Eivington, entitled the Country Farmer, which " seems to be calculated to throw all into confusion, " & to no other end ; and artfully to gain his point, " as a Farmer, he addresses himself to the Farmers, '' and their wives ; he tells the latter, they cannot " treat a neighbour with a dish of tea ; and that will " be a dreadful thing indeed ; to the former, he saith, " their produce will rot on their hands, and they can- " not pay their weaver, &c. Being a Weaver myself, '' and tho' they be generally poor, still they are as " useful a set of men, as any in the world, and so will " remain, as long as, from the King to the peasant, " all are born naked. I therefore, would beg leave

1 " The public may be assured, that the following letter is the produc- "tion of a real, and not a fictitious weaver in West Chester. It is the " offspring of au honest warmth in the cause of his country ; and tho' "his sentiments, and remarks, appear in a homespun dress, they nevertheless are not without force, and we presume, will contribute to the "entertainment of our readers. "--(Editorial, introductory to the Utter of tho Weaver.)

" to say a word in answer to our pretended Farmer, " and make no doubt but the lowness of stile I shall " speak in, will be excused, when it is considered that " a man may be a profound Weaver, and no gram- " marian ; and being a useful branch of mankind as " above, ought to have the privilege of speaking in " his own stile. If so, then my first answer to our " Farmer is, that we Weavers, and I believe I may " say most of other trades too, cannot live without " meat, bread and clothing, all which I shall gladly " take in exchange for my labour ; and If I could " earn more at the year's end, than a supply for my " family, I would be content, (at this troublesome " period, which our Farmer sets up for such a terror) " to have my employer say to my creditor, I owe " the Weaver so much, which I will engage to pay to you, " when I can sell my produce.