there was a beautiful copy of Perfian verfes, which I will beg leave to tranfcribe, and fhould be glad to print it, with a translation, in the Appendix to my Grammar. I have not yet had my Perfian propofals engraved, but when you write to your brother, you would much oblige me by defiring him to send me a little Perfian manufcript, if he can procure it without much trouble. It is a small poem which I intend to print; we have six or seven copies of it at Oxford, but if I had one in my poffeffion, it would fave me the trouble of tranfcribing it. I have inclofed its title in Perfian and English. I am very glad that your family are well. I wish them joy upon every occafion; my mother and fifter defire their compliments to you, and I am, with great regard,

Yours, most affectionately,

WILLIAM JONES.

Mr. JONES to Mr. HAWKINS.

Nov. 5, 1771.

I shall ever gratefully acknow

ledge, dear Sir, my obligation to you for the trouble you take in inspecting my trifles. Had Dryden and other poets met with fuch a friend, their poems would have been more polished, and consequently more fit to see the light. Your obfervations are fo judicious, that I wish you had not been fo fparing of them. I entirely approve of all your corrections, &c.

As to the years, in which the poems were written, they are certainly of no confequence to the public; but (unless it be very abfurd) I would wish to specify them, for it would hurt me as a ftudent at the bar, to have it thought that I continue to apply myfelf to poetry; and I mean to infinuate that I have given it up for several years, which I must explain more

fully in the preface. For a man who wishes to rise in the law, must be supposed to have no other object.

* C. REVICZKI to Mr. JONES.

Vienna, Oct. 13, 1771.

I have waited nearly twelve

months to no purpose, for an opportunity of fending you my laft work, which at your recommendation has been published; the politeness of one of the fecretaries of the English embassy, who is returning to England, has at last supplied it, by kindly offering to take charge of this production of mine. (unless you will call it yours) and deliver it to you. It is my wish to avail myself of the fame opportunity to thank you for your prefent, but it is not in my power to make the due acknowledgements: it is fufficient to deeds. I admire

you

proclaim your your wonder ful labour and learning, and more particularly your diligence in the triple work, with which you have favoured me; but I blush at the extravagant encomiums which you have beftowed upon me. If you perfevere as you have begun in cultivating Oriental literature, *Appendix, No. 20. N

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the republic of letters will be greatly obliged to you. I am extremely anxious to know what recompence his Danish Majefty, or your own Sovereign, at his recommendation, has conferred upon your learned labours. I should rejoice to have it in my power to congratulate you, and those who esteem you as much as I do, on your diftinguished merit having been honourably rewarded.-Farewell.

*Mr. JONES to C. REVICZKI.

Oxford, Dec. 1771.

Thirteen months, or rather

I may fay years, have elapfed, without a line
from
my friend! I have however written to
you twice, once and very fully in Latin, last
March, and again in July, in a great hurry,
in French. These letters contained a detailed
account of my occupations and views, of the
profeffion which I had adopted, and of the
fplendid objects to which I ambitiously looked
forward. You have, I truft, received my four

* Appendix, No. 21.-This letter must have been written before the receipt of the last from REVICZKI.

books, which Mr. Whitchurch, Chaplain to our Ambaffador, at my requeft promised to deliver to you at Vienna. I recommend him to your particular attention, as a young man of an excellent difpofition, and very fond of literature. This will be prefented to you by Mr. Drummond, a man of letters, who proceeds to Vienna for the purpose of studying phyfic. You know that the medical profeffion is held in the highest estimation with us, and, as Homer says,

A wise Physician, high distinction claims,

your reception of them both will, I hope, do credit to my recommendation.

I beg your acceptance also of a little Philippic*, which I wrote against an obscure coxcomb, who had the audacity to abuse our University, not with impunity, I trust, if the edge of my discourse have any effect upon the fenfeless knave. "I have difquieted," (as Cicero fays of his Commentaries) French nation." How goes on Hafez, our

* Works, vol. ix. P. 274.

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