Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-13

money! where good Hay sells for five
pounds a ton and where there is ready
sale sor every species of produce. One
thing above all; If an English farmer u
mean by English, people of the whole u
pited kingdom) comes here VITA money
In his pocket, let hiR resolve 10 Keep t
there for year-and then he wall De sure
TO do well.
All see around here is well calculated
to attract the attention and To please the
sight Of one like III. self brought up IN
The country, always greatly delighted
with, and somewhat skilled ~ It's various
and pleasing aud hcai,hiui pursuits. The
peopie are engaged busily IN planting
their ind an Corn. The Cherry trees, OF
which there are multiudes, planted in
long avenues, or i'll rows, have dropped
their blossoms, and all around they begin
to show loads ct fruit. The apple and
pear orchards, in extent from one toiwen
" acres in each farm, are IN full and beau
tiful bloom. The Farms are small III ex
tent, 40 appearance OF great riches a
mOngst the farmers, and not the smallest
appearance of want amongst the abour
ers who rec i've in the country, about
tico shiilingS and three pence (our money! a
day, tcith 6oard an lode ing, and which
board consists of plenty ofexcellent meat
aud fish of all sorts, the best OF bread,
butter, cheese and eggs. That YOU may
form someidea as to prices OF living,
viii state few facts, which have already
come within my own knowledge. We are,
at present al an Inn, 10 miles from New
York. Ii is on the main read TO that City.
Scarcely an hour in the day passes with
out a carriage of some sort offering for
going thiIier, and TO go by the regular
stage, costs three ShslfingS. Mind, shall
always speak ia English money, when |
1 do not speak of dollars. We lodge and
board in this Inn, have each bed room
segcod bed, have "A room 10 SIT IN 10 our
selves, we eat BY ourselves, and II real
" is eating. We have smoked fish,
chops, butter, and eegs, for breakfast,
with bread, (ihe very finest | ever saw
crackers, sweet cakes-and, when say
tha,t W. hars such and such things, l do
not mem that we have them for ShoU, or
lust enough 10 smell 10, but IN loads Not
anegg, but DISH fall of eggs. Not i
sup Of meat orof fish, bat plate full
Lump sugar ior our tea and coffee: not
broke into little bits the size of u halle
nut, bat in good humping pieces. For
dinner, we have the finest of fish, bass,
mackarel, HOLSTERS of meat, lamb, veal,
ham, &c. Asparagus, in plenty apple
pies, (thcugh in the middle OF hiay) The
we'd peaches, cramberries, and other
things. And, for all this, and excellent
cider TO drink, with the kindest and most
obliging oftreatment, on the part of the
Landlord aad Landlady, and their family,
VIC pay no more than tWenty-tUO Shit{mgS
aud strsence q ,peek, each. In England, the
same focd and drink and lodging, at an
Inn, wouid cost us nearly the same sum
every day. But, there are two things
which ~ money can purchase any where.
The first is, no grumbling on the part of
the Landlady, except on account of our
eating and drinking too Ettle-and the o.
Their is, that Mir. higgins has no fastening
but bit o) clip run an Orey the tatch Of his
door to house which is full of valuable
things Of all sorts, and about which we
leave all our things much more carelessly
than we should do in our own house in
any part OF England. How then are we
able 10 i've at an ian, one of the mostrc
pectabie in The whole country, at the rate
of 80 pounds year, while the pay of the
common farming man is not much short
vi that sum.
All this is the effect of good govern
meni, of Just and mild government,
which fakes so little from the people in
taxes, that they have the means of hap.
piness fully lettin their hands. I'm short,
the life which the people lead here, APP
pears TO be very much like the life their
and our old foreiathcrs led in former
times, as described in the book of the no.
nest old Chancellor Fortescue, in the
passage which inserted in my Register,
III my letter TO the Men of Norwich da-
ted on the 10Th of January last; and
which passage will again insert here, for
If is worthy of being written in letters Of
gold. The object of the Chancellor, who |
was writing a series of letters TO the
Prince, whom he expected to become
King Of England, was to convince him
that apeople must be happy or miserable
in proportion as they were in possession,
or deprived of security for their persons
and their property. After describing the
insecurity ofthe people ofFrance, i'll those
days, from the arbitrary laws under which
they lived; after describing the misera-
bic life that they led, their beggariy dress
and their meagre carlap fond, he turns,
on the other hand, to describe the effects
of what he calls that political mired gOre,n-
aaent, which prevailed in England; and
after speaking of the security which men
IN England had for their persons, he pro-
ceeds thus to speak of the security which
they had for their property, and of the
plentiful and happy manner OF their lives
-" The King cannot despoil the subject
" without making ample satisfaction for
" the same; he cannot, by himself or his
a" ministry, lay taxes, subsidies, or any
" imposition whatever, upon the subject;
10 he cannot alter the laws, or make new
-" ones, without the cypress consent If the
" ,choIe kingdom, IN Parliament assembled
" every inhabitant is at this liberty fully
''to use and enjoy whatever his farm pro-
" duceth, the fruits OF the earth, the in
" crease of his flock, and the like all tile
!" ininrovements lac makes whether by