within a certain distance of any dwelling-house, without the consent of the owner, so that no one should have the inclosure brought to his door, without his own consent. This plan would, in all probability, not occasion a single additional building; the 36,000 paupers, of whom so dreadful a picture has been drawn, (and whose numbers appear to have been calculated upon the visionary foundation of some antient adage,) would all vanish, and the new inclosures, which it is highly probable would, in most instances, be converted into ornamental grounds, and be adorned with new plantations, would add greatly to the bounty of the country; and a very abundant portion of waste would still be left to preserve the rural scenery, for which this district has been so much and so deservedly admired. The value of the landed properly, I have no doubt, instead of being deteriorated, by pursuing this system, would be very considerably increased. Let us now look forward to the situation in which the proprietors of houses and land, in these Forests, would stand as to the remaining waste, which would become merely wastes of the respective manors, relieved from any rights of the Crown over them, and from the paramount power of the forty days court, which, of course, must cease with the extinction of the Crown’s rights; and any proprietor wishing for an addition of one or two acres to his premises, (which in many instances, no doubt, it would be highly desirable to obtain,) might, on application to the Lord of the Manor, with the consent of the Homage Jury, procure a grant thereof as copyhold, an advantage not now to be obtained on almost any terms: the right of Common, too, would be relieved from the necessity of withdrawing the cattle during the fence months, and be general through the year. There is another circumstance mentioned in the Commissioners’ Report, about the state of the timber, in the year 1783, which, I think, must have considerably changed since that period, namely, “that, out of 11,000 oaks, there were 2,700 fit for the use of the Navy.” Now, I verily believe that, at the present time, not one-fourth of the number could be found fit for that purpose; and, as to the 7,000 young trees, mentioned in the same Report, there are scarcely any of them that have not, as they attained a certain age, been converted into, and are now become, old pollards; for the right of cutting fire-wood is, in the ideas of the lower sort of people, confirmed and increased, by preventing trees from becoming timber, and converting them to pollards, of which it is the common course of the country to cut the tops for fire-wood; and, in most parts of the Forest, the beauty of the scenery and utility of the timber are totally destroyed by the decapitation of the trees.