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duce many others to obtain so necessary 
and desirable an article of life, in a part 
of Middlesex where the inhabitants have 
been deterred from the attempt, under 
an idea that 1t could not be procured at 
a less depth ive between 2, and 800 
feet. 
Having Laisa Mr. Middleton’s Sur- 
vey: of Middlesex, and collected all the ’ 
information I could, as to weils sunk at 
Paddington, Kingsbury, and other places 
adjommng the parish of Wisden, I de- 
termined to sink a well at Neasdon, a 
pleasant rural village in that parish, and 
situated on an eminence between the 
Edgeware and Harrow Roads. Havipg 
engaged George, the well digger, he 
began on the 13th of March last, and 
on the 12th of M: ay idstant, at che depth 
of 166 feet, he bored six feet into a bed 
ef gravel, which produced water that 
rose gradually for five days, and now 
stands 104 feet deep in the well. The 
water is exceilent and rather soit. The 
stratas were as follow: . 
FEET. 
Yellow ortop clay ---- & : 
stone ------+----. 2 
Blue clay- -------- 96 
Red clay- -----+--- 50 
Tetal - - --- 166 
Many shells and other curious things 
were found in the clay, and at 84 feet 
deep a large piece of wood was taken 
up, which, at first, appeared like silver, 
but, upon being exposed to the air, turn- 
ed black and cracked into small pieces. 
The inhabitants of Wilsden may now 
be encouraged to revder water-tanks, 
chalk drains, and filtering stones, useless, 
by sinking wells certain districts ef the 
parish at a joint expence, which would 
fall very easy upon inélividuals, and tend 
greatly to benefit. their Ldalths at all 
times, and especially in a dry season of 
the year. Your’s, &e. 
| Boswell-court. London, James Hab, 
18th May, 1809. 
P.S. George sunk a well last year for 
Mr. Waters, at Kingsbury Green, 128 feet 
deep, which now stands 60 feet in water, 
rather hard but excellent water. Kingsbury 
Green is about two miles from Neasdon. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
tele 5 im PARLIAMENT of the REPRE- 
SENTATION of the COMMONS. 
BELIEVE you may take the under 
written as a correct outline, as far as 
2 
Critical Survey of Lessing’s Works. 
[June }, 
at present settled among the friends of 
reform. 
1. Repeal of the Septennial ; 
course revives the Triennial act. | 
if. All male freeholders paying to 
assessed taxes, to exercise the right of 
suffrage. 
IL. The worst of the Bor roughs to be 
done away, by compulsory payments to 
be settled by Parliament, (and not as 
under Mr. Pitt’s plan, by encreased bid- 
dings); and their share in the represen- 
tation to be transferred to the unre- 
presented towns, Stratford on Avon, 
Manchester, Birminghain, Leeds, &e. 
so as that the number of the Members 
remain as at present. 
I think that it cannot be denied, 
that this plan of reform brings us back 
much nearer than we are at present to 
the spirit of the antient English constitu- 
tion, and to the time principle of repre- 
sentation. I wish the idea therefore to 
be circulcated in your. Magazine, which 
is SO extensive a medium of intelligence. 
That the plan is temperate, cannot, 
I think, reasonably be disputed. That 
which of 
. it would be very considerably beneficially, 
and permanently efficacious, [ strongly 
hope. 
Neither this, nor any plan can succeed, 
unless the public mind, extensively, fen 
liberately, and upon ’ due information 
adopt it, and express that adoption in 
. public meetings, and by numerous signa- 
tures. And if this be done, from a con- 
viction of its necessity and utility, I have 
little doubt of its then, but not always, 
making its way 1’ Parhaiecake : 
[should hope, that as to the second and 
better classof-boroughs, where there is & 
regular corporation, but a small number, 
of yoters, as at Bury St. Edmunds, Strat- 
ford, &c. that the representation there 
will be improved | by adding the Free- 
holders of the borough town, for the elec- 
tion of representatives to the corporate 
voters. i C. Lorrr. 
Lroston, May 14, 1809. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
CRITICAL SURVEY OF LESSING’S WORKS, 
(Continued from p. 340, vol. 24.)- 
5. FHYHE Monk of Litahda is. in fact 
a second part, or continuation of 
Nathan the Wise.  Aiter an elapse of 
years, the same characters’ converse 
anew on the same-topies, and compare 
their theories with observation and ex= 
perience. Saladin is now sick; his last 
hour apparently approaches; the chris- 
tians 
