these lectures; which materials, copied out by Professor White, with a few emendations and additions, were sent to Dr. Parr as the exclusive composition of the Professor.  Several of the lectures are wholly Badcock’s, by the express admission of Dr. White; and the undeniable evidence of a douceur of 500l. from the Professor to Mr. Badcock, is a sufficiently solid proof of the value in which the former held the labours of the latter.  There could be no violation of any great moral feeling in the transaction thus simply considered; for the labourer was worthy of his hire; but the evasive subtleties and shuffling subterfuges by which the literary intercourse was stubbornly denied, and attempted to be set aside, by Professor White, is matter of perfect astonishment!  In the mean while, Dr. Parr steadily continued his critical labours, believing that the Professor sought no aid but his own.  He revised, added, and polished at his entire discretion; and while it is allowed that one-fifth at least, of these lectures are the work of his learned hand, he undoubtedly gave to the whole its last and most effectual polish.  The history which belongs to his discovery of the collateral aid of Badcock, is curious and amusing; but can have no place here.  It does great credit to the head and heart of Dr. Parr.  Thus the reader will observe that no small interest is attached to the volume from which the ensuing extracts are made:  a volume, full, doubtless, of extensive and learned research, and exhibiting a style remarkable alike for its consummate art and harmonious copiousness.”

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WEALTH OF HENRY VII.

The hoard amassed by Henry, and “most of it under his own key and keeping, in secret places at Richmond,” is said to have amounted to near 1,800,000 l., which, according to our former conjectures, would be equivalent to about 16,000,000 l.; an amount of specie so immense as to warrant a suspicion of exaggeration, in an age when there was no control from public documents on a matter of which the writers of history were ignorant.  Our doubts of the amount amassed by Henry are considerably warranted by the computation of Sir W. Petty, who, a century and a half later, calculated the whole specie of England at only 6,000,000 l.—­This hoard, whatever may have been its precise extent, was too great to be formed by frugality, even under the penurious and niggardly Henry.  A system of extortion was employed, which “the people, into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to discharge their princes, though it be with the unjust charge of their counsellors, did impute unto Cardinal Morton and Sir Reginald Bray, who, as it after appeared, as counsellors of ancient authority with him, did so second his humours as nevertheless they did temper them.  Whereas Empson and Dudley, that followed, being persons that had no reputation with him, otherwise