It is, in fact, the mother church of others in the vicinity, which are only chapels of ease; but as the population increased around them, and fell away, from some cause or other, from the precincts of the old church, it seems to have been deserted and dismantled of everything but what is barely necessary for burials, and an occasional wedding and baptism. It is the south aisle only which has been removed, and that by authority, many years ago; but certainly, it has on that side, and from the want of glass in the fine tower window, a desolate and ruinous appearance. In the churchyard there is a most venerable specimen of a noble yew-tree.
H. T. E.
Clyst St. George, Oct. 10. 1851.
Italian Writer on Political Economy—Death of Carli (Vol. iv., p. 175.).
—It is inquired, "What was the first work by an Italian writer on any element of political economy? and in what year did Carli, the celebrated economist, die?" The latter question I at once answer by stating that it was on the 22d of February, 1795, in his seventy-fifth year, having been born at Cape d'Istria, an episcopal town of Illyria, April, 1720, of a noble family. His collected works, embracing almost the omne scibile, were published in 1784-1794, nineteen octavo volumes, at Milan, Delle Opere del Signor Gianrinaldo Conte Carli, Presidente Emerito del Supremo Conciglio di Pubblica Economia, &c. The first publication, confined to fifteen volumes, was extended to nineteen by him, Delle Antichità Italiche, con Appendice, de' Documenti, &c., 1793-1795. Few writers have exceeded him in the variety of his subjects, which combined the drama, poetry, translations, history, philosophy, the monetary system, political economy, &c. As to your correspondent ALPHA'S first inquiry, it will be satisfactorily answered by consulting the collection printed at Milan in 1803, Scrittori Classici Italiani, first volume of the fifty in 8vo., to which the entire extend up to that period, since when several have appeared.
J. R.
Cork.
Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots (Vol. iv., p. 316.).
—The four lines inscribed in the copy of Sallust mentioned by C., and which have been supposed to be the composition of the Queen of Scots, will be found in the second book of Ovid's Amores, Elegia 18, ll. 5-8.
C. W. G.