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As this fubje£t is interefting to every member of the com- 

 munity, we have been induced to difcufs it in this leading ar- 

 ticlck We have given our fentiments, we truft, with can- 

 dour, though with firmnefs and truth ; a Xms. of conduct we 

 are determined to purfue. 



Before we are done, it is highly proper to recommend, that 

 fmiilar meafures fhould be taken to fupply the wants of the 

 poor, as were la ft feafon fo generally practlfed. While we 

 contend for freedom of trade and unreftrained marketSj as be- 

 ing the fure method of infuring a regular fupply of provifions, 

 "we as earneftly recommend fales, at reduced prices, to the 

 lower clafTes, who, at the prefent rate of wages, cannot fub- 

 (ift themfelves and families. The philanthropy of the coun- 

 try was diftinguiflied, in the extreme, Lift winter; and, if 

 Providence has vifited us with another ihort crop, let it be 

 the care and concern of all provided with the means, to alle- 

 viate, to the uttermoft of their power, the diftrefles of thofe 

 who are unable to bear fuch calamities. 



EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE CORRESPONDElSrCE. 



SCOTLAND. 



ExtraB of a Letter frorri Invernefsf September t. 



Our. harveft is now general, and, if dry weather continue, the 

 lirop upon my farm will be nearly cut down this week. The crop, 

 generally fpeaking, is very liglit, as we have had no rain worth 

 mentioning for a long time. From the fcarcity of fodder, I fliould 

 not be furprifcd, that hay fells in the Spring at zs. 6d. per ftone. 

 Several fields of barley have been lately fold from i61. to 22I. per 

 acre, which, in my opinion, will not yield above fix bolls, or thirty- 

 fix bufhels : oats proportionally high : fo you will fee what value 

 is put upon the fodder. 



The turnip. crop on my farm continues in a thriving ftate. Po- 

 tatoes, though apparently good, are not likely to yield more than 

 half their ufual return, which will bear particularly hard upon the 

 poor people. Within thefe ten or twelve days, the whole of the 

 oats in this neighbourhood have been covered with a black infect; 

 not a ftalk but what carries ihoufands of them. As* yet, I fee no 

 injury done. 



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