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The Volumes of "NOTES AND QUERIES" published during the past year have contributed in many ways, and in no unimportant manner, to the illustration of our Language, Literature, and History. No effort shall be wanting to make the volume now commenced equally interesting to the Reader of the present day, and not less likely to be profitable to those who may hereafter refer to it. write) wth such clearness and strength of argumt, as if it had been the only thing whereto you had bent yo' studys. When men undertake subjects whereof they have no clear notions, their books rather perplex the reader then guide him to a right understanding of what they would seem to unriddle. He that designs to propose methods to keep our money at home, must first consider what it is that causes it to be carried abroad. In this I think you have hit y mark. 'Tis the balance of our trade with foreign countrys, not altering the standard of our coine, wch encreases or lessens our bullion at home; and then the next thing is, to consider how this ballance may be brought to our side. When other nations are brought into our debt, no room is left for fetching away our bullion; but, on the contrary, they must send us theirs; and this I judge cannot better be done then Need WE promise more? And does not the Number to which We now invite the Reader's attention, justify by incouradging our manufacturers, wch will imploy our saying thus much? Notes. UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF JOHN LOCKE. The three letters I now send you seem to deserve attention on several grounds. All of them are, I believe, unpublished, and two are letters of our great metaphysician John Locke. They all illustrate, although slightly, an important subject not yet properly treated in our literature, the history of the origin and progress of true principles in reference to commerce; and, finally, those of Locke tend to strengthen and render clear our notions of the real character of that great and good man. Of Locke's correspondent Cary, it will be sufficient to say, that he was a well-known merchant of Bristol; and published, besides other works, a valuable Essay on the State of Trade in England (1695, 8vo. Bristol). At that time the important question of a new coinage was under consideration, and the propriety of preserving the old standard was in contest between Locke and Mr. Lowndes. On the publication of Locke's reply to Lowndes's Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin, Cary sent Locke a copy of his Essay on Trade, with the following letter, in which he pointed out some mistakes in Locke's answer to Lowndes : Bristoll, Janu. 11th '95. Worthy Sir, I have read yor answer to Mr. Lowndes his Essay for the amendmt of the silver coins, and I think the nation obliged by the service you have done in handling a subject of that weight so fully. I know my private opinion will not add a mite to its value; however, I must give it this character, that you have done it (as all other things you our people. The wealth of England arises chiefly from the labour of its inhabitants, wch being added to our own product, and also to the foreign materialls we import, encreases their value in those markets whither we export them; and by how much we lessen the emportation of things already manufactured, and encrease that of the primums whereof they are made, soe much will the ballance of our trade alter everywhere in our favour. When the publick good of a nation is the design of a writer, it arms him with some assurance, wch hath emboldened me to present you wth this little Tract or Essay on Trade, -the work of some leisure hours. All I say concerning it is, that 'twas wrote without p'tiall respect to any one trade more then another; if you shall think it worth your reading, 'twill oblige me. Please to give me leave to offer at something in yo' book, wch I suppose to be an oversight; pa. 86., you propose the half-crowns, half-scepters, or half-unites, should go for two shillings and sevenpence half-penny each. I apprehend 'twas entended three shillings one penny half-penny, else 'twill not agree with the exact half of the crown, scepter, or unite; whether I take this right, I am uncertaine, but the following table, pa. 86, must be erroneous, where you put the Worthy Sr, Oates, 12 Apr., '96. Yobleigeing letter of Jan. 11, with the most acceptable present of yr booke wch accompanied it, came not to my hands till late last night. The lingering of it soe long by the way has upon many accounts been a misfortune to me. It has deprived me of the pleasure and instructions I might have had from the perusall of y' Essay. It has made me loose the oportunity of correcting a great fault, wch having passed the presse in the first edition of my answer to Mr. Lowndes, I wish y' timely and very kinde admonition had come early enough to have made me set right in the second. But most of all I am troubld, that it has soe long delayd my thanks to one, who by his undeserved civility has soe just a right to them. And I might reasonably apprehend what thoughts of me soe long a silence might raise in y, did I not perswade myself that the good opinion y are pleased to expresse of me in y' letter, would not let y" impute my silence to the worst of causes, ill breeding and ingratitude, till yu were satisfied that the slowness of my acknowledgmt was owing to noe thing but pure neglect in me. This stop soe unluckily put to the beginning of my acquaintance with yu I hope yu will permitt me to repaire by my faster growth in it. Thinke not this a complemt in returne to yr civility, wch has made the overture. This request has more weighty motives than what I have received from yu, though I acknowledge y' book and y' letter have very much obliged me. A worthy rational man and a disinteressed lover of his country is soe valuable a thing, yt I thinke I may be allowed to be very ambitious of such acquaintance wherever I can meet with it. Give me leave then, now yt yu have opened the way to it, to own an impatience to be admitted into the freedom of familiarity and communication. For though I have not yet the happynesse to know y' face, yet I am not wholy a stranger to y' character. I shall say nothing now of y' booke: the few hours I have had it, have permitted me barely to cast my eye in hast on the three or fower first pages. I shall imploy the first leisure I have to Cary answered this letter on the 17th April, immediately after its receipt. A copy of his answer is preserved in the MS. whence the other letters are derived :- Additional MS. Brit. Mus. 5,540. In the course of Cary's reply, he remarked, "The freedome I took in laying before you the Printer's Errors in yo' answer to Mr. Lowndes you are pleased to excuse, and to take it with the same candor I intended it." On the 2nd May Locke returned the following excellent reply: Worthy Sr, Oates, 2 May, '96. I have read over your Essay of Trade yu did me the favour to send me, and have found the satisfaction I expected. It answers the character I had of y", and is the best discourse I ever read on that subject, not only for the clearnesse of all that yu deliver and the undoubted evidence of most of it, but for a reason that weighs with me more than both these, and that is, that sincere aime at the publick good and that disinteressed reasoning that appears to me in all y' proposals; a thing that I have not been able to finde in those authors on the same argument wch I have looked into. This makes me dare to owne to y" that there are some few things in it wherein my opinion differs from yrs, but yet I like not yr booke one jot the worse, since I can promise myselfe from a man of yr ingenuity, and one who covers not by-interest of his owne under the pretence of serving the publick, that when I have the oportunity to debate them with y", either I shall be brought to righter thoughts by y' stronger reason, or else that yu will not reject anything I shall offer because y have been of an other minde. In all debates with any one, all that I desire is, that between us the truth may be found, but whether I brought it thither, or carry it away, instead of an error that tooke its place before, I am little concerned; only in the latter case I am sure I am the greater gainer. One thing I have to complain of y' booke, but it is the complaint of a greedy man, and that is, that it is too little; but a second edition will give yu an oportunity to enlarge it, and I hope you will doe soe. He y could say soe much can say a great deale more if he will, and y" doe as good as LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1855. OUR ELEVENTH VOLUME. On the commencement of our ELEVENTH VOLUME our write) wth such clearness and strength of argum1, as if it had been the only thing whereto you had bent yo' studys. When men undertake subjects whereof they have no clear notions, their books rather perplex the reader then guide him to a thanks are particularly due to our kind Friends, Contri- right understanding of what they would seem to butors, and Readers. Their continued and increasing support excites our warmest gratitude. May 1855 be a happy and prosperous New Year to them-one and all! The Volumes of "NOTES AND QUERIES" published during the past year have contributed in many ways, and in no unimportant manner, to the illustration of our Language, Literature, and History. No effort shall be wanting to make the volume now commenced equally interesting to the Reader of the present day, and not less likely to be profitable to those who may hereafter Need We promise more? And does not the Number to which We now invite the Reader's attention, justify refer to it. our saying thus much? Notes. UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF JOHN LOCKE. The three letters I now send you seem to deserve attention on several grounds. All of them are, I believe, unpublished, and two are letters of our great metaphysician John Locke. They all illustrate, although slightly, an important subject not yet properly treated in our literature, the history of the origin and progress of true principles in reference to commerce; and, finally, those of Locke tend to strengthen and render clear our notions of the real character of that great and good man. Of Locke's correspondent Cary, it will be sufficient to say, that he was a well-known merchant of Bristol; and published, besides other works, a valuable Essay on the State of Trade in England (1695, 8vo. Bristol). At that time the important question of a new coinage was under consideration, and the propriety of preserving the old standard was in contest between Locke and Mr. Lowndes. On the publication of Locke's reply to Lowndes's Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin, Cary sent Locke a copy of his Essay on Trade, with the following letter, in which he pointed out some mistakes in Locke's answer to Lowndes: Worthy Sir, Bristoll, Janu. 11th '95. I have read yo' answer to Mr. Lowndes his Essay for the amendm' of the silver coins, and I think the nation obliged by the service you have done in handling a subject of that weight so fully. I know my private opinion will not add a mite to its value; however, I must give it this character, that you have done it (as all other things you unriddle. He that designs to propose methods to keep our money at home, must first consider what it is that causes it to be carried abroad. In this I think you have hit ye mark. 'Tis the balance of our trade with foreign countrys, not altering the standard of our coine, wch encreases or lessens our bullion at home; and then the next thing is, to consider how this ballance may be brought to our side. When other nations are brought into bullion; but, on the contrary, they must send us our debt, no room is left for fetching away our theirs; and this I judge cannot better be done then by incouradging our manufacturers, wch will imploy our people. The wealth of England arises chiefly from the labour of its inhabitants, wch being added to our own product, and also to the foreign materialls we import, encreases their value in those markets whither we export them; and by how much we lessen the emportation of things already manufactured, and encrease that of the primums whereof they are made, soe much will the ballance of our trade alter everywhere in our favour. When the publick good of a nation is the design of a writer, it arms him with some assurance, wch hath emboldened me to present you wth this little Tract or Essay on Trade, -the work of some leisure hours. All I say concerning it is, that 'twas wrote without p'tiall respect to any one trade more then another; if you shall think it worth your reading, 'twill oblige me. Please to give me leave to offer at something in yo' book, wch I suppose to be an oversight; pa. 86., you propose the half-crowns, half-scepters, or half-unites, should go for two shillings and sevenpence half-penny each. I apprehend 'twas entended three shillings one penny half-penny, else 'twill not agree with the exact half of the crown, scepter, or unite; whether I take this right, I am uncertaine, but the following table, pa. 86, must be erroneous, where you put the half-crown 3 ditto 5 ditto 7 ditto 28. old. Worthy Sr, Oates, 12 Apr., '96. Yobleigeing letter of Jan. 11, with the most acceptable present of y' booke wch accompanied it, came not to my hands till late last night. The lingering of it soe long by the way has upon many accounts been a misfortune to me. It has deprived me of the pleasure and instructions I might have had from the perusall of yr Essay. It has made me loose the oportunity of correcting a great fault, wch having passed the presse in the first edition of my answer to Mr. Lowndes, I wish y' timely and very kinde admonition had come early enough to have made me set right in the second. But most of all I am troubld, that it has soe long delayd my thanks to one, who by his undeserved civility has soe just a right to them. And I might reasonably apprehend what thoughts of me soe long a silence might raise in y, did I not perswade myself that the good opinion y are pleased to expresse of me in yr letter, would not let yu impute my silence to the worst of causes, ill breeding and ingratitude, till yu were satisfied that the slowness of my acknowledgmt was owing to noe thing but pure neglect in me. This stop soe unluckily put to the beginning of my acquaintance with yu I hope yu will permitt me to repaire by my faster growth in it. Thinke not this a complemt in returne to yr civility, wch has made the overture. This request has more weighty motives than what I have received from yu, though I acknowledge y' book and yr letter have very much obleiged me. A worthy rational man and a disinteressed lover of his country is soe valuable a thing, yt I thinke I may be allowed to be very ambitious of such acquaintance wherever I can meet with it. Give me leave then, now yt yu have opened the way to it, to own an impatience to be admitted into the freedom of familiarity and communication. For though I have not yet the happynesse to know yr face, yet I am not wholy a stranger to y' character. I shall say nothing now of y' booke: the few hours I have had it, have permitted me barely to cast my eye in hast on the three or fower first pages. I shall imploy the first leisure I have to Cary answered this letter on the 17th April, immediately after its receipt. A copy of his answer is preserved in the MS. whence the other letters are derived :- Additional MS. Brit. Mus. 5,540. In the course of Cary's reply, he remarked, "The freedome I took in laying before you the Printer's Errors in yo' answer to Mr. Lowndes you are pleased to excuse, and to take it with the same candor I intended it." On the 2nd May Locke returned the following excellent reply : Worthy Sr, Oates, 2 May, '96. I have read over your Essay of Trade y" did me the favour to send me, and have found the satisfaction I expected. It answers the character I had of y", and is the best discourse I ever read on that subject, not only for the clearnesse of all that yu deliver and the undoubted evidence of most of it, but for a reason that weighs with me more than both these, and that is, that sincere aime at the publick good and that disinteressed reasoning that appears to me in all yr proposals; a thing that I have not been able to finde in those authors on the same argument wch I have looked into. This makes me dare to owne to y" that there are some few things in it wherein my opinion differs from yrs, but yet I like not y' booke one jot the worse, since I can promise myselfe from a man of yr ingenuity, and one who covers not by-interest of his owne under the pretence of serving the publick, that when I have the oportunity to debate them with y", either I shall be brought to righter thoughts by y' stronger reason, or else that yu will not reject anything I shall offer because y have been of an other minde. In all debates with any one, all that I desire is, that between us the truth may be found, but whether I brought it thither, or carry it away, instead of an error that tooke its place before, I am little concerned; only in the latter case I am sure I am the greater gainer. One thing I have to complain of y' booke, but it is the complaint of a greedy man, and that is, that it is too little; but a second edition will give y" an oportunity to enlarge it, and I hope you will doe soe. He y could say soe much can say a great deale more if he will, and y" doe as good as |