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From what has been ſtated, it is preſumed there cannot be any doubt but the evil exiſts,

and that Marſhland is in the Ktate deſcribed; and taking into conſideration the immenſe ſaving

to the country of Marſhland, by annihilating the banlés on each fide of the preſent circuitous channel between Eau Brink and Lynn, whieh will be rendered uſeleſs by the deſertion of that channel; the additional ſecurity of the country of Marſhland by the banks to be made againſt the new cut, and the oppreſſion of the low lands by the high land waters ſettling thereon, when both equally contribute to the preſent banks, drains, and gools; it follows that fufficient reaſons occur why all the lands of Marfhland, uſually rated to works of ſewers as ſtated in the intended bill, ſhould on the preſent occaſion be equally taxed.

Indeed it is almoſt an inſult to the underſtanding to ſuppoſe, that any real D ein on can be made to a tax ſo moderate as 47. per acre for ten ycars, which is equal to about a perpetual tax of one penny halfpenny; and which would coſt an infinite deal of money to apportion it according to the different qualities and jevels of the various diſtricts communica ing with the Ouze. The ſhort anſwer to all that can be aſſerted reſpecting the tax, let w hatever harſh epithets be uſed, is, that no one diſtrict can drain effectually at preſent; and that the tax propoſed is as a feather when compared to the annual ſums now waſted in wild projects.

The reader is by this time well acquainted with the fens, and with the various interells concerned in their welfare. The nature of the diſeaſe has been long underſtood, as well as the remedy that was wanted to be applied. The wretched ſtate of the outfall has been the ſubject of attention, at different periods, for more than half a century, during which time the drain- age, as well as the navigation and harbour of Lynn, have been conſtantly getting worſe.— The conduct of the Lynn merchants has been clearly ſhewn on the prefent occaſion;; and the influence which it has had upon many reſpectable characters, who at the outſet agreed to the principle of what they now condemn.— That conduct has operated in the very ſame manner upon every occaſion, and has hitherto defeated an improvement, which is certainly of the greateſt conſequence, and capable of being executed at the leaſt expence, of any thing of ſo important a nature that has perhaps ever yet offered itſelf to the conſideration of the public.

It remains only to notice one article of controverſy between the promoters and oppoſers of the ſcheme. Nothing ſpaciſic, as has been before noticed, has ever come forward from the latter, but vague objections to what has been propoſed, and hints at ſome project in embrio. This induces me to ſuppoſe, that if the gentlemen in oppoſition have any thing to bring forward, the embankment of all the rivers communicating with the Ouze, and of the upper part of che Ouze itſelf, is what they have in contemplation. To THIS IANSWER,

The refolution of the Court upon the ſaid preſentments:

** The jurors for the Hundred of Freebridge, Marſhland, and Clack Cloſe, having this day in their reſpeqive verdicts preſented to this court, that the river Ouze or outfall between St. German's Bridge and Lynn, has for many years paſt been gradually ſilting up, whereby the works of ſewers are prevented from having their defired effect; and praying this court would take the ſame into ſerious conſideration, and endeavour te obtain ſuch relief and aſſiſtance as moala be hought expe- dient.— This Court having duly conſidered the matter of the ſaid preſentments and ſtate of the outfall, Reſolve, that the moſt probable mode of obtaining relief for the country will be by makiang a new river from Eau iian. to Lynn, through the marſhes, agreeable to the plan recommended by Meſſrs. Mylne, Golbomne, and Watte, the engineers, in their ſeveral reports lately publiſhed, and this court do recommend to the landed and trading intereſt, concerning the ſaid river and outfall,

an application to parliament for that purpoſe, in which this court are willing to co-operate with them, as far as is confickent

with the truſt repoſed in them by their commiſſion. By the Court, RoßERT WINCOP, clerk of Sewers.“ Thus it zppears by the Reſolutions of the commiſſioners of ſewers and the land owners of Marchlaund, at their meeting of the 12th of ſanuary, 1791, among whom many of the moſt reſpectable gentlemen of the nei hbourkood were Dreſém, THAT THE OUTFALL WAs DEFECTIVE, AND THAT THE ONLY PLAN FOR 1MPROVING IT WAS THAT OF MAKING THE PROPOSED ACT. Ic alſo appears by the preſentment of two juries(conſiſting of 40 perſons) on oath, and the adjudication of the Court feor⸗ that the DISEASE EXISTS, and that the RADICAL CURE IS THAT PROPOSED BX THE INTENDED 0

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