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disadvantages in our trade with the Chi- 
nese, especially if there be any remedy 
against it, within our power. It is said 
that they refuse to take any articles of 
our manufacture in barter for their tea, 
but require gold, silver, or tin, and also 
treat the Europeans with contempt, as if 
they did them a kindness in trading with 
thematall. Now, considering the vast ad- 
vantages they must derive from their trade 
with us, it might render them mere ac- 
commodating, did they know that we 
could be supplied elsewhere; and it has 
often been a subject of wonder to me, 
that no attempts have been made to bring 
this to bear. It may be said perhaps 
truly, that tea isa native of China and of 
no other country; but hasthe plant never 
been introduced into any other part of 
the world, or will it grow in no other? 
A plant has often been exhibited in Eng- 
land as the tea-tree; but whether it be 
really so, I knew not. Perhaps it would 
not thrive in our climate, but among our 
numerous settlements, some of which are 
situated in the same latitude as China, it 
might probably be introduced, and calti- 
vated with advantage; such as the Cape 
of Good hope, some parts of New Hol- 
Jand, &c. Why, then, among the many 
speculations of the present age, is not 
this attempted? 
I should be obliged if any of your Cor- 
respondents would inform me, through 
the medium of your Magazine,whetlier the 
tea-tree is cultivated with success in any - 
country except China, or whether the Eu- 
“ropeans are possessed of the genuine tea- 
treeatall, or not. Your's, &c. 
March 16, 1808. EAN, 
EEE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the Magazine for April 1800, there 
is a yery curious and excellent paper 
on the subject of Scotticisms, which I re- 
gret has been discontinued; as the au- 
thor, however, since that period. may 
perhaps have devoted a little time in pro-. 
secution of his enquiry, and in adding to 
‘his list (for which from his acumen he 
seems eminently qualified), it will confer a 
fayour on many of your northern readers, 
if he will revive the same through the 
medium’ of your Miscellany, while we 
shall trust to your compliance in granting 
his request of “a few columns” for that 
purpose. In vol. 9, p. 237, he introduces 
n verse of an old song, * compesed in or 
about 1746,” in illustration ef two parti- 
eular words :— 
Explanation of Scotticisms. 
[May 1, 
*¢ Satan sits in his dark nook, 
Breaking sticks to broil the deuke ; 
The bloody dutcher gae a yell, 
And loud the laugh gaed round a hell." 
Or, as I have heard it— 
“¢ The deil sat grinin? in the neuk, 
Riving sticks, to roast the Deuke ;” Sc. ; 
If“ Buchanan,” or any of your Corre- 
spondents will have the goodness to furnish 
you with a complete copy of this Jaco- 
bite ballad, I shall feel gratified by its in- 
sertion. ‘ te 
In the second column of p, 258. vol. 9, 
Buchanan states, that the plantations, 
and other rural decorations about a gen- 
tleman’s seat, are called in Scotland his _ 
policy; for what reason he never could 
discover, &c. In Sibbald’s Glossary, the 
word: is thus explained; “ Policie, Po- 
litie, the ornamented ground about a man- 
sion-house: ‘from Fr.’ Polir, excolere:” 
but Pinkerton in his History of Scotland, - 
vol. 2, p. 46, et seg. I conceive affords 
a more satisfactory derivation. “ A par- 
liament (he writes) assembled at Edin- 
burgh 11th of March 1504, (it ought to be 
1503) which deserves immortal reputa-- 
tion, from the prudence and public spi- 
rit of itsdecrees; the important tendency 
of which, towards national improvement 
and civilization, deserves the utmost at- 
tention :” then inter alia it was ordained, 
“ that as the wood of Scotland was ut- 
terly destroyed,” every lord, and land- 
holder, would plant at least one acre of 
wood, if there were no great wood or for- 
rest upon his estate: they are also re- 
quired to form parks replenished with 
deer, and to make ponds, rabbit-warrens, 
dovecots, orchards, and hedges. (6 Jas. 
IV. cap. 74, Murray’s edition). “ It is 
statute and ordained anent policie to be 
halden in the cuntrie,” that is, rural re- 
gulation: “ hence seems to have arisen 
the Scottish term policy, for parks and 
pleasure grounds: a metonymy of the 
word in the statute.” Your's, &c. 
Edinburgh, October 21,1807. D.B. 
—=Ee 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ZRERMIT me to correct a mistake of 
i your Correspondent, “ a Friend to 
the Friendless,” who, in pleading the 
cause of justice towards animals, has suf- 
fered himself to be unjust towards a class 
of his fellow men, by miss-stating the 
practice of the Jewish butchers. He says, 
in page 25 of the present volume, “ the 
Jews, 1 believe, in ancient times, pro- 
nounced 
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