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…