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Hoping that I have succeeded in solving the problem con- 

 tained in your Lordship's note, I have the honour to remain, 

 your obedient servant, 



John Warnes. 



Feb. 16th, 1846. 



It is not my intention again to enter the lists of controversy ; 

 and, in closing this more arduous part of my labours, I am 

 abundantly gratified by the many expressions of benefits con- 

 ferred, by the glorious prospects for the future, and by a mind 

 conscious of right. 



Hoping that this letter may find a place in the columns of 

 your paper, and in those of every patriotic journal in the 

 United Kingdom, 



I remain. Sir, your obedient servant, 



John Warnes. 



Trimingham, Feb. \7th. 



Candour must now admit that, if I could achieve so much 

 by unassisted effort, it is clear that, had I been supported by 

 the funds of the Norfolk Flax Society and a patriotic com- 

 mittee, every parish in the county might have been similarly 

 circumstanced with my own ; and that, if Mr. Rous was jus- 

 tified in. referring the ''nobility, gentry, clergy, and yeo- 

 manry" to the vehement opposition overcome at North 

 Walsham, I am equally entitled to direct their attention to the 

 victory I have obtained over an opposition far more inveterate 

 and systematic. 



I glory not, except as the instrument of unfolding a system 

 that will enable the poor man again to live by the sweat of his 

 brow, according to the original decree of Heaven ; and the rich 

 man to confer upon him the greatest of all earthly blessings, 

 constant work at adequate wages. 



If, as Mr. Burn shows in his letters on " Home Coloniza- 

 *tion," the forty-six millions of acres now in cultivation are not 

 suflficient to maintain the population, there are millions yet 

 uncultivated that may be increased in value five thousand 

 fold. It appears that there are forty-six millions and a half 

 acres of land in cultivation, and nearly thirty-one millions un- 

 cultivated : sixteen millions were reported by the Emigration 



