the necessit}^ of sending it to one of his Ma- 
jesty's Dock -yards; or, like the Cumberland 
Baronet, at the conclusion of a war, (should 
lie chuse to be made a Lord) will subscribe 
a 74 gun ship, to be built with timber to be 
cut in his own pa/k. 
We believe it will appear, whenever the 
subject of obtaining an adequate supply of 
timber for the Navy shall be Jully and fairly 
investigated, that the counties of Kent and 
Sussex are ol: themselves nearly sufficient 
to uphold the Navy of England with oak 
timber. 
Your Lordship cannot do better than to 
recommend the mode for marking of timber 
so successfully practised by others as w’ell as 
by the Surveyor of his Majesty's Woods and 
Forests South of Trent, as it affords so fair 
and proper an experiment for Mr. Forsyth's 
method of healing new and old sores. Not- 
withstanding the ignorant and unskilful con- 
du6t of this Gentleman, for some particular 
reasons, the nature of which w'e shall not 
presume to guess at, but certainly not for 
