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i-Hi earl oFBuchan presents his con)pllmen's to Iiis learned corres- 

 pondents, both at home anj ubrojd, anJ his dat.lul resfects to the repu- 

 blic of letters in gereral. 



He has had tiie good fortune, by the liber.d and commendable in-- 

 terposition of the leivneJ and :ruly respectable biihop of Rodez, to receive 

 the fulluwing important comroun cation h'om th,;t worthy and lea:ned ec- 

 clesiastic, the abbs de St Leger, relating to ti.c inestimable correspon- 

 dence of the great Nicholas Claudius de Fabry ce Peiresc, senator of the 

 Parliament of Aix, so celebratfd over the whole world for his patronage 

 of learning and lean.ed men, and for his wonderful knowledge of history 

 and antiijoicies. Lord Buchan liad been informed by his friend the cele- 

 brated John Bernoulli, at Berlin, that the Fabry family were still in pof- 

 sefiion of the eminent store of literature which belonged to the library of 

 Peiresc, a part of which has been enumerated by the famous Gafstndi, in 

 the appendix to his life of Peiresc ; and he novf firdj that the abbe de Sc 

 Leger IS in pofstfsion of a most important part of this literary treasure, the 

 letters that pafse J between M. dt Peiresc, und the most learned rr.enof his 

 time- in Europe, relating to philosophy, natural history, botany, civil historVj 

 biography, philology, criticism, and elegant literature, together with an iiv.- 

 mense collection of facts relating to antiijuity in every part of Europe, to mo- 

 numents, muniments, and meiali, and to the annaliof illustriou, families. 

 This noble collection, which if printed would fill seven or eight volumes 

 in 410. he has agreed to put into lord Buchan's hards, for thiee thousand 

 livres of France. The lerters addrcfsed to M. de Peiiesc, and to other 

 learned men, in this collection, were orjg nally arranged by M. Tho- 

 iTiafsin de Marauges, in.o three clafaes ; these written in Latin, Italian, 

 and French, omitting all sucli i.s were merely complimentary, or contain- 

 ed ro important or entertaining information. And in the jear 1724 M. 

 Thomafjin announced his inte:!ticn of publilhing three volumes of this 

 collection as a specimen of the extensive ur.dertaking. • 



This advertisement to the learni d world was made in the Ncwvelles Li- 

 teraira of the above mentioned year, and is to te found in the 167th and 

 following paces of that literary j;urnal, printed for Mesnier at Paris, 8vo. 



Among the learnid and eminent persons whose letters are contained irj 

 this collection, are 



The Chancellor d'Aligre, Scnl'ger, Cerait, 



T he Presii'cnt dcThju, Mr l'e"ir, Grotius, 



Sclvln, attorney -ccieral Mr de Bagarr's, Meursius, 



of the parliament of Mr Tristan de St Amand, Spclman, 



Paris, Mr Hergin, Kircher, 



M. H'Avanx, counsellor Mr de Njude, GorU'e, 



of state, and ambafsa- Mr Capel, The liiske d'Anchot^ 



dor to Venice, Mr Bisty, Cardinil Barbarini; 



M.d'Andilly, , The F.ithers Sirmond, Asemanni, 



M. dc Lomen'e, Mr Fronton du Due, Pignorius, 



