the appropriation to Esculapius, says 
thus: “* This sort of foot, with the ser- 
pent, isalso found in Egyptian monu- 
ments, as in the image of Serapis and 
Isis, pudlished by Fabretui.” Vol. ii, 
p.i. 6,4. c.6. This overturns the above 
appropriation. 
~ No, 81. A Vase. 
No, 82. A Foot, as hefore. 
No, 83. A Mask, as before. 
No. 84. A Sphinx, §c. Here it is 
the base of a candelabrum. It wasa 
favourite decoration. At the famous 
feast given at Alexandria, by Ptolemy 
Philadelpnus, there were 100 beds of 
gold, with the feet of sphinxes. 
No. 85. A lust of Sabina. There is 
ove also at the Capitol, and another in 
the Pio-Clementine Museum, and a por- 
trait upon a gem. Pier. Grav. Pal. 
‘Roy. tom. ii. pl. xxxix. 
No. 86. A recumbent Sutyr. 
No, 87. A sepulchral Cippus, orva- 
mented with festoons of fruit. ‘The 
flowers so common around funeral mo- 
‘Puments alluded to those which were 
‘spread over the grave at the anniversary, 
and, according toWinckelmann’s opinion, 
_ upon a similar representation of a gob- 
det, &c. ; the fruits are the emblems of 
provisions, whici were customarily left 
for the soul of the defunet. 
» No. 88. An Egyptian Tumbler, prac- 
tiBing his ari on thé back of a tume Cro- 
-eodile, This is an exquisite and curious 
marble. 
- No. 89 to 98. include. sepulehral 
Cippi, an unknown Bust, and a Tra- 
phy. 
~ No. 94.°A Head of Messalina. This 
is not, I believe, a common bust, 
‘There is a very curious gem, of her in 
Stoseh, with a snail, the emblem of 
saladity, priapi, &c. Sce too Daerval, 
4 * . . . 
ina dissertation printed at Paris, 4to. 
+1708, 
No 95. A torsa of Hercules. 
* No. 96, Monwiental Inscription. 
«9 No, 97. Statue ending from the 
_ waist downwards wm @ terninys. In the 
« 
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4 
. 
common on funeral mouuments, 
ird, held under the left arm, is peck- 
Representations of this kind are 
In 
Boissard, vol. i. pars iv. pl. 105, is 
‘@child with a bunch of grapes, one of 
/which he holds out to a cock perched 
supon his knee, The allusion 
+ domestic animals kept for pleasure, 1s 
aye might hund is a bunch of grapes, at which 
4 , 
ang: 
proved by another mnonument of Lee 
Seria ere, in the same work, (iil. 
9401.) 
nw ¥ 
here is @ female figure,’ witha 
Foity and Inutility of Wary 
to 
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birdin one hand, and e bunch of grapes 
ithe other. At her feet are a dog and 
a bird, anxiously looking up to ber, | 
No. 98. A votive Altar, with a dediz 
catory inscription to Bona Dew Aania- 
nensis. In Boissard, (v. iii, pl, 96) 
is a singular coincidence: we have there 
a marble, with Annia, P. and Flore 
ex testamento.  Bonai deai sacruny 
Annia sorar, Isia liberta fuciundum cuz 
rarunt. Goltzius mentions coins of a 
Roman family named Annia.. I can 
find no name of nearer allusion in Leiny 
priere, 
No. 99. Is a Jupiler Serapis, once 
painted, 
— 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FA MUE paper signed ** A True Briton,” 
in your Jast volume, page 357, en- 
titled, on the blue cover, ** Queries re- 
lative to the Folly, and Inutility of the 
present War,” brings to my recollection 
similar queries and pertinent observa, 
tions on war, contained ina public fast 
sermon preached during the heat of the 
late American war. 
The following quotations are from the 
works of the Rey. and eccentric William 
Thone, late minister of Gowan, near 
Glasgow, consisting of a small volume 
of sermons, letters, tracts, &c. printed at 
Glasgow, 1779. If you thwk them 
worthy of a place in your interesting pub- 
lication, as in any degree subservient ig 
forwarding the ideas of your feeling core 
respondent H. W. op the subject of war, 
expressed in your Number for August 
last, page 15, or as containing any im- 
provement on the plan for abolishing 
war suggested by Mentor, in the last 
volume, page 271; or as in any 
way in peint in the present enqyiry, | 
shall be obliged by an early insertion of 
them, 
This Jastementioned and humane cor- 
respondent suggests the propriety of 
submitting to arbitration the disputes 
which may arise amongst nations, with 
a view to prevent the misery and destruc- 
tion consequent on war, instead of re- 
sorting to that desperate and inhuman 
expedient, But Mr. Thone, besides 
making the same proposal, goes much 
farther; thinking that princes or their 
ministers, ‘‘ rather than drench the na- 
tions in blood, should meet and finish 
their senselgss differences by fighting it 
out theuselves, aud, in their own persons, 
finish the war which they have provoked.” 
Tam the more strangly induced to hand 
yow 
