"Yours, &c.

"He has the whole of the MSS.; so put up prayers in your back shop,
or in the printer's 'Chapel.'"

[Footnote 12: Beppo.]

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LETTER 306. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Venice, January 27. 1818.

"My father--that is, my Armenian father, Padre Pasquali--in the
name of all the other fathers of our Convent, sends you the
enclosed, greeting.

"Inasmuch as it has pleased the translators of the long-lost and
lately-found portions of the text of Eusebius to put forth the
enclosed prospectus, of which I send six copies, you are hereby
implored to obtain subscribers in the two Universities, and among
the learned, and the unlearned who would unlearn their
ignorance--This _they_ (the Convent) request, _I_ request, and _do
you_ request.

"I sent you Beppo some weeks agone. You must publish it alone; it
has politics and ferocity, and won't do for your isthmus of a
Journal.

"Mr. Hobhouse, if the Alps have not broken his neck, is, or ought