47 Geo. III. 
Parliament a most valuable collection, consist- 
ing chiefly of antient sculptured marbles, form- 
ed with great taste and judgment by the late 
Charles Towneley, Esquire, was purchased at 
the public expense and placed under the care 
and management of the Trustees of the British 
Museum, and that in addition to the said col- 
lection of ancient marbles formed by the said 
Charles Towneley, Esquire, there was also col- 
lected by him a very extensive series of smaller 
antiquities of great variety and beauty, and 
that Peregrine Edward Towneley, Esquire, the 
present proprietor of this collection of antiqui- 
ties, has declared his willingness to add them 
to the above-mentioned collection of marbles 
upon fair and reasonable terms, and the Peti- 
tioners conceive the acquisition of this col-" 
lection would be attended with national advan- 
tages. 
Ordered, 
That the said Petition be referred to a Com- 
mittee. 
Veneris, %4PDieJunii, 1814. 
The Committee reported, That the Collec- 
tion of Antiquities offered to the British Mu- 
seum, exceeded in Value the Sum of Eight 
thousand Two hundred Pounds, the Price at 
