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to escape from such a house, is to be im- 
prisoned for forty days. Fourteen days 
atter the publication of this regulation, 
every one who never had the natural 
small-pox was to be inoculated for the 
cow-pock, and every new born child in 
future is to be vaccinated in the first two 
months after its birth. The inoculation 
is performed gratis by the physicians of the 
government, and any person who, after 
having undergone the vaccine inoculation 
takes the small-pox naturally, is to re- 
ceive one hundred livres. 
Whether it be possible to apply such 
severe regulations to a free and populous 
country, is doubtful; but that they are 
calculated to extirpate the loathsome and 
mortal variolous disease, cannot be de- 
nied. Qne part at least of those regula- 
trons, that which relates to rewards grant- 
ed to persons who after having been vac- 
cinated, still take the small-pox, might be 
easily adopted, and would, in the course 
et thirty years, prove, beyoud contradic- 
tion, how far the vaccme inoculation 
may be trusted as a preservative against 
the small-pox. - Your’s, &c. 
Pimlico, D, Boitzav. 
No. 6, Upper Eaton-sireet, 
Dec. 7, 1807. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly 3faguzine. 
SIR, 
R. BONE wishes to prove the 
propriety and the good resulting 
from the consolidation’ of farms, and 
brings forward the plans of a Caithness~ 
baronet to corroborate his assertions! 
By his consolidation of farms, not for 
agricultural purposes, but for the intros 
duction of sheep ; this baronet, it appears, 
has ejected a great number of families, 
and has “ built a town that the ejected 
farmers might be ready on the spot to 
eat the produce of his farm, and also 
built each ejected farmer a cottage and 
garden, with two Scotch acres of land 
that he might have the use of them.” 
If Mr. Bone calls building one house, 
building a town, he is right; for only one 
house of this said town is yet built, for 
which the baronet is well paid, having 
engaged it to Government, as an excise- 
office. 
A shrubbery, planted to ornament this 
town, at an expence of one or two hun- 
dred pounds, has been cut down and let 
out for the annual rent of three pounds, 
to plant potatoes in; and those lots not 
built upon are let out for the same pur- 
pose, at the annual rent of five shillings 
Effects of the Consolidation of Farins. 
[Jan. f, 
each; so that one has to walk knee deep 
in mud before one can get to the few 
houses now building. I have not heard 
of any cottages built, but by this plan 
each comfortable farmer is reduced from 
a happy situation, to what in Caithness is 
called acotter. Now, even to this day, a 
cotter here is obliged to work three or 
four days in the week for his landlord, 
and send him so many dozen of fowls and 
eves, a few pigs, some wool, cheese, &c. 
&c. so that he can hardly be said to live ; 
aud this Mr. Bone calls an advantage! 
In short, these ejected farmers are so 
distressed, that last year a vessel sailed 
from this place for America, having on 
board one hundred and thirty of them ; 
aud this very month another vessel 
sailed from hence with one handred and 
hfty more of them! ; 
A Whghlander is partial to the spot on 
which he was born, and at home is cone 
tent, if allowed to possess the small farm 
his father held; and there he is slug- 
gish, indolent, careless, and happy. 
When abroad, he is enterprising, bold, 
aud courageous; witness in our army at 
America, on the Continent, in Egypt, in 
India, Cape of Good Hope, Buenos 
Ayres, Maida, and Zealand: yet this 
brave race of men, from a blind policy, 
are driven frem their homes! 
I shall conclude with a northern toast 
—May they who prefer a sheep. to a 
Highlander never want a horn / 
Caithness, Your's, &c. 
Sept. $0, 1807. Joun O’Groat-. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE observations lately made in your 
Magazine concerning the use of the 
adverb than after the word other, have 
induced me to ask, what reason can be 
assigned, why this adverb is never ad- 
mitted after the two adjectives, inferior 
and superior. These adjectives, like their 
Latin originals of the same orthography, 
are evidently of the comparative degree; 
it seems to me, therefore, somewhat re- 
markable, that the preposition to should 
be adopted and invariably made use of 
after these, and, I believe, after no other 
comparatives, to the entire exclusion of 
than, which notwithstanding has always 
been considered, as the only ‘legitimate 
attendant of the comparative degree. 
Your’s, &c. 
W. SINGLETON. 
For 
Hanslope, 
December 9, 1807. 
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