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exertions of the board at home. He refutes forne ridicu¬ 
lous prejudices conceived againft the board on the iub- 
jefts of tithes, and of its furveys being fuppofed to be in¬ 
tended for furnilhing new fources of taxation ; and in 
the following paragraph, notices particularly one, which 
might perhaps have been thought to reft on a better foun¬ 
dation. 
Another fource of obloquy, which has prefled heavier 
perhaps then all the reft, and efpecialiy in the minds of 
■“■the inhabitants of this city, was the notion, that the board 
was the origin of all the endeavours to bring cattle to 
market in an uncommon degree of fatnefs. “ I know no¬ 
thing you have done, but to bring meat to market fo fat 
that nobody can eat it,” was an obfervation of a member 
of the houl'e of commons. Many pamphlets, and at leaft 
forty newfpapers', have ftiown the lame lamentable igno¬ 
rance. You, gentlemen, well know, that, from the fir ft 
inftitution to the prefent moment, the board has never 
offered a Angle premium for, nor given its fanction to, any 
one meafure that had the raoft diftant tendency to fucli 
an efteift. This purfuit flowed into other channels, abfolutely 
tinconneBed with the beard ; and there you left it, in my humble 
opinion, with great prudence. In the premiums you have 
offered, in the practices you have fanftioned, (they have 
extended no further than the two objects of foiling cattle 
and working oxen,) you had no other view than that of 
increafing the live-ltock of the kingdom, and confequently 
the quantity of meat in the market, without the fmalleft 
attention to the degree of its fatnefs. There is not a An¬ 
gle meafure that was ever adopted by this board, from 
the original eftabliihment to the prefent moment, that 
had not a direft tendency to increale the common, and 
wholefome food of the lower dalles of the people, and to 
ameliorate their condition by every means that human 
forefight could devife. 
Mr. Young concludes with obferving, “ Upon the whole, 
there is no perlon who will give a ferious conlideration 
to the condud of the board, but muft be difpofed to ad¬ 
mit, that it is an inftitution which has deferved well of 
the public. To the farmers of the kingdom, you have 
made no other return for their unfounded fufpicions than 
that which flows in a conftant ftream of benefits. You 
have made known, for the intereft of all, the advantage¬ 
ous practices of a few ; you have fought with unvarying- 
anxiety the means of their inftrucHon ; and thou/ands are 
enjoying at this moment the profit derived from practices, 
the origin of which is to them unknown. The landlords 
of the kingdom muft be under equal obligations to an in¬ 
ftitution, whofe uniform efforts tend to eftablilh the fpi- 
rit of improvement in every diltrict of the empire. The 
lovers of fcience will rejoice to fee, that the exertions of 
the board direftlv tend to give the fame foundation to 
agricultural knowledge, which fo many other efforts of the 
human mind have long refted upon. That you well know 
how to draw wife conclufions from the premifes you have 
created, you have given repeated and convincing proofs : 
no advice offered by you has been afled upon without de¬ 
cided fucqefs ; none has been rejected without the mifehief 
coming iu full relief to the eye of the politician. You 
would have remedied one former fcarcity, and you would 
have abfolutely prevented another; fhould a third afflict 
the kingdom, and inlufficient remedies be applied, not a 
ihadow of blame can reft on this inftitution, which has 
pointed out thofe lines of conduct which experience has 
proved to be effective.” 
Husbandry is reprefented in painting and fculpture, 
as ckflically delineated in the Frontifpiece to this volume. 
.HU'SEDONCK, a town of Flanders: five miles fouth- 
eaff of Ghent. 
HU'SENETZ, a town of Bohemia, in Prachatitz : four 
miles north-weft of Prachatitz. 
HU'SET, a town of Hungary : twenty-four miles eaft 
of Munkaiz. 
HUS'BEY-FIOL', a town of Stveden, in the province 
ofE^it Gothland : fourteen miles north-weft of Linkoping. 
H U S 
HUSH, inter]. [Without etymology.] Silence! be ftill j 
no noiie! • 
There’s fomething elfe to do; hujh and be mute, 
Or elfe our fpell is marr’d. Shakfpeare, 
HUSH, adj. Still; filent; quiet: 
As we often fee, agair.ft fome ftorm, 
A filence in the heav’ns, the rack Itand ftill, 
The bold winds fpeechlefs, and the orb below 
As hujti as death. - Shakfpeare. 
To HUSH, v. n. To be ftill ; to be filent: 
This frown’d, that fawn’d, the third for fhame did blufli ; 
Another feemed envious or coy; 
Another in her teeth did gnaw a rufh ; 
Butatthefe ftrangers’ prefence every one did hvjh. Spenfer. 
To HUSH, v.a. To ftill; to filence; to quiet; to ap- 
peafe: 
When in a bed of ftraw we flirink together. 
And the bleak winds fliall whiftle round our heads. 
Wilt thou then talk thus to me? Wiit thou then 
Hujl) my cares thus, and fhelter me with love ? Otway. 
To HUSH UP, v.a. To fupprefs in filence ; to forbid to 
be mentioned.—This matter is hujhedup, and the fervants 
are forbid to talk of it. Pope. 
HUSH'-MONEY, f. A bribe to hinder information j 
pay to fecure filence : 
A dext’rous fteward, when his tricks are found, 
Hujh-moncy fends to all the neighbours round ; 
His matter, unfufpicious of his pranks. 
Pays all the coft, and gives the villain thanks. Swift. 
HUSK, f. \_hiildfck, Dut. or huyfiken, from buys] The 
outmoft integument of fruits.—Do not content yourfelves 
with mere words, left you feed upon hujks inftead of ker¬ 
nels. JVatts. 
Some fteep their feeds, and fome in cauldrons boil 
O’er gentle fires ; th’ exuberant juice to drain, 
And Iwell the flatt’ring hujks with fruitful grain. Dryden. 
To HUSK, v.a. To ftrip off the outward integument. 
HUS'KED, adj. Bearing a hulk ; covered with a hulk. 
HUS'KY, adj. Abounding in hulks; confiding of hulks i 
Shave the goat’s lhaggy beard, left thou too late 
In vain fliould’ft feek a drainer,,to difpart 
The hiijky terrene dregs from purer muft. Phillips. 
KUSS (John), an eminent Bohemian divine and mar¬ 
tyr, born at Hulfenitz in 1373. He received his education 
at the univerfity of Prague, where he was admitted to the 
degree of B.A. in 1393, and to that of M. A. in 1395. 
In the year 1400 we find him pallor of the church called 
Bethlehem, in that city; and fome time afterwards lie 
was appointed profeffor of divinity in the univerfity. He 
lived at Prague in the higheft reputation, both on ac¬ 
count of the landlity of his manners and the purity of 
his doHrine. He was alfo diftinguilhed for his uncom¬ 
mon erudition and eloquence. At this time the writings 
of Wickliff had been introduced into Bohemia, and much 
read at Prague, where Hufs adopted feveral of his opi¬ 
nions, and in particular thofe relating to the papal hierar¬ 
chy, the defpotifm of the court of Rome, and the cor- 
raption of the clergy. The archbifliop of Prague, and 
the clergy in general, who were warmly attached to the 
interefts of pope Gregory, were greatly exafperated at 
thefe proceedings; and Hufs was declared by the church 
of Rome no better than a heretic. In the year >414, when 
the council of Conftance had alfembled, it was agreed be¬ 
tween the pope and the emperor that Hui's Ihould appear 
before it, and give an account of his conduit and doc¬ 
trine. He was accordingly fmnmoned to appear before 
the council; and, that he might not be deterred from 
obeying the citation by any apprehenfions refpeiting his 
perl’onal fecurity, the emperor, granted him a formal fafe- 
conduit, both for his journey to Conftance, his refidence 
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