260 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



" Except the Apollo Belvedere, the Niobe, and two 

 or three others of the first- class marbles, I do not 

 believe that there are any monuments of antiquity 

 existing that were executed by so great an artist ; and 

 I have no doubt of this being a work of the time of 

 Alexander the Great, and was probably brought out of 

 Asia by Alexander Severus, whose ashes were deposited 

 therein after his death." 



We find from the Memoirs of Captain Rapin, a 

 gallant Huguenot, who fought at the Boyne, Athlone, 

 and the two sieges of Limerick, that he was recalled to 

 London for the purpose of being appointed governor 

 and tutor to Lord Woodstock, son of Bentinck, Earl of 

 Portland. The two, tutor and pupil, travelled through 

 Holland, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. It was 

 while in Italy that the Earl of Portland requested Eapin 

 to have copies made for him of the rarest medals in 

 point of historic interest ; and also to purchase for him 

 objects of ancient workmanship. It was in this way 

 that Kapin persuaded the Earl to purchase from Sir 

 William Hamilton the Barberini, now called the 

 Portland Vase, and thus to secure for England one of the 

 most exquisite specimens of Grecian Ceramic art. On 

 resigning his office as tutor to Lord Woodstock, Eapin 

 retired to Wesel, on the Lower Rhine, where he wrote 

 his History of England; which was afterwards trans- 

 lated by Mr. N. Tindal and achieved a great reputation. 1 



1 Raoul do Cazenove published a handsome volume entitled Eapin- 

 Thoyras, sa Famille, sa Vie, et ses (Euvres, which contains the fullest 

 information as to the Huguenot hero. 



