The National Register.
London, England, 1815-02-19 00:00:00

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peroits, wiith families ana houses, is now occupied by Gm..
and that a splendid mansion and princely equipage, &c.
this princely establishment destroys all the minor prodixe
of this 1000 acres of land,' so by this improvement the pub.
lie loses the advantage that small farms produced. If this
is improving our condition, Mr. Editor, I consider it to
be, a defect in our first principle. If lam wrong, I should
be very happy to be suet right, as agriculture is the rock
on which national wealth rises, whose springs of aetiots
should not be checked: from this source of wealth we lay
the foundation of trade. The supply of things drawn. Irons
trade, and absolutely necessary for its subsistence, must de.
lend upon accidents and contingencies, which trade cannot
foresee or hinder in its operation, by the continual Iluctus-
tions of fancy ; but it is quite otherwise with wealth pro.
duced from cultivating the earth, which is fixed and perms.
neat. The wants of man require as great a quantity of corn
or other provisions now, as the same required at the first fOr.
Anation of .the universe ; therefore the real value is the same,
because the operation is unchangeable, and nature require,
the same, so-that no alteration in the action or principle can
• rise on the nature of corn and pro Visions. The duty of
a wise legislature is to frame laws for the general bene6t of
the community, and our ancestors framed a law to prevent
ariy person holding above two farms in one parish. By 21st
of Henry VIII. chap. IS, it was enacted, that no person
should hold above two farms in the same parish, under tbs
penalty of 3s. 4d. per week. The high price of provisious .
caused this la-s, to prevent the small farms from being laid
into large ones by the opulent. If legislative interiereneefs
necessary, amend this law, that no one farmer shall rent oe
work above 100 acres, except it is all his own freehold. This
would rouse a stimulus in our agricultural pursuits hy ann.
merous body of cultivators, and make this country *tat Ms.
Whitbreiul wishes, au exporting country.
• I am, Mr. rilitor,
Au ENGLISHMAN OF THZ OLD StINGOIL.
Southwark, Febriiiiry 8, 181,i.

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT AND Tug Pia-
" FACED WOMAN,

There has been for come months a story in circulation. o
a young Lady of high flintily and fOrtuue, on whose life and
issue bx marriage, a very large estate depends, having a head
of such deformity as to resemble that of a pig. It is uot im-
possible that theme may be such a case, though all the Medi-
cal Professors of the metropolis say it is unknown to them :!
but it has been magnified into a monstrous deviation frame
nature; and a thousand idle tales are propagated of her hay,•
ing frightened a female engaged to attend her; and that shi
had actua:ly the head of a pig: A desperite fortune.linntei
(advertises that he is ready to marry her, however deforn:ed.

MR. EDITOR,----J was greatly atutt<ed at the dexterity with
which you coupled those two inaaginary persons,
,Jnanna4
child, and the woman with a pig's face, together. I bay.e
since been in doubt, whether they may not both be one and
'the same person; that is, whether old mother Soot hcott 13.12,*
not have brought the pig•factel woman into the world in a
-state of complete puberty • and, as her followers were heard
to declare, even after her death, '‘ that still the _Lords siTni
'was not skortenet!," be may (with reverence be.it spoken)
.have .taken this way of eiteviing it, by lengthening the nose of
• J.oanu4 Qou this suppositioD, you :ire Mist:lieu

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