who were nevertheless born to reflect lustre and dignity on the Literature of their respective æras, stand upon record in the literary annals of our country, if neglect towards those who appropriated their talents and the results of long years of industry and application, to please, instruct, and raise the intellectual taste of their countrymen,-if the names of Milton, Otway, Butler, Dryden, and Johnson, with numerous others, proclaim the occasional truth of what has so frequently furnished a subject of complaint, a national stigma will still be said to designate the age that refuses a just tribute to the memory of an individual (if such tribute has not been already paid), although he enjoyed during his life a competent share of esteem and attention. It is not then a contemporary age alone, upon whom it always devolves to proclaim, by a proper estimate in the eyes of the world, its adequate sense of transcendant services. I would be here understood to have in view not so much the due appreciation of their writings and description of talent in the minds of men, as the offering those becoming honours to their memory, which their high benefits conferred upon their countrymen, and mankind have demanded. A monument correspondent to their name and rank, to perpetuate at once their own fame, and the proper feelings of a grateful Na tion. Amongst national desiderata of this kind which still remain, may be ranked a monument to the memory of the immortal LockE. It ought, however, in justice, perhaps, on the other hand, to be premised, that a general disregard of the claims of departed worth, or a general deficiency of public spirit in these particulars, has been by no means a striking characteristic of the English. Aware that an insinuation of this general and sweeping nature would be unjust and ungenerous, the writer of the present remarks would rather be solicitous to render, in those instances where it is due, adequate praise to the munificence which has raised such honourable trophies to the names of those who had formerly been productive of benefit, or of honourable distinction, to that country which gave them birth. When we enter the precincts of that venerable pile, whose numerous and cloistered recesses are consecrated to the hallowed memory of those who have been deemed worthy to occupy a niche in its Gothic ailes, the first impressión which strikes the mind is, the liberality and zeal which have reared the adequate tribute of respect to high genius or to moral worth. We feel that we belong to a people who are capable of estimating great services;-and while the eye wanders along the fretted walls and solemn arcades, and sees the mausoleums of the Patriot, the Hero, the Philan thropist, the Man of Letters, the Philosopher, and the Statesman,―the heart exults at once in the long line of worthies which have adorned this country, and the zeal which, with a proper feeling, would thus pay them the last meed of admiration and acknowledgment that an enlightened age can show. Upon a closer investigation, however, we peruse the records of certain personages, which, eulogized as they are in high strains of panegyrick, somewhat excite our surprize;-while we look in vain for the vestiges of others, to whom in the enthusiasm of gratitude we allot in imagination a prominent place. Of these, some it may be presumed, although entitled to the best thanks that their country can bestow, from their service in raising her intellectual or adorning her moral character, in the eyes aud estimation of foreigners, have been denied this mark of honourable distinction,—through the petty influences of party jealousy, and various other associated opinions concerning character and merit, which divide the age-which immediately succeeds their own.-Time glides - another age succeeds, in away; which, perhaps, the ardour of gratitude and acknowledgment, which, while it is fresh and active, prompts to public memorials, loses its impulse, and what our fathers have omitted to do, is still neglected. Others, for whose writings or for whose character we entertain the liveliest sense of admiration, we look for in vain amidst this grand repository of the illustrious dead; their genius, and their department of labours (although most concor in a cold acknowledgment of their high rank), rank), still have not in them enough of general interest, to animate and incite to public testimonials of their worth, or of the estimation in which they are held by their surviving countrymen. Amongst this class, perhaps, stands Mr. Locke, the subject of a monument to whose memory has chiefly occasioned the present remarks. Such a monument, allow me, Mr. Urban, to repeat, has long been a national desideratum. That upwards of a century has elapsed without the ap. pearance of any public testimonials of the high rank and eminence in which he has ever stood, as well in the other countries of Europe as his own, is only a proof of the too frequent indifference of those who ought to promote and patronize whatever tends to perpetuate the dignity and character of their nation; even when their own personal feelings are not powerfully appealed to, or when the department of intellectual science in which he shone has not exactly coincided with the views or the tastes of those who are nevertheless emulous in the support of Literature and Science. Yet where, in the Philosopher, or in those of the Publick, is there to be found a character in whom national esteem ought in a higher degree to unite? As a Writer, and as a Patriot, it has long ceased to be a question with his intelligent readers; he stands eminently entitled to the highest esteem. As a Metaphysician, acute, intelligent, and profound, he occupies a station in the very first class ;-vigi lant, prompt, and sagacious in the detection of truth, he advances no postulate, and draws no corollary, which will not undergo the test of rigid and severe argument, and generally of demonstration. Indefatigable in his pursuit of truth, and inflexible in its maintenance, he did not shrink from an avowal of those doctrines, or of those discoveries, which the most subtle and discriminating research into the real character and operations of the human mind afforded. His understanding, framed by nature and by habit to originate its own inquiries, and form its own judgments, advanced theories upon the surest evidence, and deduced fair and legitimate truths from well-established facts, upon which he safely grounded those principles, from which be advanced to new light and new discoveries. The tendency of all his inquiries into the nature and phænomena of mind, has been to open its perception to further discovery, and to place this intricate but highly-important science, in which his labours may be termed a signal epoch, and in which the dawn of metaphysical light soon expanded to the expulsion of sophistry and error,-upon a permanent and unshaken basis. Upon the services which Mr. Locke has rendered to the science of Jurisprudence, those who have most studied his Treatises on Government will be best aware. If, over the elevated and patriotic shade of Sidney, the ingenuous heart stoops with reverence and acknowledgment,-if the tear of commiseration and regret must ever flow whilst perusing the writings and reflecting on the fate of such a man,-the ardour and dauntless freedom of Locke, in explaining what he conceived to be the cause of his country and mankind, is almost equally entitled to our sympathies. Tenacious in the support of the native freedom of his country, he grounded his arguments of liberty as a divine and inalienable right, upon the firm but temperate deductions of the uses, ends, and designs of all human government, and in his cool and dignified resolution to withstand tyranny and corruption in its various shapes and appearances, has merited the high respect of all, in whom integrity, combined with an ability to appreciate talent, maintains a place. In the minor and occasional writ ings of Locke, although the vigour of thought, and the scope and elevation of idea which is so abondantly manifested on other occasions, are not, from the nature of his subjects, requisite, he is every where intelligent, perspicuous, and distinguished by good sense. Actuated as it would sufficiently appear by a sole wish to elucidate truth, and to benefit mankind, he laboured strenuously to remove prejudices, to set things in their clear, proper, and rational light, and to implant in the minds of those for whom he wrote, a noble and correct manner of thinking. In the public functions in which his talents were exercised, he discharged the Palm trees, properties of 100, 599 Pantomime first introduced at Rome 508 Parsons, Bp. John, memoir of 635. Perry, Oliver Hazard, memoir of 378, 573 Persian Army, remarks on 141 Phoenix, a palm-tree, notice of 599 Phidias, anecdote of 327 Philipson family, notice of 98 Rowland, notice of 296 Phillips, Chas.speech at Bible Society 422 Phrenology, Essay on 204, 301. Spurzheim's system 609 Piggott, Sir Arthur, memoir of 371 Dr . ·Professor John, death of 87. Polarized Light explained 350 Political Economy, observations on 219 Laws, hints on the 207 Rate, plans for reducing 39, 208, 602 Porden, Miss, poem of noticed 111 Dr. J. Bp. of Clogher, death 179 456. Oxford loyal address to 557 Reculver, damage at, by high tides 458 Meetings, debates on 551 Reformers, meeting of, at Manchester 171. at Smithfield 178. Paisley, and Leeds 267, at Glasgow, Refuge for the Destitute, Report 455 Registers, Parish, importance of 490 Religion, state of in Bombay 27. reflec- Rhedycina, why Oxford so named? 290 499 Ricard's translation of Plutarchi Moralia Richard III. curious prophecy respect- Richmond, Duke, memoir of 369, 466 Emperors and Pontiffs, chrono- Soldier, prowess of 508 Romilly, Sir S. blographical notice 338 Rowe, on the date and place of his birth Royal Institute of France 156 Rulers, instrumentality of 510 Russell, Ld. John, speech on Reform 626 Bible Society of 619 St. St. David's Church Union Sociey, Prizes 251 St. George, Henry, murder of 453 St. Martin's Church, Oxford 122, 201,580 St. Sepulchre's Church, account of 577 for agriculture, duty free 176 Saturday, humourous complaint of 515 rised version defended 322. authen- Sea-water, on rendering fresh 413, 488 Seditious Meetings Bill, debate on 621, Seeds, foreign, on the culture of 518 Shirley, Sir R. account of 118 Shyp of Folys, edition of 507 versity 174 Sieber, F. W. Travels of 349 Solicitors, origin of the name 513 Spain, intelligence from 169, 266, 362, Spence, Rev. Joseph, account of 412 Stanley, Sir Edward, notice of 482 Steam Engine for propelling coaches 254 Stocks, prices of 96,192, 288, 384, 480,576 Straw Rope, conductor of lightning 542 titles of 103 Suicide forbidden in the Sixth Command- Sunday Evening Lectures commended 491 174. sentence 455 Temple Hall, Inner, described 579 Themistius, plagiarism of 215 Theocritus, Polwhele's translation of 311 Tiber River, researches on 64 Tiger, Lieut. Collett's contest with 483 Siddons, Mrs. visit to Cambridge Uni- Time, on the regulation of 246 490. will of 365. memoir 375 Adam, on Happiness 230 Tithes, case respecting 268 Tomkins, Thomas, monument for 176 Travancore, effect of missions at 262 Smith, Wm. the comedian, talents of Traverse, right of, repealed 550 Snow, red, definition of 254 Trelawny, Sir J. original letter 296 Society, compared with former times 291. Tyndal's Bible Translation burnt 232 Vaccination, tle potion, &c. 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