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kam Cowell, Mr. /Thomas Steele, Mr. John Norman, Mr. Joha Corder, Mr. Dennis Chandler, Mr. John Rand, Mr. Stephen Studd, Mr. Samuel. Ray, Mr. Roger Groom, Mr. George Boggis, Mr. John Spalding, and Mr. William Frost; and that they be empowered to meet and adjourn from time to time, and to take Such measures as they Shall deem proper and necessary for carrying into effect the objects of the foregoing resolutions.

That Mr. Robert Gostling White, and Mr. Robert Crabtree, of Halesworth, be appointed Solicitors, for rendering Such professional asSiStance to the committee as may be necessary in the course of this business.

"That the above resolutions be Signed by the Chairman, and ad vertised in the Ipswich Journal, the Bury, Norwich, and Chelms» ford, Papers, and in the Star, Courier, and Commercial Chronicle.

WILLIAM PHAILPOT,/Chairman«.

Resolved unanimously,--That thethanks-of this meeting be given to.the Chairman, for his attention to the business of the day, and for b1s able conduct in the chair,

Outhe Attempt to discover the Cause of. Mildew 472 Wheat.

We insert the following ludicrous paper in this place at the request of'a respectable correspondent without professing ourselves re- 5Sponzible for its contents. It has been already addressed to the Editor of a provincial journal.

WW PRINTER)

- CAN hold/no longer, but I must Speak my mind. I Know that

hundreds of men, Such as 1, think as I do, but nobody Says S0.

Why Should not 1? I mean as concerning the milidew. And Ithink,

that they that write about it know no more than 1 do; w hich is, that

?tis just as please God. I must tell you all 1 have heard about it, as

first one thing, then another come in my way.

Our newspaper of the zoth of March last both pleased me at first Sight; and puzzled me when I come to reading, 50 as nothing could be like it, more than any one as ever I remember. There was a ſine letter in it from a fine Spoken man, who, they tell me(but that may be. a mistake) is Secretary to the Agricultural Society. It was all about the mildew--Aye! Aye! Says 1, as Soon as I heard on it, if that there Society that do 50 much good, have taken the matter in hand, and a Sir Joseph have made a whole book about it, PIl warrant ys, the business will Soon be rightsided. We Shall S0on have done thumping and bumping the straw all to mammocks, and getting ten times more chaff than corn after all. And that's a main matter to me, Mr. Printer, that am a plain little hard-working farmer of the old Sort, Standing at a high rent. So I Sets me down to read it very ear- nestly--for I would have you to know that I can read, and pretty runnably too.

1 Soon found that the mildew is a /ungusz; and then I read about Pores and glumes, and how some of these here things germinate, and Some of them are enveloped, and how this thing 1s parasztic, and that longitudinal,'and one 1s zmperforate and another cellular, and how 50me- thing or other, but I don't know what, has a central posttion. All this, Mi. Printer, 1 do assure you, I have carefully wrote word for

xword, and letter for letter, out in'the paper, for 1 am Sure, if 1 häd Pretended for to remember it, I Should have made Such blundering

work, that the gentleman would never have Known his own fine words again.* Surely, Surely, Says 1, this can have nothing to do with hus-