books, which Mr. Whitchurch, Chaplain to our Ambaffador, at my request promised to deliver to you at Vienna. I recommend him to your particular attention, as a young man of an excellent difpofition, and very fond of literature. This will be prefented to you by Mr. Drummond, a man of letters, who proceeds to Vienna for the purpose of studying phyfic. You know that the medical profeffion is held in the highest eftimation with us, and, as Homer says,

A wise Physician, high distinction claims,

your reception of them both will, I hope, do credit to my recommendation.

I beg your acceptance also of a little Philippic*, which I wrote against an obscure coxcomb, who had the audacity to abuse our University, not with impunity, I trust, if the edge of my difcourfe have any effect upon the fenseless knave. "I have difquieted," (as Cicero fays of his Commentaries) "the French nation." How goes on Hafez, our

* Works, vol. ix. p. 274.

mutual delight? Shall we never see your tranflation of his charming odes? Tell me,

if you like my English verfion of the fecond ode *? it has been favourably received by my own countrymen. I fhould like to tranflate feveral more of his odes, but I want leifure.

I have not yet found any tranflator сараble of doing justice to your Treatise on the Military Art of the Turks. All agree that your preface is both learned and elegant; but they urge, as you yourself remark in the introduction, that the book does not correspond with its title, The Principles of the Science of Government.

The original of this work in the Turkish language, with many others printed at Conftantinople, including a moft beautiful copy of the Odes of Mefihi, are depofited in the library of our Royal Society. I beg to be informed if all the works published by Ibrahim, which you fo much commend, are to be purchased in Germany, Hungary, or the

* Works, vol. v. p. 316.

Eastern parts of Turkey; as in that cafe, I fhould wish to procure them.

What news from Turkey? no mention of Peace? Whenever the war with Ruffia is at an end, I propofe making an open and direct application for the office of Minister at Conftantinople; at prefent, I can only privately whisper my wifhes. The King is very well difpofed towards me; fo perhaps are the men in power; and the Turkish Company wifh much to oblige me; all that I have to

apprehend, is the appearance of fome powerful competitor who may drive me off the stage. If I should fucceed in my wishes, how fhall I bound for joy! First, I fhall enjoy your company at Vienna, then I shall drink deep of Afiasic literature, and I shall explore the Turkish manners in their most hidden fources. If I am disappointed, philofophy remains; the bar is open, and I shall not, I trust, want employment; for the harveft of litigation is always abundant. I shall apply to the ftudy of eloquence, to poetry, hiftory, and philofophy, each of which, if

properly cultivated, would occupy a complete

life of

"Such men as live in these degenerate days." I could fay much more, but I yield to the imperious fummons (not of Proferpine I hope, but) of the goddess, if there be one, who prefides over our tribunals. You may

expect longer letters in future from me and in the mean time I hope to hear very fully from you.-Farewell, my dear friend.

Mr. JONES to Mr. HAWKINS.

Westminster, Jan. 16, 1772.

As I have a frank directed

to you, I take the liberty to inclose a letter
for my mother, which I beg you will be so
kind as to fend to her. I have nothing at
prefent to say on the subject of my publica-
tion, except that you will be fo good as to
fend me the sheets of the Essays, under cover,
to Mr. Brudenell, left there fhould be any
thing that may be altered.
I entreat you

alfo to criticise my profe, as you have done
my verse, and to reprimand me severely,
where you find it ftiff, forced, or obfcure.

I forgot to mention another respectable scholar, who faw and approved my poems, I mean the present Bishop of St. Afaph, whose learning, to fay a great deal, is as extenfive as his virtues are amiable. Dr. Warton, of Winchester, is another excellent critic, through whofe hands my trifles fhall pafs before they fee the light. I have dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, where he paid me a compliment before the whole company, which I cannot write without blushing: he faid, my Greek poems which he had feen in manufcript, were worthy of ancient Greece. dare fay this learned and ingenious man, will fuffer me to fend to him a copy of the poems at Winchester; and that he will make his remarks very fincerely. When I have collected the criticisms of these gentlemen, I will compare them, and add my corrections at the end, under the title of emendations, as Pope has inferted his alterations in the text of his poems, and fet down the variations, or firft readings, in the margin. I think it will be better (as we must not lose the season for

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