4 abroad, sometimes termed the Secretaryship of the Advocates' Library, sometimes the Office of Assistant lieeper of the Advocates’ Library. Besides, all the circumstances of the invitation render it abundantly manifest that no other than a literary engagement could be contemplated. To maintain the contrary would be to maintain, that a learned body of lawyers found it absolutely necessary to engage a foreigner to discharge the ordinary duties of clerk and porter, an idea certainly never hinted at to Mr Repp at the time the correspondence took place, and, in all probability, never seriously enter- tained by any one. Certainly the persons in Denmark, applied to on this occasion, did not belong to that class of society out of which clerks and porters are usually chosen. Neither Bishop Muller, then only Professor of Theology, nor Dr Rask, were likely to have been applied to concerning a person of mere mechanical or labouring qualifications. On the contrary, superfluous as it seemed in Denmark, an exemption from mechanical employment is expressly mentioned as one of the ad- vantages which the learned individual would enjoy who should accept the proffered office. As an inducement to Dr Rask, whose philological and general knowledge was so pre-eminent, to accede to the proposed arrange- ment, he is expressly informed that he “ would have very little concern with the ordinary drudgery of a public library,” and that “ the labour of taking and giving books belongs to another department.” It is highly probable that Dr Rask would have expected as much, even had it not been expressed ; and it will hardly be denied that every foreigner called to the same office, belonging to the same class of society, with qualifications of the same kind, however different in degree, had the fullest right to expect the same advantages. If any question or doubt has arisen on this point, it probably must, in some measure, be owing to the cir- cumstance that the case of express invitations to foreigners from large public bodies is excessively rare in this coun- try, so much so, that Mr Repp verily believes that his is the only one that has occurred during several centuries. In Russia, as well as in different parts of Germany, where such cases are more frequent, a question like the present could hardly have arisen.

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