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should be allowed to bring home the marbles to England, and 
if they were found worth 6,000/. that we should have the re- 
fusal of them; if not, they should be allowed to be exported, 
free of duty, for any other purchaser. This offer having ar- 
rived at Athens, was not accepted; for they said it was a kind 
of blind bargain; that they did not know what might become of 
them. Afterwards the British Museum sent out Mr. Combe, 
the superintendant of antiquities, to Malta, to bid 8,009. at a 
sale of them expected to take place on the first of November. 
He arrived a few days before that date; he waited the month 
of November, but no sale took place, and he left his commis- 
sion with the governor of the island; but in the mean time a 
private sale had taken place at Zante to the Prince Royal of 
Bavaria; but notwithstanding they were sold to the Prince 
Royal of Bavaria, they were conveyed for a few months to 
Malta, for greater security: and there was a considerable diffe- 
rence of opinion whether we ought not to have insisted upon a 
second sale, having been disappointed in the first sale not 
having taken place at Malta as it was publicly announced; but 
it was ultimately determined to give up the matter. 
“‘ Can you state what sum the Prince Royal of Bavaria gave. 
for those marbles ?—I understood 6,000. 
** Do you know of what those AZgina marbles consisted ?— 
I think there were seventeen figures with sixteen heads, which 
were found under the two pediments of the temple of Jupiter 
at Aggina. 
‘© Of what proportions were the figures ?—I should say be- 
tween three and four feet.’ 
LIX. On certain Electrical Phenomena. By Txuos. Howxpy, 
Esq. in Reply to Mr. Donovan. 
Sin, —~ Mix. Donovan has pointed out in the number of your 
Magazine for March, an inaccuracy of mine concerning his 
** Reflections on the Inadequacy of Electrical Hypotheses.” In 
the conclusion of my examination of some experiments of that 
gentleman, inserted iu your number for December, I inadver- 
tently stated that the “‘ Reflections,” had obtained a prize from 
the Royal Irish Academy. 1 find on consulting the page and 
volume of your Magazine to which I referred in a note accom- 
panying my statement, that it was his “ Essay on the Origin, 
&c. of Galvanism,” and not the “ Reflections,” that was ho- 
noured with the prize. Should this unintentional mis-statement 
have been in the smallest degree offensive to the Royal Lrish 
Academy or to Mr, Donovan, I beg leave, sir, to express my 
regret 
