15. Twelve half sheets of ditto. 19. Twenty-nine half sheets, being an answer to Mr. Hooke on Sir Isaac's Theory of Colours. 20. Eighty-seven half sheets relating to the Optics; some of which are not in Sir Isaac's hand. "From No. 1 to 20, examined on the 20th May, 1727, and judged not fit to be printed. T. PELLET." 21. 328 half sheets in folio, and sixty-three in small 4to. being loose and foul papers relating to the Revelations and Prophecies. 22. Eight half sheets in small 4to. relating to church matters. 23. Twenty-four half sheets in small 4to. being a discourse relating to the 2a (book of) Kings. 24. 353 half sheets in folio, and fifty-seven in small 4to. being foul and loose papers relating to figures and mathematics. 25. 201 half sheets in folio, and twenty-one in small 4to. loose and foul papers relating to the Commercium Epistolicum. 26. Ninety-one half sheets in small 4to. in Latin, on the Temple of Solomon. 27. Thirty-seven half sheets in folio, being of the host of heaven, the sanctuary, and other church matters. 28. Forty-four half sheets in folio, on ditto. 29. Twenty-five half sheets in folio, being a further account of the host of heaven. 30. Fifty-one half sheets in folio, being an historical account of two notable corruptions of scripture. 31. Eighty-one half sheets in small 4to. being extracts from church history. 32. 116 half sheets in folio, being paradoxical questions concerning Athanasius, of which several leaves in the beginning are very much damaged. 33. Fifty-six half sheets in folio,-De Motio Corporum; the greatest part not in Sir Isaac's hand. 34. Sixty-one half sheets in small 4to. being various sections in the Apocalypse. 35. Twenty-five half sheets in folio of the working of the mystery of iniquity. 36. Twenty half sheets in folio, on the theology of the heathens. 37. Twenty-four half sheets in folio, being an account of the conquest between the host of heaven and the transgressors of the covenant. 38. Thirty-one half sheets in folio, being paradoxical questions concerning Athanasius. 39. 107 quarter sheets, in small 4to. on the Revelations. 40. Seventy-four half sheets in folio, being loose papers relating to church history. 66 May 22, 1727, examined from No. 21 to 40 exclusive, and judged them not fit to be printed; only Nos. 33 and 38 should be re-considered. T. PELLET." 41. 167 half sheets in folio, being loose and foul papers relating to the Commercium Epistolicum. 42. Twenty-one half sheets in folio, being the third letter on texts of scripture; very much damaged. 43. Thirty-one half sheets in folio, being foul papers relating to church matters. 44. 495 half sheets in folio, being loose and foul papers relating to calculations and mathematics. 45. 335 half sheets in folio, being loose and foul papers relating to chronology. 46. 112 sheets in small 4to. relating to the Revelations, and other church matters. 47. 126 half sheets in folio, being loose papers relating to the chronology; part in English and part in Latin. 48. 400 half sheets in folio, being loose mathematical papers. 49. 109 sheets in 4to. relating to the prophecies and church matters. 50. 127 half sheets in folio, relating to the university; great part not in Sir Isaac's hand. 51. Eleven sheets in 4to. being chemical papers. 52. 255 quarter sheets, being chemical papers. 53. An account of the corruptions of Scripture; not in Sir Isaac's hand. 54. Thirty-one quarter sheets, being Flammell's explication of hieroglyphical figures. 55. About 350 half sheets, being miscellaneous papers. 56. Six half sheets, being an account of the empires, &c. represented by St. John. 57. Nine half sheets folio, and seventy-one quarter sheets 4to. being mathematical papers. 58. 140 half sheets, in nine chapters, and two pieces in folio: titled" Concerning the Language of the Prophets." 59. 606 half sheets folio, relating to the Chronology. 60. 182 half sheets folio, being loose papers relating to the Chronology and Prophecies. 61. 144 quarter sheets, and ninety-five half sheets folio; being loose mathematical papers. 62. 137 half sheets folio, being loose papers relating to the disputes with Leibnitz. 63. A folio common-place book; part in Sir Isaac's hand. 64. A bundle of English letters to Sir Isaac, relating to mathematics. 65. Fifty-four half sheets, being loose papers found in the Principia. 66. A bundle of loose mathematical papers; not Sir Isaac's. 67. A bundle of French and Latin letters to Sir Isaac. 68. 136 sheets folio, relating to Optics. 69. Twenty-two half sheets folio, De Rationibus Mortuum, &c.; not in Sir Isaac's hand. 70. Seventy half sheets folio, being loose mathematical papers. 71. Thirty-eight half sheets folio, being loose papers relating to optics. 72. Forty-seven sheets folio, being loose papers relating to the Chronology and Prophecies. 73. Forty half sheets folio, Procestus Mysterii, Magni Philosophicus, by W. Yworth; not in Sir Isaac's hand. 74. Five half sheets, being a letter from Rizetto to Martine; in Sir Isaac's hand. 75. Forty-one half sheets, being loose papers of several kinds; part in Sir Isaac's hand. 76. Forty half sheets, being loose papers, foul and dirty, relating to calculations. 77. Ninety half sheets folio, being loose mathematical papers. 78. 176 half sheets folio, being loose papers relating to chronology. 79. 176 half sheets folio, being loose papers relating to the Prophecies. 80. Twelve half sheets folio, an abstract of chronology. ** Ninety-two half sheets folio, the Chronology. 81. Forty half sheets folio, the history of the Prophecies, in ten chapters, and part of eleventh unfinished. 82. Five small bound books in 12mo. the greatest part not in Sir Isaac's hand, being rough calculations. 86 May 26, 1727, examined from No. 41 to 82 inclusive, and judged not fit to be printed, except No. 80, which is agreed to be printed; and part of Nos. 61 and 81, which are to be re-considered. T. PELLET." 66 "It is astonishing," says Dr. Charles Hutton, in his Mathematical Dictionary, "what care and industry Sir Isaac had employed on the papers relating to chronology, church history, &c. as, on examining the papers themselves, which are in the possession of the family of the earl of Portsmouth, it appears that many of them are copies over and over again, often with little or no variation, the whole number being upwards of four thousand sheets in folio, or eight reams of folio paper, besides the bound books, &c. in this catalogue, of which the number of sheets is not mentioned." INDIAN ELOQUENCE. BURKE remarks, that the "rude, unimproved state of society is peculiarly favourable to the strong emotions of sublimity." How just this observation is, may be seen from the choice specimens of eloquence, which have been occasionally published as the speeches of Indian warriors. For sublimity of sentiment, pungency of satire, and comprehensiveness of ideas, they stand, perhaps, unrivalled, and approach nearer to the language of holy writ, in sententious wisdom, than any other compositions. Mr. Jefferson observes, in his "Notes on Virginia," "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia." Red Jacket, another Indian, appeared, some years ago, in the Supreme Court of New York, and made a defence of an Indian on trial for killing a white man, in a speech two hours long. Mr. Hamilton, who was present, sat enraptured with the majesty of the sable warrior's oratory. These men of the forest are wasting away; they will soon be driven into the Pacific Ocean. Why has no kind hand yet collected and put into some durable form the existing memorials of their genius and eloquence? Must it be left to some future Macpherson, to collect the scattered fragments, and interweave them in fictitious story, to delight another age? THE PLAGUE OF RICHES. Letter from the Rev. Mr. Matthew Pilkington to Dr. Delany. THOUGH you expected to see me the happiest man in the world, by the extraordinary honours which I received from his excellency, yet I cannot forbear acquainting you, you are greatly disappointed in that respect. Before I received his bounty, (which far surpassed my hopes, and was far more the effect of his generosity than any merit of mine,) I thought riches were so necessary an ingredient in human life, that it was scarce possible to attain any degree of happiness without them. I imagined, that, if I had but a competent sum, I should have no care, no trouble to discompose my thoughts, nothing to withdraw my mind from virtue and the muses, but that, if possible, I should enjoy a more exalted degree of content and delight in them than I had hitherto; but now I perceive these kind of notions have been the pure genuine effect of a very empty purse. My hopes are vanished at the increase of my fortune; my opinion of things is of a sudden so altered, that I am taught to pity none so much as the rich, who, by my computation (after three tedious weeks' experience), must of necessity have an income of plagues proportioned to their fortunes. I know this declaration surprises you; but, in order to convince you, I will, as exactly as possible, set down, by way of diary, the different emotions of mind which I laboured under during the first three weeks' guardianship (for I can hardly call it possession) of that same unfortunate, care-bringing £50; and have not the least doubt but you will believe my assertions to be true. Monday, Feb. 16th-Received this morning the agreeable news of being ordered to wait on his excellency, the lord Carteret; but, suffering a great deal of perplexity about appearing before one in so eminent a station, and so admired and eminent for learning, and every other perfection of |