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the camp lay, on the evening of the 8th, and reached his destination by sunrise on the 9th. He found the premier lying ill in the veranda of the king's tent of audience, and near him a secretary of state and another gentleman. They took very little notice, not rising when he sat down, as is their custom to all who sit with them; but the secretaries kept him two hours in a metaphysical and religious discussion. On the 12th he attended the levee of the Vizier, where he was furiously assailed in controversy. You had better say," exclaimed the Vizier, “God is God, and Mahomet is the prophet of God." He said, "God is God, and Jesus is the Son of God." Immediately they all exclaimed, in contempt and anger, "He is neither born nor begets," and rose up as if they would have torn him to pieces. One threatened, "what will you say when your tongue is burnt out for this blasphemy?" In the evening the Vizier sent word that it was the custom of the king not to see any Englishman unless presented, or accredited by the ambassador, and that he must wait till the king reached Sultania, where the ambassador would be. Mr C., his companion, joined him from Tehran, and they left the camp on the 13th of June; they reached Sultania on the 22d. It seems that the insolence which they received at the caravansara from the servants of the king induced them to quit Sultania on the 24th. Soon after, Martyn and his companion, and three of his servants, were attacked in succession by fever, which detained them until the 29th. His malady he describes as an ague, attended by sickness and intense headach, and terminating in a depression nearly equal to fainting; yet, about midnight, he mounted his horse, and set out "rather dead than alive." But his disorder returned; it was a quotidian ague; it rose nearly to delirium, and he was forced to halt a day. On the 6th they pursued their journey, but could not find the village of Seid Abad the following night, and poor Martyn was compelled to lie down in the road.

However, in less than two days they arrived at Tebriz; but the object of his fatigues was missed after all; his fever would not quit him, and he was disabled from presenting the Testament to the king, or to Prince Abbas, his son. During his illness he experienced from Sir G. Ouseley and his lady tender and assiduous attention, and the former promised himself to present the books to both the royal personages. Mr Martyn slowly recovered from his fever; and, ten days after it had subsided, having determined on a journey to England, to insure the re-establishment of his health, he left Tebriz for Constantinople, distant thirteen hundred miles. Two Armenian servants attended him, and his Mikmander, a sort of government guide and protector, was furnished with Chappar-horses; that is, with horses procured, free of expense, in the name of the king. On the 6th he crossed the Araxes in a ferryboat, and the same day had a view of the sublime and hoary mountain Ararat; on the 11th he reached Erivan, for whose commander Sir Gore Ouseley had given him a letter, and on the 12th he rode forward to Ech-miazin, or Three Churches.

On the 17th of September Martyn quitted the monastery of Echmiazin, where he had enjoyed many testimonies of kindness and friendship. His party were two men from the governor of Erivan, a Mikmander, a guard, his servant Sergius, a trusty servant from the monastery, and two baggage horses with their owners. On the 21st they

arrived at Cars. He left Erzerum on the 29th, and was that day attacked by fever and ague. On the 30th he was better, but he ate nothing, was low-spirited, and suffered headach. On the first of October, after a journey of thirteen hours, he was near fainting from sickness, and comforted by the news that thousands were dying daily of the plague at Constantinople, and that Tocat, a place lying in his route, was also infected. After a day's hard riding on the second, we find him thus complaining in his journal: "As soon as it began to grow a little cold the ague came on, and then the fever; after which I had a sleep, that let me know too plainly the disorder of my frame. In the night Hasan (the Tartar!) sent to summon me away, but I was quite unable to move. Finding me still in bed at the dawn he began to storm furiously at my detaining him so long; but I quietly let him spend his ire, ate my breakfast composedly, and set out at eight. We flew over hill and vale to Shereau-thence we travelled all the rest of the day and all night; it rained most of the time. Soon after sunset the ague came on again, which, in my wet state, was very trying; I hardly knew how to keep my life in me. About that time there was a village at hand, but Hasan had no mercy. At one in the morning we found two men under a wain, with a good fire; they could not keep the rain out, but I dried my lower extremities, allayed the fever by drinking a good deal of water, and went on to the Munzil, where we arrived at break of day. After sleeping three or four hours, he hurried me away from this place without delay, and galloped furiously towards a village, which, he said, was four hours' distance, which was all I could undertake in my present weak state; but village after village did he pass, till night coming on, and no signs of another, I suspected that he was carrying me on to the Munzil; so I got off my horse, and sat upon the ground, and told him, 'I neither could nor would go any further.' He stormed, but I was immoveable, till a light appearing-I made towards it." "They brought me to a stable-room, and Hasan and a number of others planted themselves there with me. My fever here increased to a violent degree; the heat in my eyes and forehead was so great, that the fire almost made me frantic. I entreated that it might be put out, or that I might be carried out of doors. Neither was attended to: my servant, who, from my sitting in that strange way on the ground. believed me delirious, was deaf to all I said. At last I pushed my head in among the luggage, and lodged it on the damp ground, and slept." Again, on the 5th, the "merciless Hasan" hurried him away, the journey of that day was not great; but the ague attacked him furiously. The last words which he penned in his journal were on the following day, when he was detained, for want of horses, at the Munzil, which he had reached on the 5th. He died at Tocat on the 16th, the victim of his fever or the plague.

Charles Burney, D. D.

BORN A. D. 1768.-DIED A. D. 1817.

THIS accomplished scholar was the second son of the celebrated author of the History of Music.' He was educated at the Charter

house and Cambridge, but graduated at a northern university. He did not take orders until late in life, and long after his name had been associated with those of Porson and Parr in classical literature. A successful career, as a private teacher, enabled him to realize a handsome fortune, and to indulge his ruling passion in the collection and formation of a classical library, in the pursuit of which he not only displayed the greatest taste and industry but exhibited a most munificent spirit.

After the death of Mr Townley, Dr Burney obtained the fine manuscript Homer which passes under his name, and has been valued by some connoisseurs at the sum of £1000. The Codex Crippsianus also of the Greek orators came into his possession likewise by purchase. Of the printed books also in his collection some were of a very rare description, in high preservation, and bound with an unrivalled degree of taste and richness. The number amounted to nearly 14,000; and many of them are of additional value from the manuscript notes of H. Stephens, Bentley, Markland, and himself, with which the margins are sometimes crowded. This rare collection presented, in the Greek dramatic authors, and a few other works, the text of the first edition, with all its subsequent and progressive states of improvement. Some idea of its extent and value may be formed from the fact that of editions of several celebrated works, the Burneian collection, on an average, contained at least four times the number of those in the British museum.

Dr Burney having acquired independence, if not opulence, resigned his school in favour of his only son, the Rev. C. P. Burney, who had acted for some few years as his assistant, and retired to his rectory at St Paul's, Deptford, to which he had been inducted about nine months before. Here, after a slow, but gradual, decay, he died on the 28th of December, 1817. His death was occasioned by apoplexy, with which he was first seized on the morning of Christmas-day, and under which he languished but for three days afterwards.

Dr Burney, during the last twenty-five or thirty years of his life, maintained the highest character as a scholar: in respect to an intimate acquaintance with the Greek drama, he might, perhaps, have justly claimed the first.

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On the death of Dr Burney, it became a subject of general disquietude, lest his noble library should be separated and distributed by public sale but at length it was determined, that it should become the property the nation, and be preserved as one great whole. On February 23d, 1818, Mr Bankes presented a petition from the trustees of the British museum to the house of commons, praying for parliamentary aid to purchase this rare and extensive library. The honourable gentleman described it "as a collection of a very superior kind, having been accumulated by the labours of many years, on the part of its possessor, who was a man of great taste and learning, and who had spared no reasonable expense in the collection; and when it was considered how important it was to deposit literary treasures of such value and character in the British museum, Mr Bankes hoped, that the house would be disposed to listen to the prayer of the petition." The chancellor of the exchequer bore ample testimony to the learning and abilities of Dr Burney, and agreed, that the present opportunity of obtaining so valuable a collection of books and manuscripts ought by no means to be neglected. A committee was accordingly nominated, and the sum of £13,500, recommend

ed to be given to the proprietor. Some slight objection was urged on the score of public economy, but instantly overruled by the eloquence of Sir J. Mackintosh and the Hon. Frederick Douglas. The vote passed unanimously; and we cannot more appropriately close this notice, than by an extract from the report on the library, as printed by order of the house of commons:

"One of the large classes consists of manuscripts of classical and other ancient authors; among which that of Homer's Iliad, formerly belonging to Mr Townley, holds the first place in the estimation of all the very competent judges who were examined by your committee; although not supposed to be older than the latter part of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century, it is considered as being of the earliest date of the MSS. of Homer's Iliad known to scholars, and may be rated as superior to any other which now exists, at least in England; it is also extremely rich in scholia, which have been hitherto but partially explored.

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There are two copies of the series of Greek orators, probably written in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, of which that upon vellum was brought to this country by Mr Cripps and Dr Clarke, and is esteemed as extremely valuable; an account of the orations contained in it was drawn up by Dr Raine, late master of the Charterhouse, and of the collations, which he had made in comparing it with the Aldine edition. This manuscript of the rhetoricians is indeed one of the most important manuscripts ever introduced into this country, because it supplies more lacunæ than any other manuscript; there is contained in it a portion of Isæus, which has never been printed: there is only one printed oration of Lycurgus in existence, which is imperfect, and this manuscript completes it; there is also an oration of Dinarchus, which may be completed from this manuscript.

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Among the rarer manuscripts in the collection, there are two beautiful copies of the Greek gospels, of the tenth and twelfth centuries. The Geography of Ptolemy is another of the finest MSS. enriched with maps, which although not older than the fifteenth century, yet, from the circumstance of all the other known copies of this work in the original language being in the collection of different public libraries abroad, the possession of this copy is rendered particularly desirable. There is likewise a valuable Latin manuscript of the comedies of Plautus, written in the fourteenth century, containing twenty plays; which is a much larger number than the copies already in the museum, or those in foreign libraries in general contain, most of which have only six or eight, and few, comparatively speaking, more than twelve plays. A beautiful and correct manuscript of Callimachus of the fifteenth century; a very fine copy of Pappas Alexandrinus' collection of mathematical treatises, of similar date; and a manuscript of the Asinus Aureus of Apuleius, an author of extreme rarity, deserve also particular notice. The whole number of manuscripts amounts to about 385, but those above-mentioned are the most important and valuable.

"Exclusive of the manuscripts already noticed, there is a very large number of memoranda and criticisms, in Dr Burney's own hand (exclusive of the Fragmenta Scenica Græca, and books with Dr Burney's own notes); three or four articles of which seem nearly prepared for the press. In this part of the collection there are several small lexicons

of the Greek dialects, with numerous remarks on ancient authors: the merit of which, though certainly considerable, can only be thoroughly appreciated by patient investigation. There are also many original letters of Isaac Casaubon, who maintained an extensive correspondence with many of the learned men of his time, whose letters to Casaubon have never been published.

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Among the printed books, the whole number of which is from 13,000 to 14,000 volumes, the most distinguished branch consists of the collection of Greek dramatic authors, which are arranged so as to present every diversity of text and commentary at one view; each play being bound up singly, and in so complete but expensive a manner, that it has occasioned the sacrifice of two copies of every edition, and in some instances of such editions as are very rare: the same arrangement has also been adopted with regard to Harpocration, and some of the Greek grammarians; and both the editions of, and annotations upon, Terentianus Maurus are particularly copious and complete. It appears, indeed, that this collection contains the first edition of every Greek classic, and several of the scarcest among the Latins, and that the series of grammarians, lexicographers, and philological writers, in both languages, is unusually complete. The books are represented to be generally in good, though not in what may be styled brilliant, condition; the whole having been collected by Dr Burney himself, from the different great libraries, which have been of late years brought to sale, be ginning chiefly with the Pinelli collection.

"Another important portion of this collection may be called the Variorum collection: this is, perhaps, one of the most remarkable series of books in the whole library: in it, Dr Burney has so brought together the comments and notes of many celebrated scholars upon several Greek, and particularly the dramatic writers, that at one view may be seen almost all that has been said in illustration of each author; it extends to about 300 volumes in folio and quarto. One portion of this remarkable collection consists of a regular series of 170 volumes, entitled Fragmenta Scenica Græca, which comprises all the remains of the Greek dramatists, in number not less than 300, wheresoever they could be traced.

"Another, and a very different, branch of this collection comprises a numerous and rare series of newspapers, from 1603 to the present time, amounting in the whole to 700 volumes, which is more ample than any other that is supposed to be extant. A large collection of between 300 and 400 volumes in quarto, containing materials for a history of the stage, from 1660 to the present time, and particulars relating to the biography of actors, and persons connected with the stage, may be classed after these daily journals.

"Dr Burney's collection of prints has been principally made with reference to this object, comprising the most complete series that probably exists of theatrical portraits; beginning in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, which is the period of our earliest engravers of portraits, such as Geminie, Hogenburgh, Elstracke, and the three Passes, and continued to the present time. The number of these theatrical engravings is about 5000, many of which are bound together in ten volumes; besides these, there are about 2,000 other engraved portraits, principally of authors, commentators, and other learned persons.

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