fcrupled to adopt a national reflection, and proclaim a whole people, KAKA OHPIA, And in another place, he

EVIL BEASTS.

fays, that he had fought with BEASTS at EPHESUS, that is, with MEN, who had the fouls and manners of BEASTS, HOMINIBUS FERINIS ANIMIS & MORIBUS. For fo the most learned interpreters explain this paffage. To thefe facred authors let me add the name of HOMER, fince he seems to have imbibed the fame fentiments, and hath frequently used the fame coarse language, not refpecting the high titles and offices of the perfons, whom he has characterised. You must have particularly remarked, how he treats the great king, who was the captain general, or commander in chief of all the GRECIAN forces. He does not only affign to AGA

ি

MEMNON the heart and foul of a beast, but he tells us, that his very looks and mien discover

him

him to be of the brute kind *. The clofe of this letter to ARTEMIDORUS fa

yours

* I conceive, the PALLADIAN here alludes to the following defcription, or character of the GRECIAN CHIEF.

Κυνὸς ὄμματ' ἔχων, κραδίην δ' ἐλάβοιο.

HOMER. Iliad, 1. 1.

Thou DOG in forchead, but in heart a DEER.

POPE.

Some of HOMER's commentators have taken pains to excufe the ill breeding of his Heroes, and all of them explain these opprobrious epithets, or appellations, in a metaphorical fenfe. They affure us (and I readily afsent to their comment) that by the expreffion, which I have quoted, ACHILLES reproaches his General with impudence and cowardice. But this does not invalidate, or weaken our new bypothefis. For with great truth, and therefore confiftently with good manners, we may affirm THAT MAN (or FORM of a MAN) to be a BEAST, whom we know to be an IMPUDENT BULLY,and at the fame time an INFAMOUS.

COWARD.

If

yours another opinion, to which I have always inclined, viz. That the ftate of the dead is not a state of infenfibility;

and

that

If my PALLADIAN had ever read CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, he would certainly have quoted him in fupport of his fyftem. For AGRIPPA proposes those, as the greatest brutes, who arrive to the fummit of wealth and power. The court of a great prince, where one would expect to find all the beauties and accomplishments of human nature, fince every perfon there is fuppofed to have had a liberal and polite education, he boldly describes, as the den, or habitation of wild beasts and monsters: Quicquid ufpiam eft teterrimarum belluarum perverfitatis, tota hæc et omniş in aulicum gregem, quafi in unicum corpus confluxiffe videtur. illic ferocitas leonis, fævitia tigridis, truculentia urfi, temeritas apri, rapacitas lupi, fraudulentia vulpis, mordacitas canis, vindicta cameli, timiditas leporis, petulantia hirci, immunditia fuis, ftoliditas afini, fcurrilitas fimia: ibi furentes Centauri, ibi perniciofa Chimara, ibi infanientes Satyri, ibi foeda Harpyia, ibi improba Sirenes, &c. CORNEL AGRIP. de OECONOMIA REGIA, five AULICA.

that they do not lofe their complaifance and affection for thofe friends, whom they leave behind them in the world. Almost all Religions, both ancient and modern, allot us Guardian Angels: and thofe, perhaps, may be our dead friends, who during their lives were their lives were known to be men of truth and honour, and were reverenced for their moral and focial virtues. I could,' with great pleasure, enlarge on this fubject. But, as my country demands my immediate attendance, I must conclude with the fhort hint, which I have given you, and at the fame time with my fincereft wishes for your profperity; that you may ever retain the love and efteem of your excellent friends, who are living, and never want the seasonable advice and affiftance of thofe, who are dead; and, that all your actions may be influenced; and directed by thofe benevolent and courteous beings, who poffefs an extemporary knowledge, and forefee, what is fitteft for you.

THE

THE

*TEMPLE of HERCULE S.

HE worthy PALLADIAN had fcarce left

THE

me, when I espied my noble friend and guide the COUNT of, who was coming to our quarters. I advanced to meet him, and took this first opportunity of congratulating him on the honour he had acquired by X

the

* The day, preceding this night's DREAM, I had read over Mr. BELLICARD'S OBSERVATIONS upon the ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM. This city was dedicated to HERCULES, and feveral temples were there erected to him. Some of thefe have been laid open, and particularly described by the Virtuofi, Antiquaries, and Architects, who have lately furveyed that famous fpot of ground. I am not without hopes, that the temple and statue of HERCU LES, which I vifited in my sleep, and which I have here faithfully represented in writing, may hereafter be dif

covered in HERCULANEUM.