PRINTED BY W. & This Paper is circulated in the most expeditious Manner through the adjoining Counties of ENGLAND and WALES. Advertisements nol exceeding Ten Lines, inserted at Six Shillings each. VOL. XXXIV.—- N0, 1742.] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1827. ^ alcjs bp auction, SHROPSHIRE. FalualSiSc dFreegon* Estate. BY MR. BOWEN, Al the Queen's Head Inn, in Ihe Town of Oswestry, in Ihe County of Salop, on Monday, the 25th Day of June, 1827, at Four o'Clock in' the Afternoon, tuhject to Conditions : A MOST desirable ESTATE, called t\ 11 F. N LI. E, situate in the Parish of WHIT- TINGTON, in the County " f Salop, consisting of a modern built Dwelling House wilh necessary attached und detached Offices, a good Walled Garden and Orchard, stocked with choice Fruit Trees, together with a Coach- House, Hackney Stables, aud all neces- sary Fanning Buildings, and sundry Pieces or Parcels of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, containing together 78A. lit. 2SP. he the same more or less, now in the Holding of Mr. Samuel Lloyd, under a Lease for 14 Years, 12 of which will remain unexpired at Lady- Day next. The Estate lies ill the Midst of a Sporting Country, and is well supplied with Game. The House is fit for the Residence * of a genteel Family, and the Lands are ia a high State of Cultivation. They are bounded in Paft by the Ellesmere Canal, the River Perry, » nd bv the Lands of John Mytton, Thomas Lovelt, and Richard Longford, Esijis. the Rev. Richard Eilton, Mr. William Brougliall, and others. The Distance froth Ilenlle to Oswestry is 3 Miles, to Ellesmere 5, lo Shrewsbury 19, and Wrexham 15, and within a convenient Distance of Lithe and Coal. The Timber and other Trees arid Saplings arc to lie taken by the Purchaser, at a Valuation lo he produced at • ilie Time of Stile. The Tenant will shew the Estate ; find further Particulars may he known on Application to Mr. JOHN LLOYD, of Fords, near Oswestry, or to Mr. PDOII, Solicitor, in Oswestry, at whose Office a Map of the Estate may he seen. HOHNSPIKE FAflM. Oa Thursday, the 31 It Day of July next, between the Hours of Five and Six o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the White Horse Inn, Wem, in ihe County of Salop : AMOST DESIRABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE: comprising a convenient and neat ' FARM HOUSE, with all requisite Outbuildings and Offices, in good tenanlable Repair, together wilh SIXTY EIGHT A CUES ( or thereabouts) of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture LAND, within a Ring Fence, in a high State of Cultivation, well timbered and watered, and known by the Name of Tim HORNSPLLCE, situate in Ihe Town- . liipof NOliTHVVOOD, in the Parish of WEM, and County of Salop. This Estate is near the Turnpike Roads from Wein and Whitchurch, to Ellesmere, about 5 Miles from Ellesmere, 4 from Wein, nnd ( i from Whitchurch, all good Market Towns, and nearly adjoins the Ellestnere laud Chester Canal, from whence Coals aud Lime may be very conveniently and advantageously obtained. For a View of ibe Premises apply to Mr. BROOKES, - the Occupier thereof; and for further Particulars to Messrs. IUSSAI. L and WAI. MSI. EY, Solicitors, Weill. Dp auction. DENBIGHSHIRE. MONTGOMERYSHIRE Some Time in llie Month of August next, in lots, unless the Whole he previously disposed of iu One Lot, in which Case due Notice shall be given ; A CAPITAL FREEHOLD ESTATE, OsV comprising upwards of Three Thousand Three Hundred Acres, let in sundry very eligible Farms, well and respectably tenanted, with all the Farm Buildings in good and substantial Repair. This Estate lies well together, and is siinnte in the several Parishes of LLANGERNIEW, LLAN- FAIRTALI1A1ARN, and EGLW YSFACH, in the County of Denbigh, and bus upon it good growing Timber, and extensive thriving Plantations, and abounds with Game. The Titne and Place of Sale, with a Particular of the Lots, will shortly appear, and in the mean Time any further Information may be obtained from Mr, WOBERTS, Solicitor, Mold, who is authorised to treat for the whole Estate, in One Lot, by Private Contract. MOLD, 28TII MAY, 1827. ELIGIBLE FREEHOLD ESTATES, MONTGOMERYSHIRE. BY MR. IIOWELL, , At the Royal Oak Inn,, in the Town of Pool, iti the County of Montgomery, on Monday, the 9th Day of July, 1827, between'the Hours of Four and Eight in tho Afternoon, in the following or such other Lots as shall be declared hy the Vendors, and subject to Conditions then to be produced, THE POL LOWING FREEHOLD ESTATES; LOT I. AMESSUAGE, FARM and LANDS, called BODYDDON, situate iu the Parish of XLANPYLLIN, in the said County, containing 120 Acres or thereabouts ( be the same more or less), in tfhe Occupation of William Roberts. LOT II. Another MESSUAGE, FARM & LANDS, • called BLAEN Y Cwal, nearly adjoining the last Lot, • containing 100 Acres or thereabouts ( be the same . more or less), in the Occupation of John Jones. Lot I is very desirably situated, and may, nt a trifling Expense, be made a very desirable Pro- perty, and there is a Quantity of thriving Younj; " Timber growing thereon. Both Lots are situate in a Country abounding* in Game, are distant fr<> m the Market Town of Llanfyllin about two Miles, Oswestry 14, Pool 12, and the Mont- gomeryshire Canal by New Bridge about 7 Miles L o T III. A ca pi t a I M E S S U A G E, F A R M St L A N D S • tailed TREDDBRWEN, containing by Admeasurement • tf, 3A. 1R. 12P. situate iu the Parish of LLANSAINT- - ITFRAID, in the said Countv of Montgomery, and now flu the Occupation of Mr. Thomas Whitfield. This Property adjoins the Turnpike Road lead- ing from the Town of Shrewsbury and Pool through Llansaintffraid, to the Town of Llan fyllin, and is about 7 or 8 Miles distant from the Towns of Pool, Llanfvllin, and Oswestry, and about a Quarter of a. Mile from ihe Montgomery- shire Canal. The House is nearly new and most pleasantly situated, having the Rivers Virniew and Tannatt and the Vale of Llansainifl'raid, with its rich and diversified Scenery, under its imme- diate View. The Virniew runs through Part of the Lands, and the Tannatt is within a very short Distance. There are several excellent Salmon Draughts belonging to this Lot in the former Itiy'er, and the laiter is celebrated for ils Trout and the Amusement it affords to the Angler. LOT IV. A DWELLING HOUSE and LANDS, ioAlled THE GUTTER, situate in the said Parish of Llansaintfi'raid, and adjoining the Turnpike Road • before alluded to, nnd containing by Admeasurement * 8A. 3R. 8P. nnd now in the Occupation of Richard . Roberts. LorV. Another DWELLING HOUSE & LANDS, ,4iso Rear adjoining the said Road, called THKGELLEY, - situate in the said Parish, containing by Admeasure- ment OA. 3R. 3lP. nnd now in tiie Occupation of ' Thomas Roberts. LOT VI. Another small DWELLING HOUSE and CANDS, also adjoining the said Road, called THE ( WARN, situate in the same Parish, and now in the Occupation of John Owen. LOT VII. All that Piece or Parcel of LAND, called the BRIDC- F. FIELD, situate near Llansaintffraid Bridge, in the said Parish, containing by Admeasurement 6A. 2R. 2SP. This is an excellent Piece of Feeding Land on the Banks of the River Virniew, and has also the same Advantages as to its Salmon Fishery as Lot 1. J. OT VIII. A SM « 11 DWELLING HOUSE and LANDS on Trefnauney Bank, in the Parish of JVIYPOO, ia the said County, in the Occupation of Mr. David Poole. LOT IX. A MESSUAGE, FARM nnd LANDS, entiled PEJTTHRYN, situate near Penrhos, in the Parishes of LLAXDRINIO and GUILSFIELD, in the said County, in jhe Occupation of Mr. Thomas Ellis. The Turnpike Road froin Pool to Oswestry nearly adjoins this Lot, and the Farm is in excel- lent Condition. Il is distant about 7 Miles from Pool, and 8 from Oswestry, and about Half- a- Mile from the Montgomeryshire Canal. LOTX. A PEW in Llansaintffraid Church, near the Entrance Door, in the Occupation of Mr. Edward Daviei. The respective Tenants will shew the different Lots; and for further Particulars apply to Mr. HOGHBS, Llwydiarth Park, near Cann Office; Mr DANIBL, Bron y Main, near Myfod; to THE AUC TIOHBBR, in Pool ; or at the Office of Messrs. GP. IFFITIIES and CORRIE, Attorneys af. Law, in PUO| aforesaid, with whom Maps of the Estate are left for Iospectiou. MONTGOMERYSHI RE BY THOMAS PRYCE, At Cann- Office, in the Parish of Llangadfan, on Tuesd av, the 2( 5th Day of June, 1827, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to such Conditions as shall he then produced, in the following or such other Lots as shall be then agreed upon : LOT I. ALL that Messuage or TENEMENT, with the LANDS, Hereditaments, and Appurte- nances thereto belonging, called Gwern Las, situate, lying, and being in the Parish of GARTHBEIBIO, and County of Montgomery, containing* hy Admeasure- ment 50A. 2R. 29P. or thereabouts, and now in the Tenure or Occupation of Evan Lloyd, his Under- tenants oi* Assigns. LOTU. All that other Messuage or TENEMENT, with the LANDS, Hereditaments, and Appurtenances, called Ty'n- y- seti, sitiiate in the said Parish of Garth- beibio, and County aforesaid, containing by Admea- surement 43 Acres or thereabouts, and now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Thomas Owen, his Under- tenants or Assigns. The above Farms are situate within a short Distance of Cann- Office, and of the Road leading from Pool to Machynlleth. Further Particulars, may be had by applying to, Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, Attorney, Llanfyllin, at whose Office a Map of the Estate may be seen. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, At. the New Inn, in the Village of Bettws, in the Coitntv of Montgomery, on Wednesday, the 27ih Day of June, 1827, at three o'Clock in the After- noon, in the following, or such oilier Lots as shall be agreed upon at the Time of Sale, and subject to Conditions then to he produced : LOT I. ALL those FOUR Dwelling HOUSES, with the Outbuildings and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in ihe Village of BETTWS, in ill*. Comity of Montgomery, in the several Occupa- tions of Robert Jones, John Evans, Evan Evans, and Edward Roberts. LOT II. All those FOUR other DWELLING HOUSES, situate in the said Village of Bettws, in the several Occupations of Thomas Tudge, Edward Powell, James Clcaton, and Edward Griffiths; LOT III. Also all those FOUR other DWELLING HOUSES, adjofijing Ihe last- mentioned Premises, in the several Occupations of Mr. Thomas Jones, Marv Meredith ( Widow), Thomas Evans, aud Margaret Aslley ( Widow). For further Particulars apply to the Proprietor, Mr. THOMAS JONES, of Bettws Village; or Mr. T. E. MAHSH, Solicitor, Llanidloes. Llanidloes, i\ lh. tune, 1827. I BIiYFvimiili INCiLOSUFiS. VALENTINE VICKERS, ofCaAN- MERE, in the County of Salop, Gentleman, the Commissioner appointed by Virtue of an Act of Parlia- ment made and passed in the Fiftv- second Year of Ihe Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, entitled " An Act for Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Blynihill. in the Countv of Stafford," do hereby give NOTICE, that I shall attend al the Dwelling House of Isaac Taylor, called or known by the Name or Sign of Ihe Jeruingham Arms, in Shiffnal, in the said County of Salop, on Tuesday, the twenty- sixth Day of June instant, tit Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, for'the Purpose of reading over, nnd executing my Award in Writing under the said Inclosure Act, in the Presence of such of the Proprietors under the same Inclosure, as shall then aud ihere attend. Dated the 9lli Day of June, 1827. V. VICKERS. MONTGOMERYSHIRE FREEHOLD ESTATES. At the Boar and Net Inn, in the Town of Llanfvllin, and County of Montgomery, ou Friday, the 29th Day of June, 1827, at Four o'Clock in the, After noon, subject to such Conditions as shall be then produced : A, LL that Messuage or TENEMENT, ok with the LANDS, Hereditaments, and Appur. tenanees thereto belonging, called Llwvn Glas, and all that other TENEMENT, called fyddvn- Mab- Meddig ( added to and occupied with the Tenement eulfeu Ll wy u Ciffts aforesaid;, situated In rlic Town ship of Nantfyllon and Cornorion, in the Parish of Llanrhaiadr, in the County of Montgomery, contain- ing hy Admeasurement 40 Acres or thereabouts, and now in the Holding or Occupation of Francis Griffiths, his Undertenants or Assigns. The above Farm is situate within two Miles of the Market Town of Llanfyllin. Further Particulars may be had on applying to Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, Attorney, Llanfyllin, at whose Office a Map of the Estate may be seen. FREEHOLD PROPERTY, EH WEKHPOOL. BY MR. HOWELL, By Order of the Assignees of Mr. Richard Griffiths. Grocer, on Tuesday, the 17th Day of July, 1827, between the Hours of Three and Six in the After- noon, at the Royal Oak Inn, in the said Town of Pool, subject to Conditions ; TIIE FOLLOWING FREEHOLD PROPERTY' LOT I. ALL those Messuages or DWELLING HOUSES, Shops, Warehouses, Oufbuilditfg- s, Yards, and Premises, situate and being in HIGH STREET and BULL STREET, in theTown of Pool aforesaid, generally known and distinguished by the Name of TUB CORNER SHOP, and now or late in the several Occupations of Mr. Richard Griffiths, Thomas Davies, arid John Morris. Also, all that DWELLING HOUSE, Shop, and Premises, situate. and being in High Street, aforesaid and under the same Roof as the Corner Shop, and now the Occupation of Mr. Ellis Roberts, Saddler. The CORNER SHOP in Pool has been an accus toined and established Place of Trade for a Period of (> 0 Years and upwards, and in no Part of fhe Principality are there Premises more eligible for the Purposes of Trade : situated in a populous and Commercial Town, and, combining in themselves every Advantage both as to Space and Locality they afford a good Opportunity for the Invest ment of Capital, and also for carrying on any large aud important Business either in the Whole- sale or Retail Trade, or in both these Branches.— The Land- Tax ou this Lot is redeemed. LOT II. A Messuage or DWELLING HOUSE and SHOP, with Ihe Appurtenances, situate in High Street aforesaid, nearly adjoining Lot 1, and in the Occupation of Mr. Edward Matthews, Watchmaker This Lot is also well situated for Business although not upon so large a Scale as Lot I. LOT III. An old and well- established PUBLIC HOUSE, called THE LOWER EAGLES, with the Buildings and Appurtenances thereto belonging, situ ate and being in SEVERN STREET, in the said Town of Pool, and now or late in the Occupation of the Widow Owen. The Land- Tax on this Lot is also redeemed. LOT IV. TWO NEWLY- ERECTED DWELLING HOUSES, with tiie Appurtenances thereto belonging situate at the upper End of High Street, in Pool aforesaid, and now in ibe several Occupations of Thomas Berry and the Widow Davies.' LOT V. A DWELLING HOUSE, Buildings, and other Ihe Premises thereto belonging, situate aud being in theTown of LLANFYLLIN, iu the County of Montgomery, and late in the Occupation of M Richard Pugh or his Undertenants. For further Particulars apply to WM. WILKINSON Esq. Shrewsbury ; THOMAS BECK, Esq. and M RICHARD GOOLORN ( the Assignees), in Pool ; THE AUCTIONEER ; and at the Office of Messrs. GRIFFITHES and CORRIE, Attorneys at Law, in Pool aforesaid. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Whereas RICHARD GRIFFITHS, of the Corner Shop, in the Town of POOL, in the County of Mont gomery, Grocer, hath conveyed and assigned his Rea and Personal Estate to us, the undersigned THOMAS BECK, of Pool aforesaid, Esq. and RICHARD GOOLDEN oftlie same Place, Carrier, IN TRUST, for the eq. ua Benefit of his Creditors, or such of them as shall approve ofthe Provision thereby made for them, and execute the Deed on or before ihe 1st Day of Novem- ber now next ensuing: NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that the. said Deed has heen deposited by us for the Inspection of the Creditors and for theii Signature, at the Office of Messrs. GRIFFITHES and CORRIE, Attorneys, in Pool aforesaid, and that all Creditors declining or refusing to execute the same Deed, on or before the said 1st Day of November, will be. excluded the Benefit thereof.— Witness our Hands this 29th Day of May, 1827. THOMAS BECK, ^- Assignee* RICHARD GOOLDEN, S *" g ' J To Iron- Founders, Masons, and Bruhje- Bu ilders. rF3 E Magistrates of the Cotfnfies of Denbigh and Flint, intend to meet at the Buck Inn, in Bangor, in the said County of Flint, on Monday, the 25th of June next, at Twelve o'Cloek to receive Proposals fr. om Persons willing to contract to WIDEN THE BRIDGE over the Dee, at Bangor aforesaid. Plans and Specifications for making the Alteration in Iron or Stone, will he left at the said Buck Inn, in Bangor, by the llth of June; and any further Particulars may be known, by Application to the Surveyors of both Counties— Mr. PENSON, at Oswestry, and Mr. JONES, at. Talacre, near Holywell ; and " at the respective Offices of the Clerks of the Peace of the said Counties in Ruthin and Mold- J OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that 1 on the Twenty- eighth Day of May last, an Order was signed by WILLIAM SPARLING, Esquire, and the Rev. JOSEPH AI. DRICH COTTON, Clerk, two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Hundred of Pimhill, in the Couuly of Salop, for diverting, turning, and stopping np a certain Footway, in the Parish of Ellesmere, in the said County, leading from the Town of Ellesmere to the Township of New- ton, within the said Parish of Ellesmere, and lying between the said Town of Ellesmere and the Parish of Welchhampton, in the said County, of the Length of E'gbt Hundred and Ninety- five yards or thereabouts, from the Letter A to the Letter Bupon the Plan iu the said Order annexed, and marked by Black Dots or Marks upon the said Plan, and which said Footway so to be diverted, turned, and stopped up, commences at the Turnpike Road leading from Ellesmere to Shrewsbury, near to the Lodge and Gate of Oteley Park, in the said Parish of Ellesmere, belonging to Charles Kynaston Mainwaring, Esquire, and passes from thence through the said Park, and through a certain Field called the Park Field, in the Occupation of Francis LOP, into the Turnpike Road leading from Ellesmere aforesaid to Wem and Whitchurch, in the said County ; and for substituting, in Lieu thereof, another Footway, coloured by Red Dots or Mrirks upon the said Plan, and which commences at the said Turn- pike Road leading from Ellesmere to Shrewsbury,, at the Letter C on the said Plan marked, and passes through another Part of Oteley Park aforesaid, into the said Turnpike Road leading from Ellesmeie to Wem and Whitchurch, at the Letter D on the said Plan marked, of the Length of Four Hundred and Thirty- seven Yards or thereabouts, and from thence along the Side of the said last- mentioned Turnpike Road to the End of tho Park Field aforesaid, at the Letter R aforesaid, of the Length of Three Hundred and Thirtv- three Yards or thereabouts, and of the Breadth of Four Feet or thereabouts, and particularly described on the said Plan annexed to the said ' Order ; and which said Order and Plan now lie at the Office of Mr. BLOXAM, Solicitor, Ellesmere, for the In spection of all Persons interested. And NOTICE is hereby further given, that the said Order will be lodged with the Clerk ofthe Peace for the said County of Salop, at. the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Shrewsbury, in and for the said County, on the Ninth Day of July next : And also, that the said Order will, at the said General Quarter Sessions, be confirmed and inrolled, unless upon an Appeal against the same to be then made* it shall be otherwise determined. Dated this Second Day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty- seven. Mm tm- iiliM CAPITAI. £ 550,000, INSURANCES renewable 011 the 24th * L June, 1827, must he paid 011 or before the 8th July, or liie Office will cease to be liable for the Sums insured. The Public Opinion of the Principles and Conduct of this Establishment may he inferred from the Fact, lhat il now ranks the second Office iu the United Kingdom. Shrewsbury Ditto - Welshpool Market Drayton Oswestry Ellesmere Lloyds anil Shiffnal Newport Wellington Whitchurch Bridgnorth Ludlow - AGENTS. - Mr. J. Birch. - Mr. James Skidinore. - Mr. William Evan*. - Mr. William Furber. - Mr. William Roberts. - Mr. W. E. Men love. - Mr. VV. Smith. - Mr. James leke. - Mr. B Smith. - Mr. Welsh. - Mr. W. Macmlchnel. - Mr. William Felton, THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE WIDOW WELCH'S PILLS. ^ IpHIS Medicine is justly celebrated for all JL Female Complaints, Nervous Disorders, Weak ness of the Solids, Loss of Appetite, Impurity of Blood Relaxation by intense Heat in warm Climates, Sick Head- Ache, indigestion, Debility, Consumption, Low. ness of Spirits, and particularly for ali Obstructions ii the Female System. Mrs. SMITHERS, Grand- daughter to the late Widow WELCH, recommends Mothers, Guardians, Managers of Schools, and all those who have the Care of Females at an early Age, never to be without this useful Medicine. Mrs. SMITHERS requests that Purchasers will be careful t<> notice that her Agent's Name, " E. EDWARDS, 67, St. Paul's," appears on the Government Stamp, as no Preparation of her Welch's Pills can he genuine which has not the ahove Name. Price 2s. 9d. per Box. It is necessary to caution Purchasers,, that they he not imposed upon by a Preparation, said lo be by " Lewi*, formerly Sniiihers," as Mrs. S. ihe Proprietor of the above Medicine, has not changed her Name. Sold by W. and J. EDDOWES, Shrewsbury; Small and Roberts, Ridgway, ami Procter, Drayton : Wei;' Wellington; Wluttali, Evans, Massey, and Oseland Ludlow ; aud all Dealers, in Medicine. Salop Fire- Qjfice. RGNHE PROPRIETORS of tbe SALOP • i FIRE OFFICE, fully impressed with a Sense of the Patronage and Support given by the Public through this and the adjoining Counties, for nearly Fifty Years past, trust that the Liberality of their Terms of Insurance/ together with their prompt Manner, of adjusting and paying the Amount of nil Loss and Damages sustained on Property in- sured by them, will continue to obtain for the Salop Fire Office that decided Preference ond Sup. port it has hitherto enjoyed. Reduced Rates of Insu rance. First Class Is. 6d. per Cent. Second Class 2s. 6d. per Cent. Third Class 4s. Od. per Cent. Policies insuring £ 300 and upwards arc issued free of Expense. The Proprietors of this Office have always pledged themselves to make good all Loss or Damage on Property insured by them, which has been set on fire by Lightning. Printed Receipts for the annual Premiums pay- able at Midsummer are ready for Delivery at the Office, and by their respective Agents; of whom the Proposals of this Office may be had. era - ht am Ar. d entered vpon immediately, GENTEEL DWELLING HOUSE, situated in ihe ABBEY FOREGATE, Shrews- bury; consisting of a good Kitchen, excellent Brew, house, two Sitting Rooms, and. five Lodging Rooms; ajso a small Flower Garden in Front, and a good Kitchen Garden behind — For Particulars apply to Mr. DONALDSON, Abbey Foregate. © alejs tip auction. Che sic ar dine, near Market IN THE COUNTY OE SALOP. PRICE SEVEN PENCE. © a! c0 Auction. HEREFORDSHIRE. MAWOSOS REPUTED MAKOS/ MANSION HOUSE, WATER- CORN- MIl. L, And about lft' 0 Acres of Freehold Land, Being an eligible Property for Investment, WITH EARLY POSSESSION. BY W. CHURTON, At the Residence of the lale II. Z. JERVIS, F. iq. deceased, ou Mondav, the 25th Day of June, 1827, and following Days, until all are sold ; r|^ HE entire valuable HOUSEHOLD . a- FURNITURE, completing Sixteen Rooms. N. B. Ill Dining, Drawing, Sitting, Bed Rooms, & c. & c. large Pier, Chininev, and Dressing Glasses ; Wardrobe ol' Damask and oilier LINEN ; rich CUT- GLASS ; large Quantity of curious Antique CHINA, in Dinner, Dessert,' Tea, Coffee, Breakfast, and Orna- mental Sets; Plated Articles; numerous Kitchen Requisites ; extensive Assortment of Dairy and Brew- ing Vessels and Casks; valuable THRASHING MA- CHINE ; excellent Canoe ; and all other F. H'ects. ( J^ Not a Lot to he Reserved. May be viewed on Saturday preceding the Sale, from Ten to Foifr o'Clock. Catalogues are preparing, and may be had ( Tea Days previous to the Sale) nt the Corbet A mis, nnd Phoenix, Market Dravlon ; Lion, Newport ; ( ink Eccleshall ; Caslle, Ternhill ; Bear, and Lion, Hod. net; Hawkstone Inn ; Fox, Chesw ardiiie ; and from the Auctioneer, Whitchurch. P FIRE cj- LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, EXETER. ( EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.) ORIGINAL CAPITA! £ 600,000. SURPLUS CAPITAL, exceeding—£ 50,000. TRUSTEES. Right Hon. Earl FORTESCOP., Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon. Right Hon. Earl MORLEY. Right Hon. Lord CLIFFORD. Sir THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, Bart. f Members EDMUND POLLEXFEN BASTARD, E* q.^ for Devon. SAMUEL FREDERICK MILFORD; of Exeter, Esq. PRESIDENT. Sir HENRY CAREW, of Haccoinhe, Bail. Hjpi- IE Premiums required are as favour- it. able to the Insured as iu other Offices, with the peculiar Advantage of a RETURN OF ONE FOURTH PART of the Surplus, to those who insure against Fire, at the End of every FIFTII YBAII THREE DIVIDENDS have heen paid to the Insured, according to the above Plan, being equivalent to a REDUCTION of the Premiums. LIFE INSURANCES are effected, nn Terms favour- able lo the Public, the Premiums having been reduced hv this Company, TEN PER CENT, both on the Jirst nod subsequent Annual Payments. ANNUITIES are granted and purchased. JUNE, 1827. IV. COOPER, Solicitor, Agent For Shrewsbury and its Vicinity. ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. New Darn, Edenfeld, near Bury il 26th May, 182G. GENTLEMEN, fShould lie ungrateful were I not to come forward and thank you for the almost miraculous Cure your Antiscorbutic Drops have performed upon tne. ! had been afflicted for the last seventeen Years with a drv Scurvy, that completely covered my whole Body with Scales, attended with great Heat and ex treme Pain. The Scales multiplied to such a Degree that at certain Times I was obliged to use Grease or Oil before I could move my Joints; and the Bed on which I lay was completely covered with the Scurf oft' my Body. Having tried all Antiscorbutic Medicines and Ointments, as well as warm and cold Baths at all the Places of Note in the Neighbourhood, without affording the least Relief, 1 had given up all Hopes of being cured, till seeing a Letter in the Bolton Express ofa similar Case to my own being cured by you. I was induced to try your valuable Medicine, which I am happy to say gave me the greatest Relief, and before I had taken three of your 4s. 6d. Bottles, I experienced a complete Cure, and am now as free from Blotch or Scale as ever I was in mv life, and enjoy perfect Health As the Publication of the Letter in the Bolton Express was the Means of my applying to you, I trust von will allow this Case of mine 1o go before the Public, in Hopes that it may reach the Hands of the afflicted, and render them the same Comfort I now experience. Yon; therefore, are at Liberty to make what Use you please of this Leiter ; and 1 shall feel proud in answering any Enquiries, either personally or otherwise. i am, Gentlemen, with the greatest Regard, your obedient Servant, !,( THOMAS HUTCHINSON. Attested by H. Crompton, Druggist, Burv, of whom ( if required) further Particulars may he had. — N. B All Letters to be Post paid. These Drops are sold in moulded square Bottles at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and lis. each, by John Lignum and S[ ) u, Surgeons, & c. 63, Bridge- street, Manchester; I. San- ger, 15i>, Oxford- street; I. and C. Evans, 42, Long Lane, West Smithfieid ; Barclay and Sons, 95, Fleet Market; Butlers, Chemists, Corner of St. Paul's, Lou don; 73, Prince's- street, Edinburgh; and 54, Sack ville- street, Dublin ; Sutton and Co. 10, Bow Church Yard; Evan Edwards, 66, St. Paul's Church Yard F. New. hery and Soils, 45, St. Paul's Church Yard ; Henry Mackrill, 33, Whitechapel, London ; F. Newbery aud Sons, 29, Dame- street1, Dublin : Scott and Orr, KM), South Bridge, Edinburgh; R. Nelson^ Surgeon, Glas- gow ; by W. and J. Eddowes, Shrewsbury; Lindop, Sand- bach; Jones, Nautwich; Poole and Harding, Chester; Painter, Wrexham; Baugh, Ellesmere; • Smith, 1 ronbridge ; G. Gitton, Bridgnorth ; Pennel Kidderminster ; Coltman, Heming, Stourbridge; Hin ton, Turner, Dudley ; Smart, Wo! verhainpton ; T. and W. Wood, Beiihy ' and Knott, Butterworih, Hudson, Birmingham ; and all respectable Medicine Venders in everv Town. Of whom also mav he had, Mr. Lignum's Improved VEGETABLE LOTION, for all Scorbutic Eruptions, price 2s. 9d. Duty included. Mr. Lignutn'i SCURVY OINTMENT mav no- v be had of the above Agents, price ls. Dd. each Pot, Duty included. FREEHOLD PROPERTY, AT HINSTOCK, Near Newport, in the County of Salop. BY MR. JACKSON, At the House of Mr. .1. Picken, known by the Sign of the Crown Inn, iu Newport, iu the County ofSalop, on Saturday, the 30th Day of June, 1827, al Four o'clock in the Afternoon, iu Ihe following, or such other Lots as may best suit Ihe Convenience of Pur- chasers, and subject to such Conditions as will be then produced : LOT I. A. R. ALL that MESSUAGE or Farm House, with Barn, Stables, Cowhouses, and other Outbuildings, Stack Yard, with a good Garden, and other Conveniences ihere- unto belonging, containing together 0 2 28 Also, the undermentioned Pieces or Par- cels of valuable Land adjoining thereto, and occupied therewith, viz. Allotment in Wood Lane, containing 0 10 Croft 4 (> 34 Well Leasow 3 3 15 Also, a Pew in Hinstock Church. LOT II. The Two Pieces of Meadow Land, called The Grassy Meadow, containing 4 The Little Meadow 1 3 37 0 1 311 The Grassy Meadow is covered by a Modus of 4d. per Anuuiii, in Lieu of Tithe Hay. LOT ITT. The Intake, or Allotment on Lockley Wood, containing ;....".........., 4 LOT IV. Near Wood Leasow, containing 4 Far Wood Leasow 3 Middle Wood Leasow.... 2 2 0 2 3 3 32 LOT V. The Grange Leasow, containing The Grange Leasow The G'ano- p Meadow Meeson's Piece 11 0 24 . 3 1 12 .. I I ' 20 0 3 .. 5 0.26 10 2 20 All the before- mentioned Property is in the Posses si on o'f Mr. Samuel Felton. LOT VI. That MESSUAGE or Dwelling House, with two good Gardens adjoining thereto, containing bv Ad measurement 26 Perches or thereabout, situate on The Green, in Hinstock, and in the Occupation of Mar Cartwright. The above Estate is most desirably situate in and near to the pleasant Village of HINSTOCK, upon the Great London Road to Chester, is distant 6 Miles from Newport, and 5 Miles from Market Drayton.— The Land is excellent, and in a good State of Cultiva tion, and well worth the Attention of Persons who are desirous of vesting Properly iu Land. The Ten ants will shew the respective Lots ; and for further Particulars, or to treat for the Purchase of ' he same or any Part thereof, apply to Mr. HALES, of Shareshill near Wolverhampton ; or to Mr STANLEY, Attorney, or THE AUCTIONEER, both of Newport, where Maps of the Property may be seen. Desirable Freehold and Leasehold ESTATES AND MINES, NEAR BRIDGNOHTH BY JOHN DAVIES, At. the Swan Inn, in Bridgnorth, on Saturday, the 7lh Day of July, 1827, at Four o'Cloek in the Afternoon ( unless previously disposed of by Private Contract of which due Notice will be given), subject to Conditions which will he then produced : LOT I. A LL that newly- erected FREEHOLD r\. FARM HOUSE, with the Garden, excellent Orchard, Meadow Land, and Appurtenances thereto belonging, situate at TEDSTILL, in the County of Salop, together with th* valuable MINES of Co; Ironstone, and other Minesand Minerals in and nude the same, containing in the Whole by Estimation H5 Acres or thereabouts, in the Occupation of M R. S. Giies or his Undertenants. LOT II. All that. Leasehold Messuage, Tenement, or FARM HOUSE, with the Barns, Stables, Out buildings, excellent Orchard ( capable of producing 30 Hogsheads of Cider annually). Garden, and Appurte nances thereto belongine*, situate at Tedstill aforesaid and all those several Closes or Pieces of Arable an< Pasture Land to the same belonging and contiguous theaeto, together with the valuable MINES of Coal and Ironstone and all other Mines and Minerals in and under the same, containing in the whole by Estimation 101 Acres or thereabouts, in the Occupation of Mi- Giles or her Undertenants. The Premises comprised in Lot. 2 are Leasehold for the Residue ofa Term of One Thousand Years, about Seven Hundred and Fifty of which are now unexpired, and are subject only to the nominal Rent of Oue Penny. The Proprietors have every Reason to believe that there are Mines of Coal and Ironstone under the whole or a greater Portion of these Estates-, the same having to some Extent been proved, and are now worki ng. TEDSTILL is in the Parish of Chetton, and is delight- fully situate within a very short Distance of the Turnpike Road leading- from Bridgnorth to Cleohurv Mortimer, and commands nn extensive Vievv of the surrounding Country : it is distant A\ Miles from Bridgnorth, 9 from Cleobury Mortimer, 9 from Bewd- iey, 11 from Kidderminster, and 16 from Ludlow. The Occupiers will shew the Premises ; and further Particulars may he had on Application to Mr, VVILI. IAM PICKIN, Solicitor, Wellington ; or at Mr. FISHER'S Office in Newport, Salop, where a Map of the Estates may" be seen. BY MR. BRADFORD. At the Royal Oak Inn, in Leominster, in the County of Hereford, on Friday, the ( it'i Day of July, IS27, at Four o'clock in the Afteruoon, in one or more Lots, as shall he agreed on ( under Conditions to he then produced), unless disposed of in the mean Time by Private Sale, of which Notice will be given ; A VALUABLE iind improveable FREE- ^ HOLD ESTATE, called TYRR EL'S COURT, including a Manor or reputed Manor, Mansion House Garden, and suitable Outbuildings, and a capital Water- Corn- Mill at a short Distance therefrom, and about 160 Acres of rich Meadow, Pasture. Orchard, and Arable Land, nearly in a Ring Fence, and situate in the Parish of DILWYN, in the County of Hereford, now occupied by Mr. FRANCIS BROWN, ihe Proprietor. The Estate is in a fine Sporting Country, and well slocked with Game, and iu a high Slale'of Culture, the Orchards being in Iheir prime, and capable of making annually 200 Hogsheads of Cider, and the Meadows can be irrigated at Pleasure, with excellent Turnpike Roads, distant from the City nf Hereford I I Miles, Kington 9, antl Leominster 5, all good Market Towns. Half of the Purchase- Money may ( iF required) remain on Security of ihe Property. To he viewed, bv applying to Mr. BROWN on the Est ale, where Printed Particulars may he had : Parti- culars may also be had at the Angel Inn, Ludlow ; New Inn, Hereford; Star Inn, Worcester; Place of Sale; and of Mr. CRATES, Solicitor, Leominster, who has a Map of the Estate, and will treat by Privnt" Contract, and of whom anv further Information may he obtained either personally or hy Post- paid Appli- cations. t> VALUABLE. MSMEIILMalD IP! B ® M! IBra IN THE COUNTY OF BRECON, SOUTH WALES. BY MR. HOGG ART, Peremptorily, at ihe Caslle Inn, Brecon, on Monday, the 9th of . Inly, 1827, at Twelve o'clock, in Six Lots ( by Direction ofthe T. Iaster iu Chancery in the Matter of " LEFROY V. LKFROY") ; A VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, With M ANOR and LORDSHIP attached, situ- ate ill the P arishes of TALLACHDDU SC GARTHBRKNGY in the County of Brecon, South Wales, comprising several Farm Houses, Farm Buildings, and Cotta< rcS, and 4 71 Acres, 1 Rood, and 30 Perchcs ( little more or less), of Meadow, Arable and Wood Laud. Particulars may be had ( gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, Southampton Buildings, Chancerv Lane, London; of Messrs. BRIDGES and MASON, Solicitors, Red Lion Square, London ; of Messrs. JONES ond Pow EI. T., Solicitors, Brecon, who will direct a proper Person to shew the Estate; at the Oxford Arms, Kington ; Hotel, Hereford; Talbot, Shrewsbury; Angel, Abergavenny ; Pear, Crickhowell ; Swan, Hav; Cnsllc, Merlhvr Tvdvil ; Hush, Bristol; and Of Mr. DOGCART, 62, Oi'd Broad Street, Royal Ex- change, London. CAPITAL AND VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATES, Manors, and Fisheries, NEAR BRECON, SOUTH WALES. BY MR. HOGG, ART, At the A notion Mart, near the Bank of England, Lon- don, on Friday, July 1:!, at Twelve, in Lots ( unlrsn previously disposed of hy Private Contract in Ono Lot), viz.: fk Highly- important and valuable FREE. AIL HOLD PROPERTY, consisting of the Great Forest of Brecon, the Minerals, kc. over ihe Whole of Ihe said Great Forest, containing above FOF. 7Y THOUSAND ACHES; A Tram- Road or Iron Rail. WHY, about Twenty Miles iu Length, with all the Coal aud Lime Trade connected with the same ; various Farms of Arable, Pasture, Meadow, and Wood Land adjoining; several fin** Farms on the Banks of the IJsk, celebrated for in Trout Fishing, and through which the Mail yud other Coaches pass daily; also the Manor of tbe Little Forest, & e. The Property containing about 17,000 Acres of Freehold land, With numerous Streams and Rivers, abounding with Trout ; capital and very extensive Grouse Shooting, excellent Coursing, and Game of almost every De- scription. At present there are Scotch and other Cattle and Ponies upon it, and about Seven Thousand very fine Cheviot Sheep; it is considered capable of containing from Ten Thousand to Twelve Thousand Cheviot Sheep throughout the whole Year, and it is presumed uo finer Piece of Sheep Pasture can he found in the Kingdom of equal and continuous Extent; the Whole of the estimated Value of upwards of Seven Thousand Pounds per Annvm. Particulars may he had of Messrs. TAYLOR and ROSCOE, Solicitors, King's Bench Walk, Temple ; nt the Inns at. Brecon, Monmouth, and Abergavennv • also at all the principal Inns in South Wales, at Glou- cester, Hereford, and Cheltenham ; at the Mart ; and of Mr. HOGGART, 62, Old Broad- street, Royal Ex- change, London. FOUR EXCELLENT FARMS, WITH A RESIDENCE, ( On lite Ban fis of the beautiful Rh- cr UsT>,) MANOR. & c. SOUTH WALES. BY MR. HOGG ART, At the Auction Mart, near the Bank of England, London, on Friday, July 13, at Twelve, in One Lot j FOUR CAPITAL and highly- improved FARMS, having been most copiously limed and carefully fallowed, most advantageously and beauii- •' ullv situate on lire Turnpike Road from London to Milford Haven, or Gloucester. to Carmarthen ; consist, ing of the Farms of Castel Dee, Lewin y . Piod, Cw- n- ilyvog, aud Innis Ruth fa ; containing together about Thr ee IIn a di ed J! eres of fine Arable, Pasture, Meadow, aud Wood Land and Plantations, with the MANOR of THE LITTLE FOREST, containing a beautiful Common of Five Hundred and Thirty- One Acres* the finest Coursing Ground in ihe Country.— Fishery in the River Fsk. GLAN USH HOUSE AND GROUNDS. The House contains two Kitchens, Dairv, CfHn eight Bed Chambers, Dressing Room, Dining- Ri> oti Breakfast Room or Library, and Drawing Room, .' 30 Feet, by 20 Feet, and 12 Feet high, with Statuary Marble Chimney Pieces, and spacious Hall, & c. wit I* Stabling. The Fee Farnr Rents of the Manor are £ 5. 12?. per Annum, with Riyht to Waif and Strays, &, e. The River IJsk runs a Mile and a Half through the Pro- perty, and, with the Cray, which for throe Miles is within the Manor, affords as fine Trout Fishing as any where in the Kingdom. The above first liiree Farms are iu the Parish of Devynnock, and in the Manor of the fJttle Forest; the last, Innis Ruth a, which adjoins the others, is in the P. uish of Llwyell, a> rf Manor of Brecon ; all of them have extensive Rights of Common ; the first three on the Little Forest, aud the last on the Great Forest. Particulars may be had of Messrs. TAYLOR en 1 ROSCOE, Solicitors, King's Bench Walk, Tempie ; ; t the Inns at. Brecon, Monmouth, and Abergavenny • and at all the principal Inns in South Wales ; a'so " at Gloucester, Hereford, and Cheltenham; at the ' VIart ; and of Mr. HOGOART, 62, Old Broad- street, Rovul Exchange, London* II R, » om HOUSE OF COMMONS- TUESDAY. TH R POOR RATES Mr. StANEY introduced hi* 1: 1 otioti on tire Poor f- aws After apologising for venturing to bring-'.' so fiuportant a subject forward:, on the ground that he had in vain waited till near the end of the Session for an v oue of greater importance" to come forward, and being, froui several years' attention to the snb'p'ct, convinced of iis e. onseqnfti. ee and real i'merest to aH classes, Mr. S. proceeded in nearly the following statement: — 44 i'l appears-, Sir, by Returns to Parliainenf, printed May, 1825, that the money expended on the poor was in 1785 about two millions, in 1803 four- millions, in 1815 six millions, in 1821' above seven millions', nnd the last three years about six millie^ s and an accir- 100,( 500 3<\ 000 £ 3. 0s. 1- 68 1- 31 1- 40 this last fact without a ( I will add) of shame rate account shews the diminution " is not? nearly in proportion to the fall in the price ol' food, but. that, all things considered, the rates are . increased', arid, what is still more important, the mtml. cr of paupers aug- mented, down to the present hour, and this iu spile of every exertion, iu spite . of 2600 ot crseeis and 2500. select vestries. By an Abstract repri- nled November, 1820, it appears the cost, of maintaining the poor doubles every 20 years, ihe cost of law and litigation every 12 years, population' only every H> 0 years, aud that the whole poor rates have increased' from one- seventb in 1804, to one- sixth iu 1825, on fhe rated amount; of property they- are assessed on. _ Let us look, Sir, at the state of the sister kingdom of Scotland hi t : is respect. By a. Report made May, 1818, this com- parison may be made as far as regards- the largest part of Scotland, whence ( he returns are complete : England fy Wales. Scotland. Proportion. Population 1}, 00<), 0<>!) 1,2 « H), 0J' 0 1- 9 Expense of Poor £<>, 000,000 Number relieved iu Year 940,626 Allowance per Head £ 6. Ills. Paupers to Popu- lation Near 1- 10 Sir, it is impossible to state deep feeling of regret, and Who is there interested in the happiness and inde- pendence of the industrious classes, who can dwell without sorrow on this- melancholy result — that in this enjightened, free, and powerful kingdom almost e very tenth person is a parish pauper. 44 Some persons, Sir, have thought that ' his striking difference between England and Scotland arises, from fine greater number employed iu agricultural'occupa- tions in the latter than ihe former kingdom ; but the population returns of 1821 shew this is net ihe ease, Great part of ihe hl'id for the poor is raised in Scot- land w11limit compulsory assessments, aud wherever these have increased, there have want, misery, and dependence followed. If, J- dr, we seek 0> r the cause of difference, we find, in the words of the Report, stated,. ' That a great proportion of the beneficial iu- 4 ffueuceof our hiw and practice has beeu owing to a 4 powerful co- operaliou in the moral character and * habits ofthe lower orders of the people,* who have so universally and so long been k distinguished by a ' proud and" virtuous aversion from dependence on * pariah charity.' But, Sir, if I am asked what has improved nu. d upheld that moral character among the people? I reply — Intelligence and Kd- ueaiiotr spread through every village and hamlet iu th- e laud. The Report says, * There is a school i i every parish, coin- * peiently endowed, as provided for by law • 1 and in another place, ' that in ten of the largest Synods all * the native inhabitants have been taught to read. 1 - Sir, i will trouble the House with only one olher extract, but it. is worthy Ihe country of Burns, aud Smith, and Chalmers. In numerous Reports from different quarters, it is said by the Ministers, 4 There 4 are no Sunday schools in our parish, and we want ' none; the house of every parent in the parish is oi) * Sunday evening a Sunday school, and the patent him { * v! f ia the teacher.'' Sir, I will not weaken the effect of such a statement by making a single remark upon it. " Ignorant persons have attributed the increase of pauperism to manufactures, but this is directly the reverse of the truth, for rates are high and wages low, not in the manufacturing but the agricultural districts. Any gentleman acquainted with geology may remark a curious coincidence between the mineral strata and trie maiHifactures of England. A line drawn from tiie mouth of the Teen at the north of Yorkshire, through Doneaster, York, Leicester, to Cheltenham,- and so to the south- east corner of Devonshire, divides the king- dom almost into two equal parts; on the north west side we find coal and manufactures— on the south- east exclusively chalk and agriculture. The metropolis must be considered as belonging to no particular district, and, with the single exception of Norwich, no large manufacturing town is found to the south- east of this line. But, Sir, it is remarkable that by the returns it appears nearly the same line divides the districts of fair wages and low wages, aud consequently low and high poor - rates, for they always vary in- versely to each ; pay a man fairly, and he will not come on the rates. Sussex has the highest rates in England, and Lancashire the lowest, lu Sussex the wages are the lowest, and in Lancashire the best. But, Sir, the exact line of high- rates aud low wages is the exact line of the abuse and perversion of the poor laws. The very counties mentioned in the Reports to this House, where the illegal aud vicious system of paying able- bodied men from the poor rates prevails, and habitu- irlly employing them by the parish — in those counties. ( All hi the South of England), the rates are enormous, and, what is still worse, the peasantry are miserable, dependant, and degraded. Sir, I can refer, in proof of mv assertion as to the state of the rates, to the Ut turns printed May, 1826, and for the general causes, to every page of the admirable Reports on the Poor Laws of 1817 and 1819, where the united opinion of 42 gentlemen from all parts of England ( forming one of the ablest committees ever selected from this House) is stated in the luminous arrangement and impressive language of their chairman ( ihe present Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Department). They say, ' that this system is perpetually encourage 4 ing and increasing the amount of misery it was dey v signed to alleviate, creating at the same time ai> ' unlimited demand on funds which it cannot augment/ 3 conld refer to every eminent writer on this subject, but 1 prefer to confine myself lo the testimony of prac- tical men closely acquainted with the facts, in the able Report, of 1824 on Labourers1 Wages, that en- lightened committee state, by their noble chairman (. Lord J. Russell), that 4 by far the worst consequence 1 of the system is the degradation of ihe labouring 4 class. 1 ( After quoting several other extracts, shew- ing the evils arising from habitually paying workmen from the poor rate, Mr. Slaney continued). In found- ing myself on these statements, I venture to assert, that there is no. effectual mode of diminishing poor- rate or pauperism, but by paying good wages, which me moreover the cheapest in the end for all classes: even on the narrow ground of pounds and pence ( putting aside for a moment all higher and nobler considerations), they are the cheapest to the com- munity. When men are well paid, they are decent and industrious — not ( lie . eye servants of a short- sighted master. ' The wages of labour,' says Adam Smith, 4 are the encouragement of industry, which, * like every other human quality, improves in propor- tion to the encouragement it receives.' Inadequate dependant— they marry with the intention of immedi- ately re- sorting to parochial aid. This practice,' saya the able'Report on Poor Laws of 1819, 4 iucoiisi- ' derately continued, is calculated to perpetuate1 e- v. ils < that vvould otherwise be transient, and permanently ' to derange the whole industry of the country.' And the Committee on Labourers1 Wages in 1K24 slate, as' their unanimous opinion, ' that hence a surplus 4 population is encouraged : men who receive a small 4 pittance know that they have only to marry aud that 4 pittance will be augmented in proportion to the 5 number of children.' Hence, the supply of labo'Ur is ' by no means regulated by the. demand, and parishes ' are burdened with 30, 40, or 50 labourers, for whom 4 they can find' no employment, and icho serve to ' depress the condition of all their fellow labourers in ' the same parish.'' 1 am happy to be able to say, that this baneful abuse of a good law, is scarcely known iri the part ofthe country 1 reside in ; that part of Eng- land is happily almost free from it ; but it is gradually spreading from- the south through the midland conn- lies. Having seen the evils to every class of this system, let us look for a remedy. Sir, I should be totally unworthy of the indulgence shewn me, if J ventured to bring forward any rash, ill- considered, or hasty theory. Sir, I propose to take a leaf from the hook of experience, and instead of putting forward any idle plan of mv own, to adopt the principle well digested" and recommended by two successive com- mittees on the subject in 1817 and 1819. In tlie first Report is the following conclusion :—' ll may, there- 4 fore, be worthy of consideration, whether, if the ' demand for labour should be again enlarged, it ' might not be enacted, that no person should he pro- ' vided with work by tbe parish, other than those \ yjio 4 are already provided ; but if the change by tiiis ' provision was thought too'rapid,- limitations might ' still be provided, the effect of w hich would render it ' more gradual.' And the Report of 1819 is, if possible, still more distinct: it says, p. 8— 4 if, from a 4 due consideration of this part of the S. taL of Etiz. from 4 the opinions of early and late writers of authority on 4 the subject, from the nature of the case itself, and, ' above all, from the express, terms of the Statute of ' William 111. this supposed obligation of parishes to * find work for all who require it, is at variance with 4 the letter and spirit ofthe law, and has- been and is ' productive ofthe most baneful effects. It appears to 4 your committee to be of the last importance, that the k p> qctice of the country should be made consonant to 4 the law iu litis respect", bv a new enactment, specify- *' ing distinctly to whom$ » and to whom alone, relief 4 derived from a compulsory assessment shall be ' afforded.' Resting on these high authorities, I venture to state the nature of my proposed Bill to the House : its object is to begin, gradually and gently, to retrace our steps, and ( if possible-) to return, by slow degrees,., to a- system calculated to give a fair remu u era tion for industry in the southern counties, and lo uphold the. virtuous independence of the working classes, ft would he unjust suddenly to' remove a support, however miserable and precarious, on which the peasantry of Sussex and the adjoining districts long have rested ; but it is not unjust, almost imper- ceptibly, by the operation of a prospective law, to withdraw from the rising generation1 a- rotten stay, which h; ts only increased the weakness and multiplied the misfortunes' of' their fathers. My proposal is - • That after the Ist of January, 1831, ' if any able- ' bodied' labourer with, less than four children shall 4 apply for parish aid,, it shall be in the discretion of 4 the parish officers, after due consideration, to accede ' to or refuse him such parish assistance, aud that no ' justice shall have any authority in such' case :' adding provisos, that this Act shall' not be const rued to give any one a right to parochial aid, which they had not before, or to lessen the rightto relief, * of the 4 lame, impotent, sick, old, blind, and' such other ' being poor and not able to work,' of to extend to the case of artisans, mechanics, or manufacturers*. I only propose, with the leave of the House, that this Bill be read a firsl time and printed, in order that dde consideration., may be given before another Session towards so, grave and important a subject. " I have npt w ished the bill to extend to manufacturers on account of the. fluctuations in the demand for their labour, w hich, though a subject deserving the atten- tion of Parliament-,, does not arise from any abuse of the poor law, and is too wide an object for the scope of lhi> bill. The operation of this measure, if adopted, would, in niV vievT of it, and that of those whom 1 have consulted, he gradually to remove a bounty upon improvidence, misery, and low wages; and to restore, after a time, that healthy tone of decent self- respect and moral independence which formerly prevailed among ihe English peasantry. As this bill would not come into operation for several years, a timely warn- ing would be given ; the time appears propitious for some such attempt, because after much distress we are now returning to a better state. Employment is on the increase in the manufacturing districts, and that will re- act to the advantage of agricultural labourers. Some persons have indeed thought- that our Workmen would he injured by the competition of neighbouring ou ii tries ; but in cottons, hardware, aud woollen From the state of public business it is expected that Parliament w ill be enabled to rise about the 26th inst. No day has been yet fixed upon, by the King to receive tite address oi'the Common Council of London on the change in the Ministry,- which was voted to his Majesty some time since. At a meeting of this body on Tuesday, the subject was mentioned by several members as a manifestation of slight or disre- gard on the part of his Majesty ; and it was spoken of as the more extraordinary that the King should plead illness in excuse for the delay, and yet at the same time attend Ascot Races, where he appeared in excellent health. His Majesty's motives for his conduct upon this remarkable occasion aire saM to be the subject of much speculation.—[ We, however, see nothing to speculate about, when the behaviour of the Corporation of London to the King, at the time of the late Queen's Trial, is recollected J PRICKS OV Red . 3 per Cts. 841 3per Ct, Con*. — 3* per Cents. — 34 per Cents. Red. 01 a 4 per Cents. 1826 101 & 4 per Cents. — UN DS AT THE CL. OSR Bank Stock 2032 Long Ann. 19 9- 16 India Bonds — India Stock Ex. Bills 50 pr. _ Cons, for Acc, 851} wages are the fertile sources of poverty and crime, and indirectly the cause of immense expense lo the country. Sir, I will not rest upon assertion but go to facts for illustration. By Returns lo Parliament, made up only to 1814, it appears, there were committed to • prison in England and Wales in ten years to 1814, fifty- four thousand criminals; in Scotland, where, as we have seen 110 such abuse ( for it is the abuse only 1 lament) of the poor laws prevails, only 978, being 80( 10 less than the same proportion to its population — the criminals in England keeping a due proportion to its paupers. Scotland, Sir, has one- sixth the popula- tion of England, 1 - 57th ihe criminals of England, and about l- 30lh the paupers. If, Sir, it be so important that wages should be good, the question immediately suggests itself of ' How can this be done? 1 How are they regulated? The answer is obvious, thev are re- gulated by those general laws of demand and supply, which regulates the price of every thing else. Sir, 1 do not ask credit for this plain principle, acknow- ledged bv every one, it is stated 111 clearer language than any I can use bv the Committee of 1817, p. 35, after long consideration on the subject. * As th. e ' demand for labour depends absolutely ou ( he amount * of wealth which constitutes its support, so the rate of * wages can only be adjusted by the proportion, lhat 1 demand bears to the supply. Now it is in the g- eater * or less degree of nicety in which that supply , is atl- 1 justed to Ihe demand, ' hat the happiness of ihe labour - 4ing classes- absolutely depends.' The same urincipie is laid down, and enforced iu the Report of \ i$ i9 and the Report on Labourers' Wages. ( s Now, Sir, having se? n that the proportion of demand to supply regulates wages, the question occurs — How is this proportion best preserved ? I am happy to be able to give a simple answer jo the question in three words, consonant with those plain principles now acknowledged as the best maxims of government in every enlightened country : I answer, Let it alone ! Do not* interfere or attempt to meddle with what should be left to itself. But by the abuse of the poor law you have interfered in the southern counties, you hare' deranged the natural supply of labour— you hare ' offered a bounty for improvidence and w ant of forethought, and we see the natural consequence in the depression aud degradation of the peasantry, in low wages and high poor rates. Sir, lhat miscon- stiuction of the humane and excellent Act of the 43d of Elizabeth is contrary to law, to policy, and good sense. Bv this perversion of an excellent statute, able bodied labourers have been taught to come, on the least difficulty, to tlip parish for employment, for wages, and allowance for their rent or their children, tleir spirit becomes broken as their condition i,. the three great articles. of our manufacture, we under- sell all other nations: nor do I think tlie 1 e is a prospect of a diminution owing to foreign rivalry. We possess, Sir, innumerable, ad vantages over the people of the continent. Our country is intersected, divided, and subdivided, hy canals and roads aud railways- covered over with warehouses, towns, and manufac- tories— the accumulated wealth of industrious cen- turies. Here, Sir, property is sacred ; here ability and enterprise are truly rewarded, not only by wealth and security, but by those honourable distinctions which are thr proudest prizes of genius ; here industry is rightly fostered and ingenuity encouraged ; here studious science sits apart, and guides with matchless skill the pliant hand of patient, persevering labour. These, Sir, and things like these, are tho true title deeds of our greatness, and the charter of our manu- factures is the free Constitution of England . — Sir, I have only to thank the House most sincerely for the kind indulgence which they have afforded me, and humbly to move for leave to bring in this bill." After a few observations from M r. CA r, VERT and the ATTORNEY GENERAL, leave was given lo bring in the Bill. HOUSE OF LORDS- WEDNESDAY. CORN BI I. E. Lortl GODPRICH said, he must now consider the Corn Bill as amended to have received the sanction of their Lordships. In his judgment, however, the amendment proposed by the Duke of Wellington was fatal to the principle of the Bill ; and he should not, therefore, move the third reading of the Bill 011 Friday next. The Earl of M AT. mESP. t- RY and Lord Ei. LFNBOROUGH expressed their wish to adopt any measure that should protect the landed interests while it benefitted the other portions ofthe community. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, although Lord GOHERICH would not move the third read ing on Friday, it was still competent for any other Noble Lord to do it. Earl GREY said, he voted for the amendment, because he thought it an improvement. An unjust clamour had been raised ou the subject of the Corn Laws, and the Government by their measures . had encouraged that clamour. The amendment proposed by the Noble Duke, and which their Lordships had adopted, was a great improvement, and instead of Ministers now abandoning the measure, it ought to be sent to the other House for its concurrence. A threat had beeu held out, that if their Lordships did not agree to the Bill as it was at first proposed to them, a worse measure might be prepared for them. If so, lit* would say, he was one of a body always ready while they were anxious to protect the rights of the people, to stand boldly forward in the maintenance of their own rights also If a worse Bill did come, lie trusted it would be firmly opposi d and rejected : if the peopl were to be arrajed in opposition to that House, lie was one of an order with winch he must stand or fall, and w hose independence and privileges he would maintain to the last ivour of his existence. HOUSE OF COMMONS THURSDAY. CO M M E R CL A L D1 ST R ESS K8. Mr E, DAVENPORT, after alluding to the distressed state of the country., and the consequent increase of crime, and contending that almost all the evils resulted from tl. e convulsions in the currency which had taken place, within the last forty years, concluded by moving for a Select Committee to inquire into the cause of the distress which affected the Commercial and industrious classes during the lasl and the present year. The Hon Member added, that the real object of his motion was to procure a currency that could not fluctuate.— Mr, LEYCESTER seconded the motion, which Was also sup. ported by Sir F. BDRDETT.— Mr. HUSKISSON resisted the application, contending that it was an attempt to renew the currency discussion.— After a few words from Mr. KINO, Mr. PEARCB, and Mr ATTWOOD, and if appearing to be the feeling of the House that, at BO late a period of the session, no such inquiry could, with any prospect of benefit, be entered upon, Mr, Davenport withdrew the motion, HOUSE OF LORDS- FRIDAY. The Corn Bill was not taken notice of. It was expected that some of the Peers would have moved its third reading, in order that it might be passed to the Commons, but such was not the case. The order remains at present undischarged ; and it may therefore he taken up and forwarded by any Peer next wee though it is generally considered that it will he aflowe to fall to the ground.— The bill althorising the Sale of Game was thrown out by their Lordships on the motion for iis third reading. We have received French papers to the 16th inst. and the Etoile . of Saturday. They confirm the afflicting intelligence lately received from Greece. Yet notwithstanding the defeat of the Greek army, the Acropolis still remained unsubdued ten days after, and the brave garrison had rejected all terms, and declared that it preferred death to submission, ' fhe present accounts state that the attempts made by Lord Cochrane and General Church and Karais- kaki to relieve the Acropolis bad totally failed, the Greeks having been completely discomfited after several days fighting, at the beginning of which the fate of arms seemed rather in their favour, it was not till the 6th of May that the decisive battle was fought, in which they lost 3,000 killed and wounded", and their gallant chief Karaiskaki. They are said to have displayed unparalleled bravery, and the' Ipsariots and Missoloughio- ts in particular " to have behaved like lions." All hope of saving the Acropolis being thus destroyed, Lord Cochrane is said to have invited the French Admiral de R- hrny to propose to the Seraskier terttis of Ca- pitulation.- Redschid Pacha bad some difficulty in accepting them, but at length consented to grant the garrison their lives and liberty provided they should leave their arms behind. But the besieged would not accede fo those conditions. They declared that " tliey would not lay down their arms, but that they would rather blow up the fortress and perish under tiie ruitis of fhe 1 ast remaining monuments of ancient Greece." Ten days after this, however, the tnrfftier ofthe Cross still waved on the Acropolis, but it was impossible that without relief the heroic garrison should be able to hold out much longer. Lord Cochrane is Said to have experienced much difficulty in effecting- his escape. Marriage of Mrs. Con its and the Duke of St. Alhari's. -- The marriage; so long talked of, took place about three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at Mrs. Coutts's house the corner of Stratton- street., Piccadilly ; a special license for that purpose having bo'en issued on Tuesday last, on the fiat of the Archbishop--- of Canterbury. The ceremony was per- formed, in tbe grand drawing- room, where an altar table, covered with rich crimson Genoa velvet, had previously been placed. His Grace's uncle, the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Francis- fieauclerk, read the marriage service, at which were present the Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, the Ladies Beau cl ere, ' the Countess of Guildford, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl and Countess of Harrowby,. the Ladies North, & c. & c. Sir F. Burdett was not present.. There is, it must be allowed, a little difference in age between the new married pair— from eight and twenty to thirty years- aud what there is, is against the lady, but chacun a son gout. The wedded pair immediately left town for one of bis Grace's seats.^ The reera » S tells tin": age of the gentleman, who was born in the year 1802. He is, therefor^, now 25 years old. The age of the lady we are left to guess at. We have, however, some data to " go upon, She made her first a- p pea ran fee on the hoards of Drury- lane, in the character of Lydia Languish, in Janu- ary, 1795, thirty. two years ago.-— In appearance she was then upwards of twenty. Her mother, the late INi re. Entweesle, was married to Mr. Entwecsle, at Bampton, in Cumberland, in the year V782, as appears by the register of that Church. Harriott Mellon was then performing in itinerant companies and appeared about eight, or nine years of age. ~ A RCI1D E A CON R Y OF SALOP, Dioccse of Hereford. On the 7th inst. in the 08th year of her ng- e, at Hereford, Ann, relict of I. eig'litun IJeln'moYe Griffith, Es. j. late of Din till II, in this county. The mniafle and mild disposition of this much regretted lady en- deared her thrrfugh life 10 an exteiisiye circle of acquaintance, and in death leave her to bo deeply lamented by her afflicted family, and hy the poor, to whom she \ vas a liberal aud kind benefactress. On the 81 h inst. aged 58, Mrs. Tyler, relic! of Mr. J. Tyler, of Mndcley. She discharged tbe dutie. of Matron of Ihe House of Industry at. Madeley thirty years with humanity to the poor and satisfaction to the Directors. She w ill he long and sincerely lamented by all who knew her. Yesterday, Mr. Edward Wood, of this town, aged 83 vears. On the 10th inst. nt T. anb'ridge House, near Bath, full of years, Dr. Haygartb, who for upwards of 30 years practised ill the city of Chester with distin- guished success. Visiting Clergyman this week at the Infirmary, the Rev. Archdeacon Oweu:— House- Visitors, Mr. Blunt, and . Mr. Ward. Doit at ion. The Tiffins ton Coal Company, a Load of Coat, being the first sent to Shrewsbury. Subscriptions and Collections towards th. e Erection of a IS'ew Infirmary. John Fox, Rsq. Cteoburu Mortimer.. £."> 0 0 James Stevens, F. si\. ditto 5 0 0 Collection ut Caiuham Church, by the Kev, James Mainwariug 5 Dittoat l. udlow Church, by tbe [ lev. R. Raiigli 0 Ditto at Waters Upton, by the Rev M r. VVilletts 2 Ditto at lio « ton Chapel, in Ercall parish. This Day ore published, in Octavo, Price I' 2s. Hoards, QERMONS, chiefly practical, hv tTie Rev. EDWARD BATHER, M. A. Vicar of Meole Brace, Salop. Printed for J. HATCHARO and Sorc, Piccadilly, L. ondon, and sold by W. and J. EDDOWES, anil J. SANDFOKP, Shrewsbury. Of whom may be bad, in 1 Vol. 8vo, price 9s Boards, TWENTY- ONE DISCOURSES, delivered in the Parish Church of Wroekwardiue, Salop, by the Rev. JOSHUA GIL. PIN, Author of " A Monument or Parental Affection to a dear and onlv Son." fjfpilE Sale of the Freehold and Leasehold a ESTATES and MINES, at TEDSTIIX, in the Countv ofSalop, ( advertised in the First Page of this Paper',} IS POSTPONED until further Notice. TO FARMERS, one or two Rooms in a Farm House, healthily situated in the County of Salop, by a Gentleman pursuing Professional Studies, as a* bulging-, with or without. Board, for a Period of Twelve Months ( more or less) as mav he agreed.— Address ( Post- paid) to R. B. Mr. SEBLEY's, Kit), Fleet Street, London. ir> 3 13 0 15 9 rR D, a COACHM A N and FOOTMAN, by a Family residing about three Mi'es from Shrewsbury.— None will answer unless they can he recommended from their last Place for Honesty . Sobrietv, and Cleanliness and wilhal thor - • -' F if by Letter, Post- paid. Casile Terrace Schools. Emporium of ^ Faeljton, Opposite the Dank of Messrs. Beck and Eaton, HIGH- STREET, SHKEWSBOHY. J. C. NIGHTINGALE EsPECTFULl. Y announces his Arrival from Loudon to his noble Patrons and Friend^ both in Town and Country, with every Information in Fashionable Hair- Dressing, and Selections of each Novelty in Ornamental Hair, being correct Imitations of Nature, as now worn in llie first Circles of the Metropolis, from the Houses of Mr. Baber ( late Winn and Baber), Maddox Street, Hanover Square, aud Mr. Fox, 39, Burlington Arcade, late principal Assistant for five Years to'Mr. Truefit. Particularly Coffu- res a la Conyngham and a la Vestris, and Brandenburg Bandeaux, French Tourcs, kc.; a great Variety of elegant Dressing and Work- Cases, and empty Boxes, in Rose and Tulip Wood and Mahogany ; the French large Pearl and Gilt Bead ; an elegant Assortment of Cut Toilet, Essence, Salt, and Lavender Bottles; real French Perfumery from Mous. Breard a Paris, with the genuine Article's horonghly understanding their respective Places.— ° f Messrs. Delcroix, Smith, Gattee and Pierce, and [•' or Particulars apply to THB PHINTEBS of ihis Paper ; OF Bond Street; Atkinson's and Delcroix's rpflE SUBSCRIBERS for the Relief a_ of Poor Clergymen, their Widows, and Child- wilhin tbe above District, are hereby informed, that tho ANNUAL MEETING will be lioideu at the TAT. BOT INN, in CiitutCH STUETTON, ou WEDNES- DAY, the 27th Instant. Dinner at Two o'Clock. LONT. NOR, JONE 18, 1827. SHROPSHIRE Auxiliary Bible Society. HUE Annual GENERAL MEETING ! of the SHROPSHIRE AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY will be held on Wednesday, llie 4th Day of July next, at the County Hall, in Shrewsbury, for the Election of a new Committee, receiving a Report of Ihe Proceedings of Inst Year, and on other Busi- ness ; when a full Attendance of Subscribers and Friends to the Institution is particularly requested. JOHN BATHER, JOHN LANGl. EY, V, Secretaries. THOMAS WEAVER, V The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'Clrfrk. At Trow bridge, Wiltshire, there are nearly three thousand manufacturers unemployed ; and conse- quently, the poor- rates are extremely heavy much so, that the farmers in the district are paying-, il is said, oil the average 20s. per acre. Notice to the Creditors and Debtors of the late RICHARD DUKES and MAR- GARET DUKES. k LL Persons who have any Claim or \ Demand on the Estate and Effects of RICH AR D DUKES, late of the Crown Inn and Royal Hotel, in BRIDGNORTH, in the Countv of Salop, lunholder, deceased, or of MARGARET DUKES, late ofthe same Place, Widow, deceased, are desired to send the same immediately, and the Nature of Iheir Securities, if any, to Mr. NlCHOLl. s, Attorney, Catstree, or Mr. WILLIAM HAMMOND, of Wyken, both near Bridgnorth. And all Persons who stood indebted to the said Richard Dukes or Margaret Dukes, at the Time of their respective Deaths, are desired to pay their respective Debts forthwith to the said Mr. Nicholls or M r. Hammonds, or they will be sued for tbe same. June IS, 1827. %\) z Salopian ' journal WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1827. spl0U] d fee] pleasure in acceding to the wishes of our respectable correspondent, who has taken up bis pen in furtherance of the views of " A Traveller;" but we feel con- vinced tbat the further pursuit of that topic would not be in accordance with the general taste of our readers. The length and late arrival of several Advertisements obliges us to omit several articles prepared for the press.— We are also compelled to omit other communications, in conse quence of our correspondents not favouring us vyith their names and places of their residence. The Venerable Archdeacon OWEN will hold his VISITATION at SHREWSBURY, on Monday, the 2d, and at NRVVPOUT on Tuesday, the 3d DavS of July next ; where the Churchwardens of each Deanery are expected to attend, according- to their respective Notices. JOHN FERNYHOUGH, Apparitor. We understand Sir ISoel Hill, K. C. I?, is appointed Adjutant- General of Cower Canada; and that Colonel Dallas, Commandant . of the Shrewsbury Yeomanry Cavalry, is appointed Governor of St. Helena. The Shrewsbury Water- Works- Company Bill re- ceived the Royal Assent on Thursday last. SHREWSBURY SHOW, on Monday last, was kept up with much spirit.— The Master and Apprentice Shoemakers, the Master and Apprentice Tailors, the Master and Apprentice Butchers, the Master and Apprentice Builders, the Apprentice Barbers, the Apprentice Smiths, and the Master Saddlers, went in procession to their respective Arbours on Kings- land, where the Masters were visited by the Mayor and Body Corporate, & c. according- to the ancient custom.— Tbe day was peculiarly favourable; and the assemblage of persons at King- stand was almost unparalleled.— It beina: the Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, several Medals were exhibited by individuals who had fought on that memorable day: and the toast of the Duke of Wellington and the Army was given at the several Arbours, & c. with due honours. COALITION SNUFF !— Among the curiosities of the day,- We may notice the following: it actually fonns part of a genuine Advertisement in a London Paper, from which we extract it. The snuff is called < c Easterby & Co's Canning Mixture and, iu their address to the public*- those redoubtable personages say— "' Deeply sensible of tbe important, advantages sometimes derivable from a judiciouSadmixture and union of substances of dissimilar and even opposite qualities, lately and so skilfully demonstrated by the great Political Alchymist, they beg leave to inform their numerous friendsaud the public, that, in hum- ble imitation of iliitf grelit rrian, they have, after numerous trials and unparalleled exertions' for three weeks past, suc- ceeded in forming an agreeable unrbn of snuffs Of heterogeneous qualities, which, so far as vegetable may be compared with animal substances, and small things with" great, b'ears a com- plete resemblance to the present Administration-, and is there- fore called after the arch- archS tect Of this wonder- stirring, and to- be- wonderworking body, " the Canning Mix- tore." Here the Sweet is, combined with the Sour, the Black with the Brown, the Home with the Foreign, the pure with the mixed, ( King's Mixture), the coarse with the fine, the mild with fhe pungent. Sainted with the Unsainted,* and last, but nSt least, the English Gentleman with tbe Irish Black'gukrd. The essential and adventitious flavour of each beihg, by a powerful menstruum, so subdued and modified as to render it capable of combining in the formation of an agreeable sneese- excitiny WHOLE."!!! * Read Scented and Unscented. CORN BILL.— The defeat of this measure by tiie Duke of Wellington has been the cause of an advance in the price ol Wheat in our own and all the other Markets in the. kingdom.— If the measure had been passed as introduced by Ministers, there can be no doubt that, such would have been the panic among the agricultural body, grain would, before this, have fallen in price still more rapidly than it has risen The defeat of Ministers by Mis Grace has not rendered him very popular among the corn- merchants and those branches connected with the importation of foreign grain ; but there need be no hesitation in saying, however unpleasant it may be to witness a rapid advance in the price of brcad- corn, that if the Bill as proposed by Ministers had passed, it would have been impossible for the agricultural interest to preserve their proper place in society— and we need scarcely add, that the consequence to the tradesmen and mechanics of inland towns, ( whose means of support, although in some cases circuitonsly brought to their hand, are derived from the lauded and farming interests,) would have been irreparable aud ruinous. We are happy to state that John Phillips, Esq. of Haubury Hall, Worcestershire, has, with his usual liberality, returned his Shropshire tenantry . t' 5 per cent, out of their current year's rent, in considera- tion of the scantiness of the last harvest. We understand the mare lately stolen from Mr. Dolphin, of All Stretton, was recovered by the un- wearied and praiseworthy exertions of a gent leman in Bridgnorth, who, on a moderate calculation, travelled 300 miles in pursuit of her.— Edward Pinches, who was apprehended on the charge of stealing the mare, stands committed to our county prison, as mentioned in our last, in order to take his trial at the next Assizes. The great number of horses lately stolen in this and the neighbouring counties loudly calls for every exertion to check the growing evil; and a correspondent recommends persons to make an exact entry of the colour, age, height, See. of their horses, as, from wrong descrip- tions being published, many stolen horses have not been recovered : it may not be amiss, also, to have a letter or two stamped by the blacksmith on horses' shoes. In the night of Sunday last, John Pratt and John Jones, two prisoners confined in onr County Gaol for housebreaking, contrived to make their escape. They were confined in separate but adjoining cells in the upper range close to the roof of the prison and having broken through tho top of their cells and got on the roof, they let themselves down to the outer court with sheets and blankets which they had tied together for that purpose, and by the same means scaled the outer wall. These operations must have occupied the intervals of the watchman going his round, which he did every half hour.— Their escape was soon discovered; and tbe Gaoler set every means in operation for their capture. Pratt was, in consequence, taken at Wombridge yesterday, and has been re- conveyed to the Prison; and we have no doubt that Jones will also be very soon in custody. The favourite racer, Rhapsody, the property of Ralph Benson, Esq. died at Bromfield ou Tuesday last. At Newton Races, on Wednesday, the Gold Cup, value 100 sov. added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sov. each, was won by Mr. Nowell's Longwaist, beating Grenadier: ten paid.— At the same Races, on Friday, the Hunters' Stakes was won by Sir W. Wynne's Antiope, beating Oliver Snape and Sportsman. ^ IX Young Gentlemen are Boarded and 1 ^ Educated in the Classics, Mathematics, French, Drawing, Geography, Book- keeping, & c. & c. for 30 Guineas per Annum. No extra Charges, except for French and Drawing. Six Young Ladies are also Boarded and Instructed in French, Music, Geography, the Use of the Globes, ( Writing and Arithmetic by a Master,) and Needle- work, for 25 Guineas per Annum. No Extras. The Object aimed at by tl. e Conductor of this small Establishment is to unite the Advantages of School with the Comforts of Home. DAY SCHOLARS. YOUNG GENTLEMEN. per Quarter. per " Quarter. Classical & Commercial Educatron 1 1 Commercial Education, 1st Ciass 0 15 Ditlo Ditto, 2d Class 0 0 No Entrance. YOUNG LADIES. French, Music, Geography, Writ- ing, A rithinetic, & Needle- work 2 2 French, Geography, Writing, and Needle- work.....*, 1 1 English Ditto Ditto 0 15 0^ No Entrance. Impediments in Speech corrected. Private Instructions during the Vacation and every Evening from Six to Eight. Satisfactory References can be given, if required. T. E. JONKS respectfully invites Parents and Guardi- ans frequently to visit his Schools, which will Ue- open on the 17th of July, 1827. SHREWSBURY, 12TH JUNE, 1827. Bear's Grease; Rowland's Kalydor, and Macassar Oil ; Prince's Russia Oil ; Variety of Combs and Brushes of the first Quality ; WiunVOriental Extract, Farina, Eau de Cologne; Arquehusade from Fabre and Bouet, Lausanne; a Selection of English and Foreign Toys just imported; Fancy Soaps in great Variety; White and Brown Windsor, from Is. 4d. to 3s. 6d. per lb.; Fillets which retain their Curl, worthy tin- Notice of his Country Friends; also his Aromatic Oil for the Growth of* Hair, which ( being composed of innocent Ingredients) is confidently recommended for the Nursery. Also, handsome Scree ns, Handles, and Bellows, Painted and for Paint- ing; various Chess Men and Boards; Backgammon Tables, Bagatelle Ditto, Writing Desks, Playing Cards, with st great Variety of Fancy Articles ;* fine Sponge and Bags, & c. & c. Gentlemen" s Hair arranged a VAdonis. J. C. N. with Gratitude returns Thanks for past Favours. DAVIS & CO.' S Patent Self- r/ cnpratint/ Oil Gas Lamp,. TO BURN WITHOUT ANY WICK. ScDoot at fBorcton fgoitse, ABOUT SEVEN MILES FROM WHITCHURCH AND TilRER FROM DRAYTON, SALOP. MR. FOX ( late of Hawkstone, formerly Assistant inthe School of the late M r ELAVPL, of Cleoburv Mortimer), BOARDS and EDUCATES YOUNG GENTLEMEN in English, Mathematical, and Commercial Learning. Particulars may be known by Letter addressed as above. Tile lliiuse is large and airy ; the Soil and Country dry and very healthy. N. B. Pupils may enter on the 9th July next. TEN G'CJIMEAS EBWA1B. HORSE~ STOLEN, From a Field at Colon Ilill, near Shrewsbury, last Night, 4 DARK- BAY GELDING, Four t\ Years old, 14 Hands 3 Inches high, with Black f. efl- s, Sijuill W!.; i„ M. t. „„ it. o r., r<- l.>-<. tl, cm Tall and carries it well ; lias a ro| nd close. made Carcase and rather light Bone; he is considered a handsome Hack, and he mav be easily identified, having a small Speck in the Middle of the uear Eye. The Horse was shewn in Shrewsbury Fair yesterday, and several Dealers offered Money for liiin. Whoever will apprehend the Offender or Offenders, so that he or they mar be convicted, shall receive the above Reward from Mr. S. t. Munt IIAYWARD, Police- Officer, Shrewsbury. JUNE 14TII, 18- 27. npilts LAMP is constructed on a Philo- fl sophical Principle, entirely new, aud is the Production of Oil Gas in its purest State, on a small Scale, ond will he found decidedly superior to any Thing of the Kind ever vet invented. Price Is 6d. each - Sold by ROBERT WILDING, Grocer, kc. Market- Place, Shrewsbury, nnd one respectable Agent in every Town in the Kingdom. Important to Travellers. rgMIE New Line of Posting Road from A SHREWSBURY to CHESTER through WEM and WHITCHURCH, having met with the decided Preference of several Gentlemen who have lately Travelled in that Direction, the Innkeepers on " tbe Road feel themselves called upon to state the superior Ad vantao- es w h ieh Ihis Route presents to the Travelling Part ofthe Community. By the New Line all Hills are avoided, and nearly Two Miles saved in tbe Distance— such Parts of the Road ns remain in the Old Direction, have undergone- a thorough Repair; and as no Increase lias taken place ill the Ratp of Tolls, the Expense of the Gates ou the New Line is only one Half of the Expense of the Gates on Ihe olher Road, which is a further Induce- ment for its Adoption. With these Ad vantages, the undersigned Tnukeepere, relying on the Support of the Public, pledge them- selves to Post with Promptness and Expedition not to be surpassed 011 any Road in the Country. ( Signed,) T. GRIFFITHS, White Horse Inn, Wem. HONOR JONES, White Lion, Whitchurch. R. BOURNE, Egerton Arms, Broxton. Note — From Salop to Manchester, through Weill, Whitchurch, and Nantwicll, is only 65 Miles. TEN POUNDS REWARD. Stolen or Strayed, Late on Sunday Night, or early 011 Monday Morning, the 11th Instant, out ofa Field at Norton Wood, belonging to Mr. ROBERT NEVETT; ALARGE Half- bred BROWN MARE, 8 Years old, stands 1( 5 Hands high, blemished oil the near hind Leg betwixt Ihe Gammon and Fetlock, and has a small White Mark on the off hind Leg : — Whoever will give Information of the Offender or Offenders, if Stolen, shall ( on Conviction) receive the above REWARD of TEN POUNDS from Mr. ROBERT NF. VETT, of Norton Wood; and if Strayed, whoever will return the said Ware, shall be hand- somely rewarded for their Trouble. JUNE 11TH, 1S27. TEN SOVEREIGNS REWARD. Carriage Horses duct HTcive* TO 3E SOLD, TOGETHER OR SEPARATE, AHANDSOME Pair of DARK- BROWN CARRIAGE HORSES, 6 and 7 Years old, in the highest Condition, with good Bone aud Action, warranted sound, and steady in Harness. Also, an excellent Gig or Car MARE, 7 Years old. ( C?" Apply to Mr. RICHARDS, Veterinary Surgeon. Dogpole, Salop. E, the undersigned Proprietors, of the 1 SHREWSBURY' WATER- WORKS COM- PANY, do hereliv give NOTICE, that the FI ItST GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the said Company, for carrying into Eirecution an Act of Parliament passed Ihe 14th Day of June, 18- 27, for supplying with Water the Town aud Suburbs of Shrewsbury, will be held in the Guildhall, in Shrewsbury, on MONDAY, the 2d Day of July, 1827, being the'Third Monday after the passing of the said Act, nt the Hour of 12' at N- 0011 ; when and where all Proprietors are by themselves or Proxies to attend. WM. BRAYNE, SAML. IIARLEY. BIltTH. On the 12th inst. at Chetwynd House, in this county, the residence of her father, the Lady of William Owen Jackson, of Long Ashton, Somersetshire, Esquire, Barrister- at- Law, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Tuesday, the 19th iust. at Wistanstow,. by the Rev. C. Swaiiison, Mr. Uinliard Marston, chemist, of Ludlow, second son of Mr. John Mars- ton, of /\ ston, to Mary, tlie second daughter of Mr. Jiflni Marston, of Afcott, in this county. On Monday last, at St. Julian's, Mr. Iteacnck, grocer, of Scarborough, to Aune, youngest Daughter of M r. Thomas, of the Wj le Cop, in Ibis town. On Thursday last, at Montford, bv tlie Kev, E. J. Wingfield, Mi-. T. C. Atcherley, of Asilev Abbots, eldest son of W. Alcherley, Gent, of Severn Cottage, near Ihis town, to Miss Mary Matthews, daughter of Mr. Stephen Matthews, of Montford. On the 12( 11 iust. at Bishop's Castle, Mr. John Norton, butcher, to Miss Beddoes, of the Three Tuns Inn, in the same place. DIED. Yesterday morning, John, the infant son of Mr. William Lloyd Hurley, of Sibberscotl. Oo Friday last, without any previous illness, Mrs. Price, wife of Mr. Price, of Meadow Place, in this town. WAJLES. MAR HI ED. At Wrexham, on the 12th inst. Mr. R. Wilcock, of London., to Miss E. Lonsdale, of Wrexham. Ou the 12th inst. at Bangor, Owen Griffiths, Esq. Try fan, near Carnarvon, to Ann, eldest daughter of William Price, Esq. of Eriannell, Isle of Anglesea. DIED. On the llth inst. universally respected, Mr. Ililditcb, postmaster, Denbigh, aged 66 years. Aged 76 years, Mrs. Hughes, relict of Mr. William Hughes, of Bwlch Gwyn, Merionethshire. On the 30th nit. Mr" John Key nor, of Sydd in, in the parish of Liangendeirue, Carmarthenshire, at the advanced age of 101. Ou the 8th inst. Mrs. Jane Edwards, of Llanbadarn- faw r, near A be rv stw ith. TURNIPS AND POTATOES.— The fly havingalready begun its ravages among the turnips, it may not be amiss to remind our agricultural friends, that in consequence of that insect having destroyed the turnips sown on 2A. 2R. 24P.< of land, on the estate of Sir Robert Williarnes Vaughan, Bart. M. P. at Nannau, in the county of Merioneth, potatoes were planted on the rows, 18 inches apart, on the 28th of June, 1826, from which eight hundred and fifty- eight bushels of fine potatoes were taken up in the first week of October last. ESCAPED, FROM SALOP COUNTY GAOL, In tbe Night of June 17, 1827 ; JOHN JON ES, aged 18, horn at Clun, a Deserter from the 23d Regiment of Foot, stands I'tve Feet Ten Inches and Three Quarters high, Brown Hair, Hazel Eyes, Pug Nose, a Cut on the Right Cheek ; stammers when speaking; had ou only Ihe Prison Shirt, Stockings, and Yellow Breeches.— He is well known at Cluu aud Leebotwood, audi their Vicinities. Whoever will apprehend the said John Jones, and lodge him in any of his Majesty's Gaols, shall receive the above Reward. ~ KI&! EHS1F1T MEIB& lbUDo SHREWSBURY. In our Market, on Saturday last, the price of Hides was per lb.— Calf Skins 5d.— Tallow 3* d. f. d. s. ( I. Wheat, 38 quarts 10 3 to 10 9 Bailey, 38 quarts 0 0 to 0 0 Oats ( Feed) 57 quart* 7 6 to 9 0 CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 18. Although there was a good supply of Wheat this morning, the trade was brisk at an advance of full as. per quarter on the prices of last xMonday, 72s. and 73s. having been obtained for fine samples, and there is every appearance ofa further augmentation, in conse- quence of the defeat of the new Corn Bill in the House of Lords, by the success of the Duke of Wellington's opposition to it, which will prevent the liberation of a large quantity of bonded Wheat, upon which the millers sanguinely depended. Barley, Beans, and Pease, are full 2s. per quarter dearer, and expected to be much higher on account of the great scarcity of the above articles. The immense arrival of foreign Oats during last week, which is daily augmenting, had so depressed the trade, that sales were with difficulty effected at au abatement of full 2s. per quarter. The advance of 5s. per sack on Flour, which took place on Wednesday, when the fate of the Corn Bill was known, has been firmly established to- day, by the briskness in the demand at the advanced price. Current Price of Grain per Quarter, asunder : TO SLATERS. ANY Persons desirous of Contracting for' SLATING a Part of the ROOFof ihe COUNTY GAOL, with best Carnarvonshire Slates, are requested to transmit Proposals to the Office or the Clerk of the Peace, at. the Shirehall, Shrewsbury, sealed up, and endorsed " Proposals for Slating the County Gaol " on or before Saturday, the 7th of July next. A Specification of ihe Work may be seen on Appli. cation to the Clerk of ( be Pence; or to the Coumr Surveyor, Canal Office, Ellesmere. LOXDALE, C. P. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. ALL Persons who stand indebted tothe Estate lale of Mr. PARRY, Solicitor, BRIDG- NORTH, deceased, are requested to pay Ibe Amount of their respective Debts to Mrs. ANN PHILLIPS of Astley Abbotts, near Bridgnorth aforesaid, ihe sole Executrix of and in his Will ; and all Persons having Claims against the said Estate, are desired to send in their Accounts to the said Mrs. Ann Phillips, in order lhat ihe same may he examined and discharged. Astley Abbotts, June 15th, 1827. 1\ TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that LN the PARTNERSHIP heretofore carried on by ns the undersigned CHARLES LUMLEY and U ll LI A M SMITH, with THOMAS AMPHLETT , I Brick and Tile Makers, at BROSEI. RY, in the Conntv of [ Salop, is this Day DISSOLVED as far as regard's ( lie said Thomas Amphlett. All Debts due lo and from the said Copartnership Concern will be received and paid by the said Charles Linnlev. Daled tins nineteenth Day of June, oue thousand eight hundred aud twenty- seven. CHARLES LUMLEY WILLIAM SMITH. Witness— CHAS. C. JOKES. Wheat.... Barley Mall." cn « to 73s 44s to 50* fiOs to 68s White Peas.. Beans... Oats 48. to 50. 48s to 52s 30s lo 34s Fine Flour 50s lo 55a per sack ; Seconds 45s to 50s SMITH FIELD fperst. of Sib. si, iking ofTal). Reef 4 » 6d lo 5 « 6d 1 Veal 5s lid to 5s 8d 4s ( id to os Oil I Pork 5s Od to 5t 4d Lamb 5s 4d to ( is 4d Average Prices of Corn per Quarter, in England and IVales, for the week ending June 8, 1827: Wheat, 57s. lid.; Barley, 40s. ( jd.; Oals, 28s. 8d. At our Fair on Tuesday aud Wednesday last, Fat Sheep averaged fid. per lb.— Strong Store Pigs rather advanced in price, but others sold at about the prices of late Fairs.— Fat Cattle sold at from fid. to 6^ d. peril).— Best Cheese fetched from 60s. to 70s. and inferior according lo quality.— Hams 9d. and Bacoa Sd. per lb. Wildmoor Inclosnre and Drainage. J GEORGE BISHTON, of NEACHLEY . A. in the County of Salop, Gentleman, the Commis- sioner appointed by Virtue of no Act of Parliament passed iu ibe Forty- first Year of Ihe Reign of his late Majesty, intituled " Au Act for dividing, allotting " inclosing, draining, and improving several Common " Moors, called Sydney Moor, Small Moor, Rodwa* " Moor, Waters Upton Moor, and other Commons anil " Waste Lands within the several Parishes of Wrock- " wardine, Eyton, K. vntversley, and Waters Upton iii " the County of Salop, and within the several Town, " ships of Crudgington and Sleap, in the Parish of " High Ercall otherwise Ercall Magna, in i| le same- " County," Do hereby give NOTICE, that I shall attend at the Dwelling House of William Taylor known ns the Hay Gate Inn, in the Pnrisli of Welling! ton, in the County of Salop, on Friday, the 29th Day of June instant, at Ten o'Cloek in' the Forenoon further to investigate the Rights of the Parties con! necteil with the Diversion of the Winter from Bralton Brook for the Purposes of Irrigation; when aud where all Parties interested are desired fo attend me by themselves or their Agents, to produce Evidence concerning the same. And I further give NOTICE that I shall, at die same Time and Place, proceed further in the Execution of Ihe Authorities committed lo mv Charge by the said Act of Parliament, prior lo making my Award. Dated this 9th Day of June, 1827. GEO. BISIIT0N. t SALOPIAN JOUKNAL, AMD COURIER OF WALES. Gogerddan Arms AND LION HOTEL, ABERYSTWITH. A. P. D'AVIES " OST respectfully informs Commercial _ Gentlemen, Annual Visitors, and the Public, that having succeeded his late Father in the above old- established House, he presumes to solicit a Conti- nuance of the Patronage so liberally experienced by liis deceased Parent, and trusts that his Exertions and Endeavours to promote the . Comfort of his Visitors, added to the expensive Improvement lately made by him in the Interior of the House, will be found to merit that Support it will ever be his most anxious Wish to prove himself deserving of. A. P. I), in Addition to the old Stock, has laid in an Assortment of choice Wines and Spirits. Neat Post Chaises, able Horses, and careful Drivers. — Lock- up Coach Houses for Gentlemen's Private Car- riages ; and Coaches to and from Shrewsbury every Monday, Thursday, and Friday. ^ aieg Dp auction. THE CRESCENT. VA f. CAB LB GKNTBEL FREEHOLD HOUSES, & o. SHREWSBURY. P. Y MRTPERRY, ( Uulessan acceptable Oiler is made previously for the whole or any Part thereof), at the Raven and Bell Inn, Shrewsbury, on Thursday, the 5th July, 1827 ; rpilE following GENTEEL HOUSES, SL with COACH- HOUSES, STABLES, GAR- DENS, See. & c. & c.: — LOT I. All that capital FREEHOLD MESSUAGE, being at the West End of the CRESCENT, with the Garden, Coach- house, and Stable, in the Occupation fcf William Gittins, Esq.; also a Stable adjoining, in the Occupation of Mr. Clarke. LOT II. All that capital FREEHOLD M ESSTJAGE, beiog next adjoining Lot 1, with ihe Garden, Coach- house, and Stable, now in the Occupation of Mrs. Beott. Lots 1 nnd 2 are held from Year to Year. Each of the Houses contains excellent Drawing Room, Dining Parlour, Breakfast Room, Study, appro- priate best and secondary Bed Chambers, Butler's Pantry, Housekeeper's Room and Offices, with excellent Wine and Beer Cellaring. LOT III. All that capital FREEHOLD MESSU- AGE, being at the East End of the CRESCENT, with the Gardens, Hothouse, Vinery, Coach- house, Stable, and TWO DWELLING HOUSES, containing by Admeasurement 2 Roods and 8 Perches ( more or less), in the Occupation of the Rev. John Rocke or Lis Tenants, Miss Kinaston and others. Lot 3 is to he sold subject to a Lease for the Term of 64 Years from Lady- Day, 1827. LOT IV. All those THREE excellent FREEHOLD GARDENS, situate in ST. JULIAN'S FRIARS, Shrewsbury, in the several Occupations of Mr. Tibnam, Mr. Harris, and the Widow Dodson. These Gardens are very desirable, on Account of their immediate Contiguity, productive Vegetation, nnd are eligible as a Building Site. F° R farther Particulars apply to Mr. WILLIAM JEFFREYS, Shrewsbury, or Mr. PERRY. BY MR. PERRY, At the Unicorn Inn, Shrewsbury, ou Wednesday, ibe llih Day of July, 1827, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, ( unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which due Notice will he given,) in the following-, or such other Lots as shall be agreed upon at the Time of Sale, subject lo Conditions : A LL that modern and elegantly- built J\ MESSUAGE, delightfully situate on IheSoiilh Side of tbe ABBEY FOREGATE, including tbe Garden, Coach. House, and Stable, subject to tbe I. ease thereof. And all those SIXTEEN several GARDENS, adjoining the Road leading from Shrewsbury to Sutton, in the Parish of Saint Julian, Shrewsbury, containing together !> y Admeasurement 1A. 3W. 14I> be the same more or less, occupied by respectable Tenants nt Will, nnd who are under Notice to ( juit the same at Candlemas- Day next. I. OT I. All those FOUR Several GARDENS, in the Occupations of John Bright, John Pugh, and Richard I. l. oyd, numbered in the Plan thereof 13, 14, 15, and lti, aud containing ' 2067 Square Yards. Laud- Tax 2s. ( id. LOT II. All those FOUR several GARDENS, in the Occupations of Richard Cash, John Giltoes, John Jordan, and John Penn, numbered in tbe Plan there- of 9, K>, 11, anil 12, aud containing 2085 Square Yards. Land- Tax 2s. fid. LOT III. All those FOUR several GARDENS, in the Occupations of John Roberts, Richard Bromley, John Cash, and Henry Glover, numbered in the Plan thereof 5,0, 7, and 8, aud containing 2211 Square Yards. Land. Tax 2s. fid. Lor IV. All Ihose FOUR several GARDENS, in the Occupations of James Burrows, John Penn, and William Broome, numbered on the Plan thereof 1, 2, 3, and 4, and containing 2274 Square Yards. Laud- Tax 2s. ( id. Timber £ 2. 8s. The foregoing Lots will be subject to a Road of 15 Feet in Width on the North Side of the same, and Ihe Purchasers to Fence as specified in the Plan thereof. These Gardens are on the South Side of Shrews- bury, within the Voting Liberties, and, from their < ' ontiguity to the Town and Command of Prospect, afford good Siles for Building; and are all situ- ate within a Quarter of a Mile from that excellent Water called Sutton Spa. LOT V. All that capital modern. bnilt MF. SSUAGE, with the Garden, Coach. House, and S'lable thereto belonging, containing together Two Roods and Thirty- Six Perches, be the same more or less, situate on the South Side of the ABBEY FORKGATB, near the Town of Shrewsbury, commanding- Views of most pictur. esqae and beautiful Scenery, with the Advantage ofa Siream of excellent Water'flow ing at the Foot of tbe Garden. These most eligible Premises are in the Occu- pation of John Williams, Esq. under an Assign- ment of a Lease thereof for an unexpired Term of 7( 1 Years from Lady- Day, 1827, at a Ground- Rent of £ 2 per Annum, and under a Covenant lo maintain and keep, and nt the Expiration of the said Term to leave, the entire Buildings, Fix- tures, anil Premises in good Repair. Further Particulars may be obtained on Application to Messrs. DCKP. 3 and S, U, T, Attornies, Shrewsbury, at whose Office Maps of the Properly, as allotted for Sale, may he inspected. Capital JVeifi Implements, AT THE MARKET- HOUSE, SHREWSBURY. ^ alejs auction. BY TUDORITTAWRENCE, At the Fox Inn, Shrewsbury, on Tuesday, the 26th Day of June, 1827, at the Hour of Five in the Afternoon, subject to such Conditions as shall be then produced : rgHHE MANOR, or reputed Manor of I PULLEY, in the Parish of SAINT JULIAN, in the Liberties of SHREWSBURY, together with the Chief- Rents pavable thereout. Also, sundrv Free- hold COTTAGES and LANDS, situate on PULLEY COMMON, near Shrewsbury, and the Tithes arising therefrom. The Land- Tax is redeemed, and the Situation desirable for Building. For further Particulars apply to Mr. RECK, or Mr. EATON, at the Shrewsbury Bank; Mr. WILLIAM PRITCHARD, Cotton Hill; or Mr. JOHN LOXDALE, Solicitor, Salop, with each of whom a Plan of the Estate mav be seen. MESSRS. TUDOR SC LAWRENCE UESPECTFU llY beg Leave to announce to ' the Public, that they have had consigned to them a large Quantity of FOREIGN WINES, in ForI, Sherry, Madeira, Bu eel I as, being Part of a late Stock of a Foreign House dissolv- ing Partnership, and which will be SOLD BY AUCTION, At the Great Room at the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury, on Thursday, the 28th Day of June, 1827, at five o'Clock in the Afternoon, in Lots of Two and Three Dozen each. This Part of the Stock consists of 54 Dozen of old Port, of particularly ripe and fine Quality, having been in Bond three Years previous to Bottling; 21 Dozen of fine old crusted Port ; 15 Dozen of fine old and pale Sherry ; 15 Dozen of old brown Sherry ; 10 Dozen of very fine old London particular Madeira; 6 Dozen of fine Bucellas ; and 12 Dozen of fine pale Cape Madeira ; Samples of which will be produced at the Time of Sale. DAY OF SALE ALTERED. MONTGOMERYSHIRE. LUIDLOW KA'CES, July 18 and 19,. 1827. RALPH BENSON, ESQ. M. P. STEWARD. First Day, in the Morning, rflHE LUDFORD STAKES of Ten . M. Sovereigns each, for llorsesof all Ages. Three- years old Gst. 71b. four 8st. five 8st. Hlb. six and aged 9st.; once round and tlie Distance; Mares and Geld- ings allowed 31b. The Stakes to. close on May Ist ; the Horses to he named on the Day of Entry tor Ludlow Races ( to ihe Clerk of the Races) between the Honrs of Entry ; any Horse that ever won the Ludford Stakes lo carry 71b. extra. Mr. Lechmere Charlton Mr. Lechmere Charlton Mr. Mytton Lord Olive lion. R. il. Clive Mr. T. W. Giffard M r. Benson Mr. Yates Sir George Pigot Mr. Beardsworlh. By Messrs. TUDOR & LAWRENCE, At the Cross Keys Inn, in Oswestry, on Wednes- day, the 4th . Day of July, 1827, at Four o'Clock in the Evening, subject to Conditions then and there to be produced ; HHHE following- valuable FREEHOLD I PROPERTY, situate in the Parishes of Meifod, Llanrhaiadr. yn- Mocbnant, Llangynog, Hirnant, and Pennant, iu the said County : Parish of Meifod. LOT I. NANTYM EICHI AD HALL, in the Holding of Evan Davies, with several beautiful Coppices of thriving Timber thereon, and containing of Arable, Pasture, and Meadow Land, 159A. 2R. 2 « P. Parish of Llanrhaiadr. LOT IL CoEDYcrAWDD UCHAF, in the Holding of Rhees Davies, containing 82A. 2R. I4P. LOT III. COEDYCLAVVDD ISAF, in the Holding of Thomas Da vies, containing ( 32A. 3R. 12P. Both these Lots are within a Ring Fence, situate on a sloping South Aspect, with fine Coppices of young Timber, being a very desirable Situa- tion for a genteel Residence. LOT IV. BVVLCIIYGRAIG, in the. Holding of Thomas Roberts, containing 45A. 1 R. OP. This is at a convenient Distance from Lots 2 and 3. LOT V. TY- CERRIG, i- n the Holding of Thomas Morris, containing 95A. 1R. 34P. LOT VI. BLAKNYCWM, in the Holding of David Jones, and in Lease for his Life, aged about 60, containing 86A. OR. 3P. LOT VII. RHYDYPWLLE, in the Holding of Sarah Bowen, near Lot 6, containing 4A. 2R. 10P. LOT VIII. Two QUILLETS, in the Holding of Evan Edwards, near Glanhafon. Parish of llirnant. LOT IX. CVVMWR UCHAF, in the Holding of Robert Jones, containing 73A. OR. 12P. LOTX. TY- YN. Y- NANT, in the Holding of the said RoOerr Jmrr-=., continuing- 7 A-. 2R. 2P. LOT XI. BWLCH UCHAF, in the Holding of John Morris, containing 39A. 1 R. 27P. Parish of Llangynog. LOT XII. NEW INN PUBLIC HOUSE, in the Holding of Evan Edwards, ami Lands attached. LOT XIII. TY- MAWR, in the Holding of Thomas James, containing 90A. OR. OP. LOT XIV. TUB GRIBIN, in the Holding of Edward Theodore, containing 30A. OR. OP. LOT XV. PUNCRAIO, in the Holding of Thomas Hughes. LOT XVI. A FULLING MILL and LAND, in the Holding of Thomas Allen. Parish of Pennant. LOT XVII. HENGEFN, a Cottage and Crofts, in t. be Holding of David Thomas, aged about 65, who has a Lease for his Life. LOT XVIII. PENIARTH UCIIAF, in the Holding of Evan Evans, containing 94A. OR. 6P. LOT XIX. PENIARTH ISAF, in the Holding of the Rev. John Jones, containing 53A. 2R. 23P. These two Lots are within a Ring Fence, the Situation delightful, and the Grounds very de- sirable to build a genteel Residence thereon, commanding an extensive and picturesque View along the Vale of Tannat, where the Angler always finds Amusement. There are smal l Chief Rents payable to the Lord of the Manor for the above Farms, and some other Out- goings, which will he explained on the Day of Sale. The Timber and Coppices will be expected to be taken at a Valuation to be produced. There is every Reason to believe that there are Slates and Lead Ore upon the Estate. The Farms are well stocked with Game, have a Right of Common on the adjoining Hills, are very near good Turnpike Roads, and at a convenient Distance from Lime and Coal, with three good Market Towns within Reach. Mr. EVAN EDWARDS, of the New Inn, Llangynog, and the Tenants, will shew the respective Farms. Any further Particulars may be known by Application to Mr. HENRY RUMSEY WILLIAMS, Solicitor, Carnar von, at whose Office Maps may be seen. MAY 8, 1827. A SWEEPSTAKES of Fifty Sovereigns each, h. ft. for Colts and Fillies three Years old ; about a Mile and Quarter; Colts 8st. 5lb.; Tillies Sst. 2lb. To close May 1st, 1827. Five Subscribers or no Race. Mr. Benson's eh. c. Euclid, by Wrangler, Dam by Cheshire Cheese, Grand- dam by Alexander Mr. L. Charlton's ch. c. Consiantine, by Comus, out of Canvas's Dam Mr. Mytton's br. c. Ellesmere, by Filh o da Puta— Miss Cragie Mr. Giffard's b. c. Tatler, by Manfred, out of Gossip Mr,. Griffiths's b. c. Prestbury, by Rubens Mr. Salwey names b. c. Lorraine, by Mountebank Lord Grosvenor's b. f. Burlesque, by Blucher — Banshee; A SWEEPSTAKES of Fifty Sovereigns each, h. ft. for four Years old; about a Mile and a Half; Colts Sst. 71b.; Mares 8st. 4lb. To close May 1st, 1S27. Four Subscribers or no Race. Mr. Benson's ch. m. Rhapsody, by Woful Mr. Mytton's br. c. Fisherman, by Bustard Mr. GiffardVch. c. Leviathan, by Muley Mr. Griffilhs's b. c. Harry, by Sir Harry Mr. Salwey names b. c. Chesterfield, by Milo Mr. Yates's b. c. Paul Pry, by Paulowitz. In the Evening, A CAVALRY STAKES of Five Sovereigns each, to which will be added a Cup of Twenty- one Sovereigns Value, given by the Hon. Viscount CLIVF, for Horses, Mares, and Geldings ( not being thorough, bred), the Property of Officers, Quarter Masters, Non- commis. sioned Officers, and Privates, belonging to the South Shropshire Regiment of Cavalry ; the best of three two- mile . Heats; to have never started for Plate, Match, or Sweepstakes previous to the Day of Entry for Ludlow Races ( except for the Cavalry Stakes " at LVldlow., and not won it) ; to have been the Property of a Subscriber Six Months previous to the Day of En tra ij.^ e ' ljor Lud low Races, and to have been ridden in the' Sank Six Days of Exercise with the Troop in those Six Months; providing Six Days of Exercise with thb Troop happen in that Time. To be entered in the Name of the Proprietor, and a Certificate must be produced, signed by the Serjeant- Major, to certify / that the Horse entered to run has attended at all the Field Days that have happened within the Six Monthsj- and has ; l> een ridden in fhe Ranks On those Days, unless the Horse be unwell at that Time, and in that Case a Certificate must be produced, signed by the Veterinary Surgeon, stating the Horse, to be unfit for Duty. Three- years old to carry lOst. four lOst. 101b. five list. 61b. six atid aged Tist,; to be ridden by Members of the Yeomanry. The Stakes to close the Day of Entrance for Ludlow Races; and the Winner to be sold for Seventy Sovereigns, if demand- ed, the Owner of the second Horse to be first entitled. The Yeomanry Committee will decide on the Quali- fications of the Horses, respecting their being Half- bred. To pay Two Guineas and a Half Entrance for the Plates,. and Half- a- Guinea to the Clerk ; Weights and Scales gratis. To pay Five Shillings each for the Riders ( or the Stakes, and Winner of Plate or Stake One Guinea, as usual. To enter at the Feathers Inn, in Ludlow, on Mon- day preceding the Races, between the Hours of Four and Seven> or pay double at the Post, which must be before Twelve o'Clock on the Day of Running. No Person to erect a Booth., or sell any. Liquor, who does not on the Day of Entrance subscribe Half- a- Gninea, and pay all Arrears. No Horse will be allowed to start, unless all Arrears at Bridgnorth, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ludlow, are paid up. All other Particulars, Rules, and Regulations what- ever, as usual. B. HICKMAN, Clerk ofthe Races. Sale at Attingham Ball, NEAR SHREWSBURY. Mr. ROBINS, of Warwick House, Regent Street, London, informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that the Sale of the Furniture and Effects of this Mansion, will commence on Monday • fhe. 30ih of . July, and be proceeded with as announced by the Advertisement ; and that the Report which has been circulated that it would be Postponed, - is e ntirely without any Foundation or Authority whatever.— Catalogues are on the Premises, at Ten Shillings each, which will admit Four Persons. 170, Regent Street, Loudon, June 13, 1827. BY MR. SMITH, At the Market llouse, Shrewsbury, precisely at One o'Clock, on Saturday, tbe 23d of June, 1827 ; LOT I. Capital six. inch Wheel Waggon. LOT II. Six- inch Wheel Tumbrel. LOT III. Five- inch Dilto Dilto. LOT IV. Six Wheelbarrows, in Lots. • « • The above can be warranted for seasoned Materials and good Workmanship, FREEHOLD COTTAGES & LAN © } JN LONGDEN COLEIIAM, The Property of Hie Assignee of Mr. WIM- IAM ALSOP, an Insolvent. Valuable Libraries of Boohs. BY MRTOULBERT, ( Without Reserve,) in the Large Room nt the Fox Inn, Shrewsbury, on Monday and Tuesday, the 25th and 2<> lh Days of June, 1827 ; rjHIIE valuable LIBRA RI ES oftiProfes- JL sional Gentleman of Llaufyllin and a Clergyman lately deceased : comprising the most popular Law Books, together with. about Five Hundred Volumes in History, Biography, Divinity, Poetry, Arts and Sciences, Stc.-— including the Reports of Duruford, East, Maule, Selwyn, Barnewall, Alderson, Cress- well, Vernon, Burrow, Cowper, Douglas, See. & c.— Matthew Henry's Exposition of the Bible, 6 Vols.— British Essayists, 45 Vols.— Hogarth's Works— Theo- logical Works of Beveridge, Paley, Romaine, Boston, Owen, Baxter, Gill, Doddridge, Hawker, Edwards, Lightfoot, Col Iyer, & c.— and many other rare and some modern Publications of Merit. Sale to eommcnce at Eleven o'Clock and continue till Two, and be resumed at Six in the Evening of each Day. Catalogues may now he had on Application at THE AUCTIONEER'S Office; aud Ladies and Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commis- sions faithfully executed bv the Auctioneer's Clerk. BY MR. WHITE, On Mondtiv, the 25th Day of June, 1827, at the Unicorn Inn, Shrewsbury, at Five o'clock in the Afternoon, under tbe Authority ofthe Act for Relief of insolvent Debtors, in two Lots, und subject to Conditions ( lieu to be produced ; LOT I. A LI. those THREE substantial Bnck- j\ built COTTAGES, with a Stable and Plot of Ground adjoining, comprising an Area of 550 Square Yards, most desirably situated, and immediately adjoining llie River Severn, into which a Pier bas been built for Ibe Establishment of a Ferry Boat. LOT II. A Plot, of Ground, adjoining Lot 1, contain- ing 604 Square Y'ards, most desirable as a Building Site, nnd immediately adjoining Severn, The above Premises will at all Times command Tenants. For further Particulars apply to Mr. Kot'Gii, Solicitor, Claremont Street; TUB AUCTIONBBR ; or Rlr. HITCHCOCK, Land Surveyor, St. John's Hill. BY MR. BOWEN, At the Queen's Head Inn, in Oswestry, in the County of Salop, on Mondav, the 25th Day of June, 1827, at 6 o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to Conditions; LOT I. ALL those Two newlv- erected Messuages or DWELLING HOUSES, with the Shops, extensive Warehouses, large Yard, and other Appur- tenances thereunto belonging, situate in BAILEY STREET, iu the most eligible and central Part of the Town of Oswestry, now iu the several Occupations of Mr. Weaver, Druggist, and Mr. Owen, Butcher; together with TWO DWELLING HOUSES adjoin- ing, now tenanted by Mrs. Roberts and Ellen Humphreys, and a large W A REHOUSE, now in the Occupation of Mr. Thomas Evans, Grocer. LOT II. A most excellent Piece of LAND, called The Shelve Field, situate within a Quarter of a Mile of the Town of Oswestry aforesaid, containing about five Acres ( be the same more or less), and now in the Occupation of Mr. Richard Richards. For further Particulars apply to Mr. JACKSON, of Pentrevvern, near Oswestry; or at the Office of Mr. PUGH, Solicitor, in Oswestry. A PRODUCE STAKES of Ten Guineas each, h. ft. for 4 Years old ; Colts, Sst. 71b. Fillies and Geldings Pst. 4lb. ; not thorough- bred, & c. Once round and the Distance ; Sixteen Subscribers. Lord Barley's b. f. Spectre, Dam by Sc revet on — bl. c. by Carbon, out of Pol acre, by B. rigliadoro Hon. R. H. Clive's b* c. by Piscator, out of Rocket • — br. e. by Piscator, out. of Gipsy . Mr. Owen's gr. f. by Hit- or- Miss, out of his Grey Mare Mr. J. Haynes's br. or gr. f. by Sam, out of Miss Benson Mr. Syer's ch. c. by Sam, out of- his Mare. A MAIDEN PLATE of £ 70, given by the Members for the Borough of Ludlow, for Horses of all Ages, that never won £ 50 at any one Time either in Plate, Match, or Sweepstakes previous to the Day of En- trance for Ludlow Races; three years old to carry 6st. 12lh. four 8st. five 8st. 91 b. six undated 9st. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. The best of Heats ; twice round, starting at the Chair. Second Day, in the Morning, A SWEEPSTAKES of Twenty- five Sovereigns each, for two. year old Colts 8st. 41b.; Fillies 8st. 2lb.; Haifa Mile. To close May 1st, 1827. Four Subscrib- ers or no Race. Mr. Benson's br. c. Alcaston, b^ Filho da Puta, out of Leviathan's Dam Mr. Mytton's b. c. Haiston, by Banker, Dam Oli- vetta* Mr. L. Charlton's b. f. by Iledley, out of Sorceress M r. Giffard's b. f. Mischief, by Skim, out of Miss Mirth Mr. Sal we v names fa. f. Ma Belle, by Strephon, Dam Petty Pet Mr. Yates's br. c. Boy Blue, Brother to Little Bo- peep, by Paulowitz Mr. Griffiths's b. c. by Master Henry, out of Fanny Leigh Mr. Yates's ch. f. Mermaid, by Merlin, out of Matilda A GOLD CUP, by Subscription of Ten Sovereigns each, with Twenty Sovereigns added, for all Ages ; three Miles. To close and name May 1st. Preston Cup Weights. Mrs. Mytton's ch. g. Euphrates, by Quiz, aged Mr. Benson's ch . c. Euclid, by Wrangler, 3 yrs. Mr. Mytton's br. c. Flexible, by Whalebone, 5 yrs. Mr. Giffard's ch. c. Leviathan, by Muley, 4 yrs. Sir W. W. Wynn's ch . c. Mayfly, by Piscator, 4 yrs. Mr. B. Thompson names b. m. Signorina, by Cham- pion, 5 yrs. Mr. Yates's b. h. Cain, by Paulowitz, 5 yrs. Lord Clive names ch. f. Rhapsody, by Woful, 4 yrs. Hon R. H. Clivc names Ch. c. Cymbeline, by Oc tavian, 5 yrs. Sir T. Wilmington names ch. g. Constantino, by Comns, 3 yrs. Mr. Cuyler names b. c. Paul Pry, by Paulowitz, 4 yrs. Mr. Hallifax names b. f. Garcia, by Octavian, 4 yrs. Mr. Arkwright names b. m. Palatine, by Filho, aged Mr. Salwey names br. m. Arnchne, by Filho, 5 yrs. The OAKLEY PARK STAKES ( for Hunters) of Ten Sovereigns each, h. ft. with Twenty Pounds added, for Half- bred Horses, 12st. each ; once round and the Distance ; Heats; Gentlemen Riders; Certi- ficates of being not thorough- bred, and having regu- larly hunted, to be produced to the Satisfaction of the Steward; To close ar. d name on May Ist., 1827. Hon. R. II. Clive names hi or ro, g. Frieschutz, by Zodiac, aged Mr. L. Charlton names br. g\ by Overseer, 6 yrs; Mr. Mytton's gr. g. by Fitzjatnes, bought of Sir B. Graham Sir W. Wynne's b. m. Antiope ( late Miss Holland), 6 yrs. Mr. Benson's ch. g. Fencer, aged Mr. J. Longdon names b. g. Sir Edward, by Ambo Lord Clive names hi. g. Oliver Snape, by Aladdin, aged Mr. Beale names b. h. Pavilion, by Young Pavilion, aged Mr. D. R. Dansey names 1) 1. ni. Tenbury Liss, by Lismahago, aged Mr. R. B. Price names ch. g. Moses ( lateKangaroo), by Soothsayer, 5 yrs. Mr* Attree names ch. m. Polly Hopkins, aged Mr. Baxter names b. g. Gamecock, by Golumpus, 6 yrs. Mr. Compson names ch. g. Cock Robin, aged Mr. Adams names b. m. Fanny, by Ambo, 6 yrs. Mr. Syer names b. g. Fitzwilliam, aged Mr. Salwey names ch. g. The Tit, itar, by Don Cos- sack, aged Mr. Bayley names b. g. The Counseller, by Cannon Ball or Childe Harold, 6 yrs. Mr. J. M. Richard's b. g. Habberley, by Shuttle- cock, aged Mr. Pic kern eil is a Subscriber, but did not name. Mr. L. Kenyon is a Subscriber, but did not name. In the Evening, The OLD FIELD STAKES of Five Sovereigns each, with Thirty Sovereigns added hy the Members for the Borough, for Horses of all Ages; three- years old to carry 6st. 9U>. fourSst. five 8st. 101b. six and aged 9st. 2* 1 b. ; Mares and Geldings allowed 3.1 b. with the Addition of the Winner of one Plate or Stake this Year to carry 31b. of two 5lb. of three, or a King's Plate, 7lb. extra. The best of Heats— going twice round, starting at the Chair. Subscriptions to close on the 1st of May, and the Horses, & c. to be named on lhe Day of Entrance for the Maiden Plate. Mr. Benson Sir W. W. Wynn Mr. Griffiths Mr. Thompson Mr. Mvtton Mr. B. Thompson Mr. Yates Mr. R. Gabriel. The LUTWYC11E STAKES of Five Sovereigns each, with Twenty Sovereigns added, for Three- year olds, not. thorough- bred, foaled in either of the Cohh, ties of Salop, Hereford, Worcester, Montgomery, Rad- nor, or Denbigh ; Heats, once round and a Distance ; Weights 8st. 4lb. Mares and Geldings allowed 3! b. ; a Winner of any Stake in 1827 to carry 31b. extra. Sub- scriptions to close on the 1st of May, and the Horses to be named to the Clerk of the Races on the Day of Entrance, before five o'Cloek iu the Evening. To produce Qualifications to the Satisfaction of the Steward. The Owner of the second Horse to receive back his Stake. Mr. Benson Mr. Bach Mr. W. Patrick Mr. Moseley Lord Clive Mr. Gwalter Mr. JeffVeys Mr. Salwey Hon. R. 11. Clive Bridgnorth Races o 17| 7If> L be on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, " » the 26th and 2711) Days of July next. For Particulars of the Stakes und Plalcs, see Racing Calendar. THOS. PARDOE PURTON, Esq.. Steward. JOHN WALTOJJ, Clerk of the Races. WiflKnmth, June 18/ 4, 1S27. * A TTINGHA M HA LL, Near Shrewsbury, Salop. MR. ROBINS ( of' Warwick- House, Regent- Street, London) informs the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that By Order of the Right Honourable Lord Berwick, HE WILL SELL BV AUCTION, A/ the Magnificent Mansion, ATTINGHAM HAXX; On Monday, tbe 30th Day of July, 1827, and Fifteen following Days, at Twelve o'Clock precisely ( Saturdays excepted), THE SL'PBRB AKD E I. EG A XT SERVICE OF " ' SILVER AND GILT PLATE, Cellar of Fine Old Wines, Beautiful Damask LINEN, elegant CHINA, rich Cut GLASS, Library of BOOKS and MANUSCRIPTS on Vellum, Globes, Selenographia, tine PAINTINGS by esteemed Masters, particularly a splendid Gallery Picture; superb Sculpture, Model of Mount Vesuvius, Mahogany Turning Lathe, SEE. Mr. ROBINS informs the Public, that the Whole will be sold without Reserve, aud assures them that not a single Article is inserted in the Catalogue but the real bona fide Property of the Right Hon, Lord BERWICK. DESIRABLE RESIDENCE. 6e ilct, And entered vpon at Michaelmas next, ORANGE GROVE, SITUATE at WEST FELTON, in the County of Salop, upon the Great Holyhead Road, within 4 Miles of Oswestry, in a highly respectable Neigh- bourhood, and suitable for the Residence of a Genteel Family, under a Lease of 5 or 7 Years, at the Option of the Tenant. The House consists bf an Entrance Hall, Dining, Drawing, and Breakfast Rooms, 6 Lodging and 2 Dressing Rooms, spacious Kitchen, Brewhouse,, Laundry, and all convenient Offices attached, Stable aind Coach- House, 2 Gardens walled in, Part stocked with the choicest Fruit Trees, and about 16 Acres of excellent Grass LAND close adjoining, forming a Paddock to the House, which is nearly new and neatly finished. Further Particulars may be had on the Premises; or of Messrs. TUDOR and LAWRENCE, Auctioneers, Shrewsbury. Letters not Post- paid will not be attended to. Hie Order of Sale is arranged as follows : On Monday, the 30th of July, and four following Days, THE SUPERB AND liIME © & mP IFWISMIKTWIBnSp Comprising Noble Pier & Chimney Glasses, splendid Cut Glass Lustres . and Chandeliers, superb India and other Cabinets; rare antique Marble Slabs; Consul, Pier, and Gallery Tables; Bookcases; splendid Suites of Window Curtains; Sofas, Couches, Chairs, Otto- mans, & c. en Suite; Or Molu Caudelabras, Giran- doles, and BrOnze Pedestal Lamps, & c.; Grand and Cabinet Piano Fortes ; a fine- toned Church Organ by Green, and a Barrel Chamber Organ by Flight and Robson ; n Pair of Globes, by Cary ; and a Selenographia, by Russell. On Monday, the 6th of August, The Valuable Paintings5 BY EMINENT MASTERS, Particularly a SPLENDID GALLERY PICTURE, By Tomaso Manzuoli di Friauo, Superb Antique SCULPTURES, splendid Etruscan VASES, beautiful large Model of iWacdlarctoiis '^ ixttlU^ txitt. THE BUGLIN FRANCHISES.— Of this interesting, triennial spectacle, Mr. O'Keeffe gives the following description, in " The Recollections of his Life," just published:— " In my, boyhood and youth' I often saw the grand triennial sight called the Franchises, The first view of it. made a . great • impression on my. niind : I was seated: in the front window of m v cousin Ka vanagh's honse, in Thomas- street," and ' saw the- procession, pass close under me. It consisted, of the riding and walking. of the trades of Dublin ( there called Corpora-, tionsL-—' The whole were first assembled and marshalled in- the gr-^ at square of Stephen's Green, and from thence in order commenced their perambulation^ of the city. • ". Many of the trades were remark- able for the splendour of their pageants, as most persons of rank who. had handsome, equipages and fine horses and trappings lent them for this day's cavalcade.. The printers had a large splendid open, carriage, in., which was. a. printing, press,' the compositors setting-. types, and the men - working; off impressions, which, as fast as they printed, they. flung to. the populace, in the sfcreets: this vvas a description of the whole procession, masters, war- dens, colours, kc. and a fiiidij- written explanatory . poem. Ti e • smiths had . a. grand high phaeton," in: which sat the most beautiful young girl that could, be found, as Venus; at the corners were Cupids and Loves and tiie Graces, and so forth ; and Vulcan in armour rode by her side. The carriage of the- weavers was. also very handsome; the men wore largv wigs of wool of different colours.— The millers and bakers had men dressed up in wheat, sheaves.— The masons and carpenters, all the emblems . of masonry, vvith Solomon's Temple, & c. The curriers were, represented by . men apparelled in skins, wHlv large grotesque masks, and great wooden falchions, which they flourished about. .. The chandlers were rema. kably fine for horses, dress, and accoutrements: their insignia was a dove, and their motto '. Let your light so shine.' The hosiers had in their carriage the sto'du. ngvlQom, and a man, really weaving stockings,. and at the corners of the carriage, young women at their wheels, spinning silk, firtx, and cotton. The goldsmiths, glass- makers, jewellers, carvers and gilders, had each their sumptuous pageant, expressive of their trade. The linen weavers had in their, vehicle a loom, at which, they were employed in weaving as they rode alongv young women were spinning, and a. youth dressed as a collegian, en bcfdirtaqe^ breaking their threads. The shoemakers displayed a prince and princess,— Crispin and Crispiaua,— dreSsed in gold and silver, robes, and crowns, with two little pages carrying between them a crimson velvet cUs'hion, and. on it a gold, slipper. The vintners had. Bacchus, dre. ssed in ivy and. vine leaves, astride upon a tun, with a bowl of wine in his two hands, drinking to the health of the people ; and a number of bacchanals, Silenus, fauns, and satyrs, following him. The upholsterers were, headed by a. man. dressed all in feathers: he. was called the Feather- man, and, from his arch gambols ai d comic attitudes, was the great delight of the crowd. It be-, came a saving to anything of high humour, " Oh, this beats the Feather- man !" ' The. Guild, or corporation of merchants, were all in uniform, and rode remarkably fine horses of their own,-.- Each trade bad.. a bajnd. of music, and its own appro- priate tune; so that as one party vyas passing by yon, the particular air was heard at a distance, proclaiming the ap- proach of the next.— The whole cavalcade, and procession consisted of many thousand persons, all arranged with strict decorum in their proper places. Each corporation had its masters, wardens, and beadles, dresssed and equipped in full paraphernalia. The Lord Mavor, Aldermen, &. c, made part of the show. When they reached the end of the North Wall,, the Lord Mayor and his attendants got into a barge, and were rowed out into the bay, and at a particular station, he stood up, and with all his force threw a dart from him into the sea, as far as he could: where the dart fell, a buoy was fixed, and as far as that, his warrant, as Lord Mayor of the city, reached, extending to every vessel within that buoy. " In what is called the Earl of Meath's Liberty, the Lord Mayor of Dublin has no jurisdiction, this quarter of the town having a court of its own. This Liberty consists of some of the largest., finest, and richest streets in Dublin ; for instance, Meath- street, Francis- street, and the Coombie. In the latter was the Weavers' Half: over the gate, a pedestrian gilt statuej as large ?> s life, of George the Second. The Lord Mayor walked the boundaries,-' his ' Sword- bearer before him ; - Gift when arrived at the point where the Liberty, begins, he was met by a certain chosen number of people, wh. o stopped his progress, and in a kind of seeming scuffle took tlie sword from the sword bearer: if not thus prevented, and the Lord Mavor permitted to go on, wherever he went, with his sword of ofiic<?: borne before him, the power of his warrant would reach , but this ceremony is done without the least riot or ill- will, being part of the business previously well prepared. All this affair took place in one day, the first of August; every third yeaf. To this grand triennial festival people flocked to " Dublin, from all parts of Ireland, England, Scotland, and even from the Continent: it was always looked lo with great joy. The Regatta at Venice was something in this way. Many Years after I wrote a piece, and had it brought out at Crow street; for the express purpose of introducing the procession, and beautiful pageantry of our Dublin franchises. Cleobury North and Ditton Priors District of Roacls. TVTOTICE- IS MeITeBY GIVEN, that L > 1 the Trustees of the above District of Roads intend to meet at the Town Hall, in Bridgnorth, on Wednesday, the 11th Day of July next, at the Hour of Eleven in the Forenoon, in Order to consult about erecting a. Toll Gate, Side Gate, Bar, or Chain on the South- East Side of the Turnpike Road within this District, at or near a Place called the Cross Houses, across a certain Highway there leading towards the Halfway House and Glazetey; and also to consult about erecting a Toll Gate, Side Gate, Bar, or Chain on the South- East Side of the said Turnpike Road at or near a Place called the Down, across a certain Highway there leading towards Lower Eudon. SAMUEL NICHOLLS, Clerk to the Trustees. Catstree, near llridgnorlh, 16.'// June, 1827. Walling- Street Turnpike Tolls. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TOLLS arising at the several Toll Gates erected upon the Wellington District of Watling- Street Turnpike Roads, called or known by the N^ ues of Watling- Street Gate, Bureot Gate and Side Ditto, 1 Long- waste Gate, Long lane Gate, Brat ton Gate, Sh. aw birch Gate, Leegomerv Gate, and Had ley Gate, will be LET BY AUCTION to the best Bidder, at the Hay Gate Inn, in the Parish of Wrockwardine, on Tuesday, the Twenty- fourth Day of July next, at Twelve o'Clock at. Noon, in the Manner directed by the Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, For regulating Turnpike Roads ;" which said Tolls were let the last Year for the following Sums, viz. The original Tolls under 48th Geo. Ill £ 1805 The additional Tolls under 1st St 2d Geo. IV. .350 £ 2155 and will be put up at those Sums, or in such other Way as the Trustees then present may agree upon. Whoever happens to be the best Bidder must pay One Month's Rent in Advance, and give Security with two sufficient Sureties to the Satisfaction of the Trustees, for Payment of the Rest of the Money mo n1. hi v. THOMAS PUGH, Clerk to the Trustees of the said Roads. JUNE IBTH, 1827. And curious Specimens of Grecian and Roman ANTIQUITIES. On Tuesday, tbe 7th of August, THE LIBRARY OF CHOICE BOOKS, IX ELEGANT BINDINGS; A very curious Royal Folio MSS. on Vellum " Jo- sephe llisloire des Jnifs," richly i I In minuted ; a very curious MSS. on Vellum, < l Contractus de Matri- inonia," and various others. On Wednesday, the 8th of August, Tits SPLENDID SERVICE OP MASSIVE RICH- CHASED Silver and Gilt Plate, NBAS. 9,000 OUNCES, Plated Articles, On Thursday, the Ninth of August, CONSISTING OP Dinner, Dessert, Tea, and Breakfast Services, & c. COSTLY RICH CUT GLASS, See. O11 Friday, the 10th of August, The Mahoyany Ttiming and Drilling Lathes, With Apparatus and Tools complete j THE CELLAR OF CHOICE OLD WINES. On Monday, the 13th of August, THE BUAUTIFUL DAMASK BED AND TABLE LINEN, And on Tuesday, the 14th of August, and fi ve follow- ing Days, The REMAINDER of the ELEGANT HOUS E HO L D FUR NITURE, The Furniture in the numerous Principal and Second- ary Bed Chambers, and the Servants' Rooms ; also the capital Kitchen Requisites, and various other Effects. To MALTSTERS.— A bill has been brought into the House of Commons by the Government, for cou^ solidating the laws respecting Malt. Among the clauses of the Bill are several that will be felt as very oppressive by Maltsters.— It has not yet passed. into a law, and a strong opposition is therefore expected to be made to it.— Cisterns are to be only 40 inches deep, and a clear space of 48 inches above every part of the cistern. Couch boards to be altered, and the grain not more than 30 inches deep in the couch, aud if the entry is not exactly 4 particularised and described' the grain in the couch to be forfeited, and a penalty imposed. In giving* notice to wet, the exact quantity must be stated, and Maltsters must not steep ' any greater or less quantity than is ex- pressed in such notice.' All malt to be sent out by certificates, subject to the inspection of Excise Officers.— Among other clauses it enacts, that the Excise Officers shall have the power of demanding the certificates that have been received with their malt from private families who brew more than four bushels. And there are regulations as to what is generally'term eel the outcast, which will injure the Maltster most materially. Some of the Papers say, Mr. Brougham is not appointed King's Counsel, but that he has a Patent of Precedency, which entitles hiin to wear a silk gown— and will bring him in an addition of pro- fessional emolument to the tune of £ 3000 a- year. Of course, whether the New Ministry continues or not, he has gained his object by the late change! WAR IN PORTUGAL.— If we mistake not, Mr. Canning, when Foreign Secretary, stated that the Portuguese were to pay the expenses of maintaining our troops, & c. By the M essage which Mr. Can- ning, brought down to the House from his Majesty last week, and by the subsequent proceedings, it should seem, that John Bull is to pay the piper. May be viewed until the Time of Sale ( Sundays excepted), by Catalogues, at Ten Shillings each, which may be had at Attingham Hall ; of Messrs. TENNANT, HAURISON, and TENNANT, Solicitors, Gray's- Inn- Square ; of Messrs. DUKES and SALT, Solicitors, Shrewsbury ; and of Mr. ROBINS, 170, Regent- street, London. N. B. The noble MANSION, and extensive produc- tive MANORS, TO BE LET for Three, Five, or Seven Years, from Michaelmas nexti PIKEN1X Fire- Office. ESTABLISHED 1/ 82* HE Board of Directors of this Office do hereby oive NOTICE, that they have RE- DUCED the PREMIUM upon COUNTRY IN- SURANCES, with certain Exceptions; and that the same will henceforward be charged only as follows, viz. 1st Class Is. 6d. per Cent. 2d Class 2s. 6d. per Cent. 3d Class. 4s. 6d. per Cent.; being, upon the greater Portion of Country Insurances, an Abatement of 25 per Cent, per Annum. *** Renewal Receipts for Policies falling due at MIDSUMMER are now in the Hands of tbe several Agents. The Hope Fire Insurance Company, the Eagle Fire Insurance Company, the Surrey and Sussex, the Bea- con, the British Commercial, and the yEgis Insurance Companies, having all declined Business, Policies of those Offices, amounting to £ 300 and upwards, will be accepted by this Company, without any Charge of Stamps. The Agents for this Company for the County of Salop are Mr. T. Rout ledge, Dogpole, Shrewsbury. FIBS INSURANCE COMPANY. Company is founded upon the M. Principle of a Septennial Division of its Profits amongst the Insurers and Shareholders : to the In- sured, Two. thirds in Proportion to the Premiums paid by each on Policies of not less than one Year's Dura- tion ; and to the Shareholder, the remaining One third, together with annual Interest on the Amount of their Deposits. Notice is hereby given. That Insurances which expire at Midsummer Day next, should be renewed within Fifteen Days, or the) become void ; and that Receipts f » r such Renewals are now ready for Delivery at this Office, and with tiie respective Agents throughout the United Kingdom. ENGINE STATIONS. SouiJiivarh Bridge Road, nearUnion Street, Edward Syer, Foreman ; and New Road, near St. Pancras New Church, Thomas Mostyn, Resident Fireman. The BRITISH COMMERCIAL, HOPE, SURREY, SUS- SEX and SOUTHWARK, EAGLE and BEACON Offices having relinquished their Fire Business iu favour of this Company, the Directors inform the Public, that Property heretofore insured vvith those Com- panies may be effected with this Company ( without any Charge for Policy ) at their Offices, 35, Old Jewry ; Regent Street., Corner of Jermyn Street; and at St.* Margaret's Hill, Southwark. {* Persons desirous of becoming Agents to this Company in Places and Districts where Appointments have uot yet been made, are requested to address their Applications and References to the Society. WILMER HARRIS, Secretary. Mr B e n j a m i n Pa r t r i d g e Mr. Richard Price Mr. James Bach Mr. Richard Powell - M r. Gilbert Browne Messrs. La kin and Sons Mr. George Clay N. B. Agents are wanted for the other Market Towns of this County, - Bridgnorth - Ellesmere. Bromfield, near Ludlow. Oswestry. . Shiffnaf. - Whitchurch. - Wem. On Friday the Vice- Chancellor was pleased to order £ 360,870. 4 » . 2d. Bank 3 per cent annuities, to be distributed amongst the Legatees and Annui- tants of the late Duke of Queensbury. In the Chancery Court, on Friday, the first day of Trinity term, Messrs. Campbell, F. Pollock, H. Twiss, and J. Williams, as King's Counsel ; and Sergeants Taddy, Cross and Wilde, as King's Ser- jeants, made their appearance within the . bar.— Messrs. Treslove, Rose, and Biekersteth, were in the course of the day called within the bar of the Court of King's Bench. Owing to the improved state of tbe country during the last twelve months, there is, it is said, a considerable increase in the Revenue during this quarter,. and that the principal excess is in the Cus- toms department. The private advices from Glasgow Liverpool, Manchester and other places, all concur- in representing commercial affairs as having under- gone a more decided change for the better than could have been anticipated. MURDER,— About one o'clock on Saturday morn- ing se'nnight, a young man named John Mills, the son of a very respectable publican, residing in Hil- ton- street, Manchester, was returning home with a friend after having spent the evening at the Spread Eag- le, in Hanging- ditch, when they observed at the end of Half- street, three men shamefully abusing- a female. They however desisted as Mr. Mills ap- proached, and the woman followed them to the end of Old Milg- ate, when a strange man came up, aud in a very insolent manner asked Why they had not interfered to protect her. Mr. " Mills replied that being only two, they could do nothing against three, and then asked the man what business he had to interrogate them, to which he returned an insulting- answer. A scuffle ensued, and the stranger being thrown down, took a double bladed knife out of his pocket, and with one of the blades inflicted a severe wound in the neck of Mr. Mills, separating the carotid artery, and he died in less than three minutes afterwards. The man was immediately ta- ken into custody, and conveyed to the New Baily, where he. gave his name William Harrison, and vvas recognized as a man who had several times been in custody, and who, in the year 1820, was tried for felony, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. An inquest was held on the body on Monday, and a verdict of Wilful Murder having beeu re- tui'ned against Harrison, he was committed to Lan- caster for trial. AGENTS. Shrewsbury, Messrs. TIEN AM k Co. Booksellers, Wyle- Cop. Ludlow, Mr. W. DOWNES. Oswestry, Mr. EDWD. PUG LI, Solicitor, Willow Street. BANKRUPTS, . TUNE 15.— William Ross, of the Strand, music- seller.— Wm. Kieran, of Great George- street Bermondsey, butler- merchant.— Chai les Pa ht- Ler and John Pasheller, of Huntingdon, bankers.— Thomas Mauingtoii, of Hastings, ironmonger.— Fras. English, of Birmingham, draper.— Thomas Rolph, of Crutchod Friars, surgeon.— Edward Banvard, of Deptford, wine- merchant.— John Rich, of Lime- street, merchant. — William Bid mead, of Cheltenham, phiitei er.— John Hunt, of Blakenhatn Parva, Suffolk, lime- burner.—. Christopher Bancks, of Latebrook, Staffordshire, dealer.— James Jackson, of St. Swithin's lane, Lom- bard- street, ship- owner.— Christopher Redpath, of Greenwich, builder.— James Purkis, of Regent. street oilman. — William Samuel, otherwise William Salmon Jewell, of Eltham, Kent, jeweller.— James Stuckall, of Bedford- street, Covent- gardcn, woollen- draper. C Camfn'tatuu No. IV. LINES rehearsed at the Opening of LIJAFAIR EISTEDDFOD. [ Inscribed to the President, PRYCE DKVERSUX, Esq: of BrynglasJ HAIL ! CYMRD'S sons, thrice hail '. his happy dav ! ^ And pour wilh joy the long- fur got ten lay ; The Genius of onr Laud exalted smiles, And with that smile all sorrow past beguiles. The Trumpet's clangour, sounding from afar, No longer calls our valiant Chiefs to war ; fint Harmony and Love their pow'rs combine Old England's ROSE and Cambria's LKKK to twine. Upon our hills there dawns a cheering ray, Aud rugged Wallia feels the AWES'S* sway : The AWEN blooms, and sheds celestial fire Amongst our country's sons to strike the glowing lyre. Shall we seek ancient Grecia's sjlvan shades, Where, mirs'd by rapture, bloom'd th' Aoiiian maids? Shall we to springs of Helicon repair, Pa rnassian heights, and seek the Moses there ? Fruitless the task would be, the journey vain, FOP us so far to cut the liquid main ; !•{< nbWned Apollo now from thence has fled, Th1 Aouian sisters in his train has led. And in our land his golden lyre has laid : ) For fairer found the God the verdure of our vales, Sweeter the sighing of bur floating gales ; Far greater grandeur deck'd our rising hills, In sweeter murmurs flowM our winding rills; tV'iiii brig liter hues our fragrant flow'rets blow'd, } With purer streams our mossy fountains g- lovv'd, And Cambria's harp in sweeter music flowed ; j For this the God amongst our vailies reigns, And fires the soul of song in Cambria's rustic swains. Then wake, ye minstrels, Cambria's sons, awake ; And the long sleep of ages past forsake ; Far let the night' her sable mantle throw, Let morning bloom, and perfect brightness glow ; Our country's glittering sun shall yet shine bright, The brightest sun on Heaven's meridian height. Yes ! yes ! the. Mn'fce foretells a happy day, When Wallia, deck'd in splendour's bright array, Shall, like the sun, burst forth in majesty, Beaming and blooming on a fostering skv, No more to set — chasing those clouds away, That long, loo long, upon her radiance lay. And whilst the waves shall circle MoNA'sf shore, Aud ARFON'SJ hills their cloud- cap'd summits tow'r ; Whilst lovely maids shall grace MERVINIA'S^ dales, Merry MOR'TGOM'RY boast her beauteous vales, And EINION'S|] silvery tide roll to the main, Our Language fahall we keep, our ancient rights maintain. ROB ROY. LLANFYLLIN. * Muse; t Anglesea. i ( Caernarvonshire. 5 Merionethshire. S A river that flows by Lla- nfaip. CTfje Mo man © at! joUc <@ ti* 0tfatu [ FROM THE LONDON PACKET.] IVIr. Murray has just published a c or res p b rid e nee between his late Majesty King George the Third and Lord Kenyon, in 1' 795, relative to the proper construction of the Coronation Oath; and another correspondence between the same patriot prince and Mr. Pitt, in 1801, upon the duties of a British Sovereign with respect to the Popish question Both series of letters are Understood to have been preserved and given for publication by the present Lord Kenyon; both will be found in our columns and we think our readers will agree With us, that more acceptable present could not be made to the public than that which it owes to the excellent nobleman last mentioned. The characters of the late King, and of his chosen minister, are principally concerned in the circum- stances disclosed; and these circumstances are honourable, though not equally honourable to both. Of the firmness, patriotism, and piety of George the Third, the public estimate has always been so high, as scarcely to admit of an increase. The documents in question will, we think, show that these virtues were adequately supported by a degree of wisdom and foresight, for which it has not been the fashion to give the late sovereign credit. The correspondence with Mr. Pitt, exonerates I that minister from the wish to surrender the con- stitution absolutely to the Roman Catholics, as Mr. Canning and Lord Plunkett would have us to surrender it, and as the former asserts that Mr. Pitt • wished it to be surrendered. " The measures I propose," said Mr. Pitt, " with the new provisions that would make part of the plan, could never give such weight in office or in parliament either to Catholics or Dissenters, as could give them any new means ( if they were so disposed) of attacking the establishment." Here is no pretence of conciliating Roman Ca- tholics— no charlatanerie of Concordats with Rome —• no Jesuitry about " non- intercourse bills." The " new provisions," whatever they were, were to weaken, or to retain in a state of weakness, the Popish interest;— not- merely to raise a barrier against it, or to affect to mitigate its hostility, but to keep it from growing formidable— it was to preserve the principle of the penal laws— merely substituting an indirect for a direct disqualification. Whether such " a provision" could have been contrived is doubtful; the wish to devise it, is, however, an exculpation of Mr. Pitt from the charge of treachery to the Protestant Constitution, urged against him by his pretended admirers. So far the published correspondence is gratifying, ns it exalts still more in our affection and veneration, the character of the King, whom we have been accustomed to love and reverence; and as it vindicates from all suspicion the minister, to whom the country owes so much, and whose fame it must, therefore, wish to see relieved from every stain.- But these letters present a far more valuable lesson in the proof which they afford of the vast superiority in politics, as in private life, of the conscientious and undeviating, above the accommodating and expedient- seeking system. The correspondence, if we mistake not, Will prove, if proof be wanting, as at the present time we fear it is, that in the affairs of politics the conclusion from present circumstances — apparent circumstances we mean, or " the spirit of the age," as the cant is, is as little to be received in contradiction to the instruction of long experience, ns the impulse of caprice is, in the case of an individual, to be pursued in opposition to a moral conviction. For let us take the case presented to us in the first correspondence. It is apparent that to the King's scruples about the observation of an oath, framed more than a century before, and taken by bim 35 years before, aud to those scruples only, is it to be ascribed, that Lord Fitzwilliam was not permitted to carry into full effect his pernicious scheme. The Minister was not perhaps indisposed, and the nation was indifferent; and there was a very reasonable excuse for both the one and the other. The bitterest enemies that England had ever found, the enemies that were at the time ( 1795) sworn to her destruction, were also the bitterest foes of Popery. The church of Rome, too, had just suffered, or rather was suffering, a discipline of adversity, which, if any thing could do it, ought to have mitigated her treachery and ferocity. Her enemies appeared to be our enemies— her friends our friends — and, what in practice must have had a powerful influence, the man who had first effectually raised the nation to a sense of her danger, and awakened her to the duty of resistance ( Edmund Burke) was himself the leading aud the devoted advocate of the Roman Catholics. 3t is more astonishing that in such circumstances the King stood fast, than that he vhoukl have fouud little support from his servants or his people.— Time has given us now the oppoi tunity of knowing how much we'owe to that firmness- time has disclosed to ns the feelings and designs of those to whom, but for the King, our liberties would have been sacrificed— time has acquainted us with the true character of their advocates— time has laid before us the series of events in which the measures opposed by the firmness of George the Third, thirty years ago, would have enabled Roman Catholics to net with a greatly preponderating influence. We now know that the Irish Roman Catholics were, in 1795, universally organized in one close compact treasonable conspiracy, unknown even to the Pro- testant traitors of the period. We know that Mr. Burke's great mind, great as it undoubtedly was in every other respect, was infatuated to the lowest and most grovelling of Popish superstitious. We now know that that statesman had placed himself nncler pecuniary obligations to the Roman Catholics, • which if known at the time, ought to have utterly destroyed his authority upon any question in which they were concerned. We now know that in all these negotiations with the legislature, the Roman Catholics took care to give only that which they tpuid resume £ t pleasure; but to get what could not be taken- from them. We now know that, had Lor< 3 Fiizwilliam's project not been defeated in 1705, the fr's'i Union icould nixef hate been carried ; that the ! r sh parliament would have been exclusively Popish in three years; that almost every Irish parish would, i. i less than ten years-, have had its S cull ub ague ^ every Irish town ils Sm'. thfield : this we know, or may know, if we fake the pains to inquire. A newspaper is a limited field for so wide a subject; but let us annex a few samples of the testimonies to the above points which may be found by a diligent inquirer. The first of them shall refer to the disposition of the Irish Roman Catholics in 1795; they are taken from the memorial of their accredited agent Theobald Wolf Tone to the French Directory, and have been lately published in the memoirs of that unfortunate gentleman:— They ( the Roman Catholics) have an organization, commencing about the same time with the United Irish Clubs, but comprising Catholics only. Until within these few months, this organization baffled the most active vigilance of the Irish government, unsuccessfully employed lo discover its principles, and to this hour they are, & believe, unapprised of its extent."— 2d v. p. " 34. The whole Catholic peasantry of Ireland, 3,000,000 f people, are, to a man, eager to throw off the yoke of land ; they are organised, and part of the funda- mental" oath by which they are bound, is to he true to nuce as well as Ireland." — Ibid. 437. 1 suppose tl. iere is no instance of a conspiracy, if a whole people can be said to conspire, which has con- tinued for so many years as this has done, where the secret has been so religiously kept. This organization embraces the whole peasantry of Ireland being Catho- lics."— p. 4S5. We come next to Mr. Burke's character. We quote, in the first place, from Dr. Miller's incom- parable letter, as to Burke's religious opinions: It is not generally known ( says Dr. Miller), that Mr. Burke entertained a persuasion ofthe truth of that strange doctrine, which is not only a principal tenet of the Church of Rome, but also most effectually subdues the human heart, and fits it for the implicit submission to dictation, which is the very essence of Popery. Of this fact I have received the most unquestionable testi- mony, the late Dr. Michael Kearny having assured me that lie was present when Mr. Burke strenuously main- tained, against a Presbyterian minister, the doctrine of trausubsiantialion. ' We come next to the great statesman's pecuniary connexion with the Roman Catholics; here we take up Tone again :— Edmund Burke has Gog's ( Mr. John Keogh, a Popish agitator) boys now ou a visit at Beacousfield, aud writes him a letter in their praise : the scheme of this is obvious enough ; he wants to enlist Gog, on be- half of his sou, but ii won't do ; Gog- sees the tiling clear enough ( sad! sad!) Edmund wants to get another 2000 guineas if he can, for his son — dirty work : Edmund no fool in money matters, flattering Gog to carry, his point ; is that sublime, or beautiful ?" But- we have trespassed too far.- As Tone's work lies before us, us- take two more extracts illus- trative'of the spirit in which the Roman Catholics and their friends pursued power; the opportunity which they would have had of abusing it had they succeeded, will be found in the history of the last thirty years.- " Government is apparently strong, and people sub- dued ; probably both appearances fallacious— accessions to people permanent / to Government but temporary." — v. I 154, 4 G- rattan considers the Catholic question but as a means of tid'vanciug the general good" rig lit."— p. 403. ri'one had before explained that by the general ood, he understood a separation from England. Would not the Chancellor of England incur some risk in affixing the great seal lo a bill for giving the Pope a concurrent ecclesiastical jurisdiction with the Kino-? By the articles of union with Scotland, it is declared to be an essential and fundamental article, that the King of Great Britain shall maintain the church of England as by law established, in England, Ireland, and Berwick- upon- Tweed. The bargain made by England in 1782, by Yelver- ton's Act, gives rise to the question^' whether the repeal of any of the English statutes adopted by that act would not be a direct violation of the compact made by the Parliament of Ireland with Great Britain. Uetttv* ft om fgi* £ toajt* t$ To the late Lord Kenyon, on the Coronation Oath, with his Lordship's Answers: and Letters of the Right Hon. William Pitt to his late Majesty, faith his late Majesty'' s Answers, previous to the Dissolution of ihe Ministry in 1801. CORONATION OATH. 1 W. &. M C. ( 5. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say:—" Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this Kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?" The King and Queen shall say :— u i solemnly promise so to do." Aiehhishop or Bishop:—" Will you to your power cause law and justice in mercy to be executed in all your judgments ?" King and Queen 41 I will.' 1" A'relibishop or Bishop r—" Will you fo the utmost of your power maintain the la « s of God, the true profes- sion of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established bylaw? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privi- eges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ?" King aud Queen.:—" All this I promise to do." After this the King and Queen, laying his and her hand upon ibe Holy Gospels, shall say : — King aud Queen :—" The things which I have here, before promised, I will perform aud keep. So help me God." No. III. ANSWER TO NOS. I AND II. Lord Kenyon received your Majesty's commands when he was in the country. He came immediately to town, and incloses what has occurred to him upon fhe question. He has conferred with the Attorney- General, and believes there is uot any difference in opinion between theiii'. They are neither of them apprized what was the extent of the alteration meditated to be tftade in Ireland. Your Majest^ s most obliged and dutiful subject, 11 th March, 1795. KENYON. [ ENCLOSED IN R' 6.. 3.] The act for the union of England aud Scotland has made the church establishments in the two countries essential and fundamental parts of the Union, and has declared that, the acts of the two countries for securing the respective church governments shall be. & continue at all times coming part of the. terms of ibe Union — th at S understand to be the necessary construction df the words of the llthf section of the act. The coronation oath, enacted iu 1 William and Mary, requires the King to maintain the Protestant reformed religion established bv law. The 8th % section of the act of Union shows that by- religion established by law, is meant the doctrine, wor- ship, discipline, and government of the church. This includes the King's supremacy and the various orders of ministers, and the provision which the state makes for the decent support of the clergy. The doctrine and discipline are regulated ( inter alia J by ihe Acts of Uniformity, and the Liturgy as it stands enacted by the statute of 13 arid 14 Car. 11. To overthrow any part of the church establishment, as I have now stated it, would, as it seems, militate against the coronation oath, as settled in the stat. 1 W. and M. and the act of Union, and contravene an essen- tial and fundamental part ofthe act of Union. In order to preserve the established church, several laws have been enacted, subjecting those w ho dissented from the established church to penalties or disabilities; and these have pressed sometimes upon one denomina- tion of sectarists, and sometimes upon another, as the temper of the times or the supposed necessity of the case required.— Papists and Conventiclers have in their turns felt the rigour of statute law. The statute of22 Car. 2. c. 1, for preventing convent- icles, and other statutes of like tendency, existed at the time when the coronation oath was framed and enacted by 1 W. and M. c. 6.; yet in the same session of parlia- ment ihe law called the toleration acl was made. Seve- ral indulgences both iu England and Ireland have been since granted to several denominations of persons dis- senting from the church of England. Those regulations have been supposed by the makers of them not to be hostile to ihe church of England as by law established, but merely to repeal or lessen the rigour, of penal statutes, which, tWttgh thought necessary at one sea- son, were found inexpedient at another time, and under diff'erent. ci rcnmstances. So long as the King's supremacy, and the main fabric of the act of uniformity, the doctrine, discipline, and government of the church of England, are preserved as the national church, and the provision for its ministers kept, as an appropriated fund, it seems that any case given to sectarists would not militate against the coro- nation oath or the act of Union. The proviso, which was rejected on the 28th March, 1689, as it appears in the 10th volume of Commons' Journals, p. 69, might, possibly be rejected as being thought unnecessary; for it is observable from printed History, that in that very year a commission issued, authorising several Bishops and other learned men to revise the Liturgy and Canons, and prepare such alterations as they should think expedient. Though the Test Act appears to be a very wise Law, and in point of sound policy not to be departed from, yet it seems that it might be. repealed, or altered, v\ ithout any breach of the Coronation Oath, or Act of Union. The temporary Bills of Indemnity, which have so frequently passed, have, in effect, from time to time, dispensed with it in some degree. It should seem that the Chancellor of Great Britain would incur great risk in affixing the Great Seal to a Bill giving the Pope a concurrent Ecclesiastical Juris- diction with the King.— It would be contrary to the Coronation Oath, and subversive of a fundamental part of the Act of Union. ( Enclosed in No;. VI.) It is a general maxim that the supreme power of a stale cannot limit itself. Either of the houses of parliament mav, if they think proper, pass a bill up to the extent of the most'nnrea. so liable requisition that can he made; and, provided sound policy and a sense of the duty they owe to the established religion of the country'do not operate on their minds so as lo prevent their doing what is improper, there is no statute law to prevent their enter- taining and passing such bill, to abolish the supremacy and the whole of the government and discipline of the Church of England, as now by law established. Our ancestors did not suppose, at the lime of the revolution, that any danger was to be feared from these quarters ; and, therefore, the statute book does not exact any promissory oath from the members of the bouses o'f parliament, binding them not lo receive or pass bills hostile to the reformed religion as by law established. I But lhat is not the case of the King, decent miscou- ' duct iu the reign of King James II. had raised great jealousy; and, therefore, the coronation oath exacts from tbe King an oath to maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law, & c. & c.** The state of the question with which I have been honoured supposes that the requisition now made is a direct violation of the statute of 30 Car. II. st. 2. It certainly is inconsistent with that law; and if it shall he yielded fo, will, in effect, repeal it, though that law, when it was made, was looked upon by the legis- lature as necessary for the more effectual" preserving the King's person and government, by disabling. Papists from sitting in either house of parliament. Ttfow far that law still continues a fence for the church as by law established, must be judged of by those who are to act on ihe proposed repeal, if such a measure should be brought forward. Those who think it is an important and necessary part of the defence of Ihe established churchy may also think that the coronation obth was meant to provide against the King's consenting to the repeal ; for though an act for the repealing the statute of Charles II. would not in itself break in upon the established church, yet it would facilitate steps w hich might afterwards follow for that purpose, as by this means Papists might constitute a majority of each " house of Parliament'. It cannot well pass observation, that the whole system of laws, as to the purpose of the present inquiry, was to guard against the possible introduction of Popish influ- ence into any branch of the legislature. As far ns respects the Sovereign, it is guarded bv the oath he takes; and With respect to the houses of Parliament, by the declaration in 30 Car. II. I am not aware what clauses in the Bill of Rights are supposed to be broken in upon by what is suggested ns likely to be proposed. The statute of 12 aud 13 W. c. 2, ff shews the great anxiety the legislature then bad to guard against Popery. But here again the question recurs, how is the supreme power of the country bound? The two houses of parliament are not under any promissory oath — that obligation has been extended to the King only. This statute of W. III. has done uo more, as" far as respects the preseni . question, than the former statutes had done. The paper I before sent stated, I believe, what then occurred, and all that at present occurs on the statute of Union. In short, the question resolves itself to this :— Will the proposed act violate that oath, which promises to I maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the. church of England, and the doctrine, worship, and discipline, and government thereof, as it was at the time of the Union by law established within the kino-- don- is of England and Ireland, & c. ? The petition expresses apprehension of proscription, persecution, and oppression. All grounds of such apprehensions, if such there really are, may be safely removed, if the late benefits, which the petition admits, have not removed them, without endangering the estab- lished church, or violating the coronation oath. I will, out of anxiety, add one word more. It seems to me, that the judgment of the person who takes the coronation oath must determine whether anv particular statute proposed does destroy the government of the established church. It seems that Ihe oath, couched in the general terms in which it is found, does not preclude the party sworn from exercising a judgment, whether that which he is bound to maintain will be essentially or in any great degree affected by the proposed mea- sure. or dissenting congregations, and from the teachers of schools of every denomination. It is oil these principles Mr. Pitt humbly conceives a new security might he obtained for the civil and eccle- siastical constitution of this country, more applicable to the present circumstances, more free from objection, and more effectual in itself, than any which now exists; — and which would, at the same time, admit of extending such indulgences as must conciliate the higher orders of the Catholics, and by furnishing to a large class of your Majesty's Irish subjects a proof of the good will of the United Parliament, afford the hesi chance of giving full effect to the great object of the Union— that of tranquillizing Ireland, and attaching it to this country. It is with inexpressible regret, after all he now knows of your Majesty's sentiments, that Mr. Pitt troubles your Majesty, thus at large, with the general I grounds of his opinion, and finds himself obliged to add, that this opinion is unalterably fixed in his mind. It must, therefore, ultimately guide his political con- duet, if it should be your Majesty's pleasure, that, after thus presuming to open himself fully to vour Majesty, he should remain in that responsible situation, in which your Majesty has so long condescended graciously and favourably to accept his services. It will afford him, indeed, a" great relief and satisfaction, if he may he allowed to hope, that your Majesty will deign maturely to weigh what he' has now- humbly submitted, and to call for any explanation, which any parts ol it may appear to require. In the interval which your Majesty may wish for consideration, he will not,' on his p'a.- t," importune your Majesty with any unnecessary reference to the subject; and will feel it his duty to abstain, himself, from all agitation of this subject in Parliament, and to prevent it, as far as depends on him, on the part of others. If, on the result of such consideration, your Majesty's objections t'o the measure proposed should not be re- moved, or sufficiently diminished to admit of its being brought forward wilh your Majesty's full concurrence, and with Ihe whole weight of government, it must be personally Mr. Pitt's first wish to be released from a situation, which he is conscious that, under such cir- cumstances, he could not continue to fill but with the greatest d i sad va n 1age. At tiie same time, after the gracious intimation been recently conveyed to him, of your Majesty's sentiments on this point, he will be acquitted of presumption in adding, that if the chief difficulties of the present crisis should not then lie surmounted, or very materially diminished, arid if your Majesty should continue to think, that his bumble exertions could, in any degree, contribute to conducting them to a favour-' able issue, there is no personal difficulty to which he will not rather submit, than withdraw himself at such a moment from your Majesty's service. He would even, in such a case, continue for such a short further interval as might be necessary, to oppose the agitation or dis- cussion' of the question, as far as he can consistently with' ihe line to which he feels bound uniformly to adhere, of reserving to himself a full latitude on the principle itself, and objecting only to the time, and to the temper and circumstances of the moment. But he must, entreat that, on this supposition, it may he dis- tinctly understood, that be can remain in office longer than till the issue ( which he trusts on every account will be a speedy one) of ihe crisis now depend- ing,- shall admit of your Majesty's more easily forming a new arrangement ; and that he will then receive your Majesty's permission Is'carry with him into a private situation that affectionate and grateful attachment, which your Majesty's goodness for a long- course of years has impressed on his mind— and that - unabated zeal for the ease and honour of your Majesty's govern- ment, and for tlie public service, which he trusts will always govern bis conduct. He has only to intrrat your Majesty's pardon for troubling you on one other point, and taking the liberty of most respectfully, but explicitly, submitting to your majesty the indispensable necessity of effectually dis. countenancing, in the whole of the interval, all attempts1 to make rise of your Majesty's name, oa*' lo influence the opinion of any individual, or descriptions of men, on any part of this subject. gave Mr. Pitt of keeping perfectly silent on the sub- ject whereon we entirely differ, provided on his part he kepi off from any disquisition on it for the present, which was the main object of the letter I wrote to him on Sunday, we both understood our present line of conduct ; bnt as I unfortunately find Mr. Pitt does not draw the same conclusion, I must come to the unplear sant decision, as it will deprive me of his political services,. of acquainting him, lhat, rather than forego what I look on as my duly, I will, without unnecessary delay, attempt to make the most ' creditable arrange- ment, and such as Mr. Pitt will think most to the. advantage of my service, as well as to the security of the public; but he must not be surprised, if I cannot fix bow soon that can possibly be done, though be may rest assured that it shall be done with as much expedi- tion as so difficult a subject will admit. G. R. E.- TI1E LATE DUKE OF YORK TO HIS LATE MAJESTY. York House, Feb. 13, 1801. SIR— I hav£ the honour to return your Majesty the papers which you were graciously pleased to allow me lo peruse. If my sentiments upon the question of Calholic Eman- cipation, nnd of the repeal of ihe Test Act, had not been already immutably fixed, the arguments adduced in favour of the measure would atone have been sufficient lo have convinced me of the danger, if not of the absolute certainly, of the dreadful consequences of its being carried into execution. 1 have the honour to be, Sir, Your Majesty's most dutiful son and subject, FREDERICK. No. I. TO THE LORD KENYON. Queen's House, March 7th, 1795. The question that has been so improperly patronized by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in favour of the Papists, though certainly very properly silenced here, yel it seems not to have been viewed in w hat seems to me the strongest point of view, it militating against tiie coronation oalh and many existing statutes. 1 have therefore stated the accompanying queries on paper, to which I desire the Lord Kenyon will, after due consi- deration, Rt .' e his opinion in the same manner, and should be glad if he would also acquire the sentiments ofthe Attorney- General on this most serious subject. GEORGE R. NO II. THE QUERIES REFERRED TO IN No. 1. [ WRITTEN TIY TIIB KING'S HAND.] The following Queries on the piesent attempt to abolish all distinctions in religion in Ireland, with lhe intention of favouring the Roman Catholics in lhat kingdom, are stated from the desire of learning whether this can he done, without affecting the constitution of this country; if not, there is no occasion lo view whether ibis measure in itself be not highly improper. The only laws which now a fleet the Papists in Ireland are the acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, the test act, and the Bill of Rights. It seems to require very serious investigation how far the King cau give his assent to a repeal of any of those acts, without a breach of his coronation oath, aud of the articles of union with Scotland. The construction put on the coronation oath by ihe Parliament at the Revolution seems strongly marked in the Journals of the House of Commons, when the clause was proposed by way of rider to tbe bill ( 28th March, 16b9, Commons' Journals*) establishing the coronation oath, declaring that nothing contained in it should te construed to bind down the King and Queen, their heirs and successors, not to give the royal assent to any bill for qualifying ihe act of uniformity so far as lo render it palatable lo Protestant dissenters, and ihe clause was negatived upon a division. This leads to the implication lhat the coronation oath was understood at the revolution to bind the crown not to assent lo any repeal of any of the existing laws at the Revolution, or whieh were then enacted, for the maintenance and defence of the Protestant religion as by law established. If the oath was understood to bind the crown not to assent to the repeal of the act of uniformity in favour of Protestant dissenters, it would seem lo bind the crown full as stn ugly not to assent to the repeal of the acl of supremacy, or the test acl, in favour of Roman Ca- tholies. Another question arises from the provisions of the act limiting the succession to llie crown, by which a forfeiture of the crown is expressly enacted, if the King upon ihe throne should bold communication with, or be reconciled to, the church of Rome. May not the repeal of the act of supremacy, and the establishing the Popish religion in any of the hereditary dominions, be con- strued as amounting to a reconciliation with the church of Rome ? • The extiact from the Commons' Journals, alluded to by his Majesty : " Jo vis, 28 die Martii, 1 Willielmi fit Mariae. ( A. D. 1G89.) Coronation Oath. The bill for establishing the coronation oath was read the third time. A proviso, ingrossed, was offered* a* a rider, to be made part of the bill, whicb was read the first time ; and is as follows : " Provided always, and be it hereby declared, that no clause in this act shall be understood so to bind the Kings and Queens of this realm, as to prevent their giving their royal assent to any bill which shall, at any time, be offered by the. Lords and Commons assembled in parliament, for the taking away or altering any form or ceremony in the established church, so as the. doctrines of the said church, a public liturgy, and t lie episcopal government of it, be preserved." A debate arose thereupon. The debate upon the proviso, offered to be made partrf the bill for establishing the coronation oath, was resumed. And the question being- put, that the proviso be read a second tirn<-: It passed in the negative. Resolved, that the bill do pas"; and that, the title be, u An Act for establishing- the- Coiouation Oath.** No. 1V._ The King is much pleased with the diligence shewn by the Lord Kenyon in answering the questions pro- posed to him ; but as he seems not fully apprised of the extent of the present application of the Roman Catho. lies of Ireland, the King has thought it best to enclose the Petition received yesterday, and the state of ihe question as drawn up by a Right Reverend Prelate of that kingdom, on which the King wishes to have { lie Lord Kenyon's further opinion in writing. GEORGE R. Queers House, March 14, 1795. No. V.— enclosed in No. IV. It has been confidently reported in Ireland, that, in compliance with the unbounded requisition of the Ro- man Catholics, a bill had been prepared to capacitate them to sit in Parliament without making and subscrib- ing the declaration against Popery, or taking the oath of supremacy. This appears to be a direct violation of 1 the English " act of the 36th Charles II. statute 2, c. 1.; which enacts, that no person shall sit or vote in parlia- ment, until he shall have taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and made and subscribed, and audibly repeated, the declaration against Popery therein con- tained. Which act, as far as it relates to the said oaths & declarations, was made the law of Ireland, by the Irish acl of the 21 St. and 22d of Geo. III. chap. 48, sec. 3. It also appears to be a repeal of the declaration of the bill of rights, which are expressly enacted and established, " to stand and remain, and be the law of the realm./ br every It seems to be a repeal of the act of settlement, " Whereby all the laws and statutes of the realm for securing the established religion were ratified and con- firmed." Among which s la I rites so confirmed we must place the preceding statutes of Charles II. and the declaration of tlie Bill <> f Rights.— It appears also lo be a direct violation of ihe act of union ( 5 Anne chap. 8), by which the inviolate maintenance and preservation of the established religion in Ireland is secured, by pro- viding " that all and singular the acts of parliament then in force for the establishment and preservation of the church, should remain and be in full force for ever. And itrs further therein enacted, that this act, and all and every the things therein contained, be, and shall for ever be holden io be a fundamental and essential part of the union." it seems also that an inviolable observation of all these statutes is made obligatory upon every King and Queen of the realm by the coronation oath. Is it not advisable, therefore, to put an end at once to a claim that is inconsistent and incompatible with the terms of the original contract between Ihe King and the people, and subversive of that part ofthe constitution formed for the preservation of the Protestant religion as established bylaw? The same great fundamental statutes, which secure ibe rights and liberties of the people, secure also the Protestant reformed religion as by law established ; and if that part of them which secures our religion is to be repealed now, what security remains for the preservation of our civil rights and liberties? Is it not therefore necessary to extinguish such vain expectations by an explicit declaration— that they cannot be complied with ? No. VI. ANSWER to Nos. IV. and V. Lord Kenyon returns the petition he was honoured with, and his sentiments on the state of the question which accompanied it. Your Majesty's most grateful and dutiful subject, KEN VON. + 5 Anne, c. 8. s. II. " And it is hereby further enacted, that the said act passed in this present session of parliament^ intituled ' An Act for securing the Churcp of England as by law established,' Jkc. and also the act of parliament of Scot- land, intituled ' An Act for securing the Protestant, Religion and Presbyterian Church Government,' & c. be, and shall for ever be, held and adjudged to be and observed as fundamental and essential conditions of the said union, & c. & c.; and the said act passed in this present session of parliament., & c. and also the said act passed in the parliament of Scotland, & c. are hereby enacted and ordained to be and continue in all times coming the complete and entire union of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland." X S. 8. " And be it further enacted, that for ever hereafter every King or Queen succeeding and coming to the royal government of the kingdom of Great Britain, at bis or bet- coronation, shall, in the presence of all persons who shalL. be attending, take . and subscribe: an oat. h to maintain, and preserve inviolable the said settlement of the church of Eng- land, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, thereof, as by law established within the kingdoms of England and Ireland, the dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick- upon- Tweed, and the territories thereunto belonging." The seventh section recites part of the act intituled " An Act for securing the Church of England, as by law estab- lished ;" of which the following is an extract:—" That an act made in tbe 13th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, intituled ' An Act for the Ministers of the Church to be of Sound Religion ;' and also another act made in the 13th vear of the late King Charles IL intituled ' An Act, for the Uniformity of the Public Prayers,' & c. and all and singular other acts of parliament now in force, for the establishment and preservation of the church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, shall remain and be in full force for over." A,— LETTER OF MR. PITT TO THE LATE KING. Omening- street^ Saturday, Jan.. 31, 1801. Mr.. Pitt would have felt it, at all events, his duty, previous to the meeting of parliament, to submit to your Majesty the restwi of the best eonwidenmon which your confidential servants could give to the important ques- tion respecting the Catholics and dissenters, which mrist naturally lie agitated in Consequence of the Union. The koowlt- vfge of vonr Majesty's general indisposition to any change of the laws on this subject would have made this a painful task to him ; and it is become much more so by learning from some of his colleagues, and from other quarters, within these few days, ihe extent to which your Majesty enteitains, and" has declared, that sentiment. _ He trusts your Majesty will believe, that every prin- ciple of duty, " gratitude, and attachment, must* make him look to your Majesty's ease and satisfaction, in preference to all considerations, but those arising from a sense of what in his honest opinion is due to ihe real interest of your Majesty and your dominions. Under the impression of that opinion, he has concurred in what appeared to be the prevailing sentiments of the majority of the cabinet— ihat the admission of the Catholics and dissenters to offices, and of the Catholics to Parliament ( from which latter the dissenters are now- excluded), would, under certain conditions lo be speci- fied, be highly advisable, with a view to the tranquillity and improvement of Ireland, and lo the general interest of the United Kingdom. For himself, lie is, on full consideration, convinced that the measure would be attended with no danger to the - Established Church, or lo the Protestant interest in Great Britain or Ireland : — that now the Union has aken: piace, and with the new provisions which would oake part of the plan, it could never give any such weight in office, or in Parliament, either to Catholics or dissenters, as could give them any means ( if thev were so disposed) of attacking the Establishment : — that the grounds, on which Ihe laws of exclusion now remaining were founded, have long been narrowed, and are since the Union removed :— that those principles, formerly held by tiie Catholics, which made them be considered as politically dangerous, have been for a course of time gradually declining, and, among the higher orders par- ticularly, they have ceased to prevail : — that the ob- noxious tenets are disclaimed in ihe most, positive manner by the oaths, which have been required in Great Britain, and still more by one of those required in Ireland, as the condition of the indulgence already granted, and which might equally be made the condi- tion of Ihe new ones:— lhat if such an oath, containing ( among other provisions) a denial of the power of absolution from its obligations, is not a security from Catholics, the sacra menial test is not more so':— that the political circumstances under which the exclusive laws originated, arising either from the conflicting power of hostile and nearly balanced sects, from the apprehension of a Popish queen or successor, a disputed succession and a foreign pretender, and a division in Europe between Catholic or Protestant powers, are no longer applicable to ihe present state of things: — that with respect fo those of the dissenters, who, ills feared entertain principles dangerous to the Constitution, a distinct political test, pointed against the doctrine of modern Jacobinism, would be a much more just and more effectual security, than that which now exists which may operate to the exclusion of conscientious persons well affected to the state, and is no o- uard against those of Mi opposite description.— That" with respect to the Catholics of Ireland, another mosl import- ant additional security, and one of which the effect would continually increase, might be provided, by gradually attaching the Popish clergy to the govern- ment, and, for this purpose, making them dependent for a part of their provision ( under proper regulations) on the state, and by also subjecting them to superin. tendance and controul.— That, besides these provisions the general interests of the established church, and the security of the constitution and government, might be effectually strengthened by requiring the political test before referred lo, from the preachers of all Catholic " Extracts from the " Debate on the Coronation Oath" Pari. Hist. v. 5, p. 200:— ' Mr. Hampden, junior; " The King swears positively to the true profession of the Gospel, that is, ' the Christian Religion' ( no latitude in that); and then comes to the Christian Reli- gion as it is against Popery ; and this is the stress of all your oath. Protestant is looked upon as a word honourable, and not only the word, but the thing, to the lasl drop of blood! It is every body's endeavour to keep up the Reformation, and avoid returning into Popery." Mr. Godolphin : " All our securities rest upon the King's conscientiousness. 1 would not put. in tbe - words ( is or shall be established by law) because I would not leave a doubt if it is not the intention of the House to alter the religion estab- lished by law." Mr. Somers: " The question is, to add the words ' shall be established by law.' I desire the addition for great regard to the Legislature. In the former paragraph, it is ' statutes, and laws, and customs in being-,' in the other establishment. He that gives his consent to take away does not maintain them." Mr. Pol lex fen : We frame an oath, not for ourselves, but for the King; and he ought, to be satisfied ; the king- is tender of what lie promises- - much more of his oath." Sir Henry Capel: " It is a tender thing- to make a law: but i'n an oath, for another person to take, it is always a rule to express the thing plain." Sir Thomas Clarges: " Whilst a. sort of men, that professed the Protestant religion, joined with Popery lately in the declaration, and write and profess that the penal laws ought to be taken away, now you are making an oath honestly and plainly to explain it to the world." B- THE KING'S ANSWER TO A. Queen's House, Feb. 1 st, 1801. I should not do justice to Ihe warm impulse of my heart, if I entered on the subject most unpleasant to my mind, without first expressing lhat lhe cordial affection 1 have for Mr. Pitt, as well as high opinion of his talents and integrity, greatly add lo mv uneasiness on this occasion; but a sense, of religious as well as political duty has made me, from the moment I mounted the throne, consider the oath that ihe wisdom of our fore- fathers has. enjoined the kings of this realm to take at their coronation, and enforced bv ihe obligation of in- stantly following it in the course of the ceremony with taking the sacrament, as so binding a religious obliga- tion on me to maintain tho fiii » < l< u » . vr » ><" l itirs mi which our constitution is placed, namely, the Church of England being the established one, and that those who hold employments in the state must be members of it, and consequently obliged not only to lake oaths against Popery, bnt lo receive the holy communion agreeably to the rites of tbe Church of England. This principle of duty must, therefore, prevent me from discussing any proposition tending to destroy this groundwork of onr happy constitution, and much more so that now mentioned by Mr. Pitt, which is no less than the complete overthrow of the whole fabric. When the Irish propositions were trnnsmited io me by a joint message from both houses of Ihe British par- liament, I told the lords and gentlemen sent on that oc- casion, that I would with pleasure and without delay forward them to Ireland; but that, as individuals, I could not help acquainting them, that my inclination to an union with frelatui was principally founded on a trust, that the uniting the established churches of ihe two kingdoms would for ever shut the door lo any fur- ther measures with respect to the Roman Catholics. These two instances must show Mr. Pitt, that my opinions are not those formed on the moment, lint such as I have imbibed for forty years, and from which I never can depart; but, Mr. Pitt once acquainted with my sentiments, his assuring me that he will stave off the only question whereon I fear from his letter we can never agree,— for the advantage and comfort of con- tinuing to have his advice and exerlinns in public affairs, I will certainly abstain from talking on ihis subject, which is the one nearest my heart. I cannot help, if others pretend to guess at my opinions, which I have never disguised ; hot if those who unfortunately differ w ith me will keep this subject al rest, I will, on my part, most correctly on my part, be silent also; but this restraint I shall put on myself from affection for Mr. Pilt, but further I cannot go, for I cannot sacrifice mv duty to nny consideration. Though I do not pretend to have the power of chang- ing Mr. Pitt's opinion, when thus unfortunately fixed, yet I shall hope his sense of duty will prevent his re- tiring from his present situation to Ihe end of my life; for I can with great truth assert, that I shall, from pub- lic and private considerations, fell great regret, if I shall ever find myself obliged, at any time, from a sense of religious and political duty, to yield lo his enlreaties of retiring from his seat at the Board of Treasury. HOUSE OF LORDS- TUESDAY. CORN BILL. Lord GODERICH moved the bringing up of the report ofthe committee upon the Corn Bill, Lord COLCHESTER objected generally to the policy of the measure, as likely to make the country dependent on foreigners for subsistence; as injurious to the British agriculturist, and, through him, to the British manufacturer ; and as fatal to the prospects of Ireland'. His lordship admitted the right and duty of ihe Com- mons to maintain their constitutional privileges; but ridiculed ihe notion, lhat the upper house was to sit merely to register the unexamined votes of the lower branch of the legislature ; and observed, that the Com- mons would best assert their right, by modifying the measure so as t_ o permit their lordships to adopt it, with- out offering violence to justice and sound policy. Earl GREY proposed an amendment, as to ihe mode of taking the averages, which, as it was nndeistood not to affect the principle of the bill, or materially to alter its details,, was adopted without any discussion. Lord GODERICH proposed the re- consideration of the amendment which had been proposed by the Duke of Wellington, and adopted, on Friday, the 1st inst. He began by explaining that neither lie nor the President of the Board of Trade had ever ( as had been intimated) given consent to the clause, which was, he said, objec- tionable both as likely lo ensure the rejection of Ihe bill by the Commons, and as imposing a permanent restric- tion upon bonded corn. The President of the Board of Trade had, indeed, given a loose general consent ; but he had intended it only for an immaterial regulation, affecting the corn- now in bond. The noble lord their argued generally against the clause, as likely to break up the whole warehousing system. The Duke of WELLINGTON alluded lo the difficulty in which he was placed in not being at liberty to read the letter ofthe President of the Board of Trade, which-, he and his- friends had interpreted as an approbation of his clause. The clause itself, he said, lie had introduced as a check to ihe frauds for which the warehousing system afforded too convenient a cover. Lord HOLLAND spoke at length against the clause; and charged with gross inconsistency those who sup- ported it, and at the same time affected to support the bill to which it must prove fatal. Earl BATHURST and the Earl of FALMOUTH supported the clause. The Earl of DARNI. EY wished- to limit the provisions of the clause lo ihe corn now in bond, in tbe event of its being at alNulopted, and proposed an amendment to that effect. Lord CALTHORPE opposed the Duke of Wellington's clause.; The Sari of IlAREWooDsupporled it in a short speech. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE spoke at great length against ihe clause. Lord REDESDALE supported the amendment, not lie- cause it was a sufficient protection for the landed in- terest,- but because it was the only protection which they coiiid hope to obtain, instead of ihe prohibition to which they were entitled, after the legislature had gra- dually destroyed the value of the wool, cheese, butler, juart ol! oilier rift- ricnl t urn I produce except grain. A division then took place. For the amendment — Content. 85— Proxies, 48— 133- Not Content 78- Proxies, 44— 122 Majority for ihe Duke of Wellington's amendment 11. Lord GODERICH was understood to waive, in the present stage of the bill, any further opposition to Ihe other amendments. Accordingly the amendments were carried seriatimwithout discussion or division. The Earl of LAUDERDALE asked if ministers intended lo acquiesce in ihe amendments on Ihe third reading of the hill, or lo oppose them ? After a moment's pause, Lord GCDERICH rose ANTF said, that Ihe question was not regular enough in any case to require him to answer if ; bnt he would, so far inform the noble earl, that he himself must have more time lo consider, before he could make up his mind as to w hat course he would take. Lord CLIFTON said, that if he was one of his Majesty's ministers he wou- ld- advise them to ihrow away Ihe bill at once, and leave all the popularity of such a proceed- ing lo the noble lords opposite. The third reading of the bill was ordered for Fridav. C.— MR. PITT, IN REPLY. Downing- street, Tuesday, February 3, 1801. Mr. Pitl cannot help entreating your Majesty's per- mission lo express how very sincerely he is penetrated with the affecting expressions of your Majesty's kind- ness and goodness to himself, on the occasion of the communication with which he has been under the necessity of troubling your Majesty. It is, therefore, with additional pain he feels himself bound to slate, that ihe final decision which your Majesty has formed ou the great subject in question ( the motives lo which he respects and honours), and his own unalterable sense of ihe line which public duly requires from him, must make him consider the moment as now arrived, when, on the principles which he has already explained^ it must be his first wish to be released, as soon as possi- ble, from his present situation. He certainly retains the same anxious desire, in the time and mode of quitting it, to consult, as much as possible, your Majesty's ease and convenience, and to avoid embarrassment. But he must frankly confess lo your Majesty, that tbe difficulty even of his temporary continuance must necessarily be increased, and may very shortly become insuperable, from what he conceives to he the import of one passage in your Majesty's note, which hardly leaves him room to hope, that your Majesty thinks those steps can be taken for effectually discountenancing all attempts to make use of your Majesty's name, or to influence opinions on this subject, which lie has ventured lo iepresent as indispensably necessary during any interval in which he might remain in office. He has, however, the less anxiety in laying Ihis sentiment before your Majesty, because, independent of it, lie is more'and more convinced, that, your Majesty's final decision being once taken, the sooner he is allowed to act upon it, Ihe better it will he for your Majesty's service. He trusts, and sincerely believes, that vour Majesty cannot find any long delay necessary for forming au arrange- ment for conducting your service wiili credit, and advantage ; and that, on the other hand, ihe feebleness and uncertainty, which is almost inseparable from a temporary government, must soon produce an effect, both at home and abroad, which might lead to serious inconvenience.— Mv. Pilt trusts your Majesty will believe that a sincere anxiety for the future ease and strength of your government is one strong motive for his presuming thus lo press this consideration. ROOKS— THF. IR SINGULAR HABITS.— We stated lately that anti- rook associations had been formed and were forming in Dumfriesshire and Galloway, in compliance with the wishes of a great number of farmers, who unite in declaring that, from the altered period of sowing wheat, and the difficulty of finding other food, the rooks actually subsist on their seed during the winter, to say nothing of their visits to the stooks during autumn. And as a number of respecta- ble landed proprietors have subscribed in the mean time to the opinion of the farmers, war has been waged on divers rookeries, and so late as Tuesday last no fewer than 140 dozen of branchers were shot in the plantation of Terregles House. In oilier quarters the work of destruction has been going forward, and for some days past the baker could scarcely get his sponge set, from the multitude of orders that came pouring in upon him to bake in his oven rook- pies. These proceedings have naturally attracted the atten- tion of sportsmen, and intelligent individuals are not wanting who deinii- to the propriety of any thing like an indiscriminate slaughter of rooks. They admit, indeed, that these birds may become too plentiful, and that it is necessary to keep their numbers down ; but, on the other hand, they contend that nature has made nothing in vain, and that if a balance were struck betwixt the corn they eat and ihe worms they destroy, the country would be found largely their debtor. In a field not very far from Dumfries, the ploug- hmen and seedsmen were lately seen busy at ihe same lime ; yet, though scores of rooks followed dili- gently in the wakes of the ploughs, not one of thetn looked near Ihe treasures which ihe seedsmen had scattered right and left, awl which might have been found in abundance both before and behind the har- rows. Now a fact of this kind is worth a hundred arguments, and establishes, we think, beyond the possibility of cavil, that rooks prefer worms to corn whenever they can get at their favourite food. The whole question, therefore, lies in a very narrow com- pass. Too many cats would be bad enough, but if you were to destroy the race altogether, tbe consrque'uee would be, such an over- population of rats and mice, as would soon make the cure worse than the disease,. The rule that obtains in domestic life is equally- applicable to rural affairs ; w hat a cat is to the house- wife, the rooks are to the farmers; and the only point they require to study is, to keep their numheig, at such a level, lhat they may become serviceable without proving a nuisance.— Dumfries Courier. ++ Commonly called " The Act of Settlement," and in- tituled " An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties ofthe subject." D.- TlIE KING'S ANSWER TO C. Queen's House, Feb. 5, 1801. The box from Mr. Pilt contained two letters, and a warrant in favour of Mr. Long. I cannot have the smallest difficulty in signing the proposed warrant, as I think him a very valuable man, and know how much Mr. Pitt esteems him. I had flattered myself that, on the strung assurance I BANKRUPTS, JUNE 12— William Loveland, of Ber- mondsey, shipwright. — James Thomas Barham, of Bread- street, Cheapside, lace- dealer.— John Willets Jennings, of Birmingham, factor. — James Lee, of Lei- cester, corn- dealer. — John Goddard and Alexander Frederick Cope, of Walworth, sugar- refiners.— James Loninx, of Stockport, bookseller. — William Pinniger and William Pinniger, jun. of Calne, Wiltshire, clothi- ers.— Herbert Phillips, of Stepney- house, Yorkshire, merchant.— John Sadler, of Jermyn- sireet, wine mer- chant.— Thomas Cole, of East Stout- house, Plymouth, plumber. 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