that Mr. Pybus fhould fit for his picture to he prefixed" to the first edition of Sir Richard's pious poetry.

Notwithstanding thefe efforts on the part of ourquondam Minifter to advance his new plan, I am forry to fay the refult has hitherto by no means answered his expectations. He has as yet fhewn himself poffeffed of but an awkward method of tilling the earthhis feeds do not rife kindly out of the ground, and all his attempts have betrayed a lamentable want of fkilt in the fcience of propagation. His enemies indeed fay that this undertaking affords only another inftance of the bad fuccefs with which all his fpeculations are attended that this is only a counterpart of the fcheme he fome years ago put into execution for farming the labour of poft-horfes, and that this effay upon the fruits of the earth is only following up his late fruitlefs project of redeeming the tax upon land. It, however, on the other hand is afferted by his friends, that no one can boaft of greater qualifications for agricultural purfuits. From his paft experience in the laying on of impofis, they naturally infer equal fkill in the diftribution of compofts. In the driving of a bargain, they fay no man is his equal, and no one can furpafs him in bringing his things to a good market; that he is an adept in the drilling system, and has greatly fignalized himself in the raising of mushrooms; and Jaftly, they aver, from the whole tenour of his former life, that no farmer will fhear his fheep more clofely.

The ladies alfo have their opinion upon the fubject, but it is by no means a favourable one for the young beginner. They openly doubt his efficacy at all points. They fay he trembles at the appearance of a rake, and hates the fight of a crop. They allow that fomething may poffibly be accomplished with the affiftance of his friends, but in himself they question much whether he will ever make a good husband-man.

Oct. 22.

Yours, &c.

AGRICOLA,

MORE

SIR,

MORE STILL.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

MANY arguments have been adduced in your paper, proving Mr. Pitt's competency to manage a farm; but if any doubts fhould remain in the minds of your readers, I hope the following statement will convince them that he poffeffes not only the elementary principles of farming and horticulture, but that he has alfa much practical knowledge in those sciences.

Some years ago he took on himself the management of a very large farm, which his predeceffor had fuffered to be over-run by weeds, and which this promifing youth threatened to eradicate. I call him promifing youth, because he made a vast number of promifes, the fulfilment of which has been poftponed, I am afraid, to a very diftant period. It is not my intention to enter into a detail of his management, but merely to exhibit the moft confpicuous points. Inftead of fpreading manure, as is generally the custom, he made a bold innovation, and began with spreading alarms, a fpecies of compoft rendering the foil very fruitful in affes ears, which foon fprouted up in all corners. He then fowed a kind of feed called diffenfion, which anfwered his wishes, and produced a plentiful crop; the more to be remarked, as his feed was not in general obferved to be very prolific. He then barrowed up the minds of his countrymen, and rooted up a very troublefome weed, called habeas corpus. After that he entered into partnership with a butcher, named Death, a great mower, and carried on an extenfive mowing bufinefs with him for fome years; a fmall part of his exploits in that way may be seen by examining the Gazettes for fome years paft. I fhould obferve that he never fowed any wild oats, or rape feed; hemp he tried for fome of his old friends, but it failed.

I wish I could add, that he reaped his deferts; but all things are in the hands of Providence! perhaps that may be to come. In his choice of hufbandry he feemed partial to the drill, in which way he employed a vaft number of labourers in red jackets; but who, owing to fome mifmanagement, rendered very little fervice to the farm.

He turned his attention to planting; but in the choice of fubjects his judgment feemed much perverted: it is for this reafon that the olive and lurel fcarcely made their appearance on the farm, while the Dog Roje, and all the creeping, parafitical plants, flourished prodigiously; the whole domain was at the fame time infefted by thofe low, ftinking fhrubs, called Spies and informers; and the willow and cyprefs fpread their branches all over the country.

He had an orchard at no great diftance from Weftminfter-bridge, in the management of which he thewed a very strange taste. It produced a few nonpareils of exquifite flavour, to which he had a violent antipathy, and at the fame time he bestowed uncommon pains on the loggerheads, which were very fruitful in that enclosure. To his everlafting difgrace be it spoken, that he made no ufe of the pruning-knife to the trees under Penfion Wall, which he fwaggered fo much about in 1782; while he fpent immenfe fums on the fecret fervice tree to little purpose. It is not known that he ever planted the vine, though, like Bacchus, he was fond of its juice, and which he had a peculiar art in obtaining free of duty.

He cultivated the papyrus in his Threadneedle enclosure, in an aftonishing manner; but it is supposed to have injured the foil beyond recovery.

I must do him the juftice to fay, that he fuccefffully cultivated pennyroyal for all his family; but must confefs that the herb fpeedwell defied his talents, wife man as he is fuppofed to be!! I have not heard that he ever attempted to raise any lady's mantle.

It should be observed, that his predeceffor, Farmer North, injured himself, and nearly ruined the farm, y a mad pursuit of the American prickly pear; but the rincipal object of Farmer Pitt's purfuit for many ears, in the opinion of capable judges, was madder. He was particularly fkilful in draining, as the pockets of the people will teftify; and he never fuffered the taxes to lie fallow for a fingle year.

It is not known that he had any antipathy to the horfe; but it is worthy of remark, that, with the exception of fome few horned cattle, he conducted the business of the farm with affes. He had no connexion with the dairy, or dairy-maids.

An opinion is got abroad, that he is now cultivating the poppy for general ufe :- happy would it be for him if he could fpread its narcotic properties over the memories of his countrymen.

SINCE

INCE Mr. Pitt has turned farmer, the Chief Conful has alfo given his attention to agricultural purfuits but he has not fo fairly obtained his farm, or followed his bufinefs. Mr. Pitt rents his premifes, and we make no doubt he will pay the rent like an honest man; but Bonaparte entered upon his by force, pretending he was the rightful heir. At a time when the children of the family to which the eftate belongs were quarrelling about the conduct of it, it having been grofsly mifmanaged, and in danger of falling into the hands of foreigners, Bonaparte ftepped forward, affifted by fome foldiers, boasted of his fortune, terrified the owners with dread of his witchcraft, and, pretending they had granted him poffeffion, drew up for himself a leafe for ten years, during which time he engaged to put the farm in the best poffible state of repair.

He immediately fet about hedging and ditching, but in banking he was not very fuccefsful; he planted the hedges with legislative and tribunate fhrubs, and apparently gave them a good root in the earth, but he has fince chilled their growth: he cut a fenate ditch, which, while it was to drain the lands of waters that might do mifchief, was alfo to form a refervoir of that moft neceffary of all articles, occafionally to refresh and revivify the plants that might be in a course of vegetation. In his farm-yard he was equally induftrious. He did not turn off all the old fervants, but kept fuch of them as he thought would be useful. He refolved to become a confiderable breeder; his sheep he fattened with hope, which greatly improved them for fleecing but his moft favourite fcheme was to produce a crofsbreed in his pigs, between the Royalift pigs and the Jacobin pigs. From thefe he expected admirable pork, for the fupport of his own table; but though both have fed with eagerness on the food he has thrown to them, the breed has not fucceeded. He has lately fhewn very confiderable skill in keeping quiet his own live flock, by laying a trap for a Fox, once the dread of all fuch farmers as Bonaparte, but which now goes perfectly tame.

The first thing he did in his field practice was to enclose the common land, telling the poor tenantry, that, by furrendering their rights to him, they fhould be better provided for. He harrowed all over their little gardens, rooted out every little privilege, and mowed down every blade of free grafs to which any one could lay personal claim. The parfon of the parif, called Liberty of the Prefs, preaching against this cruel conduct, was chained and fent away, and another parfon appointed, who preaches only in favour of the Chief Conful.

Farmer Bonaparte began to manure his farm with the dung of defpotifm, from which sprang up a plentiful crop of fears. Thefe produced large fums of

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