_Colonel or Major-General Lee._--The dates of his letters tend to prove
that Lee was on the continent in 1770, and this is apparently borne out by
the "memoirs" published both in America and in England. But Dr. Girdleston,
in his strange work published in 1813, asserts that on the 20th April,
1770, at the christening of Sir Charles Davis's eldest son, Charles Sydney,
Lee was at Rushbrooke in Suffolk. The proof, however, is not adduced in a
simple and straightforward manner. At page 6, Dr. Girdlestone tells us that
some person, not named, remembers that Lee stood sponsor, &c.; at page 7,
that the register proves that the baptism took place on the 20th April,
1770; and at page 13, that the register proves that Lee was on the 20th
April "in that church." This last is the only fact bearing on the question
at issue. Will any of your intelligent correspondents residing at Bury
favour you with a copy of the register of the baptism of Charles Sydney on
the 20th April, 1770?