Dr. Hunt is entitled to the fullest credit. And on the opposition between the designs of Mr. Tweddell, as avowed at different times, we have only to observe, that nobody had better opportunities than the Dr. of ascertaining Mr. Tweddell's intentions. Professor Carlyle, whose evidence will not be objected to by the complainants, in a letter addressed to an intimate friend of the late Mr. Tweddell's, dated. Constantinople, July 25, 1800, says, "I fear the papers will not "be found to contain any thing that can be made of much ge"general use; by the accounts of them which I have received, "they consist more of hints and trains of reflexion than of any "detailed relations respecting actual visa vel facta." It does not therefore seem by any means clearly established, that the journals written by Mr. Tweddell whilst at Athens and in its neighbourhood were of that finished description, which those relating to other parts that he visited appear to have been. For, in addition to the character given to them by these two reverend gentlemen, it may easily be conceived, that the incessant occupation of his time in transcribing inscriptions, determining localities, comparing the accounts given by other travellers with the spots which they described, and collecting materials to correct their errors, would leave him little or no leisure for arranging and working up those materials which he himself was constantly accumulating; so that, valuable as they would without doubt have been to him-as rough notes for more enlarged details, they could not be so valuable to the world as his other manuscripts. This admission we think no one will refuse to make, after he has read with care the letters written by Mr. Tweddell to his friend. From the value of the drawings too, Lord Elgin suggests a ground of deduction which, supported as it is by evidence, may afford some consolation to those who have hitherto considered their loss irreparable.

"They were the production of Fauvel and Préaux, two French artists who had followed M. de Choiseul to Constantinople, and who, after his expulsion from that court, maintained themselves by multiplying copies of drawings in Greece, which they sold to travellers and amateurs; a practice which is general in Switzerland and throughout Italy. These drawings were within the reach of every one: many foreigners have copies of them, and I believe there were several in England, or in the possession of Englishmen, before Mr. Tweddell's time. In the same way, M. Préaux has sent to me, since my return to this country, drawings of the plain of Troy, being professedly copies of what he sketched when on a tour in that country with Messrs. Clarke and Cripps." "

We shall offer no further remarks on the value of Mr. Tweddell's papers and drawings, but set about inquiring whether they were forwarded to England; and, if not forwarded, what can have become of them. It is admitted that, upon Mr. Tweddell's decease, the property from Greece, after being put on board of a ship that was wrecked on the Turkish shore, passed through various hands, and at length came into those of the Earl of Elgin. The Reviewers state that the property in "question was all saved, and carried, by the person under "whose care it was sent, to Constantinople;" and the editor of the Remains asserts that "there is nothing whatever to "sanction the idea, so industriously protruded, that depreda❝tion' was committed on the property previously to its arrival "at Constantinople." In direct opposition to this representation, and in answer to the assertions of the Reviewers, which his Lordship very justly observes is made without referring "to any evidence," it is stated, that "upon opening the "packages which had been saved from shipwreck, in presence "of Mr. Thornton, and of the several gentlemen of the em "bassy, their contents were found in the greatest confusion; "much appeared to have been purloined; and the whole were "soaked with sea-water." (Letter. p. 10.) This statement is confirmed by Dr. Hunt, who, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Christian Observer, on the subject of a review of Tweddell's Remains in that work, writes thus:

"When the trunk and cases were opened, it was observed that the medals had been plundered, and other little gold articles gone, which probably had taken place at their recovery from the shipwreck. The MSS. and drawings also, were so much spoiled and defaced by sea-water and mouldiness, that his Lord-hip employed some gentlemen of his suite, and Mr. Barker the panoramist (then at Pera) to dry them in the best manner they could, and to preserve every article, however trifling,' of so accomplished a scholar."

All this corresponds exactly with a letter from the same gentleman to the editor of the Remains, dated April 12, 1813. Now unless Dr. Hunt can be proved to have been particeps criminis with Lord Elgin (admitting for a moment the charge against his Lordship to be substantiated) this surely is a sanction to the idea that depredation was committed on the pro"perty previously to its arrival at Constantinople." But the inquiries instituted at Mr. Robert Tweddell's express desire, are not a whit more favorable to his and his friends' hypothesis; on the contrary, they confirm the opposite position. In a dispatch addressed to the Levant Company, by Isaac Morier, Esq. their consul general, we have the following judicious remarks:

"I have taken the liberty to add the copy of a letter I finally received from Mr. Logotheti, our pro-consul at Athens; from which it appears, that those effects were in a deplorable condition when they arrived here, and that owing to that circumstance, as well as to there not having been any inventory made of the contents of the trunks when they were consigned in this cancellaria, it is now still more doubtful whether the trunks contained all the articles specified in the inventory made at Athens, immediately after the death of Mr. Tweddell, the inore especially as it appears that the trunks were thrown on shore by the sea in a shattered state, after having lain during three days under water; and that the keys had been intrusted to Papa Simeon, with whom the effects were sent; whereas common sense and prudence ought to have dictated to Mr. Logotheti to affix a public seal upon the trunks, and to send the keys in a separate parcel, properly sealed, to our minister."

In spite of all this, it is upon the character given to this Greek Papa, by Logotheti, who is also a Greek, as a well known and faithful friend, that the reverend editor treats as fabrications made to cover the theft of his brother's papers, the accounts given by Dr. Hunt of the mischief done to them, and his property in general, by the wreck and other means! Nor is this the only use made of this man's testimony. In the account of his examination by Logotheti, we read, "Amongst the "other effects, papers, costumes, &c, there was a gold watch. "Papa Simeon further adds, that he saw it on a table in the "palace, together with manuscripts, drawings of costume, "which were spread about in the said palace for the purpose of "being dried." This is a circumstance of which the reverend editor of the Remains, and his learned friend the Reviewer, do not omit to take a due-some will say, an undue-advantage. The italics of the former are very emphatic, and Mr. Tweddell's literary property, connected with the "it is particularly stated "that a gold watch was a part of the aforesaid property, seen

by Simeon at Lord Elgin's," is not without a meaning: nor is it improper in his Lordship to consider the significant mention of that part of the effects, as a mark of the writer's personal animosity against him. Well may he exclaim, "I feel as if I were "degraded, by the necessity of entering at all into discussion "with a person, capable even of harbouring in his own heart so infamous a suspicion." Mr. Morier seems to have been better acquainted with the character of the modern Greeks; and the reverend editor who puts such implicit faith in their assertions, might have been furnished with a more correct notion of their honesty, had he only consulted the letters which

he himself has edited. In one addressed by his deceased brother to Mr. Spencer Smythe, from Teno, we read:

"My vexations began at Tophana: where on arriving at the hour ap pointed by the captain, I saw the ship under sail, which I endeavoured to overtake in vain, before it arrived near the Seven Towers. I founfl, afterwards, that my baggage, which was all on board, would have operated on the illustrious Greeks as a sufficient reason for not anchoring there, had not an high priest of their nation been also in the same case with myself, who, contrary to their expectation, did not arrive till some time after me-thus, the fear of the Lord had little availed me, if it had not been fortified by the fear of his servants."

For our own parts, we confess that the account which Dr. Hunt gives of the disappearance of the watch, and other pocketable articles, after the wreck, receives very strong confirmation from Papa Simeon's very particular recollection of having seen it on a table in the English ambassador's palace,

It is evident enough then, that the whole of the effects that were sent from Athens, under the care of faithful Simeon, did not reach Constantinople. It is admitted by the Edinburgh Reviewers that those that did (what they, however, will have to be all)" appear to have been a good deal damaged, though the " evidence is contradictory as to the extent of the injury but "Signor Lusieri, a well known Italian artist, then under Lord "Elgin's patronage, having inspected them, has since asserted "distinctly that they were in a recoverable state, and might "easily be copied." Ed. Rev. p. 307.

This, however, has rather too much the character of hearsay evidence. Mr. Robert Tweddell tells Mr. Abraham Moore, that Lusieri repeatedly told Dr. Clarke, when he was in Turkey, "that they were in a recoverable state, and such as offered a "facility to any artist to make copies from them." (p. 350.) But why does not Dr. Clarke tell us this himself? We have letters here from all quarters: and it has struck us as not a little singular that, much as Dr. Clarke's name is used in the business, we have no communication whatever from him. In the present instance it is particularly desirable because there is evidence to the direct contrary of what Lusieri is stated to have declared to him; and that too from a person, to whom neither Mr. Tweddell, nor the reviewer can possibly object. We allude to the late Professor Carlyle, who in a letter to Mr. Lash of Newcastle, written not above eight months after the arrival of the packages at Constantinople, says "the writings "were much injured, and the sketches almost totally spoiled "by the sea water-all of them were however separately dried

"with the greatest care before their being consigned to the "chancery."

This must have been a fact within the professor's knowledge; for in one of the letters of Dr. Hunt, he is expressly named as being principally concerned in the process which he describes to have taken place. The Doctor's words are, "The sea water "having penetrated into the trunks, it became necessary "to open them; when the books, manuscripts, and drawings, "were found to be materially injured, and some of them stick"ing together and reduced to a state of pulp. Lord Elgin and "Mr. Carlyle used every precaution in preserving them, and in "drying each sheet and scrap of paper: and Mr. Barker, who "was then at Constantinople making drawings for his pano❝rama, was employed to separate the drawings, which were in "water colours, and to dry and preserve them: but they were "too much spoiled for the operation to be very successful." * If this last assertion is not true, Mr. Barker could easily have been called on to disprove it; but like Dr. Clarke's, his evidence. is withheld for what reason Mr. Tweddell can best tell.

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Having ascertained in what state this part of Mr. Tweddell's effects reached Constantinople; we must now inquire what became of them when they got there.

Previously to their arrival, Lord Elgin had reached the Turkish capital. The packages, therefore, originally addressed to Mr. Smythe as the English minister, were now removed to Lord Elgin's house; where we shall leave them for the present, and advert to the articles left by Mr. Tweddell in the custody of Mr. Thornton. In that custody they remained until the spring of 1799, when the house of that gentleman was destroyed by fire. With reference to this fire, Lord Elgin observes: "Although, "however, it appears, that much of Mr. Tweddell's effects had "been preserved from the fire, it is uncertain whether a partial "loss was not sustained. From a letter of Mr. Thornton's it "appears, that he had written to Mr. John Tweddell himself, "expressing some apprehension and uncertainty on the subject. But on consulting this letter, we can see no reason to believe, that the effects sustained the slightest injury. The following passage in Dr. Clarke's travels may, perhaps, though we do not say that it will, afford something like a clue to some of the missing property. "Mr. Tweddell of Trinity College, Cambridge, had recently visited this country, and he left with Pro