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£< I am writing at a greater length than I intended, having nowish to trouble the Board with my speculations, but merely adesire to give yourself a testimony of that esteem with ‘whichI have the honour to be, &c.

“ R. Landaff.”

I afterwards obtained from the Custom-House the followingaccount of the amount of the coal duties. Total amount of theduties on coals exported in the year 1801, 92,552/. 18s. 2 d .—•Total amount of the duties on coals carried coastwise, distinguish-ing, 1st, the coals imported into London , and, 2d, the Out-Ports:London , 387,609/. 13s. 10! d. — Out-Ports, 134,404/. 9s. 4 d. ■—■Now if the duty should be taken off from coal used in the burningof lime, supposing that duty, even with the frauds which mightbe committed, to amount to ten or twenty thousand poundsa yeai', the loss to the revenue would be trifling; and much morelime would be burned than is now burned, and in less than fiftyyears some millions of acres would be brought into cultivationwhich must, without lime, remain in the unproductive state theyhave hitherto been ; to say nothing of the increase to the revenuefrom the increase of barley, &c.

There has been much more conjecture and less certainty con-cerning the quantity of waste land in the country, than thereought to have been concerning >a matter of such importance, andcapable of ascertainment. It is to be regretted that governmentsuffers itself to remain in ignorance on such a subject, at a timewhen, from the state of Europe , we are peculiarly called uponto rely on our own resources. .Why not order every county in

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