looked upon as persons not to set foot in England, even if driven by wind or weather. After the first American war was over a great fuss was made about landing a few Hessians, who had come back from America, and who could not sail up the river Elbe on account of the ice. They were, at last, suffered to land, and to stay on shore till the Northern rivers were navigable. I myself saw some of these Hessians in Kent; and I remember what a deal of big talk there was about the constitution; their glorious constitution, which was so very nice upon the subject of foreign troops. Little did I, at that time, imagine, that I should see a complete German army, horse, foot and artillery, established in England for years; and for many years, too; little did I imagine that I should see, not only foreign troops stationed in this kingdom; but foreign officers bearing commissions in English regiments; German officers commanding Englishmen and English officers; and, still less did I imagine that I should see, English counties, English districts, under the command of German generals; that is to say, the whole of the troops and the whole of the officers in certain districts of ment of the country; and they 10. Foreign troops used to be are such part of the Government. When the late King came to the throne, there was scarcely such a thing as a barrack in the kingdom; and who, at that time, ever dreamed of seeing in England, an establishment like that at Sandhurst: a school for training up children to become Military Officers when men? a school which must necessarily cut them off from the people at large: a school, in short, tending to produce all those effects, which BLACKSTONE represents as being wholly incompatible with civil liberty. It is well known how fondly this school was cherished during the late reign. It is well known how it was caressed and dandled; and with regard to the motive, he must be a brute indeed, that can have a doubt. As to the soldiers, how stand the people with regard to them? Why thus; if any man do that, which may be interpreted into an attempt to seduce a soldier from his duty, such a man is liable to be hanged! Thus there exists, in the midst of us, a body of men of this description! This is England, to be sure; but Mr. SOUTHEY will hardly attempt to say that it is Old England. What would have been said, if any one, when the late King came to the throne, had predicted that a law like this would ever exist in England; and that while the law should be actually in existence, the Government would be arming to sally forth in the Rights of Man! England, militia as well as regulars, receiving their daily orders and commands from German generals. Yet I did see all this. I saw all this in the late reign, and if Mr. SOUTHEY has neglected to relate it, in his Vision of Judgment, he must have had very little taste. What a fine figure the German Baron Generals would have cut in the procession, carrying all their banners and orders of knighthood, and having the English nobility and gentry pulling off their hats to them, and waving their swords to them in obedience! This German army, you will say, is an old story; and besides, the army is gone now we have got rid of it. Faith, but we have not; and that I will show you presently; and that I would have shown the Jury. SOUTHEY puts the King in heaven; but, he should have given in the bill at the same time. The late reign might be celestial; but it cost us something; and it costs us something yet, as the following item will show. "For "defraying the charge of half-pay "and reduced allowances to the "officers of disbanded foreign "corps, of pensions to wounded "officers, and of the allowances "to the widows and children! "of deceased foreign officers: "129,7501" So that here is this little charge, of only a hundred and thirty thousand pounds a year to these Germans, of one sort and t'other, who are now, I dare say, snugly at home in Germany, spending our money for the glory of England and the benefit of Germany. This hundred and thirty thousand pounds a year is as much as seven thousand English labourers' families, or thirty-five thousand English labouring people, get to live upon. The Magistrates in Norfolk allow a man, his wife and three children, five shillings and tenpence a week to live upon. That is to say, about fifteen pounds a year; so that we send abroad to these foreigners, for half-pay and allowances to them, their wives and children, as much money as would support, according to the Norfolk bill of fare, forty-three thousand three hundred and thirty English labouring people! Now pray, Mr. SOUTHEY, don't forget that in your next edition of the heavenly Vision. 11. Need I say more? Is not this enough? I must observe, however, in the way of conclusion, that the law of the late reign, which punished with hanging, ripping up and quartering, the crime of sending a bushel of potatoes to France, ought not to have been forgotten in the heavenly Vision; and that I beg leave to recommend to Mr. SOUTHEY to bring forward in his next edition, OLIVER and EDWARDS; the former drest in long white robes, carrying open before him a copy of the New High Treason Law, made during the last reign, for the special protection of, and only during the life of, His late Majesty. EDWARDS, drest in like manner, may bear against his breast of purity a copy of the very last Act of His Majesty's reign: that Act which punishes with banishment for life, any man who shall a second time be convicted of having written, printed or published, any thing having a TENDENCY to bring His Majesty into contempt! 12. I thought I had done; but I must not pass over Mr. ADOLPHUS's story about the Coro AMERICAN UPON examining my seeds, I find that I have got acorus of the White Oak, the Black Oak, the Yellow Oak, and the Chesnut Oak; that I have some Chesnuts, some Black Walnuts, some Hickory Nuts, and some stones of the Wild Cherry. The White Oak and the Chesnut Oak acorns are so much speared, that I am afraid to send them to any distance. There are some few that nation Oath. It is pretended, that, to admit the Catholics to sit in Parliamest, that to give the Royal Assent to a law like this, would be to violate the Coronation Oath. Shocking hypocrisy! During the late reign, an Act was passed to remove the penalty awarded to an impugning of the Holy Trinity. This totally changed the law as it existed when the King mounted the throne. This was vital, as to a matter of religion. Here was a change which authorized men to deny the Divinity of Jesus Christ. have not started yet, and these Yet, the King could give his may serve to make up parcels for assent to this law; a law which those gentlemen who have oractually tolerated men to speak dered trees, and for whom I have openly against Christianity it- not got the trees. I will, thereself; but, when to remove some fore, contrive to send them acorns of the political disabilities of instead. I cannot, however, prothe Christians of Ireland, who mise to furnish any body else with had, in spite of two hundred any assortment of these seeds. I years of persecution, adhered should only cause disappointment to the religion of their and our and chagrin, by sending the things forefathers, when this was the to be bruised about and spoiled. Noobject sought, the Coronation thing is more difficult than to get Oath became an obstacle! the thin shelled acorns in a sound Though that oath, as I have state. I do not believe that I have said before, did not prevent the one out of five that is not either passing of a law to permit men speared or originally defective. openly to deny the Divinity of The thick shelled ones Christ! pretty well; but unless I could make the assortments.complete, I could do nothing worth doing. I must, therefore, content myself with doing what I mentioned above. The weather now appears to be likely to remain open. All the orders that I have actually received, I think I can fully execute, with regard to the Locust Trees; and as to the other trees, I shall, as I observed be-fore, make up the deficiency with WM. COBBETT. seeds. White Oaks, Black Oaks, Chesnuts, Occidental Planes, and I say no more, Mr. LAWYER SCARLETT, though, if I had a mind, I might proceed to forty times the length; and that, too, with merely taking a glance at each topic. I am not to be made believe, that a quarter part of what might have been said would not have been more than sufficient for my purpose. come 6 6 Wild Cherries. I am out of upon the subject of the Locust plants of these sorts, but, in Tree. I should be sorry to see the execution of the orders, I any gentleman bestow a moment's will send seeds instead of plants, time upon a malignant creature and a great many for one. 1 be- like GOURLAY; but, in this case, lieve I am pretty nearly out of his malignity has drawn forth Hickories also. If that should be something truly valuable to the the case, I will send seeds instead public. I will insert the letter of plants here also I said, a first, and then take the liberty to week or two ago, that I was afraid point out a particular fact or two that my Locusts were all bespoke. relating to it. Since that, I have discovered, that I had twenty thousand more than I thought I had. I sowed them at Kensington and had them planted in a field last May. I never counted them, and now find that I have the above number more than I expected. However, I am certain that I cannot supply any more than what I have orders for. If any number should fall short, I shall, without any regard to other circumstances, proceed upon a fair principle, of first come, first served. I think I have about two hundred Apple Trees left. I have not re-commenced, since the frost, sending away trees. The weather is wet, which is very unfavourable to the removing of trees. Nothing will be lost by a little delay.-I beg Gentlemen to have the goodness to excuse the blunders that my people commit. The wonder is, not that they commit blunders, but that they sometimes avoid it. They are wholly unused to the business. I shall, at all times, be ready to make good any deficiencies, and to pay the carriage out of my own pocket. I know what it is to meet with disappointment, in matters of this sort, and can, therefore, feel for other people. Since the publication of my last Register, I have received the following very interesting letter 6 "SIR,-Having, by chance, seen the Morning Herald, dated January the 3d, I find in it an extract of a letter from R. GOURLAY to you, wherein he says, 'In America the Acacia (meaning the Locust Tree) may yield timber hard and tough, in England soft and brittle. and flowers when young when in The fact that it grows rapidly England, is a symptom that it 'will not prove durable when put to use.' to use.' He further says, 'That having travelled from Canada through various routes to New York, he never saw the Locust Tree indeginous.' This gentleman must be very little acquainted lived in America for many years, with the Locust Tree. Having I take leave to acquaint you with some facts in regard to this tree. About the year 1772, I visited a small farm near Boston (the Bunker's hill side), owned by a Mr. Robert Temple, who had the only plantation of Locust Trees in New England, perhaps in America; he his own planting, in a very thriving state, valued at 14. per tree; and the plants all grew naturally, and were taken off from his farm. Joseph Harrison, a man of very superior information, was at this time collector of His Majesty's had ten thousand Locust Trees of often heard him give his opinion Customs at Boston, and I have that it would be a national benefit if the growers of timber in England could be induced to plant the American Locust Tree. "I never heard what become of Mr. Temple's beautiful, and what promised to be, very valuable plantation; and think it might have suffered from the soldiers in the neighbourhood, as the battle of Bunker's-hill took place in 1775. This might be ascertained, as Mr. Temple was as well known as any gentleman in Massachusetts, and a descendant from one of the grown in America, and cannot discover the least difference; and I think it is the best that can be grown in England for trunnels of ships (I believe Mr. Harrison calls them treenails), or any other purpose which requires very hard and tough timber., "An Old Resident in America." The transam of a ship is the regicides who made their escape great timber which holds the two sides together in the hinder part or to America. "Joseph Harrison, after the American revolution, published a Me-stern. Those who have been on moir in regard to the American board of a merchant ship, know Locust Trec, in _the_Edition of that there is a great timber which Evlyn's Sylva, by Dr. Hunter. goes across the back part of the "I have been in many parts of cabin, against which there is geneNew England, and every where rally a seat or bench. This timsaw the Locust Tree grow na- ber is a very important one, to turally, and have often seen it en-be sure. I know that the transams croach on land which had been in the American ships were made cleared of wood, and have recommended to the owners to have it of Locust, when Locust was to be rooted up, but they uniformly got; but I had forgotten it when agreed it was better to let it stand, I wrote my Essay on the Locust. as its leaves enriched the soil-But, the curious part of this more than those of any other tree. letter is, that Mr. HARRISON, a I have seen it grow in as dry and King's Collector of Customs at poor land as can be possibly conceived, Boston, should have written, should and put out shouts of above three feet have given it as his opinion, so in a year. "I have known 101. currency long ago as the year 1775, that given in Connecticut for a Locust it would be a national benefit Trec transam of a ship, when any for this tree to be cultivated in other timber, of the same size, which grows there, might be had for less than 17. England; and that he should have written and published a Memoir upon the subject in Doctor "I never experienced so great a Hunter's edition of Evlyn's Sylva, difference in the fruit and timber I have not this edition of Evlyn's grown in England and America, as Mr. Gourlay represents. The Sylva; and should like very much timber of the apple, in both coun- to know whether the memoir be tries, are similar, and used for the there. It is very curious, that same purposes. The apple called Miller, and that so many persons the New Town Pippin is of very should have borne testimony to fine flavour in America, but I the excellence of this wood; and think I have eat apples equally that they should, all together have good in flavour which grow in wanted the power to cause it to England, from a graft of an Amebe cultivated, though amidst the rican tree. woods of America there were plantations of it fifty years ago. But, it was pretty much the same "I have compared the timber of the Locust Tree grown in England (I see Locust grow daily) with that |