412 ” Bowles's 
his own allotment of fence in good re- 
pair, under the direction of the com- 
mittee. : 
1th. Any occupier, who shall be 
detected in any act of'dishonesty, shall 
forfeit his land. 
12th; It is expected, that every oc- 
cupier shall attend some place of wor- 
ship, at least, once every Sunday ; and 
should he “neglect to do 50 without 
sufficient cause, after being warned by 
the committee, he shallbe deprived of 
his land. 
13th. No occupier shall be allowed 
to trespass upon another’s land in going 
to or from his own allotment. 
14th. That no occupier shall work 
on a Sunday. 
15th. That if any occupier, who is an 
habitual drunkard, or frequenter of 
public houses, shall, after being re- 
proved by the committee, still persist 
in the same, he shall be deprived of 
his land. 
N.B.—It is determined that this 
last rule will be strictly enforced as 
well as the rest. 
The quality of the land is good, and 
worth to afarmer about the rent that 
is given for it; it varies from a good 
strong loam to a rich light turnip soil 
(provincially red-land); it has been 
occupied three years, this Michaelmas 
(1825), by the poor; and the crops, with 
hardly a single exception, have been 
remarkably fine: indeed, I think, full 
one-third more than is usually grown 
by the farmers in the neighbourhood ; 
which may be principally attributed to 
cultivation by the spade instead of the 
plough. The wheats have averaged 
full five quarters per acre—indeed, some 
superior managers have got more than 
twelve bushels upon their rood of land; 
the potatoes, from two to three bushels 
per square rod; and what little barley 
they grow, at’ about the rate of seven 
to eight quarters per acre; the peas 
about five or six quarters: besides 
which they grow various kind of vege- 
tables—as onions, cabbages, beans, &c. 
The wheatand barley have been some of 
it drilled, and some broad-cast. I think, 
upon the whole, the drilled has been 
rather superior; but the difference is 
by no means great. Iam convinced it 
has materially increased the comforts 
of the poor. Some who never fatted a 
ig before in their lives, are now ena- 
bled'to do it, and feed them up to from 
ten to seventeen or eighteen score. The 
rent has been paid on Michaelmas-day, 
or before, with the greatest punctua- 
Sonnets. [Dee 1, 
lity. One only has, at present, been 
turned out for breach of rules; though 
there are two or three more under no- 
tice. There are’ now ‘more’ applica- 
tions for land than’ can be» accommo- 
dated. Indeed, I believe’ I mayisafely 
say, that two or three times as much 
land might very ‘properly be immediately 
let in the same way in this parish. 
G.W.W: 
Spratton, near Northampton, 
October 1st, 1825. © 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
T has pleased your Correspondent 
& Mr. Jennings (See M.M. Oct., p. 231) 
to take up rather warmly a passing ob- 
servation of mine, on the “ sweetened 
cream and water” of the sonnetteering 
poet Mr. Bowles, in the essay I trou- 
bled you with (Aug. p.12), on the con- 
troverted rank of Pope as a poet ; and 
to be very angry with me, because I did 
not sign my own proper name to that 
essay. 
Iam very sorry, of course, Sir, to have 
wounded the critical sensibility of Mr. 
Jennings, or, of any other of the ad- 
mirers of the cream-and-water school ; 
and, still more grieved, that there should 
be certain reasons which make it not 
quite decorous for me to step forward 
with my card in my hand, to meet the 
challenge of that gentleman, and, in the 
open gaze of all your numerous readers, 
shed my avowed ink in the desperate 
conflict to which he so gallantly invites 
me. But, Sir, though I have my rea- 
sons, on the present occasion, for pre- 
ferring the customary inglorious mode 
of miscellaneous bush-fighting, to the 
more glorious and chivalrous mode of 
open duel, to which myantagonist rushes 
forth to invite me, I beg leave to assure 
Mr. Jennings, that it is from no disre- 
spect to him that I decline the honour 
of inscribing my name as his opponent, 
on the eternal columns of your temple 
of Philosophy and the Muses: for, 
though not exactly agreeing with ‘all 
the critical opinions of Mr. Jennings, 
I can truly say, without the least flat- 
tery or dissimulation, that I have read 
with great pleasure whatever of his 
production has fallen into my hands ; 
and, asa constant reader of the Monthly 
Magazine, should be happy ‘to ‘meet 
with his name there more frequently. 
I trust, however, that as a combatant, 
especially as I have not the least in- 
tention of being personal to him, “he 
will be content to meet me in’my Vizor. 
Iam 
