following the text of Sanuto, as printed by Muratori[2], to the
trouble of consulting any early manuscripts. It happens, however, that
in a manuscript copy of these Orations of Mocenigo, written certainly
earlier than the period of Sanuto, and preserved in the British
Museum, MS. _Add._ 12, 121., the true reading of the passage may be
found thus:--"Fo mandato Bartolomio Valori, _homo richo_, el qual
viveva de cambij." By later transcribers the epithet _richo_, so
properly here bestowed on the Florentine noble, was changed into
_iudio_ (_giudeo_), and having been transferred in that shape into
Sanuto, has formed the groundwork of a serious error, which has now
existed for more than three centuries and a half.

FREDERICK MADDEN.

British Museum, Nov. 7. 1849

[2] In the _Rerum Italicarum Scriptores_, tom. xxii. col. 947.,
the passage stands thus: "Fu mandato Bartolomeo Valori, _hom
giudeo_, el qual vivea di cambi." Two late copies of Sanuto,
formerly in the Guildford collection, and now in the British
Museum, MS. _Add._ 8575, 8576, read, "Bartoli Valori, hom iudio."

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LETTERS OF LORD NELSON'S BROTHER IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BATTLE OF
TRAFALGAR.

[The following letters will be best illustrated by a few words
derived from the valuable life of our great naval hero lately