26O Meet Mr. Garnet t again at the Hospital. 



other, but which has been reproachfully en- 

 couraged and supported by the legislature ot 

 the country. What misery has not this wretch- 

 ed policy inflicted on four millions of our fellow 

 subjects, and how severely at this moment do 

 they feel its unjust operation ! A total ob- 

 liviation of all invidious distinctions should be 

 a self-imposed task on every well-wisher to the 

 country ; the practice of this virtuous senti- 

 ment would by degrees have its due in- 

 fluence, and highly contribute to the general 

 happiness of every rank and denomination of the 

 people. 



We again met Mr. Garnett at the hospital: he 

 was engaged at backgammon, and I was much 

 pleased at the spirit and activity with which, at 

 the age of eighty-four, he contested the game. 

 In another route we pursued, on our return to 

 Baron's Court, we saw, about a mile from the 

 hospital, a new church recently finished, and 

 near it was another charter school. 



The surface of the country over which we 

 passed was much broken, and the soil, as usual, 

 greatly superior to its cultivation. That there 

 should still be advocates for the old practice of 

 planting potatoes in lazy beds, which here pre- 



