303^ Memoir of Arthur Young, Esq. 



with tne former at seventy years of age, after an unsuccessful 

 operation in 1811, and that, at the advanced period of eighty, 

 his life was terminated by the severe sulierings attendant upon 

 the latter ! Although his blindness deprived agriculture of an 

 active and laborious investigator, yet the political economist 

 continued to derive from his extensive knowledge and sound 

 judgment, most valuable assistance ; and he was continually 

 eonsulted ami examined upon various subjects which occu- 

 pied the attention of Pailiament. The Board of Agriculture 

 also continued to profit by his assistance ; he delivered before 

 them a variety of lectures, upon the application of manures, 

 and the improvement of waste lands, and on other subjects of 

 practical importance, several of which were afterwards pub- 

 lished by order of the Board. Nor did he abandon those habits 

 of industry which had ever distinguished him : he rose every 

 morning at five o'clock, and regularly heard the different new 

 works read ; he was also engaged in preparing for the press, 

 an immense work, on the Elements and Practice of Agricul- 

 ture, which contains his experiments and observations, made 

 during a period of fifty years. The manuscript is bequeathed 

 to his son and daughter ; and it is to be hoped, that when the 

 former returns from Russia, he will take measures for its 

 speedy publication. Mr. Young also, at this time, published 

 select passages from the religious works of Baxter and Owen, 

 in two volumes, duodecimo, under the title of " Baxteriana," 

 and " Oweniana." Mr. Young possessed a warm and generous 

 heart, and his numerous acts of kindness and benevolence will 

 be long remembered by the grateful inhabitants of Bradfield 

 and the surrounding country. His house was always opened 

 to the distressed, and his counsel and advice were rarely given 

 without an accompanying boon, that might better enable the 

 petitioner to profit by its application. His hall was crowded, 

 every Sunday evening, with peasants, to whom he read the 

 prayers of the Church of England, and dismissed them with 

 a suitable exhortation. 



The disease, of which Mr. Young died, was not suspected 

 until about a week of his death — a circumstance which received. 



