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to say what I think, I will own to Your Grace that my opinionis, they ought to attend in a body, and to move on the sameday, (on the first day of meeting if possible,) in both Houses, forall papers relative to the negotiation to be laid before parliament,and, if the papers are refused, to attend no more. This I thinkwould be a conduct consistent with their dignity, and more likelythan a total absence to rouse all thinking men into an apprehen-sion for the general safety.

“ Your kind invitation is highly acceptable to Mrs. Watson,and all my family, but I have no thoughts of quitting this placetill after Christmas . We are now in the middle of our harvest,but all the hay is not yet gotten in. We have a more determinedseason of rainy and of fair weather in this county than in mostparts of England ; at least; I know not that the following observa-tion has ever been made in any other county, and I myself onlymade it the other day, from some tables of the quantity of rainwhich had fallen in every month for seven years on an average:the accuracy of the tables is unquestionable, and the inference Imade from them is this:—That if the whole year be resolved intothree parts, June, July, August, September, — October, November,December, January,-—February, March, April, May,—the pro-portions of the quantities which fall in these respective parts willbe as 11, 9, 5 ; so that we have more than twice as much rain inthe summer as in the spring months.

“ I am Your Grace’s most faithful and ever obliged servant,

-j . “ R. Landaff.”

On the 20th of January, 1798, I published an address to thepeople of Great Britain . It was generally thought to be of great