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MR. BIRKBECK.

by saying when, if at all, he wishes to have them back. I can

There appeared in the MORN-assure him, that I never saw any

work on the subject of, or near
to, the date that he speaks of.
P., who thinks he has discovered

ING CHRONICLE, Wednesday, a
thing purporting to be an ex-
tract of a letter from this gen-
tleman to 66
a friend in York-a
"shire," which contains a very
unprovoked attack upon me, in
consequence of my letters, which
form part of the Year's Residence

in America. Mr. BIRKBECK shall
have an answer in my next.
In
the meanwhile, the public should
bear in mind, that my letters to

him were published in America!

In fact, those letters have saved thousands of worthy families

from ruin; but, then, they have

marred Mr. Birkbeck's specu'a

tions; for to no other cause can I ascribe so unmannerly and foul

grammatical error in the Register, will, I think, find that he as not, if he look at my grammar, paragraphs 200 and 201. However, I can see, when I happen to read a Register in print (which I seldom do) grammatical errors enough; and, when it is considered, that the whole pamphlet is begun to be written and printed off in about 60 hours, the wonder naturally is, that there are not ten errors where there is one. I now and then see sentences made quite nonsense by mistake of the printer. But I do not expect miracles to be performed for me If the bomb-shell pro

an assault from a person to whom, or of whom, I spoke but in terms of kindness duce the desired effect its shape is

and respect.

never wrote or

not of much importance. Where,

indeed, there is time for revis on,

grammatical er ors would be a

A. B. will very much oblige me

mark of laziness in me, and that

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

by sending the Pamphlets, and is a sin, which, of all others, I

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This Work is just published, price 3s. 6d. and it does, I think, clearly prove the justice as well as the necessity of greatly reducing first, and, in the end, stopping altogether, the Interest of the Debt. It consists of Essays writ

ten between 1803 and 1806, both

inclusive, to which are subjoined,

some notes. Its arguments then

described; and, besides, the pub-were met by arguments (which

lic will have mine to be Sermons. Sermons, therefore, they shall

be. As a proof of the piety of the days, in which we live, and of my superiority over the Doctors, I will venture to say, that I am

able to prove a ten times greater sale of my Sermons, than can be

proved of the Sermons of any Doctor that belongs, or ever did belong, to either of the Univer

sities.

are all fairly stated) and by most foul abuse. They remained wholly unshaken then; and, I am satisfied, they will remain unshaken now. The reader will be amused to see, that Mr. RICARDO's project for dividing the land with the fund-holders, originated with one of the silliest of my antagonists of 1806! Oh! Mr. Peel! How" happy the Spa

"nish Legislator must be to be

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Sixteenth Edition. With the last Corrections of the Author; and the Passages on the Liberty of the Subject, which appear only in the first edition. With Annotations and Comments, as also Corrections of the Errors and Mis-statements of the Learned Judge, respecting Constitutional Law and Legal Antiquities. By JOHN WILLIAMS, Esq.

: Printed for S. Sweet, Law Bookseller, Chancery-lane; and to be completed in 40 Parts, (forming 4 handsome volumes, Svo.) published weekly.

Printed by C. CLEMENT, and Published by JoHN M. COBBETT, 1, Clement's Iun.

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VOL. 39.-No. 13.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1821. [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Six o'clock.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

have it now at a shilling; but, I

should apprize the public, that the Report without the Evidence is like the garnish in the absence of the joint.-I shall number the

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Kensington, 26th June, 1821. I am not going in this present Register, to enter fully into this subject. I have the Report paragraphs of this edition of the before me; but the Evidence I Report and Evidence; and, behave not yet seen, in its complete ginning with my next, I shall state. My little bird did, indeed, write two Registers in the way tell me, as I have once or twice of commentary on these important observed, of certain things that documents. The numbering will took place in the Committee; save the room that must otherand the public will soon see, that wise be devoted to long extracts. he told me the literal truth.-And, when the public are in pos-, The Report is now published at session of these two Registers, the Office of the Register, price together with the Report and one skilling; but, the Evidence, Evidence, I think they will want which is voluminous, will, with no further information on the the Report, make a full-sized subject, than which, certainly, a Octavo Volume. This volume, more important one never becomplete, will be published at the came matter of discussion in any Register-Office next week, at a country in the world. This has, price not exceeding seven and for more than a century, been sixpence. In the meanwhile, the most powerful nation in however, those who may choose Europe, and, it is now a question, to have the Report only, may whether it be, or be not, to re

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Printed by C. CLEMENT, and published by JOHN M. COBRETT, 1, Clement's Im [Price Sixpence Halfpenny in the Country.]

tain its power ! The rise, and share in the councils of His Mathe fall, of nations, do not depend jesty:-When I speak of the upon treaties and battles, nor ability discovered in this paper, upon the strife of parties, so I must not, however, be undermuch as upon measures affecting stood as assenting to its printhe industry and the moral cha-ciples, its facts, and, above all, to racter of the people. And, we its conclusions. Some of them are now, in the course of not certainly are sound and correct; many months, going to see how but, others, and those of the these are to be attended to in the greatest weight as to the matter acts of the government. The in question, are, in my opinion, Report of the Agricultural Com- wholly erroneous.-There premittee is, in one respect, of very vails, through the whole of the great public interest: it fully discovers the views of the Mi- of conciliation, and no attempts nisters; and that is a great are made to disguise the nature deal. It is said, that Mr. Hus- or the magnitude of the evil, KISSON drew up the Report. It though pretty earnest endeavours does great credit to the talents of the writer, though there is an

Report, a spirit of candour and

are made to encourage hope from

sources in which I can see none, but in which hope the author, or

affectation of fine style, which renders the meaning, in many authors, of the Report are cerinstances obscure, even at a tainly sincere, because they act second or third reading. Say upon it and rest their measures what men will, this is not really upon it.-Therefore I am disgood writing to be really good, it must be plain to plain men. However, this is an able paper; Iand the author of it, be he who

posed to treat this document with respect, and not in the manner, in which it becomes me and every man to treat those masses of ab

he may, is not unfit to have a surdities and falsehoods, which

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