and overhung by huge columnar_rocks, 
we follow a narrow woodland path che- 
quered by the fun-beams darting through ~ 
the leaves, ford a clear rapid ftream, and 
enter a lonely valley fenced in by rude 
columnar rocks, lifting themfelveg one 
above another, and breaking the white 
clouds that foar around their lofty fides, 
at the bottom of which are fpread the 
clear waters of Llyn-y ddinas darkened 
by the furrounding crags, and {wept by 
the black wings cf the hungry cormorani, 
the fole difturber of its melancholy reft. 
Llyn Gwynedd fucceeds, on whofe banks 
appear a few cottages, woods and peafants 
turning hay with their hands. Skirting 
with difficulty its fteep rocky brink, and 
croffing a long tract of bog, we enter a 
winding lane,overhung with hazels, through 
which we catch-the tparkling of a rapid 
ftream ; and wandering over a long dreary 
mountain, come out at length on the pais ° 
of Llanberris frowning in coniummate 
horror. On either fide the bare perpen- 
dicular crags of Snewdon and Glyder- 
vawr rife to the height of a thouiand feet, 
and fade into cloads—bencath, a torrent 
forces its impetuous courfe over the huge 
fragments which impede its pafiage— 
around, is a rude wildernefs of fione, 
—huge fragments torn from the rocks 
by froit and fterms cheak up the valley 
with their enormoys mafles—looking up, 
the feat whence they have fallen appears 
a {mall notch. A few young afh-trees 
ftart from the clefts and wave defiance to 
the clambering goat 3; no bird hovers near, 
no living thing wanders on the rocks, 
one lonely hut completes the horror of 
the {cene! The clouds lew’r with increaf- 
ing blacknefs, heavy miits ro]! down the 
mountains—the biaft howls, a pattering 
fhower beats on our faces, and nothing 
but achacs of cloud furrounds us. At 
this moment the rocks open and we dif- 
cern the church and cottages of Llanberris 
cowering low inthe vale before us, whofe 
fartheft winding difcovers two dark lakes 
wafhing the feet of the rocks, and the 
ruined tower of Dolbadern caftle, com- 
manding from its frowning reck the nar- 
row pais between them. MHaftening on- 
ward, we were glad to fhelter ourfelves 
in Lanberris inn, a rude ftone hovel, with 
damp ftone floors, bare walls of the fame 
material and bare rafters. A peat~fire 
foon fuffocates us with fmoke, which it 
was impofible to difpel, as the windows 
would not open. Sread, butter, eggs, 
milk and ale, the cottage affords, and on 
thefe we fup with mirth which the no- 
velty of our fituation naturally in{pires, 
(To Be continued ) 
232 Defence of Foreftalling. 
[O@ober 1, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
DEFENCE OF FORESTALLINGe 
(Continued from page 24, No. 90.) 
; CASE VII. 
« ea men punifhed for withdrawing 
oyfters from Billingfgate, after they 
had been brought to market!’ In vain 
they pleaded that the market was glutted, 
and that the oyiters were taken away for. 
the purpofe of being produced another 
day. Ifthe retailers of oyfters had done 
the fame thing, it would have been all 
right, thougtrthe effect to the public would 
have been exactly the fame: except that 
by this regulation, as it is called, the 
oyfter-catchers are difcouraged from fup- 
plying the market: and thus, ultimately, 
oyfters are rendered dearer.—What a dif- 
tance between common law and comme 
fenie! ee 
CASE VIII. 
«* A perfon in Dublin punifhed for 
buying a fhip-load of coal.” The object, 
in this cafe, is to diftrefs the feller, by 
want of capital, or time, cr both; fo as 
to make him retail the coal at a lower 
price than the *perfon to whom he fold; 
or (as the buyer might feil on commif- 
fion) to make the agent fell, on account 
of his-employer, at a lower price than he 
would afk for himéfelf. & 
. CASE 1X. 
I fell a calf to day toa perfon who will 
fell the calf at the market to-morrow. 
He gives me forty fhillings, and goes to 
market with twenty or thirty calves more. 
“af be gains one fhilling per calf on an 
average, he is very well paid. I could not 
fend my man to the market and receive 
forty fhillings clear, unlefs I fold_it for 
forty-two fhillings, But the perfon to 
whom I fold, has fold the calf again for ~ 
forty-one fhillings. Gain to the pub- 
lic one fhilling, befides the labour of my 
man about other work at home. If the ~ 
{ame perfon had met my. man on his way 
to the marke, and ‘bought the fame calf; 
or if he had bought the calf in the market 
to fell again, the advantage to me and to 
the public would have been in proportion 
to the time faved to my man: but he 
would have beena foreftaller or a regrater. 
And *‘thefe are the crimes which parliae 
ment muft be petitioned again to make 
punifhable by ftatute! If the principles 
of the petitioners are right, they fhould 
petition parliament to prohibit more than 
one man from being concerned in the 
making of a pin. 
I can think but of one reafon befides 
thofe already noticed, why in this and fi- 
milar cafes any perion defirous of buy- 
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