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and the poor man had been induced by the 
fairest promises to disclose his mighty secret, 
a vote of Parliament for lOOOl. to be paid to 
Mr. Elkington, was moved for and carried ; 
but whether the President or some sagacious 
Members afterwards discovered that Mr, 
Elkington had hit upon a mode of bog- 
draining which had been pradEsed by Dr. 
Anderson twenty years before, as well as 
explained and recommended in his works, 
he now finds the payment of the money ob- 
stru6fed by insuperable difficulties. Surely, 
my Lord, the engagement to pay Mr. 
Elkington the money was honourable, and 
although you could not obtain it for him 
at an earlier period, it is hoped your 
Lordship will persevere in enforcing his 
claim upon your colleagues, till you obtain 
for him that for which the justice of the 
country stands pledged. 
We flattered ourselves, at the first insti- 
tution of the Board of Agriculture, that we 
should have been favoured, from time to time. 
