[ oy: 
and Weft of England Society, of which I am proud 
to call myfelf a member, ‘becaufe the objeé of its 
purfuits has.a dire& tendency to increafe the popula- 
tion, ftrength, and happinefs of the country. 
I am, dear fir, your’s, &c. 
B. HOBHOUSE, 
[N.B. The foregoing fketch of a meafure, asa fubftitute 
for a General Inclofure A, (now but little expected) wag 
fo highly thought of in the Committee of this Society, that 
no hefitation arofe on the propriety of thus throwing it be-- 
fore the publick.—-It is much to be withed, that thofé readers ' 
who are Members of Parliament, and gentlemen who may 
be intimate with Members, and who heartily approve the 
fketch, would endeavour to mature it into efficiency. From 
the continued endeavours of this Society, to’ promote the 
progrefs’ ofa General Inclofurey Bill, fome flattering hopes 
of fuccefs »were| entertained: And if ever unanimity of 
opinion, among a body. of refpectable gentlemen, on a point 
which they were peculiarly qualified to judge on, gave rea- 
fonable' ground’ of hope’ that they would be attended ‘to in 
Parliament, furely they were warranted in their expeCtations.- 
Their fecond petition, figned. by about 150 members, ha- 
ving been prefented in vain, or apparently fo for the prefent, 
has been confidered as difcouraging. And though that bet 
of all meafurcs for the profpefity of agriculture may be re- 
ferved for the patriotifin of a future period, ¢his humble fub- 
fitute, good as far as it goes, may poffibly, by due perfeve- 
Fance, be carried. | 
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