I take the liberty to offer to your Lordship, and the Society, a strong proof and confirmation of the authenticity of the second Arundelian Marble, which, together with the whole collection, has been implicated in the charge brought against the first; for if that be once incontestably shown to have been forged, it will be very natural to suspect all the rest to be false and spurious. I trust, however, in Mr. Gough's defence of what is called the Parian marble, which has been already read to this Society, and is recorded in the ninth volume of its memoirs. Before I enter on my subject, I shall make a single observation on the marble of Paros, and endeavour to obviate an objection which seems to bear hard on the genuineness of the stone; I mean the objection founded on the silence observed all through the chronicle, with respect to the history. of the island itself; that its siege by Miltiades, its reduction by Lysander, its taxation by Themistocles, and the renown of having given birth to Archilochus, are neither mentioned nor alluded to.