10 JUNE 1899, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Your correspondent " H.

B." justly eulogises the "concise pathos" of Sir Richard Colt Hoare's monumental lines of 1838. But whence did Sir Richard obtain them His words—

Si non

Ossibus ossa tuis, at nomen nomine, tangam,"

are curiously akin to the line-

" Ossibus ossa mein et nomen nomine tangam," which was added in 1829 to Theophilus Lindsey's epitaph in Bunhill Fields, on the occasion of his friend Thomas Belsham

being interred beside him.—I am, Sir, &c.,

CANTABRIGIENSIS.