1804, ] 
the year 1008. Many eaftern authors 
mention them, afcribing the invention to 
one Lockman. And at p: 92, he fays that 
Mamood, Sultan of-Ghizni, in 1026, put 
a-board his fleet fire-balls to burn the 
boats of his enemy, and Naphtha to fet 
the river on fire. 
ASSES AND MULES, 
Thefe were introduced into England 
in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, at which 
time they were equally looked upan as 
monfters and with aftonifhment. Mr, 
Carew in his Survey of Cornwall, p. 24. 
tells this flory, and is a procf of the 
afiertion. ‘ It is where he is recommend. 
ing the ufe of mules to his countrymen, 
inftead of their horfes. Not long 
fithence it happened, that one brought 
over an Hee-afle from France, becaufe 
the ftrangenefle of the beaft, (as everie 
thinge where it comes firft ferves for a 
wonder) who, following his kind, begat 
many monfiers, viz. JMoyles: and tor 
monfters indeed the country people ad- 
mired them: yea, fome were fo wife, as 
to knocke on the head, or give away this 
iffue of his race, as uncouth mongrels.”’ 
But bifhop Fleetwood in his Chronicon 
Preciofum p. 64. Ed. 1707, fays, that 
‘© inthe Senatus Confulta-de Monticclis 
in the time of King Ethelred, about the 
year 1000, if a horfe be loft, the com-- 
penfation mult be 30s. a mare or colt 
of a year old 20s. @ mule or young afs at 
y2s.-&c. which looks as if they were no 
fuch (rarities. And at p. 75, he ob- 
ferves, that when the king came to Red- 
burne, about 12137, the Camerarius of 
St. Alban’s loft» three good horfes, t2wo 
afes and a good new cart, all which 
worth at leaft fifty fhillings.”’ 
LETTER from LORD ORFORD Zo MR. 
COLE, om the ORIGIN of the CASTLE of 
OTRANTO. 
Strawberry Hill, March 9,1765. 
DEAR SIR, ‘ 
I had time‘to write but a fhort note 
with the Caftle of Otranto, as your mef- 
fenger called on me at four o'clock, as I 
was going to dine abroad. Your par- 
tiality to me and Strawberry have, I 
hope, inclined you to excufe the wild- 
nels of the flury. You will even have 
found fomé traits to put you in mind of 
this place. 
When you read of the pidture quitting 
its pannel, did net. you. recolleét the 
portrait of lord Faikland all in white in 
my gallery > Shall I even confels to you 
what was the origin of this Romance? 
I waked one morning in the beginning 
MonTuiy Mac. No, 111. 
“Mr. Hume. 
Coliana. 3: 
of Jaft June from a dream, of which, 
all I could recover’ was, that I had 
thought myfelf in an antient cafile (a 
very natural dream for a head filled like 
mine with Gothic ftory) and that on 
the uppermoft bannifter of a great fair- 
cafe, I faw a gigantic hand, in armour. 
In the evening I fat down, and began to 
write, without knowing in the leaft what 
I intended to fay or relate.. The work 
srew on my hands, and I grew fond of 
it—add, that I was very. glad to think 
of any thing rather than politics. In 
ficrt, I was fq engyoffed with my tale, 
which I compleated in Jefs than two 
months, that one evening I wrote from 
the time I had drunk my tea, about fix 
o clock, till half an hour after one in 
-the morning, when my hand and fingers 
were fo weary, that I could not hold the 
pen to finifh the fentence, but left Ma. 
tilda and Ifabella talking,’ in the middle 
of a paragraph. You will] laugh at my 
earneftnefs: but if I have amufed you, 
by re-tracing with any fidelity the man~ 
ners of antient days, I am content, and 
give you leave to think me as idle as you 
pleaie.”’ Your’s, H. W. 
SELECTIONS from the CORRESPONDENCE 
of MR. COLE and h15 FRIENDS. 
ROUSSEAU. : 
“ Roufleau is gone to England with 
You will very probably fee 
a letter to Rouffeau in the name of the 
king of Pruffia, writ to laugh at his 
affectations. It has made exceffive noife 
here, and I believe quite ruined the au- 
thor with many .of the philofophers.’ 
When I tell you J was the auther, it is 
telling you how cheap I hold their anger. 
‘Tf it does not. reach you, you fhall fee - 
it at Strawberry, where I flatter myfelf 
T fhall fee you this fummer, and quite 
well. Adiev! dear Sir. Your ever ob- 
liged and faithful fervant, 
‘ - Hor. Warreo.e.” 
Written‘to Mr. Cole from Paris, 
Jan. 13, 1766. 
PICTURES of the HOUSE of LANCASTER. 
‘“©Mr. Welt’s bocks are felling out- 
rageoufly. His family will make a for- 
tune by what he collected from. -ftalls 
and Moorefields. But 1 mutt net blame 
the wirtuai, having furpaffid them. —In 
fhort I have bought his two piGures 
of Henry sth and 8th and their families ; 
the firt of which is engraved in my 
Anecdotes, or, asthe Catalogue fays, en- 
graved by Mr. H. Walpole, and the fecond 
defcribed there... The firit cof me- 32/. 
and the laft 84/7, though TI knew Mr. 
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