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seventh edition. London, R. Francklin, 1749." Caleb D'Anvers is a, 

 fictitious personage. The frontispiece is a curious composition ; it 

 shews Liberty prostrate, and weeping ; an exasperated hydra between 

 two opposing groups of men armed in various ways (some of them 

 with pens only), and clamorous ; above all in the air, Sir Robert 

 Walpole, a la Jove, supported by Plutus, blind Fortune, and Subtlety, 

 while a winged Messenger descends towards the crowd below, extend- 

 ing in one hand a purse and reserving in the other a lai'ge mitre. 

 The volume is stamped within thus : " Biblioth^que de S. A. R. Mgr. 

 le Due d' Orleans." Within the oval border bearing this inscription 

 are the initials " F. P. 0.," surmounted by a French ducal coronet. 

 It thus appears that the Duke of Orleans indicated is the son of 

 Louis Philippe, so entitled, accidentally killed in Paris in 1842, 

 the father of the present Count of Paris. By virtue of his evident 

 sympathy with European civilization, I place here (2) an autograpli 

 letter of the King of Siam, reigning in 1850. It is in English, and is 

 addressed to John Jarvis, Esq. He writes for a gold pen, to replace 

 one that had been broken and rendered useless in the carriage; and he 

 asks to have a mathematical instrument sent to him from Singapore. 

 " Dear Sir," he says, " I have tried to use your golden pen in writing, 

 and observed that its platinical point on one side has longly broken 

 oS; there is still remaining the point of platinum, but on the other 

 side, which is longer than the other, so that the pen is of no use. I 

 trust you will procure other, and send one from Chingapore. Allow 

 me to ask for something of my purpose; can one of the small Ismouth 

 compass (which is small as to be convenient to be carried by pocket, 

 and which has the staying line and the arch or whole circle divided 

 into 90 degrees on a square quarter, or into 360 degrees around whole 

 circle, and has a hole for looking on observation of parallax of many 

 thing at the way of road or bank of river, &c.) be procurable at 

 Singapore or other place from your attention] Of which wanted 

 article or instrument I shall be glad to pay for value which you would 

 say of. Believe me your friend." [I regret that I do not accurately 

 decipher the signature, nor the place of writing.] The following is 

 added : " P. S. — Your pen was accompanied in the envelope." 



III. I supplement the two groups representing the two ancient 

 Universities of England, by adding (1) to the Oxford one, unimpor- 

 tant autograph fragments, which need not be transcribed, of (a) Dr. 



