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Mr. MACDONALD, the Secretary, thereafter submitted
to the Society the proceedings of the Directors since the
Anniversary Meeting in January, and the premiums offered
by the Society fur the cement year. In rrferriug the mem-
bers to printed copies of the advertisement on the table, be
staled that at no previous period hail a larger aunt been
offered in premiums than in the present year; that the nu-
merous applications for premiums from all quarters of the
country, front lietwickehire to (Minty, had been attended
to ; and that the anxiety of the Diteciors to promote com-
petition and improvement in the present state of agricultu-
ral depression, as far as within the power of the Society,
bad induced them even to exceed the sem contemplated at
the last General Meetiug by some Insuilred pounds; Irustitig
that in the circumstances stated, the present meeting would
approve of the premiums offered, in respect both to their
variety and amount. The Secretary further rneationed,,i
that owing to the great accession of new member* which the
Society receive. at each num-soave meeting, no encroach-
went would be made cii the funds by the anticipated expendi-
ture beyond the annual income. The mertiug isuanitnouply
approved of the proceedings of the Directors, and of the
premiums offered by the., as contained in the advertisement
on the able, and particularly of their exertions tie encourage
improvements so peculiarly necessary under present cir-
cuinstauces.
In reference to the premiums offered for eacouregiag ea
perimenis with salt, it was mentioned that in so far as sp-
prated from the Reports hitherto made to the Society, the
effect of salt se a 111•111111.• had not been distinctly aseee-
tsioeil; bat that the eaperinseets cede is the use of it in
the frediefir of live stock, had proved very satisfactory.
That premiums for further experiments had been offered to
the rawest year, end when the result of these was received,
it was proposed to publish the whole fur the inhumation of
the public.
At the general meeting in June, 1819, the Society voted
a premium to Mr. R. Thom, manager of Rothsay cotton-
mills, fur an ingenious apparatus invented by him fur regu-
lating and economising the supply of water from reservoirs
to cabals, amid fur working machinery. A model of this self-
regulating apparatus, with sonic "recut additions and im-
provements by Mr. Thom, was submitted to the meeting.
'Ube applicatiou of the apparatus was, at tie conclusion of
the limaness, explained by Mr. Graham Dalyell, Convenor
of the Committee on machinery, to several members in the
room, who expressed themselves much pleased with its
getiuity and usefulness.
A letter from Mr. Rae tVilsoo of Kelvinbank, presenting
to the Society a model of the plough which has long been
in use over a great part of the East, was read to the meet.
ing. Mr. Wilson brought this model from Nazareth, is
Syria, no his resent travelling in that country. The meet-
ing expressed its acknowledgments to Mr. Wilson (or his at-
ienti )))) and directed the plough to be deposited with the
models belonging to the Society.
The Secretary reported the proceedings taken by the Di-
ctoss in puesuauer of lustructimis from former general
meetings, with the view of tibtainiug some relief fur Scot.
land, from the operation of certain Acts passed at the close
of the Session of Parliamesit of 1819, for regulating the
malt duties. 13y these Arts, the principle which had been
recognised and acted upon, from the period of the Union
downwards, of lay iug a smaller duty to malt made from
barley raised its Scotland, and particularly from the inferior
description of grain called bear or higg than that imposed
upon English barley, was fur the first time departed from.
The effects of the change introduced by these Acts were
severely felt all over the country; and, had they continued
in force, would have occasioned very serious injury to many
districts of Scotland ; and most, in their cousequences, have
frustrated the intentions of Government end Parliament, in
reference to the encouragement of small legal stills, the ge-
neral introduction of which appears the must effectual means
of suppressing illicit distillation.
Front the Report of the Committee of the House e.,m•
molts appointed to iiiiistiote this matter, which has just
been printed, the meeting was much gratified to find that se•
lief, to a restate extent, hum the duties imposed by the Acts
in 1411C1111011, is likely to he afforded to Scotland. This
Report fully recognises the equity and expediency of the re.
duct ion coelended for, and the Committee have accordingly
recommended to Psi bawls t that, with "view of eaabliug the
legal distiller more of to oppose the illicit trader in
the marker, n drawlinck of Is. a bushel should be allowed us
all malt used in the manufacture of spirits fur home cos.
autopilot" in Scotland fur three years, and a further 'eledue-
lion of 9.1 a bushel in favour of Scottish bear or bieg, ha
cunsideration of the inferiority of that description ot grabs
fur the purpuse of malting. The Committee further reco.,-
mn for sloe favourable consideration of the legislature,
the propriety of granting au extension of credit on the duties,
by authorising the bonding of spirits and malt.
As cunuecied with this subject, there was also submitted
to the meeting queries weevilly prepared, printed mot ex-
tensively circulated by the directors in the northern and
western counties, with the view of aseertsiaing, in as far as
possible, the causes which have hitherto obsttitcted the
operation of the Acts autism Ming the use of small legal stills.
The Committee by whom these queries were prepared and
circulated, of which Sir George Mackenzie, Bart. is eon-
•ener, is in hopes that information may be obtained iu re-
turn in the queries, which will enable the Society to bring
under the view of he Legislature suet' further measures as
may appear necessary, or calculated to promote the establish-
ment of small legal Wilk in those districts of the country
where illicit diitillati tttt is still prevalent.
M r. Oliphant, from the Fris golly Society Committee, report-
ed that the period fixed for rec.-leeng returns to the schedules
circulated had not yet arrived, but reports bad already been
✓eceived from certain societies in Perthshire and East Lo-
thian of the proportion which the average period of health
bears to the average period of sickness among the members
of Deese societies. An exemplificatioo to facilitate the
Nlliag sup ufihe schedule had been issued by the Committee,
and returns from many societies of the results shown by

A sloth in pursuit of a remedy to bourn' misery is every
where seen soil felt ; • chilling despair and almodunmeut to
fate, reign liiumphant ; when a singular person rises into
notice, of a relief to the cries of tram, a speedy set-
tlement of difficulties, and a cure to the torments of discon-
tent, under • new view' of human nature.
Of course, it is wise and prudent to postpone the adop.
lion of Isis regimen till its advantages he seen and its truth
clrsrly understood. But it is a false discretion to refine the
sight or consideration of it, merely because it pretends to
deny the utility of our present practices anal opinions while
so molly evils accompany those practices, mod while 1 hose
opinions do not remove, or even tend to remove thews,
'lt has been long laid down as an essential principle, that
man is bore with self-love, by some said to deserve use better
name than selfishness. Now this principle is positively re-
jected (though not expressly, yet by implication) by Ibis
novel reformer, who offers to introduce a new disposition
and character among mankind. He says, " He is prepared,
when others can follow him, so to combine new meow.
staaces, that real vice, or that conduct which creates evil
and misery in society, shall be utterly unknown in these
villages, to whatever number they may extend."
Though this doctrine may appear • mere asarttink con-
tradicted by every fact connected with the past history of
men, yet we know that man is a being capable of improve-

the present race continse relish, as from their post .
habits they are likely to do fur a ii. 410, the sns phis of "keir
goods at the end of each year may be divided equally 'moot
them.
The objection that some will be more idle did earth ss,&r.
than others is not only 111-oatered, but inventor' ;
mass is always given his dispositiosi, and as id:eness SIM ch. -
leoniess, lac. proceed from certain received ideas and Writ.,
which so dispose the mind, so may we give in the place of
those ideas oilier ideas which shall dispose his sound to
io-
durtr%, earfoluess, generosity, Re. to the full txtelli.of his
health and Welds. It is a minions fact, that the very men
who teach us that we ace mutually iadiglent, having acquired
sume sort of what is called independence, sod akin small it
false ideas of honour mid decorum, whith create a distaste
fur labour, are the very idlers therriselves. Whin we tine
early and walk abroad we behold the dependant chases bury
as bees, while those who moralise, sad attempt to peeit to
mankind that they have a natural dispnsitimi to stoM, are
snoring in heri! Every industsious and intrllogrutpreteri-
ell mass knows, that by kind heatmrel, a diligent tapirs/o.oi
to his workmen of their real interest, and ass attention t..
their comfort, i.e coo resider them all, with one accord, in •
dustrions, careful, and' well.disposed. The great diffi.'lll3/Y
was to acquire this elms aver to the lust instance, and to tit
upon the true palls of knowledge. This has hems atlareed,
used a consequence of this attaimurni is to leas, th 01.0",
said character it an acquirenicril, and that it wax's: gaups,
&withal we ha, e the power ref giringrl io all.
Mr. tliwrii says, " that the whole satrees, of Nig ilerisAlte..
meland et] will dalu•nd opera the nt
limbo
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of man must be closely eitansised sod criticised, in ender
that the minds of men may be prepared. instructed. slims-
limed. end enlivened with elm increosed degree of knowledge.
which in herniating to beam epos the world or its usiversal
Mr. Locke field. that s all mane', of furee,kritboht rig*,
epos a man's person, puts hi.. is s state of war with the
aggressor, sad of conseeptence that being in s Clete of war,
be stay lawful', kill biro that pots hini under this unnstu•
rat restraint." Me. Latta woes thesootiesCuldiesowher_

et Moe earips
Ut sibs Niftite

4-11111briTter ihe ka-instig;tista
LIM mils with whithllleeirky is ailieted, and
_ressitewieg Them; and le4eg row in misseesieb
ies metneheaditalleetiose the priteektellity • es* Matey wf the
arrangensewts sow &manumit, whit* lace been the Arun of
thee ievestigatioa, aided by a loan seem of attest expr.
rimeals, he ogees to eachante Their poverty fur wealth, their
'dilemma 4r keetriedge, their seine for kiedwess, 1 heir a-
visiimns fur maids. Ile eitet* to effect this draw milhelit
sobjerting a single isalividoat eves to lempsoull, Idebbliga
usenet. N. ene shell salt by it for as hew; '
esseetially bernelted within a Jain period from ere hat&
duelists, and yet nut say part of the 'Aiello/ systole' ehdielet
promatorely diseerbed. " I
Mr. Owes is a 'vertigo! philalopher. For the mere smear
•nderstsedisig aid appliristien of Mr. Owe's', views, let its
ecomeiater what is called, " losing one's temper," a issiefsktrob'
from which few, if any, are totally exempt. Au alkali.,
obaervatiou of the way a which piing pee* are brought
alp. will in a great measure explain the castor of Ibis pros
trailing weakness; fur we very emansealy remark that b
temper may be improved et injured by di/revert anodes of
treat meet.
We ere many who have great command over their feel-
ism, and who rell.olll themselves into good halanar, or, &Iwo
a recollection and sense of another's fully sod isiThasity,.prin
serve a transmit state of mind. This is naterally such
'sake to tome than to others; and so it is with unsay ether
• feelings, in proportion to the istellemual rapacity, sad
the state of The *cruise system. Some children never, or
II • hardly ever cry; others are always piping. The mass of
mankind, as they VOW older, lose their obildbh dispositions
• and behaviour ; but some kw, from a weak 'Mud hod bail
• tint' , retain thens Ilkoogh We. This is particularly oh-
servals!" in women, manes to their mistaken system of eds-
. ration. It is the alrengtheaiwg of the nerves, and the greet*
- of the tumult power., improved by such iileas sod optadoes
as estate a disgust at childish thieve, that serve to intruders
• a firm and ratioaal dispisaitioo.
On the same principle, it may he seen that mild and sensi-
ble initials, con eying to the mind Ideas which give thinned'
of (baguet et ill temper sod ookioderes, email produsems
like erect, strengthening the ...ryes, enatiliag a pen** l beer
opposition with mod humour, and bringing to the Meettee.
tiJit on all occasions• those rational views *high dale *ever
tend to irritation. The human mind iv sot illidempered or
till rendered so by igosiroat °lmitable's, Ibis-
ilirerted and unnecessary reaistaitre sod viola...ire, Bad
treatment soon ii, after which it is needless to expect
it to lie either geode or sweet. Such, ton, is Ilse case
• with all amoral propeuaities or qualities. At birth they
ere not wasnitable ill tempered, or irritable. They ale
rendered so by after taismanagenwui. When left to
themselves, trod to the troadort of an onenlighteued mind,
already crossed sad mired, they herniae rusty and over-
• ""iggilwr with besperfestioa, ta experience has proved to oar
cleat. A genii may be wasted sod abused, itherefwe Ituw to
use it is the discovery to be made. The world have met
ceased to Inareel with their stature, because had habits sod
fake motions have made their steads a dismal sod muddy
pool, and they have never yet sere clearly best to pre.
serve the salami pellacidity of the Waist mind, der.
Jog the process of infosisg info it the strong viii.
fyiNg waters of knowledge sad esperietsre. The
practice obit+ it is accessary fur them to learn is, to prevent
the it-fatless' disputes of die young, which take place before
the years of diseretioe ; to treat all equally, is order not ts
produce any env, or jealousy; to give instreetioe palirutly,
end always calmly; to force an knowledge by 'Meucci such
a conduct ocenaluaierg a had temper; in short, to act to-
wards the young as In beings having no property detri-
mental to them *bee they heat come into bfr, but ready to
receive peaceably sod willingly every orreful itilructiorv,
wht.o properly given. An invariable role shoold be, to
grit theta when we cannot he calm sod good *elated to
Illrcl (fur the brute creation beat their yodel when they are
out of bestow . with them); awl stases to emitted* That we
have not found not the proper method of ironeeyieg any weir)
truth sad instruction, when peace and geed humour, and
mealk treatmeat are heart-tool ; and therefore that it is
better to leave them ignorsot or it, thaw to enforce it by any
• means, which are sure to produce that relied sod
vitiated mead which daily proves owe greatest inisfeetisee,
sot which, however time and patience may tend to eahn,
cleat, and analog, the likes in it, we eon expect to be-
come as traisapartnt and sunshsny ma we may preserve that
of our desceadauts. The old proverb is yes, troe—we eau,
ie4rad, leach much noire than we Coll practise.
Before I conclude, allow me- In refer to the Phrtoologi-ts,
roneernio% whose doctrine. I perceive you take an interest.
Thai sect believe that the faculties au, through visible or-
gans, sensible to the sight aid touch. There is doubtless a
scot ace at the bottom of theirayalsne but they cableway err
to considering argots-id slip ataitious sod eleavairter to he in-
ease properties with their 'ethereal continuations,.
Should my correspoodgisce prove sgreeablr, yaw shall
buratto' receive another commosticalion.

1'

I am, Sir, your obedient Servost.
A LOVER OF TRUTH.

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AMERICA.

BUENOS AYRES.
The following is given in a New York Paper as
the latest intelligence received in that city from
Buenos Ayres.
new yoaz, JUNE 9, Jail.
We are indebted to Captain Bassett, of the brig
Laara Aaw, arrived yesterday, in 45 days from
linraws Ayres, for the following interesting intel-
bgence:--

At the time the Lassa ,On sailed from Buenos
Ayres, the greatest agitation prevailed iii that city.
It was reported those there had been a revolution at
Cordova. and a violent civil war was going on be-
tween the Provinces of St. Jug° de l'lritero Tucu-
man and Sena. Carters, with an increasing force,
was said to be at Melingue, within the frontiers of
the Province of Buenos Ayres. It was said that
he bud got together from three to four thousand
horses. on which it was supposed that Ramirez
would mount his troops as soon as he had crossed
over the river. Colonel La Madrid had gone out
into the country three or four weeks before with a
•
atilonteer, hut not a very 00111111tf011f corps, to ob-
setve the movements of the enemies; he had
~ reported the position of Carer., but was not strong
411101%41 to attack him.
It was believed at Buenos Ayres, that a war
would soon he declared wish Portugal. A brig
had been loaded and dispatched from Moote Video,
wash arms and smmunition for Rsiiiirez. She lied
:lesser' Buenos Arm The Government had sent
two vessel. to intercept her, bat it was believed
tin had not succeeded. Doily impressment* of
American and other foreign peonies, had been going
as et Buenos Ayres for some time previous to Capt.
Beerett's sailing, to man a flotilla fitting out against
kiteerra. Afros days boture hemiled, sic men were
tekto_feent taus American vessels Wag at
Egreseda, oboist tee leagues from Buenos Ayres;
neer isesoing a few hours in the snicks, had been
piaiened sod tied ow horses, and brought to Bue.
•Inse Ares, where, *floe passing a few hours in
Kira., were MO so boon* the tiotAla. On the re.
iweiguistion of Mr. Forises, our *rut, those men
•. •