and tormented by selfish, mean, and detestable people, to turn your eyes from the odious scene, and endeavour to lose the remembrance of it in the conversation of generous, disinterested, and learned friends. The contrast satisfies the judgment, refreshes and expands the imagination, &c. After I left you, I canvassed for Halsey for three or four days with great success, and make no doubt of his coming in. It is with no small impatience I expect the arrival of Christmas, and am in one sense turned school-boy again; for I keep as sharp a look-out for the holidays as any Stanmorian of them all, &c. Send me a full account of the success of your play, as well as the merit of the respective actors. Pray give my compliments to Edipus, alias Zanga, alias Gerald, but whose proper name ought to be Proteus, as well on account of the variety of characters he assumes, as also from his quick transition from one to the other, and excellence in them all, &c. If I can be with you at Christmas, I shall not only feel peculiarly gratified myself, but likewise be come very popular at Stanmore, and perhaps may have an address of thanks from both houses; and then, as you know my republican principles, I should go nigh to shake you on your throne. But of this no more, for fear I should make you alter your resolution. Price will certainly spend his Christmas here; and I intend to write to Williams to beg of him to come, and then we shall have a true Symposium.

Believe me, dear Parr, yours most affectionately and sincerely, R. W. LYTTON.

With Mr. Paradise, who had been the British Consul at Salonichi, he became acquainted through Sir William Jones, and also with Mr. Nicoläides, a learned Greek, nephew of the Patriarch of Constantinople, who fled from some massacre of the Greeks.

Paradise was the particular friend of Sir William Jones, who twice undertook long journies, one a voyage to America, which however was prevented by his own appointment as Judge in Bengal, on his

account, and to serve him, if possible, in his niary embarrassments.

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The first of the letters was written when embarking for France, the second for America.

The first will be hereafter copied. The second is dated

DEAR PARR,

Dover, 19th June, 1782.

If I avail myself of your permission to answer your letter at my leisure, I clearly see that I shall hardly be able, as I have no prospect of leisure, to answer it at all; I therefore seize a short interval, which the wind and tide give me at this place, to assure you that my good offices, as well as good wishes, will never be wanting on any occasion in which it may be in my power to prove my sincere regard for you. But, in truth, you greatly overrate my power, and particularly my influence with Administration. It happens, rather whimsically, that he with whom I have certainly most influence (if any thing so inconsiderable admit the degrees of more and less) is the very man whom you, and for reasons wholly unknown to me, so much dislike. I wish that Lord Shelburne were as well known to you as he is both known and liked by me.

For God's sake, do not be precipitate in forming opinions of men from public reports or papers, and without any personal knowledge of them. With the Chancellor I have so little weight, that I have been four years vainly striving to obtain even a refusal (which would have been more eligible than suspense) of a favour. The Duke of Manchester I barely know by sight, though I have dined with him at Lord Mulgrave's. Lord Rockingham, and his powerful friends, I know and respect, but dare not yet solicit preferment for my friends. The Attorney General (whom I sounded last week) told me that he had been two years trying in vain to procure a living for a man whom he strongly recommended to his intimate friend the Chancellor. These are not unfriendly excuses, they are plain facts; but rest assured that on the first opportunity I will speak of your moral and literary character in just, and consequently very high terms! As to your politics, it will be useless, if not

δεινότῃς.

dangerous, to mention them. O! my friend, μh σe Oeλyérwoav αἱ ἀνέμωναι τῶν λόγων: I entreat you not to play with vast questions, for the sake of shewing how great a master you are of round and forcible diction. My opinion, expressed in my last letter to you, was founded on your own repeated declarations at Cambridge, in my hearing. I had not then read your Sermon,* I had only cast my eye on the first and last periods. I have since read it attentively; and, if it can give you any pleasure to know it, I think it a very masterly composition, abounding with fine moral and religious sentiments. The political tendency of it I neither do nor can like; and a paragraph or two in pp. 24, 25, &c. I think highly exceptionable on account of their deivórns. The reasoning in many parts appears to my comprehension fallacious, especially in your favourite doctrine of unanimity, a word which ministers use to express a tame acquiescence in all their measures. This you did not mean; but, without perceiving it, you supplied the vekutav with arguments against us. Since, however, you shew an inclination to defend all this, I will neither arraign it, for that were unfriendly, nor pretend to approve it, for that would be dishonest. When we meet, we will talk and laugh, and argue and promote good fellowship, as long as you please. My political system shall never relax my efforts to serve you: and when I return from America (which will be, I hope, before Christmas) I will catch every rising gale that may waft you to an easy and respectable retirement. Not that my hopes are sanguine, until my friend Lord Althorp† shall have acquired more influence in the State than can be expected in so young a minister, though the wisest and best young man I ever knew.

America? you will say. Yes, my friend, I shall sail in an hour or two with Paradise; and, on our return, we will explain to you the nature and object of our voyage; at present, with cordial affection, I must bid you farewell!

I am yours ever,

W. JONES.

Though zealous and friendly to Mr. Paradise, Sir

*Phileleutherus Norfolciensis.

+ The present Earl Spencer.

William Jones did not take him out to India, and I refer to Lord Teignmouth's Narrative for more concerning him. The only letter I find of Mr. Paradise to Parr is dated from Richard Paul Jodrell's, Esq. M. P. at Lewknor, in 1790, in which he addresses him " my invaluable friend."

The following notices of Mr. Nicolaides are curious, and will sufficiently characterize this learned Greek to the reader:

To the Reverend Mr. Samuel Parr, Stanmore.

MY GOOD FRIEND,

I intended to write lass week, and let you know that Elmsley have promised me to send you your books. Whom i went to see last trursday, and put him in mind of it. then, that intended to send them that evening. arrived from Southampton last tuesday to London. go abroad as he intended.

he told me Mr. Paradise he did not

j Remember when j was at your house to have read a verse of Menander, in which the Greek particle yàp being long, dr. Bentlee corrects it with őrt. Because, he says, yàp is always short, and never common, and you told me that it is constantly short. then be so good as to correct dr. Bentlee's mistake, for the prince of the poets Homer in other verses uses it short, and in the following Long. and then we may conclude, that it is

common.

Ηθελε δ' ὁ τλήμων Ὀδυσεὺς καταδύναι ὅμιλον

Τρώων· αἰεὶ γὰρ οἱ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θυμὸς ἐτόλμα. Ι. κ' 231, &c. *Πολλὸν γὰρ ἀπάνευθε νεῶν μάρναντο θοάων. ρ' 403.

[The other quoted passages are omitted.]

* Tap is made long by the power of the digamma, in every instance but this from Il. p. 403, where it is long by the ictus metricus. See Dr. Maltby's Tractatus de Prosodiâ, prefixed to his 2d edition of Morell's Thesaurus, pp. xxvi. xx. London, 1824.

I beg the favour of you to send me your aprobation of it, or disapprobation, for my information. because our grammarians tell us thus Αρ ληκτικὸν ὀνομάτων ἤ Συνδέσμων βραχύ-Νέκταρ, αὐτὰρ ὁ δε γὰρ, ὁ κάρ, καὶ ὁ ψάρ, κοινὰ ἐστί. But I add αὐτὰρ κοινὸν—ὤπασαν αὐτὰρ οἱ Προῖτος κακὰ μήσατο θυμῷ Ζ. 157.

j beg your pardon for the liberty that I take with you concerning such trifling subjects. Be so good as to give my best compliments to Mrs. Parr. Compliments to Mr. Roderic and Mr. Shillito. Your most affectionate J. NICOLAIDEs.

Sept. 25, 1775, London.

Dr. Jonson is gon to france with Mr. and Mrs. Threile and Mr. Beretti.

That the learned modern Greek had some knowledge of the metrical science of his forefathers, appears from the following letter:

Ὁ Νικολαΐδης τῷ Παρίῳ τὸ εὖ Πράττειν.

Εδεξάμην τά, τε Δρουρίου πρὸς σὲ γράμματα, καὶ τά γ' ἐπὶ τούτοις σὰ πρὸς ἐμέ. Χρυσοῦν τε ̓Αγγλικὸν ἥμισυν ἐν αὐτοῖς πρὸς τῷ ἑνὶ, σταλέντα παρὰ τῶν ἐν τῇ χαρωνίτιδι σχολῇ φιλολόγων ἀνδρῶν τῆς οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν τοῦ ̓Αλκινόου χάριν ἐμοὶ ἐκδοθησομένης βίβλου. Ὑπὲρ ὧν σοί τε πρῶτον τῆς συστάσεως, κακείνοις τε τῆς φιλοφροσύνης πάνυ πολλὰς οἶδα χάριτας, πέμπω τε ἤδη σοι τὰς λεγομένας υπογραφὰς, ἵν ̓ ἔχῃ ἕκαστος λαβὼν τὴν αὑτοῦ. Πρότερον δ ̓ οὐκ ἔπεμψα αὐτὰς, ἐπιλαθόμενος, ὡς οὐκ ὤφελον. Τὸ δ' αἴτιον, θεωρία τε, καὶ διατριβὴ περὶ τὰ ἀεὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχοντα, τὰ ὄντα, καὶ τὰ ἁπλᾶ, ὡς ἐνίοτε καὶ τῶν συνθέτων ἀμνημονεῖν, οὐ μενοῦν τῆς τροφῆς, οἷα τὸν Καρνεάδην λόγος. Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν παιδιᾶς χάριν.

Περὶ δὲ τοῦ Γὰρ, ιδού σοι πάλιν ἐγὼ, ὅπως περὶ αὐτοῦ γνώμης ἔχω.

Φημὶ οὖν πρῶτον, ὡς οὐ δῆλον τὸ τὸν Ὅμηρον χρήσασθαι τῷ διγάμματι τῷ Αιολικῷ, F, πρὸ τοῦ οἱ, καὶ ἄλλων φωνηέντων δασυνομένων· οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀνάγκη· ἄλλως τε καὶ ἀμφιβόλου δὴ ὄντος, ἐι Αἰολεὺς ὁ ̓Ανὴρ ἦν τὸ γένος.

Δεύτερον. "Οτι τὸ δασὺ παρὰ τοῖς λοιποῖς τῶν Ἑλλήνων πνεῦμα, καὶ τὸ Αἰολικὸν αὐτὸ Δίγαμμα, οὐχ ὡς στοιχεῖα παρελαμβάνοντο