STATEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE POPULATION OP ENGLAND IN 1811. (Continued from page 197.) SCOTLAND 144,000 173,000 1,268 160,500 157,600 2,112 236,700 361,500 582,700 675,100 2,633 5,108,500 6,017,700 8,609,000 9,855,400 50,250 366,500 449,300 559,000 632,600 8,125 58,335 5,475,000 6,467,000 9,868,000 10,488,000 1,048,000 1,403,000 1,652,000 1,865,000 29,167 GREAT BRITAIN | 6,523,000 7,870,000 10,817,000 12,353,000 87,502 Deduced from a comparison of the Parish Registers. 85,500 M. For the Monthly Magazine. NEW ACCOUNT of the MANUSCRIPTS found at HERCULANEUM, by M, MORGENSTERN. MORGENSTERN, professor at ⚫ the University of Dorpat, has addressed to the Royal Society of Sciences at Göttingen, a Memoir on the Herculaneum Manuscripts, extracted from a learned Account of his Travels in Italy, which he is about to publish. This memoir contains some curious and little known particulars, which will be read with much interest. "The rolls of papyrus, (says M. Morgenstern,) which were discovered on the Ed of November, 1753, are placed in glass cases, and in the same room in which the process of unrolling them is carried on. Each of the shelves which contain them has a brass number. These half-burned rolls appear like rolls of to-bacco. I saw a man at work unfolding them: he was sitting before the ingenious machine invented by Father Antonio Piaggio, of which Winckelmann has given a description; it is also correctly described and represented in Bartel's Travels. On coming near these ancient manuscripts, we almost involuntarily hold the breath, for fear any bits of them should be blown away. I soon ceived how many difficulties and incon. veniences attended the process of unrolling them. per "In proportion as the roll is opened, a designer faithfully copies each line: this labour is revised by a learned man, who translates it into Latin on the spot, and whatever passages can be made out, are engraved on copper. When I visit ed this establishment, they were employed in transcribing some new fraganents of Philodemus. The celebrated philologist, CARLO ROSINI, Bishop of Pozzuola, has undertaken to explain, comment upon, and publish them. The following are the words which they were then endeavouring to decypher. σε πολυσβαλε περί αλοίας παραφρονησεως of δ' επιγράφουσι προς τους αλοίως καλαθρασυνομένους των εν τοις πολλοις δοξαζομένων, "The old government did much, but yet too little, respecting the manuscripts of Herculaneum; and M. Heinse was right in saying, that it was an unfortunate circumstance that this discovery - was not made in the time of Robert of Cosmo or of Lorenzo de Medicis. What rewards would not those illustrious protectors of letters have granted to a Polizione, a Ficini, or a Lascarisse, for such praiseworthy labours; and what pleasure those learned hellenists would have taken in accomplishing the views of such patrons! "I was assured that the same saloon contained nearly seventeen hundred ma nuscripts, of which about three hundred had been unrolled. It is difficult to be lieve this last assertion, unless we com prise in the number, those, the develope ment of which has been attempted with out success. Most of these works are without the authors' names. The only known authors who have hitherto been net with amongst these masses are, Demetrius, Epicurus, Philodemus, and Polystratus, one of the disciples of Epicurus, whom Diogenes Laertius makes the immediate successor of Hermachos, or Hermarchos. He is the same whom Valerius Maximus associates with the Epicurean Hippokleides, and he repre sents them as two models of friendship, exactly similar in their manners, senti ments, and also remarkable for the same period of birth and death. "Besides the fourth book of Philode mus on Music, which has appeared, we now see the first two of his work on same author: Rhetoric, bearing this title, Ohodnμor eg poging A. B., and another by the σέξι xxxswy και anlinesunyar agelov. I did not hear the name of Kolotes mentioned. But they have mislaid the work known by the name darias, which Piaggio began to unrol in the year 1762, and which, in the opinion of the Abbé Galiani, related to botany. It is probably lost. would be desirable to know what were the contents of the ten rolls, that were presented to the Prince of Wales? It "The learned world may congratulate itself on the efforts that are made to hasten the results of these labours. I had the advantage of seeing, at the last visit I paid to the establishment, the celebrated director of the library, Juan Andrès, who was born in Valentia, aud the Bishop of Pozzuoli, whom I lately mentioned. They inforined me that the second volume of the text of the works of Epicurus, which contains his Natural Philosophy, was printed, and was only waiting for the Preface. They expressed their hopes that it would be published before the edition of the Commentaries upon it. M. Juan Andrès also shewed me, at his house, the text of a Latin poem, the only one which has yet been discovered. It is printed on four sheets of large folio, with this inscription: Ceo. Batt. Malesci dis. Bart, oratii inc. The The manuscript is in double columns: the capital letters are very well formed, and not so angular as they generally ap. pear in inscriptions. The words are se v. 3. parated by simple points. This frag- ABITV...N. SOMNVM. TRAHITVRQUE ment will be an important acquisition for Latin palæography, as the only ma nuscripts we possess in that language are long posterior to the time of the destruc LIBIDINE. MOR... v. 7. FVNDERE. VENIS v. 8. tion of Herculaneum. It will be easy, IN. IAM. EPTANIMAM. PRESSIS. ER MERSISQVE.. ... O. CLAVSERVNT v. 9. AS. INTP. STRAGES SOLIO. DESCEN DIT. INTER IIPEC. REGINA. GERIT. PROCVL.TIA v. 4. ....A. VIDEBAT SA.... on seeing these manuscripts, to perceive the difference between the ordinary manner of writing, and that which was employed on monumental inscriptions. The impression is exactly similar to the original, and the dottings correctly point out the extent and form of each gap or hiatus. The passages which are left, but which they have not been able to decypher, are underlined. These verses are, unfortunately, so mutilated, that it ATROPOS. IN. RID. N... ...R. DIVER is hardly possible to understand their meaning. The poem, however, is in hexameter verse, and treats of the Alexandrine war. It evidently contains a description of the death of Cleopatra. On the four sheets which M. Andiès kindly presented to me, there are sixtyone verses, contained in the eight columns, but most of them mutilated. These sheets do not contain the whole of the poem; indeed I was told that a much greater number remained to be printed. In the second verse of the first olumn, we read the name of CESAR. the third of the second column, PESIA and CÆSAR. The eighth verse o the same column has these words: VIDICAT .... MVLAM. ROMAM. COE....NDEM. A strange hand, probably that of M. Andrès himself, las vitten in the margin of my copy, the fo wing passage from the Eneid: Tecta vins que nunc Romana potentia cœlo. Æquavi "In different columns, the following words,ay be read: Col. 1, AL.XANDE V. 3. A.TIACOS (Actiacos). QVALIS. AD. STANTIS. ACIES. CVN SAEVCOIRENT GESTAARATV VND. QVE. SIC. AVC. ....MP.... DEFORMEO...VM SIGNAQVE. CONSTITVIT. SIC. OMN... CASTRAQVE. PRO. MVRIS. ATQVE. ARMA. PEDESTRIA. PONVNT "The poem, as I have said, evidently describes the Alexandrine war: these verses relate to the time of the arrival of Augustus in Egypt. Antony kills himself, and Cleopatra, by likewise committing suicide, avoids the disgrace of slavery, Even by consulting Plutarch and Dion, it is scarcely possible to supply the rest of the subject; for they only describa the principal facts. In the first columns, the poet speaks of the arrival of Octavianus and his army. He advances tewards Alexandria, while the main body of the army proceeds by the Hippodrome. Antony attacks the cavalry of Octavianus with success, and causes his fleet to advance, On the second charge he Rr 2 Qualis, ad instantis acies cum bella parantur, Signa tubae classesque, simul terrestribus armis, Est facies ea visa loci; cum saeva coirent Instrumenta necis, multo congesta paratu, Vindique; sic illuc deforme coactum Omne vagabatur leti genus, omne timoris. "In his despair, Antony calls for Octavianus, that he may be witness to his deplorable end. (Ut)—præberetque sua spectacula tristria mortis! "Then follows the description of the dismay and confusion which prevail among the queen's courtiers, several of whom kill themselves in different ways. Col. V. v. 2. cervicibus aspide mollem v. 3. labitur in somnum,trahiturque libidine mortis. 7. 4. flatu, brevis hunc sine morsibus anguis. v. 7. animam pressis effundere venis. v. 8. I.. mersisque... clauserunt guttura fauces. v. 9. Has inter strages solio de scendit... "After a long hiatus, we find in the seventh column the attempts which Proculeius made, by order of Octavianus, to induce Cleopatra to surrender at discretion. Cel. vii. v. 3. v. 4. 7.5. v. 6. Y. 8. Res regina gerit: Proculei... Atropes inridens.. diversa... v. 7. Et patriae comitante suae: Col. viii. Hos inter coetus aliosque ad bella paratus "Octavianus enters Alexandria, which city cannot be said to have been besieged. Meanwhile night comes on, and the poem does not describe the last moments of Cleopatra." M. Morgenstern has promised to give some farther illustrations of this poem, in the Travels which he intends to pub lish. He thinks there may be perceived, in the above extracts, the spirit of the com position: the author evinces the genius of the rhetorician; and he cannot but be viewed as a contemporary or emulator of Lucan and Petronius. To this memoir are added, three letters of Lady Jane Grey, that have never been published. M. Morgenstern discovered them in the Library of Zurich. They are addressed to the celebrated theological writer, Henry Bullinger, Dean of Zurich, relative to the work which he published, entitled, "De Perfectione Christianorum, ad Henricum II. Gal. Reg." These letters are full of sentiment, and replete with the most fervent piety. Their style is truly clasThe second letter is dated in 1552, consequently in the year which preceded the death of this unfortunate lady. sical. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. IN SIR, N your entertaining Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters, in your Magazine for September last, you have given an account of the origin of the sign of Old Mother Red Cap at Camden Town. The sign itself must have been much older, as I have in my posBession, a small copper coin, found last spring, in digging out old foundations for a new house at Highgate, which, on the head, represents a half length of the old lady in character, holding a mug in her right hand, with her left arm a-kimbo above I. B. and underneath, His Half Peny, and on the reverse John att the mother Read Capp, in Holloway, 1667. It is about the quite so thick. Highgate, October 8, 1812. size of a farthin not WM.EAP. For the Monthly Magare. ACCOUNT of a scarce and curić LETTER of COLUMBUS, lately publied by the CHEVALIER MORELLI, e the ROYAL LIBRARY at VENICE. YOLUMBUS addresse his long let COLD ter to the king and cen of Spain, on the 7th of July, 150gat which time he was at Jamaica, whe he had arrived on his fourth voyage toe West Indies. It contains an accou of the events of the 9th of May, 15, and, passing the his passage. He sa from Cadiz on Canaries, arrived a dominica, at which isle his misfortunes menced. “When We hope to enabled, in an early number, to introd, these to our readers. I reached |