ra 
1824.) 
(who was a Jacker,) and the good- 
natured Dicky Suett, living together 
in one set of chambers at No. 18; 
Sedgwick, it will be remembered, was 
bass-singer at Drury-Lane theatre; 
what Dicky Suett was, every body 
knows. The legal gentlemen, like 
performances at a fair, are too numerous 
to mention. J. M. Lacey. 
= . 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AM not a little surprised that the 
correspondent who favoured you 
with the exposition of our commercial 
system in your last number, was not 
somewhat startled at the glaring absur- 
dity to whith his conclusions led him ; 
and was not, therefore, induced to 
suspect some fallacy in the documents 
from which those inferences were 
made. For what isthe conclusion he 
comes to upon the faith of these 
Custom House statements? Why no- 
thing less than this, “that 100,060,000/. 
valine of British property, within the 
last seven years, has been distributed 
all over the world, without one farthing 
equivalent, directly or indirectly, 
haying been received for it.’ ‘That 
such a statement as this should be 
gravely put forth in the metropolis of 
the greatest commercial empire that 
ever existed, cannot but excite asto- 
nishment. That any individual should 
be found capable of supposing that our 
merchants and manufacturers are so 
deplorably blind to their own interest 
as to lavish away their property in this 
wholesale manner; that, instead of 
immediately abandoning a business so 
destructive, they should persevere in 
pursuing it for a series of years; and 
that, without exhibiting any symptoms 
of exhaustion and decay from this con- 
tinued diminution of their resources, 
they should be generally most actively 
engaged in their manufactories, and 
yearly encreasing their- shipments; 
surely, sir, such propositions as these 
need only to be stated to have their 
fallacy perceived; and can only de- 
jude one, who is utterly unacquainted 
with the first principles of commerce, 
as well as with the powerful operation 
of that universal passion which gives 
rise. to all, commerce,—self-interest, 
That men should manufacture goods 
only to give them away, that merchants 
should export them to distant parts of 
the world without obtaining any return 
for them, or any remuneration even 
for their expenses in conveying them 
thither; and that, instead of being 
Commercial System.—Mr. Mortimer’s Notes on Paris. 
50L 
deterred by the experience of a single 
year, they should pursue this expedi- 
tious and certain method of ruining 
themselves with redoubled vigour, 
eagerly striving to extend such a dis- 
posal of their commodities in every 
quarter of the globe ; these are modes 
of conduct only to be expected fron 
men whose proper habitation is the 
lunatic asylum, or the ship of fools. 
Whether the merchants and manufac- 
turers of this kingdom are men of such 
a description, I think it quite unneces- 
sary to enquire, neither will I encroach 
upon your columns by attempting to 
reply to “an exposition of our com- 
mercial system” proceeding upon such 
an assumption ; but will leave it to the 
common sense of your readers, rightly 
to appreciate its merits, after thus 
calling their attention to the sagacious 
conclusions of its author. S. R. 
Grove-street, Hackney. 
—— " 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FORWARD you some further 
observations made during my resi-~ 
dence in the French metropolis. 
TuHomMAs MorTIMeER. 
Pilion, Barnstaple, Dec. 4, 1823. 
The Exhibition. 
The reign of bigotry and dulness has 
already shed its baneful influence over 
the fine arts; and an exquisite painting, 
by one of the most celebrated artists, 
was rejected in consequence of Na- 
poleon being a prominent figure on 
the canvass. The Exhibition of 1822 
could, notwithstanding, boast of some 
highly-finished pictures, though it was 
too much disgraced by servile per- 
formances tending to exalt the royal 
family. How far such attempts 
merited success, may be illustrated by 
the following extract from the Cata- 
logue, which contained many other 
descriptions equally enlightened : 
No. 1036.—Veeu de S, A. R, Mme. Ja 
Dychesse de Berry, a Notre Dame de 
Liesse. 
Dans le mois d’Avvil 1819, M. de 
Bombelles, évéque d’Amiens, premier 
aumpnier de $, A. R. Madame la Duch- 
esse de Berry, vinta Liesse, selon le veeu 
de Yauguste princesse, demander a la 
Divinite un second Dieu donné, et ce yeu 
fut exancé. Ce fut pour remercier le ciel 
de cet insigne bienfait, que S. A. R. se 
rendit a. Notre Dame de Liesse, departe- 
ment de Aisne, le 2-4 Mai, 1821. 
It is very probable that the first 
blessing, or God’s gift, was a husband ; 
and the second, being in that state 
which 
