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merit, as to bulk and extent of stooling, 
or creeping upon the ground; of the best, 
a complete little meadow, of two seasons’ 
growth. Asa creeping-grass, we must 
not describe its height, which was not 
apparently considerable, but its length, 
which may extend many feet. It is by 
no means harsh and sapless, as I had 
conjectured, but rather well saturated 
with a saccharine juice, and of good pro- 
mise for nutritive quality. The usual 
practice is to plant the grass as described 
in Dr. Richardson’s Memoir; and every 
knot or joint, indeed almost every par- 
ticle of it, like couch, will vegetate; and 
it is particularly hardy, acquiring roots, 
whereon almost it may be cast, even in 
the interstices of a pavement, or upon a 
gravel-walk, notwithstanding it is natu. 
rally an aquatic; and when once it has 
exclusive possession of the soil, scarcely 
any hard usage is sufficient to destroy it. 
I have not seen it cut, which I appre- 
hend, with a thick crop, must be a work 
of some difficulty for a scythe, from the 
excessive matting of the bottom. As all 
other grasses are still more inimical to 
the fiorin than even to lucerne, it ought, 
like that plant, to be drilled and kept 
clean. 
Its chief use is said to be as a winter 
and spring grass; but I dare not enter- 
tain the sanguine expectation, that in our 
climate fiorin-grass may be made into 
hay throughout the winter, with that 
extraordinary success which has been 
experienced by Dr. Richardson, in Ire- 
Jand, where the climate is so much more 
mild, and, probably from its humidity, so 
much better adapted to the product of 
this grass. | shall, however, not deny 
myself the pleasing hope, that it may be- 
come a good and neyer-failing spring 
resource for us, and relying upon the 
presumed, or rather attested, qualities of 
the grass, a certain advantageous mode 
of application strikes me very forcibly. 
Least of all will I deny the just claim uf 
Dr. Richardson to the original discovery 
of the merits of this grass ; for although 
many of us had seen the stool-grass long 
since, [ am not aware that it had pre- 
viously occurred to any one, to recom- 
mend its culture. It may be found upon 
_ wet and moorish soils, in many or most 
parts of England. The first specimen I 
saw of fiorin, was a very long string from 
Dr. Richardson’s ground in Treland, 
shewn me by Mr. Handley, of Penton- 
ville, a gentleman warmly attached to 
the interests of agriculture; and who, in 
Journal of a recent Voyage to Cadiz. 
315 
concerned, has been the means of pro- 
moting covenants between landlord and 
tenant, greatly to the general benefit. 
Fiorin-grass, of the genuine Irish stock, 
may be seen, and the sets procured, at 
the nursery of Mr. Gibbs, seedsman to 
the Board of Agriculture. 
Joun LAWRENCE. 
Somer’s Town, Sept. 11, 
a 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
JOURNAL of 4 recent VOYAGE to CADIZ. 
(Continued from p. 206, No. 204.) 
December 7, 1808. 
be, is now the third day since we have 
been in suspense as to the fate of 
Madrid; we are not yet certain of the 
enemy heing there, though the French 
party in this place, with as much modesty 
as they can assume, confidently report 
that Buonaparte is at the capital; and 
that the city has been treacherously sur- 
rendered to him by Morla, the late go- 
vernor of Cadiz. stig 
The former part of the report is even 
more credited than the latter; they say, 
it is impossible that their ‘* faithful 
Morla” can be a traitor! the man who 
was among the first to support the cause 
of their “ beloved Ferdinand ;” the man 
who has penned loyal addresses to the 
people; who succeeded their sacrificed 
governor (Solano), and who had so devo- 
tedly, while here, attached himself to 
patriotism, and always assured them, by 
his signature, that he was ever their 
Morla. 
In the mean time no gazette or letters 
are brought from Madrid; the courier is 
not quite three days coming from thence, 
and we ought to have received them in 
course on the evening of the fourth; this 
is the greatest reason for believing that 
all is not right in that quarter; but the 
people will not- credit the courier who 
brings letters from Cordova, and says, 
that the French are at Manzanares, in 
La Mancha. 
The consternation is easily conceived ; 
the people are clamorous to know what 
has occurred, and the governor pretends 
that he is without advices from the army, 
This silence, I understand, is always ob- 
served when a disastrous event occurs 3 
and it often happens that the English 
newspapers have communicated more in- 
formation respecting the enemy, than the 
members of their government have 
thought right to publish. 
I have heard a few anecdotes of Mor. 
la, who, it seems, was much inclined to de 
certain instances where he has been justice, as haying the chief controul of thy 
administratiog 
