possibly be wanted for the purpose of ex- 
tirpating abuses, and for sowing in their 
stead the seeds of prosperity and plenty. 
Why such salutary measures have been pro- 
crastinated or rcjcbled, it would, we repeat 
it, become an independent President of the 
Board of Agriculture to enquire.- 
The slow and regular progress of Agri-* 
cultural Improvements promises nothing to 
modern financiers, who can with the utmost 
facility raise millions and tens of millions by 
voluntary loans, forced loans, tax upon in- 
come, Exchequer bills, &c. After a fair and 
equitable distribution of the forests, there 
would remain but little wherewith to feed 
two descriptions of Ministerial followers in 
the respedlive distridfs, viz. 
I’bose in receipt of emoluments, and those in 
expedtaiion of them. By w'ay of example, and 
in order to elucidate this subjedf more clearly 
to your Lordship, we will endeavour to give 
you a short history of the new forest in 
Plampshire, assuring your Lordship, that 
the same abuses, in proportion to their ex^ 
