of our language is improved alfo. Thefe two little volumes, though the anecdotes are of unequal merit, will be highly prized by the admirers of the great Frederick. The Epiftolary Correfpondence, Vifitation Charges, Speeches, and Mifcellanies, of the Right Reverend Francis Atterbury, D. D. Lord Bishop of Rochefter. With Hiftorical Notes. Vol. IVa 8vo. 5s. in Boards. Dilly. OUR UR industrious editor resembles Cæfar in at least one respect, viz. inceffant affiduity and unremitting attention, Nil actum reputans, dam quid fupereffet agendum.' To the three former volumes, which were mentioned in our LVIth and LVIIth volumes, p. 14, and 166, another is added, which probably contains every thing that, in the most diftant manner, relates to Atterbury: it certainly contains many things of little real importance.We have, in our former examinations, traced the character of the bishop with fome. minuteness; and it only remains to give a fhort account of the contents of the prefent volume, with a few extracts. The act for the banishment of the bishop; the various petitions to government during his confinement; the licences to vifit, and even to be permitted to correfpond with him in his banishment, are now fubjoined: fome Latin compofitions, many additional notes, and feveral letters to bifhop Trelawney, befides the little affectionate ones between his nearest relations, fill up the greater part of this volume. The bishop's conduct in the affair of Pere Courayer feems to have been highly proper; and we find the warmest approbation of it was communicated to Atterbury, from the cardinal Fleury, by the hands of the lieutenant of the police. Yet the cardinal, from a duplicity which he could not avoid, was always afraid of Atterbury, watched him with a fufpicious eye, and was particularly careful to prevent his farther connections with the Popish clergy. Of the literary information, or, as it may be ftyled, goffipings, which, to all literary men are fo pleafing, we fhall felect a few inftances; and take our firft from the laft page of the book, because we think it moft interefting. At the moment this fheet was finishing for the prefs, the following curious note was communicated to me by the rev. Mr. Fly, from the hand-writing of Walter Harte, prefixed to Selecta Poemata Italorum qui Latinè fcripferunt, Curâ cuJUSDAM ANONYMI Anno 1684 congefta, iterum in lucem data, unâ cum aliorum Italorum operibus, accurante A. Pope. Londini, 1740. 2 vols. 8vo. It is furprizing that Mr. Pope fhould be filent upon this point, when he told me 14 years before the publication of this prefent prefent edition, that the Anonymous quidam was Dr. Atterbury, bishop of Rochefter. Perhaps the bishop did not chufe to acknowlege the flight aufements of his youth; or that others fhould afcertain the author's name. W. H. To authenticate this note, it has been fhewn to the rev. Dr. Douglas of St. Paul's (to whom, and to Mr. Stanhope, Mr. Harte was tutor); who perfectly recollects the hand-writing. Dr. Johnfon, in his Life of Pope, fays, "A fmall felection from the Italians who wrote in Latin had been published at London, about the latter end of the last century, by a man. who concealed his name, but whom his preface fhews to have been qualified for his undertaking. This collection Pope amplified by more than half, and (1740) published it in two volumes, but injuriously omitted his predeceffor's preface.' A characteristic remark on the Travels of Cyrus is worth preferving. Ramfay's book feems to have fallen in England, as it has done here: for I obferve that it has not, for fome time, been trumpeted in your advertisements. A French gentleman, who has a greater refpect for our writers than his own, and none at all for Mr. Ramfay's performance, fhewed me a few words in Montaigne, liv, i. chap. 25, which, he frankly owned, would be properly placed in the firft page of Cyrus: "Un peu de chaque chofe, & rien du tout, à la Francoife."-A little of every thing, and the whole of nothing, in the French fashion. The following note is a curious piece of information on another fubject: the letter was written by Mr. James Bristow, at Salisbury, to a diffenting minifter in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Calamy was a diffenting minifter in London. By the way, Mr. Calamy having received thanks from bishop Burnet for his book, which was fent him down by his bookfeller, he was very willing to wait upon his lordship, if he knew how to be introduced into his prefence. He acquaints me with it; and I went to a gentleman of my acquaintance,, and told him, "Here was a gentleman came to town, that had a mind to pay his refpects to his lordship, if he thought a vifit would be grateful to him." He craves his name of me. I told him. Saith he, "He need not fear of being kindly received by my lord: for I have heard him fpeak of him, and commend the book lately fet out by him." This gentleman, the next morning, introduces Mr. Calamy into the bishop's prefence, who gave him a hearty reception, fhewed him his tudy, where they had two hours difcourfe together; told him,. "We need not fear of having our liberty taken away from us; but there would be fome attempt made for rendering diffenters incapable of voting for parliament-men; but it would be oppofed." Then he talked to him about his book, and told him, that he had fet Nonconformity in as clear a light as he had 66 feen feen it; and the character he had given of thofe minifters he knew was right." Mr. Calamy took an occafion to ask him, Whether either Mr. Keeling or Mr. Squire had been with him?" He told him, "No; he should have been glad to have feen them." Then his lordship mentioned the "difference that was between them, which he heard was occafioned by a basket of apples." Mr. Calamy told him, "There was fome likelihood of its being made up; and that it was thought requifite that a third man did come in order to it." The bishop replied, "He thought it was beft for both these to remove; and that in cafe a third man did come, which was a man of prudence and temper, he should be very willing to converfe with him; and, by that means, the public good might be the better carried on by them.' •Sarum, O&. 12, 1702.’ The following Latin verfes of Atterbury are inferted as a fpecimen of his Latin poetry. His Latin profe is very claffical and correct. His faltem accumulem donis, & fungar inani Cum fubit illius lætiffima frontis imago, Quam noftri toties explicuere fales; Cum fubit & canum caput, & vigor acer occlli, Hoc tribuiffe, parum eft; non tribuiffe, fcelus.' The letters to bifhop Trelawney chiefly relate to the bufnefs of the convocation; and are not, at least to us, very interefting. Yet we dare not fay that this volume is unneceffary, if it were of any importance to collect the letters of Atterbury. Perhaps the collection fhould not have been increafed by Dr. King's letters, already printed, because they were fuppofed to have been addreffed to the bishop. Notices and Defcriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul, now Provence, Languedoc, and Dauphine; with Differtations on the Subjects of which thofe are Exemplars; and an Appendix defcribing the Roman Baths and Therma difcovered in 1784, at Badenweiler. By Governor Pownall, F. R. S. and F. S. A. 4to. 10s. 6d. in Boards. Robinsons PRovence, Languedoc, and Dauphiné, formed the Pro vincia Romana of Gaul, and it was ftyled fo, not only on account of the immunities which it enjoyed, but from the numerous Roman families who refided there, on account of the falubrity of the air, the fertility of the foil, and the ge neral neral beauty of the country. The Romans left numerous, traces of their riches and their luxury, which have been de fcribed very imperfectly. Governor Pownall, in this volume, enlightens the antiquary, and inftructs the traveller: his defcriptions are pointed, and feemingly faithful: his differtations are generally curious and often inftructive. In the introduction, he defcribes the natural riches of the province, which are not impaired, though the magnificence and the opulence of the inhabitants are not the fame.-in reality, Rome was the fource of wealth, where all the dependent provinces emptied their treasures, and from whence it was only carried by Romans. The magnificence too which now remains was that of the ftate and of opulent individuals; fo that the different fituations cannot properly be compared. If, as Mr. Gibbon fuppofes, Gaul was four times as rich for merly as at prelent, and the riches confined to one quarter of the number of perfons, we can easily fuppofe what magnificence may be the confequence, especially when the fplendor was fubfervient either to conveniency or luxury. In the time of Roman greatnefs, a thousand were impoverished to admit of the profufion of one individual: if Rome boafted of freedom, The at least took care that this valuable bleffing should not. become too cheap, by a general communication. After the Introduction, governor Pownall begins his description; and after palling Lyon and Vienne, which he purpofes to notice at a future period, he proceeds to Valence and Orange. Of the origin of the former he gives fome account, and describes a triumphal arch :-He afterwards notices the theatre and aqueduct of the latter. The arch our author attributes to Domitius Ahenobarbus: his conjectures, for fo he wishes that they should be ftyled, are too long to be extracted. At Aix, our author describes the Saxea turris, which was. difcovered, at its demolition, to be a fepulchral mausoleum. He fufpects it to be the mausoleum of Lucius Cæfar, the adopted fon of Auguftus, who was not, fo far as we know, brought to Rome. The contents of fome cabinets at Aix are alfo defcribed. Marseilles is a fruitful fource of difcoveries: its origin; its peculiar inftitutions, both religious and civil, are objects of Mr. Pownall's attention. The fettlement was first made by a body of Phocæans from lonia; they established a commercial fettlement, and the spirit of naval enterprize continued unimpaired for many ages: to them we owe the early voyages of Pythæus and Eumenes; and from them are derived the peculiar antiquities, which have been discovered in Tater later ages. The Egyptian antiquities are procured in the way of commerce, and we fhall extract our author's defcription of an Ægyptian prieft, chiefly as it tends to fupport the opinion of the Ægyptians being a negro race, though we think it is fupported but imperfectly. There is, in the garden of the Baftide of M. Seguir, a ftatue of an Egyptian prieft, as large as life. The figure and bafe on which it is placed are of one block of Egyptian granite. The figure, if erect, would be five feet feven inches high. It is pofed in the decided act of devotion. It fits upon its heels, having the legs folded under it. The figure is naked, except the hood or quoif, with a fcapula hanging down the back, and an apron which, tied round the waift, hangs half-way down the thighs. The contours are as eafy as the constrained mode of pofition will admit. The compofure and moral doucure of the countenance is very striking: it is im poffible not to be impreffed with this fentiment, on looking at it with fteady and attentive continuance. The arms hang down the fides, as far as the elbow; the lower part of the arms are brought forward, fo as that the hands extended lye flat upon the upper part of the thigh. The anatomy is characteristic of the black race, in the form of the skull, and the features of the face. The face is a long oval; the eyes of a long flit and large; the nofe ftraight and fhort; the lips rather projecting; the tranfverfe line of the profile, from the setting on of the nofe to the ear, is fhort in proportion to the length, and of course the checks long; the ear is large, but folded; the ball of the eye is not marked either with the iris or the pupil. The nofe of this beautiful statue is mutilated. I understood from M. Thulis, who went with me to fhew me this, and who lived many years in Ægypt, the Turks ferve all the ftatues they meet with in this manner.' This place contains fo many remarkable remains, and collections fo curious, that we are forry to pass by it curforily. We advise the reader and the traveller to be lefs hafty. The trophæal arch and the fepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably established by M. Livius Drufus Libo, afford alfo feveral circumftances, which will interest the attentive traveller. The craw, or the ftony way, has exhaufted fuperftition and philofophy, to account for the numerous flints and pebbles heaped upon it. They were fhowered down by Jupiter, fays the Pagan, for the fervice of Hercules; rather to overwhelm him, replies the fceptic. They were thrown up by an earthquake, or by a volcano, fays the philofopher; or at least the ftones grew like plants. Mr. Pownall fays more probably that the lake of Geneva burst its mounds, and poured down on this coaft ftones and all the ruins of the ancient rocks. It is much |