Chapter C: W. G

_Carmagnoles_ (Vol. iv., p. 208.).--Your querist W. B. H. will perhaps accept the following partial solution of his question, which has been communicated to me by one of your own distinguished correspondents in France. It is contained in a little volume published by Duellersan under the following title, _Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France_, Paris, 1846, 32mo:

"Cette horrible chanson, la Carmagnole, est un monument curieux de la
folie demagogique, et nous la donnons pour faire voir avec quelle
poesie brutale on excitait le peuple. Elle eut une vogue en Aout 1792,
epoque a laquelle Louis XVI. fut mis au Temple. Elle devint le signal
et l'accompagnement des joies feroces et des executions sanglantes. On
dansait la _Carmagnole_ dans les bals; on la dansait au theatre et
autour de la guillotine. Barrere appelait les discours qu'il
prononcait a la Convention, _des Carmagnoles_. L'air, qui est
veritablement entrainant, etait joue en pas redouble dans la musique
militaire; mais Bonaparte la defendit, ainsi que le _Ca-ira_, lors
qu'il fut Consul.

"Cette chanson parut au moment ou les troupes Francaises venaient
d'entrer triomphantes dans la Savoie et le Piemont. On ignore si la
musique et la danse de _la Carmagnole_ sont originaires de ce pays."

In the month of January, 1849, the General-in-Chief of the army of Paris, Changarnier, having taken vigorous measures to prevent new tumults, the first verse of the original, which commences--

"Madame Veto avait promis
De faire egorger tout Paris,"

was thus parodied:

"Changarnier avait promis
De faire bruler tout Paris," &c.

PERIERGUS BIBLIOPHILUS.

_General James Wolfe_ (Vol. iv., p. 271.).--The late Admiral Frank Sotheron, of Kirklington Hall, near Southwell, Notts, was, I have heard, related to Wolfe, and possessed a portrait and several letters of his. Admiral Sotheron died some ten years ago, but his daughter (and only child) married the present member for Wilts, who afterwards took the name of Sotheron.

J. M. W.

I have a portrait of Wolfe in my possession, and, I believe, the original from which the print, stated to be a scarce and contemporary one, was taken, which furnishes the frontispiece to the second volume of the _History of the Canadas_, by the author of _Hochelaga_. It fell, singularly enough, into my hands a short time previous to the appearance of the work in question, and I have been enabled since to trace its possession by parties, and amongst them members of my own family, for a very lengthened period. The artist I have not been able to discover; but perhaps some possessor of the print, should the name appear, will afford this information.