the male sex, should be appropriately 
meuleated in the village-schools, and 
-marriage encouraged: as perhaps, of 
_ Mailthuszen evils, itis far the least of the 
two: that is, bastardy or marriage. 
Among other leading encouragements 
to virtue, ene of the chief is the desire - 
of bettering gne’s condition. Saving 
habits are rarely found in immoral per- 
sons: to encourage the one, as mtro- 
ductory ta.the other, clubs should be 
formed upon the principle of Tontines, 
er at least upon plans which accelerate 
accumuiation, by means of simple and 
compound interest, to be expended either 
m acapital to set up business, as it is 
colloquially termed, or in the purchase 
af a cottage or piece of ground. 
Thus have I specified my ideas upon 
this important subject, in propositions, 
which are drawn from actual observation, 
and expressly declining risk, project, 
trouble, or expense. Health, nothing 
éan preserve but personal care: morals, 
nothing but principles. ‘In the former, 
the apprehension of disease may stimu- 
late; in the latter, fear of detriment may 
alarm. In manufactories, it requires 
little more than conscientiousness in the 
master, especially if he cultivate neces- 
sary popularity, to effect the greatest 
amelioration of the evils he occasions, 
because he possesses that power univer- 
sally, which ethers.can only have indi- 
vidually, and from much less efficient 
motives. , 
P SSE 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Megazixe. 
SER, : 
TAKE leave, through the medium of 
your widely-circulated, Magazine, to 
present myself, an unwilling witness 
before the public, of the malice and un- 
founded assertions of a ‘reviewer of the 
fine arts,’ in a work which it will not be 
nécessary to name in this place; because, 
were I to announce it to the public at 
large, I should thereby gratify the wishes 
and object of the writer, and lay myself 
under the necessity of apolagizing to you, - 
and to your readers, for dragging his ou- 
scare production Into notice;—it being 
& maxim with such authors, to seek ce- 
Idbricy for their publications, by pro- 
voking_ opposition, and public contro- 
versy, for the purpose of extorting replies 
in more respectable works, to advertise 
their own. But my _ professional as 
well as moral character has been so 
maliciously and falsely traducéd, and ca- 
jumniated, in a recent Magazine, which 
is circulated among my immediate: 
2 
Mr. Elmes’s Reply to the false 
fOct. 1, 
friends, with so much industry and per- 
severance; and [ am so. continually 
hunted with the individual spite of an. 
unknown enemy; that I can no longer 
furbear replying, without seeming to ac- 
knowledge the truth of his false insina- 
ations. IJ shall therefore, with your per- 
mission, seek that redress in your impar- ~ 
tial pages, which I have been denied 
from the author of the calumny of which 
I complain. The circumstances are as 
follows :—In that number of this “scan- 
dalous chronicle," which appeared ov 
the ist of June last, there are two ar- 
treles in the “ Review of Works of Art,” 
devoted to the examination of two of iny 
designs, which were submitted to public 
Inspection in the last exhibition of the 
Royal Academy, at Somerset-house. To 
take the words of a writer, 1m this very 
work and number, against which I com- 
plain, they say, ‘¢ We cannot help think- 
ing that the plain and obvious duty of a 
critic is, to consider the work without 
reference to its author.” And in-a 
paper which: is called the “ organized 
plan of the work,” is promised a “li-. 
beral: and. impartial review of painting, 
sculpture, and the fine arts!” Who ever 
before heard of painting and sculpture, 
not beiug fine arts? I shall therefore 
consider this axiom as a canon of cri. 
ticism, and, (united with the promise,) 
as a test to discover the base metal, that 
composes the alloy of this combination, 
and reduces it so much below the stan-. 
dard of the periodical reviews of the pre=— 
sent day. Upon my first design, as it 
stands in the academy’s catalogue, he’ 
says, this is “by Mr. J. Elmes, who 
calls himself Vice-President of the Lon- 
don Architectural Society,” insinuating, 
with an ambiguity perfectly in character 
with the usual practice of the critic, that 
it isa falsehood. Unused to such ungene 
tlemanly insinuations, I shall pass by: 
this, as a complete failure of a cowardly: 
attempt to brand me with a certain cha- 
racter, by a scandalous insinuation, that: 
the writer dared not assert, for fear of 
its reverting with all its consequences on- 
himself, Upon reading this, f was con-— 
vineed, as I think every reasonable -per- 
son must be, that it was a personal at— 
tack upon the author, rather than a~ 
liberal and imparttal “ consideration of. 
his work.” — - ees 
On the ext article, from the singularly: 
mventive talent that it displays, and the . 
personal spite that it manifests, TP shalk 
take leave to be more diffuse, 4 His't 
other design, (continues this Reviewyas! “a 
Nuurber - 
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