b(} FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



tivc duties, I sliall, for tlie present, close my notice 

 of tlie rented manor with the following remarks on 

 passing circumstances of very recent occurrence. 



Some blatant demagogues, at a late out-door 

 meeting in London, stigmatized the present modi- 

 fied laws relating to the preservation of a pro- 

 prietor's own tldncjs on his own lands as wicked 

 and ^n3loody"; but these Cockney orators, I take 

 it, knew as little about the subject on wdiich they 

 so foolishly descanted as they did of the lunar 

 constellation. Thev threw overboard the fact as 

 to how many thousands of the poor were main- 

 tained the vear throu":hout on wholesome food — 

 upon the millions of pounds of the much-abused 

 rabbit ; and they roared and screamed emphatically 

 against the sin of retaining such expanses of lieaths 

 and moors tenantless and uncultivated, as these 

 bhitant babblers asserted, ''' sim])ly for the preser- 

 vation of game." 



Xow, I take it on myself to say, that there is 

 not a proprietor in England Avho wotdd not give 

 any just facilities to any rash man or men who 

 would undertake to cultivate and rent) on the most 

 moderate terms, tliose portions of the estates lying 

 idle. ]3ut corn or useful produce of any kind will 



