. Hayter’s Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts. 
of her incendiary madness; ruined past 
all hope her allies, and drawn ten times 
trebled danger and difficulties apon her- 
self. If she does not soon purchase 
peace, even at that unavoidably-humilia- 
tilly price as to its terms, to which her 
own infatuation has reduced her, those 
miseries must be speedily her own which 
she felt no remorse in bringing upon 
other nations, against the warning voice 
of her great deceased patriot, in this 
long and disastrous war; even,the giant 
woes of seeing our country its bloody 
theatre. To bend at last beneath the 
oninipotence of events, and beneath the 
chastizement of heaven, must as cer- 
tainly be national as it is individual wis- 
dom. But what shall we do with our 
pride?—Sacrifice it as we did when we 
sought reconcilement with our invaded 
colonies, and be rewarded by long years 
of peace, and its blooming and blessed 
conforts, 
cere 
A REPORT 
y UPON THE 
HERCULANEUM MANUSCRIPTS, 
Addressed, by Permission, to his Royal 
Highness the Prince Regent, 
By the Rev. Joun Hayter, A.M. 
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Prince, 
And bis superintendent of those Manuscripts. 
Tue curiosity of every lover of antiqui- 
ties and classical literature, will neces- 
sarily be piqued and interested by the 
subject of this valuable work, in many 
respects, one of the most striking of its 
kind that has appeared for many years. 
, Our readers cannot fail to be gratified 
with the following extracts from it. 
HERCULANEUM. 
The political state of Herculaneum, 
whether it were a settlement of Phceni- 
cians, or of other Asiatics, cannot be 
traced with any exactness, or conclusive 
deduction, from tacts and circumstances, 
at any epocha earlier, than that of the 
Roman dominion, It can only be argued 
resuinptively from Strabo, that it might 
o. been of the twelve cities, which 
formed the dynasty of the Tuscans in 
Campania. The opposition it made to 
the victorious legions of Rome, the mu- 
Nicipal rights which it enjoyed after its 
subjugation, clearly indicate some pros- 
perity, and some importance ur the esti- 
miation of the couquesor. 
Herculaneum is twice called Munici- 
pium, that is, in av inscription, which L 
Monracy Mae, No, 215, 
661 
saw in the Royal Museum at Portici; 
and again, im another inscription, whigh 
Julius Cesar Capaccio produces, 
That of the Royal Museum runs, 
M. Memmio M. F. Rufo Patri 
Municipes. 
And is sanctioned, should more proof 
and authorities’ be demanded, by a brass 
plate, which at once evinces the munici« 
pal privileges of this city to the most 
scrupulous investigator. 
T. Claudio. Drusi. F. 
Cesari. Augusti. 
Germanico. 
Pont:. Max: Trib: Pot: 8. 
Imp: 16. Cos. 2. 
Patri. Patriz. Cens. 
Ex Testimenti Messii L.F.M.A. 
Senace. 
Militis Coh: 10 Urbane et 
Dedicationi ejus legavit 
Municipibus 
Singulis HS. If n. 
From some inscribed pieces of stone 
it appears, that, as Cives’ Romani, the 
inhabitants of Herculaneum were enrolled 
in some tribe at Rome itself, particularly 
the Menenian. 
L. Annio L. F. Men. 
2 Vir. [tin: Quin . . 
. . Vir Epularum. 
It may not be improper to suggest, 
that all the inscriptions, which I have 
produced, or may produce, have been 
digged from Herculaneum, and, except 
that of Julius Cesar Capaccio, have been 
perused and examined by me, 
EARTHQUAKES. 
There was an earthquake, Anno 
Christi 63, sixteen years previous to that 
eruption of Vesuvius, which destroyed 
Herculaneum, Anno Christi 79. Seneca - 
declares, that in this earthquake Hercus 
lanensis oppidi pars ruit, dubigque stant 
etiam, que relicta sunt. Nonis Febru- 
arii fuit terre motus. 
In an enclosure behind the great thea- 
tre a heap of tiles, respectively num- 
bered, together with the trunk of a mar- 
ble statue, and the fragments of several 
columns, was excavated under the vol-' 
canic materials. Another earthquake, 
indeed, immediately preceded, or rather 
attended, that eruption. Some houses 
were thrown to the ground by the severe 
concussion. Their ruins are partly spread 
upon the original soil, partly upon the 
pumice stones discharged from the moun- 
tuin. Pliny, in his account addressed 
to Tacitus, says, “* Preecesserat per mul- 
tos dies treror terre minus formidilosus, 
4Q qui” 
