you say, then, that Jael ought not to bunch, for a shilling a bunch. I observed have been blessed? Will you say, that on the enormousness of the price; but she ought to have been cursed instead of I said, at the same time, that there being blessed; and that she ought to were numerous persons in the counhave been; at least, crammed into a try who would be glad to sell it much dungeon, upon the bare suspicion of cheaper; that I should not only her having entertained a thought to be quite willing that other people commit such an act? I must confess, should purchase of theirs, but I would that I felt, when I was a child, a good advertise it for them, if they would send deal of horror at this deed. I did not like me their names and places of abode. the previous blandishments, and the Since I wrote that Register, I have seen breach of hospitality. Beside, I saw in a person who has a crop of this corn poor SISERA a beaten and fleeing tyrant. growing. It is Mr. THOMAS POYNTER, I forgot his tyranny in coutemplating market-gardener, NORTH-END, FULhis deep distress, his fatigued body, his HAM, who has, in my opinion, the burning thirst, and his half-broken heart. greatest crop of corn, or I will call it But, I was wrong in yielding to these flour, rod for rod, that ever was grown sentiments, perhaps. Lord LIVERPOOL in the world. He has about ten rod in said, when they were bringing forward one piece, the plants standing in rows the absolute-power-of-imprisonment at two feet apart, and at about a foot act, that they were resolved to pursue apart in the row. He has about sixtythe STERN path of duty; and, when eight or seventy pounds weight of corn we consider the numerous ills which upon a rod; and that will make about tyrants bring upon mankind; when we fifty-six pounds of fine flour. Thus he consider the hunger, the thirst, the dis- has upon ten rods five hundred and eases, of which they are the cause; sixty pounds of fine flour, which, in the when we consider the sleepless nights keeping of any family, is worth more which they occasion to anxious parents, than the same weight of the finest the rivers of innocent blood which they wheat flour. Here are upon this ten shed, and the innumerable honest hearts rod, rather more than a pound and a half which they break; when we consider of flour a day for the whole year, Sunthe baseness of their acts, the cruelties days and all. A pound and a half of of their open force; when we consider flour, with about half a pound of suet, the hypocrisy of their professions and and a proper quantity of water, will the bloody-mindedness of their actions, make a good thumping pudding, more we want no apology for the conduct of than half a dinner for a working man, Jael; we, on the contrary, applaud the his wife, and two or three children. sternness of her resentment and public- And this any working man who has ten spirit, and we join in the song of Debo-rods of clear ground in his garden may rah and Barak. have, if he will, without any money laid out, and with the labour which he may perform in about nine or ten evenings after his daily work is done; or he may do the work in about three or four Your most obedient Sunday mornings before church; and I and most humble servant, am Doctor of Divinity enough to assure WM. COBBETT.him that this would be a much more godly work, than bawling out hymns at a canting Methodist meeting, or guzzling down half-poison at a publichouse, leaving wife in rags, and children half-starved. Thus have I, as far as relates to your public conduct, endeavoured to perform my duty to my country, and I have only to add, that I am, sir, COBBETT-CORN. In the last Register, I spoke of the small corn, which ripens earlier than the large, and which I notified that I should have to sell in bunches, of six ears in a The reader will be pleased to observe, that the rod is the statute rod, sixteen feet and a half each way. Upon this same piece of ground, Mr. POYNTER the end of his life. Ah! but this is in a might have growed twenty bushels of garden! Ah! but mine is in the field! I the accursed potatoes, which would have have no corn quite so good as that of contained only about double the amount Mr. PoYNTER. But, why I have it not of weight that is contained in the fine as good is, that I have not yet had time flour of the corn, leaving out the offal to get a field into the state of a garden. of the corn. And here must have been But, labouring men have gardens, have the eternal pot-boiling. In short, one not they, if it must be a garden? And, bushel of corn is worth twenty bushels therefore, this objection does not hold of potatoes. with them. The only solid objection that I have heard on the part of the farmer is, that the landlords, understanding arithmetic as well as they, both having had "headekashun;" and, seeing the value of the crops, will raise the rents. In answer to this objection, I must confess I have nothing to say. An Mr. POYNTER transplanted this corn. It is dead ripe now, and has been for some little while; and I have advised him to let it stand another month, if he can; in order that gentlemen who delight in agriculture may go and see it; and I do hope, that gentlemen from the country who come to London, during Since writing the above, I have seen the month, will go and see this corn. some of my large sort of corn in a shop The way to Mr. POYNTER's house from for sale. I went in and asked the price LONDON is through OLD BROMPTON; of it, and was told that the price was straight on to where that road is crossed sixpence for each ear. So that, after all, by the road going from WALHAM GREEN my price is exceedingly moderate. to HAMMERSMITH turnpike-gate. Any-acre of corn at my price, would sell for body will tell gentlemen where Mr. only about four hundred pounds; but at THOMAS POYNTER lives. The questions this price it would sell for twelve hunto be put are," Where is North End?" dred pounds! I do not, by any means, The next question is, "Where does Mr. say that these shopkeepers sell it too THOMAS POYNTER live?" Mr. POYNTER dear. I have seen it for sale in twenty got this seed from Mr. WILLIAM COB- shops, but never made an inquiry before. BETT about three years ago. He planted It will soon be all over the country: the upon a very small scale. I do strongly farmers will cultivate it at last; they recommend gentlemen to go and see must do it. this crop. They will find great readiness to show it them; and, if Mr. POYNTER will sell his corn for something less than twopence an ear, HISTORY OF GEORGE THE which is my price for the same sort of corn, and, indeed, for both my sorts, I advise them to purchase of Mr. PoYNTER: and I can assure them that my pigs and horses will prefer their purchasing of him. FOURTH. THE Tenth Number of this work is just published. It contains the account of BUONAPARTE's return from ELBA to France, of his defeat at WATERLOO, The reader will, observe, that there and of his final fall; but it also contains are a hundred and sixty rods to an acre; an account of the true causes of his reso that here are four tons of fine flour turn; of the motives for bringing him from an acre of land, about six times back; and of the hitherto hidden conthe produce of the finest wheat. The duct of the English Government upon wheat stands a whole year upon the that occasion. We are paying dearly land: Mr. POYNTER'S corn will stand for that conduct at this hour. Young four months. He will dig up the ground men, who were scarcely born at that and plant it with cabbages. A crop of time, are paying for it, and most dearly loafed cabbages will come off in May, paying for it out of their labour; and and then he may have another crop of it is right that they should know all corn, and this he may do, if he like, to about the matter; and all about the matter they will know by the reading acre, and his oats 6 quarters per acre. of this history. "Mr. Saunders here produced a sample N. B. The numbers will be now re- "of Mr. Box's eighth year's wheat; gularly continued monthly; and gen-" which looked remarkably fine; and tlemen may have back numbers in order" also observed, that he had two pieces to complete their sets. TO MR. BENETT, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR Bolt-court, 23. Oct. 1833. "of wheat this year, sown on land of ex"tremely bad condition, the produce of "which was likely to be seven or eight "sacks per acre. Mr. Saunders said, "that he had closely watched Mr. "Box's acre, which was producing the "ninth crop without dung. The land was very poor, and certainly not ex"traordinarily well attended to; but so 66 SIR,-I read, in a Wiltshire newspa-satisfied was he (Mr. Saunders) of the per, the following article, relative to the TULLIAN SYSTEM OF HUSBANDRY; and I have a word or two to say to you on the subject. First, look at the words imputed to yourself. 16 advantages of the system, that he commenced at Michaelmas sowing eight acres of wheat and six acres of barley, all without dung; two acres "of the wheat was very fine: and the "Mr. BENETT proposed the health" barley sown on the best part of the "of Mr. A. E. Saunders-a gentleman" land, remarkably good. He deter"who was the first promoter of the "mined at present not to use any dung Market Lavington Society, and which" on the good land, but a small portion the foundation of the present so-" on the poorest. It had been observed 66 ciety. Mr. Benett said, he should also " by ancient philosophers that he who "feel much obliged, if Mr. Saunders" made two blades of grass grow where "would favour the comyany with some" only one grew before was entitled to account of the new system of husbandry" the best thanks of the country. As a "practised at Market Lavington. "society, then, he expressed a hope 66 was The toast having received every "that they would endeavour to deserve "demonstration of respect, Mr. SAUN-" those thanks. Mr. Saunders was "DERS, after expressing his acknow-" very warmly applauded for his ob"ledgments, said he would readily "servations. 66 66 "meet Mr. Benett's wishes, and give a "Mr. BENETT said that Mr. Tull had "short account of the Tullian system" tried the experiment a great many as tried by Mr. Richard Box, at La-" years ago, but prejudice was then so vington :-In the year 1824, Mr. Box" strong against him, that the system "sowed an acre of wheat on the prin- was not acted upon. A great deal, "ciple laid down by the late Mr. Tull," however, had been done within the last "on land of a middling quality. This "few years to conquer strong prejudices; acre in 1825, produced 8 sacks; in" and he trusted now that Mr. Tull's "1826, 8 sacks; in 1827, 7 sacks 2" system would have a fair trial. It "bushels; in 1828, 4 sacks 14 bushel; was well known that it was to pul"in 1829, 5 sacks; in 1830, 7 sacks 2" verize the earth, and to expose it to "bushels; in 1831, 6 sacks 24 bushels ;" the atmospheric air. He himself should "and in 1832, 7 sacks 1 bushel; mak-"give it a trial." ing in the whole 54 sacks 1 bushel, or Now, sir, why could you not have "on the average of years, 6 sacks and a just mentioned my name? You say, "trifle more than three bushels. Mr." that a great deal has been done with"Box had also several other crops of in these few years;" but you could not "wheat on the same principle, which find in your heart to say who had done "has averaged as much as on the narrow-it! You could not find in your heart "drill system. Last year his barley to say, that it must have been my pub"averaged 4 quarters 6 bushels per lications that have produced this TUL Most sincerely wishing, that God will speed the plough in Wiltshire, and make the ploughman as well off and as contented as his grandfathers were, I remain, Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant, WM. COBBETT. LIAN husbandry in Wiltshire. You the doing of me justice would have could not just tell your audience, that a caused to be ascribed to you. All this, member of Parliament, of the name of however, is a trifle, compared to the WILLIAM COBBETT, revised Mr. TULL'S great importance of causing the system book, and republished it in 1821; and to be extended. Mr. SAUNDERS's account that he has recently republished a new is most interesting, and, if Mr. SAUNDedition of it; that, in this new edition, ERs do not come to see me at my farm he has published an introduction, giving next year, I shall certainly go to see a full account as to his own experi- him at his farm, just before harvest. ments, explaining the whole matter; you could not find in your heart to say this, or any part of it, though you must have known it well. You could not just say, "We owe all this to my honourable friend,' Mr. COBBETT." There were some things that you could not know, and that I will now tell my readers; namely, that, when I fled to America from the dungeons of CastleREAGH and SIDMOUTH, I had in my barns and stacks in Hampshire, the produce of rather more than seventy acres of wheat, raised in single rows at four feet apart; and that the produce was thirty-one loads of wheat, forty bushels to the load; that I left also fifty-two acres of transplanted Swedish turnips also in rows at four feet apart; and that, at this moment, my men have just sowed (I hope) twenty-five acres of wheat in the same manner. In short, I have no crop, and will have no crop, not cultivated in this manner. Just before the Parliament was prorogued, a gentleman asked me what books on agriculture he ought to have. I told him to get TULL'S HUSBANDRY, with my introduction, for that I myself knew nothing of the science of husbandry, until I read that book. He got it the next day; and, if he have read it carefully, though he was bred a lawyer, he is more fit for a farmer than any man that never read that book. Now, Mr. Benett, how very weak it is to refrain from doing justice, in a case where it is so manifestly due. There was not a man that heard you that did not know that a knowledge of this system was ascribable to me. You could not deprive me of any part of the honour attending the introduction of this system; but you could deprive yourself of that praise for manliness and impartiality and magnanimity, which From the LONDON GAZETTE, BANKRUPTS. DENMAN, E., Mark-lane, watchmaker. FAIRBROTHER, G., and T. Williams, Birk- GREGORY, C., Luton, Bedfordshire, malt- ster. KING, W. R. W., Hosier-lane, West Smith- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1833. MOORE, G., Sheffield, victualler. road, veterinary-surgeon. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. DOLLAR, W., Bucklersbury, Manchester warehouseman. SAUNDERS, J., Launceston, Cornwall, tallow-chandler. BANKRUPTS. HOGG, H. J., Portsea, Hampshire, auc- JONES, J. R., Tynemouth, ship-owner. RIDDELL, T., and C. Buckle, Stratford, WADE, T., sen., Silksworth, Durham, dealer 4d. per stone; with Mutton and Pork at Friday's quotations. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, Oct. 21.The supplies of Wheat fresh up to this morn-sisted of about equal numbers of short-horns, At least three-fourths of the Beasts coning's market were limited from Kent and Devons, Welsh (mostly North Wales) runts, Suffolk, but rather more liberal from Essex. and Irish beasts; the remaining fifth of about The late damp weather has affected the sam ples, and many handled cold and rough. Selected parcels were taken off at the currency of this day week, but all secondary descriptions, as well as Irish, hang heavily on hand, though they might have been purchased on lower terms. Old Wheats met little attention. In bonded Corn nothing doing. Barley was in good supply; fine selected parcels of Malting description realized in a few instances 15. per qr. advance; and other qualities, as well as grinding and distillery, were taken off at Monday's rates. Malt extremely dull, and prices nominal. There was a liberal show of Oats, and though in retail the article obtained previous rates, yet to effect sales of any quantity a decline of 6d. per qr. was submitted to, as compared with this day week. Beans were in better demand, and new qualities being scarce were worth rather more money. Peas of all descriptions were dull. Good samples of Flour obtained a steady sale at last week's prices. ..... Wheat .... fine.... Peas, White... Boilers.. Grey.. Beans, Small.... Tick.. 52s. to 62s. 30s. to 36s. equal numbers of Scots aud Herefords, with, perhaps, 50 Town's-end Cows, as many Sussex Beasts, a few Staffords, &c. About 2,300 of the short-horns, Devons, runts, Scots, Herefords, and Irish Beasts, were from Lincolnshire, and the rest of our northern grazing districts; about 200 of do. from our western Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire: and midland districts; about 150 of do. from and the remainder chiefly from Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and (with the Town's-end Cows) from the London marshes. Full three-fifths of the Sheep were new faced crosses, in the proportion of about two Leicesters, of the South Down and whiteof the former to five of the latter; about a fifth South Downs, and the remaining fifth about equal numbers of Kents, Kentish halfold Lincolns, horned and polled Norfolks, breds, and old Leicesters, with a few pens of horned Dorsets and Somersets, horned and polled Scotch and Welsh Sheep, &c. 24s. to 27s. 30s. to 35s. -s. to -8. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Oct. 25. The arrivals this week are good. The market dull, and prices rather lower than on Monday. 42s. to 45s. .... ... Oats, Potato.... Flour, per sack |