This Harding 20 years ago lived in Hertfordshire, where he failed as a farmer, and travelling into Essex, he followed his original business of a carpenter. Mr. Elsee was building a new house near Romford, and employed him as one of the carpenters. At the same time a bricklayer named Jervis was engaged to do the plastering by the yard, and his work to a certain extent had been measured and paid for.—But some time after Jervis informed Mr. Elsee he had made a great mistake, as the work came to _three times as much as was made of it_. After some enquiry it turned out that one of the carpenters, _this very Harding_, had been measuring it for him. On this it was remeasured, and it was found to be _less than he had been paid for_; and then Harding found out that _he had measured his feet by_ 3 _instead of_ 9 _to the square yard_. They were both discharged for this, but Harding took care to measure the haystack _by himself_! After this it may not be surprising that he should say the stacks were 15 or 16 feet high, when every farmer knows they are seldom more than 6 feet to the eaves. And as further proof of his honesty and ability he said 8 inches was the average height of a truss of hay, when some of this was of the worst quality, and the trusses measured from 14 to 16 inches. This was deposed to by the hay-binders, and all the witnesses. Williams particularly said he was obliged to borrow larger carts, as the hay was so bulky, he could not load it upon his own. A most, impertinent attempt was made to discredit the accounts of Mr. Elsee, but they happened to be kept in an old book of trading accounts, _and were folioed from the beginning more __than 20 years ago_, so that any deception was out of the question. This impertinence is the more reprehensible, as coming from one who had not hesitated to _falsify_ the evidence of one John Young, whose statement _exactly corresponded_ with Mr. Elsee’s accounts.