1802.] Letter from Dr. Beddoes to the Mayor of Briftol. 233 
without the affiftance of oil-cake. The 
two yoke of Mefirs. Hudfon and King 
were fingularly beautiful, and fuppofed 
by judges to be a true fpecimen, in all 
the charatteriftic points, of the famous 
ved’ cattle of the weft, the oldeftand purett 
breed upon the ifland. Thefe miffed the 
fecond prize, it is to be prefumed, from 
the circumftance of their having had oil- 
cake. The foreign-bred pair were large, 
deep, of heavy bone, and had been re- 
markably good draught cattle. The 
Suflex were large and heavy in the bone. 
There were, befides, fome beautiful fat 
heifers of the weltern breed, and a large 
Alderney bull, 
The fheep were of the Ryeland, or 
Hereford, the South Down, and the 
Wiltthire breeds, befides a pen of the 
Dithley, which being of the long-woolled 
{pecies, were fhewn only as correct {peci- 
mens of their kind. . The Ryeland, allo, 
Lord Somerville’s, were exhibited; not 
with a view to the premium, but as a fam- 
ple of that {pecies which he croffes with 
the Spanith ram. They were of a very 
high form, remarkably white and delicate, 
and fhewed indubitable tokens of the pro- 
duction of a valuable fleece. The firft 
prize was adjudged to the Duke of Bed- 
ford’s South Down lambs, which were 
allowed, on all hands, to be of the beft 
of that truly excellent and ufeful breed : 
the fecond to Mr. Wells’s Wilthhire 
fheep, a large and coarfe {pecies, known 
in London by the name of horned-crocks. 
Lord Somerville’s drag-cart alfo took the 
general attention, and it was regretted 
that the two-furrow plough had not been 
fent for infpection. The company feemed 
univerfally fatisfied with this fhew, and 
not a fingle exclamation was heard againft 
* fat meat... 
At the dinner, at the Crown-and-An- 
chor, in the Strand, were prefent, the 
Marquis of Sligo, Prefident of the Board 
of Agriculture in Ireland; Lord Grim- 
ftone; the Earls of Breadalbane, Win- 
cheliea, and Caffiliss Colonel Fullarton ; 
Dr. Anderfon; Mefirs. Attley, Oakley, 
éc.; Lord Somerville in the Chair. His 
Lordthip made a very pertinent fpeech, 
and particularly impreffive, as it touched 
the critica] fituation of a Noble Duke, fo 
' juftly dear to the company prefent. The 
toafts were: —The King, with thanks for 
the honour his Majefty had done the Exhi- 
bition—The Queen and Royal Family— 
The Duke of Bedford, and the fpeedy re- 
ftoration of that health which 1s fo valua- 
ble to his country—The Umpires —The 
Plough—The Fleece-breeding in all its 
branches—Improved Hufbandry and in- 
creafing Commerce, long may their in- 
terefts beinfeparable. The Noble Chair. 
man then, with an elegant compliment to 
the exertions of literary men, in the caufe 
of agriculture, gave **Dr. Anderfon;°° 
and afterwards ‘* the Author of the New 
Farmer’s Calendar, unfortunately abfent.” 
The concluding toait, ‘PEACE anD 
PLENTY.” hw, eye 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STIR. 
MONG fome papers of a gentleman 
A lately deceafed in Dublin, I found 
the following memorandum, dated in the 
year 1790:— 
«6 A Mr. Spenfer, who refided at Mal- 
low, in Ireland, about the year 1737, an 
old gentleman belonging to the excife- 
office, lineally defcended from the poet of 
that name, has an original portrait of his 
immortal anceftor, for which he refufed a 
confiderable fum of money; he has alfo 
feveral papers, records, &c. relating to 
him.”’—Perhaps this valuable picture 
might be recovered. ie Sane 
i —s ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
INCLOSE a letter to the Mayor of 
Briftol,which has appeared in oneof the 
public prints here. Some of the facts, per- 
haps, you willjudge worthy of awider circu- 
lation. I cannot but fuppofe that the quan- 
tity of unrelieved mifery in this city has 
been utterly unknown to its opulent inhabi- 
tants. It feems incumbent upon them, 
not lefsin point of humanity than of pru- 
dence, to imitate the honourable example 
which other cities place before their eyes. 
_My inguiries lead~me to believe that in| 
ordinary times there is much low fever in 
Briftol. And_as you cannot be fafe while 
a neighbour’s heufe is on fire, fo will fparks 
of contagion be always flying from perfon 
to petfon, whatever be their difference of 
fituation, I am Sir, ; 
Clifion, Your obedient Servant, 
March 18,1802. THomMas BEDDOES. 
Io the MAYOR of BRISTOL. 
SIR, A 
MANY families have been fuffering from 
a peftilential complaint, which has been 
lately raging throughout the United King- 
doms. ‘There are few. whom it has not 
alarmed, and fewer {till whom the report 
of its devaftations has not reached. Britdl, 
we fhall prefently fee, has been no way, 
fpared. I prefume, therefore, that your 
mind may not be unprepared for a few obfere. 
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