1828.] 
mere, Bart.; Mr. Whinnington Ingram ; 
Messrs. Isack, Lechmere, and Wall. The 
mourners consisted principally of the 
Dean’s family ; the King’s scholars closing 
the melancholy train. The body was de- 
posited in a vault of our Lady’s chapel. 
We may truly say, that never was more 
general or sincere sorrow felt, than has been 
excited here by the death of this most esti- 
mable divine ; who, during his short resi- 
dence at the Deanery, had, by his charity 
and benevolence, secured the gratitude of 
the poor ; and by his urbanity and hospita- 
lity, obtained the esteem and affection of 
all who knew him in the county and city.” 
THE COUNT DE SEZE. 
The memory of this noble-minded French 
royalist, who died in the month of April, 
will long be cher?shed with feelings of re- 
spect and devotion, from the fearlessness 
with which he advocated the cause of his 
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lected, with Tronchet, and Lamorgion de Ma- 
lesherbes, then in. his seventy-third year, to 
prepare the defence of their illustrious client. 
With what success, history too truly records: 
the task of delivering that defence was en- 
trusted to De Seze. 
More fortunate than his venerable col- 
league, Malesherbes, De Seze survived the 
horrors of the reign of terror, and had the 
exalted gratification of living to witness the 
restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. His 
fidelity was then rewarded. He was created 
a peer of France, grand treasurer of the 
order of the Holy Ghost, commander of the 
king’s orders, and first president of the Court 
of Cassation. 
Eminently moral and pious in all the 
relations of life, the Count de Seze expired in 
the arms of his children, to whom his dying 
words were addressed :—“‘ You have always, 
like me, followed the path of duty : con- 
tinue in it, my dear children.” 
sovereign, Louis XVI. He had been se-~ 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL# REPORT. 
Tue Continental harvests have partaken, generally, of the defects of our own. Ireland- 
seems to have been more fortunate, few complaints having arrived from thence, and consi-+ 
derable improvement having taken place in the condition of her labouring population. 
Greater numbers of them have found employment at home during the present, perhaps, 
than during any past year within memory. As subjects for wonder will never be wanting, 
even Ireland is, at length, rising in the scale of nations. Scotland, also, boasts a more 
prosperous harvest than the generality of our more Southern counties. In Perth, and the 
higher northern districts, though the wheat was beat down by the winds, it has been 
secured with little damage or complaint, excepting, in some parts, of a yellow caterpillar’; 
the quantity about two-thirds of an average ; the late sown wheats defective, all of various 
quality. Oats, barley, beans, peas, potatoes, a full average and of good quality. Turnips 
avast crop. The oats are said to be the largest crop that has been obtained of late years. 
From Scotland we have received high panegyrics of the Irish labourers, as not only steady 
workmen, but able to cut a greater breadth of corn in a day, at the same time performing 
it with greater ease, than any other. Hopes are expressed that their usual annual visits 
to Scotland may ever continue. In various parts of England, complaints have been made 
of a deficiency of labourers for the harvest; in consequence, labour has been so dear, 
that good hands have earned upwards of eight shillings aday. This has chiefly arisen 
from the circumstance, that we haye had less of Irish assistance during the present, than 
in former harvests. 
Notwithstanding this reduced number of harvest labourers, several of our Correspondents 
express their apprehension of a surplussage of hands, during the approaching winter, and 
an extreme solicitude as to the ability of their parishes for the support of the supernume- 
raries. In this very serious exigence, they seem to have no other resource than in assist- 
ance from the legislature, which surely, all past expectations and circumstances considered, 
must be a very precarious dependence, if not absolutely a forlorn hope. A plan has been 
proposed of splitting the large parishes, each into two or three; but granting such a 
scheme might produce a better regulation of the support of paupers, or the unemployed, it 
could bring no accession of labour, which is the great.desideratum. As it appears to us, 
the legislature can afford no relief in such a case, which indeed can only be supplied by the 
tenantry themselves, assisted by their landlords. It is, in fact, a strange occurrence, that 
the most important occupation of the most flourishing and opulent country upon the face 
of the earth, should be so managed, as to be incapable of giving bread for the labour it 
requires. Something surely must be radically wrong, must be rotten to the core, in such a 
state of things. 
__In all concerns of moment, men should look to themselves, and, taking an impartial 
view of their own conduct, endeavour to ascertain how much of the misfortune suffered, 
_may have originated in their own error, and to what degree the remedy may lie within 
their own power. We will briefly recur to one source of ill success in farming, which we 
__ have repeatedly noticed in these reports—the excessive, and we venture to add, shameful, 
