1800. ] 
ereGting the propofed mill, they would foon 
find their charges re-imburfed with inter- 
eft. Such machines would be of peculiar 
ufe at the various hofpitals, infirmaries, 
and poor-houfes, as well as at cotton- 
mills, or other manufaétories where a 
number of children or work-people are 
fupplied with provifions by the owners. 
One obftacle to the introduétion and 
utility of the mills propofed, would arife 
from the barbarous remains of the feudal 
Jaws in this kingdom, by which the lords 
of manors, iu fome places, claim a right to 
compel all tye houfe-holders within their 
reipective jurifdictions to grind their corn 
omly at the lord’s mill. Where, therefore, 
fuch a cuftom prevails, private mills of 
any kind would be ufelefs; and the in- 
habitants muft quietly fubmit to be im; 
pofed upon as ufual, for fear of inncva- 
tions, which, in thefe days, are {aid to be 
peculiarly dangerous, and to carry the fure 
mark of the Beaft upon them. But fuch 
Jocal, injurious cuftoms are not very nu- 
merous, and are unworthy of general at- 
tention. » 
In your lafi number, Mr. Robinfon has 
propofed fome very excellent hints for re- 
gulating the price of corn. After men- 
tioning the quantity of oats conlumed by 
the troop-horfes, he might have added the 
quantity, too, which is more wa/fefully 
confumed by the race.horfes, hunters, and 
hounds of our great men, for no valuable 
’ purpofe whatfoever; but which, on the 
contrary, tends to corrupt the public mo- 
rals, to injure private property, and to en- 
courage a fpirit of favage cruelty towards 
the inferior animal creation. 
After all, the moft rational and effec- 
tual plan ‘for reducing the price of corn, 
would be by inclofing our vaft traés of 
walte lands, under the fanction and autho- 
rity of a bill for that purpofe. By refers 
ring to your vol. abovementioned, p. 2, 
in the note, it appears, that Yorkthire 
alone contains ** 265,000 acres of lind 
capable of cultivation!!!) Now, fup- 
poting thefe acres to be cultivated, and to 
produce one quarter each of wheat or. 
oats, what a vat addition of food would 
that county enjoy! and what an ¢ incalcu- 
lable benefit’? would thereby refult to the 
nation at large! How abfurd, then, and 
purblind the policy, to import that corn 
which we might grow ourfelves, and thus 
to encourage toreigners to improve their 
waite lands at our expence, anc while ours 
is moft unaccountably and culpably ne- 
gleéted ? Your’s E. M jy: 
Lincolz, fan. 3, 1800. 
P. S. Your ¢orrefpondent R.. vol. ili, p. 

; 
Hor fe-mills—Corn Laws hurtful. ; 
.moft affuredly never published. 
3r 
423, inquires after a -threfhingemachine. If 
he will pieafe to confule Mr.A Young’s Sur- 
vey of the Lincolnthire Hufbandry, lateiy 
publithed, he will find that fuch machines are 
well known in that county. It is an obfer- 
vation of the celebrated author of thd above 
Survey; that ¢* the farmers in fome parts of ~ 
the kingdom get rich by modes of hufbandry 
unknown in other parts:”” and this obferva- 
tion may. be in fome fort applied to imple- 
ments of htfbandry, by which the.farmers in 
fome diftriéts are enabled to do their bufinefs 
more eafily and fpeedily than in others. This 
is particularly the cafe in the-article of dvef- 
fing corn, which is now done in-many places 
in the north and north-éaft of England by a: 
machine, nearly, if not altogether, unknown 
in many parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and the 
fouthern parts of the kingdom. 
meme aot oatmeal 
Lo the Editor of the Mosthly Magazine. 
SER, 
af ¥&N looking over your Jaf Monthly 
Agricultural Report, Fam happy to 
obierve, that you advert to the milchiev- 
ous confequences attendant onan alarm of 
{carcity ; the effects of which, a few years 
back, cannot be forgotten. And I am 
anxious that you flould hit upon fome 
method of impreffirg it on the minds of 
your numerous readers. Tell the benevo-: 
lent inquirers after the moft effectual 
means of relieving the poor at the prefent 
crifis, that, beyond their own perfonal: 
attention to their wants, the belt an{wer 
they can receive, is that which the old 
Bourdeavx merchant gave toColbert* Leave _ 
us to ourfelves.’ ‘Lell the legiflator, that 
of all the acts yet framed relating to grain, 
their afhes g;vén to the winds would more 
benefit his country than any he could fub- 
{titute- in their place... Tell But Iam 
afraid, Mv. Editor, that you may tell all 
this in vain.—Some few centuries more 
muft yet pals; and, in the mean time, 
we fhall continue to amend corn-laws; to’ 
fix the price of Jabour; and to patronize 
charitable infitutions. “Of the latter it 
has been aflerted that Great Britain can 
boaft more than any other nation. Perhaps 
with truth. And the judge that held truth 
as.a libel was perfectly mght; for a more 
fevere libel on the Britifly Conftitution was 
; Tam, Sir, 
With fentiments of efteem, 
Dec. uth. A POOR NoRTHUMBRIAN. 
- rene SEP 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 
SIR, bah ih ei 
A igs your excellent mifcellany have ap- 
[ peared fome intereiting accounts of the 
new metrical fyflem of France; and, in 
the 

