_Sir Robert Long._--"ROSH." inquires the date of the death of
_Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Long_, who founded, in 1760, a Free School at
Burnt-Yates, in the Parish of Ripley, co. Yorks., and is said to have
died in Wigmore Street, London, it is supposed some years after that
period.

_Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury._--It is stated in Mr. Martyn's
_Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury_, that Dr. Whichcot was one of
Shaftesbury's most constant companions, and preached most of his
sermons before him; and that the third Earl of Shaftesbury, the
author of the Characteristics, is said to have published a volume
of Whichcot's sermons from a manuscript copy of the first Lord
Shaftesbury's wife. Can any of your readers give any further
information as to the intimacy between Whichcot and Shaftesbury, of
which no mention is made in any memoir of Whichcot that I have seen?

C.


_Lines attributed to Henry Viscount Palmerston._--Permit me to inquire
whether there is any better authority than the common conjecture that
the beautiful verses, commencing,--

"Whoe'er, like me, with trembling anguish brings
His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs,"

were written by Henry Viscount Palmerston, on the death of his lady at
the Hot-wells, June 1 or 2, 1769. They first appeared p. 240. of the