_Spiritual Persons employed in Lay Offices_ (Vol. vi., pp. 376.
567.).--Your correspondents W. and E. H. A. seem to have overlooked the
modern instances of this practice, which the _London Gazette_ has recently
recorded, in {51} announcing the appointment of several clergymen as
deputy-lieutenants. This is an office which is so far of a military
character, that it is supposed to place the holder in the rank of
lieutenant-colonel, and certainly entitles him to wear a military uniform.
If these members of the "church militant" should be presented at Her
Majesty's Court in their new appointment, will they appear in their
clerical or military habit?
[Omega]. [Phi].
_Passage in Burke_ (Vol. vi., p. 556.).--The reply to QUANDO TANDEM'S Query
is given, I imagine, by Burke himself, in a passage which occurs only a few
lines after that which has been quoted:
"Little did I dream that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp
antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom."
This means, I suppose, that Marie Antoinette carried a dagger, with which,
_more Romano_, she would have committed suicide, had her brutal persecutors
assaulted her.