stages, the nation is not likely to reap fo much benefit from them as was expected. Notwithstanding this neglect, however, fome of them have taken a very firm root, and we hope in another season will be highly productive. They will be particularly valuable, fhould they who have the management of the commons employ inore people in removing the nuifances. Adreffes have been likewife plenty enough. People defirous of making fomething out of nothing, have cultivated them with tolerable fuccefs; but the fruit is deficient in flavour, tafte, and that spirit which used formerly to be extracted from them; and in most places the growth has been forced, by means of an extraordinary quantity of the yellow manure laid on in flices, and not fprinkled generally, as used to be the practice. Sinecures have fucceeded tolerably, although the better fort of people have an averfion to them. They fuck up the moisture of a large diftrict, merely to fatten a flip that is not worth the pains and expence. Tranflanting is much ufed here; and as the old ones die off, it has been found very convenient to fill up the ground with a fresh plant, and lay a quantity of dung about it; any filth and refufe will answer this purpose. The growth of Votes has varied confiderably. In order to preferve the quantity, it has been fometimes found neceffary to tie up the tender faplings with bits of blue, green, and red tape, which adds much to the look of a field. The common people, addicted to their old fuperftitions, have a way of faying that the influence of the furs is very confiderable, and even rival the effects of the moon. Trees in general. A new method of ornamenting trees has been difcovered, by lopping off the branches, and leaving the trunk ftanding; but it has not been very generally approved, although in our opinion, the ingenious inventor ought to have all manner of justice done done to him. He has a very pretty farm in Newfoundland, where, probably, this practice may anfwer very well. The various attempts made to improve the Commons have hitherto failed, chiefly from the obftinacy of the Lords of the feveral Manors, and indeed not a little from the freeholders, who are ftill, in many places, bigotted to their old prejudices, and are frightened at the very name of Reform, though it would ultimately be fo much to their own advantage. Much of the very beft feed is choaked, almoft as foon as it appears, by noxious weed, particularly by the Papaver Indicus, or India poppy, and the Carduus Scotia, or Sestch thistle. The want of fallows, too, prevents the ground from yielding beneficially. They fow the fame grain for seven years together, a practice fo repugnant to the rules of agriculture, that it is impoffible any good can come of it. The crops look tolerably in the ear, but yield very little to threshing; and notwithftanding the management is aftonishingly expenfive, a great part looks very green, the foil being hard and ftiff, and the clods broke with great difficulty. The wages of the labourers are far higher than they can poffibly be thought to earn. The fruit-trees have been chiefly employed in the manufactory of that fpecies of cider called Mum, a very favourite liquor with the great farmers, but very pernicious to the bowels of the people who drink it, and who become fo debilitated as not to be able to get a little food down, The manufacture of this article, in the opinion of the Board, will be attended with very bad effects, unless fome means are feafonably applied to correct the excels of fermentation which takes place during the process. Cattle. The breed of swINE continues to be much neglected. A general prejudice seems to prevail among men of fortune against them, although it is an animal fo eafily reared to the greatest advantage. Gg3 it It is not certain, that the breed upon the whole has yet decreafed, although a confiderable number have been fent abroad, but where we used to fee from an hundred to an hundred and fifty thoufand of them in a drove, we do not now fee more than forty-eight or forty-nine. No perfon is allowed to keep more at a time. Signed Chronicle. ARTHUR OLD. A SONG To the auld Scotch Tune of "JOHN ANDERSON Chronicle. MY JOE. * JOHN Anderfon my Joe, John, Pray haud your tongue and fay nae mair, John Anderfon my Joe! The story of the Phaeton, John, Was but an auld wife's saw, And like another Phaeton, John, You'll furely have a fa'. This talking will undo you, John, You've neither brains nor gift o'Gab, ..TO * The perfon to whom the burthen of an old Scotch fong is thus happily applied, was understood to have declared in the Senate, that though he had not feen the famous Treafon and Sedition Bills, he approved of them very highly. In the fame place he gravely gave an account of the Duke of B's having lent Thelwall his phaeton to ferve him as a roftrum.-Nothing can be TO ALL THE BRITISH DEALERS IN BLOOD AND SLAUGHTER WHO ARE UNDER THE RANK OF ENSIGN.* F Soldiers, Gentlemen, Heroes, : OR fuch you are, whatever was your former fituation or employment in life. He who was yesterday only the ninth part of a man, by becoming a foldier to-day, has multiplied his existence by at least three times three. Yet, hard fate! the integer of to-day is much more liable to be deftroyed than the paltry fraction of yesterday! But what is that to your employers, you know? The more danger the more honour needs must, whom the Devil drives. If you were till now the verieft wretches in nature; if you had been juft excufed from hanging, on condition you should enter into the army; if you had your choice from a Juftice of Peace whether you would be tried for felony, or go for a foldier, and in confequence of this obliging offer freely chofe to enlift; if your ancles were ftill galled with the irons of the prifon; if after a fhort confinement for perjury you had gone into court again in order to swear away an innocent man's life; in fhort, if you were the loweft, basest, most despicable of mankind, in your former occupation, you are now become, by a wonderful tranformation, Gentlemen, and Men of Honour. But be more fublime than this genileman's idea of friendship-Some time after he had diminished the frequency of his convivial entertainments, one of his friends died, from whom he had expected a confiderable bequeft, He was difappointed. "Aye, faid John Anderfon my Joe, I did not invite him to dinner fo often as I used to do"-In this he was pretty much of Moliere's opinion: C'eft tonjours le véritable Amphytrion qui donne à diner-We understand that for fear of fuffering any more loffes from the fame caufe, he has of late refumed his former hofpitality." Dr. Gisborne having published a book intituled the Duties of Gentlemen, this letter was to fupply his omifion of the Duties of Gentlemen Soldiers. But that I may proceed with all poffible method and clearness in my difcourfe, I fhall first give you a definition of that most important and diftinguished character, a Soldier. "A Soldier," then, "is a Yahoo, hired to kill in cool blood as many of his own species as he poffibly can, who never did him any injury." From this definition neceffarily flows an high fenfe of dignity. Your honour is your most precious poffeffion, and of that it becomes you to be chary. You are the difpofers of the world; the umpires of all differences; the defenders of the Defender of the Faith. But why do I fay defenders of the Defender of the Faith? You are the Defenders of the Faith itfelf. It refts upon you to reinftate the empire of God, of religion, and of humanity, by the means which God and Nature (and, I may add, the King of Corfica) have put into your hands. In the name of God then, I request you to shoot all Atheists; in the bowels of Jefus Chrift I befeech you to run your bayonets in the guts of those monfters that deny the Lord who bought them, and in the cause of humanity I beg of you to cut the throats of all fcoundrels that live without breeches. If you follow thefe inftructions punctually, depend upon it, you fhall have your reward, either in this world, or the next. If you will promote this godly work with all your might, though your fins were deeper than fcarlet, yet fhall they become whiter than fnow; in fhort, you have nothing to do but to fubmit your lives to the difpofal of the King, and his officers, and your fouls to your Chaplain. After having made thefe trifling facrifices, your way will be perfectly smooth and pleafant. If you furvive, as you have a chance at least of one in twenty, you will come back laden with laurels to your native country, and there enjoy, in full perfection, all the bleffings of Civil Goverment which is the next best thing to Military. If you die upon the fpot, you fall a martyr to the glorious caufe of God, of Chriftianity, of Liberty, of |