a maxim, That exile is the greatest punishment to men of virtue, beca fe virtue confifls in loving our country. Exmine the nature of this love, from whence it arifes, how it is nourish, what the bounds and meatures of it are: and after that, you will difcover, how far it is virtue, and where it becomes fimplicity, prejudice, folly, and even enthutiafim. A vir

Hous man in exile may properly enough be filed unfortunate; but he cannot be called unhappy You remen ber the reafon, which Bratus gave, becaufe, wherever he goes, he cares his vitae with him. There is a cert in bulky volume which grows daily, and the title of which muft, I think, be Nodles Gallice. There you may perhaps one day or other fe a differtation upon this fubject: and to return you threatening for threat. ening, you fall be forced to read it out, though you yawn from the first to the last page.

The word Leland was ftruck out of the paper you mention; that is, to fatisty your curiofity, and to kindle it anew, I will tell you, that this anecdote, which I know not how you came by, is neither the only one, nor the moft confiderable one of the fame kind. The perfon you are to inquifitive about returns into England the latter end of October." She has fo great a mind to fee you, that I am not fure the will not undertake a journey to Dubin. It is not fo far from London to Dublin, as from Spain to Pana; and you are as well worth teeing as Livy. But I had much rather you would leave the humid climate, and the dull company, in which, according to your account, a man might grow

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A differtation upon parties. nineteen letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Eq.

The occafional writer. Number 1, 2, 3.

The vifion of Camilk.

An aufwer to the London Joural of December, 21, 1728, by John Trot.

An answer to the defence of the enquiry into the reafons of the con duct of Great Britam.

A final Anfwer to the remarks on the Craftman's Vindication.

All which books or tracts have been printed and published; and I am alto the author of

Four letters on hiftory, &c. Which have been priva ely printed, and not published; but I have not affigned to any perfon or per fous whatfoever the copy, or the liberty of printing or reprinting any of the laid books, or tracts, or elt rs. Now I do hereby, as far as by law I can, give and affign to

David Mallet, of Putney, in the county of Surrey, Efq. the copy and copies of all and each of the before mentioned books, or tracts, or letters, and the liberty of reprinting the fame. I alfo give to the laid David Mallet, the copy and copies of all the manufcript books, papers, and writings, which I have written or compofed, or fhall write or compofe, and leave at the time of my deceale. And I further give to the faid David Mallet all my books, which, at the time of my decease, shall be in the room called my library.

Lord Bolingbroke died on the 15th of December, 1751; and Lord Hyde having heard at Paris that he had left all his writings, printed and manufcript, to Mr. Mallet, wrote him the following letter, the original of which was fent by the widow Mallet, with the manufcript of Lord Bolingbroke's philofophical works, to the British Muleum, in order to judity her husband's integrity in the edition of them.

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this laft inftance, because you are fuch by the defignation and choice of the author himfelf.

What works of his you may have for the public, I know not. That, for which I was folicitous, becaufe I believe it would be moft inftructive to the world, and might be moft for his honour, he told me hinfelf he had laid afide; I mean the hiftory of the great tranfactions of Europe from the time when he began to confider and know them. There remains of that, I believe, no more than a fammary review, which I had the good fortune fome time ago to draw from him, upon an application which I made to him to direct me in the ftudy of hiftory. You will probably have feen that fummary review, which is in a collection of letters upon hiftory, which he did me the honour to It is but a fketch of write me.

the work he had propofed to himfef; but it is the fetch of Lord Bolingoroke. He will probably have told you, that thofe letters were by his direction delivered up by me to Mr. Pope, who burnt, as he told me, the manufcripts, ani printed off by a private prefs fome very few copies which were to be code ed fill as manuof fcripts, one hich Mr. Pope kept, and fint another to Lord Bolingbicke. Sir William Windham, Lord Batinufi, Lord Marchmont, Mr. Murray, and Mr. Lyttolton 1 tms, tad rich ere. do not remember to have been told of any cop es given, except to myfelt, who have always preferved mine, as I would a MS. which was not my own, chtrying not only the reftrictions which Lord Boling

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broke himself had recommended to me, but fecuring likewife, as far as I could, even in cafe of my death, that this work fhould never become public from that copy, which is in my poffeffion. I enlarge upon this, becaufe I think myfelf particularly obliged, out of regard to Lord Boling broke, to give this account of that work to the perfons whom he has entrusted with all his writings, in cafe you might not have known this particularity. And at the fame time I think it my duty, to the memory of Lord Bolingbroke, to myself, and the world too, to fay fomething more to you in relation to

this work.

It is a work, Sir, which will inftru&t mankind, and do honour to its author; and yet I will take upon me to fay, that, for the fake of both, you must publish it with caution.

The greatest men have their faults, and fometimes the greateft faults: but the faults of fuperior minds are the leaft indifferent, both to themselves and to fociety. Humanity is interested in the fame of thofe who excelled in it; but it is interested before all in the good of fociety, and in the peace of the minds of the individuals that compose it. Lord Bolingbroke's mind embraced all objects, and looked far into all; but not without a ftrong mixture of paffions, which will always neceflarily beget fome prejudices, and follow more.

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on the fubject of Religion particularly (whatever was the motive that inflamed his pations upon that fubject chiefly) his paffions were the moft ftrong; and I will venture to fay, when called upon, as I

think, what I have faid more than once to himself, with the deference due to his age and extraordinary talents, his paffions upon that fubject did prevent his otherwife fuperior reafon from feeing, that, even in a political light only, he hurt himfelf, and wounded fociety, by ftriking at establishments, upon which the conduct at least of fociety depends, and by striving to overturn in men's minds the fyltems which experience at least has juftified, and which authority at leaft has rendered refpectable, as necessary to public order and to private peace, without fuggefting to their minds a better, or indeed any fyftem.

You will find, Sir, what I fay to be true in a part of the work I mentioned, where he digreffes upon the criticism of church-history.

While this work remained in the hands only of those I have mentioned (except, as I have been telling you, to himself and to them in private converfation), I have otherwife been filent upon that subject; but I muft now fay to you, Sir, that for the world's fake and for his, that part of the work ought by no means to be communicated further. And you fee, that it is a digreffion not neceffary to that work. If this digreffion should be made public, it will be cenfured, it must be cenfured, it ought to be cenfured. It will be criticifed too by able pens, whofe erudition, as well as their reafonings, will not be easily answered. In fuch a cafe, I fhall owe to myfelf and to the world to difclaim publickly that part of a work, which he did me the honour to addrefs to me; but I owe to the re

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and at the fame time a fenfible concern for the letter your Lordfhip has honoured me with. Nothing could be more agreeable to me than the favourable opinion of one, whom I have long admired for every quality that enters into an eftimable and an amiable character; but then nothing can occafion me more uneafinefs than not to be able to fupprefs that part of a work which you would have kept from public view.

The book was printed off before your Lordhip's letter reached my hands; but this confideration alone would have appeared trifling to me I apprehend, that I cannot, without being unfaithful to the truft reposed in me, omit or alter any thing in thofe works, which my Lord Bolin broke had deliberately prepared for the prefs, and I will publifh no other. As to this in particular, his repeated commands

to me were, that it should be printed exactly according to the Copy he himfelf, in all the leifure of retirement, had corrected with that view.

Upon the whole, if your Lord; hip hould think it neceflary to difclaim the reflections on facred hiftory, by which I prefume is meant fome public and authentic declaration, that your notions on this head differ entirely from thofe of your noble friend; even in this cafe I am fure you will do it with all the delicacy natural to your own difpofition, and with all the tendernefs to his memory, that the particular regard he always bore you can deferve.

I am, with the greatest respect,

My Lord, &c.

The publication, however, of Lord Bolingbroke's works, though it leaves him without apology, as, whether his notions were er. roneous or true, he did what he profeffes he ought not to have done, has yet eventually done rather good than harm; it has fhewn that the world gave him credit for powers, which he did not poflefs, and undeceived those who imagined he had defended Deifm, by a feries of clear, deep, and folid reafoning: his work is found to be lively, flight, and unconclufive; its reputation has declined in proportion as it had been known, and great part of the impreffion, which was to enlighten. the world, and enrich Mallet, is now rotting unfold in the warehoufe.

Mona Antiqua Reftaurata: An Archeological Difcourfe on the Antiqities natural and historical of the Isle of Anglefey; by Henry Rowlands, Vicar of Llanidan in the Isle of Anglefey. The fecond edition..

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HE firft edition of this work was very incorrectly printed at Dublin in the year 1723; the prefent editor is Dr. Owen, who hast removed many inaccuracies; and fome improvements have been added by the late ingenious Mr. Lewis Morris, the author of a curious work, intitled, Celtic Remains, not yet published.

Mr. Rowlands, as the title of his book, an Archeological Difcourfe, implies, has endeavoured to trace the inhabitants of the ifland of Anglefey back to the origin of nations after the deluge, which he fuppofes to have been univerfal, not only upon the credit of Scripture, but because, allowing, as it is generally allowed, that it role to the tops of the higheft mountains of Afia, it could not but be univerfal, by the known laws of matter and motion, and the principles of gravity.

Anglefey was anciently called Mona, from Mon, or Tir-Mon, fignifying the fartheft, or lowest country of that part of Britain to which the first colonifts laft found their way *;

Thefe colonifis, the author fuppofes to have been the progeny of Japhet, not more than five defcents from Noah, who, having noved weftward to the Belgic and Gallic fhores, came at length into Albion, on that fide fartheft from Anglefey in Wales.

Their language, the Celtic +. he fuppofes to be one of the pri mary vocal modes after the dif perfion of Babel, which, with fore gradual improvements, principally by the Druids, is the fame that is now fpoken in this part of Wal s. This language, he fays, has its portion of Hebrew words, in common with all the ancient languages in the world, in which the relics and ruins of that original language are to be found.

As the first colonifts in Anglefey were not more than five defcents from Noah, they certainly brought with them the mode of worthip by facrifice; and as fo awful an event as the deftruction of the world, was then recent, and

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