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more, and even Raleigh, all, especially the last, inconsiderable cities, compared with our great commercial metropolis, have each a statue erected to the memory of the "Father of his country," all measures hitherto proposed for the purpose, in this city, have evaporated in a few feeble and ineffectual efforts to raise the adequate means. Besides these cities, Philadelphia, Washington and Charleston, have to a greater or less extent, in their public buildings, historical pictures, or appropriate to the institutions in which they are placed; while in our own city, with exception of the public collection of portraits in the City Hall, (a praiseworthy beginning,) I know not of a solitary instance, (portraits excepted,) of a picture or statue belonging to any public institution in this city. Can this be said with truth, of any other city in the civilized world of the same extent, population, and intelligence as the city of New-York?

In conclusion, I will say, that with many of the sentiments of the Reviewer, in the latter part of his article relating to the importance of encouraging the arts, I most cordially agree, and although differing from him so materially in the general tenor of his remarks, I must express my obligations to him for having written with so much sprightliness upon a subject which has in every civilized country attracted a great portion of the public regard; and which I have not a doubt will receive, in its proper time, the same attention in our own.

                                     SAMUEL F. B. MORSE.