HINTS ON INCLOSURES. EXTRACT FROM AN ACCOUNT OF A PROVISION MADE UPON AN INCLOSURE, the incloure the of have followed the Little Dunham in Norfolk, in the year 1794, being Lord of the Manor, I got a claufe inferted, dirtting the Commiffioners to let out a parcel of land to be called the Poor's Eftate, to be vetted in the Lord of the manor, reftor, churchwardens, and overfeers of the poor for the time being, and to be lett by them for 21 years on leafe; the rents and profits to be laid out by them in fuel, to be delivered at the cottages of the poor, in fuch proportions as the trustees fhould think proper. Although the prejudices of the poor against the inclofure were very great before it took place, the moment they faw the land inclofed, and lett as the Poor's Eftate for 21 years by auction, at the rate of sol. a year (although only eftimated by the Commiffioners at zol. a year), they were highly gratified; and have indeed great reafon to rejoice, as they will now be most amply fupplied with that great comfort of life. This was fo evident, that fome neighbouring inclotures pears to me to be advifable, that fuch a plan fhould be generally made known. The firft idea was to fell the land, and place the money in the public funds, in order to produce a larger income; but I found that was not understood by the poor: they faid they might at any time be deprived of the money, and they had no intereft on the land inclofed; whereas, in the mode purfued, they confidered themfelves as having a perinanent and improveable eftate, which their children would inherit. These prejudices are valuable; as in their confequences they produce, if attended to, industry and con tent. I have had occafion to obferve as to fuel, which is certainly an important article to the poor, that where there are commons, the ideal advantage of cutting flags, peat, or whins, often caufes a poor man to spend more time after fuch fuel, than, if he reckoned his labour, would purchafe for him double that quantity of good firing. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PEKIN, LA guerra del Siao Kin Ciuan o fia de Quefta Vittoria a' coftato molta gente e meltiffimo denaro a caufa del fito del Luogo e della bravura di quella gente. Molti Imperatori Chinefi e Tartari, hanno pefcati di debellare quefti popoli, ma la gloria era refervata al prefente, che meritainente fi gloriera nelle fue Iftorie d'aver fuperati, e debellati popoli che per molto Secoli da Suoi antenati fi ftimarono pel fito inacceffibili, e per la ferocia indomabili. TRANSLATION. THE war of Siao Kin Ciuan, or of the Mountains of Su Cuian, was finally terminated in April jaft. The King, with the Queers, Sons, Family, and Grandees, were all conducted to this Capital, and prefented yesterday, the 15th initant, to the Emperor, who condemned the whole to be cut to pieces; to revenge (as it is faid) the blood of a fon in-law of the Emperor, who was killed in that war. Only one little girl of about five years old is left alive, who perhaps will be preferved; and fome Minifters ftill kept in prifon will be executed in a few days. This victory has cuft many people, and a great deal of money, on account of the fituation of the country, and the bravery of the inhabitants. Many Chinese and Tartar Emperors formerly attempted to fubdue thefe peo ple; but the glory was referved to the prefent Emperor, who will defervedly boast in his history, that he overcame and conquered people, who for many ages, by his ancestors, were deemed inacceffible from fituation, and unconquerable from their ferocity. OTTERY POOL. [WITH A VIEW.] THIS Place is fituated near Watford in Hertfordshire, a town which stands where there was formerly a ford over the river Coln; and the Prætorian or Confular Highway, made by the Romans in this County, called Watling-freet, which croffes the Coln near it, and paffes on to Verulam near St. Albans, Watford, is diftant 17 miles from London. ORIGINAL LETTER FROM HORACE WALPOLE, ESQ. BROTHER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, AND AFTERWARDS LORD WALPOLE OF WOLTERTON, TO MR. DODINGTON, AFTERWARDS LORD MELCOMBE. A SHORT SYSTEM OF SELF-EDUCATION. BY JOHN DAVIS. Εαν ης φιλομαθης εση πολυμάθης. EDUCATION is a fubject of fo much DUCATION is a fubject of fo much ever can be laid to promote it deferves to be heard, and treatifes have been maltiplied on the fubject by the molt eminent men of every_nation: yet the voice of candour mult acknowledge that the greater part of them are written with fo little detail, that they will not be found of much utility to him who has his ru diments to learn. They are addreffed more to the mafter than the ftudent, and are rather fpeculative than practical. There is a numerous clafs of individuals to whom the cultivation of the mind is one of the great objects of their ambition; but who, not enjoying the advantages of academical inftruction, are obliged to rely upon felf-application and fuggetion for every acceffion of knowledge. If is to fuch that I now addrefs myfelf. Let not him who by any particular circumstances or condition is hindered from feeking his knowledge inter filvas aca iemi, delpair of fuccefs. Languages have been acquired, and fciences have been cultivated, in fituations very little favourable to intelle&ual purfuits. If you love learning, fays my motto, you will be learned. Of the utility of claffical knowledge none ever doubted but he that was ignorant of it. I fhall therefore commence my inftructions by pro poling an easy method of acquiring the Latin language; a language abounding with writers that are the only imperish able part of their country's glory.-Let the student provide himself with Ward's Ly's G. anmar, and fubmit to a diligent perufal of the eight parts of speech: the declenions of articles, nouns, and pronouns; the degrees of comparison, and the conjugations of verbs regular and irregular, he will attain, without any Herculean efforts, a perfect maftery of in a week, or, at the moft, in a fortnight. Let him then get Clarke's literal tranflation of Corderius, and Mant's Paring, or Grammatical Refolution of fame of the Coll quies; and as he proceeds in his leffons, let him refer, as directed, to the Confraction of the Parts of Speech, or VOL. XXXII. DEC. 1797. Accidence, for the agreement and goverament of the words. After going through twenty or more of the Colloquies, let him enter upon the first book of Mant's Phorus, which is allo made very eafy of accefs by a literal verfion, and a parting index. Let him refolve with fubtle difcrimination the text of his author, and refer now, in pursuance with the directions of the index. to the Syntax of his Grammar for the concord and government of the words, and commit to memory, at his leiture, the most useful rules, cr thofe of the most frequent occurrence. Let him likewile make reference to the rules for his fubitantives and verbs in Propria que Maribus, and As in Prefenti. He will now perhaps be a better fcholar than many who have been bum-brushed by a mafter, and cuffed by an uther, half a dozen years of their life. When he has read the first book of Phadrus, let him proceed to Clarke's Cornelius Nepos. The lives of this claffic biographer are compofed in the tyle of the pureft age, and calculated to initiate the young ladent in the hiftory of Greece and Rome. He will now require only the common aid of a Dictionary and Grammar, which will enable him to comprehend the eafy profe of a familiar fubject. He may now footh him/elf with the Poet's fong, and the Metamorphofes of Ovid fhould first beguile his hours. The Metamorphofes will finely exercife the imagination, are the great porch to the Temple of the Heathen Mythology, and the mater-key to the works of the poets of antiquity. From Ovid let the ftudent extend his application to Vigil, whom he ought not only to read, but get by heart. From the eclogues, of which he will find the first perhaps the belt, let him proceed to the Georgicks, and having tafted their elegance and finished correctnefs, let him direct his ftudy to the neid, which he fhould read fyfte matically. If a rage, at any time, fhould pervade him to write Latin verles, let him firit try his kill at an hexameter, and make Virgil his fiandard. Poetry and profe will alternately demand his |