9. Shelley's Children.
—Are any of Shelley's children, by his first wife, still living and where?—a friend of mine, who was her companion, having a relic of her, which she would gladly give into their possession.
PHILO.
10. Ackey Trade.
—I have in my cabinet a silver coin (shilling size) which has on the obverse, besides the bust of the kind, the date 1818, and the legend, the following under the head (between it and the legend), "½ Ackey Trade;" and I shall be glad to have an explanation of what is meant by the "Ackey Trade?" The reverse has the arms and crest of the African Company. The legend is "Free Trade to Africa by Act of Parliament, 1750."
J. N. C.
11. Baskerville the Printer.
—I was informed in 1835, by a friend living at Birmingham, that the coffin containing the body of that celebrated printer was then lying in a timber yard in that town under a pile of deals—a fact which was well known there.
Is it still in the same place? And why? And is there any portrait, engraved or otherwise, of him? Mr. Merridew of Coventry, and others, have assured me there was not.
G. C.