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inform you that 1 have no thoughts of writing on the subject youmention.

“ The morals of all nations have been ruined by their riches,and Great Britain will not escape the usual catastrophe. Luxurymakes men poor; poverty combined with luxury induces men, andwomen too, to marry, not from mutual liking and an approbationof a virtuous character, but from interest. Where there is noliking, there will soon be great indifference ; disgust follows indif-ference ; and the silly principle that there can be nothing wrongin doing what so many people do, finishes the business of matrixmonial felicity, and paves the way to adultery.

“ I am, &c.

“ R.' Landaff.”

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In 1793, I wrote the preliminary observations which are pre-fixed to the agricultural report of the county of Westmore-land, and intended to have written the whole report. But onMr. Pringle’s being employed by the Board of Agriculture to sur-vey the county, I gave up my own design, and lent him what assist-ance I could. The country is indebted to Sir John Sinclair , forthe establishment of the Board of Agriculture ; his patriotism sug-gested the plan, and his perseverance surmounted all the diffi-culties which attended the obtaining a charter, and setting thescheme afloat by becoming the first president. I was one of thethirty ordinary members of the Board, and was constant in myattendance at its meetings, whenever I was in London . Towardsthe end of 1799, I received from the president a plan for estab-lishing (by a company of subscribers) experimental farms in thedifferent counties, to which I sent the following answer: —