[143:.]

There are ſeveral private ſchools in the villages and ſome other parts of the county, for the more eaſy accommodation of children; and the wages are equally reaſonable with thoſe of the parochial ſchools. The landed proprietors in this county are therefore durdened! for the regular education of the youth of a whole ſhire, with ſalaries to maſters, and upholding ſchool- houſes,&c. in a ſum amounting to about 5ol. yearly, or iome- thing leſs than a halfpenny per acre. The ſchool wages at 25. der quarter at an average amount to about 381. 108. year- 1y, making, with the ſalaries, a ſum of 881. 105. Private ſchools are ſuppoſed to require yearly, for fees and ſalaries, about 6ol. The whole annual amount of the expence for the regular education of the county is 1481. 105. being a de- mand from each individual of än annual ſum not exceeding 6d. Sterling.

Manufa&ures.=-Trade and manufaCtures operate, 110.2 conſiderable degree, on the ſtate of agriculture and huſban- dry. It has been imagined by ſome ſpeculators, that, when eſtabliſhed on a large ſcale, they are extremely hurtful to a- griculture--by abſtradting labourers that would otherwiſe be employed in the field--by raiſing the wages of farm ſer- vants--by infuſing a ſpirit of licentiouſneſs into the com- munity at large--and by diffeminating principles, both civil and eccleſfiaſtical, that are hoſtile to the peace and happineſs of ſociety. Such reflections are either the reſult of iguorance, or of a deſire to abſorb into the vortex of agriculture all the opulence, attention, and labour of mankind 3 and to accu- mulate fortunes by means of depreſfling the inferior claſſes. Others, who judge from experience, and from more rational and enlightened principles, believe that manufactures and a- griculture mutually aſliſt each other 3; and that although for a while, at the recent eſtabliſhment of 2a large manufaCtory in a rural diſtritt, the price of labour may, perhaps, be in- creaſed,