ANTIQUITIES. 
you may see I will not spare mine 
own person, I have sent with this 
bearer, a note of the superfluous 
charges concerning my mouth, hav- 
ing had the happy opportunities of 
this messenger, in an errand so 
nearly concerning his place. In 
this, Lexpect no answer in word, 
or writing, but only the real per- 
formance, for a beginning to relieve 
me out of my miseries. For now 
the ball is at your feet, and the 
world shall bear me witness, that 
I have put you fairly to it; and so 
praying God to bless your labours, 
I bid you heartily farewel. 
Your own, 
James R. 
LETTER Il. 
My Lords, 
RECEIVED from you yester- 
night the bluntest letter that, I 
think, ever king received from his 
council. Ye write that the green 
cloth will do nothing, and ye offer 
me noadvice. Why are ye coun- 
sellors if ye offer no counsel ? An ore 
dinary messenger might have brought 
_ me such an answer. It is my plea- 
sure, that my charges be equally 
with my revenue ; and it is justand 
necessary so to be. For this is a pro- 
ject must be made, and one of the 
main branches thereof is my house. 
' This project is but to be offered 
unto you ; and how it may be better 
laid than to agree with my honour 
and contentment, ye are to advise 
_upon, and then have my consent. 
If this cannot be performed without 
diminishing the number of tables, 
_ diminished they must be; and if 
that cannot serve, two or three must 
be thrust in one. If the green 
cloth will not make a project for 
_ this, some other must do it; if ye 
cannot find them out, I must only 
e195 
remember two things; the time 
must no more belost ; and that there 
are twenty ways of abatement be- 
sides the house, if they be well 
looked into ; and so farewel. 
James R. 
Description of the Ruin at Thessa- 
lonica, or Salonicha, called the Ins 
cantada ; from Stuart and Revett’s 
Antiquities of Athens, Vol. IV. 
E had visited such objects of 
curiosity, aS our inquiries 
could discover atThessalonica before 
we left it; but, although it was a 
large and populous city, said at that 
time to contain 100,000 inhabitants, 
we found the remains of only ene 
building, the description of which 
we could flatter ourselves would ine 
terest the lovers of ancient art. 
This is situated in the Jews quar 
ter. Five Corinthian columns on 
their pedestals, support an entabla- 
ture, over which is an attic adorned 
with figures in alto relievo ; on the 
side next the street are a Victory, a 
Medea, perhaps, or a Helen, with 
a diadem and sceptre, a Telephus, 
and a Ganymede; and, next the 
court-yard of the Jew’s house, a 
Bacchante dancing and playing on 
the flute, a Bacchus, a Bacchante 
crowned with vine leaves, and a 
Leda. It seems difficult, if not im- 
possible, to ascertain the species of 
building of which this ruin once 
made a part: for, though the figures 
I have specified would seem to be 
proper decorations for a theatre, no 
traces were discovered that might 
confirm the opinion these figures 
suggested ; nor does the vulgar tra- 
dition of the place afford apy light 
that may assist ourinquiries- I will, 
howerer, relate the account they 
Bive, 
