,j22 ■ Letter from Dr Ihmiery Tork, Nov. 



and a polltIc.il phrenzy in rhelr minds. The very oppofite is 

 now the cafe. Sjiirits are ilill confained, but in more moderarion ; 

 and as they are become an dlential article of confumption, better 

 fupply them with Britifli than with foreij^n. Mr Pitt was aware 

 the people in this country had a ilrong propenfity for gambling*, and 

 he turned this to a great national account, from which he and his 

 fucceiTor draw about 300,000!. annually. Should this fame po- 

 lice lead government to gratify the public with Britilli fpirlts, 

 and to drive the fmuggler from the coall, there is little doubt 

 but there would be above 1,000,000 quarter* more barley con- 

 famed in that article, an-i above a million llerling of more revenues 

 raifed than at prefent, which the country lofes. It would alfo give 

 fuch a fpur to agriculture, as would likely be the means of raifing 

 fuch fupplies of all other forts of grain, as might in time prevent 

 us from depending for a part of our bread-corn on foreign coun- 

 tries. As it appears from your 2d vol. page 135-6, that not one 

 half of the land in Britain, fit for cultivation, is uiuler the plough ; 

 it muft be owing to the want of internal encouragement, that 

 we at any time Hand in need of foreign fupplies ; having ample 

 means within ourfelves, not only for fubfiilence but even for 

 exportation to other countries, if our refources were brought 

 into iM^lion. I hope your Publication, being conducted on libe- 

 ral principles, will be attended to by thofe who have power to 

 remove the obflacles to improvements \ and that, in place of 

 being dependent upon other nations for corn, we may \\\ time 

 have a furplus to part with, which is the earneft wifh of 



A Forfarshire Farmer. 



P. 5. — Should the above meet with your approbation, I mean 

 to propofe, hereafter, a mode for the confumpt of barley, fimple 

 in its nature, but beneficial to the landed intereft and the com- 

 munity at large. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER S MAGAZINE. 



Letter from Dr Hunter^ Turk. 

 Sir, 



The inclofed is intended as a paper in the 5th or 6th vol. of the 

 Georgical Eflays ; and if it fults your Magazine, it is at your fer- 

 vicc in the November Number, which will be fome months be-x 

 f<ire my publication. I find many papers of mine inferted in an 

 Agricultural Magazine, publiflv d in London ; and thefe papers 

 not being mentioned as ey:traBs from the GeorgiLal lijfays^ have 

 the appearance of making me a fupporcing coifrefpondcnt of that 



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