There are other things worth remembering in connexion with this wonder of Hampstead: but I have occupied already more than enough of your space, and will only express my hope that some one will tell us where the Hampstead tree stood, and what was its fate; and what is known about the Essex Broad Oak; and what also about the Bordeaux compeer of the tree monarch of Hampstead.
JOHN BRUCE.
Minor Queries.
"Inveni portum"—"For they, 'twas they."
—You will much oblige me by permitting me to ask, through the medium of your entertaining publication, from whence the two following quotations were cited:
"Inveni portum.—Spes et fortuna valete:
Sat me lusistis; ludite nunc alios."
"For they, 'twas they, unsheath'd the ruthless blade,
And Heav'n shall ask the havock it has made."
The first will be found in Gil Blas, livre 10ième, chapitre 10ième; and the second is used by the renegade Paul Jones in his mock-heroic epistle to the Countess of Selkirk, in extenuation of his having plundered the family seat in Scotland of the plate, on the 23rd April, 1778.