1308. ] 
‘with such suecess that the use of Bengal 
organzine has not been confined merely 
to “the warp-of ribbands, but that it has 
been introduced for the same purpose, 
and with equal success, in sarsenets, 
florentines, modes, handkerchiefs, vel- 
vets, Xe. Several weavers were even 
of opinion, that it was not only cheaper, 
but better adapted -for these purposes 
than some of the Italian organzine. 
It appears, however, the English ma- 
nufacturers are still obliged to have re- 
course to the Italian States for 
the whole of their-supply of org anzined 
silk, and for no inconsiderable portion of 
the raw; and the’ silk trade is liable to 
experience a check, when the Italians 
feel an inc)ination to throw impediments 
in the way of the trade of this country, 
or are disposed te give a more deamed 
preference to that of any other. 
Broad silk stuffs are manufactured in 
London and Dublin; ribbands-chicfly in 
Coventry and Leek: sewing silk, but- 
mms, and other small articles, chiefly i m 
Macclesfield; silk stockings, laces, and 
veils, in’ Nottingham. 
— Ea 
Po the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
pERMIT me to cail the attention of 
your liberal-minded -readers to a 
subject, the neglect of which. will excite 
the surprise of many, and the regret of 
most of them. 
As mankind become civilized, the arts 
flourish; and they have never been bet- 
ter employed than in celebre ting uncom- 
mon talents and uncommon worth, and 
inscribing in the rolls of fame the names 
of those who have been the glory and 
ornament of their species. 
When such characters were removed 
by the band of death, their grateful and 
admiring countrymen, to perpetuate the 
memory of their worth, have reared the 
monumental pile. - 
That England has done justice in this 
poiat to many of her warriors, states- 
men, and philosophers, I am willing to 
allow; but what shall -we say, when we 
find she has neglected her second (but 
fur Newton I had said her first) philo- 
sopher ; 
J image tq myself a a learned forcigner 
in Britain, and behold him viewing gh 
great receptacles of the honoured dea 
J see his eye wander in vain for ms 
tomb of Locke; and, at length, I hear 
him exclaim, * Oh, injured shade, and 
has thy ungrateful country, whose Sons 
¢ 
Monument to Locke. 
nearly > 
‘London, 
405 
are even now daily reaping wisdom from 
thy most instructive pages, suffered a 
century to pass, and reared no aouny 
of her grateful remembrance.” 
Surely it is time for us to redeem the 
honour of our country, and prove to the 
enlightened world our sense of national 
obligation. 
I conceive, Mr. Editor, (with Lord 
Chesierfield’s leave) that an old English 
adage, ‘* What is the business of every 
bouy, is nobody’s,” applies to this sub- 
ject, for we all owe so much to the Iat- 
moRTAL Locke, ’tis not the business of 
any one in particular; which, Sir, | would 
humbly presume must bé the cause from 
which this neglect has proceeded. 
Tiowever, Sir, I have now the pleasure 
to inform your numerous readers, (from 
SO mie cone ersation [ have had with seve- 
ral genttemen) that, a mecting of the ad- 
mirers of Locke will be convened in 
‘by public advertisement, to 
consider the propriety of raising, by pub- 
lic subscription, a sufficzent sone of mo- 
ney to-erect, at last, a monument.to his 
net, 
That many of our nobility, men of en- 
larged minds, and immense fortunes. 
would cont ribate largely I cannot doubt. 
As the Abbey is full to an overflow, 
the most proper place secins to be our 
great Cathedral, and, I presume, from 
the known liberality ‘of the Dean and 
Chapter, Gvith whom I understand it 
rests to grant permission for a monument 
in St. Paul’s) that, as this is a public con- 
cern, their permission for its erection 
will Be free of expence. 
Fiect-street, Your's, Xe. 
April 25, 1808. EL WE gare. 
See 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Shin 
TAKE leave, through the medium of 
your widely circulated Magazine, to 
aunounce to the public that an associa- 
tion 1s now forming in this county, under 
the title of “ The Northern Society for 
the Encouragement of the Fine Arts.” 
The amateur, as well as the artist, has 
long had reason to lament, that, whilst 
in the environs of the metropolis, the ten- 
der shoots of talent are fostered and train- 
ed by the warm hand of public patronage 
and munificence, in the remoter parts af 
the kingdom. 
‘¢ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen 
And waste its ffagrance on the desert air.’ 
The 
