r É- Author of the following Work, who lived to the age of fixty-t a devoted a confiderable part of his time to

the ftudy and practice of agriculture*. To a profefional know-

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ledge of the ui. he added extenfive literary acquirements;

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and, actuated by a ftrong zeal for the public good, undertook

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this inveftigation, which will appear to have been a work of

much refletion and refearch.

The great obje@, which the author appears to have had in contemplation, was to exh1bit fuch a view of the principles and effets of the Corn Laws, enacted at different periods in Great Britain, as might fhew that the Corn Trade, both as a manu-

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fature, and an article of commerce, is, of all others, t in importance to the profperity of the kingdom. His ftate- ments, founded upon fs, tend to prove, that abundance of grain at home, and at a moderate price, cannot be obtained by mportation from abroad, and can only be fecured by

vins fuch liberal encouragement to exportation, as may ren-

der agriculture, or the raïfing of corn, the favourite object of

ee{ re I 2 Fe A: A ovicul a axill La NE in VA oht? L* An account ofthe Author’s praétice in Agriculture will be found in Wight’

State of Hufbandry in Scotland, Vol. 3. page 677, and page 710.