whether they were original, or copied from some prior monumental inscription, I do not know, and should feel much obliged could any of your readers inform me.
S. S. M.
[Snow, in his Sepulchral Gleanings, p. 44., notices these lines on the tomb of Robert Scott, who died in March, 1806, in Bethnal Green Churchyard. Prefixed to them is the following line: "The grief of a fond mother, and the disappointed hope of an indulgent father." Our correspondent should have given the date of the Wyke tablet.]
"Off with his head," &c.—Who was the author of the often-quoted line—