The anecdote is as follows:--Timotheus had been ridiculed by the comic poets, on account of the small share which his own management had had in his successes. A satirical painting had likewise been made, in which he was represented sleeping, while Fortune stood over him, and drew the cities into his net. (See Plutarch, _Reg. et Imp. Apophth._, vol. ii. p. 42., ed. Tauchnitz; AElian, V. H. xiii. 42.) On one occasion, however, having returned from a successful expedition, he remarked to the Athenians, in allusion to the previous sarcasms, that in this campaign at least Fortune had no share. Plutarch, who relates the latter {495} anecdote in his _Life of Sylla_, c. 6., proceeds to say, that this boast gave so much offence to the deity, that he never afterwards prospered in any of his enterprises. His reverse of luck, in consequence of his vainglorious language against Fortune, is also alluded to by Dio Chrysost. _Orat._, lxiv. Sec. 19., edit. Emper. It will be observed that Plutarch refers the saying of Timotheus to a single expedition; whereas Bacon multiplies it, by extending it over a series of acts. P. 172. "Cicero reporteth that it was then in use for senators that had name and opinion for general wise men, as Coruncanius, Curius, Laelius, and many others, to walk at certain hours in the Place," &c. The passage alluded to is _De Orat._, iii. 83. The persons there named are Sex. AElius, Manius Manilius, P. Crassus, Tib. Coruncanius, and Scipio. P. 179. "We will begin, therefore, with this precept, according to the ancient opinion, that the sinews of wisdom are slowness of belief, and distrust." The precept adverted to is the verse of Epicharmus: "[Greek: naphe kai memnas' apistein? arthra tauta ton phrenon.]" P. 180. "Fraus sibi in parvis fidem praestruit, ut majore emolumento fallat." Query, Where does this passage occur, as well as the expression "alimenta socordiae," which Demosthenes, according to Bacon, applies to small favours. L. * * * * * ERECTION OF FORTRESS AT MICHNEE AND PYLOS. Mr. Dartnell, Surgeon of H. M. 53rd regiment, gives the following account of the building of a fort which has lately been erected at Michnee to check the incursions of the Momunds into the Peshawur Valley: