Caraccioli, Gent.”  A writer in the Calcutta Review, incidentally alluding to the book, says that “it is said to have been written by a member of one of the councils over which Clive presided; but the writer, being obviously better acquainted with his lordship’s personal doings in Europe than in Asia, the work savours strongly of home-manufacture, and has all the appearance of being the joint composition of a discarded valet and a bookseller’s hack.”  The last hypothesis appears very probable.  Internal evidence is greatly in its favour.  Can any of your readers tell me who was “Charles Caraccioli, Gent.,”—­when the atrocity which bears his name was published,—­or any thing about the man or his book?  Probably some notice of it may be found in the Monthly Review, the Gentleman’s Magazine, or some other periodical of the last century.  The writer, indeed, speaks of his first volume having been reviewed with “unprecedented” severity.  Perhaps you can help me to the dates of some notices of this book.  The work I believe to be scarce.  The copy in my possession is the only complete one I have seen; but I once stumbled upon an odd volume at a book-stall.  It is such a book as Lord Clive’s family would have done well in buying up; and it is not improbable that an attempt was made to suppress it.  The success of your journal is greatly dependent upon the brevity of your correspondents; so no more, even in commendation of its design, from yours obediently,

K.

Covent Garden, Dec. 5. 1849.

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ON SOME SUPPRESSED PASSAGES IN W. CARTWRIGHT’S POEMS.

As I want my doubts cleared up on a literary point of some importance, I thought I could not do better than state them in your “NOTES AND QUERIES.”

I have before me a copy of the not by any means rare volume, called Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William Cartwright, 8vo. 1651, with the portrait by Lombart.  Though the book may be called a common one, I apprehend that my copy of it is in an uncommon state, for I find in it certain leaves as they were originally printed, and certain other leaves as they were afterwards substituted.  The fact must have been that after the volume was published by H. Moseley, the bookseller, it was called in again, and particular passages suppressed and excluded.

These passages are three in number, and occur respectively on pp. 301, 302, and 305; and the two first occur in a poem headed “On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries,” an event which occurred only shortly before the death of Cartwright, which took place on 23d Dec. 1643.

This poem consists, in my perfect copy, of eight stanzas, but two stanzas are expunged on the cancelled leaf, viz. the second and the fifth; the second runs as follows:—­

“When greater tempests, than on sea before,
Receiv’d her on the shore,
When she was shot at for the king’s own good,
By legions hir’d to bloud;
How bravely did she do, how bravely bear! 
And shew’d, though they durst rage, she durst not fear.”