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halfpenny per yard higher, than if it had been directly received 

 by the waggon ? Jiift the fame crinfequence will take place in 

 the fale of beafts or grain. When carried to Smithficld or 

 Marklane, they will draw their comparative value, whetlier 5I. 

 or 5s. of profit had been previoufly gained upon them. Many, 

 otherwife fenfiblc perfons, entertain very abfurd ideas upon 

 this fubjeft ; which can only be removed by praftice and ex- 

 perience. ' 



The Duke of Bedford is elefted Prcfident of the Bath and 

 Wcft-of-England Agricultural Society. Lord Sommcrville and 

 Mr Hobhoufe are eleAed Vice-Prefidents. 



Sir John Call, Baronet, has written a letter to the above 

 Society ; in which, after dwelling at confiderable length on the 

 fubjefts of Population and Agriculture, he fays, * But, taking 

 the dat^ and fafts as they are, and as they ftand incontrovert- 

 ibly, it is clearly deducible, that Great Britain muft either 

 continlie to import a confiderable portion of the firft article of 

 fubfiftence, and thereby give an additional bounty on foreign 

 cultivation ; or that i(jO,ooo additional acres of land muft 

 forthwith' be brought into tillage, and 30,000 added yearly to 

 that number, to provide for an annual increafe of 10,000 fouls 

 in the population. 



* Without fuch a refource, ftarvation or emigration muft eil- 

 fue ; for I will not fuppofe that any legal or political flop will 

 be put to the increafe of mankind. It then becomes a queftion 

 ferioufly to be decided. Whether Great Britain, as a commer- 

 cial ifland, depending greatly on the cheapnefs and excellence 

 of her manufaftures, for the fupport and extenfion of ber com- 

 merce, and, of courfe, the maintenance of her power, fhould 

 depend, in a great degree, on foreign nations for her daily 

 bread ? If that important point is unanimoufly difcufTed in 

 the negative, the argument for bringing every inch of wafte 

 or nnproduftive land into an immediate ftate of inclofure and 

 improvement, is fupported by an imperious neceflity ; and it 

 will become a duty, in the higheft degree incumbent on the 

 Legiflature, to meet and provide for this growing demand. ' 



The good fenfe and liberal views difcovered in the above let- 

 ter, entitles Sir John Call to the warmeft tribute of thanks 

 from his countrymen. The fubjeft is truly an important one ; 

 and, to the Ihame of Britifli legiflation, has been by far too 

 !oHg neglefted. Many millions of acres in England are capa- 

 ble of being converted into rich coro fields ; which, at prefent, 

 are almoft, in a legal manner, locked up as nafte. 



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