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could not fully depend on my translation of the lines he has given us from Horace; and for my own instruction, as well 25t0 zee whether your correspondent had quoted correctly, 1 wisShed to find what that autbor himself and Dr. Francis had Stated, but he had beevy laid by as“ greasy" as your friend's << Duncan;" and whether the great Roman poet was offended at being used in this manner, or whether he thought it a dero- gation from his dignity to be placed in a farmer's cupboard at all, I cannot 5ay; he had however hidden himself im an ob- SCure corner, and Searching for him cost me no Small trouble.* I must therefore request, that when I am concerned, A. M. will be so good as to confine himself, in a greater degree, to the Engliseh language. This mode will not only Save me considerable trouble, but will prove of more extensive utility. Bezides, as my brother farmers have doubtless observed the Shifts to which my Simple statement of facts have driven him, they may, perhaps, conclude, if Ae Should- again indulge Jimself in writing in the Latin language, that he is afraid to convey, his ideas in plain English, and that his preferring the former arises, not from his being pedantie, but principally from its furnishins a kind of veil to a defeat. Perhaps this may(with your friend A. M.) be deemed an additional reasen for preferring his mother tongue,T and coufining himseltf to the ox and horse question, instead of Sending me to the woods, or Soaring to the gods or goddesses.

I have not advanced any thing which ean be construed into a wish to deprive practical farmers of that nutritious aliment butcher's meat; on the contrary, I Sincerely lament that there are 50 Many ocCCupiIers of land'unable to indulge 1hemselves and their families, in a liberal use of that Species of food. Those, however, who still pertinaciously adbere to the unprofitable practice of: labouring with oxen instead of horses, and thus render themselves unable to purchase the delicious flesh of the former animal, may blame themselves for the deprivation. Nei- ther can your correspondent discover any thing in myletter to warrant his Stating that I do not think reason and common Sense, the Same with all ranks and classes of mankind. Un- questionably, however, 1 would have Set“ reason and com mon Sense" at defilance, iF1 had maintained that the great body of consumers of butcher's meat, namely, the inhabitants of Lowns, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, and in Short,

Bi The quotation is(but I dare venture to aſſert that it does not proceed from want'of kpowledge) 7zcorreet.

+ Notwithſtänding his partiality to the cuſtom purſued by the French, of preſfimg hard upon tbe ſzull and braims, 1 luppole him a to be Briton.--Pray does he think the tormer part of the animal much thicker in France than in Great Britain?