—Will you permit a Note to say, that Herder, after Lessing, and in continuation of his essay, wrote on the subject of "Death, as symbolically represented by the Ancients." Lessing's treatise was lately mentioned by one of your correspondents, without any notice of Herder's.
J. M.
General Wolfe (Vol. iv., p. 438.).
—I send the following "Notes from Newspapers," thinking they may be of service to [Gh.].:—
"His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Col. Wolfe to be Inspector of all the marines."—London and County Journal, May 13, 1742.
"To Rome from Pontus thus great Julius wrote,
I came, I saw, and conquer'd, ere I fought.
In Canada, brave Wolfe, more nobly tried,
Came, saw, and conquer'd,—but in battle died.
More glorious far than Cæsar's was his doom,