240 Letter frotn Lord Somerville, Aug.' 



the executors of a tenant fucceed to, and how far they are bur- 

 dened with rents due, and to become due to the landlord. 



The lad Chapter gives a full account of the nature and effects 

 of all actions at law arifing on the leafe : And the Appendix 

 contains the forms of fuch a6tions, with copies of the acls of 

 Parliament and a6ls of Sederunt on which tl;iey may proceed. 



Throughout the work, Mr Bell gives in general no opinions 

 but what are fan£lioned by decifions of the Supreme Courts, 

 which he quotes fully and accurately. The fpccuiative queftions 

 that he difcuffes are few, but thefc are ably handled. His man- 

 ner is eminent for perfpicuity \ and his ftyle plain, pure, and ad- 

 apted to the fubject. In a word, we have received much fatis- 

 faclion from a perufal of this treatife, and earneftly recommenc}. 

 it to the attention of our readers. A multitude of queftions have 

 lately arifen betwixt landlords and tenants, many of which might 

 perhaps have been avoided, if the laws in force for regulating the 

 connexion had been more generally underitood. It is not ouic 

 bufmrfs here to fiiy whether theie laws are, in every cafe, calcu- 

 lated to promote agriculture, and to maintain the interelt of the 

 tenantry ; but we can fafely declare that no former writer has 

 illuftrated them with greater ability than is done in the prefent 

 cafeby MrBelL 



A. S. 



Postscript to First Branch. 



TO the conductor of the farmer's magazine. 

 Sir, 



In common with many others, I derive pleafure and advan- 

 tage from the perufal of your Magazine -, and as 1 feel much in- 

 terefted in its vi^ell-doing, i take the liberty of addrefhng to you 

 thefe few lines. 



In a work of this nature, it is perhaps the duty, certainly th^ 

 decided intereft of its condu^lor, to convey inilru6lion in lan- 

 guage as temperate as poflible. 



I am led to this refleclion, by obfervlng that many exprrfTions 

 are ufed by anonymous writers, which, under their own figna- 

 tures, they would hardly have ventured on, and by the perufal 

 of a criticifm in a late number, on a work entitled * The Nt'iu 

 JTarwf/s Calendar y * in which 1 am in forne fmall degree impli- 

 cated. Works by this aurlior, like your own, are reported to 

 have had a moft exteniive fale (the one in queftion is faid to have 

 jjone through four large editions) j and perhaps great authors, 

 like great beauties in a country town, muft feel a little jealous of 

 each other's fuccefs; ; but, like them, they fliouldalfo endeavour to 

 be civil on all public occafions. 



The topic of animadverfion here alluded to, appears to be the 



accidental 



