in the Box L 12 0 0 -- 12 Ring Dials, at 10/6, in the Box M 6 6 0 -- 2 12-inch Reflecting Tellescopes 9 9 0 -- Six metallic Cones, with Six Setts of Deformed pictures, at £2 2 0, in the Box N 12 12 0 -- Six pair of goglars, Box 1 10 0 -- 12 Reading glasses, in Mahogany frames with handles, in the Box marked, at 14/_s._ 8 8 0 -- 12 Leather purses to Do 0 4 0 6 Treble Magnifiers, in Ruff Shell and Silver, at 25/s., in the Box marked H 7 10 0 -- 24 Black Skin prospects, at 1/6 1 16 0 -- 24 Do, at 2/_s._ 2 8 0 -- Two thermometers to Boiling Water 3 0 0 -- Two Brass Box Steering Compasses, with Muscovy Tale Cards, 11 Inch. 1 10 0 -- One Do, 10 Inches 0 13 6 -------------- 187 1 6 -- 14 Small Deal Boxes 0 12 0 -- 2 Strong Packing Cases 0 14 0 -------------- 188 7 6 ‘_Dec. 30, 1761._ Recd of Edwd Wortley Montagu, Esq., the full contents of this Bill and all Demands. J. GEO. ADAMS & CO.’ The bill being duly discharged, Edward Wortley took, as it proved, a final farewell of England. But his friends there soon heard of his whereabout. He proved that he was not a mere ignorant traveller, by addressing to the Earl of Macclesfield two letters on an ancient bust at Turin, the quality of which is warranted by the fact that they were thought of sufficient importance to be read before the Royal Society. Wortley Montagu was in a fair way to be a votary of science, but he might have said with Southwell, Tho’ Wisdom woo me to the saint, Yet Sense would win me to the shrine. He had some reason, perhaps, to feel careless and embittered, for in this year, 1762, his mother died, showing her cruel contempt for him by leaving him a guinea, which he gave to Mr. Davison, a friend and companion in his wayfaring. It was from his mother, said Mrs. Piozzi, that the ‘learned’ and accomplished Edward Wortley Montagu inherited all his ‘tastes and talents for sensual delights.’