pect) kept it to herself. Her religion
not change; but she must never expect t
received at that court till she does: and
think she will make quite a Julie in the

The Heloïse cruelly disappointed me, b
its partisans, among which we see Mason
Hurd. For me, I admire nothing but *
(I conclude you have read it, if not Ston
can lend it you) yet I remain still in doub
the authenticity of those poems, though in
rather to believe them genuine in spite of the
Whether they are the inventions of antiqu
of a modern Scotchman, either case to me is
unaccountable. Je m'y perd.

I take no joy in the Spanish war, being to to privateer, and too poor to buy stock: nor hope for a good end of any war, as it will be probably conducted. Oh! that foolishest † of g

In a letter to another friend, informing him tha had sent Fingal down to him, he says, "For my part I stick to my credulity, and if I am cheated, think it is w for him, (the translator) than for me. The Epic Poe foolishly so called, yet there is a sort of plan and unit it very strange for a barbarous age; yet what I more adn are some of the detached pieces-the rest I leave to the cussion of antiquarians and historians; yet my curiosity much interested in their decision." No man surely ev took more pains with himself to believe any thing, th Mr. Gray seems to have done on this occasion.-Mason. + Mr. Pitt. "As I cannot put Mr. Pitt to death (sa Mr. Walpole in a letter to Mr. Conway) at least I hav buried him. Here is his epitaph:

à Kempis, who knew mankind so m
than I.

Young Pitt (whom I believe you have mention) is returned to England. Fr hope to get much information concernin which nobody has seen. I saw a man yesterday who has been He is no bad Mount Etna, and seen the ruins of a t Agrigentum, whose columns (when standin 96 feet in height. A moderate man mig himself in one of the flutings. By the way is a Mr. Phelps (now gone secretary to t bassy to Turin) who has been all over Sici means to give us an account of its remains. are two more volumes of Buffon (the 9th and arrived in England, and the two last ma D'Anville's Europe. One Mr. Needham, tu a Lord Gormanstown, now on his travels made a strange discovery. He saw a figu Isis at Turin, on whose back was a pilaste antique characters, not hieroglyphics, but suc are sometimes seen on Egyptian statues. he came to Rome, in the Vatican Library, he W shewed a glossary of the ancient Chinese tongu He was struck with the similitude of the char ters, and on comparing them with an exact copy had of the inscription, found that he could read and that it signified-(This statue of Isis is copi