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who kept his land like a neat garden ; and, in short, whose field 

 was one of the most beautiful objects of which one can form an 

 idea ; but, whose ridges were about two feet and a half apart, 

 instead of four feet, and who had three hundred and fifty bushels 

 to the acre, while you, with all your disadvantages of late ploughing 

 and sods beneath, had at the rate of five hundred bushels. 



261 . From so excellent a judge as you are, to hear commendation 

 of my little Treatise, must naturally be very pleasing to me, as 

 it is a proof that I have not enjoyed the protection of America 

 without doing something for it in return. Your example will be 

 followed by thousands ; a new and copious source of human 

 sustenance will be opened to a race of free and happy people ; 

 and to have been, though in the smallest degree, instrumental 

 in the creating of this source, will always be a subject of great 

 satisfaction, to, 



Dear Sir, 



Your most obedient, 



And most humble servant, 



WM. COBBETT. 



262. P.S. I shall to-morrow send the Second Part of my 

 Year s Residence to the press. I dare say it will be ready in three 

 weeks. 



263. I conclude this chapter by observing, that a borough- 

 monger hireling, who was actually fed with pap, purchased by 

 money paid to his father by the minister PITT, for writing and 

 publishing lies against the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York y 

 the acknowledgment of the facts relating to which transaction 

 / saw in the father s own hand-writing : this hireling, when he 

 heard of my arrival on Long Island, called in my LEMNOS, which 

 allusion will, I hope, prove not to have been wholly inapt ; for, 

 though my life is precisely the reverse of that of the unhappy 

 PHILOCTETES, and though I do not hold the arrows of HERCULES, 

 I do possess arrows : I make them felt too at a great distance, 

 and, I am not certain, that my arrows are not destined to be the 

 only means of destroying the Trojan Boroughmongers. 



264. Having introduced a Judge here by name, it may not be 

 amiss to say, for the information of my English readers, what sort 

 of persons these Long-Island Judges are. They are, some of 

 them, Resident Judges, and others Circuit Judges. They are all 

 gentlemen of known independent fortune, and of known excellent 

 characters and understanding. They receive a mere acknowledg 

 ment for their services ; and they are, in all respects, liberal 

 gentlemen. Those with whom I have the honour to be acquainted 

 have fine and most beautiful estates ; and I am very sure, that 

 what each actually expends in acts of hospitality and benevolence 

 surpasses what such a man as Burrough, or Richards, or Bailey, 

 or Gibbs, or, indeed, any of the set, expends upon every thing, 



