450; History. Wune,

porters and importers wovld have deprived both." This manly addreſs was

. received with türe wärmelt applaufe.--Dignum(wl>o accompanied Lord Pe- trc) ſung ſeveral patriotic lvngs, and the day was Ipcnt, as uſual, in the moſt

rational conviviality.-'-

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Tlarlow Agriculturat Society,(Essex.).

The Harlow agricultural meeting was held on Thurſday the 13th and-Fri- day-tbe 14th of June, when the following prizes were given;! „Lo the beſt ploughman--One, gvinea. s

"To the lad, under 15 years of age, who ploughs tbebeſt=-OQpe guineg-

"To the beſt holder of a drill=-One guinea.

To the beit heep Mhcarer--One guinea.

"To he beit mower--Ove guinea.'

"The principal gentlemen and yeomanry of that part of the country met at ten 0'clock,;at Mark-hall, the ſeat:of Montague Burgoyne, Eiq. where hav=- 1iyg breaktaſted, the compar»y proceeded to view the dilerent forts of ſtock, and the farm, which they found in the-beſt fate oi cultivation. The-neazelt part of the land ſeegis to/have been cultivatcd according-to.tbe ſyſtem of Mr. M. Duckitt, the compariſon between the grill and broad calt ſyſtem apprarcd. much inſavour of the latter. Two fields os ahont thirty acres have b en al- lotted as an experimental ground, for the different ſorts ot CLOPS. Che field is 00a deep.loil, the other on a very light one. Both ficlds were under thie immediate inſpettion of Mr. M. Duckitt, who on each ſoi] has evinced the[u- periority:of his mode of drilling and“ hocing the different crops., Various implements, invented by him, were allo exhibited. hole which ehicßy: ex- cited the attention ofthe company, were his ſkim-plough, his drit], and his hoes, which are Iv contrived that twenty acres may be hoed in a day, the horjes always going in the furrow. Mr. Duckit's agent, who lives in a cot- tage nar the 21 mile-Kkone on the'New;narket road, received many orders for theſe implements, which were much admired. The company dined at an or- dinary.at:the Green-man, in Harlow, where the greateſt good bumour p;e- vailed, and every perſon ſeemed detirous to“fupport the annual mecting,.[3 well caleulated to-promote the agriculture of the country and landed interelt of thekingdom. A very numerous body of yeomanry from different parts of the.country was preſent, who were much gratiäcd in meeting the diſtin- guiſhed agricvltyriſts who were allembled, among whom we particular]y no- ticed the Duke of Hhedtord, Lord Somerville, tine Earl of St. Vincent, Lord

Ongley, Sir Wm. Rowley, Mr. Weſtern, Mr. Molcley, Sir Harry Vavalour,.

Mr. Curwen, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr J. Fange, Mr, Chipps, Mr. Sitwell, Mr.

Hoare,&c.&c.&c. The important' bulinels in the Houle ot Commoys pre-|

vented Mr. Folter and Mr. Coke, and k&veral atuer perlens of diſtinztion, trom being prelent«?

Hundred of West Derby Agricultural Society,(Lancaskire.) PEFER PATTEN, Eg. Preſident. Nr1c401LAas ASHTON, Elq. t! THoMas EARLE, Eiq. and Vicenpreſidents, WaLLIAMRosCOrt, Elq. 3 Mr. JAMES OK1LL, Mr. James WARING» mal Inſpe&ors, The Kev. JOHNSON TATLOCK.

„This ſocietyhaving for its objett the promation of a general[puit of agri- eulture, in the Hundred ot Welt Derhy, and being particularly defrous of encouraging the tenants and Jarnmens within the fam diſtrict, have reivived,, that in future there ſhall: be a claſs of premivms, which hall be given to te Dnaats-0n1y,; who ars invitcd toattend at the general meetings ot Ihe focietys

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