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once, become converts to the author's opinion, 

 and acknowledge themselves in error : indeed 

 some have already manifested by their writ- 

 ings, that they are indignant at its being 

 supposed possible they can be acting wrong. 

 The inspector of parks and palaces writes 

 with as much complacency as if all were per- 

 fection around him. If the commissioners at 

 the head of his office do not point out to him 

 the absurdity of wasting his time in talking 

 with " mole and rat catchers," instead of em- 

 ploying it agreeably to the tenor of the trust 

 reposed in him, wholly to the advantage of 

 the public, it is hoped that some member of 

 the House of Commons who may have occasion 

 to notice the charges for foreign timber in the 

 estimates, will move for an inquiry as to the 

 cultivation of oak in the royal forests, &c. Is 

 due attention paid to it or not ? Is there not land 

 which is now occupied by weeds and bushes 

 only, capable of growing some millions of 

 pounds worth of timber for the use of govern- 

 ment? If the answer to this last question should 

 show (and it assuredly will) that there is, then 



