78 Pastorius to Mr. Bartley on the Breed of Sheep.[Aug.

Grst cross, not by my very best rams neither, I take to be Striking; and if 1 could by any means obtain the address of your correspondent, I would with great pleasure transmit him a Beece/whben horn, together with one of the halt Elman South-down.

The French report confidently, that they thus obtain stock greatly Superior to the native Spanish, both in pile of wool, and weight of fleece, and I have every reason to believe them, as well as the Anglo Merino breeders.

L remain, Fir, Your obedient Servant,

Batik, Aug. 3, 1805.

<-74 METER DE PASTORIUS TO MR. BARTLEY ON THE BREED ÖOPFSELS EN? Tu ihe Editor of the Agricuitural Magazine.

SIR, OUR readers can no doubt judge, with correctness,

whether Mr. Bartley was draw by Pastorius, or Pasto- rius by Mr. Bartley, into certain“ Species of comparizon in reference to the merits of the New Leicester and Merino Sheep;" andif they cannot decide as to the“ reluctance" vf either party, I have no doubt but bey will judgs with very copsgiderable accuracy, as to the regret which the latter gen- tleman will fee), when be reflects upon the issue of the dis- pute, and the confident manner in which he voluntarily de- Scribed the Superior advantages which would result to the country from preferring Anoglo-Meriao Sheep on all descrip- tions of pasture.

[ am astonished at the perseverance of Messrs. Bartlev and Brightley in regard to the Superior value ot half fat mutton, I really thought that zuch intelligent men would have been better acquainted with the circumstances and conductoſ their countyymen, ere they hazarded and persevered in Such an ill founded opinion. They, doubtless, judge by their own taste, and tbat of the middle and higher classes of SocIety,=-a de» SCriptioa of consumers with whom they Seem to have mixed much oftener than with labourers, manufacturers,&c.

1 rank wyselt in the middle class. 1 too have frequently had the bonour of being introduced to the tables of the higher orders; and if the dispute is to be decided by the cousump= tion of these two classes, there is an end of it--1 give it up. For my own consumption,[ would not hesitate in giving the preference to the small, old, and comparatively lean mutton, So highly praisedat the tables öf the opulent. But, Sir, there is apother descripton of people--the lower classes, who in