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ent items in the sale catalogue, which consists of eight pages

octavo.

The first division, marked "No. 1, right hand, two pair of stairs," seems to be the furniture of an inferior bedroom, the whole of which is valued at 47. 2s. 6d., including what the auctioneer calls ' a piece of ruins in a carved frame." No. 2 is a closet, containing feather-bed and portmanteau, valued at 17s. No. 3, left hand, two pair of stairs, was a better bedroom, containing a four-post bedstead, with blue harrateen furniture, four walnut-tree arm-chairs with black leather seats, a chimney glass, and mahogany table; the contents of this room are valued at 87. 7s. No. 4, one pair of stairs, was evidently the best bedroom. It had a bed with moreen furniture and other accessories, valued at 87. 2s. 6d.; festoon window curtains, bottle cistern, walnut dressing-table and mirror, four walnut chairs, steel stove, &c.; the whole being valued at 137. 12s. 6d. No 5, one pair of stairs, had a Turkey carpet valued at 17. 11s. 6d.; a mahogany chest of drawers, 17. 10s. ; a sofa, 27. 2s.; a mahogany writing-table, 17. 3s. ; four mahogany elbow chairs with yellow worsted damask seats, 27. 10s.; a walnut-tree easy chair with matted seat and back, 12s. ; mahogany pillar and claw, carved needlework fire-screen, with quilted case, 27. 2s.; dining table, 12s.; with sconce for candles, yellow damask window curtains, &c.; the whole valued at 187. 15s. No. 6, back parlor, possessed a steel stove, two walnut and three smoking chairs, dumb waiter, book shelves, a Scotch carpet (set down at 10s. 6d.), &c.; the whole valued at 51. 6s. 6d. No. 7, left-hand parlor, had its writing-table, claw table, window curtains, &c., valued at 37. 11s. 6d. No. 8, right-hand parlor, was evidently the principal sitting-room. It was decorated with a Scotch carpet, 10s. 6d. ; a dining table, 17. 11s. 6d.; a sconce, 17. 5s.; six mahogany elbow chairs, with green worsted damask seats, 37. 12s.; a backgammon table complete, with chessmen, 10s. 6d. and other articles, the whole valued at 117. 19s.

The next classification is plate, china, &c.; but here the enumeration is not extensive, and no prices are affixed. Besides 66 there are cups, saucers, plates, and mugs, Shagreen case, with twelve silver-handled knives and forks; a silver watch with a cornelian seal, box and case in one, by Graham; one silver-hilted sword; one mourning sword; an Alicant tea-chest, with silvered ornaments." The kitchen apparatus and furniture are valued at 57. 11s.; and the wash-house, garden, and yard articles at 27. 12s. 6d.

The contents of the cellar, to which no prices are affixed, are set down as follows: 30 bottles of Burgundy, 30 bottles of red port, 4 bottles of old hock, 7 bottles of mountain and Madeira, 10 bottles of Rhenish, 66 bottles of Edinburgh ale, 90 bottles of Dunbar ale. There is no mention of ardent spirits.

The library consisted of 260 lots, the greater part of the books foreign and classical. Editions of Dante, Tasso, and Ariosto are among the number. The English works include Milton, Theobald's Shakspeare, Harrington's Oceana, Raleigh's History of the World, Cowley, &c., Pope's Works, 1717, and his Prose Works, stitched, 1737, The Dunciad, stitched, and the Ethic Epistles in vellum, large paper, most likely a present from Pope. The library cannot be considered valuable, but it was fully equal to that of Johnson or Goldsmith. Authors resident in London, with public libraries at command, have little inducement to accumulate books at home, even if their worldly circumstances were such as to permit of the expensive luxury.

Thomson, it is well known, had a taste for the fine arts, and during his tour in Italy with Mr. Talbot, collected some drawings and prints from the old masters. He seems to have had no less than eighty-three pictures hung up in his different rooms, and "a large portfolio with maps, prints, and drawings, to be sold together or separate." The "antique drawings " are nine in number, all stated to be by Castelli. They consist of the Venus

de Medici, the Fighting and Dying Gladiator, Perseus and Andromeda, Apollo Antinous, Meleager, Laocoon, Hercules Farnese, and "A Man and a Woman." The seventy-four engravings are all from the old masters, engraved by Frezza, Claudie, Stelle, J. Frey, Bandet, Dorigny, Duchange, Poilly, Hansart, Edlinck, and Picart. It is indicative of Thomson's taste that none of the engravings are from pictures of the Dutch school, but from those of Raphael, Guido, Correggio, Carlo Maratti, Poussin, Julio Romano, and other masters of the poetical and romantic.

It appears, then, that the furniture of Thomson was valued at 667. 11s., exclusive of his plate, china, wine, books, and pictures, which formed by far the most costly and valuable portion of his effects. The sale is stated to be "by order of the executrix," his sister, Mrs. Craig of Edinburgh, and it was to take place on Monday, May 15, 1749, and two following days. The poet's friends, who had been so sincere and so active in their sympathy on the occasion of his death, would no doubt come forward at the sale to promote its success, and to possess themselves of some relic of their departed associate. John Forbes of Culloden, the "joyous youth" of the Castle of Indolence (canto i. st. 62), bought the Shakspeare, Raleigh's History, Harrington's Oceana, &c., and they still remain in the library at Culloden House.

FOREIGN ENGLISH.

The accompanying specimens of foreign English are perhaps worth a corner among the minor curiosities of literature:--

Basle.

Bains ordinaires et artificiels, tenu par B. Siegmund, Dr. in medicine Basle. In this new erected establishment, which the Owner recommends best to all foreigners are to have,-Ordinary and artful baths, russia and sulphury bagnios, pumpings, artful mineral waters, gauze lemonads, fournished apartments for patients.

Cologne. Title-page in lithograph.

Remembrance on the Cathedral of Cologne.—A collection of his most semarkable monumens, so as of the most artful ornamons and precious hilts of his renaconed tresory. Draconed and lithographed by Gerhardt Levy Elkan and Hallersch, collected by Gerhd. Emans.

Augsburg, Drei Mohren Hotel. Entry in travellers' book.

January 28, 1815.-His Grace Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. Great honour arrived at the beginning of this year to the three Moors: this illustrious warrior, whose glorious atchievements, which, cradled in Asia, have filled Europe with his renown, descended in it.

Mount Sinai. (On the fly-leaf of the travellers' book.)

Here in too were inscribed as in one legend, all whose in the rule of the year come from different parts, different cities and countries, pilgrims and travellers of any different rank and religion or profession, for advise and notice thereof to their posterity, and even also in owr own of memory acknowledging. 1845, Mount Sinai.

RESTORATIVE HOTEL, FINE Нok.

KEPT BY FRANK PROSPERI,
FACING THE MILITARY QUARTER
AT POMPEII.

That hotel open since a very few days, is renowned for the cleanness of the apartments and linen; for the exactness of the service, and for the eccelence of the true french cookery. Being situated at proximity of that regeneration, it will be propitius to receive families, whatever, which will desire to reside alternatively into that town, to visit the monuments new found, and to breathe thither the salubrity of the air.

That establishment will avoid to all the travellers, visitors, of that sepult city, and to the artists, (willing draw the antiquities) a great disorder, occasioned by the tardy and expensive contour of the iron-whay. People will find equally thither, a complete sortment of stranger wines, and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables and coach houses, the whole with very moderated prices. Now, all the applications, and endeavours of the hoste, will tend always to correspond to the tastes and desires, of their customers, which will acquire without doubt, to him, in to that town, the reputation whome, he is ambitious.

The above is a literal copy of a card.

The following wholesale assassination of the English language was perpetrated in the form of a circular, and distributed among the British residents at Naples in 1832:—

Joseph the Cook, he offer to one illuminated public and most particular for British knowing men in general one remarkable, pretty, famous, and splendid collection of old goods, all quite new, excavated from private personal diggings. He sells cooked clays, old marble stones, with basso-relievos, with stewing-pots, brass sacrificing pots, and antik lamps. Here is a stocking of calves heads and feets for single ladies and amateurs travelling. Also old coppers and candlesticks; with Nola jugs, Etruscan saucers, and much more intellectual minds articles; all entitling him to learned man's inspection to examine him, and supply it with illustrious protection, of which he hope full and valorous satisfaction.

N. B.-He make all the old thing brand new for gentlemans who has collections, and wishes to change him. He have also one manner quite original for make join two sides of different monies; producing one medallion, all indeed unique, and advantage him to sell by exportation for strange cabinets and museums of the exterior potentates.

Southey says (Omniana, vol. ii. p. 131):—

It is curious to observe how the English Catholics of the seventeenth century wrote English like men who habitually spoke French. Corps is sometimes used for the living body .. and when they attempt to versify, their rhymes are only rhymes according to a French pronunciation.

The inscription placed by M. Girardin to the memory of Shenstone, at Ermenonville, is a rich specimen of French-English

verse.

This plain stone

TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE

In his writings he display'd

A mind natural

At Leasowes he laid,

Arcadian greens rural.

But the choicest philological curiosity in this way that I have met with, is the circular of an Italian hotel-keeper. This unique

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