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gradation, they may receive that admiration and homage to 
which they are entitled, and serve in return as nodels and ex- 
amples to those, who by knowing how to revere and appreciate’ 
them, may learn first to imitate, and ultimately to rival them. 
March 25, 1816. 
* * The witnesses examined were: the Earl of Elgin; the 
Right Hon. Charles Long; William Hamilton, Esq. ; Joseph 
Nollekens, Esq. R.A.; John Flaxman, Esq. R.A.; Richard 
Westmacott, Esq.; Francis Chauntry, Esq.; Charles Rossi, 
Esq. R.A.; Sir Thomas Lawrence, Knut. R.A.; Richard Payne 
Knight, Esq. ; William Wilkins, Esq. ; Taylor Combe, Esq. ; the 
Earl of Aberdeen ; John Bacon, Esq. ; J.B. Sawrey Morritt, Esq. ; 
Jehn Nicholas Fazakerley, Esq.; Alex. Day, Esq.; Rev. Dr. 
Philip Hunt, LL.D. Questions in writing were also sent to the 
President of the Royal Academy, who, owing to indisposition, 
eould not wait upon the committee; and these with his answers 
thereto are also inserted in the Appendix. 
All the artists examined spoke in the most enthusiastic terms 
ef these noble specimens of art: most of them preferred the 
Theseus and the Neptune even to the Belvidere Apollo, and the 
Laocoon; and all of them agreed that the collection was finer 
than any thing they had ever seen. 
The Phygalian Marbles. 
The following particulars relative to the Phygalian and gina 
marbles are extracted from Mr. Hamilton’s evidence before the 
committee on the Elgin marbles. 
‘* Are you acquainted with the transaction relating to the pur- 
chase of the Phygalian marbles ?—Yes, Iam; the best infor- 
mation I can give to the committee, on the subject of the pur- 
chase of the Phygulian marbles, is contained in a memorandum, 
the copy of which I put into Mr. Long’s hands about ten days 
ago: This is the paper. [It was read as follows. ] 
<¢ Memorandum on the purchase of the Phygalian Marbles 
on account of the British Government. 
*¢ When the first intelligence of the discovery of the Phygalian 
marbles, by a party of English and German travellers, in the 
month of 1812, was received in England, I heard, 
owing to my intimacy with the family of Mr. Cockerell, father 
of one of the fortunate discoverers, frequent and detailed ac- 
counts of the beauty of these remains of antiquity, and the ex- 
traordinary state of preservation in which they had been found, 
notwithstanding the lapse of more than twenty centuries since 
they had heen sculptured. In that and the subsequent year, 
drawings of the bas-reliefs were received in England by various 
hands, 
