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of things3. that pues is prefented to his 
fenfe ao obfervation is nothing more than 
a fet of phenomena which teach him no- 
thing re! frodhine ¢ the ultimate and effential 
properties of the material world ; that his 
ideas of dime and [pace are oniy modes of 
thought, which, as to their proper arches 
types, he is accuflomed, perhaps errone- 
oully, to refer to fimilar mode of external ~ 
exiftence, and that confequently the hypo- 
thefis of BeRKeLey cannot be proved to 
be falfe ; I fhall yet offer one prefumptive 
argument againft that hypothefis, in which 
thouch i it is very likely I have been anti- 
cipated, I do not know whither to 1 efer to 
it. If it be an authentic canon in the 
philofophicn! code. that.no, more natural 
causes are to be received than are fufficient 
to explain the phzenomena, and that (to 
ufe._ Mr. Carpet Lorrr’s words,) ¢¢ in 
Jorming any hypo:hefis to account for 
phenomena, all unnece{ary complexity is 
to be avoided.’ it is not lefs reafonable 
to {uppofe that the author of nature has 
made nothing in. vain. Now, -in the 
‘antaliegiahie of BERKELEY it is difh- 
cult, or rather it is impoffible to explain 
the final caufe of thofe complicated and ex- 
guilitely arranged ideas, called the organs 
of fenfe. Swppofing thefe organs as 
well <s the other works of nature to be 
{ however inexplicable realities, yet ftill ) 
realities, we readily perceive their admira- 
- ble co-adaptation, and the fitnefs of the 
whole contrivance to conneét what pafics 
3n the mind of man with what appears 
to exift without him: but on. Berkeley’ S 
hypothefis ail this ideal organization is 
ufelefs: without the intervention of any 
part of it we could have papallys contem- 
plated and enjoyed 
‘The boundlefs ftore 
Of charms which nature to her votary yields, 
‘The warbling woodland, the refounding hore; 
The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields,, 
-All that the genial ray of magi ae gilds, 
And ail that echoes to the fong of even, 
All that the mountain’s 5p icleerine bofom 
fhields, 
And all the dread ie ce of heaven*, om 
Wioatever the ‘Enquirer ox Mr. Cape: 
Lorrrt may think of the pee er this ar- 
2gument, | bee leave, Mr. Editor, to offer 
fo them thie aff as ot ae reece con- 
fideration, and to fubferibe mylelf 
Your moft obedient Servant, 
Si Stee : -Hywas, 
Chichefier, Aprii 30, 1803. 
ig Minftrel, B.'z flanza 9. 
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Extrat?s sia MM r. Cole’s | Manuferi ipts. 
[ Aug. 1, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACTS” from MR. COLE'S MANU- 
SCRIPTS, LATELY OFERED in the 
BRITISH MUSEUM. 
[Mr. Cole received his education at Came 
bridge, where he formed an early inti- 
macy with Horace Walpole, Gray, and 
Mafon. In 1750 he was collated to the 
reftory of Hornfey in the neighbourhood of 
London, which he held but a year: refid- 
ing the chief part of his life at his parfon- 
age of Milton in Cambridgfhire. At his 
death in 1782, he bequeathed his large 
colle&tion of manufcripts, confifting of Pa- 
~. rochial Surveys, Hiftorical Anecdotes, &c,'- 
to the Britifh Mufeum, with an injun&ion 
that they fhould not be opened TILL 
TWENTY YEARS AFTER HIS DECEASE. 
The time of their concealment expired at 
the beginning of the prefent year; and 
they are now open for the infpe@ion of the 
curious. From many private anecdotes 
which they contain, a judgment of the col< 
~ le@or may eafily be formed. He was a 
man of a temper jealous and capricious in 
the extreme: but as an antiguary correct 
and indefatigable. The colle€tions for the 
county and univerfity of Cambridge form 
a principal featare of the whole: but he 
has interfperfed them with refleétions on | 
his friends, that are fometimes contradicted _ 
and fometimes explained away in fubfequent 
memorandums ] a 
LORD: ORFORD fo the REV. MR. COLE, 
relating to Lord Offory’s Crofs at Ampt- 
bill, in  Bedfordfhire, the defigz of 
which originated with bimfelf, and was 
afterwards improved by MR. ESSEX. 
JUST write you a line, dear Sir, 
to acknowledge the receipt of the, 
box of papers, which is come very fafe, 
and to give you a thoufand thanks for 
the trouble you have taken. Ass you pro- 
mife me another letter, I will wait to anfwer 
it. 2 
At prefent I will only beg abisthiee 
favour, and with lefs fhame as it is of a 
kind you will like to grant. I have lately 
been at Lord Offory’s, at Ampthill. You 
know Catherine of Arragon lived fome 
time there. Nothing remains of the caftle,nor 
any marks OE chdanes but a very {mall bit 
of her garden. I propofed to Lord Offory . 
to erect a cro’s to her memory on the fpot, 
and he wills I with therefore you could 
from your colleétions, or books, or me-= 
mory, pick out an authentic form of a 
crofs, of a better appearance than the 
common run. It muft be raifed on two 
or three’ fteps, and if they were oftagon, 
would it not be handfomer? Her arms 
muft be hung like an order, upon it. 
Herg is Something of my idea, The 
; a fhield 
