‘Adieu. ‘Yours sincerely, ‘J. SYMONDS.’ ----- Footnote 187: Assessed taxes. On December 4, 1797, Mr. Pitt introduced a Bill for trebling the amount of assessed taxes. This was again debated in the House of Commons in January 1798, and finally passed. See Hansard’s _Parliamentary History_. Footnote 188: In a memorandum-book of the preceding year occur the following entries: ‘Receipts, 901_l._; debts, Dec. 31, 986_l._’ Debts seem to have been a burden throughout A. Y.’s long life. Footnote 189: A. O’Connor, concerned with others in an address to the Directory France; tried for treason at Maidstone, 1798; found not guilty. See _Annual Register_, 1798. Footnote 190: These dinners to poor children were given in memory of Bobbin. Footnote 191: _Née_ Betsy Plampin. Footnote 192: Referring to a long letter from the great Wilberforce on ‘Original Sin.’ Footnote 193: The _Letters of Maria Josepha Holroyd_ give an amusing account of the events here described. Footnote 194: On November 4, 1794, Souvarow took Warsaw, when 8,000 soldiers and 12,000 men, women, and children were massacred in cold blood. See _L’histoire générale de Lavisse et Rambaud_, vol. viii. p. 358. It is to be hoped that Dr. Burney was in ignorance of this. Footnote 195: Note by A. Y. at close of year’s diary: ‘In the summer,’ in consequence of much conversation with Lord Carrington on the importance of enclosures, I proposed to him that I should take a tour expressly for the purpose of ascertaining what the effect had really been in practice. He approved of the idea, and desired me to execute it; and, in regard to the expense, I told him that if he would allow 100_l._, I would expend it in travelling, and report to him the country travelled and the enclosures examined, and then he might extend or not the undertaking at his pleasure. He approved the plan, and I accordingly employed twenty weeks on the journey.’ Footnote 196: In the _Annals of Agriculture_, vol. xxxv. p. 432, occurs the following: ‘If a farming traveller comes to Kimbolton, and forgets its mistress, may his sheep rot and crops blight! A young duchess, ever in the country, loving it, and free from a wish for London—a character that, if I was to give my pen scope, it would run wild on such a subject.’ Footnote 197: Full accounts of these tours are given in the _Annals of Agriculture_. Footnote 198: These letters are inserted in the _Annals of Agriculture_, vol. xxxv. p. 459. Footnote 199: Lord Sheffield published _Remarks on the Deficiency of Grain 1799-1800_, and _Observations on the Exportation of Wool from Great Britain to Ireland_. 1800. ----- CHAPTER XIV DIARY CONTINUED, 1801-1803