Armenians. Tooth-powder, magnesia, tincture of myrrh,
tooth-brushes, diachylon plaster, Peruvian bark, are my personal
demands.

"Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times,
Patron and publisher of rhymes,
For thee the bard up Pindus climbs,
My Murray.

"To thee, with hope and terror dumb,
The unfledged MS. authors come;
Thou printest all--and sellest some--
My Murray.

"Upon thy table's baize so green
The last new Quarterly is seen,
But where is thy new Magazine,
My Murray?

"Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine
The works thou deemest most divine--
The 'Art of Cookery,' and mine,
My Murray.

"Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist,
And Sermons to thy mill bring grist!
And then thou hast the 'Navy List,'
My Murray.

"And Heaven forbid I should conclude
Without 'the Board of Longitude,'
Although this narrow paper would,
My Murray!"

[Footnote 18: There follows, in this place, among other matter, a long
string of verses, in various metres, to the amount of about sixty lines,
so full of light gaiety and humour, that it is with some reluctance I
suppress them. They might, however, have the effect of giving pain in
quarters where even the author himself would not have deliberately
inflicted it;--from a pen like his, touches may be wounds, and without
being actually intended as such.]

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LETTER 314. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Venice, April 12. 1818.

"This letter will be delivered by Signor Gioe. Bata. Missiaglia,
proprietor of the Apollo library, and the principal publisher and
bookseller now in Venice. He sets out for London with a view to
business and correspondence with the English booksellers: and it is
in the hope that it may be for your mutual advantage that I furnish
him with this letter of introduction to you. If you can be of use
to him, either by recommendation to others, or by any personal
attention on your own part, you will oblige him and gratify me. You
may also perhaps both be able to derive advantage, or establish
some mode of literary communication, pleasing to the public, and
benefi