[Bailey, in his _Dictionary_, says, "An abele-tree is a fine kind of
white poplar." See also Chambers' _Cyclopaedia_.]

_Southey._--There is a _jeu d'esprit_ attributed to Southey, on the
expedition of Napoleon into Russia, beginning,--

"Buonaparte must needs set out
On a summer's excursion to Moscow,"

and ending,--

"But there's a place which he must go to,
Where the fire is red, and the brimstone blue,
Sacre-bleu, ventre-bleu,
He'll find it hotter than Moscow."

I know this was printed, for I saw it when a boy. Where can it be found?

M.

[See "The March to Moscow," in Southey's _Poetical Works_, p. 464.,
edit. 1850.]

_Epigram against Burke._--Can any reader supply me with some lines of great
asperity against Edmund Burke, excited (I believe) by the unrelenting
hostility exhibited by Burke against Warren Hastings?

The sting of the epigram is contained in the last line, which, alluding to
the exemption of Ireland from all poisonous reptiles, runs as follows:--

"And saved her venom to create a Burke."

And if the said lines shall be forthcoming, I should be glad also to be
informed of their reputed author.

A BORDERER.

[The following epigram, thrown to Burke in court, and torn by him to
shreds, has been always attributed to Mr. Law (Lord Ellenborough), but
erroneously:--

"Oft have we wonder'd that on Irish ground
No poisonous reptile has e'er yet been found;
Reveal'd the secret stands of nature's work,
She saved her venom to create a Burke."

The real author was one Williams, notorious for his _nom de guerre_,
Anthony Pasquin.--Townsend's _History of Twelve Eminent Judges_.]

_Knights Hospitallers._--Where may a correct list be found of the names of
the several persons who held the appointment of Master of the Knights
Hospitallers in England, from the period of their first coming until the
dissolution of their houses?

S. P. O. R.

[See Dugdale's _Monasticon Anglicanum_, new edition, vol. vi. pp.
796-798.]

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MESMERISM.

(Vol. iii., p. 220.)

I am much obliged to your correspondent A. L. R. for his kind notice of my
pamphlet on Mesmerism, and equally so to yourself for inserting it; because
it gives me an opportunity of explaining to him, and others to whom I am
personally unknown, and who are therefore not aware of my circumstances and
movemen