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Royal Society of Literature. At a meeting of this Society, (held on Nov. the 18th) the secretary read a paper communicated

by Sir William Ouseley, one of the ten royal associates, containing an account of sixty ancient and very extraordinary alphabets, delineated in an Oriental manuscript brought from India by Lord Teignmouth. Of these alphabets the greater number may be regarded as mere works of imagination; but others have afforded subject for observation to Sir W. O., particularly the Persepolitan and the Trec alphabet. Although some of the alphabets given in this Ms. resemble those published by M. Von Hammer, yet Sir W. O. thinks that one work was not copied from the other. At the same time he submitted for the inspection of the Society two fragments of Persepolitan sculptured marble, bearing inscriptions in the arrow-headed characters, and the manuscript exhibiting those alphabets above-mentioned; the fragments he found himself among the ruins of Persepolis.

M. Champollion, jun. on his road to Toulon to embark for Egypt, stopped two days at Aix with M. Sallier, and examined ten or twelve Egyptian papyri, which had been purchased some years ago, with other antiquities, from an Egyptian sailor. They were principally prayers or rituals which had been deposited with mummies; but there was also the contract of the sale of a house in the reign of one of the Ptolemies; and finally, three rolls united together and written over with fine demotic characters, reserved, as is well known, for civil purposes.

The first of these rolls was of considerable size; and to M. Champollion's astonishment, contained a history of the campaigns of Sesostris Rhamses, called also Sethos or Sethosis, and Sesoosis, giving accounts the most circumstantial of his conquests, the countries which he traversed, his forces, and details of his army. The manuscript is finished with a declaration of the historian, who, after stating his names and titles, says he wrote in the ninth year of the reign of Sesostris Rhamses, king of kings, a lion in combats, &c.

M. Champollion has promised, on his return from Egypt, to give a complete translation of the manuscript.

On the same Ms. commences another composition, called, Praises of the great King Amemnengon. There are only a few leaves of it, and they form the beginning of the history contained in the second scroll. This Amemnengon is supposed to have reigned before Sesostris, because the author wrote in the ninth year of the reign of the latter.

The third roll relates to astronomy or astrology, or more likely to both these subjects. It has not been far opened; but will probably prove of the utmost interest, if, as is expected, it contains any account of the system of the heavens as known to or acknowleged by the Egyptians and Chaldeans, the authors of astronomical science.--Abridged from the Bulletin Universel.

Discovery of Antiquities at Herculaneum. The excavations now in progress at Herculaneum and Pompeii daily lead to the most important results, and authorise the most brilliant hopes. The workmen are engaged in uncovering a magnificent house at Herculaneum, the garden of which, surrounded with colonnades, is the largest that has yet been discovered. Among other mythological subjects are the following: Perseus killing Medusa, by the aid of Minerva; Mercury throwing Argus into a sleep, in order to carry off from him the beautiful Io (a subject which is exceedingly rare in the monuments of art); Jason, the Dragons, and the three Hesperides. But the greatest curiosities in this house are some basreliefs of silver, fixed on elliptical tablets of bronze, representing Apollo and Diana. A vast number of other articles, furniture, utensils, &c. of the most exquisite workmanship, add to the interest which the discovery of this rich and beautiful mansion is so well calculated to excite.---Literary Gazette, Feb. 14. 1829.

SIR,

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Classical Journal.

i am induced to offer two or three observations on the "few words" of your correspondent J. J. W., in No. LXXIX. of the Classical Journal. These few words relate to the commencement of my article on the "Mysteries of Eleusis," against which he brings a charge of being not only extraordinary, but very strange. The passage referred to is: "A learned Platonist of our own time, Mr. T. Taylor, in a Dissertation on the Eleusinian Mysteries, has attempted to prove, that they were intended to teach allegorically the Platonic philosophy. Pray, does Mr. T. suppose that they originated among the Platonists?" "Pray," observes J. J. W. " does the writer consider himself a wit, or Mr. Taylor a fool?" The writer begs to inform your correspondent, that he neither thinks nor ever intended the one or the other; nor would he have thought, before he saw these remarks, that any one could form such a conclusion from that passage. As to wit, he really cannot see a spark in the whole sentence; but he does not pretend to possess so nice a discrimination of wit as your correspondent, who doubtlessly had an eye to something of this kind in selecting the Latin lines which he has prefixed to his "few words." But the fact is, J. J. W. labors under an intire mistake; the passage never was intended as a personal attack; the writer only asks the plain question, “Does Mr. T. suppose that they (the Mysteries) originated among the Platonists ?" Instead of answering this question, your correspondent tells the writer that "if he had

given himself the trouble to peruse either Mr. Taylor's Dissertation, or the introduction to his translation of the Hymns of Orpheus, he would have found it most satisfactorily demonstrated that the Orphic, Pythagoric, and Platonic philosophy, was one and the same;" and that Jamblichus and Proclus say, "the Grecian theology was derived from Orpheus," all of which he knew before, but which have nothing to do with the passage in question. If J. J. W. could have informed the writer who Orpheus was, and whence he derived that philosophy, and what it was in his hands, he would have given him better satisfaction than either Mr. Taylor's Dissertation, or his introduction to Orpheus can, and it would have been much more to the purpose: but he would require better authorities than Jamblichus or Proclus. So much for the extraordinary part of the affair.

"It appears, however," he continues," that this feeble attempt to cast a slur on Mr. Taylor's invaluable labors is merely to pave the way for the writer's own explication of the Mysteries, and which is by far the strangest part of the whole affair." I confess I am ignorant which it is that J. J. W. considers so strange, the writer's paving the way to his explication with the question alluded to, or the explication itself. If the former, I have only, to say, that there is quite as much strangeness in J. J. W.'s paving the way to apprise his readers, "who may not possess Mr. Taylor's original Dissertation, that a second and enlarged edition was given in Nos. 15. and 16. of the Pamphleteer," by his "few" but very illiberal "words." If the latter, until J. J. W. think proper to point out to what parts, and for what reasons the term is applied, he can say nothing at all.

T. W.

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