798: | 
means engravers of fhop-bills and clock- 
dials ;., for, though among thefe there 
may be, and no doubt are, many men of 
abilities and charaéler, it might be no 
dificult matter for a projeétor to find, 
among this clafs, friend; who might be 
influenced to approve a plan on which they 
are by no means competent to decide. 
But, even in this cafe, the Directors would 
certainly have beflowed on the plan the 
attention to which it right appear to be 
entitled, by taking the opinion of abler 
artifts to guide them in their determina- 
tion. 
Thus, I think, I have demonftrated, 
from every view that can be taken of the 
fubject, how extremely improbable it is, 
that the Bank Directors have refufed a 
plan recommended ia the manner which 
has been ftated; but, if ic fhould turn out 
to’ be true that they have actually rejected 
fuch a plan, in fpite of all the inducements 
for its adoption which it holds our, 1 
know no language which can do juftice to 
their demerits. 
The queition may, however, be brought 
imto a narrow compafs: if fuch a plan 
has been propofed, let its author come 
forward, and let the artifts, by whom it 
has been approved, declare themfelyes 
alfo. This is a duty which they owe to 
the public; and no motives, of a private 
nature, ought fo to operate, as to prevent 
them from its performance. 
The public have a right to every fecu- 
rity the bank can give them ; and if the 
plan, to which the Suferer ty Forgexy 
alludes, be calculated to increafe that feeu- 
rity, I can with fafety promife him, that 
its merits will be inveftigated by more 
than one ; 
Privare Banker. 
London, Dec. 22. 
—- + ata eT Pee 
For ihe Montaly Magazine. 
TO THE EDITOR, 
witkour intending the fmalleft 
offence, fir, to your ingenious cor- 
refpondent, Modulator, I will be bold to 
counfel him to obferve.correétnefs in his 
promulgation. of anecdotes. No fuch 
convertation, as he pretends, could ever 
have poflibly paffed between the late Mr. 
Burke, my old acquaintance, and the 
worthy doétor alluded to; becaufe the 
{mall grammatical difpute in queftion 
really happened in the Houfe of Commons 
during the American war, and in my 
hearing. it was between Lord North and 
Mr. Burke, the former f{chooling the lat- 
ter very much, to his apparent mortifica- 
gion, for pronouncing the i fhort in yeti- 
Anecdote of Mr. Burke corrected. — 
-_fa&ions. 
23 
gal; and I believe a guinea wager was 
betted. The truth is, Mr. Burke, as 
Lord North wel] knew, and has oftem 
told. me, was but an indifferent clafficall 
fcholar, not knowing. a letter of Greely 
perhaps even unable to confirue many or 
moft of his own Latin quotations. 
Ir has been wondered at by many, that 
your Magazine, acknowledged, at laf, 
even in our reluttant circles, as the bef 
which has hitherto appeared in our lan 
guage, fhould never have given the pulb- 
lic, or even noticed, the character of Mr. 
Burke, as given by the man who, of alll 
others, knew him beft, the late Gervard 
Bamilton. Jt appeared firft in France, 
and afterwards, about July !att, in fome of 
our Magazines. Certain it is, the friends 
of Mr. Burke did all in their power wm 
fupprefs. it, and I believe fucceeded tm 
fome degree. Hamilton’s quarrel with 
Burke is now faid to have been purely of 
a political nature, and that there are, 
befides the charaéter in queftion, certaim 
pieces froin the pen of the former, which 
will one day be highly inmterefling to pubs 
lic curiofity. 
DEMOCRATICUS. 
Pall-Mall, Sunday Evening, Dec. 07. 
——eemepeee 
For the Manthly Magazine. 
[The following account of the pnefent condi- 
tion of the United States of North America, 
. in feveral important particulars, is tranila’ed 
from, the Devede Philofophigue, ene of the. 
French Periovical Journals. | 
N the United States of America, the 
feiences may ftill be faid to be ‘bur am 
their cradle. .Three colleges and one 
univer firy, of theology, of law, and phytic s 
five or fix Academical Societies, which 
are but in a paralyzed ftate ; a number ef 
very active Private Socicties, inftitmed 
for the purpofes of commerce, manufac 
tures, &c.; and a proportionate number 
of private {chocls for the education ‘of 
youth, conftitute, at prefens, the only 
fources of intelleétual and moral inftruc- 
tion. Indeed the general character of the 
inhabitants of the American States, teacis 
them to ftudy rather the means of aug~ 
menting their fortunes, than to cultivate 
the feiences, and to contribute, pro parte 
viril, their quota towards the progrefs amd 
diffemination of knowledge. The public 
prints, of which there is a great variety, 
have the fame tendency here, as in Ra- 
rope, to corrupt the public fpirit, orte 
cloak the faults of am inefficient povern~ 
ment, frequently convulfed by ephemerat 
A long refidence ‘and diligeme _ 
obferyation are indifpenfibly neceffary te 
develope 
