Got home by the coach. At leaving Whitchurch we soon passed the mill where the Mother-Bank paper is made! Thank God, this mill is likely soon to want employment! Hard by is a pretty park and house, belonging to "_'Squire_" Portal, the _paper-maker_. The country people, who seldom want for sarcastic shrewdness, call it "_Rag Hall_"!--I perceive that they are planting oaks on the "_wastes_," as the _Agriculturasses_ call them, about _Hartley Row_; which is very good; because the herbage, after the first year, is rather increased than diminished by the operation; while, in time, the oaks arrive at a timber state, and add to the beauty and to the _real wealth_ of the country, and to the real and solid wealth of the descendants of the planter, who, in every such case, merits unequivocal praise, because he plants for his children's children.--The planter here is LADY MILDMAY, who is, it seems, Lady of the Manors about here. It is impossible to praise this act of hers too much, especially when one considers her _age_. I beg a thousand pardons! I do not mean to say that her Ladyship is _old_; but she has long had grand-children. If her Ladyship had been a reader of old dread-death and dread-devil Johnson, that teacher of moping and melancholy, she never would have planted an oak tree. If the writings of this time-serving, mean, dastardly old pensioner had got a firm hold of the minds of the people at large, the people would have been bereft of their very souls. These writings, aided by the charm of pompous sound, were fast making their way, till light, reason, and the French revolution came to drive them into oblivion; or, at least, to confine them to the shelves of repentant, married old rakes, and those of old stock-jobbers with young wives standing in need of something to keep down the unruly ebullitions which are apt to take place while the "dearies" are gone hobbling to 'Change.----"After _pleasure_ comes _pain_," says Solomon; and after the sight of Lady Mildmay's truly noble plantations, came that of the clouts of the "gentlemen cadets" of the "_Royal Military College of Sandhurst_!" Here, close by the road side, is the _drying-ground_. Sheets, shirts, and all sorts of things were here spread upon lines, covering, perhaps, an acre of ground! We soon afterwards came to "_York_ Place" on "_Osnaburg_ Hill." And is there never to be an _end_ of these things? Away to the left, we see that immense building, which contains children _breeding up to be military commanders_! Has this plan cost so little as two millions of pounds? I never see this place (and I have seen it forty times during the last twenty years) without asking myself this question: Will this thing be suffered to go on; will this thing, created by money _raised by loan_; will this thing be upheld by means of taxes, _while the interest of the Debt is reduced_, on the ground that the nation is _unable to pay the interest in full_?--Answer that