or seven years employed himself with great
reputation in teaching a public school at Drogheda, where he died on
the 17th April, 1701, in the fortieth year of his age; and was buried
there in St. Peter's Church, and twenty years after had a monument
erected to his memory by one of his scholars."

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Blackguard_ (Vol. vii., pp. 77. 273.).--I am not aware that the following
extract from Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ has ever yet been quoted
under this heading. Would it not be worth the while to add it to the
extract from Hobbes's _Microcosmos_, quoted by JARLTZBERG, Vol. ii., p.
134. and again, by SIR J. EMERSON TENNENT at Vol. vii., p. 78.:

"The same author, Cardan, in his _Hyperchen_, out of the doctrine of
the Stoicks, will have some of these genii (for so he calls them) to be
desirous of men's company, very affable and familiar with them, as dogs
are; others again, to abhor as serpents, and care not for them. The
same, belike, Trithemius calls _igneos et sublunares, qui numquam
demergunt ad inferiora, aut vix ullum habent in terris commercium:
generally they far excel men in worth, as a man the meanest worm_;
though some there are _inferiour to those of their own rank in worth,
as the black guard in a princes court, and to men again, as some
degenerate, base, rational creatures are excelled of brute
beasts_."--_Anat. of Mel._, Part I. sec. 2. Mem. 1. subs. 2. [Blake,
1836, p. 118.]

C. FORBES.

Temple.

In looking over the second volume of "N. & Q.," I find the use of the word
_blackguard_ is referred to, and passages illustrative of its meaning are
given from the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Hobbes, Butler, &c. To these
may be added the following fanciful use of the word, which occurs in the
poems of Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; the author of the well-known
naval song "To all you Ladies now at Land:"

"Love is all gentleness, all joy,
Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace.
Her [Belinda's] Cupid is a blackguard boy,
That rubs his link full in your face."

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

_Talleyrand_ (Vol. vi., p. 575.).--Talleyrand's maxim is in Young. I regret
that I cannot give the reference.

Z. E. R.

_Lord King and Sclater_ (Vol. v., pp. 456. 518.).--By Sclater's answer, "as
I am informed, the Lord Chancellor _King_ was himself fully
convinced."--Zach. Grey's _Review of Neal_, p. 67., edit. 1744.

_"Bewa