moved for years." Internal evidence might indeed have revealed the author of it, though his name is not mentioned in the diary; but no internal evidence could have solved the mystery of its discovery behind that old press in one of the offices of the Supreme Court, Sydney, New South Wales. A clue, however, was found amid the complications of the labyrinth. The writer of the article above alluded to directed attention to a letter in the "Percy Correspondence," to Bishop Percy, from the Rev. Charles Campbell, a nephew of Dr. Thomas Campbell. This letter is dated Newry, Feb. 19, 1810, and is an answer to some inquiries made by the Bishop: "Your lordship is perfectly correct in thinking my uncle's death took place previous to the measure of the Union;-he died June 20, 1795. My eldest brother, of whom you are so good as to inquire, was, when I last heard from him, about a month ago, just embarking from the Cape of Good Hope-where he had been for nearly two years— for New South Wales, in New Holland, with strong recommendation from Lord Caledon to Colonel Macquarrie, who is the governor of that settlement. His health had been much Cape, but it was perfectly reThe clue thus furnished was ... impaired during his stay at the established at the time he wrote." taken up and successfully followed out by a contributor to the "Sydney Morning Herald," who discovered, in searching the files of the (Government) Gazette, that John Thomas Campbell -the elder brother of the writer of the letter just cited-filled the two offices of Provost Marshal and Colonial Secretary until the year 1821, when he was appointed Sheriff and Provost Marshal. In this capacity he would have had an office in the Supreme Court, and in this office, and behind an old press in it, he left-as it would seem—the manuscript of his uncle, the Rev. Thomas Campbell. So it appears to us, the mystery of the finding of the MS. diary of Dr. Thomas Campbell behind the old press in one of the offices of the Supreme Court of Sydney is satisfactorily cleared up." Would that we could add that the four folios of manuscript which Burke gave to Campbell had been also discovered amid the recesses of that office. Let a hue and cry be raised, be 1 Nichols' Illustrations, vii., p. 795-6. 2 Literature in New South Wales, by G. B. Barton, Sydney, 1866. * This Diary, some trivial passages being omitted, which offend good taste, will be found in the volume entitled Johnsoniana. ginning in the North of Ireland, and taken up at Sydney, and running round the globe, with the hope of discovering the priceless treasure of these manuscripts of Burke! VI. PRINCE TITI. "At THE entry in Johnson's Paris Journal is as follows:D'Argenson's, I looked into the books in the lady's closet, and in contempt showed them to Mr. Thrale-' Prince Titi;' 'Bibl. des Fées,' and other books; she was offended, and shut up, as we heard afterwards, her apartment" (see ante, p. 354). Mr. Croker's explanatory remarks, the Reviewer's attack on them, and Mr. Croker's rejoinder should be given in the first place, before any further remarks be offered. "The history of Prince Titi was said to be the autobiography of Frederick Prince of Wales, but was probably written by Ralph his secretary. See Park's Royal and Noble Authors,' vol. i. p. 171."-Croker, in the edition of 1831, and subsequent editions. "A more absurd note never was penned," said his Reviewer. "The History of Prince Titi,' to which Mr. Croker refers, whether written by Prince Frederick or by Ralph, was certainly never published. If Mr. Croker had taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in Park's Royal and Noble. Authors,' which he cites as his authority, he would have seen that the manuscript was given up to the Government. Even if this memoir had been printed, it was not very likely to find its way into a French lady's bookcase. And would any man in his senses speak contemptuously of a French lady for having in her possession an English work so curious and interesting as a life of Prince Frederick, whether written by himself or a confidential secretary, must have been? The history at which Johnson laughed was a very proper companion to the 'Bibliothèque des Fées,' a fairy tale about Good Prince Titi and Naughty Prince Violent.' Mr. Croker may find it in the 'Magasin des Enfans,' the first French book which the little girls of England read to their governesses." 6 Mua Tas n Jer Buat vi svog DECORsonian form or weanu Come LeTTE VI is the var $te wetemen --- Es best bat beer much yard sing IF But I de Ore in I was periarly reChrist & sie IME DE TE The che tins furnished was rawn in a newfile fùmveč no 1o a curioue a the Nosey Koring Berut iserered in seading the Sus Ihe vermen Gereme, the Stan Thomas Campbel -kvim star of the vine of the lene jusa cred-led the tes där of Front Mersini and Commin. Secretary matil me you vel, vien ie was accomed Sterf and Provost Murmu? In the exparty be world have had an office in the bipesa int, ud i ús dice, and behind an out press in it, kah-u a wd wen—the manuscript of his unie, the Rev. seman Camp So it appears to us, the mystery of the hading of us Ms. dary of Dr. Thomas Campbell behind the old press in one of the offices of the Supreme Court of Sydney is watisticaonly cleared up.2 Would that we could add that the four folios of manuscript which Burke gave to Campbell had been also discovered amid the recemes of that office. Let a hue and cry be raised, be ! Nichols' Illustrations, vii., p. 795-6. * Literature in New South Wales, by G. B. Barton, Sydney, 1866. *This Diary, wone trivial passages being omitted, which offend good thate, will be found in the volume entitled Johnsonians. ginning in the North of Ireland, and taken up at Sydney, and running round the globe, with the hope of discovering the priceless treasure of these manuscripts of Burke ! VI. PRINCE TITI. "At THE entry in Johnson's Paris Journal is as follows:D'Argenson's, I looked into the books in the lady's closet, and in contempt showed them to Mr. Thrale-' Prince Titi;''Bibl. des Fées,' and other books; she was offended, and shut up, as we heard afterwards, her apartment" (see ante, p. 354). Mr. Croker's explanatory remarks, the Reviewer's attack on them, and Mr. Croker's rejoinder should be given in the first place, before any further remarks be offered. "The history of Prince Titi was said to be the autobiography of Frederick Prince of Wales, but was probably written by Ralph his secretary. See Park's 'Royal and Noble Authors,' vol. i. p. 171."—Croker, in the edition of 1831, and subsequent editions. "A more absurd note never was penned," said his Reviewer. "The History of Prince Titi,' to which Mr. Croker refers, whether written by Prince Frederick or by Ralph, was certainly never published. If Mr. Croker had taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in Park's 'Royal and Noble. Authors,' which he cites as his authority, he would have seen that the manuscript was given up to the Government. Even if this memoir had been printed, it was not very likely to find its way into a French lady's bookcase. And would any man in his senses speak contemptuously of a French lady for having in her possession an English work so curious and interesting as a life of Prince Frederick, whether written by himself or a confidential secretary, must have been? The history at which Johnson laughed was a very proper companion to the 'Bibliothèque des Fées,' a fairy tale about 'Good Prince Titi and Naughty Prince Violent.' Mr. Croker may find it in the 'Magasin des Enfans,' the first French book which the little girls of England read to their governesses." "Now every item, great and small, of this statement," Mr. Croker rejoins, "is a blunder or worse; some of which, as relating to a curious point of literary history, it seems worth while to correct. A book of this title was published in 1735, and republished in 1752, under the title of Histoire du Prince Titi, A(legorie) R(oyale);' and there is a copy of it in the Museum; and two English translations were advertised in the 'Gentleman's' and the 'London Magazine' for February, 1736, one of them with this title: The history of Prince Titi, a Royal Allegory in three parts. With an essay on Allegorical Writing and a Key. By the Hon Mrs. Stanley, and sold by E. Curl,' price 38. And it is mentioned as published by Park in his note (Royal and Noble Authors,' vol. v. p. 354) on the passage quoted, which, it seems, Mr. Macaulay never read at all. Neither of the translations have I been able to find; but in the French work, amidst the puerility and nonsense of a very stupid fairy tale, it is clear enough without any key, that by Prince Titi, King Ginguet, and Queen Tripasse, are meant Prince Frederick, George II., and Queen Caroline. It is stated in Barbier and in a MS. note in the Museum copy, that the work is by one Themiseul de Saint Hyacinthe, who seems to have been what is called a bookseller's hack. He translated Robinson Crusoe,' and may have been employed to translate or edit Prince Titi in Paris, but by whomsoever written the work is extant. The manuscript delivered up by Ralph's executor twenty years later, not to the Government (as Mr. Macaulay states), but to the Prince's widow, may have been the (perhaps garbled) original from which the French edition was made, or more probably, a continuation of the work to a later period of that Prince's life. I don't, however, believe that the work published in 1735 could have been written by Ralph. It is too puerile; and Ralph could hardly have been so early in the Prince's confidence; but it seems probable, that the work was exhibited purposely on the lady's table, in the expectation that her English visitors would think it a literary curiosity, which indeed it has proved to be; for Dr. Johnson seems not to have known what it was, and Mr. Macaulay boldly denies its very existence."-Croker. It was as a curiosity of literary history that Mr. Croker justified the extension of his remarks on a book so silly and unworthy as the "Histoire du Prince Titi." The editor claims the same justification for a few additional remarks on a subject, which has |