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We have been much furprifed at hearing, that feveral of our readers believed, that the remarks upon Rev. Dr. Holmes and Mrs. Warren, in the review of the Historical Collections in our laft number, were farcaftick, illibera!, and difrefpe&tful. We certainly never intended to convey fuch opinions, and we know that a critical analysis of the fentences in the review would not juftify fuch a conftruction. Perhaps however we were obfcure in the compofition, and perhaps fome of our friends were careless in the perufal. Writers are not always perfpicuous, and readers are not always intellectual."

We may reasonably suspect that, WE since Abdollatif was the first historian, Abulpharagius had seen this passage, and has only commen ted upon and embellished it after his own manner. Abdollatif does not relate any of the circumstances which attended the destruction of the library; but what confidence can be placed in a writer who relates, that he saw what we know no longer existed at that time? "I have seen, says he, the portico and the college which Alexander the Great built, and in which was contained the superb library." Now these buildings were placed in the Bruchion, and since the reign of Aurelian, who had caused them to be destroyed, that is to say, at least nine hundred years before Abdol latif, the Bruchion was no better than a barren wilderness covered with ruins.

Abulpharagius, on his part, places the library in the royal palace. The anachronism is equally apparent. The royal buildings, being all in the Bruchion, could not have remained at that time. Besides, what signified the royal palace in a country which, for a long time before, had had no kings,and which had submitted to the emperours of the east?

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As a story is not absolutely incontestible, because it is related by one or two witnesses, some have doubted this. Renaudot, in his history of the patriarchs of Alexandria, has shaken its authenticity by saying, "this recital has something suspicious, as is very common among the Arabians." At length Querci, the two Assemani, Villoisin, Gibbon, and, in the last place, the author of the German dissertation, have all declared their disbelief of the fact.

Gibbon remarks, that two annalists, both of Egypt, have not said one word of a circumstance so remarkable. The first is Eutychius, a patriarch of Alexandria, who lived there three hundred years after the capture of the city by the Saracens, and who, in his annals, has given a very long history of the siege and of the events which succeeded. The second is El-Macin, a very veracious writer, author of the history of the Saracens, and who particularly relates in minute detail the life of Omar and the taking of Alexandria. Is it to be conceived, is it credible, that these two historians were ignorant of a circumstance so important; that two learned men, whom such a loss would have greatly in

terested, should not have made any mention of it; men, who lived, who wrote at Alexandria, and one of whom (Eutychius) at an epoch very near the event; and that we should have the first information from a foreigner, who wrote six centuries afterwards on the frontiers of Media?

Besides,Gibbon further observes, how could the caliph Omar, who was himself by no means an enemy of the sciences, have acted on this occasion against his own particular character, while he had only, to excuse himself from such an act of barbarism,the sentiment of the casuists of the Mussulman law? These declare (see the third volume of the Dissertations of Reland on the military law of the Mahometans) that it was unlawful to burn the religious books of the Jews or Christians, on account of the name of God which they contained, and that the works of profane science, of historians or poets, physicians or philosophers, may be lawfully applied to the use of the faithful." This decision discovers no spirit of Vandalism.

To these reasons Mr. K. Reinhard adds his own. He remarks, that Eutychius in his annals (vol. ii. page 316) records the words of a letter, in which Amrou gives an account to the caliph Omar of the taking of Alexandria, after a long and obstinate siege. I have taken the city, says he, sword in hand, and without previous capitulation. I cannot describe to you the treasures it contains. Let it suffice to inform you, that I have found four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, forty thousand taxable Jews, four hundred theatres, twelve hundred gardeners selling vegetables. Thy Mussulmen demand the pillage of the city and a division of the spoils. Omar, in his answer, dis

approves of this demand, and severely prohibits all pillage and dilapidation.

We observe, that Amrou, in his official relation of his conquest, secks, as is the custom in our days, to exaggerate its value and importance. He does not omit a bar. rack, nor a Jew, nor a gardener. How could he have forgotten the library? He whom Abulpharagius describes as a friend of the arts and philosophy? Could he have thought, that this celebrated and ancient monument was not of suffi cient value for him to have taken the trouble to render some account of it? El-Macin also records the letter

of Amrou, nearly in the same words; he says not one word of the library. It may be ebjected, that this letter was perhaps never written by Amrou, and that the two historians have forged it: but this would be an additional reason, why the library should have been mentioned, had it remained at that time. Would they both have omitted an article, which must have appeared of such vast importance in the eyes of learned men, inhab itants of Alexandria? Would they have prided themselves of appearing better informed on baths, and of kitchen gardens, than of the library? But if the letter be authentick, as its contents give us reason to believe, we must also pay some attention to the answer of the calif, who orders them to spare ev ery thing found in the city.

We may then without much hazard draw the conclusion, that the library of the Ptolemies no longer existed in 640, the time of the taking of Alexandria by the Saracens.

We will adduce still further proof, founded on two writers, nearly cotemporaries of Omar. One of them, John Philoponus