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Twelve men at lis. per day, and an overseer at 2^. Gd.j 

 amount to 4/. 5s. per week ; 171. Os. per month. : so that 

 the whole five parties, employed for one month, will cost 

 the Drapers^ Corporation less than 100/., and make the 

 entire of their newly resumed estate presentable. 



But this hundred pounds I will not take off the Corpo- 

 ration's hands in money ; they must in some sort act perso- 

 nally, and adopt the arrangement I have laid down. I 

 am ready to communicate or confer with their agent on the 

 general management of these measures ; and a distance of 

 17 or 18 miles need not prevent all, or any of the overseers 

 coming to receive instructions from me, and encou- 

 ragement from the inspection of my long-reclaimed cut- 

 out MOSS, and a lesson on the mode of proceeding, 

 where the process is still continued regularly every year. 



I cannot let off the London Corporations for the ex- 

 ertions of the Drapers' alone, however strenuous. There 

 are eleven companies more, exclusive of the London 

 Society, all possessing extensive estates in the County of 

 Derry, and all disfigured by the morasses I have de- 

 scribed. 



1 consider myself as in the employment of the Board of 

 Agriculture, raising corps from the mass of the indus- 

 trious and unoccupied, for their service ; and I do not 

 think I am unreasonable in asking one corps from each 

 of the 12 estates, to be employed like the Drapers' 5, in 

 waging a war of extermination on their odious morasses : 

 the result, I answer for it, will be, that their Lessees raise 

 similar corps, and carry on the same unremitting hostility, 

 in conjunction with their principals : 20/. each is all I ask ; 

 but, as before, I will not have their money. I insist on 

 their own exertions ; and if I be gratified with the sum 

 and the mode, I pledge myself to the City of London, 

 that with their 324/. they will materially change the face of 



