Guildhall, Framlingham, Suffolk, Feb. 6. 1850.
_Vox Populi_--_Monody on Sir John Moore._--Can any reader give me the
origin of the saying "_Vox Populi, Vox Dei_?"--and has any one of your
correspondents ever heard of any doubts being raised as to the original
author of the _Monody upon Sir John Moore_, which is now always assigned
to the Rev. Dr. Wolfe? I saw it stated in an English paper, published in
France some few years back, that Wolfe had taken them from a poem at the
end of the _Memoirs of Lally Tottendal_, the French governor of
Pondicherry, in 1756, and subsequently executed in 1766. In the Paper I
refer to, the French poem was given; and certainly one of the two must
be a translation of the other. I have not been able to get a copy of
Tottendal's _Memoirs_, or of the Paper I refer to, or I would not
trouble you with this Query; but perhaps some one can inform me which is
the Merchant here, and which the Jew.