The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-04-13 00:00:00

BY LORD ERSKINE.

(From 71e Literary Gazette.]

Agreeably to our promise, we now insert the
Notes on the Noble Lord's humane and interesting
poem, by which means we complete to our Readers
a production not otherwise within the attainment of
even curious collectors.

NOTE 1.
How ran his vengeauce thus be hurril
Against his favourite lower world'
Alluriiiig to the Bill I introduced into the House
of Lords to prevent cruelty to Awn

NOTE 11.
E'en in his highest, proudest times,
He ne'er had cognizance of climes.
The Cheecellor has no crouluul jurisdiction.

NOTE
Just where my beeches hope to grow
When the fierce t.mpest cease to blow.
su,rotinded my cottage for shelter, which was
before entirely exposed on almost the summit of a
high hill, by taking beeches out of my woods of a
very considerable age and height, where they have
since stood. till very lately, rigged during the win-
ter like ships to hold them against shims that
sometimes blow in my windows and threaten my
roof, hut have hitherto spared my navy, which has
rode out many tremendous gales without the loss
of a cable, and now braves them without support;
all the trees having taken root and flourished.

NOTE IT.
Nor could the soil its produce yield.
Tbo' Coke himself prepared the field.

Mr. Coke of Norfolk—the most enlightened agri-
culturist, the soundest politician, and une of the
honestest end best men this country ever bred.—
Every British Statesman should once, at least, •isit
Holklient, at the Aunual Meeting called the Sheep
Shearing—they would there see the erroneous policy
of too extensive a system of colonization, and the
folly of encouraging the emigration of our people,
whilst so many millions of acres, in our own island,
are lying waste. The subject is much too large
and important for a note, but I owed this homage
to Mr. Coke.

NOTE ♦.
Yet let sot man presume to know
Their course, uor dare to strike the blow.
It may be necessary here to come under the poet's
license, otherwise vermin of all descriptions, how.
ever manifestly destructive in our gardens, ought to
be permitted to lay them waste. The economy of
nature throughout the minuter gradations of
ru 1 life ulnas all investigation ; yet Providence
Must undoubtedly have intended that all created
beings should be fed es their instincts direct.
'Trees, therefore, of all kinds, bear their hints
and seeds in • thousand times greater quantity th'n
Ire necessary for their reproductions, cud which

most olivioosly Li.e hsen iiitensfed f?!..in:inal sub-
sistence. they grow in a wild state iwitiPfir.
tniile tribes of birds and insects lake then. s!hannl
proportions withnitt ititerferesice, and mail iss
tented with alien relations, wlisits-vei. it may ho ;
but in the resorts of luxury he will hear iii
pari-
ne;shila. Tlw peachro and tier:booties ois lio walls
bring an hundred limes whet would to his
reach if they grew in the desert, yet he wilt Hui
spare nue of them, lint liangm liss honeyed bottles
on every branch, when wows anal other insect*
surround them ; not, indeed, in their natural num-
ber, but liiplied by '.lie alloreinebto of homes.
monopoly.—ln the Mime to oilier, when Men con.
gregate in large cities, and amass Bitter wealth
than is, perhaps, consistent with a wholes/yens ~tai,'
of society, thieves and sobbers abound in propor-
tion, ciJi the Judge et the-131,1 Haile", like the
gardener in the orchard, has a duty onsom,it Nato
him to keep theist down.
Cowper. in Isis Took, hits given the idlo tar Our
conduct ha illr t.issr'r, Mr.illA ; and
the Linn& he silloas to inait's ackiniattedged do-
minion is surely mildly inifficieni:
" The sum is ihis—if melee coulrntoret,,health,
Or 'afro., interfive, his rilchtl and eleirns• • •
Are psisifinuill, mid must extinguish Widely
Else they are an—ihe urkeuneet 'hung% hind are
A. free to live, and ift e,.juy chat Tile
As (;il,l was free to film them at ibr
Who n, his sovereign wisdom mmlv Mt."
The with, siihjeet 01 humanity to animals it sd
beautifully end strikingly ilitiorsted it; this admira-
ble !mem, that liti ought to he satisfied
until th-ir clithlren have ttiat past of it by heart.
Fur self, toy of mina is, Ilist lee rarely suc-
ceed in II oat of otter extermination against animals
we prowl ihe ; awl even if we could prevail, others
more iiii•schiesous than those we destroy might soul.
tiply, perhaps, from their destruction. IVe might,
therefore, to be contented to destroy the bah aids.. la
or mas-es of them, when they grievously
rather than carry on a systematic war against tos-n,
fur their total annihilation. It is thought by litany
well-informed persons, th it the destruction iit.
sels, and cruotures of that desciiirini, Int ire
preserystiou of the game, lass inert-total the
trundler of the field-rat in many parts of
land : sat animal more dangerously destructive. It
is extremely difficult, besides, if nut quite tiepin-
sible, to subdue whole chows of iiiininw•rshlt and
scarcely visible inseets—witnees the inetf,clusl at-
tempts, by lime, by soot, and by all that chemistry
could biiiig into action, to overpower the
fly, that, unrelenting enemy to every 'fiiroic.—
This little epicure feeds on its first iraf,
which is soft and smooth, shoving itself in n very
few days after sowing, hot when the sieoud or
rough leaf appear, their ropast is over, whoa they
either die or remove in se srch of-othes food"; many
i:ogeidoos contrivances hove been interned to curry
on against them on exterminating hostility. hut
their incalculable numbers and dexterous bastoict
of self-presertiatiot) have olsays defeated Ural.-
31r.Cuke, who in all his exiierimdirts seem, to
follow inter the pattern of and to be
aware of the folly of systermihrolty rouniaraciing
her, pursues a more until rd anti it more micoetsful
course; lie sows more than double the quautity uP
turnip-seed usually sown by Others, or which could
possibly come forward to crop. At this sar•
traorthoary feast•the flies are lot undisturbrd,
and before the superfluovs and othervoiore use-
less vegetation can be consumed, the roar
leaf appears, when they instantly emigrate .o
his neighbour's territories, with preltibly filar
or five generations of their families, sslit-re, if throe •
be only an ordinary sowing fir their support. they
eat up the whole in a day, and leave the farmer nuts
thing. The fact is, that they often muse from
place to ;,lace, and are occasionolly billeted upon
us by nature upon their march, vita we• mutt pro-
vide for them the allotted rot oils under the continua
penalty of a distress.

bIARKEI'S.

CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, A►RIL 14.

We had a good supply uf sll kinds tirllll/ this inurninz;
of Wheat, English and foreign, ill- re sue :.bout 10.00 t►
quarters; Burley and Oats, earls ls.ll(in q•tuttrru. Fitic
Wheal was its demand, and .2. pt rqu d,•ater. Barley.
Pease, sud Beans have earls .1, chi:, d fmtii Is. to '2s. pi r
quarter. The Oat trade is full as dear. lu tither kinds uf
Grain there is no alteration.

CURRENT Niters OF GRAIN.

(;rey I'e4Ae BO. 5114
Tirk Beats; 32 I 314.1-
dittO Oh 40 •
—a j Small ditto Us ss.

Foreign Wheat Ms GO
Fine ditto bBs 7t4s
English Wheat 6O. figs
Fine ditto 74s bits

glatu
Fecal Oats ..... ?b.
Fine ditto
Puianil ditto 2lli
Fine ditto 314 34.
Potato ditto . ..... Slo 36:

INI:e Seed, per 146t..45/ 521
Flue Flour 44.614 ON4

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