so much of certain acts, as relate to certain duties of sixpence and one shilling respectively on Offices and Pensions, and for regranting the said duties of sixpence and one shilling respectively, and the said other duties for the service of the year 1808. Feb. 5. No. 19. Third Report of the Commissioners appointed under an agreement concluded July 10, 1805, between the East India Company and the private creditors of the late Nabob of Arcot. Feb. 8. This Report also contains a List (in continuation) of the claims for debts due by the late Nabobs, and observation of the commissioners. The whole amount of these debts is £8,954,121 8 4. No. 21. Papers relating to the Bank, viz. Resolutions of the Committee of Treasury of the Bank of England; Note from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank; certain Resolutions of the Court of Directors; and a Letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank. Feb. 9. 1808. No. 22. Return to the Order of the House of Commons, dated Jan. 29, 1808, calling for an account of the whole amount of Fees or Gratuities paid at the office of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, by or on account of persons who have obtained or applied for Licenses permitting them to navigate or trade, from the commencement of hostilities in May, 1803 to Dec. 31, 1807, and the apportionment of the same. Feb. 10. No. 23. Return of the number of Recruits reported to the Adjutant General as having been finally approved for the Regular Army, exclusive of Foreign and Colonial Corps, in each Month, from July 1, 1807, to Jan. 1, 1808. And also of the Recruits finally approved during the corresponding periods in the years 1805 and 1806. Feb. 11. No. 24. Return of the number of Desertions which have taken place monthly from Recruits, previous to final approval in Great Britain and also in Ireland, from July 1, 1807, to the latest period; with the corresponding periods in 1805, and 1806. Feb. 11, 1808. No. 25. Return shewing the number of Desertions from the men raised by extra recruiting officers, from July 1, 1807, distinguishing Great Britain from Ireland. Feb. 112 No 26. Return of the number of men who have volunteered from the British Militia into the Regular and Marine Forces, under the act of Parliament, of Aug. 13, 1807. Feb. 11. No. 27. Account of the whole Amount of Fees or Gratuities, which have been yearly paid and received at the Office of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, by, or on Account of, Persons who have obtained, or have applied for, Licences permitting them to navigate or trade, from the Commencement of Hostilities, in May, 1803, to the 31st Dec. 1807.-Feb. 11, 1808. No. 29. A Bill for more effectually carrying into Execution certain Orders in Council, made for the Protection of the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain, and granting Duties of Customs on certain Goods exported from Great Britain.-Feb. 12, 1808. No. 30. An Account of all the Interest paid on Exchequer Bills in three Years, ending the 5th of Jan. 1808, distinguishing each Year and the Average.—Feb. 12. No. 31. A Bill for empowering the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance the sum of 3,000,000l. towards the Supply for the Service of the Year 1808. [To be continued.] No. 3.-1st September, 1808. MVSEVM WORSLEYANVM, or a Collection of An- Docti rationem artis intelligunt indocti voluptatem. QUIN. lib. ix In giving an account of these volumes, the editor thinks that he cannot do better than present his readers with Sir Richard Worsley's own words, as expressed in the Introduction. Impelled by a love of the Fine Arts, and anxious to view the celebrated remains of Sculpture when it was catried to the highest perfection by the most elegant nation in the universe, the Greeks, I determined to visit Athens, where I arrived early in the spring of the year 1785. The view of the superb Temple of Minerva in the Metropolis was alone sufficient to obliterate the difficulties of the journey; the beauty and magnificence of that edifice, on the closest examination, surpassed even my most sanguine expectations. "After having employed two years in visiting the an tiquities of Greece, her Islands, Colonies in Asia Minor, Egypt, Constantinople, and Lesser Tartary, I returned to Rome, where listening to the earnest solicitations of some literary friends, engravings were made by the best artists of a considerable number of antique monuments, collected in the course of my extensive Tour. The curious, it is presumed, will be pleased to find several new subjects for their investigation in this collection, and the artist gratified VOL, I. } with specimens of ancient Sculpture at the most flourishing period of its existence, when Pericles and Phidias united their extraordinary talents in adorning Athens. "I have divided this work into six classes, or chapters, containing 151 Copper Plates, including the title page. An early partiality to the Italian Language, the best adapted for the explanation of monuments of art, and a warm attachment to the Abbé Ennio Quirino Visconti, the President of the Museum Capitolinum at Rome, has induced me to give the text in Italian and English: especially as the present publication is in a great measure owing to the assistance and friendship of that polite scholar. t "The first class contains 29 plates of antique Basso-relievos, some of them with Greek Inscriptions, collected at Athens, and other parts of Greece. "The second class consists of ten Bustos and Hermæ ; among which are the heads of Sophocles and Alcibiades ; they were found among some old ruins, which we have every reason to believe formed part of the famous Pryta neum. "The third class is composed of a beautiful antique group of Bacchus and his favourite Genius, Acratus, with eleven other Statues of Egyptian and Greek Sculpture. "The fourth class includes 29 plates of Antique Gems in Intaglio and Relievo, collected at Rome, Athens, Egypt, and Constantinople; several of the subjects are highly interesting, and the engravings are beautiful. "The fifth class comprises 43 plates in Alto and Bassorelievo; the whole of the remaining Sculpture of the Metopes and Frieze which surrounded the Cell of the famous Temple of Minerva, called the Parthenon, the first ornament of Athens. "The sixth and last class, is formed of a select collection of views and ruins of ancient buildings in the Levant, and Lesser Tartary, engraved chiefly from drawings made on the spot, with great accuracy, by that ingenious Artist, Mr. Reveley. "An Appendix, or Descriptive Catalogue, is added of the Marbles, Gems, Paintings, and Drawings, not engraved in this work. "Attention has been paid to the accuracy and fidelity of the engravings, and as much care as possible has been taken to avoid giving representations of ruins or places already engraved, and where that has been done,they are represented in different points of view. I have endeavoured in the descriptions throughout this publication to be as faithful and concise as possible, not wishing to trouble my readers. with long details of the many parts of the Levant, which have been so frequently visited and so well described by several of our late modern Travellers." The first volume contains an engraved Title. Introduction, 3 pages. List of the plates contained in the first volume, 2 pages. Description of the plates, pp. 3 to 100. Notes, pp. 101 and 102. The second volume contains an engraved Title. Advertisement, 1 page. Observations on Antique Gems, 3 pages. List of the Gems, Sculptures and Views, contained in vol. II, 2 pages. Description of the Plates, pp. 3 to 118. Notes, pp. 119 aud 120. List of Plates in the First Volume. Frontispiece-Portrait of the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. M. P. F. R. S. and F. A. S. engraved by Anthony Cardon. Engraved Title, and Vignette representing the Athenian Coin mentioned in note* Librarian, p. 104. |
