[We willingly give insertion to this disclaimer from so respectable a
firm as MESSRS. WILKINSON & SONS; from which it appears that our
correspondent A CANTAB has not made "when found, a _correct_ note" of
the fac-simile. Another correspondent has favoured us with the
following additional notices of the original table: "On Dec. 8, 1838, I
saw the table on which Napoleon signed his abdication at the Chateau of
Fontainebleau, on which there are two scratches or incisures said to
have been made by him with a penknife. These injuries upon the surface
of the table were so remarkable as to attract my attention, and I
inquired about them of the attendant. He said Napoleon, when excited or
irritated, was in the habit of handling and using anything which lay
beside him, perhaps to allay mental agitation; and that he was
considered to have so used a penknife, and disfigured the table."]
_Burton Family_ (Vol. ix., p. 19.).--I know not whether E. H. A. is
interested about the Burtons of Shropshire. If he is, he will find an
interesting account of them in _A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary,
&c. of the Roman Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain_, &c.: London,
1658, p. 136.