308 Mr. Farey {u Rtply to Mr. 



given with a feeling so energetic, with 

 such an inward consciousness of un- 

 deserved humiliation, that it has ever 

 since warmed my heart with the most 

 liberal indulgence of opinion towards 

 a spirited, a brave, and a gallant, 

 people. 



Italy, indeed, has trusted to the 

 lion's generositj', and been treated 

 with the serpent's treachery. A pe- 

 riod there was, and I well remember 

 it, when the general association of her 

 common feelings, supported by appa- 

 rently disinterested oflerings, promised 

 to her and to Europe the happiest re- 

 sults. But the reflection appals me : 

 I have not to answer for it except as 

 one of a guilty whole ; and I willingly 

 tarn the eye from a scene which 

 sickens, from a theatre which displays 

 the noblest feelings of our nature sa- 

 crificed to sordid interest. B. 



To the Editor of the Monthly 3Iagazine, 



SIR, 



I HAVE felt pleasure in perusing 

 the letter of your very sensible 

 and benevolent correspondent, Mr. 

 Luckcock, in page 134, because I 

 concur generally in his observations ; 

 but perceiving that, in page 136, he 

 has very greatly under-rated the daily 

 consumption of food by a cow in full 

 milk, consisting of "greens or succulent 

 vegetables," and on these mistaken fZ«/« 

 lias attempted to found an argument 

 against the correctness of the seventh 

 line in the table in j)age 134, whicii 

 allows only 8-lOOths by weight of solid 

 nutritious substance, to be contained 

 in greens and turnips ; I am desirous 

 of correcting this mistake ; which I 

 shall do by calling the attention of 

 Mr. L. and your readers to the tliir- 

 tietli volume of the " Transactions of 

 the Society of Arts," wherein John C. 

 Curwen, esq. lias recorded the food 

 consumed daily by a large dairy of 

 cows, milked for the supply of Work- 

 ington ; which cows gave, for about 

 267 days,* each fourteen quarts of 

 milk daily, on the average ; their ave- 

 rage daily consumption of food being, 

 at the time, 112 lbs. of turnips, 28 lbs. 

 of steamed husks or chafl'of wheat, and 

 4 lbs. of oil-cake to each cow : w hich 



* This allows fourteen weeks for the 

 cows being dry before calving annually, 

 and afterwards for fattening tlieir calves. 

 Sc my Derbyshire Report, vol. iti. p. 41, 

 and the notes in pp. 1:3 and 34, &c. 

 1 



Luckcock and Brilannicus. [Maj* 1, 



are quantities so out of all proportion 

 to the 24 lbs. of greens or succulent 

 vegetables, assumed by Mr. L. for the 

 production of nearly similar quantities 

 of milk, as entirely to invalidate all 

 which follows thereon in page 136: at 

 the same time I cordially join Mr. L.in 

 wishing formore information to be given 

 as to the data and the principles on 

 whichMessrs.Percy .and Yauquclin pro- 

 ceeded in constructing their compara- 

 tive table of nutritious matter : as also 

 relative to the j)roportion in which sub- 

 stances, considered as devoid of nutri- 

 ment, are necessary, or can be permit- 

 ted to be mixed with nutritious matter 

 for sustaining men and animals in full 

 health. 



It will be seen, on comparing your 

 last Supplement with pp. 132 and 133 

 of No. 379, that all the numbers of 

 popular votes, mentioned by your cor- 

 respondent Britannicus, apply to fifty- 

 five Parliamentary questions, instead 

 of fifty, as is mentioned, apparently 

 through the mistake of omitting to 

 include those four questions designated 

 A, L, R, and M, in page 642, relative 

 to the importation of foreign corn, and 

 that on the currency denoted by W, in 

 page 643. 



Respecting which corn-questions, I 

 beg here to observe, that, however po- 

 pular in the towns the votes alluded to 

 above may be considered, they must, 

 I contend, be regarded as votes un- 

 justly adverse to the interests of that 

 more numerous and important part of 

 the community, dependant on agricul- 

 tural labours ; and it has therefore been 

 w ith concern I have lately observed 

 seven of the names, justly on other 

 accounts distinguished in the first co- 

 lumn of your 132d page, amongst 

 those who now are for reducing the 

 protection of our own cultivators to 

 sixty shillings for wheat, which it has 

 been proved they cannot grow under 

 eighty shillings without risk of loss; 

 but which the slave-owners of Poland 

 and some other countries are mostly 

 ready to ship at one-third of that price. 

 I am by no means the advocate of 

 monopoly, or of restrictions on com- 

 merce generally; but, such being our 

 existing system, it must, on enlarged 

 and equitable principles, be reformed 

 throughout at the same time, and not 

 one class be ruined, by removing their 

 protection, in favour of the other 

 classes. John Fare v. 



London; March i, 1823. 



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