French people, this Dead Weight that Semaphores and such pretty is, however, falling, in part, at things cost something, and that it least, upon the landed jolterheads is unreasonable for a loyal country who were so eager to create it, gentleman, a friend of social order and who thought that no part of and of the "blessed comforts of it would fall upon themselves. religion" to expect to have SemaTheirs has been a grand mistake. phores and to keep his estate too. They saw the war carried on-This Dead Weight is, unqueswithout any loss or any cost to tionably, a thing, such as the world themselves. By the means of never saw before. Here are not paper-money and loans, the la- only a tribe of pensioned naval bouring classes were made to pay and military officers, commissathe whole of the expenses of the ries, quarter-masters, pursers, and war. When the war was over, God knows what besides: not the jolterheads thought they would only these, but their wives and. get gold back again to make all children are to be pensioned, after secure; and some of them really the death of the heroes themselves. ́said, I am told, that it was high | Nor does it signify, it seems, whetime to put an end to the gains of ther the hero were married, before the paper-money people. The he became part of the Dead jelterheads quite overlooked the Weight, or since. Upon the circumstance, that, in returning death of the man, the pension is to gold, they doubled and trebled to begin with the wife and a penwhat they had to pay on ac- sion for each child; so that, if count of the debt, and that, there be a large family of children, at last, they were bringing the family, in many cases, actualthe burden upon themselves.-ly gains by the death of the faGrand, also, was the mistake of ther! Was such a thing as this the jolterheads, when they ap- ever before heard of in the world? proved of the squanderings upon Any man that is going to die has the Dead Weight. They thought nothing to do but to marry a girl that the labouring classes were to give her a pension for life to be going to pay the whole of the ex-paid out of the sweat of the peopenses of the Knights of Water-ple; and it was distinctly stated, foo, and of the other heroes of the during the Session of Parliament The jolterheads thought before the last, that the widows that they should have none of this and children of insane officers pay. Some of them had rela- were to have the same treatment tions belonging to the Dead as the rest!.. Here is the envy Weight, and all of them were of surrounding nations and the willing to make the labouring admiration of the world! In adclasses toil like asses for the sup-dition, then, to twenty thousand port of those who had what was parsons, more than twenty thoucalled fought and bled for Gatton sand stock-brokers and stock-joband Old Sarum. The jolterheads bers perhaps; forty or fifty thouhave now found, however, that a sand tax-gatherers; thousands pretty good share of the expense upon thousands of military and is to fall upon themselves. Their naval officers in full pay; in admortgagees are letting them know dition to all these, here are the

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thousands upon thousands of pairs | London to Chichester through of this Dead Weight, all busily en- Godalming and Petworth; not gaged in breeding gentlemen and Midhurst, as before. The turnladies; and all, while Malthus is pike road here is one of the wanting to put a check upon the best that I ever saw, It is like. breeding of the labouring classes; the road upon Horley Common, all receiving a premium for breed-near Worth, and like that between ing. Where is Malthus? Where Godstone and East Grinstead; is this check-population parson and the cause of this is that it is. Where are his friends, the Edin-made of precisely the same sort of burgh Reviewers? Faith, I be- stone, which, they tell me, is lieve they have given him up. brought, in some cases, even from They begin to be ashamed of giv- Blackdown Hill, which cannot be ing countenance to a man who less, I should think, than twelve wants to check the breeding of miles distant. This stone is brought those who labour, while he says in great lumps and then cracked not a werd about those two hun-into little pieces. The next vildred thousand breeding pairs, lage I came to after Hambledon whose offspring are necessarily was Hascomb, famous for its. to be maintained at the public beech, insomuch that it is called charge. Well may these fat- HASCOMB BEECH. There are two teners upon the labour of others lofty hills here, between which rail against the radicals! Let you go out of the sandy country them once take the fan to their down into the Weald. Here are hand, and they will, I warrant it, hills of all heights and forms.. thoroughly purge the floor. How- Whether they came in conseever, it is a consolation to know, quence of a boiling of the earth, I that the jolterheads who have been know not; but, in form they very the promoters of the measures that much resemble the bubbles upon have led to these heavy charges; the top of the water of a pot which it is a consolation to know that is violently boiling. The soil is a the jolterheads have now to bear beautiful loam upon a bed of sand. part of the charges, and that they Springs start here and there at cannot any longer make them fall the feet of the hills; and little exclusively upon the shoulders of rivulets pour away in all directhe labouring classes. The dis-tions. The roads are difficult gust that one feels at seeing the merely on account of their exwhiskers and hearing the copper-treme unevenness, The bottom heels rattle, is in some measure is every where sound; and every compensated for by the reflection, thing that meets the eye is beautithat the expense of them is now ful; trees, coppices, corn-fields, beginning to fall upon the malig-meadows; and then the distant nant and tyrannical jolterheads views in every direction. From who are the principal cause of one spot I saw this morning Hindtheir being created.-Bidding the head, Blackdown Hill, Lord EgreSemaphore good-bye, I came mont's house and park at Petalong by the church at Hamble- worth, Donnington Hill, over don, and then crossed a little com- which I went to go on the South mon and the turnpike-road from Downs, the South Downs near

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Lewes ; the forest at Worth, Tur- along the lanes by some means or h ner's Hill, and then all the way another; and where a waggonround into Kent and back to the horse could go, my horse could go. Surrey Hills at Godstone. From It took ne, however, a good hour Hascorb I began to descend and a half to get along these three 's into the low country. I had Leith miles. Now, mind, this is the real │: Hill before me; but my plan weald, where the clay is bottoms, was, not to go over it or any less; where there is no stone of part of it, but to go along below any sort underneath, as at Worth it in the real Weald of Surrey. and all along from Crawley to. A little way back from Has- Billingshurst through: Horsham.. comb, I had seen a field of car- This clayey land is fed with wa rots; and now I was descending ter soaking from the sand-hills; into a country where, strictly and in this particular place from speaking, only three things will the immense hill of Leith. All'1 grow well-grass, wheat, and oak along here the oak-woods are trees. At Goose Green, I crossed beautiful. I saw scores of aeres a turnpike-road leading from by the road-side, where the Guildford to Horsham and Arun-young oaks stood as regularly as del. I next came, after crossing if they had been planted. The a canal, to a common called orchards are not bad along here,.. Smithwood Common. Leith Hill and, perhaps, they are a good was full in front of me, but I deal indebted to the shelter they turned away to the right, and receive. The wheat very good, went through the lanes to come to all through the weald, but backEwhurst, leaving Cranley to my ward. At Ockley I passed the. right. Before I got to Ewhurst, house of a Mr. Steer, who has a I crossed another turnpike-road, great quantity of hay-land, which leading from Guildford to Hors- is very pretty. Here I came along.. ham, and going on to Worthing the turnpike road that leads from or some of those towns. At Ew- Dorking to Horsham. When I hurst, which is a very pretty vil- got within about two or three miles lage, and the Church of which is of Dorking, I turned off to the most delightfully situated, I treated right, came across the Holmwood, my horse to some oats, and myself into the lanes leading down to to a rasher of bacon. I had now Gadbrook-common, which has of to come, according to my project, late years been inclosed. It is all round among the lanes at about a clay here; but, in the whole of my finer couple of miles distant from the ride, I have not seen much foot of Leith Hill, in order to get fields of wheat than I saw here. first to Ockley, then to Holmwood, Out of these lanes I turned up to and then to Reigate. From Ew-" Betchworth," (I believe it is),, hurst the first three miles was the and from Betchworth came along deepest clay that I ever saw, to a chalk-hill to my left and the the best of my recollection. I sand-hills to my right, till I got to was warned of the difficulty of this place. getting along; but I was not to be frightened at the sound of clay, Waggons, too, had been dragged

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day, every step of the way in a of being, in every respect, in a rain; as good a soaking as any prosperous state. I should not devotee of St. Swithin ever under-be afraid to bet that these turnips, went for his sake. I promised thus standing in rows at nearly that I would give an account of four feet distance, will be a crop the effect which the soaking on twice as large as any in the parish the South-Downs, on Saturday the of Thursley, though there is, I 2d Instant, had upon the hoop-imagine, some of the finest turniping-cough. I do not recommend land in the kingdom. It seems the remedy to others; but this I strange, that men are not to be will say, that I had a spell of the convinced of the advantage of the.... hooping-cough the day before I row-culture for turnips. They got that soaking, and that I have will insist upon believing, that not had a single spell since; there is some ground lost. They though I have slept in several dif- will also insist upon believing that ferent beds, and got a second the row-culture is the most exsoaking in going from Botley to pensive. How can there be ground Easton. The truth is, I believe, lost if the crop be larger? And that rain upon the South-Downs, as to the expense, take one year or at any place near the sea, is by with another, the broad-cast meno means the same thing with thod must be twice as expensive rain in the interior. No man ever as the other. Wet as it has been catches cold from getting wet with to-day, I took time to look well sea-water; and, indeed, I have about me as I came along. The never known an instance of a wheat, even in this raggamuffin man catching cold at sea. The part of the country, is good, with air upon the South-Downs is the exception of one piece, which saltish, I dare say; and the clouds lies on your left hand as you may bring something a little come down from Banstead Down. partaking of the nature of sea- It is very good at Banstead itself, water.-At Thursley I left the though that is a country suffiturnip-hoers poking and pulling ciently poor. Just on the other and muddling about the weeds, side of Sutton, there is a little and wholly incapable, after all, good land, and in a place or of putting the turni like the state in, which they ought little blighted. A labouring man ps in any thing two I thought I saw the wheat a to be. The weeds that had been told me that it was where the hoed up twice, were growing heaps of dung had been laid. again, and it was the same with The barley here is most beauturnips that had been hoed tiful, as, indeed, it is all ap. In leaving Reigate this over the country.--Between. -morning, it was with great plea-Sutton and the Wen there is, in sure that I saw a field of Swedish fact, little besides houses, gardens, turnips, drilled upon ridges at grass plats and other matters to about four feet distance, the whole accommodate the Jews and jobfield as clean as the cleanest of bers and the mistresses and basgarden ground. The turnips tards that are put out a-keeping. standing at equal distances in the But, in a dell which the turnpike, row, and having the appearance road crosses about a mile on this

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side of Sutton, there are two fields | to me to have some blight in it; of as stiff land, I think, as I ever and as to crop, whether of corn or saw in my life. In summer time of straw, it is nothing to compare this land bakes so hard that you to the general run of the wheat in cannot plough it unless it be wet. the wealds of Sussex or of Surrey; When you have ploughed it, and what, then, is it, if compared with the sun comes again, it bakes the wheat on the South Downs, again. One of these fields had under Portsdown Hill, on the seabeen thus ploughed and cross-flats at Havant and at Titchfield, ploughed in the month of June, and along on the banks of the and I saw the ground when it was Itchen!-Thus have I concluded lying in lumps of the size of port- this "rural ride," from the Wen manteaus, and not very small and back again to the Wen, being, either. It would have been im- taking in all the turnings and possible to reduce this ground to windings, as near as can be small particles, except by the two hundred miles in length. My means of sledge-hammers. The objects were to ascertain the state two fields to which I alluded just of the crops, both of hops and of now, are alongside of this ploughed corn. The hop-affair is soon field, and they are now in wheat. settled, for there will be no hops. The heavy rain of to-day, aided As to the corn, my remark is this; by the south-west wind, made the that, on all the clays, on all the stiff wheat bend pretty nearly to lying lands upon the chalk; on all the down; but, you shall rarely see rich lands, indeed, but more espetwo finer fields of wheat. It is cially on all the stiff lands, the red wheat; a coarsish kind, and wheat is as good as I recollect ever the straw stout and strong; but to have seen it, and has as much the ears are long, broad, and full; straw. On all the light lands and and I did not perceive any thing poor lands, the wheat is thin, and, approaching towards a speck though not short, by no means in the straw. Such land as good. The oats are pretty good this, such very stiff land, seldom almost every where; and I have carries a very large crop; but I not seen a bad field of barley should think that these fields would during the whole of my ride; exceed four quarters to an acre; though there is no species of soil and the wheat is by no means so in England, except that of the backward as it is in some places. fens, over which I have not There is no corn, that I recollect, passed. The state of the farmers from the spot just spoken of to is much worse than it was last almost the street of Kensington. year, notwithstanding the_ridicu I came up by Earl's Court, where lous falsehoods of the Lordon there is, amongst the market gar- newspapers, and the more ridicudens, a field of wheat. One lous delusion of the jolterheads. would suppose that this must be In numerous instances the farthe finest field of wheat in the mers, who continue in their farms, world. By no means. It rained have ceased to farm for themhard, to be sure, and I had not much time for being particular in my survey; but this field appears

selves, and merely hold the land for the landlords. The delusion caused by the rise of the price of