IN 1783-Above one hundred acres are sown with wheat: About three-fifths of the ground are under grafs, turnips, cabbages, and potatoes.

IN 1763-Land was ploughed with oxen; a few horses only were kept to draw the harrows in seedtime, and to bring in the corns in harvest. Seven pounds was thought a great price for a horse.

IN 1783-Oxen are not employed in agriculture: Farmers have their faddle horses, value from fifteen to twenty pounds, work horfes from ten to fifteen pounds each.

IN 1763-The wages of fervants that followed the plough were three pounds per year; maid fervants one pound ten fhillings.

IN 1783-Men fervants wages are seven or eight pounds, fome ten pounds; maid fervants three pounds per year.

IN 1763-Day-labourers were at fixpence per day, and tailors at threepence per day.

IN 1783-Both are doubled in their wages.

IN 1763-No English cloth was worn but by the minister, and a quaker.

IN 1783-There are few who do not wear Englifh cloth, and several the best superfine.

IN 1763-Mens ftockings, in general, were made of what was called plaiding hose, made of white woollen cloth; the women wore coarse plaids; not a cloak nor bonnet wore by the women in the whole parish.

IN 1783-Cotton and thread stockings are common, and fome have filk; the women who wear plaids have them fine, and faced with filk; filk cloaks and bonnets are very numerous.

IN 1763-There were only two hats worn in the parish; the men wore cloth bonnets.

IN 1783-Few bonnets are worn; the bonnetmaker trade, in the next parish, is given up.

IN 1763-There was one eight-day clock in the parih, fix watches, and two tea kettles.

IN 1783-There are twenty-one clocks, above one hundred watches, and above eighty tea kettles.

IN 1763-The people in this parish never visited each other but at Christmas, the entertainment was broth and beef, the vifitors fent to an ale-house for five or fix pints of ale, were merry over it without

any ceremony.

IN 1783-People vifit each other often, a few neighbours are invited to one house to dinner, fix or

feven dishes fet on the table, elegantly dreffed; after dinner, a large bowl of rum punch is drunk, then tea, and again another bowl; after that fupper, and what is called the grace drink.

IN 1763-All perfons in the parish attended divine worship on Sunday. There were only four feceders in the parish. Sunday was regularly and religioufly obferved.

IN 1783-There is fuch a difregard of public worship and ordinances, that few attend divine worfhip with that attention which was formerly given. Ignorance prevails, although privileged with excellent inftructions in public fermons, in examination, and in vifiting from house to house by our pastor. When the form of religion is difregarded, furely the power of it is near diffolution.

IN 1763-Few in this parish were guilty of the breach of the third commandment. The name of God was reverenced and held facred.

IN 1783-The third commandment feems to be almoft forgotten, and fwearing abounds. I may fay the fame of all the reft of the ten, as to public practice.

THE decay of religion and growth of vice, in this parish, is very remarkable within thefe twenty years.

E. C.

[Soon

[Soon after the foregoing comparisons of the 1763 and 1783, the following appeared.

Sept. 10. 1785.

Within

IN a late paper was briefly mentioned, in general terms, the state of the British nation in 1763 and 1783, at the conclufion of the two wars. that short period, we have feen the most astonishing events and revolutions in Europe, Afia, and America, that the history of mankind can produce in so limited a space of time. We have also seen evidence of the discovery of new countries, new people, new planets; and the discoveries in science and philofophy are fuch as the human mind had hitherto no conception of. In short, the history of politics, commerce, religion, literature, and manners, during this short period, opens a rich field for the genius of the hiftorian and philofopher. The brief chronicles of the day are only fuited to record striking facts. I mean, at present, but shortly to give a few particulars refpecting the political state of Britain at the conclufion of the wars 1763 and 1783. To fome this view, perhaps, will be difpleafing, because it is not flattering; but, if it is true, it calls for reflection and exertion.

IN 1763-Britain was in her meridian glory; fhe was crowned with victory, rich with conqueft, mi

ftrefs of the feas, and held the balance of power in Europe.

IN 1783-The fun of Britain's glory (to use Lord Chatham's words) is fet. She is returned from an unfuccessful war loaded with debt, but after the nobleft ftruggle against the most ungenerous combinątion of powerful foes which the world ever faw *. In this ftruggle her own children bore a principal part against her; while faction and divided councils at home contributed to her want of fuccefs. Her command of the fea is difputed, and the balance of power is wrested from her hands.

IN 1763-The British dominions in America extended from the North Pole, or, to narrow thẹ view, from the northern parts of Hudson's Bay to Cape Florida-a ftretch of continent of 2500 miles, extending from the frozen to the torrid zone.

IN 1783-The British dominions in America are confined to the northern provinces of Canada and part of Nova Scotia, with the leffer divifion of three great lakes; the proud British nation having been ftripped of all the rest by the machinations of an American Printer, but a Philofopher!

IN

* Britain, unaffifted, fuftained this war against France, Spain, Holland, America, and the Eaft Indian tribes, fo that 10,000,noa may be faid to have fought against 60,000,000 of people, the most opulent and powerful in the world!