8^ Review of Middlefcx Survey. Jjin. 



{lead, tliercfore, of two millions eight hundred thoufan J acres, 

 we are inclined to believe, there are not one jnillion of acres 

 of plain fallow in all England. 



Under Chap. i8. {Me.ws of Improvemetit) the number of 

 lawyers, who pradife in the feveral courts, arc dated to be 

 feven thoufaud and forty ! We believe this is the firll time 

 that this learned and refpe£lable profe fllon was ever clafTed 

 aniongd the means of improvement; though gaols ajid houfes 

 cf corredliion (the number of which are alfo detailed) may 

 very properly come under that defcription. 



A variety of quotations are given from Colquhoun'sTreatife 

 on the Police of London, which, wc hope, for the credit of 

 its inhabitants, contain exaggerated accounts of the crimes 

 committed in the capital, and its vicinity. It is mentioned, 

 that 115,000, or nearly one fifth, are perfons whofc piirfults 

 are either criminal, illegal, or immoral ; or, in other words, 

 that every fifth perfoa deferves the gallows. If fuch things 

 are true, the fair inference would be, that there is no fuch 

 thing as a police in the county of Middlefex ; or, liow could 

 the daring offences mentioned in this work be committed 

 with fuch Impunity .'' 



It gave us furprife to notice a kind of comparifon, p. 480, 

 between the Middlefex hufbandry and that of fome other 

 counties, wherein the author concludes with a fiourilh in fa- 

 vour of the former. He fays — 



* There is not any land in Middlefex, (the comn>ons excepted), 

 from the well protefted and healthy copfes at Rifdip, to tliofe won- 

 ders of their kind, the gardens at the Nent-hcufes, but what is cul- 

 tivated, and, for the moil part, raifcd to an ailonilhing degree of 

 fertility. ' 



How can this be reconciled with the accounts prcvioufly 

 given of the farm-management of the didri^t .'' The farmers 

 were faid to be unprovided with proper ploughs; the fervants 

 cculd not held, nor the artificers repair them ; thz lower ranks 

 did little but pilfer and dfink; and the higher mnks were inat- 

 tentive to the management of their eltaten. This is the fub- 

 dante of what is faid concerning thefe matters, and -probably 

 it is jud :— But can the husbandry of Middlefex be confidered, 

 as pcrfecl, if it is defcQive in every point leading to perfec- 

 tion ? Ceiifure is either improperly applied in the one cafe, 

 or onmerlted compliments bedowed in the other. 



As'many objects are embraced in this furvcy, which will 

 likely be neglefted in others, 'we have devoted a larger fpace 

 of cur pamphlet to the. taft: of reviewing it, than, in ordinary 



cafes, 



