'I79i' reply to Misohrojitlrs. 10^ 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



iN your Bee for 25th Julj last, I Iiave read an answer 

 to my efoays by Misobrontes. I do not intend to 

 give him a reply at this time, which does not arise 

 from any dread of your correspondent, any disrespect 

 for your readers, or any want of personal gratitude to 

 yourself, for your long and patient insertion of my 

 trifles, — another reason is satisfactory. For some time 

 past I have been engaged in collecting, enlarging, and 

 reprinting some of these letters, with many additions, 

 and several other efsays which had never appeared be- 

 fore, and the whole will be advertised in a few days, 

 in a large pamphlet, intituled, The political progrefs of 

 Britain. Of this you ftiall have a copy., that if you 

 judge any pafsages worth an extract, they mcy at your 

 conveniency be taken. For the literary property of 

 the work is of no consequence to me, providing that 

 I can difseminate my ideas, and convince my country- 

 men of the madnefs and stupidity of the war system. 

 In this performance your friend .will see so many 

 additional, and, as I believe, unanswerable arguments, 

 as may perhaps stagger him. 



I am sorry to see that Misobrontes has inadver- 

 tently quoted two or three pafsages as mine which are 



terj may be one of these. But more accurate experiments than this ad. 

 duced by our corresp9ndent, will be required to overturn this general opi- 

 ■jiion. I will be glad to have this matter more fully elucidated by any of 

 jtiy readers who have had, or who may have, opportunities of making ex- 

 periments on this interesting subject. Perhaps those in Rufsia, and other 

 northern continental countries, who find more profit in rearing bees than 

 we do, will be able to ascertain this question in a more satisfactory man- 

 ner than can be ione in Britain. From the manner in which Yackstrotte 

 ■writes, it is very evident he is not deeply versant in the management of 

 kees. £dit. 



