24? Letter from a Scots Farmer, Jqly 



inflamed by animofity, exafperated by prejudice, will fuffer 

 the befl fields to be overrun with brambles, rather than con- 

 tribute, by conftraint, to an obnoxious tax, impofed to fup- 

 port the clergy. While the intolerable fyllem is not difcon- 

 tinued, we may cxpe£l to fee agriculture declinincr, corn de- 

 crcafing in quantity, enhanced in price ; feafons of fcarcity 

 periodically returning, and our country left to the mercy of 

 foreign markets. The tithe-laws and the game-laws are 

 enormous national evils, that cannot be too fpeedily abo- 

 lifhed. 



The fhambles of Lancafhire demand immenfe fupplies, 

 arifing from the increafed crowded population, operating in 

 favour of grafs more than of corn. The extravagant price 

 of provifions in February, were equally unprecedented as in 

 North Britain, irritating the pafhons of the multitude, and 

 producing, in various places, the moft tumultuous afTem- 

 blages. Several of the leaders have been apprehended, Im- 

 prifoned, and muft fland trial at the afhzes in Lancaller. — 

 The rent of land in the immediate vicinity of Manche(\er is 

 fix guineas an acre. A. . 



FOR THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



Letter from a Scots Farmer, during a Tour through England. 



LETTER III. 



My lafl having concluded with our arrival in the capital 

 of the Britiih empire, I (hall now endeavour to give you a 

 hafby detail of the various circumftances that came under 

 our obfervation during the few days we remained in that 

 overgrown city. 



The firft thing that f^ruck my attention, upon ifTuing from 

 our lodgings, was the immenfe multitude of people, porting 

 along as if they were walking or running for wagers, and 

 the great throng of carriages of all defcriptions which fill- 

 ed every flreet. Cuftom, or law, has, however, ordered 

 thefe matters fo well, that the greatefl regularity is con- 

 ftaatly preferved. By taking one line, the foot-paffengers 



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