2S SILK REARED IN SCOTLAND. Sept. 1 4. 



Intelligence concerning Arts. 



SILK P.EARING IN SCOTLAND. 



It is a true obfervatidn, that " example is more powerful 

 than precept," ^nd in regard to arts &nJ improvemeiUs, there 

 are unanfv«rable reafon? may be urged why it ojght ever to 

 be adhered to as an invariable rule of condnft. Un this 

 principle, I cannot help congratulating the public in being 

 now able to announce, that I have now in my polTefTion-a 

 fiuatch* of the firft web of filk that ever was madeinBritainf, 

 of materials reared entirely in this country. — l\lr\Andre'yj 

 Wright of I'aifley has the merit of having fetthe example of the ■ 

 pradllcabiilty of this undertaking, as appears by the following 

 letter. When this fhall become a great national objeft of at- 

 ientibh, which it undoubtedly will be in time, I hope the 

 name of this patriotic gentleman will be celebrated, as that of 

 Beukelfzoon in the Netherlands, whofe tomb was vifited by 

 the Great Emperor Charles V. as one of the principal 

 benefaftors of his country, by having taught his fubje£ts the 



* I am aware I here make ufeof a term, that may perhaps be 

 accounted Scotch, that is wearing out of falbion, I think, very 

 improperlv. One, who afFeded to write fine language, would 

 have faid k:pattern;h\i.i. a pattern properly means a thing that is 

 exhibited lor the fake of being imitated hy a workman : it could 

 not properly have been ufed in this fenfe here, as it was not 

 fenttome for t"hat purpofe. Why Ihoiild we confound words? 

 we fay ^ /ample of grain, and ^L.fvjatch of cloth, both implying 

 that a fmiill portion is taken from a larger, to Jhow what quali- 

 ty it is of. I Ihall not be furprifcd to fee fome affcded perfon 

 fay an fA-<3Wj>/if of grain.— Why banifh words from the language 

 that contain diftindt ideas ? A man would be reckoned an 

 ignoramus, who fhould now make ufe of the word bundle. He 

 muft forfooth ia.y parcel, although that word has a diflind: and 

 appropriated meaning, different from bundle. 



f I {aj Britain ; for although the Society of Arts in the Strand 

 have, for feveral years paft, advertifed a confidcrable premium 

 for rearing filk in England, I havt not yet heard that ever the/ 

 h3ve had any of it made into a ojeb. 



