172 x Observations on ihe Act, Sc.(Sept.

How much the ower ranks of peoplein the country, are really Superiorto thozeof the town,is well known byevery man, whom either business or curiosity has led to converse much with both. In China and Indostan, accordingly, both the rank and the wages of country labourers are 3aid to be Superior. to those of the greater part of artificers and manufacturers. They wovid Probably be so every where, if corporation laws and the corpo. ration Spirit, did not prevent It."! I am, Sir, yours,&c.

Sept. 2d, 1804. NV; <== am eee Rerum unn nnn= OBSERVATIONS ON THE ACT GRANTING A BOUNTY GN THE

EXPORTATION OF CORN. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine, SIR, T is not my intention at all to deviate imo tic nature of bounties in a political point of view, in this paper, is to confine myself to the probav' he late Act of Parliament, and if 1 discuss thie

which it originated, it will not be with the view re with the pretengions, or to expose"the finesse ol Puri 40- tions, it will be merely to Shew tbe Situation of tbe lai 1ders and farmers of the country, respecting the SyStem adopuw« aud

pursued by its rulers.

We perhaps may reluctantly acknowledge the fact, but cer- tain it is, that the progress ot agriculture has been S3 SiVw im this iSland until the middle ofthe last century, that tne prouuce of corn was not adequate to the Supply of its inhabitants, and there was a period when we looked to France as tne prinatpal Source of our Supplies. Every historian'is acquainted w.in the difficulties to which England was exposed in the ume 0) Queen Elizabeth, when Henry LV. reigned in France, and 5ube2- quently under Lewis XLII. and XIV. when the exportauva of grain was prohibited in that kingdom. It was not until ibe year 1764, when the Successor of Deodatus Swayed the ScCepUe, that we were enabled to derive advantage frow the exuberant produce of that favoured country.

These difficulties presented to Englishmen Serions motiv2s for cultivating with industry, tbe article which forms tne esSeit-

„tial Subeistence of life, but vpotwithstanding all the 1nprov2-

ments in ruralaffairs, in the extent ofterritory CuluvateG, 1611e geientific mode of inviting fertility, in the mechaalcai engines devoted to the business of the field, and in the Subservience of chemistry and general philosophy to this important purposC, we bave very recently experienced a scarcity, which: has alarmed the fears of every beuevolent man within tühes2 realms.

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