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arriwer to the obscure 51.41 malignant attack of PuUio on the Pate-
vanity of Livy's style. We think that the editors might have spared
et the crude remarks of Dr. Parr on this subject, esrcially as
the D.,ctor had pabiished a very elaborate arte on this subject in
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theological,

i,ion ~7oi

his charactrra of Fox, vol. 2: p. 811.

The Doctor appeared to hie:, entertained s most favourable opi-
nion of Bishop Loiwth's Lectures oo Hebrew Poetry. At p. 691
he thus expresses himself—•• I hold these prelections to be among
the very choirlat Latin productions of the moderns, mean not to
insult the precious and sacred memory of Lowth by marking in
detail the passages to which I object." He also speaks in terms of
great prai-e of Trappe's Prislectlones Poetics. He says, that
" they abound with good lease, with taste, and elegant Latin-.
They do not deserve the contempt with which Blshoy Hurd isOca-
ea to speak of them in. his .aotesion Horace." We are surprised
that the Doctor, who seems to have bad a great liking for the lec-
tures delivered by the Professors of Poetry in the Gulversity of
Oxford, had not in his collection a copy of Dr. Coplestone's Price-
Leedom/. They are infinitely superior to Trappe 1, both In plan
and execution, and are the best specimen of the best sense in the best
Latin that has been published for many years.
There are some notes in this volume, which would almost lead
one to suppose, that though Dr. Parr had been at a stair feast
of languages, be had only brought away from It the scraps.
—The offence of using of with an indicative mood appears to Italia
' been mortal in his eyes. He notices it at p. 485, at p. Is 4, at
p. 297, at p. 654, and again at p. Ott. At p. 322 we have him in
great feather upon Scabger's using candour for attars est, and
upon his making the final vowel in Isis abort, as Grey did. At
pr 436, he chastises noel, Bishop of Avataaches. for using cues tot
a; and at p. 500 %rands Cowley with solecism for using new for
segue. Petty and puerile remarks like these recall to our mind the
severe castigation which St. Everesnond gave to the verbal traits
of his day. " I have seen," says he," for many years past, a great
many critics, but very few good judges. I like not thins learned
Gentlemen who give up all their tiaie to restore a passage; which,
when restored, is not worth the trouble they bestow upon it. They
make a mystery of knowing that of which the world could well
endure to remain ignorant, and understand nut that which really
deserves to be understood. Prom their want of feeling, and their
incapacity to think delicately on any sebiect. they caunot. enter
Into the delicacy of a sentiment, or into the beauty of a thought.
They succeed in expLilnitig a grammarian, for he applied himself to
the same pursuits which they follow, and was animated by a stmi•
tar spirit; but they cannot enter Into the feelings of a man of
honour among the ancients, because his genius is diametrically DO-
posit, to theirs. In history they know nothing of men or business
—they refer every thing to chronology ; and In otder to tell us in '
what year a Consul died, neglect every thing which tends to ex-
plain his genius or'to inform us of what was done in his consulship.
Cicero will never be to. them any thing but a writer of orations,
r nor Ca.ar any thing but a writer of commentaries. The Con-
sal and the General escape their observation; the genius which
I animates their works is not perceived, and the essential matter
which is contained in them does not come within the scope of their
' I knowledge."
There is a note on a " Condo ad Clerum," by a Mr.
man,Bate-
which is calculated to excite another laugh at' the vanity
of edagogues. " Bateman Is said to have commanded his
boys to buy this s Conejo,' lest he should lose money by pilot-
ing it; and I was told by one of his scholars that he taught
it as a clas-ical book, and that upon points of Latin phraseology, he
would refer to the • Clerunt,' as we should refer to Cicero."
Dr. Parr seems to have been completely taken in by " Dleursil
Slegantiat Latini Sermon's," which he says is the most impure, and
nearly the only impure book in his catalogue. We. will let. the
Doctor tell his own story upon the subject :
" Allured by the title, he bought the book when be lived at Stan-
more, as a philological book ; but, after reading several pages, he
discovered his entire mistake... We should have thought that an
inspection of the titk.page, if it be correctly given in this catalogue,
would have been sufficieut to prevent NM from falling into such a
mistake; foe it runs thus—" Moulin Elegantire Latini Serntonis,
rest Aloysiz Sips Satyric &nastiest de Arcsnis Aniuds et Vent.
rtes tome. Land." The DOCIllf, however, proceeds:—" Soon
after, be was visited by Sir W. Jonea,and told him the story. Sir
William laughed at him as an ignoramus. Dr. Parr, Gerbil that
the book would catch the eye of his buys. desired Sir %V. Jones to
take it, and Its did take it. Thus matters rested till [Jr. Parr came
to Hatton, where he one day desired his friend Harry Honer to
get the book as desoreastyl as he could. Harry assented, and pro-1
eared the hook in a small well-printed octavo form. Dr. Parr
read it with unfeigned-disgust at the impurity, and with diminished
approbation of the Lanni,, which, in troth, though showy, is by
no means classical.. He gave the book afterwards to Mr. John
Pearson, a very clever roes, who lives at Tettenkall, in Stafford-
shire, on condidon that be akooki take what book or books he

" l'he decree of the 2d of September and sth of De-
somber, 1111,23, beving determined that the domains of the State
should be sold, and the produce applied to the discharge of at
public debt ; and the Portaria of the Iteth of August, lsYi, having
temporarily auipended the elle of those domains, in expectation of
various measurei which cannot now be taken ; I think fit to order,
ln the name of the King, that the Council of Finance, and other
competent authorities, shad proceed in the sale of these domains,
accepting in payment bonds of the public debt, without interest,
in the manner which shall be the most advantageous for the State
and the pablic credit, which must at all events be promoted.
Cakias da !Uinta. July

CAAV,

maintenance of ►bt
public credit, orders that thirty toreros of refs shall be paid out of
the public treasury, to the commissioners for paying the interest of
the Itoyal Loam, according to the law which the said Commis.
sioneto (Junta dos Juros) leut to the Treasury, in corkpliance
withlho notice of the 31st of March, 1826.

" Palace of Cintra, Auguat 8, 1826.
" M. DR A. CARVALIIO."
LISBON, AUOMIT 10.

Her Highness the Infanta Regent arrived at Cintra on the 7th
instant, and we are happy to say that her valuable health is greatly
improved."

FRENCH PAPERS.
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IFROM THE inI)RI4 AL DIM DEBAT&
MADRID, Aeo. 22. .

(T/tIVATII CORAISPONDINC )
Merino, the clergyman whom Recacho kept tinder
the surveillance of the pr.lice, has taken advantage of
the deprivation of this *Minister to regain his liberty.
He has gone to Alcarra, a province in which, since the
'death et Bessieres, the Carlos party has always main.
taitte'd the same influence. . •
The report of the Captain General of Saragossa states,
that the part of Lower Arragon which is connected with
Navarre, is overran- by two parties of Carlin, from Ca-
talidia. In regard to this province, its condition Le.
causes daily more critical.;. yet the Marquis de Campo
S4grado has not hitherto received more troops, than
400 infantry, and 200 cavalry, which he has placed at
Matato, to keep this town in subjection. The number'
of troops, which, up to the peseta time, are on the
' muds for Catalonia, cannot Iw' reckoned at above 1,600
men, although it would require 8,010 to undertake the
pacification of this province with arty chance of success.
T e Government which the Carlivts have created has
its seat at Vich ; and al hough tl.e president of this Go.
ier nment, which is hut a juuts, like that of Urgel, has
not been ostensibly named, every body believes that it
is the Marquis de Matafl 6(14 who is the chiet of this
Cailist junta. It has pulllidied a proclamation, or,
more properly, a species of man.festo, explanatory tt
the motives which have impelled the inhabitants of Ca-
talonia to take arms. Never will they 1.. y utiem down;
it is said, ' until the police shall be abolished, and the
Inquisition re •established.'
Calorrarde has created a departu.ent, attached to
the Minister of Grace and Ju,tice, denominated the
.• Section of Police." It is charged with the duties
heretofore confided to Recachn.

&rilla, Chief of Madrid and its province, is em-
ployed in putting in force the old police raider, H hereby
all the officers and servants of the Constitutional Go-
vernment were required t, remove to a distance t f RO
leagues from Madrid. More than 10,000 persons will
be :di cted by this measure, so scinpulously is it cattied
into effect by M. Zarilla, according to hi; threat.
Recacho had detected a great number of legal pro-
ceedings on account of po.itical opinions to be sus-
pended. M. Z oilla has revived them, and has already
caused several per,ons to be atr,!sted whom M. Recacho
had suffered to remain peaceably in their homes.
The Duke de San Carlos appeals to have lost some
of his influence: it is certain, at least, that4se does not
visit the King so often as he used t" do.
A vast number of travelling carriages have been in
requisition this morning for St. Ildetonso. All the
members of the Council of State must be there to

= the heterogeneous mass of classical, theological, legal, and yi;lick* Caldas da !taint:as July IS.
erudirksi. which he apprndrd to his characters of Fox by &lOU. (Signed by the Infanta Urgent),
put+, Varsicensis. The /cadre will find It in tbr wecciLsi voloare " MANORL ANTONIO DE CAEVALHO.
iii;sosj. The same 4einaali clay be nude as Übe hies Out just
gbtn-
ysurnte bestow paid to Mr. Laing fur his bistory sordkodeolLot Al.P.PL'n'.ll6-114111ta I. ** 11.1" $4 dm' ICkir•
di, ion 104 jags catalogue. Dr. Pint had given It before to the wurl asking lo prove the interest she feels in the inaknenanee of the