1802.] Neglect in the Academy—Failure of Dying Procefs. 
to putrefa&tion? And whether the higher 
the degree of condenfation is carried, the 
effect will be more complete? 
4th. What advantages may arife from 
the application of common antifeptics, 
under any of the circumftances fuggetted ? 
I am doubtful whether the whole of 
thefe queftions have been made the fubject 
of experiments ; and the inveftigation may 
tend to throw fome light on the Antifeptic 
principle. I fhould be glad to fee them 
‘fatisfagtorily anfwered. 
Port{mouth, 
Sept. 12th. 1802 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S the Monthly Retrofpe& which you 
take of the fine arts, fufficiently 
evinces the intereft you feel in their culti- 
vation, Tam confident that you will not 
refufe admiffion to a few obfervations on 
what appears to me to be a confideiable 
ob(tacle to their improvement in this 
country. 
The public are acquainted with the in- 
ftitution under the name of the Royal 
Academy, which has for its obje& the 
profeffional inftrution of young artilts ; 
but the public are not acquainted with 
the neglect, which in the earlieft, and con- 
fequently the moft important, clafs of this 
academy threatens to freeze the genial 
current of genius in its outfet. 
This negle&t is in what is called the 
Antique Academy. Royal munificence 
has filled this room with the mott exqui- 
fite and valuable cafts, and has provided a 
matter, whofg bufinels it is to overlook and 
correét the drawings of thofe ftudents wlio 
are employed in imitating them. Unfor- 
tunately for himfelf and his pupils, the 
Academician who at prefent has the ho- 
nour to hold this fituation, is fo enfeebled 
by age, that for a long time he has been 
unible to perform his duty, and has been 
under the neceffity of confining himfelf to 
his own private apartment. Far be it 
from me to wifh to wound the feelings of 
any individual, much more of one whom 
years and abilities render refpectable ; 
but furely it is highly improper that near 
a hundred young men, at the moft critical 
period of their lives, fhould be debarred 
trom that affittance and dire&tion, which 
they have aright to reccive, and without 
which they cannot be expected to excel. 
The time mutt be fully in the recollec- 
tion of fome gentlemen who now fland 
foremoft in the ranks of the art, when an 
able and indefatigable inftructor regularly 
exerted his talents in forwarding the en- 
deavours of the young ftudents. From 
hin, merit received praife, careleffnels re- 
Yours, &c: 
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201 
proof, and uncertainty advice ; and the 
emulation thus excited produced the hap- 
pieft effects. Indeed to this very circum- 
{tance the eminence of the gentlemen al- 
luded to is owing, fince it is well known 
that in the fchool of the antique the foun- 
dation muft be laid for future proficiency 
in the arts. 
The encouragement which the chief of 
a neighbouring nation gives to the arts 
fhould make thofe who are folicitous that 
in this refpe€t we may not be rivalled, 
anxioufly remove every impediment to the 
progrefs of the young artift—-what I have 
pointed out is a very ferious one, and we 
have only to hope that they who have the 
power to obviate it, likewile poffefs the 
inclination. A STUDENT i the 
Sept. 6th. 1802. ANTIQUE ACADEMY. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, . 
N the laft number of your Monthly 
I Magazine you have favoured the pub- 
lic with M. Favieux’s procefs for dying 
wool in the greafe of a permanent blue. 
Having made three repeated trials with 
different waters, and wools of different 
quality and cleanline(s, without being able 
to obtain a deeper dye than a light fky- 
blue and that extremely uneven, fome locks 
not having taken the leaft tint, I cannot 
but fuppofe there muft be fome omifiion 
in the receipt, as given in your Magazine, 
or that M. Favieux has thought proper 
to conceal pait of the procefs. By infert- 
ing this in your next, fhould the mifiake 
Not originate with your copyilt, you wil 
oblige a conftant fubfcriber. ; 
Frome, R. 
Sept. 11th, 1802. ° 
P.S. I made the firft trial with a low En- 
glith wool and pump-water: it boiled near four 
hours, and the wool remained in the liquor all 
night ; the colour from this trial was by far 
the deepeft, but it wafhed out very much in 
foap-fuds. The fecond trial was with a Spa- 
nifh wool and foft well-water: the dye obtain- 
ed,very light and uneven. The third trial was 
with Spanifh wool fcoured; and, notwithfand- 
ing I put juft double the quantity of indigo 
and let the wool remain in the boiling liquor 
five hours, the wool was but barely tinged.” 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the LEIPZIG COMMERCIAL 
FAIR. 1802. 
(Continued from page 100, No. 91.) 
French Silks, Ge. 
ESIDES a confiderable quantity of 
B woollen-cloth, the manufacture of 
which is at prefent greatly encouraged im 
France, and for the amelioration of which 
large quantities of the fineft*Spanifh wool 
have been bought up, and the moft ap- 
Cc2 proved 
