1. Unlike you Mr Sumpter these people wanted to attend.

2. Jeremy Sumpter, a touch too American to be the perfect Peter Pan, combines natural charm with a smirk that makes you wonder who innocent he is and how manipulating he is.

3. The results of his investigations led Sumpter to suspect that man-made industrial chemicals in sewage effluent were acting as female oestrogens.

4. The King and his Cardinal were preparing to leave and the courtyards were full of sumpter ponies, officials and chamberlains.

5. The engraving, by watchmaker Jonathan Dillon, is dated April 13, 1861, and reads in part: "Fort Sumpter was attacked by the rebels" and "thank God we have a government."

6. When the Civil War started, a watchmaker was repairing Lincoln's watch. He engraved some words on it, which read in part: "Fort Sumpter was attacked by the rebels" and "thank God we have a government.

7. It was to be towed south by the U.S.S. Sumpter, but it had to be cut loose off of North Carolina on April 2, 1863, when bad weather struck.