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effers, and dot out the ground for people to settle on 
them. It is doing a great deal for industry, in so 
feudal a country as the Highlands of Scotland, to give 
a poor man a spot of ground he can call his own, 
howeyer barren, or however small... Remember to 
have seen a very neat house, built by a poor man on 
the isle of Cannay, ona spot of ground he had ac- 
quired by some means, of fourteen feet square. 
To be continued. 
ON THE CORN RETURNS. 
Every one’s interest is no one’s care. PRovERB. 
Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
From what I have seen of your performances, I am 
sure the above saying can be by no means applied to 
you. For you have often made it appear that the 
interest of the public is a considerable article in 
the list of your cares. But I am sorry at having 
occasion to observe that it is not the case with some 
persons, who, being paid by the publick, for .pub- 
lick businefs, ought even to make it their own. 
You were pleased, some time ago, to favour the 
publick with a perspicuous and accurate abstract 
of the act pafsed in last sefsion of parliament for 
regulating the corn trade ; and, moreover, with some 
pertinent animadversions, on the proceedings of gentle- 
men in parliament, in the discufsion of that impor- 
tant piece of businefs. I, therefore, supposing you 
and your readers to be interested in that matter, 
take the liberty of remarking the very great errours 
that appear jn all the weekly accounts, of the ‘ ave~ 
