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ducing peas, beans, potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, in 

 the vegetable, and more sparingly currants, goose- 

 berries, raspberries, some strawberries, and apples, in 

 the fruit line/ This gentleman has shewn us how 

 very easy it is to add to the comforts of the unoffend- 

 ing hard-labouring poor. His ' village green, of two 

 acres, nearly covered with flourishing oak-trees,' and 

 'his village, situated in a valley, on ground gently 

 rising from the bank of a romantic mountain river, 

 stretching towards woods, which cover the steeply 

 rising hills,' would have been viewed by Goldsmith 

 with pensive sighs at the recollection of his own 

 Deserted Village ; and Mr. Gray, or Dr. Watson, the 

 late Bishop of Llandaff, would have travelled miles to 

 have viewed the comfortable abodes of those who had 

 thus been rescued from a state ' bordering on despair,' 

 which absolutely paralysed all the wished-for exertions 

 of their honest labour. This generous advocate for 

 the poor who, one is proud to hear, bears the respect- 

 able and commanding title of a magistrate, may well 

 say that what he has thus done carries with it its own 

 reward ; and that the hours spent in the considera- 

 tion how the above might be effected formed ' some of 

 the most interesting of my life.'* 



* May the memory of this benevolent gentleman, Mr. Moggridge, 

 receive at a distant course of years the same tribute that has been 

 paid in Description routine de V Empire Francois to the owner of a 



