Spent the evening amongst the Farmers, at their Market Room at Holt; and very much pleased at them I was. We talked over the _cause of the low prices_, and I, as I have done everywhere, endeavoured to convince them, that prices must fall a great deal lower yet; and that no man, who wishes not to be ruined, ought to keep or take a farm, unless on a calculation of best wheat at 4_s._ a bushel and a best Southdown ewe at 15_s._ or even 12_s._ They heard me patiently, and, I believe, were well convinced of the truth of what I said. I told them of the correctness of the predictions of their great countryman, Mr. PAINE, and observed, how much better it would have been, to take his advice, than to burn him in effigy. I endeavoured (but in such a case all human powers must fail!) to describe to them the sort and size of the talents of the Stern-path-of-duty man, of the great hole-digger, of the jester, of the Oxford scholar, of the loan-jobber (who had just made an enormous grasp), of the Oracle, and so on. Here, as everywhere else, I hear every creature speak loudly in praise of _Mr. Coke_. It is well known to my readers, that I think nothing of him as a _public_ man; that I think even his good qualities an injury to his country, because they serve the knaves whom he is duped by to dupe the people more effectually; but, it would be base in me not to say, that I hear, from men of all parties, and sensible men too, expressions made use of towards him that affectionate children use towards the best of parents. I have not met with a single exception. _Bergh Apton, Sunday, 16 Dec._ Came from Holt through Saxthorpe and Cawston. At the former village were on one end of a decent white house, these words, "_Queen Caroline; for her Britons mourn_," and a crown over all in black. I need not have looked to see: I might have been sure that the owner of the house was a _shoe-maker_, a trade which numbers more men of sense and of public spirit than any other in the kingdom.--At Cawston we stopped at a public house, the keeper of which had taken and read the Register for years. I shall not attempt to describe the pleasure I felt at the hearty welcome given us by Mr. Pern and his wife and by a young miller of the village, who, having learnt at Holt that we were to return that way, had come to meet us, the house being on the side of the great road, from which the village is at some distance. This is the birth-place of the famous _Botley Parson_, all the history of whom we now learned, and, if we could have gone to the village, they were prepared to _ring the bells_, and show us the old woman who nursed the _Botley Parson_! These Norfolk _baws_ never do things by halves. We came away, very much pleased with our reception at Cawston, and with a promise, on my part, that, if I visited the county again, I would write a Register there; a promise which I shall certainly keep. _Great Yarmouth, Friday (morning), 21st Dec._