seaman in the country; and that is the only just and equitable way of providing a Navy. ‘I shall be in town next month, and will call on our Aunt Ingoldsby. I am sorry to hear that my mother’s memory fails so fast; it frightens me out of my wits every time I forget anything. ‘Yours very affectionately, ‘J. YOUNG.’ ----- Footnote 62: In memorandum-book occurs this note: ‘Correspondence with Wight printed in his reports.’ This seems to be Alexander Wight, author of ‘An Enquiry into the Rise and Progress of Parliament, chiefly in Scotland.’ Footnote 63: Henry Home, a Scotch judge, better known by the title of Lord Kames, author of several legal and other works, among them ‘Introduction to the Art of Thinking.’ Died 1782. Footnote 64: Corn bounty in Ireland, 1780. This was granted by the Irish Parliament. The Lord Lieutenant, in his speech at the close of the session, said: ‘Ample bounties on the export of your corn, your linen, and your sail-cloth have been granted.’ See _Annual Register_, 1780, p. 338. Footnote 65: Beat: participial adjective.—_Webster._ Footnote 66: Stetch: as much land as lies between one farm and another.—_Prov. Eng., Halliwell._ Footnote 67: Lewis Roberts, _The Merchant’s Map of Commerce_, London, 1638. ‘The first systematic writer upon trade in the English language’ (Lowndes). Footnote 68: Had this sentence appeared in print anterior to Macaulay’s famous passage, the latter might have been deemed a plagiarism. Footnote 69: Hugh Boyd, a writer whose real name was Macaulay, author of two political tracts now forgotten. Died at Madras in 1791, having dissipated his wife’s fortune and his own. Footnote 70: Alex. Wedderburn, Earl of Rosslyn, Baron Loughborough. In 1778 Attorney-General; in 1793 succeeded Lord Thurlow to the Chancellorship. Died 1805. Footnote 71: Richard Watson, a celebrated prelate. In 1796 he published an answer to Paine’s _Age of Reason_. He was left an estate worth 24,000_l._ by a Mr. Luther, an entire stranger to him, author of many theological works and memoirs of himself. Died 1816. Footnote 72: Died in 1804. There is a notice of this writer in Watts’ _Bibliotheca Britannica_. Footnote 73: Irish Linen Board, established 1711; the Board abolished 1828. We do not learn upon what business Mr. Arbuthnot had gone to France. Footnote 74: That Arthur Young’s society was equally agreeable to the other sex Fanny Burney tells us. In the gossipy, ecstatic journal of her girlhood she writes: ‘Last night, whilst Hetty, Susey, and myself were at tea, that lively, charming, spirited Mr. Young entered the room. Oh, how glad we were to see him!’ Footnote 75: A Suffolk squire, ardent Whig, and of considerable literary attainments. At his expense was published Bloomfield’s _Farmer’s Boy_. Footnote 76: