the illustrious Rocca* in arts and humanities, which pray tell him from me. We have lost, somehow or other, a certain number of pages of bad writingpaper, on which was written a part of a novel, about a family of the name of Tregannock. The author being at Rome, it was laid out in my house at Naples to be brought to him, but somehow mislaid, and never arrived, and being now wanting, we are distressed for it; there may be about twenty sheets of letter-paper, sewed together very ill, and perhaps doubled lengthways down the middle. It begins with the words, 'Well said, Mr. Nathaniel Randall Tregannock,' and that is all we can recollect of it; and if you can find this most precious MS. about the house, pray send it by Mr. Frederick Dundas, or any other traveler.

"So Mawbles is at the very pinnacle of glory, dealing out protection, dispensation, and plenary indulgence in the bosom of her admiring family. I hope my geraniums are not all dead of the frost at Naples, as they are all defunct, without confessing their sins, at the pressing instance of a hoar frost.

"You have now balls and routs enough, as I hear, to keep the world alive, and to swell the lists of Galen and Co. One does not desire that either an earthquake or an eruption should take place, but if it must, one wishes to be witness of it; and so, if the people will persevere in being ill, I wish they would at least have the good sense to fall into your hands. Senna and sirup of buckthorn are your fellows, for they have all overeaten themselves, and are overgorged.

"Don't imagine I neglect my Dr. Necker, whose poisoned sugar I take every five days with great success and the most innocent results. I am uncommonly well withal, and go out every day to dinner, without finding myself worse. Moreover, my pains seem diminishing gradually, and I waddle about with tolerable success. Last night I went to the Opera of the Princess Volkonsky, the Camilla' of Paer, in which she performed admirably, and, though ill supported by the rest of the company, succeeded, on the whole, very well, being the first Opera I have ever seen at a private theatre. Don't tell any one that I am not coming back to Naples soon, but you need not begin to fear for yourself till April. Believe me most truly yours, great descendant of Queen Quintiquiniestra, W. GELL."

From the same :

"Rome, Friday night.

"MY DEAR QUINIBUS,-I have written to the Drummonds some days ago, and sent them a silver medal of Lord Byron, therefore I have no right to dumpify. I have deluded my tyrant, the gout, for some time. If the Abbate Giustio calls, listen to all he has got to say about the library, which is to be sold, and let me know the result. Lord D says he would rather trust the negotiation to you than any body he knows, which is sensible of his lordship, * A servant Sir William Gell had recommended to Dr. Quin.

is it not? Write soon, and then I will tell Mawbles that you are a good boy. God bless you, magnanimous Quin his Curtius, your sincere friend, "WILLIAM GELL."

BIBLIOTHECA QUINIENSIS.

"Though of all things, dear doctor, I know you know much,
I should never have dreamed you had studied Low Dutch,
Or supposed that the subjects your studies would choose
Was a large folio Jewish account of the Jews!

I know, my dear Quin, and we all of us know,
That Jewish accounts are on long folio:

And too well do I know for my dear money-bags,

That in Jewish accounts the interest ne'er flags.

But those great, thick, fat tomes about Aaron and Moses,
What connection on earth can they have with small doses?
Four close-printed volumes of folio pages,
Composed by the sagest of Israel's sages.
The story of those who sell second-hand togs,
Done into language of Dutchmen and frogs.
Oh, tell me, dear doctor! oh, tell me, are such
The books you most fancy in English or Dutch?
There must be some reason-I'm certain there is,
Why books such as these show their ugly phiz.
And, after reflection, I think I have hit on
The reason you bought them to carry to Britain.
It is this as you say that all maladies must
Yield to infinitesimal doses of dust,

It may be that those volumes the patient espies,
Are only put there to throw dust in his eyes.

From the same :

"My dear Dr. Quin, I have now to ask,

W. G."

"Rome, April 8th

If you won't think I'm going to put you to task,
To take in my servant, and give him his room-
His name is Luigi, my coachman and groom-
Who is going to Naples for carriage and horses,
And to spend a large sum of money, which worse is.
So, if you'll be so good to order your man

To get his room ready as fast as he can—

Above or below, 'tis to me all the same,

And then send him back just as fast as he came,

You'll oblige me, and serve me, and much I shall thank you,
And among my particular friends I shall rank you.

As to balls and to dinners, and fêtes and such bawbles,
The city's most truly indebted to Mawbles,
Who, being a person of great notoriety,
Contrives to be useful to all the society,
Inviting the people to parties and routs,
Promiscuously treating the ins and the outs.
In short, I may say we are going on well,
And that I am most truly your friend,

LINES TO LADY BLESSINGTON, BY W. S. LANDOR.
In vol. i., page 251.

"What language, let me think, is meet

For you, well called the Marguerite.
The Tuscan has too weak a tone,
Too rough and rigid is our own;

The Latin-no, it will not do,
The Attic is alone for you.

W. S. L."

A Latin version by Mr. Landor of the above lines followed the latter, which escaped notice in time for insertion in its proper place, and is therefore placed in this Appendix.

"Quoniam carmine te alloquar decenter

Vero nomine dicta Margarita !

Sermo est durior Anglicanus: atque

Tuscus displicet: est enim vigoris

Expers: aptior est quidem Latinus
Atque non satis est mihi sibique

Te sermo Atticus unice decet.

W. S. L."

The charms, mental and personal, of Lady Blessington, were fully appreciated by another literary celebrity, as we learn from the following lines, terminating some others, descriptive of the frivolous amusements of belles wholly devoted to the varying mode, and each recurring change in the empire of fashion.

"But thy bright mind eclipsing e'en thy face,

The Muse with justice claims thee from the Grace.
Thought gives the gems which Love in beauty set,
And every fairy at thy cradle met.

From the dull world around escaped a while,

I breathe the air which brightens in thy smile:
Ah! half already of that gift possess'd,

Which, conquering space, is destined to the bless'd,
How little thought this jailer flesh can bar,

Our souls how rarely where our bodies are."

No. XVII.

REV. THOMAS STEWART.

The Rev. Thomas Stewart, who was assassinated in Italy some five-andtwenty years ago, was a nephew of Sir William Drummond, and a brother of Sir William Drummond Stewart, of Grandtully, Perthshire. On conforming to the Roman Catholic religion, he was admitted into the Benedictine order in Sicily, and later, at Rome, was received into the order of St. John of Jerusalem. His assassination took place on the shores of the Adriatic, between Senigalia and Ancona. Some lines of this gentleman, addressed to Lady Blessington, written while he was a layman, will be found in vol. i., page 260, of more than ordinary merit.

No. XVIII.

STATUARY, VASES, AND BRONZES, THE PROPERTY OF GENERAL COUNT D'ORSAY, THE FATHER OF COUNT ALFRED, CONFISCATED IN 1793, AND APPROPRIATED BY THE STATE, CLAIMED BY THE COUNT IN JULY, 1844.

CONSULTATION POUR M. LE CONTE D'ORSAY CONTRE LA LISTE CIVILE. "M. Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod, Comte D'Orsay, d'Autrey et Nogentle-Rotrou, Baron de Rupt, seigneur de la principauté souveraine de Delaine et autres lieux en Franche Comté, Seigneur D'Orsay Courtabœuf, la Plesse, les Villefeux, etc., etc., et qui comtpait au nombre de ses aieux maternels le Duc de Sully, ministre et ami de Henri IV., ne put échapper au mesures ré

volutionnaires qui en 1793 menaçaient la noblesse Française. Atteint par les lois rendues contre les émigrés, ses biens furent confisqués par l'état et mis sous le séquestre.

“Lors de son émigration, M. le Comte D'Orsay était propriétaire, entre autres biens, de l'Hôtel D'Orsay situé à Paris, Rue de Varennes, Faubourg St. Germain, et de la terre seigneuriale D'Orsay près de Palaiseau, arrondissement de Versailles, et dont dépendait un château considérable, et aussi célébre par le luxe de sa construction que par les souvenirs historiques qui s'y rattachaient. "L'Hôtel et le Château D'Orsay, les jardins et le parc qui en faisaient partie, contenaient une grande quantité de statues, de groupes, de bustes et de vases, en marbre et en bronze, d'une immense valeur, que la famille du Comte D'Orsay y avait réunis à grands frais, et que ce dernier avait augmentés encore par les nombreuses acquisitions qu'il avait faites en Italie en 1780, avec le goût qui a toujours été l'apanage de cette illustre maison.

"Maître de cette collection précieuse et unique, le gouvernement Français se garda bien de la vendre. Il la conserva avec le plus grand soin, et bientôt après en enrichit ses musées, ses palais, et leurs jardins. Plusieurs des statues, groupes, bustes, vases qui se trouvent aujourd'hui dans les palais et les jardins des Tuileries, du Luxembourg, et de St. Cloud, qui en font l'ornement, et qui sont l'admiration des artistes et des étrangers, ont appartenu à la riche collection de M. le Comte D'Orsay.....

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'Nous pensons donc, qu'en fait comme en droit, M. le Comte Alfred D'Orsay, par réprésentation de M. le Lieutenant Général Comte Albert D'Orsay, son père, est fondé dans sa réclamation contre la liste civile ou le domaine de l'état, qui est en ce moment en possession des objets d'art confisqués pendant la Révolution sur M. Pierre Marie Gaspard Comte D'Orsay, son aieul. Délibéré à Paris, le 7 Juillet, 1844.

"CHARLES LEDRU, Avocat à la Cour Royale de Paris."

"Catalogue des Statues, Groupes, Bustes, Vases, Fûts de Colonnes, Gaînes en Bronze et en Marbre, Appartenants à Monsieur le Comte D'Orsay : "D'après le Catalogue imprimé qu'en avait faire M. le Comte D'Orsay père, avant la Révolution en 1791; et l'indication des lieux, &c., où ces différents objets se trouvent placés.

Ces divers objets d'art furent saisis dans l'hôtel du Comte D'Orsay pendant la Révolution Française, et placés dans les Palais Nationaux."

BRONZES.

Apollon du Belvedère, fondue à Rome par Villadier; à la Malmaison.—Antinous, fondue à Rome par le même; Jardin des Tuileries.-Une Amazone; à la Malmaison.-Mars en Repos, fondue à Rome par Villadier; aux Invalides. Deux Bustes, l'un de femme; à la Bibliothèque Mazarine: l'autre en recherche.-Louis XV., donné à la section par un homme d'affaires de mon père. Deux Vases, restés dans l'Hôtel. - Deux Girandoles; restées dans