Our Collector was at Towneley when the letter of Mr. JENKINS came to hand. He knew his correspondent, and the tenour of the letter induced him to resolve upon an immediate journey to Rome. The grass did not grow under his feet. He travelled as rapidly as though he had been still a youngster, escaping from Douay, with all the allurements of Paris in his view. [Sidenote: THE JOURNEY TO ROME OF 1790?] When he reached Rome, he learnt that the promising excavation was but just begun upon. Without any preliminary visits, or announcement, he quietly presented himself beside the diggers, and ere long had the satisfaction of seeing a fine statue of Hercules displayed. Other fine works afterwards came to light. But on visiting Mr. JENKINS, in order to enjoy a more deliberate examination of ‘the find,’ and to settle the preliminaries of purchase, his enjoyment was much diminished by the absence of Hercules. JENKINS did not know that his friend had seen it exhumed, and he carefully concealed it from his view. Eager remonstrance, however, compelled him to produce the hidden treasure. TOWNELEY, at length, left the banker’s house with the conviction that the statue was his own, but it never charmed his sight again until he saw it in the Collection of Lord LANSDOWNE. He had, however, really secured the _Discobolus_ or Quoit-thrower,—perhaps, notwithstanding its restored head, the finest of the known repetitions of MYRO’S famous statue,—as well as some minor pieces of sculpture. Other and very valuable acquisitions were made, occasionally, at the dispersion of the Collections of several lovers of ancient art, some of these Collections having been formed before his time, and others contemporaneously with his own. [Sidenote: ACQUISITIONS MADE IN ENGLAND AND IN FRANCE.] In this way he acquired whilst in England (1) the bronze statue of _Hercules_ found, early in the eighteenth century, at Jebel or Gebail (the ancient Byblos), carried by an Armenian merchant to Constantinople, there sold to Dr. SWINNEY, a chaplain to the English factory; by him brought into England, and purchased by Mr. James MATTHEWS; (2) the Head of _Arminius_, also from the Matthews Collection; (3) the _Libera_ found by Gavin HAMILTON, on the road to Frascati, in 1776, and then purchased by Mr. GREVILLE; (4) Heads of a _Muse_, an _Amazon_, and some other works, from the Collection of Mr. Lyde BROWNE, of Wimbledon; (5) the _Monument of Xanthippus_, from the Askew Collection; (6) the bust of a female unknown (called by TOWNELEY ‘Athys’) found near Genzano, in the grounds of the family of CESARINI, and obtained from the Collection of the Duke of ST. ALBANS; (7) many urns, vases, and other antiquities, partly from the Collection of that Duke and partly from Sir Charles FREDERICK’S Collection at Esher. The bronze _Apollo_ was bought in Paris, at the sale, in 1774, of the Museum formed by M. L’ALLEMAND DE CHOISEUL.