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tie Cuosequences wltieb have already resulted from this
perversion of public principle, are but too obvious. . Among
them are to- be numbered, a daily Weakening of the botids of
union between the humbler ranks of society and their natural
guardians and protect orS—insubordinat ima—disregard of.
the laws, and frequent attenipts to obstruct their operation—
increase of crinies—denunciations of hatred towards the
greatest and best men in the country—mockery of Religion—
querulous impatience Mall -contralti and restraint—vain and
ostentatious contempt of all sunnd learning, experience, and
knowledge—interruption of the courses of honest industry
—and derangement of the great concerns and enterprises of
the nation.
The Causes of the evil are no less apparent ; it may be dis-
tinctly traced to the machinations of a comparatively small
number of individuals. These persons act partly by means
of the turbulence and excitement of public meetings, at
which the most 'unfounded and inflammatory speeches are'de-
livered ; and partly through the medium of a licentious Press,
which, without' excepting even the day of sacred rest, inun-
dates the nation with an unexampled profusion of slanderous,
seditious and blasphemous publications.
The mistbeviuus activity of the popular agitators has not
heeu capricious of transient : they have pursued their OW!
systematically;e
and the influence which they have acquired
over the minds of the less-informed classes of society, teas for
several years been regularly and rapidly increasing._ If it
has occasionally ceased to attract public attention, it has ap-
peared at every new manifestation more formidable; it has
been nourished by every art which a pernicious ingenuity
could devise ; and_ it has enlisted in its favuth every personal
feeling of its ignorant and deluded victims.
The Press, that great and invaluable blessing of civilized
life—that mighty engine for diffusing the light of Liberty
and of the Gospel—has unhappily become, in the haods of
evil men, a lever to shake the very foundations of social and
moral order. Its power. which within the last century has
been multiplied an hordred-fold, may now be almost- said
to reign paramount in the gairlance of public opinion; and
to those friends of their country who reflect deeply on this
fact, it 'cannot but be matter of serious alarm to obierve
that a very large proportion of our periodical publications is
under the direction either of avowed enemies of the Consti-
tution, or of persons whose sole principle of action is their
own private and selfish interest. By these, and by occasional
writers of a like character and description, every artifice is
employed,with daily increasing boldness, to render the people
discontented with the Government, and alisubedient to the
Laws: to persuade them ;hat they are betrayed by those who
should protect them ; to seduce them from their affection
and allegiance to their Sovereign; and, finally, to bring
about a Revolution, to which (however it night gratify or
enrich themselves and their associates) the wealth, the pros-
perity, the internal happiness, and the political greatness of
the Empire, must inevitably be sacrificed.
And it is clear that isolated, individual exertion, would he
utterly inadequate to cope with all the rest energies now
arrayed against public order and the public peace; so it is
to be feared, that the Government and Legislature them-
selves might find the contest difficult, without the active,
zealous, and persevering 'co-operation of the loyal and well-
disposed part of the community; which co-operation, to he
effectual, must be the result of a regular and systematic union
of individuals.
• Persuaded that by these means alone the progress of sedi-
tious principles can be arrested ; atid feeling that to arrest it,
• if possible, is the bounden duty of every good subject and
sincere patriot ; the Members of this Society have adopted
the following Resolutiuos
Ist. That they will use their best exertions to maintain
order, and to support the due execution of the Laws.
id. That thee wilrerupley their itabtence, individually and
collectively, in "discountenancing and oPposing the dissemina-'
then of-seditious principles. ' .
3d. That they will entourage persons of integrity and ta-
lent in the Literary World to exert their abilities in confut.
ing the sophistries, dissipating the illeisions, and exposing
the falsehoods, which are employed by wicked and designing
men to mislead the people.
4th. Twat they will resort to such lawful measures as may
be deemed expedient to restrain the publishing and circulat-
ing of seditious and treasonable libels.
In wislung that the licentiousness of the Press should be
restrained, this Association is actuated by a sincere desire to
secure the tine Liberty of the Press—that liberty which sub-
sists only under the •protecting shield of law, and which is
sure to he one of the first sacrifices made in a Political Revo.
lotion. Stich a liberty is absAutely incompatible with thi
present licentiousness ; and the one Most soon Destroy
th
other. The alternative, however, is yet hefore the native.
The Members of this Society have uo wish to prescribe limits
to discussion, nor even harshly to censure the excesses of an
honest though mistaken -zeal ; but there are publications
(and unfortunately many of those circulated among the !R-
-hombi., classes are of this .description), on the criminality
of which no rational doubt can he entertained. These works
consist almost wholly of scurrilous slanders, and of the most
false and inflammatory statements respecting public institu-
tions and public men ; they abound with personal calumny,
and idler direct incitements to violence and crime. In short,
they are inseterately hostile to public and private virtue, and
favourable only to whatever tends to degrade and debase
niantind. All that is estimable in the country would be be-
nefited by their suppression ; and nothing would be so Fiala
improved and elevated as the Press itself.
This Association is established on the broad principle, not
of supporting this or that Administration, but of opposing
the attempts now made to overthrow the Civil Institutions of
the State. Other Societies have for some time existed, for
the protection of Religion and Morals ; but, with the excep-
tion of a few Local Associations, the present is the only one
exclusively destined to the very important object of apprising
the progress of Disluvalty and Sedition. In order to attain
this end, it has been 'determined-
1. To establish a Fund, by the voluntary contributions of
the Members, at such rate as each individual may think fit.
2. To appoint a Committee for conducting the business of
theSocietv.
3. To adopt a system of Correspondence with those Mem-
bers who live at a distance, and with such Associations as"
may he williug to cu-operate in promoting the same objects.
.Most earnestly, therefore, does this Society call upon all
men of all ranks and of all political parties, upon all to wham
the maintenance of civil and teligious liberty is dear, upon
, all wlso value the internal peace of the country, to the per-
manence Lathe British Empire, to join them in % strenuous
endeavour to stem the torrent of those disorganising and de-
, into Mishits principles. which would level to the dust the
fabric of the Constitution, and bury under its ruins all the

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AGRICULTURE.

SPADE HUSBANDRY.—At the Bath and West I
of England Agricultural Society meeting last
week, the following experiment in spade hus-
bandry by Mr. BATLWARD, was detailed :-
46 The Mange! Wurzel, Guernsey parsnips, long
carrots, and short carrots, are all of field not gar-
den growth ; and the immense size of the mange!
wurzel arises from the devastation of the grub
on their neighbours. On three acres of old arable,
much out of condition, I began the work of cleans-
ing and manuring withvetches on oat stubble, which
were cut for soiling, succeeded immediately
by cattle cabbage, (lunged' after the
.rate of
eighty cart loads per acre. On this foundation
I have grown parsnips and mange! wurzel in
drills, at wide intervals (so as to hoe the crops
with ease) after the effective digging with the
spade, or if I had more manure, to lay on, a 'se-
'cond digging in order to vary it. The carrot
crop follows these, and it is man.iired with coal-
ashes and perhaps a sprinkling of soot on the sur-
face of the ground after the plant appears. The
husbandry necessary after seeding the land is
two hoeiugs by hand, and regular thinning. My
mange!. wurzel crop amounts to 20 tons of roots,
and of leaves enough in addition to a necessary
allowance of hay, about 1 cwt. per week, to feed
a heifer • more than a year. The short carrots
amount to the rate of 32 tons (nearly) per
acre, nineteen perches and a half ..having
given 73 cwt. The parsnip crop, unfortunately,
Was judged from the part first dug, (for sale
to a farmer for feeding cattle, at 6d. per
cwt., or 50s. per ton; lie bought two tons),
and did not amount to I'2 tons per acre; the
other part from the 'Guernsey seed was much
better, but I do not think it to have exceeded 16
tons per acre. In calculating the value of 'car-
rots and. parsnip crops by the gardener's prices,
a sum appears whiCh astonishes., I have sold
_more than .20 guineas worth, and: do not think
more than one-third of the produce of one acre
and a half to have passed from my hand ; that
is, I have sold the produce of half an acre At
home, I sell either carrot or parsnips at 50s. the
ton ; but prefer retaining the parsnips of the
two, from the idea of their more nutritive quality.
I give you below, the time of sowing the crops
and the distances of the drills :
sowing. Intervals. ft. in.
Mang. wurzel. April or early in May, 2 thinned } 6
in the rows
Parsnips • Farly in March... .1 3in the rows 1 0
Carrots . March. Broadesil:
"'the mangel wurzel must be secured from
the frost, and should be off the laud the end of
NOvember.''
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DUCHESS OF NORFOLR.—We lately announced
the death of her 'Grace the Duchess of NORFOLK.
She has left no near relation, and her fine family
estates go to a very distant heir. There had been
for some time a Commission of Lunacy granted
from the Court of Chancery. The right to the.
Holm Lacy property has been in dispute for
some time, amongst several persons who have.
claimed them as heirs to the last Lord Scuda-
more : but it is supposed that one moiety of the
property will fall to Sir E. Stanhope, Bart. and
the other be divided between General Burr, (in
right of his wife), and Mr. Parsons, who claim
it as co-heirs of Sir J. Scudamore, who lived in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, they being de-
scendants from two of his daughters. The Rev.
J. Harewood, B. D. F. S. A. claimed as being
descended from a son of Sir John Scudamore,
who was Gentleman Usher to King Henry VIII.
and the ancestor of Sir James ; and a Mrs. Jack-,
son, of London, who was the petitioner when the
Duchess first became insane, claimed as being
descended from a daughter of the same Sir John.
Thus the fine Holm Lacy estates go into an in-
direct line, after an uninterrupted descent of
many hundred years, and, in fact, those three.
who it is supposed will take the property, will
do so as heirs to a person who was born near 300
years ago.