38 Mr. Faraday on the 



I should have much better hopes from an application to Parliament, and if 

 you should agree with me that the wise step would be to look the evil steadily 

 in the face, & instead of proposing expedients to go to their principle & to 

 Parliament, I shall he happy to co-operate. I have for some time had thoughts 

 of speaking to Sir S. Romilly, whom I have the honour to know, & who I think 

 would be a very proper person to bring the business forward, on the subject. 

 I presume you would have no objection to my shewing him your letter ; — mean- 

 while allow me to express my wish that you would recal for the present what 

 you may have sent to the Monthly Magazine. 



With respect to Proofs of my engravings — I have been inattentive, I 

 confess — but I really thought I had sent you some, since the time you mention. 

 ■ — Surely I have. — When I am able to look up a few, How should they travel? 

 I rem"- 



Dear Sir very Sincerely Yours 



J. LANDSEER. 



The following letter again indicates Colonel Philips's 

 interest in colour materials and his activity as a practical 

 horticulturist : — 



Carham, Dec. 1809. 

 Sir, 



Having observed in my MonthV- Mag. for Nov r - that you possess plants 

 of the Smyrna Madder from seeds of your own importing, and having paid 

 much attention for several years past to the growth and qualities of the common 

 dutch kind partly with a view to obtain a permanent colour for painting, of my 

 success in which the following specimen will give you the best idea, I shall be 

 extremely obliged if I may be allowed to partake of the plants you liberally offer 

 to your friends, notwithstanding my being a stranger to you permits me only to 

 subscribe myself, 



Sir, 



Your obliged Humble Servant, 



J, FIELD. 



Pray Sir if you oblige me with a root or two do me the favour to have them 

 addressed for me To N°- 14, Clare Street, Bristol. I have not hitherto used any 

 other than the madder of comnwce in the prep n - of the colour of which I have 

 sent you a specimen ; except once by way of experiment from the green or fresh 

 root of my own growing, the result of which differed very little from the madder 

 of commerce, and I have obtained colour from our native zvild madder, but 

 inferior to the others. 



Mr. Philips's communication to the Monthly Magazine 

 on the subject of bank-note forgeries elicited the following 

 letter to him, written, it will be observed, about a year later 

 than Landseer's. The writer, Thomas Cooper, M.D.,thewell- 



