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upon the subje6l. We observe an annual 
vote by Parliament of a sum of money to 
promote the obje6fs for wliich the Board was ^ 
instituted : — here our information stops. 
Had we seen any good resulting to the 
public d’rom the exertions of the Board since 
its institution, with regard to the removal 
of impediments to agriculture, natural or 
artificial, or to the suggestion of improve- 
ments, we should have patiently awaited the 
result of your Lordship's more extensive 
knowledge and _a6five efforts : we have as 
yet seen nothing but two or three puny 
bantlings, that were offsprings of’ the late 
President, and died in their birth. 
The efforts to which we allude are — The 
introdu61ion of a Bill into Parliament for a 
General Inclosure of Commons, Common 
Fields, and Waste Lands, and the adopting 
Mr. Elkington's principle of Drainage. 
With regard to the first, surely, my Lord, 
it wanted no ghost to tell Sir John Sinclair, 
that whatever measure tends materially to. 
abridge the fees of the officers of tlie House 
