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“it maf have been a miftake that his name 
appeared to the Notice of the Memoir, as 
he had never written upon the fubject, 
and referred him to Citizen Anthony De 
Vaux, who had publifhed an Eflay upon 
a fubfitute for oi!-paints. This Effay 
by M. De Vaux is given by Mr. Nichol- 
fon in his Journal No, 56, for 1801.— 
XY procured it, and found it differed very 
little from the formula given by you, un- 
der the Notice of M. Darcet’s Memoir.— 
According to De Vaux’s direction I pre- 
pared fome of it 5 its unctuous feel and 
appearance gave me reafon to expe€t that 
3x¢ would anfwer my expectations ; my dil- 
appointment was, great, qedenay when, 
wpon trial, I fad. it did not adhere to. 
the board upon which it was applied any 
better than common whitewafh. I have 
kept it in a pot a confiderable time, in 
hopes thatage might have fome effect up- 
on its properties, but to no good purpofe 5 
at acheres fo loofely to the furface, that a 
flight rub removes it. 
Confidering it probable that fome of the 
readers ef your valuable Magazine may 
have made wie of thefe fubftitutes, J beg 
Jeave to afk them refpecting their fuccefs, 
and if they have kept to the preparation 
given in the Effay, or made any altera- 
tuon therein, and che refalt of the trial. 
Iam, Su, your's, &c. 1 a OF 
201 May, 1803. 
Io the Editer of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Na tour which I lately took theangh 
I Scotland, when J arrived at its capital, 
the firit objet which particularly atcraét- 
ed my eyes, was a man, tail and fiout ; 
be carried a coiled rope over his fhoulder, 
with an old caonen-bullet fafened to one 
end, and the head of a large Turk’s-head 
bruth, likewife faftened to the rope, about 
the diftance of two feet from the bullet ; 
his appearance was not fo fmutty as 2 
chimney fweeper, but more like thofe who 
deal incharcoal ; [ heard the cry of Sweep, 
fweep! but did not oblerve that 1t came 
from him. On enquiry of my landlord, 
he informed me that he was a chimney- 
f{weeper, and that none but men were em- 
ployed for that purpofe there. He allo 
informed me, that tney firfl make faft a 
cloth at the bottom, to prevent the foot 
from flying over the room, and then pro- 
cecding to the top of the chimney, through 
a trap-door, which all the hou‘es in that 
city have. He lecs down gently that end of 
the rope to which the buijlet and the 
Scotch Mode of Chimney—fweeping. 
[July t, 
brufh is fafpended, a few yards, and then 
alternately works it up and down, till it 
reaches the bottom; and when this ope- 
ration has been twice performed from top 
to bottom, the chimney is completely 
{wept. When a chimney is on fire, the 
{weeper can extinguiff it in an infant ; 
nor is he, like the poor boys, expofed to 
the leaft danger. This, Mr. Editor, is 
the praétice, I am told, all ever Scotland ; 
and if you think fit to publifh this article 
in the Monthly Magazine, I make no 
doubt but many perlons in London, and 
many other places in England, will rea- 
dily give it a trial, who never heard of 
this mode of fweeping chimnies betore. 
The various machines whieh have been 
lately exhibited before a Committee of 
the Society of Arts, and likewife before 
a Commitiee of the Society for ameliorat- 
ing the Condition of the Sweeping-boys, 
and, if poflible, of doing away the ne=# 
ceflity of employing them altogether, 
have all, after a full and fair inveftiga- 
tion, failed of their intention. This is 
the more to be lamented, as many of them / 
have beftowed mutch time and labour, and 
have been at the expence of fying out pa- 
tents to fecure their mvention. Theory, 
when put to the teft, 1s too ofien found 
at a great dillance from practice ; all 
their machines are alike in one inttance; 
they are planned to {weep from below ¢ 
but the objections to this mode appear 
much greater than that already mentioned, 
to begin from above: the Gentlemen 
were decidedly of one opinion, that 
none of the inventions were calculated te, 
an{wer the end propofed, ‘o as to meet 
with their recommendation and patronage, 
and that the defideratum fo much to be 
defired {till remained ina ftate of fulpenfe. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. B. W. 
Bifbopfgate Without, May 19, 1803. 
— iS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazines 
SIR, 
“ Gonsinanecat of the Monthly. Ma- 
gazine would like to know if the in- 
genious illuitrator of Sterne has feen a 
little book publifhed in 1657, by Hum- 
phorey Monley in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 
with the following title: “ The Liie of 
a Satirical Puppy called Nim, who wor- 
rieth all thofe Satyrifts he knowes, and 
barkes at the reft.”?. Dr. Ferriar has not 
qucted it ; and it contains very many pat- 
fages trom which the elegant Sentimenta- 
lift has evidently profited, while the 
whole ftyle is more like the origin of. 
Sterne’s manner, than that ef Burton, Ra- 
i belais, 
