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an humble aid to the good cause of the plough, could scarcely 

 fail of oflering, would not permit nie to decline the appoint- 

 ment ; although, to a person established in the country, the 

 salary*, with the residence annexed, was not that pecuniary 

 object which my Jacobin friends have represented, and I must 

 have improved on bad principles indeed, if it would not, in a 

 few years, have turned out a more profitable speculation. What 

 a change in the destination of a man's life ! Instead of en- 

 tering the solitary lord of 4,000 acres, in the keen atmosphere 

 of lofty rocks and mountain torrents, with a little creation 

 rising gradually around me, making the desert smile with cul- 

 tivation, and grouse give way to industrious population, active 

 and energetic, though remote and tranquil ; and every instant 

 of my existence, making two blades of grass to grow, where not 

 one was found before, — behold me at a desk, in the smoke, the 

 fog, the din of Whitehall. ' Society has charms ; ' — true, and 

 so has solitude to a mind employed. The die, however, is 

 cast, and my steps may still be, metaphorically, said to be in 

 the furrow." 



In the year 1801, by an express order of the French Direc- 

 tory t, his works were translated, and published at Paris, in 

 twenty volumes, octavo, under the title of " Le Cultivateur 

 Anylois i" and in the same year, M. du Pradt dedicated to him 

 his work, called, " De VEtat de la Culture en France." 



In the year 1794, he engaged with the Board to draw up the 

 County Reports, and accordingly he shortly afterwards pub- 

 lished that of the county of Suffolk, and, in succession, those 

 of Lincoln, Norfolk, Hertford, Essex, and Oxford : these reports 

 are marked by that same sterling talent, which characterizes all 

 his writings. In 1795 he published two political pamphlets, 

 entitled, " The Constitution safe without Reform," and " An 

 Idea of the present State of France." In the following year, 

 he paid a very long visit to Mr. Burke, at his seat at Beacons- 

 field. In 1797, his youngest and favourite daughter died in a 



• The salary was jC-IOO per annum, with a house, free from all charge, 

 t Said to be chiefly by the ailvine of the Director, Carnot, who presented 

 the Author with the tranblatiim. 

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