" There is, however,
another sense in which the epithet "bis Italicus" is applicable to
Napoleon: he was an Italian by birth as well as by conquest. It is in this
sense that Voltaire has applied to Henri Quatre the second line of the
following couplet:--
"Je chante ce heros qui regna sur la France
Et par droit de _conquete_, et par droit de _naissance_."
As to the "lingual purity" of the inscription, there is not much to be said
about it, one way or the other. It is on a level with most modern
inscriptions and epitaphs in the Latin language; neither so elegant as the
Latinity of Dr. Johnson, or Walter Savage Landor, nor yet so hackneyed as
our "Latin de cuisine."
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850.
_North Sides of Churchyards_ (Vol. ii., pp. 55. &c.)--In a chapter on the
custom of burying on the south side of churches, in Thompson's _History of
Swine_, published 1824, I find the following mention of the north side
being appropriated to felons:
"The writer hereof remembers, that between fifty and sixty years ago, a
man who was executed at Lincoln, was brought to Swine, and buried on
the north side of the church, as the proper place in which to bury a
felon.
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