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    spring , and I mean to try to equal your park meadow . I have four acres for wheat , and one acre I have sown with ruta baga , the plants of which look fine . My garden exceeds any one I ever had , and I have had a profusion of fine vegatables this summer , my English broad beans and onions alone excepted ; these did not prosper .

    " When I see such large tracts of deep rich land around me , which needs so little of the aid of the cultivator to raise the necessaries of life , I regret that the indigent . poor of my native isle are not here to benefit themselves and the country by their labour ; those who are employed in dragging barrows in Parkhurst

    forest , and drawing gravel carts in the high-ways , were they in these deep woods and extensive plains , they would be a public good and a private benefit , , I wish my old servants , the R s , with C- ^ -e and C n , were here ; with moderate

    labour they might enjoy every good of life : it would surprise them to see good crops of potatoes raised by merely drawing a little earth over the sets with a hoe , without ploughing or harrowing . Stretch is still with me , and proves an excellent servant : he works for me until

    the first of March next for his passage ; then another year for the produce of six acres of land , I allowing ^ im time to attend it , after which he Will lease of me ten acres of wood land : it is a rich

    bottom , which when cleared will produce heavy crops of corn . I am well pleased that £ brought a servant , and retract my opinion which I once gave against taking one from England .

    " I have been m this country more than a year , and have not heard of tithes or taxes ; nor am 1 obliged to pay external marks of respect , as in England , to every paltry fellow in office , many of whom in my heart I despised as either knave or fool . I believe I was always considered a Radical ; 1 am now infinitely co « firmed . Freedom is not here as with

    you , a subject for the people to dispute about—it is a tangible substance , felt and enjoyed by the whole community . ** To give you some idea of the expense of fencing ; I have a field ( named Groves ) of eight acres , it required 2300 rails to

    inclose it ; for prepaimg and putting up I paid 75 cents per 100 , of course , therefore , the larger the irvclosures the less will be the expense of fencing . " To Mr . J n , late of Wroxal , Isle of Wightr

    • 2300 rafts at 3 * . A \ d . per hundred , £ 3 . 17 * . 7 id . for 8 acres . Or , per acre , 9 * . U *

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    S ir , : December , 7 , 1881 . THE article which appeared in your Repository for October last , ( p .. 599 , ) from the pen of my much-respeeted friend Mr . Wright , on the present state of UnLtarianisna in the

    Staffordshire Potteries , may have led * some of your readers to expect that an application will speedily be made to the public for pecuniary aid , towards raising a temple to the One God in the populous and increasingtown of Hanlev . I am , however , au ~»

    thoraed to state , that this will not he the case . The erection of a chapel is obviously a matter of too much mo » ment to be entered upon without the most mature thought , and its being previously well ascertained that the success and ultimate establishment of

    the cause demand such a measure . A £ the present moment , appearances are no doubt , much in our favour : our meetings are well attended , and a spirit of inquiry seems to be roused through the whole neighbourhood . The orthodox have taken the alarm ,

    and are constantly attacking us , on all sides , with great vehemence . We applaud much of their zeal , and only wish for fair play . This , I am happy to say , the Methodists of the New

    Connexion seem fully disposed to grant us , having offered to open a public conference for the purpose of discussing , in a candid , amicable manner , the leading points at issue . They admit we are orthodox as far as we

    go , and appear to be anxious to lead us on to the full enjoyment of the light and liberty of the sons of G < kL What the result will tye , time only can disclose . It was only on the 15 th of July last that a room was opened in Hanley for Unitarian worship , and at that time I knew of no more than two

    or three individuals on whom we could rely as steady friends to our attempt , and the number which has since actually joined tis is , as may well be imagined , by no means large . Under all the circumstances df the ' case ., '

    therefore , we ' deem it prudent not tor pledge ourselves to build a # hapel fill ' it shall be in our power fully to sati&iy the public that , t > y the permission of Him without whose blessing all human efforts jare vain , we shall be able to mattxt 3 $ a& n our ground and raise a congregation . For my own part , I must

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    Mr , T . Cooper on Unitarianism in the Potteries . 711

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/15/