The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-12 00:00:00

DISCOVERY of CURIOUS MANUSCRIPTS

OF LOCKE AND OTHERS.

(From the Chelmsford Chrotr;ele.)
A parcel of Manuscripts have come into the possesaida
of Dr. Forster, df Boreham, which were the property of
the late T. Furly Forster, of 'Walthamstow, Esq., of so
exceedingly cm ions a nature, that We here h advisable, in
order to prove their authenticity, to. state The mettle of
their transmission into the hands of that gentian-de 7 they
were left to his father, the late B. Forster, Esq. by Idt.
Benjamin Furly, a literary character, of Rotterdam, and
the cotemporary and intimate friend of the celebrated me-
taphysician John Locke. Among this curious feecieuitts,
at the exantifiatidn of which ate have been regent, was
found the original MS. of ibe " Essay concerning Human
Understanding," bearing a very early date, With numerous
corrections:and ensures ; it was addressedi and airikdra to'
have been submitted by Locke to his friend Mr. Ferly,
before publication. The other MSS. of note consisted
chiefly of Original Letters from Locke, on various political
religious, and miscellaneous subjects; and of some original
familiar letters of Algernon:Sydney, Lord Shaftesbury, and
others. There were also some medical letters and prescrip-
tions of Locke, who *AS himself educated for a physician,
and who appears, by his sarcasms, to have known how
to appreciate the reel and pretended merits of physic at the
period in which he lived. Some of Mr. Locke's correse
pendency is dated from Amsterdam, daring his exile, and
relates to the strange and unmerited persecution with
which he was assailed. Mr. Locke's genuine love of li'-
herty is expressed in a note written by him on the sacrifice
of Sydney, at the bottom of one of the letters of the latter,
' dated from Marseilles. Another bundle contained the
MS. correspondence of Toupe, author of "Thnentlationete
in Suidam ;" of the late Mr. Richard Gough, the anti-
quary; and a curious MS. work on coins, by Strkely ;
some curious critiques of the history of Sir John Hawk-
wood, 6f Sible Hedingbam, by Gough ; and a large cor-
respondence between the Hon. Thomas Pitt, first Lord
Camelford, from Naples, and the late Beejamin Forster,
resident at Broomfield, in this county. There is also a
MS. relating to the origin of the Abbey of St. Neot's, in
Cornwall; a Syriac MS. and other miscellaneous papers.
—But what is most remarkable is, that it seems evident,.
from a passage in one of Locke's letters, that he has some-
where left an unpublished metaphysical work on Cause
and Effect, entitled, " On perceiving all things iv God,"
which hue either been lost or suppressed.
The original letters are by far the most interesting por-
tion of the MSS., as they will serve to verify certain dates,
and to fill up some chasm in the life of Locke; most of
them are dated from Amsterdam, in 1687 and 1688 ; a
few are dated from Oates, in Essex, in 1691, then the seat
of Sir Francis Matthew. It appears that his celebrated
" Essay," which bears date, 1685, was that year confided
to other hands as a measure of security, for we find written
in the first leaf of it, To Edward Clarke, of . Chipley,
Eq., James Tyrrell, of Oakley, Esq., or Dr.
David' Thomas, of Salisbury, " as if it had been
sent away and confided to them ; a circumstance
rendered more probable when it is considered, that
it was in the earns. year that the English envoy at the
Hague demanded the surrender of Locke, on suspicion of
his being concerned in the unfortunate enterprise of the
Duke of Monmouth. We may in all probability yet pub-
lish some farther particulars, with the permission of the
poseesstor, relative to dates and localities, as the long resi-
dence of Locke in this county will render any anecdotes
of him interesting to the inhabitants of Essex. It appears
that he died at Oates, suddenly, in his chair, on the fes-
tival of SS. Simon and Jude, in 1704, in his 73d year,
while Lady Macham was reading to him, and that he was
buried in the Church of High Laver, in this county.

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