contrived the same, it containing many good and wholesome
provisions for the future perpetual good and quiet of the nation.... We
know not, at present, wherein we could give a more visible testimony of
our affections to the peaceable government of the free people here,
than by offering to them and the supreme authority, what we humbly
conceive prejudicial and inconvenient to well-government, in case that
System (_as it is said to be now prepared_) should take effect." A week
before the publication of this work, the Long Parliament had been
turned out of doors by Cromwell.]

_Saint Malachy on the Popes._--Saint Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh, who
flourished in the first half of the twelfth century, is said to be the
author of a curious prophecy respecting the Popes. Some years ago I met
with this prophecy in an old French almanack, and was particularly struck
with its applicability to the life and character of the present Pope; but I
omitted to make a Note.

Can you inform me where I may find a copy of this prophecy?

HENRY H. BREEN.

[St. Malachy's hieroglyphical descriptions or prophecy on the
succession of Roman Pontiffs will be found in _Flosculi Historici
delibati nunc delibatiores redditi, sive Historia Universalis_; Auctore
Joanne de Bussieres, Societatis Jesu Sacerdote, Oxon. 1668. An
explanation of each prophecy is given from the pontificate of Celestus
II. A.D. 1143, to that of Innocent X. A.D. 1644. The present Pope being
the nineteenth from Innocent X., the following prophecy relates to him,
"Crux de Cruce." We subjoin the remainder: 20. Lumen in coelo. 21.
Ignis ardens. 22. Religio depopulata. 23. Fides intrepida. 24. Pastor
angelicus. 25. Pastor et nauta. 26. Flos Florum. 27. De medietate lunae.
28. De labore solis. 29 Gloria Olivae. St. Malachy concludes his
prophecy with the following prediction of the downfall of the Roman
Church: "In persecutione extrema Sacrae Romanae Ecclesiae sedebit Petrus
Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus; quibus transactis
civitas septicollis diruetur, et Judex tremendus judicabit populum."]

_Work on the Human Figure._--A few years ago there was a little work
published on _Dress and the Art of improving the Human Figure_, by (I
believe) a nobleman's valet: I wish to consult this for a literary purpose,
and should be much obliged to any of your readers who can favour me