Au quartier general du Parc,
le 6 Fevrier, 1810.

A son Excellence

Le General Beckwith, Commandant en chef les forces de sa
Majeste Britannique aux isles du Vent.

Monsieur le General,

J'ai ete prevenu que Votre Excellence se proposait de venir au
Parc demain dans la matinee. J'ose esperer qu'elle voudra bien
me faire l'honneur d'accepter le diner que lui offre un General
malheureux et vaincu, mais qu'il presente de tout coeur.

Daignez, Monsieur le General, agreer l'assurance de la haute
consideration avec laquelle

J'ai l'honneur d'etre,
de votre Excellence,
Le tres-obeissant serviteur,
EMOUF.

EDWARD FOSS.

_Erroneous Forms of Speech._--Since you allow your correspondents to
correct such words as _teetotal_, I hope you will allow me to call the
attention of your agricultural readers to the corruption in the word
_mangold_, as they now write it. The word is in German _mangel wurzel_,
root of scarcity. It is wrong to use even such a name as this, in my
opinion, while we have the English name _beet_, which has the additional
advantage of being derived from the botanical name _Beta_. But if a new
name must be used, let it, at any rate, be the pure German _mangel_, and
not the mongrel _mangold_. Indeed, those who spell the word in the
latter way, ought in common consistency to write _reddishes_,
_sparrowgrass_, and _cowcumbers_ for radishes, asparagus, and cucumbers.

E. G. R.

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QUERIES.

EUSTACHE DE SAINT PIERRE.

(Vol. vii., p. 10.)

MR. KING'S inquiry reminds me of two Queries on the same subject which I
sent you as far back as the end of 1851, or beginning of 1852. Those
Queries have not appeared in "N. & Q.," and I was led to suppose, either
that you had laid them aside for some future occasion, or had found
something objectionable in the form in which they were presented. The
following is a literal copy.

"There are two circumstances connected with this event (the
surrender of Calais), respecting which I am desirous of
obtaining information. The first has reference to the
individuals who offered themselves as victims to appease the
exasperation of Edward III., after the obstinate siege of {330}
that town in 1347. They are represented as _six_ of the
pri