TO CORRESPONDENTS.

HE Proprietor of the Agricultural Magazine has the best hopes of being enabled very Shortly with the as SiStance of a gentleman who has long considered the Subject, to arrange a plan for the bas?s of A General Gloszary of Pro- vincial USA in Agriculture,&c. 80 much wanted, to which he trusts he may be favoured with the continued assistance of his friends, a hint for doing which with facility, will be of- fered in our next Number. A collection by no means incon- Siderable at present forming, and will very Soon be Submitted in their digested state.

The favour of gur Leicester Correspondent was so late, that we had been obliged to obtain it by a circuitous mode, we are, however, thankful for the attention, a continuation of which we Solicit: in future, and only mention the circumstance as 2 reason for any defect which may be perceived, notwithstand- 109 our care in the comparison of both accounts, and a mo- tive for its more early conveyance.

It is with pain that the Editor perceives himself called upon in the present number to Support two correspondents, whose talents require no other aid, than in the Suppression of an effervesance and a 1 SULIG the never failing conco- mitanrts of genius--a task for which we have not always Suf- ſicient ſrigidity, and of which the exercise 1s often fatal. If asteady impartiality of decision, however, and an undeviating Perseyerance in the Search of truth, may hope for publie favour, we trust we Shall experience no dereliction from our work, from a cause which does not originate with us, and that at the Same time, we Shall be permitted to request the forbe arance of extraneous allusions and epithets. We are concerned at perceiving the names of Mr. Bartley, Agricola Northumbriensis, and others, introduccd intothe OBSELNG tons of one of our complainants--names long associate with all the polished courtesies ot literature, and of each of whom it may be just]y added in applying a line of Horace to our- gelves--

Qui consulta patrum qui leges juraque gervat.

We nevertheless value the communications of the latter writer 160 highly, not to elicit his good will with all our powar, while, we hope we may 5ay, we conclude the present Subj JEGt:

We have to apglogize to our obliging corres-

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