_Portugal_.--Can any of your geographical readers inform me if a
Gazetteer of Portugal has been published within these twenty years? If
there has been one, in what language, and where published? Information
of the title of any good modern works on Portugal, giving an account of
the minor places, would be acceptable.

NORTHMAN.


_Tureen_--How and whence is the term "tureen" derived?--and when was it
introduced?

"At the top there was tripe in a swinging tureen."

Goldsmith's _Haunch of Venison_.

G.W.


_Military Execution_.--I am very anxious to be referred to the authority
for the following anecdote, and remark made on it:--

"Some officer, or state prisoner, on being led out to be shot,
refused either to listen to a confessor, or to cover his eyes with
a handkerchief."

The remark was, that "he refused a bandage for either mind or body." It
smacks somewhat of Voltaire.

MELANION.