—The following short paragraph on this subject may be acceptable to your correspondent H. Y. W. N. I found it among a small collection of newspaper cuttings; but I cannot give either the name or date of the paper from which it was taken.
"MUSKET BALLS.—Marshal Saxe computed that, in a battle, only one ball of eighty-five takes effect. Others, that only one in forty strikes, and no more than one in four hundred is fatal. At the battle of Tournay, in Flanders, fought on the 22nd of May, 1794, it is calculated that two hundred and thirty-six musket-shot were expended in disabling each soldier who suffered."
C. FORBES.
Temple.
Joceline's Legacy (Vol. iv., pp. 367. 410. 454.).
—Having at length obtained a copy of the edition of this excellent manual, which your correspondent J.S. (Vol. iv., p. 410.), in reply to my Query, informed me had passed through the press of Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, "with a preface or dissertation containing many particulars relating to the authoress and her relatives," my object in mentioning the subject in "N. & Q." has been satisfactorily answered. I am also obliged to J.S. (the editor, I apprehend, of this new edition) for having corrected the errors into which I had unintentionally fallen; nor will my neighbour, the Rev. C.H. Crauford, I am sure, feel less obliged.
It now appears that this new reprint is copied verbatim et literatim from the third impression printed at London, by John Haviland for Hanna Barres, 1625. My Query also has been the means of ascertaining from another correspondent, P. B. (the initials, I believe, of one of the most correct of bibliographers in names and dates), a notice of what he believes to be the first edition printed by John Haviland for William Barret, 1624. But, as Blackwood's edition is dated 1625, and is called the third edition, is it not very probable that an earlier one appeared than even that of 1624?
Should the notice I have attracted to Mrs. Joceline's Mother's Legacie, and the letter accompanying it, addressed, "in the immediate prospect of death, to her truly loving and most dearly beloved husband," be the means of extending the sale and the perusal of this beautiful little pocket volume, "replete with practical wisdom and hallowed principles, that no human being who is not past feeling can read without deep emotion," I shall be truly gratified: and it will be another instance of the utility and value of "N. & Q." being the medium of bringing such books before the public eye.
J. M. G.
Worcester.