broke-Hall, your nursing mother, I am in s you will not be more than half-ashamed to it. Pembroke then is all harmonious and deful since the pacification: but I wish you would them up some boys, for they are grown exely thin from their late long indisposition. ne's Implications have ended queerly, for, conto all common-sense, Peter Nourse and two s have joined Rogers, and brought in a shamew creature by a majority. The master appeals Visitor against their choice as of a person not fied, he has received the appeal, and I suppose put in Brocket (Dr. Keene's man) by main . Chapman is at present in town in waiting; as just married a Miss Barnwell, niece to one Barnwell who was minister of Trompington, £2000, a plain woman, and about his own I hear that when he went to Leicester-house ow when the Prince would be waited upon the book of verses on the peace, the Prince inted no day at all; but ordered the verses to nt, and left there. The design of receiving Jniversity at Newcastle-house is said to be al; the Duke intending to come hither (I imaafter the Parliament is risen. *Ross's Epis

Concerning Ross's Edition of the Epistolæ Familiares ero, I am tempted to mention the opinion of Markespecially as the passage has never been alluded to nt, and the name of Ross, or his book not being men, it might escape the readers of the learned and inte

tles of Tully ad Familiares will come out in about
a week. It is in two handsome 8vo. Volumes, with
an Introduction and Notes in English, but no trans-
lation, dedicated to Lord Gower. Now I am come
to books, there is a new edition of Montesquieu's
Work (which I mentioned to you before) publishing
in 2 vols. 8vo. Have you seen old Crebillon's Ca-
tilina, a Tragedy which has had a prodigious run
at Paris? historical truth is too much perverted in
it, which is ridiculous in a story so generally known:
but if you can get over this, the sentiments and
versification are fine, and most of the characters
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for the first volume of the book you sent me, and wait with
somewhat of impatience for the second, in which I want to
see several places. It fully answers the expectations which
I had formed from his former performance, and I have had
a very full and very innocent revenge upon him for his
pertness and want of judgment, in undertaking what I
then saw he knew nothing of, and now see so many instances
of his ignorance, and want of skill and taste in these mat-
ters. as, if I could shew them to you, would make you laugh,
even though you had a moderate fit of the colic upon you.
But this between ourselves, for this is the Esoteric Doctrine,
which I shall communicate only to Mr. Clarke and your-
self, the Exoteric is, that the English is very good and the
Notes (scarce one of them his own, but taken from men,
without any acknowledgment for the most part) very useful,
and such as I could wish might be read by every body. I
do not doubt, but he will get a great deal of reputation from
this Work."-Extracts from Markland's Letters, in Miscella-
neous Tracts of Bowyer, p. 513, 514, 516.

it. Observe, if you chuse to send for it, not to Brindley's edition, which is all false prints, Vaillant's. There is a Work publishing in mark by subscription, (4 guineas) Travels in pt by Captain Norden. He was once in End (as tutor to a young Count Daniskiold,* hetary Admiral of Denmark) and known to many ons as a man of sense, and that understood wing extremely well; accordingly it is the plates raise it to such a price, and are said to be exnt. The author himself is dead, and his papers ublished by the Academy at Copenhagen. Mr. h, the indefatigable, has just put out a thick of original papers of Queen Elizabeth's time, e are many curious things in it, particularly ers from Sir Robert Cecil (Salisbury) about Negotiations with Henry IVth of France; the of Monmouth's odd account of Queen Eliza"s death, several peculiarities of James Ist, and ce Henry, &c.; and above all an excellent int of the State of France, with characters of ing, his Court and Ministry, by Sir G. Carew, ssador there. This, I think, is all new worth ioning, that I have seen or heard of, except tural History of Peru in Spanish, printed at on by Don- something, a man of learning thither by that court on purpose.

See a curious account in Bruce's Travels, of Norden, f the Danish Admiral's attempt to reach the sources Nile.-Ed.

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because it is probable nobody else has done it, our friend Chappy's zeal and eloquence sured all power of description. Vesuvio in an erupwas not more violent than his utterance, nor e I am at my mountains) Pelion with all its trees in a storm of wind more impetuous than ction, and yet the Senate-house still stands, I thank God) we are all safe and well at your ce. I was ready to sink for him, and scarce to look about me, when I was sure it was er; but soon found I might have spared my sion, for all people joined to applaud him : thing was quite right; and I dare swear, not people here but think him a model of oratory. ll the Duke's little court came with a resoluo be pleased; and when the tone was once , the University, who ever wait for the judgof their betters, struck into it with an admiharmony. For the rest of the performances were (as usual) very ordinary. Every one, it lasted, was very gay and very busy in the ng, and very owlish and very tipsey at night. e no exceptions from the Chancellour to BlewMason's Ode was the only entertainment, ad any tolerable elegance; and for my own I think it (with some little abatements) unonly well on such an occasion, pray let me your sentiments, for doubtless you have seen e author of it grows apace in my good graces: very ingenious, with great good-nature and