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Board of Agriculture, which office, it is allowed by 
all, he had filled with great ability and unremitting 
attention ever fince the commencement of the infti- 
tution, of which he was himfelf the founder; I aue 
gur, that the endeavours of my friend the baronet, 
at Jeaft, are not likely to prove fuccefsful. 
Ata meeting of the Board on the 8th of May, 
1798, Lord Somerville (the new prefident) points 
out many fchemes, which, doubtlefs, are very ufe- 
ful; he advifes the Board to take a farm, and allot 
a fpace for agricultural experiments; he advifes the 
adoption of premiums, which have been fo fuccefs- 
fully praétifed by the Bath and Weft of England 
Society; but he makes no obfervation upon the 
grand defideratum of removing, by a General Inclo- 
fure A&, the enormous lofs which the ftate and the 
individual fuftain by the immenfe traéts of wafte and 
commonable lands in this kingdom. Had it been 
in the contemplation of the Board to have recom- 
mended a meafure of that kind to the attention of 
the legiflature, the new prefident unqueftionably 
would not have failed to announce it in his firft ad- 
drefs from thechair. The conclufion which I draw 
- from this ftatement, is, that there exifts but little 
hope of obtaining, at the prefent period, a general 
law which fhall take away the neceflity of legalizing 
every inclofure by a private Act of Parliament; al- 
though, in the eftimation of very many perfons, 
eminent for their ftrong fenfe and profound reflec- 
tion, 
