Ormsby is appointed to the command of a sloop, the Scout. His brother Stephen also is likely soon to have a vessel, one that will carry more sails, and perhaps not be so easily steered,-I mean a wife. His father has given his long-withheld consent. That of her father still remains to be obtained. He is Major of the Carlow Militia, as you perhaps know. I find my father pretty well. He got your letter last night, but has been too busy as yet to communicate its contents to me.

When I look over this sheet I find I have been better than my promise at setting out. Adieu,

Believe me, your affectionate brother,

H. F. CARY.

LITERARY JOURNAL, 1800.

January 9 to 18. More's Utopia in Burnet's translation. Oberon from the German of Wieland, by William Sotheby, Esq.; 2 vols., 1798, with Jane, a fairy tale in verse, in which there is much fancy.Began Longinus, in the edition of Miller, Dublin, 1797.

20. Concluded Longinus. Mr. Miller (who is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin) has selected some notes from former commentators and added a few of his own. Began Clarendon's History, with Jane.

21. Continued Clarendon, with Jane.

23. Continued Clarendon, with Jane. Began

Muratori della perfetta Poesia Italiana: edit. Vene

zia, 1770.

Jan. 24. Continued Muratori.

25. Continued Muratori.-Clarendon, with Jane. 26. Continued Muratori.

27. Continued Muratori.-Clarendon, with Jane. 30. Continued Clarendon, with Jane.

31. Continued Muratori ;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

February 1. Continued Muratori;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

2. Continued Muratori.

3 to 6. Continued Muratori to the end of vol. i. ;— and Clarendon, with Jane.

10. Continued Muratori.

11. Continued Muratori ;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

12. Continued Muratori.

13 to 15. Continued Muratori;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

16. Finished the third book of Muratori. The fourth and last book consists of a collection of poems by different writers, with a criticism at the end of every poem; and as they have no connection with one another, I shall not observe any regularity in reading them. Muratori is an elegant critic, who illustrates all his positions with well-chosen examples; and Salvini, his annotator, appears to be a man of great learning and a pure taste.

Feb. 17. Began book iv. of Muratori.

18. Continued Muratori;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

19. Continued Muratori ;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

20. Began the Ars Rhetorica of Dionysius Halicarnassensis; and continued Clarendon, with Jane.

21. Continued Dionysius Halicarnassensis ;—and Clarendon, with Jane.

22. Continued Dionysius Halicarnassensis;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

23. Continued Muratori.

24. Continued Dionysius Halicarnassensis.

25. Continued Muratori ;-and Clarendon, with Jane.

26. Concluded the Ars Rhetorica of Dionysius Halicarnassensis. The receipts for making different kinds of orations are almost ludicrous. Chapters eight and nine contain some very ingenious remarks on particular passages in Homer. The two last chapters are obscure. I have now gone through all the critical works of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, and give the preference very decidedly to his treatise "On Composition*," in which he has the rare merit of having produced a system equally new and just. -Continued Muratori.

* Περὶ Συνθέσεως.

Feb. 28. Continued Clarendon to the end of book

v., with Jane.

March 1. Continued Muratori.

2. Concluded Muratori. It is remarkable that the names of Alamanni or Ruccellai do not occur in the course of this work.

3. Continued Clarendon, with Jane.

4. Began Tully's Offices and continued Clarendon, with Jane.

6. Continued Clarendon, with Jane.

9. Read Donne's Satires, &c., and Ben Jonson's translation of Horace Ad Pisones.

10. Continued Cicero's Offices; and Clarendon, with Jane.

11. Continued Cicero, and Clarendon, with Jane. 12. Continued Cicero.

13. Concluded Cicero's Offices; and continued Clarendon, with Jane.

14. Read Davenant's Preface to Gondibert, and Hobbes's Answer; and began Brown's Britannia's Pastorals.

15. Continued Brown; and Clarendon, with Jane, to the end of book vi.

16. Continued Brown.

17 to 27 inclusive. Began Aristotle's Poetics, with Price; and continued Clarendon, with Jane. 28. Continued Aristotle's Poetics; and Clarendon, with Jane.

29. Continued Aristotle's Poetics; and Clarendon, with Jane, to the end of book vii.

March 30. Concluded Brown's Poems. There is much pleasing delineation of rural scenery, in versification often smoother than one could expect from the time in which he wrote, to be met with in Brown. But the plans of his poems are uninteresting, and affectation and conceit too often hold the place of simplicity and nature. Began P. Fletcher's Purple Island.

31. Concluded Aristotle's Poetics, for the third time, and continued Clarendon, with Jane.

April 1. Began Hodius de Græcis Illustribus Linguæ Græcæ Restauratoribus; and continued Clarendon, with Jane.

2. Continued Hodius; and Clarendon, with Jane. 3. Continued Clarendon to the end of book viii., with Jane.

4 and 5. Continued Hodius; and Clarendon, with Jane.

of

6. Concluded Fletcher's Purple Island. This poem very successfully imitates the measure Spenser; but the subject, as being a naked and professed allegory throughout, and in the former part no very pleasant one, is unfortunate. Fletcher, however, had certainly much of the mens divinior.

7. Continued Hodius; and Clarendon to the end of book ix., with Jane.

8. Concluded Hodius. In reading this amusing book I have made an abridgment of the lives of the most eminent Greek restorers of Greek literature.