8& Calcalations on Spanish and English 1Woo?!.[Pebit

1n0w approaching what my opponent on the Subject of animal Jabour, Agricola Meridionalis, calls“ the Aerial reign of Poliv-nd Rhapsody," and therefore, however much I may be inclink«a, in common with P. J. to discuss a Subject 50 in- teresting to many landholders and agricukturists, I must desist, lest I Subject myself to a rebuke from the keen and able pen

of A. M. who, perhaps, entertains opinions different from

those I have advanced. 1 am Sir, yours,&c.

AGRICOLA NORTHUMBRIENSIS.

CALCULATIONSON SPANISH AND ENGLISH WOOL, To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. S1Rz Lately Sent you Some observations on Spanish Wool, which 1 Shall not discontinue, although the engagements of commercial life involve much more of my time in manuscript, than in printed correspondence.

1 have often thought that authentic documents, with a few pointed remarks, are much more usetul than prolix and la- boured discourses, founded merely on conjecture. 1 have, therefore, sybmitted to yout notice, the Subsequent figures, which give an accurate view of the quantity of Spanish wool introduced at different periods into this country, to which| Shall add a few deductions from political arithmetic.

Spanish wool imported.

Pounds Weight. Pounds Weight; Anno 1771 1,829,772 Anno 1782 991,510 1772 1,536,685 1783 2,629,692 1773 1,477,284 1784 1,602,67 4 | 74: 100 2,133,496 1785 3,135,852 1779 1786 1,554,637, 1776 2,062,628 1787 4,188,252 NE 77 2,853,065 1788 4,173,584 1778 489,869 1789 2,693,889 1779 519,664 1780 323,618 Total- 38,705,876 1781 2,478,332

It will be Seen in the above accounts, that during three years of war, in 1778, 1779, and 1780, we received So Small 2 quantity of the wool of Spain, that il could be of no mate- rial consequence to our manutactures, the average being only 444,3841d.; and yet, I apprebend, it will be found, that no esSential impediment arose in the manntacturing countries