of Arts, could never be made into will probably come a hundred bonnets. Nay, as seeing is be- bonnets from Bury St. Edmunds.

The plat dealers in London have bought a great deal of the plat

lieving, these worthy persons actually had some of my straw platted, and took the horrid stuff that has been brought from to the Society, in order to various parts of the country. convince it that English straw While the Oxfordshire bonnets plat never could be brought to were at my house, there was one perfection, and that the So- that came from Buckinghamshire, ciety, ought not to bestow brought from Fleet Street by my upon me anything at all. How.servant. This bonnet surpasses ever, this is all nonsense. The any thing that I have yet seen of manufacture will succeed, and the bonnet kind, except that of and, in that most completely. I must Miss WOODHOUSE;

confess I felt a great deal of point of execution, it is equal to pride, at seeing my table covered that, though not equal to it in the other day with bonnets, fineness.

I have often had to observe, crowns of bonnets, and other parts of bonnets, brought from that the Jews and other caitiff Oxfordshire. They are of the merchants that import the bonmanufacture of Miss LUCY HOL-nets and the plat, will naturally LOWELL, the nice little girl whose throw every possible, obstacle in letter I published last Autumn. the way of this domestic manuHer father thinks that she will facture. They do this invariably, have fifty ready by the month of whenever they can. This will be April! What a fine thing is this! I have often observed that there ‚tisza, manufactory going on at Bury St. Edmunds, under Mr. COBBING and others, There in bonnets for Leghorn; or, at

put an end to completely in the course of next year. Many of the Leghorn bonnet-sellers now buy the English plat and sell it

every thing that I have heard upon the subject. I have been very anxious to form a correct opinion, being well aware of how

least, the purchasers look upon it which bonnets will be made of, at as Leghorn. This is all very last. I have recommended the well. It does not signify what sowing of twenty bushels to the they call it, so that English people acre. Some are of opinion get paid for making it. It that twenty bushels is too large a would be a curious thing, if quantity: others think that it is those who deal in the Leghorn not. I have paid attention to now, were to deal in the other, till, at last, there would be no more imported, and if the bonnets were to continue to be called Leghorn. What a cu- much depends on sowing the rious thing; to see millions of proper quantity of seed. All people wearing Leghorn Bonnets agree, that the land ought to have and Hats, with Custom House no fresh manure. `Fresh manure books to tell us, that not a single hat or bonnet was imported from Leghorn!

would give broad flag or grass to the plant. The plants would fall and rot to a certainty. We sow thick to get the straw slender;

I think proper to mention here that the eldest daughter of BYRNE and yet we want the straw has been taught this work of to be of a

platting and knitting, and, there-which

tolerable length,

fore, when she returns to Ireland it be too thick and too much

with her father, she may be of some use to her country, as a teacher of this business.

starved. I am of opinion that a clean, poor, clayey field; a nasty stiff, miserable, wicked soil, that

The time is now approaching clings and bakes as hard as a

for sowing the Spring wheat. I stone with five or six days' sun, have before frequently had to and that is as cold as Greenobserve, that this is the thing land six inches beneath the sur

face; a field that has broken (of it. However, I verily believe the hearts of hundreds of horses that this blessed Government would be sorry for our success.

and of scores of farmers; I
think if you
could get such a field
as this quite clean, and were to
sow it with ten bushels to the acre,
early in April, you might, pro-
bably, get a crop of wheat as
fine as hogs' bristles; and, let this

We can defy it, and the jolterheads too; for, by hook or by crook, I shall have about forty or fifty bushels of this wheat at Fleetstreet in a few days! If poor WEBB HALL were alive, he certainly would swear that I had smuggled it in, and that I ought to be punished as a traitor to my country. However, I have it No matter where it comes

true Spring wheat, or Blé de
Mars; of the straw of which
Italians make all the bonnets.
The original cost of this wheat

be observed, that there is no land that produces straw so solid and so round as this miserable clay. Now as to the seed. I have hunted a long time in vain to get safe. some of this Blé de Mars, as the from. I undertake that it is the French call it. A friend of mine in Essex, told me some time ago, that he had spoken to a captain of a packet, to bring him over a bag of this wheat, under pretence to me (of any previous charges I of having it for food for his poul-know nothing), is eight shillings a try on the passage. The jolter- bushel, English measure. The heads, you see, have been so inland carriage to London, the careful to favour domestic im- sacks, the porterage, and one thing and another will make it cost me about ten shillings a bushel, besides the expense of taking it to a coach or a waggon, for, if it be sown, go from London it must. If

provements, that they have cut off from us the possibility of starting upon equal terms with the Italians. Here is a Government actually standing in our way, and if we succeed it must be in spite I sell a sack of it, I shall sell it

for ten shillings a bushel, and this wheat. I will beat these Itacharge the sack. If I sell alian Jews in spite of all the gosingle bushel, or any thing lessvernments upon the face of the than a sack, the charge must be earth. I care nothing about eleven shillings a bushel. I wish Custom House laws and Tide-. to get not one farthing by this waiters in a case like this. At wheat, nor by any thing belonging any rate, I have got the forty› to this straw affair. Every body bushels!

knows that you can neither move

hand nor foot nor lips' in London without paying money. You cannot get a man to carry a bushel of wheat to a coach without giving him a shilling. You pay twopence for booking the parcel, therefore, the above prices cannot

I have some Swedish Turnip tion, and from plants of my own Seed, sowed under my own direc-,

be lowered. I expect the cargo selecting, in Hampshire: I will

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pledge myself for its being as good as it can possibly be. I have some Mangel Wurzel Seed, grown by a man on whom I can place perfect reliance; I sell the former at fifteen- pence a pound for any

to arrive in a few days, and those that order it first will be first supplied. I shalb sow a little some where myself, both for straw and for seed. This is all that I think neces-quantity under ten, pounds, and at a shilling a pound for any larger quantity. The Mangel Wurzel Seed at eighteen-pence a pound for ten pounds, or any quantity above it; and two shillings a pound for any quantity smaller Country, I shall send in linen than ten pounds. If I send to the

sary to say upon the subject at present. I have only about forty bushels of wheat in the cargo that I expect, and which, indeed, is

now safe on its way to London,

but I can have more; for I will

go all lengths rather than not have bags, besides a bag of paper. The

I shall charge nothing for the bags or for the booking at the coach-office.

GENTEEL RESIDENCE.

FARNHAM, SURREY,

linen bags will be sown up; and delightfully situated as any spot of land in England. Nothing can be more healthy than the situation of the Mansion, the soil being loam, and the bottom a bed of chalk. The House has attached to it a convenient Court-yard, a good three-stalled Stable, and an excellent Coach-house. The distance from the Town of Farnham, To be Let, Unfurnished, at is not more than a walk of ten Lady-day next, the GRANGE minutes. For partieulars, apply HOUSE. This Mansion, most re- to JOHN KNOWLES; Thursley, spectable in appearance, and in near Godalming, Surrey; or to excellent repair, contains, on the S. FROST, on the premises. If the Ground-floor, a spacious and com- application be by letter, it is remodious Dining-room, a Drawing quested that the postage may be room, a Breakfast Parlour, divided paid. from the other by a large Entrance

Hall or Passage; a Store-room,

and a Kitchen. On the First

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floor there are six Bed-rooms. In

MR. COBBETT.

THE Meeting for the purpose of considering the means of placing that Gentleman in the House

short, the House is in all respects calculated for a large and respectable Family. It has an excellent walled-in Garden, well of Commons, is, for the present, stocked with the choicest of Fruit-postponed, for the reasons stated trees. It is situated on the in the Political Register of Satursingularly beautiful eminence day last.-To those Gentlemen which is the site of the Castle of who have honoured me with their the Bishop of Winchester. The co-operation, I return my sincere garden door is but about twenty thanks; and assure them, that at yards from the entrance into the a, future opportunity I shall be Bishop's Park from the public ready to lend my humble aid to foot-way. The Park, along the the cause in which we are mutually THOя. B. BEEVOR. avenue, upon the brow of which engaged... any one is at liberty to walk, is as Hargham, near Attleborough, buf23 Feb. 1824,