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224 for Phyick, for Reearches into Antiquity, for Painting, Sculpture and Achitecture [sic]. Lewis the Fourteenth has immortaliz'd his Name by thee everal Foundations, and this Immortality did not cot him two hundred thouand Livres a Year. I confes that one of the Things I very much wonder at, is, that as the Parliament of Great-Britain have promis'd a Reward of twenty thouand Pounds Sterling to any Peron who may dicover the Longitude, they hould never have once thought to imitate Lewis the Fourteenth in his Munificence with regard to the Arts and Sciences.

indeed meets in England with Rewards of another kind, which redound more to the Honour of the Nation. The Englih have o great a Veneration for exalted Talents, that a Man of Merit in their Country is always ure of making his Fortune. Mr. Addion in France would have been elected a Member of one of the Academies, and, by the Credit of ome Women, might have obtain'd a ly