Mahrattas. The foundation seems to be laid for striking a great blow at the Mahrattas and Pindarees, so as to terminate their power. Three or four large armies are moving on the frontier of the Bengal Upper Provinces. French Papers inform us that the King has nearly recovered from his indisposition.-Dutch Papers announce the removal of the impolitic toll from the Scheldt at Flushing.-The Prussian Council of State assembled in Berlin, on the 30th ultimo. Amongst its members are, Prince Blucher, Count Bulow, and Prince de Wittgenstein.-In Sweden, a person of high rank and office, named Gyllerstrom, has been banished on account of the late conspiracy. The differences caused by some excesses committed by the Turks on the Persian frontier are adjusted.American Papers inform us that the Presidency of Mr. Madison terminated, and the 14th Congress of the United States expired, on the 3rd of March. On the following day, the new President, Mr. Monroe, was inducted into office with the usual formalities, when he made a speech, which presents a very flattering view of the general state of the country. The United States have offered to cede that part of Louisiana which lies between the Rio del Norte and the Colerado, in exchange for all the Spanish possessions west of the Mississippi: to this proposition Don Onis, the ambassador from Spain, replies that not only the territory between the Norte and the Colerado, but from Colerado to Cape North, already belongs to Spain, and is in her uninterrupted possession, making a part of the province of Taxas: but adds, if the government of the United States will propose the Mississippi for a frontier, ceding the whole territory West of it, in exchange for the Floridas, he will consider it an equivalent, though he has not at present authority to agree to a cession of the Floridas. It is reported that the differences between the Court of Naples and the government of the United States are not yet finally adjusted. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC ledge, while the object of the former is to study | are of an immense size-some of them from Morea. A few days since, some labourers employed in a field at Avisford, near Arundel, on the estate of Sir Wm. Houston, discovered, some feet below the surface, a large flat stone, which, on It is with great pleasure that we announce to examination, proved to be the lid of a sarcothe public, from the Roman Gazette of the 28th phagus, in the centre of which was deposited a of December last, the following instance of li-highly finished sepulchral urn, containing the berality, in the generous and charitable dispo- ashes of a burnt human body; and round it sition which the celebrated sculptor CANOVA were placed twenty earthen utensils, in the has made of the pension of three thousand Ro- shape of cups and saucers, together with two man crowns which the Pope had annexed to his pair of Roman sandals, regularly covered with brass nails, in a decayed state. This relic of title of Marquis of Ischia :antiquity likewise held three jugs and a lachrymatory. Two small vessels, apparently lamps, were placed on a projecting edge at each end of the sarcophagus, and two earthen candlesticks. Crowns per annum. Academy of Rome, to enable them to con- crowns each, for three young artists, 3. A pension of 20 crowns a month, for 4. To the academy of St. Luke, for the 5. Aid to the academy of the Lincei, ten artists, resident in Rome 600 360 720 100 120 1,100 It is stated, that Prince Hardenberg is preparing a general law for introducing the liberty of the press into Prussia, which will be promulgated prior to the new constitution. The Spanish Ambassador in the Low Countries has inIstituted an action against the editors of the Vrai Liheral, late the Naine Jaune. ITALY, 50th MARCH.-The excavations at Pompeii continue with the greatest success; a few days ago traces of another superb monument were discovered, and the street in which they are now digging, seems to have been the finest in this celebrated city. Our readers will have perceived that the enlargement of our pages, (which has been attended with considerable additional expense) has enabled us to afford due scope for Political subjects, without in the least infringing on the space originally allotted to the Literary and Scientific Departments. Total....3,000 The surplus which would accrue in the two years, when the prizes mentioned in article 2 are not distributed, is held disposable for what are called anonymous prizes; to the contest for On the publication of our first Number, we which are admitted, not only the artists of took occasion to observe, that from the novelty Rome and of the Papal States, but those of of the undertaking, the plan would be conevery other nation whatsoever, resident in stantly open to improvement, and we can only Rome. Five professors, members of the acaassure our readers, that we shall continue to demy of St. Luke, form a special deputation for giving full and impartial effect to the fore-use our best exertions to render it still more worthy of their patronage and kind recommengoing dispositions. dation among friends. Extract of a Letter from a British Officer at "Our antiquarians (for we have some among A Prussian gentleman from Berlin, who is about to publish his remarks made on the great tour of Europe and the Mediterranean, has kindly promised to favour us with a few occasional extracts. We understand that the Baron Humboldt excepted, there is no Prussian traveller who has been more indefatigable in collecting information during a long residence at "At the island of Ithaca are the remains of the different courts of Europe: but there is the Castle of Ulysses. Part of the walls are still this difference between him, and his country-standing. It occupies the summit of a very man the Baron, that the latter went to study high hill, which took me three quarters of an nature and add to the stock of scientific know- hour to ascend. The stones of this building TO CORRESPONDENTS. Dr. Maclean's Communication on the Plague will appear in our next. "Roman Letters" will also then be inserted. A. D. is right in his liberal supposition that his Verses are interesting only to the individuals referred to, "Taking Orders" is very well written, but wants point.. OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Politics and Fashion. NO. XIV. PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCES. OTTO VON KOTZEBUE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1817. PRICE 1s. causes which produce them. There would more liable to give way than others, because be nothing extraordinary in this, if the study they have a more considerable weight to of causes did not lead to the calculation of support. It is likewise evident that if in a effects, and consequently did not serve to flat country the usual thickness of the crust determine the nature and extent of the acci- of the terrestrial globe be three thousand dents which may result from these pheno- toises, and four thousand under mountains, it will more readily yield to this overplus of weight than to the ordinary weight of three mena. The Berlin Gazette gives the following account of this expedition, which has been received from Kamtschatka. Letters of an earlier date, which, after having doubled For these some days past, earthquakes Cape Horn, he sent from the coast of Chili, have been the only topics of conversation: toises. have been lost, or at least are not yet come they have been felt in various parts of Swit- It will therefore happen that a solid mass to hand. Mr. V. Kotzebue discovered three zerland, Savoy and France. They excite coming down upon the surface of the metal new islands in the South Sea, in 14° of lati-terror among the vulgar and the timid, su-in fusion, will produce the effect of a pressing tude, and 144° of longitude. To these perstitious persons draw from them conse-pump, and will tend with all its force to islands he gave the names of Romanzow quences analogous to their ideas; and men raise the liquid substance by means of pres(the author and equipper of the whole expe- of science are content to reason upon them. sure, and to make it issue by the crevices of dition), Spiridow (an Admiral under whom The latter establish their theories on nearly the earth, which serve as conduits. This Kotzebue formerly served several years), and the following circumstances. occasions volcanos, which produce lava Krusenstern (with whom he made his first Naturalists, volcanos, and reason inform whenever the mass of sunk earth is suffivoyage round the world.) Besides these he us that the whole interior of the globe is in ciently heavy to raise to the height of the discovered a long chain of islands in the a state of ebullition and fusion, and that the craters the matter in fusion, subject to the same quarter, and two clusters of islands in matter of which it is composed is the same action of this species of pressing pump. the 11th degree of latitude, and 190th de-in substance and quality as boiling lava or Finally, the walls which retain a lake of gree of longitude. (It is not specified whether melted glass. This immense reservoir of subterraneous fire, being undermined and the latitude is N. or S. or the longitude E. liquid metals is covered by a crust of cold consumed in a horizontal direction, commuor W.) These he called after his ships matter, the thickness of which is very incon-nications are opened between the reservoirs Burick's Chain; the two latter Kutusow's siderable when compared to the enormous of water and the reservoirs of lava in fusion, Cluster (a Group) and Suwarrow's Cluster. volume of boiling substance which it enve- The union of these two opposite elements All these islands are very woody, partly un-lopes. One may imagine, if possible, what produces those momentary shocks which are inhabited, and dangerous for navigators. passes on the surface of an immense globe frequently more violent than those occa The discoverer has sent to Count Roman-of lava in ebullition; that is to say between sioned by the mere sinking of the subterrazow a great many maps and drawings. On it and the cold part of the earth with which neous vaults. the 12th of July Ó. S. Kotzebue designed to it is covered; or the effects of that continual A single letter is insufficient to develope sail from Kamtschatka to Behring's Straits, commotion and internal ravage which ope- the complete theory of earthquakes; it will according to his instructions. He hopes to rates beneath the vaults and among the however serve to make it known, and the return to Kamtschatka in September 1817. septa and columns which serve to support judgment of the reader will supply the rest. On the whole voyage from Chili to that the only solid crust in the whole globe. It Your's, &c. place he had not a single person sick on is easy to suppose how many underminings, board. He touched at Easter Island; but disorders, and enlargements, must take place did not find the inhabitants so friendly as in the immense vaults above which we fancy La Peyrouse describes them. He thinks ourselves so firmly established, and which that something must have happened since separate us from an ocean of melted glass. that time which has made them distrustful The roofs of these immense vaults having of the Europeans: perhaps it may be the lost their support by the action of the fire, overturning of their surprisingly large sta-naturally give way in particular places. They tues, which Kotzebue looked for in vain, yield to a weight which they can no longer and found only the ruins of one of them support when their walls are demolished by near its base, which still remains. He saw any cause whatever. A sinking then takes no fruits from the seeds left by La Peyrouse, place until the space between the superior nor any sheep or hogs, which by this time vault of the cavern and the subjacent matter must have multiplied exceedingly. A single is filled up. It is this kind of deterioration fowl was brought him for sale. It seems we which occasions earthquakes, and as the may hope much from this young seaman, sinking usually takes place in the most cenwho is not yet 30 years of age. He was tral points of the subterranean vaults, flat obliged for inany reasons to leave the learned surfaces will naturally descend nearly horiDane Wormskrold behind in Kamtschatka.zontally. Shocks are therefore attended with much less danger to low houses and edifices than to those which are extremely lofty. The latter having more of a perpendicular line to lose are likewise inore exposed to the effects of the momentary inclination which threatens them when the sinking of the earth is not exactly horizontal. THEORY OF EARTHQUAKES. One of our Correspondents in Switzerland, who cultivates the Physical Sciences, has favored us with the following article concerning Earthquakes, which (whatever be the merit of the explanation it gives) appears calculated to interest the majority of our readers. Notwithstanding all the attention and curiosity manifested in observing the effects of earthquakes, yet the greatest indifference prevails respecting the investigation of the According to this theory earthquakes must be less frequent in flat than in mountainous countries; and this is undoubtedly the fact. It is indeed evident that the parts of the great subterranean vaults which correspond with enormous masses of mountains, are PER. PROGRESS OF THE ARTS. MEDICINE. Communication from Dr. Maclean as to his Experiments on the Plague at Constantinople. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. 6, Union Place, Blackheath Road, 11th April, 1817. Sir, In Numbers VII, VIII, and X, of the Literary Gazette, I have perused statements respecting certain recent endeavours to inves tigate the plagne in Turkey, in some of which blended with those of other investigators, and I observe that my name is indiscriminately our researches attempted to be identified. I Now, Sir, however much and unfeignedly I respect the talents and the intrepidity of the other gentlemen mentioned, and however deeply deplore the fate of such of them as have, whe ther by the disease, or by fouler means, fallen sacrifices in the cause of humanity, I must, for several reasons, object to this identification. The proceedings recently detailed in the publie Journals, as common to several investigators of the plague, have, in as far as I am concerned, been either grossly inaccurate, or wholly false. The truth is, that my experiments, and researches, concerning that malady, whether in respect to their means, or to their results, have had nothing in common with those of any other person. And whatever useful light they may be found to throw upon the cause, and cure, of epidemic diseases, it unfortunately happens that the different course hitherto pursued by my fellow-labourers has rather tended to confirm the pre-existing errors. As I have already, I fear, trespassed too much, I shall defer what I have farther to say, on this subject, to a future opportunity. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, CHARLES MACLEAN. IF POLITE LITERATURE. ON MODERN POETS-MR. SOUTHEY. the disease does, and that it does not depend | dence in his knowledge of the means of cure, upon contagion; and enquire, what, under each would have been equally ready to have acted in of these suppositions, would be the inferences the same manner, Nor should I here have menThe mis-statements, which I am desirous to supplied by the results of inoculation. Matter tioned the circumstances, but in order, in correctify, as I am bound to suppose that there from a pestilential sore is inserted in a sound recting mis-statements, the more fully to explain could not have any where existed a settled de-person, He either takes, or does not take the the motives of my conduct, wishing equally, in sign of misrepresentation, I must presume to disease. In the former case, if it should not an investigation at once so delicate and imhave originated in an entire ignorance of the depend upon contagion, the conclusion afforded | portant, to protect my own proceedings from subject, on the part of the Levant correspon by the result of the experiment would be falla misrepresentation, and to guard the public dents of the periodical press. But the correc- cious: in the latter, if it should depend upon against delusion. tion of an error is not the less essential on ac- contagion (for we know it to be consistent with count of the source in which it may have origi. the laws of life that diseases, which are notorinated. If, on this occasion, my own rights and ously contagious, may, in their progress, be at feelings had alone been concerned, I should tended with abscesses, or sores, the matter from have patiently expected the application of a which will not produce infection) the conclusion radical remedy, in the publication of the whole afforded by the result of the experiment would results of my researches, embodied into a regu-be equally erroneous. Here, then, we have at lar work. But recent events (I particularly double source of fallacy. allude to the circumstances attending the death But such experiments, if they were necessary, of Mr. Von Rosenfeldt) have strengthened my or could be efficient, are so difficult, under the conviction, that, unless some immediate mea existence of the belief in contagion, that, in Mr. Campbell has held so tight a sures be taken to elucidate at least a part of the plague, they cannot be made in such numbers rein over his Pegasus, as to prevent it obstacles, which oppose the investigation of as to supply sufficient data for broad and ge- from soaring above a hillock or a pineepidemic diseases, the lives of men, who, urged neral conclusions. The few attempts, which by a laudable, but too ardent, zeal for disco- have transpired, as far as they incidentally fur tree, Mr. Southey has given such unvery, may be led to rush into dangers, of which nish any inference, are positively unfavorable reasonable scope to his poetical" Ship they cannot be sufficiently aware, and which to contagion. Thus Dr. White, after passing of Heaven," that it sails over infinite are in their nature almost insurmountable, will through two inoculations, did not take the discontinue to be uselessly sacrificed; and the ease; and, if he afterwards caught it, at the space, without once casting anchor, or public, since every successive failure serves but period of the third inoculation, as is stated, the is tost about in an ocean of mystical to give a new triumph to error, to be plunged inference in fair reasoning is two to one in fa- inutility. After reading Thalaba, or the deeper into delusion. vour of this seizure having been an accidental Curse of Kehama, one lays down the coincidence. Mr. Von Rosenfeldt was 38 days volume with an inevitable feeling of, exposed to the action of pestiferous matter, before he was attacked with the malady of which Very sublimated, no doubt, but what he died. Dr. Burghardt first takes for granted does it all mean? where is its object?" the existence of contagion, which is the object One retains an impression of nothing but of research; and then endeavours to account for blank verse of all sizes, from three syllathe disease not being produced for so long a period, under this exposure, by the doctrine of bles to twelve; of one Veshnoo, with susceptibilities. This mode of begging the whose mythology we are quite uuacquestion ought to be banished with indignation quainted; of one Ladurlad, whom air from the regions of science. Upon the whole, I have considered the infer.must not touch on any account, and who ences supplied by such experiments, even if we yet respires freely enough through his could depend upon the accuracy, with which lungs; and of Braman, and Indra and they are related, as so liable to fallacy, that, Yamen, and Glendoveers, about whose whilst they seemed to favour my doctrine, I have not hesitated to reject their aid. And I powers and attributes we care not one will venture to predict, that those, who may farthing. As to sympathy, it is totally continue to rely upon them, in the present state out of the question; and of magnificent of opinions, and of pest institutions, will reap language, we have more than sufficient. nothing but disaster to themselves, and disappointment to the public. Upon this ground, may I request, until I am enabled to bring into the field the main body of my forces, in proper array, that you will suffer me, if it should not be inconsistent with your plan, occasionally to skirmish with this deadly enemy of mankind (the prevailing prejudices respecting epidemic diseases, especially the plague) in the colunms of your weekly reposi. tory? I The first of the articles from the Levant (No. VII, p. 104) to which I allude, begins thus: "The experiments made by Mr. Valli, a Phy sician of Mantua, and the English Dr. Maclean, for inoculating with the plague, have been sur passed by the discovery of Mr. Von Rosenfeldt, a German, who has, for some time, been a resident here." Now, Sir, who would not have at least imagined that I had inoculated myself with the matter of plague, and that Mr. Von Rosenfeldt had made a notable discovery? Neither of them, however, is in the smallest degree true; nor has the sentence any other foundation, than If Mr. Campbell does not astonish us Dr. Valli having inserted pestiferous, mixed To depend upon an experiment, which canin this superhuman mauner, at least he with vaccine matter, in one of his toes, and, as not be conducted on a large scale, and, which, leads us through scenes with whose namight have been expected, without producing conducted upon any scale, is liable to so much ture we are familiar, and for whose inany satisfactory result. Notwithstanding the fallacy, when we have facts the most abundant, habitants we feel some regard. Though confidence with which it has been repeatedly and data the most irrefragable, by which the asserted, it never entered into my mind, and question may be decided upon the broadest his primroses and violets are purchased am anxious to repel the imputation, to have re- basis, would, as it appears to me, be both a in the Cranbourn Alley of Parnassus, and course to a measure so superfluous, misleading, work of supererogation, and highly unscientific. appear a manufacture of painted gauze, and unscientific, and let ine add so theatrical, Such are my reasons for having chosen to reas inoculation with matter from a pestilential ject an experiment, which, from my particular yet still they remind us of real primsore; for this plain reason, among many others, view of the subject, I could not have regarded roses; and, indeed, some of them are real. that, as plague is universally acknowledged to but as, in itself, perfectly harmless. No one, I Mr. Campbell's farthest flight is America ; be capable of affecting the same person repeat should think, will suspect me of having declined but Mr. Southey hurries us up at once edly, inoculation, if the disease depended upon it on account of apprehension of danger from into the third heaven; we fly about among contagion, instead of preventing its recurrence, the disease; since it is notorious, that, during could only do mischief, by producing it; and, my residence at the Greek Hospital, near the stars that do not belong to our proper if it did not, could serve no purpose. Hence seven towers, I visited, at regular intervals, hemisphere; we are dazzled, blinded, such an operation would be at least superfluous, six times each day, every pestiferous patient in bewildered; and when at last we descend But it would be also misleading. The opera- the house; placing myself in contact with them, from our aeronautic excursion, we are tions of nature cannot be so obscure, that, as is usually done in other places with respect where contagion exists, such means can be ne- to ordinary patients; preparing and adminis happy to repose upon the aftergrass of cessary to set it in evidence. It did not remain tering their medicines, with my own hands; and Rogers, or to beg a ticken-bed at one of doubtful whether small pox depended upon con watching those of them about whom I was most Crabbe's sea-faring huts. tagion, until the process of inoculation had been anxious, in a chamber adjacent to my own. For adopted. Let us, then, enquire what we can these proceedings, I do not claim any particular allow it to be supposed, that I consider After these animadversions, I must not propose to ourselves as the results of this expe- credit. Every person, I presume, entertaining riment in plague. We shall suppose that the same opinions, and having a similar confi- Mr. Southey's poetry as utterly worth less. On the contrary, I think it of a and ligaments, and a wardrobe of the and pointed out the defects of the Latin ver very superior order; capable, if modified Dutch women's costumes, in which case sion of St. Jerome, the only monument and terrestrialized, of adding no incon- he could do wonders in describing the which enables us to judge and to profit by the labours of the Bishop of Cæsarea. But siderable star to the great poetical con- care taken of the wounded; to say noeven this translation, faulty and unfaithful stellation which shines upon the pre- thing of some episode respecting a tall as it is in many places, by the author's own sent age. Amongst much hyperbolical pathetic Lifeguardsman and his Dutch acknowledgment is far from being entire; thought and expression, we are sometimes Dulcinea. I think I would permit Mr. and the first book in particular, that in agreeably surprised by the unexpected Rogers to insert three lines about the which Eusebius had unfolded the plan, laid appearance of pictures, which our hearts birth and parentage of a tear; Messrs. the foundations and indicated the materials acknowledge, and which strike us at Coleridge and Wordsworth should de- of his chronological canon, there are such numerous omissions, and alterations, that once with the strongest emotions of sub-scribe the unsophisticated death of an one can hardly see in them, the work of the limity. I remember, in our language, aid-de-camp's horse; and to Mr. Moore author. Of what immense utility, of what three fine passages on the drawing of I would adjuge the most arduous task of extreme importance, to the study of chronoswords. Burke is the author of one. In all-namely, to erase, correct, and insert, logy, and consequently of ancient history, speaking of Marie Antoinette, he says, as his classical taste might lead him; in would be a version, besides that of St. which case, much of Scott, some of Lord Jerome, more complete in the whole, and a Byron, a little of Campbell, the essence the assurance given to the learned world by more faithful in each of its parts! Such is of Southey's four thousand lines, making Mr. Maio; and the abridged notice, which about as many hundred,-might be retain- he gives in his preface, of this Armenian ed; but Heaven knows whether a single version, confirms the truth and justifies the line of the remaining members of the positiveness of his assertion. congress would remain! By the help of all this pruning, the structure might indeed be made immortal. "I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even look that offered her an insult." Milton gives us the following sublime conception: " He spake, and to confirm his words, out flew And Mr. Southey, with more sublimity than the former, and not much less than the latter, has this passage. The Rajah having ordered his troops to assassinate a multitude who had offended him, "Ten thousand scymetars at once upreared, Flash up, like waters sparkling to the sun, A second time the fatal brands appeared, Their light was gone, their splendour quenched in gore." NOTE.-We wish our ingenious correspon dent would remember the old maxim: "Amicus Plato, sed magis, &c.”—ED. MR. MAIO'S PREFACE TO HIS EDITION OF TWO TREATISES OF PHILO AND PORPHYRY. Mr. Maio produces in his preface the whole first book of Eusebius, which has been hitherto wanting in all the known MSS. of the Latin version. He then gives a table of the thirty-eight chapters which composed this first book, the title of each, the names of the authors who furnished the materials of it, and lastly the first words with which the abstract of Eusebius began. This extract The two treatises published by Mr. Maio alone shows the whole importance of the are preceded by a learned dissertation in entire translation. One sees here already the three parts. In the first, he gives an account enormous difference between this first book of a manuscript of Philo, and in particular of the version of St. Jerome; it fills 152 of the circumstances relative to the discovery of Eusebius, and that which we read in the fragment of this author which has re-pages in quarto of the Armenian MS. and Perhaps in the whole compass of mo-mained unpublished to our times. He an- from this extract, from the notice of the audern poetry, there is not a more splendid nounces at the end of the first part, the exist-thors, and from the arrangement of the matepicture. Lord Byron approaches some-ence of an Armenian version of the works rials, which here form a well ordered, and what near it, when he describes Alp's of Philo, which version, doubtless made at a very complete whole, we may judge that all bare arm during the battle. time when the collection of this philosopher's the omissions of the Latin version are abso<< Alp is but known by the white arm bare, works was still entire, contains a number of lutely filled up. How many false opinions, Look thro' the thick of the fight-'tis there." pieces, that have been long since lost in the how many received systems, will the publiAs we are about erecting an architec-original language. The two last parts of this cation of such a work overthrow! But above preface contain information of other Arme- all what immense blanks, which hitherto tural monument to the memory of Wa-nian translations, which will supply the place seemed impossible to be filled up, may by terloo, I think we might convoke a con- of other ancient authors, of whom we have this means be at length made good in the gress of our poets, to compound amongst disfigured remains, or incomplete fragments. history of these first Oriental dynasties, of them a poetical monument. To Lord By- We cannot give a minute analysis of this those great Asiatic Empires formerly so celeron might be allotted that part which preface, which is worthy of all the attention brated, and now so little known! Thus, to should describe the feelings of both arof the learned on account of the curious dis-quote one example, Eusebius in the 36th mies before and after the battle, and its coveries, of which it gives them the first chapter of his first book, in which he treated effects upon the moral world in general. enjoyment. information, and as it were an anticipated on the origin of Rome, gave an extract from Mr. Scott should be endowed with a li- there is one which would be so important, tation is found in the Chronography of SynBut among these discoveries the Seventh book of Diodorus Siculus now lost. A part of this long and important quomited power of rehearsing the names of and which seems so positive, that we cannot the leaders, their dresses, their genealogy, refrain from giving an account of it. cellus: but comes down only to the esta and the foaming bits of their steeds. Both We speak of an Armeniau translation of blishment of Eneas; whereas in the Armethese bards should mash up the battle the Chronicle of Eusebius, copied from a MS. nian Version brought to light by Mr. Maio, itself between them. of the 11th century, and preserved in the this quotation extends to the time of RomuMr. Campbell library of the Armenian College at Venice. lus, and includes therefore the whole series might give us a pathetic episode of a The mention of such a fact is sufficient to of the Kings of Alba, from Ascanius to young lady who had arrived just time excite the interest of all those who cultivate Amulius. The notice given by Mr. Maio, enough to stop, by the interposition of or love letters. It is well known that the imperfect and succinct as it is, proves that her own heart, a bullet that was going on Chronicle of Eusebius, the most complete, many opinions advanced and maintained by very fairly towards her lover's. If any the most methodical collection of the chro-able critics must be wholly rejected: such is inmortal gods were deemed necessary, come down to us only with numerous altera- notice, that Eusebius had only made a liberal nological knowledge of the ancients, has that of Scaliger, which Mr. Maio does not I would, by all means, recommend Mr. tions, changes, omissions, and interpolations, Southey to the mythological department. which make it extremely different from the the fragments of Diodorus collected by Wemcling, toni, ii. 'Syncell. Chronograph, p. 191. edit. Goar, and among Mr. Crabbe, might be furnished with lint original work. The critics have discovered P. 636. |