The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-28 00:00:00

To reds EDITOR OP THE BRITISH PRESS.
gds—S 44111 the gnat anxiety that all ranks and classes,
ry pot of the kingdom have displayed to do honour to
tlr rim:tory of that distinguishes, philosopher, the late Mr.
„Isee•is %l at,. after he ham beets allowed to sleep quietly in
h,gesve• and whirr lie might hart lain to this hour midi,-
totuol• bat for the zeal for science manifested by a sh .-
ts,osisli a Frenchman, M. Itopin, it 'seem% a little
orano that the inhabitants of I :reenock, the town which
lad di • honour of giving him birth, and of whit li honour'
it his its:lf quite unworthy, should have been the
la; to Ir inspired with the enthusiasm which has chat
aa
terisell she rest of the k;sigilinn.
That the •• folk -of that hitherto rather rentsciable little
I ns, should have been content with maklii,t themselves
esalerately drunk on the anniverairy of 11r. Wales birth-
day, was to their own rirsonal pleasure and gratification'
oily, and by no mew, a proper inside of emoinestioratin.{ a
NAN who was a stranger to thatbeastly rued. !tut that
they should have failed to us: the only proper mean* of
isrs:rving the memory of the glory which was shed on
them by %Vett (as the sun shines upon a dung-hill), shoes
Oat they looked but little to their own credit.
What could he the cause of all thus? I shall inform
sou. The worthy people of l'nrt Glasgow, who take the
lad in that part of the country is every thing that tends to
cult philosophy, or the fine arts (wits's' their steeple,
ali!els has no parallel in the history of architecture), hail
hhid a p eet
riiat: ming, for the pu of employig the
s e .lehransl carver of Ilguhre-headrposes for ships, to e nrect a
tine statue or Mr. Watt, on the end of their Weal Quay,
wh le the Gret wick steam-boats sometimes stop. The
Greenock folk took the alarm, and a rends race was
the conclucnee, to determine which should appose he fore
the public first, but I am certain that when the l'ort
Glasgow prospectus comes forward, it will put the Greenock
folk to the blind'.
Mr. tt'att commenced the Greenock library, which I
far lONIC of its inhabitants use. The name of Watt, either
as it relates to mechanics qg Mira is the mill name
east do lre named. hjyletelr Oreerldet bi "116116%/till by
tae nitions." Mr. watt's son tomcats! the town of
Gsmitock with his statue by isalitry, yet, pro% pssdoe!
Greenock is the last town in the kingdom to do honour to
his m.
They have not the exeuse—poor as it would be—of
hiving forgot their duty : they were reininded of it by the
man to whom, shove all others, they ought to have listened
—their ft uital lord ; and yet they headed not. flail they
skilled to the advice he gave them, other parts of the'
letikzist have seen the propriety of erecting the
elopement of the great philosopher on the spot win re be
war born: but, as it is, they have to thank their own
apathy awl stupidity, that instead of having a stupendous
menument•-4 leafing ornament to their town—a num-
ber of monumentettes throughout the kingdotn—they are
left to a mural tablet in the church, or a woollen one,
like their neighbours. That the devil may take Isis own,
Secluding the magistrates, council, livers, and suh-feuars,
old feuars, new recant, loyalists of the old coffee-room,
reheats of the now, &dishes, Roberteoniten, Itanssayites,
mil Ilunterites—and all the other lira, including the it('
of the template of the East and West Quay, is the fervent
prayer of your humble admirer and obedient servant,
Court ILIIIINATINE.

Nue Posts, Cnrk•street.
P.R. I maret that worthy tnegistrate who proposed at
the taming, that the statue should be in equestrian one,
with a thymus in his hand, and clad in Rosati armour.