jVr « » - nt h-/ A THE COLCHESTER And General Advertiser for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Herts. No. 116. Printed and Published by SWINBORNE and Co. Colchester, Essex. Price 7d. Advertisements inserted for £ Ready Money. S SATURDAY, March 16,1816. 5 This Paper is filed at Garraway's, Peele's, and Johns Coffee- houses: at N ' Warwick- Square Mr. mites, 33, Fleet- Street; « ,„/ at the Auct • ton and Co.' t on Mart. A TO BE SOLD, Quantity of ALDER POLES, of various sizes. — Enquire of Charles Beat, Great Bentley, Essex. NOTICE. ALL Persons who stand indebted to the Estate of WILLIAM COLLEN, of Harwich, in the County of Essex, Farmer, Dealer, and Chapman, a Bank- rupt, are requested forthwith to pay the Amount of their Accounts to Captain Thomas Bridge, of Harwich, or Mr. Isay Levy. No. 20, Finch- lane, Threeadneedle- street, Lon- don, the Assignees; to Mr. Frank Smythies, Solicitor, Colchester; or to Mr. Fairbank, of Staple Inn, London, Solicitor under the Commission. TO BUILDERS, WHEELWRIGHTS, AND OTHERS TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY THOMAS BLUNDEN, On Friday, March 22, 1816, at the Angel Inn, Stoke, Suffolk, between the Hours of Three and Five o'clock in the Afternoon, in small Lots, for the convenience of Purchasers, " fl ASH TREES, of remarkably fine quality ; J OAf 30 ELM ditto, 60 BEECH ditto, and ' 20 SEOtch FIRs; now lying and standing upon the Estate of Wil- liam Mannock, Esq. in the Parish of Stoke aforesaid. The above Timber may be viewed by applying to Mr. Minter, upon the Premises. Further particulars and Conditions of Sale, may he had at the principal Inns in the neighbourhood, and of the Auetioneer. Long Melford. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY R. GOODWIN, Oil Tuesday, March the 19th, 1816, ALL the well- selected STOCK IN TRADE, J\. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects, of Mr. G. Rawling, Draper and Taylor, deceased, Man- ningtree, Essex. The STOCK consists of superfine and broad cloths, of fashionable colours and good qualities; single and double- milled kerseymeres; light and drab hunting and patent curds; drab speckled, striped, and plain nankeens; light and dark Haverhill fustians; Bath and other coating; white cotton and cotton drabs; black silk and velvets; brown Holland, velveteens, men's and boys' braces, and waistcoat pieces of various colours and qualities; steel, plated, pearl. and other buttons, & c. & c — In Work and Cutting Shops, drawers, counters, two cupboards, shop- board and bearers, 9 feet by feet; irons, sleeve- boards, shelves, & c. The HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE consists of three bedsteads and hangings, and three feather- beds and bed- ding; dining, tea, and other tables; excellent eight- day clock, in wainscot case; very neat buffet, keeping- room racks, chairs, pier and dressing glasses ; nine pail copper, some brewing utensils, three beer- casks, boilers, and saucepans; china, glass, earthenware, & c. with a general assortment of household furniture. Sale to commence at Tea o'clock precisely. One Hundred Thousand, and upwards, of white Bricks, Tiles, Lumps, & c. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY R. GOODWIN, On Wednesday, March the 20th, 1816, ALT. the well- manufactured ARTICLES, of Mr. Margram, at t « yham White Briek- Kiln Suffolk. who is leaving the same; consisting of 9,12, 15), and 18- inch pamments, kiln tiles and hurdles, drain bricks, building bricks and lumps, hard- burnt lumps for stable and barn floors, white and brimstone bricks, & e. The above Stock are of the best manufacture, and well worth the attention of builders, bricklayers, and others, as they will be sold without Reserve, as Mr. Margram is under an engagement to clear the Premises on or before Lady Day next, O. S — Sale to begin at Eleven o'clock. VALUABLE FAMILY MEDICINES. MRS. FOSTER, Chemist and Druggist, 124, High- street, Colchester, HAS just received from London, a Supply of the following very valuable Remedies, viz :— CAJEPUT OPODELDOC, for Sprains, Bruises, Chil- blains, & c. in bottles, 2s. 9d. each. The BENGAL ANTIB1LIOUS PILLS, for Bile, Indigestion, Flatulence, & c. in boxes, 3s. 6d each. The LETTUCE LOZENGES, for Coughs, Asthma, Consumption, & c. in boxes, 2s 6d each. NURSES' CORDIAL, which has been found highly beneficial in removing Acidity and Crudities in the Stomach, whether arising from wind, bad milk, or im- proper food; and also in allaying pain and uneasiness, the consequence of difficult dentition. It is likewise re- commended, from all quarters where trial has been made, as a Remedy against Convulsions, and as a speedy and safe Restorative in other Complaints to which Children are liable In bottles, price Is I'd each NERVOUS DROPS, peculiarly beneficial in all cases of relaxation of the Nervous System, and in removing the train of evils attendant thereon. Price, in bottles, Is. I. The above Medicines are sold also by Mr. Sanger, 150, Oxford Road, London. PHOENIX FIRE OFFICE. CHARLES MALDEN, Agent, COLCHESTER. ROBERT KELHAM, Agent, CHELMSFORD. RENEWAL RECEIPTS for POLICIES, fal- ling due at Lady- Day, are now in the hands of the several Agents of the Company. Insurances of every description are effected on the most moderate terms. Stock on a Farm may be insured in one Sum, without the Average Clause, at 4s. per cent per annum. Losses by Fire occasioned by Lightning have always been paid by this Office. Persons insuring for Three Hundred Pounds, or upwards, will not be charged for the Policy; and all En- dorsements will be made gratis. By Order of the Directors, H. A. HARDY, Sec. of the Country Department. ESSEX AND SUFFOLK EQUITABLE INSURANCE SOCIETY. TIIE Public are hereby informed, that this So- ciety has already paid Dividends to Insurers to the amount of SIX THOUSAND POUNDS, and that Divi- dends of,£ 50 per cent, ( that is, Half the Premiums re- ceived; are now paying by the Society's Agents under- mentioned, and by me, at the Office, Colchester. The Terms of Insurance are the same as at other Offices. All Losses from Fire by Lightning will be made good, and Farming Stock insured at the reduced rate of Two Shillings for One Hundred Pounds. This Society has now been established twelve years, and the number of Insurances received has far exceeded the utmost Expectations; near THREE MILLIONS of property are already insured, and the Number is greatly increasing every Quarter. The Stock of the Society is vested in the Public Funds in the Names of the under- mentioned Persons: TRUSTEES. John Bawtree, Colchester, Robert Tabor, Colchester, f Esquires Charles Round, Little Birch, . John Lay, Boxted, j The Directors who transact the Dusiness of the Society for the present time, are as follows : FOR THE TOWN Mr. J. Bawtree Mr. R. Tabor Mr. George Round Mr. J. Mills, jun. Mr. G. Savill Mr. S. Bawtree Mr. S. Daniell Mr. S P. Carr Mr. . J. Wallis Mr. N. Hedge Mr. .1. Rudd Mr. J. Verlander GENERAL REPORT OF SCOTLAND. This Day was published, in Five large Volumes, Svo. with numerous Engravings, and a Volume of Plates, in 4to, of Agricultural Implements, Price 41. 4s. in Boards, ( GENERAL REPORT of the AGRICUL- T TURAL STATE and POLITICAL CIRCUM- S1ANCES of SCOTLAND, drawn up for the Consi- deration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Im provement, under the Direction of the Right Honourable Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. Founder of the Board of Agriculture. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; sold by Swinborine and Walter, Colchester; keymer, ditto;' Rose, ditto; Meggy and Chalk, Chelmsford ; Guy, ditto; Kelham, ditto; Youngman, Witham and Maldon; Smith. Braintree; Seager, Harwich; Hardacre, Hadleigh; Hill, Ballingdon ; and may be had of all Booksellers. " It is impossible for us to peruse this General Report • without experiencing a high degree of satisfaction, which we think every candid reader will participate. " Amongst the meritorious individuals who have la- boured to promote the internal improvement of Scotland, a conspicuous place is unquestionably due to the com- piler of the work before us. The vast accumulation of matters of detail on which his industry has been employed, is a fund from which the statesman and political economist, as well as the humblest cultivator, may draw much useful information. . . . " The ' General Report' is founded on the Statistical Account and tile County Surveys, and is meant to exhibit, in a comparatively small compass, all that is of general utility in these voluminous works, in regard to the ' Agricultural State and Political Circumstances' of Scot- land. , . . •• Agriculture is not the only subject treated on in this work. It contains, among other matters, some account of the Manufactures, Commerce, and Fisheries of the coun- try"— Edin•' » Review. FOR THE COUNTRY . J. Deeley, Rawreth ] Mr. T Harridge, Rayleigh . T. Nuuu, Lawford G. Bridges, Manning- Mr. J. Vaizey, Halsted Mr C. Round, Little Birch Mr. J. Brightwen, Cogges- hall Mr. J. Stutter, Fornham, Suf- folk Mr. H. Lambirth, Writtle Mr Mr Mr. tree Mr. J. Bailey, Harwich Mr. S. Bawtree, Soutlunins- te r Mr. J. Sewell, Little Ma- plested Government receives of this Society upwards of £ 3,000 a year, for Duty only. Persons whose Insurances become due on the 25th inst are requested to take Notice, that printed Receipts are now in the hands of the several Agents undermentioned, and also of me, at the Office, Colchester, for the Renewal of their respective Policies, which will, as usual, remain in force for Fifteen Days from the Quarter- Day, and no longer. Rules and Regulations of the Socicty, and Proposals, maybe had, free of expence— Insurances received, and Dividends paid, every quarter, by all the Agents by me, FRANK ABELL, Secretary Colchester, 10th March, 1810 and SOLOMON'S ANTl- IMPETIGINES. THE celebrated ANTI IMPETIGINES, or SOLOMON'S DROPS, ( Without mercury, or any deleterious preparation) stand in the highest estimation for the cure of the Scurvy, Scrofula, Leprosy, and all disorders originating in an impure state of the blood ; being gradual, gentle, and almost imperceptible, in their operation; the best substitute that has ever been disco- vered for that dangerous mineral Mercury, sweetening the blood, and stimulating it to expel all noxious and impure juices, giving strength and tone to the nerves, enlivening and invigorating both body and mind. • Price lis per bottle, or four in one family bottle for 33s. by which one 11s. bottle is saved; with the words •• Same Solomon, Liverpool," engraved on the Stamp of each bottle, without which none are genuine. N. B. Dr. Solomon expects, when consulted by letter, the usual compliment of a one pound note to be inclosed, ad- dressed, " Money Letter, Dr. Solomon, Gilead House, near Liverpool.— Paid double postage." Sold by Swinborne and Walter, Colchester ; Harris and Firmin, ditto; Keymer, ditto; N. Rose, ditto; Meggy and Chalk, Chelmsford; GUT, ditto; Kelham, ditto; Young- man, Witham and Maldon; Holroyd, Maldon; Smith, Braiutree; Seager, Harwich; Hardacre, Hadleigh; Hill, Ballingdon; and all the respectable Medicine Venders'in the United Kingdom. Where may be had, the celebrated ABSTERGENT LOTION, an effectual Cure for Eruptions on the FACE and SKIN, particularly Pimples, Blotches, Tetters, Ringworms, Tail, Sunburns, Freckles, Shingles, Prickly Heat, Redness of the Nose, Neck, Arms, & c. Scorbutic and Cutaneous Eruptions of every description; being the most valuable acquisition and appendage to the toilet ever offered to the Nobility and Gentry in the United King- dom. ' , * Price 4s. 6d. and 2s. 9d. a bottle, Duty included,— Be careful to observe the words Samuel Solomon, Liver- pool," engraved La the Stamp, without which none are genuine. AGENTS. Messrs. JAMES BUTLER, Chelmsford. GEORGE BELCHAM, Rayleigh. W. S BARNES, Saffron Walden. J. BARNARD, jun. Harlow. B. CHAPMAN, Harwich. E. CHAPMAN, Mendlesham. W. DRAPER, Maldon. K G. DUPONT, Sudbury. THOMAS EDDISON, Romford. JOSLIN and SON, Braintree. S . JESUP, Halsted. J. KING, Castle Hedingham. W. MATTHEWS, Coggeshall. GEO OLIVER Bury St. Edmunds. J. Y. OLIVER, Ipswfch. . JAMES SEAMAN, Thorpe. W. ROLPH, Billericay. THOMAS SCRIVENER, Manningtree. JOSEPH SEWELL, Great Dunmow. JAMES WILD, Wood bridge. FRANCIS WILSON, Great Clacton. PHILIP YOUNGMAN, Witham. BENJAMIN SALMON, Great Oakley. IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. THE NEW MEDICAL INSTITUTION, No. 8, Tavistoch- Street, Bedford- Square, London, Is established for the CURE OF CONSUMPTION, SCROPHUI A, AND NERVOUS COMPLAINTS ONLY. G. SKINNER, Esq. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Manager. rj^ IlESE are the only JS_ DIES ever discovered INFALLIBLE REME- ed, for curing these three Giant Complaints. F. XAV1ER and Co. assisted by se- veral Physicians and other Medical Men of eminence, have brought the three Remedies of this Institution to so high a degree of perfection, that they engage to forfeit £ 100 if either fail, if used a., directed. Mr. Skinner may be consulted from Eleven to Three, by Patients at home; after Three, or by stating their cases, post paid, with a remittance lor either Remedy or Advice, bo. a sent to any part. For authentic Cures, References, & c. see the end of the Treatise on Consumption, and Treatise on Scrophula, pub- lished and sold by the Institution; Higley and Son, 174, Fleet- street; and all Booksellers; 2 s. stitched, 2s. 8d boards; each Remedy, 10; 6d. with full Directions ; sold at the Institution, wholesale and retail; and by Swinborne and Walter, and Rose, Colchester ; Harmer, and Chamber- lain, Ipswich; Wallis. Manningtree.; Seager, Harwich; Buck. Coggeshalll; Nash, Witham; Burkitt, Sudbury; Wool by, Show market; Halter, Hales worth; I • Loder, Wood- bridge; ar. J most respectable Venders of Medicine. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, MARCH 11. The Lord Chancellor presented a Bill which had been prepared by the Judges, according to an Order of the House last Session, for the purpose of compre- hending in one Act all the Laws relative to the pu- nishmcnt of the Pillory. The Bill having been laid on . the table, was, on the motion of his Lordship, ordered to be printed. The Marquis of Lansdowne gave notice, that he should, on Friday next, call the attention of the louse to a subject of vast and urgent importance; he leant the determination of what might be deemed a and proper rite of the military establishment of the country at the present time of peace, and to ad- dress the Prince Regent on the occasion. He then moved, that the Lords be summoned on Friday Ordered accordingly. TUESDAY, MARCH 12. STATE OF THE NATION. The Duke of Bedford most solemnly assured their Lordships, that nothing but a strict and conscientious sense of his duty could have induced him to under- take a task for which there were so many Noble Lords about him so, much more competent than himself. He was led to the course which he was taking by a serious reflection on the condition in which the country was placed, on theeuormous and most extraordinary extent of the military peace establishment which had been proposed, on the unprecedented burdens to which the people had been subjected, and on the general distress of the country. His wish was to in- duce the House to go into a Committee. It would be expedient there to inquire whether the prodigious military establishment which had been proposed was really necessary or not. Whatever might be deemed requisite, it was clear to every rational and reflecting man; that considerable reductions ought to take place > in all the, departments, with a view to that system of economy, without which it was impossible for the public affairs to proceed. If their Lordships looked to the present state of Europe generally, they would find in ever, view of it abundant reason for the policy which he suggested. That prospect, more strongly than at any former period, recommended such mea- sures. He could not be free from alarm ill contem- plating the distribution which had been made of the military force; 25,000 men placed in Great Britain, the same number allotted to Ireland. That country h id been a most uniformly treated too much like a conquered country, and her attachment sought to be gained by force of arms rather than by persuasion and mild conciliation. He earnestly implored their Lordships to take a full and constitutional view of the question, and to consider how far it would be safe for the country and all which they held dear, to suffer so large a military establishment as that which was proposed to take place. To the military prowess and ,,— y. i... • ,'< jt win.- » t cheer- fully contribute his unreserved enlogium; but he could not help deprecating that excess of admiration, or llier that madness, which would confound the seasons of war and peace in reference to military stab is liments.— Hits Grace next adverted to the taxes, the amount of which had exceeded one half of the lauded and commercial capital of the country. The Property Tax was every where and by all men reprobated; and upon the internal distresses of the country it was needless for him to expatiate, as they were felt universally by ail ranks, classes, and de- scriptions of people. Of the lands, immense tracts had been thrown out of cultivation. Ill Norfolk, par- ticularly, to his own knowledge, lands which hail let at five and at three pounds an acre had been thrown up, and were a terwards refused rent- free. The gaols universally were crowded with insolvent debtors. Nor was I he evil confined to the cultivators of the soil, it extended to ail the other classcs of society, and was deeply felt by the Clergy themselves, especially in their tythes, as Ihe Right il^ v. Prelates could testify. Having mentioned tythes, lit would recur to the slate of lie and. The Catholic juestion was one which was doubtless the source of abundant discontent, and called for the most serious and dispassionate consideration. It was indeeo a question which had formerly engaged his deep attention; but he had ever heard of any adequate or competent plan as a remedy. But surely it was highly proper to go into inquiry on the subject, The agricultural state of Ire- lanti too was an important ant pressing consideration. It was far from his desire to enbarrass Administration} that idea he utterly disclaimed, as one that be should be ashamed of. His wish was, that Government should have free scope, but tint Parliament should be duly vigilant in superintending their proceedings, and in the expression of that desire, he only accorded with the Noble Earl opposite at the head of his Majesty's Councils, who had slated. In general reference to the subject which he had touchedon, that he Only wished for a fair, calm, anil dispaissionate inquiry. The im- portance of the question could not be disputed.— He was only desirous to revert to the practice of our an- cestors. He again urged the necessity of observing the strictest economy, in order to relieve the country from a burden of taxation, under which it must otherwise sink. The Noble Duke concluded with moving— " That the House resolve itself into a Committee for taking into consideration the present state of the na- tion." The Dnhe of Sussex rose to second the motion. His Royal Highness observed, that after the able manner in which the Noble Duke who moved the question had set forth the objects of it, and considering the very able assistants with whom he was aided and surrounded, it would naturally appear superfluous in him to do more than give a silent vole in favour of opinions, with the truth and propriety of which he completely accorded. But there were two points on which he was desirous to offer his distinct opinion; namely, our external connections, and the internal condition of the country. Upon those two leading and important topics it was necessary to pay minute and accurate attention, to prevent cur falling into partial and mistaken results. The various petitions against the Property Tax were fully sufficient to show the agitation Which prevailed in the public mind, and it could not be denied that it was of deep importance that the public mind should be tranquilized. The public had shewn, during a long and unexampled struggle, that it could meet any danger with courage, and sustain any labours and privations with patience. There bad been throughout the country, during the whole of a long protracted w » r, but one sentiment that of various and combined patriotism. But, at the close of such a war, it was natural that, as the burdens bad been great, the necessity of continuing them ought to be nicely inquired into. Upon the subject of the taxes, there must, of course, be a variety of opinions; but there was no doubt with most people, that when the war was closed, the peculiar expences of the war were also to end. It was not by military achievements, however splendid they might be, it was not by glory or- vanity that the character and prosperity of Great Britain was to be maintained Whatever might be the brilliancy of the battle of Waterloo, the question for their Lordships, and for the country to consider was, whether, by the event of that battle, public security, permanent peace, and prosperity of trade and commerce were secured. It had been proved, by sad experience, that in foreign markets, whatever might be the acknowledged ex- cellence or general superiority of our manufactures, they were unable to maintain a hopeful competition with the manufactures of the Continent;' Some of which were said to equal our own; many to come near; and, on the whole, in point of price, to be sold fifty per cent, under the average rate of English goods. Noble Lords must feel the situation in which British manufactures must be placed by such a com- parison.— There was 110 one who thought more highly than lie did of the excellent discipline and admirable services of the army, but he could not view, without a constitutional jealousy, so large a standing force as that which Ministers had proposed for our peace establishment. He disclaimed all desire to obstruct or embarrass the proceedings of his Majesty's Go- vernment; but he could not help thus publicly de- claring his opposition to measures not, in his opinion, analogous to the Constitution. The Earl of Aberdeen opposed the motion, as un- called for by any one circumstance connected with the present situation of the country; and as to the military establishment, it was necessary in the pre- sent stale of Europe. He could not see any danger, in a constitutional point of view, that could possibly arise from keeping up this force. In the present altered condition of the world, when freedom of thinking and of discussion existed every where, and particu- larly in this kingdom ; when the human intellect was improved, and when public opinion was so widely circulated, there was no reason to fear that any army would ever make encroachments on public liberty. The Earl of Limerick spoke in favour of the motion. Great discontent, his Lordship said, existed in Ireland, for which he did not know in what manner an ade- quate remedy could be applied; but he hoped means of conciliation would be adopted, rather than of coercion. The Marquis of Buckingham recommended inquiry into the actual state of Ireland, in order to discover whether means might not be brought into, effect for ameliorating the situation of that country. His Lord- ship disapproved, in every point of view, of the enor- mous military establishment proposed, which he con- sidered altogether inconsistent to a state of peace.— There appeared in it all the features of a military des- potism ; for as we had no enemies to contend against, lie could not possibly conceive its utility, unless it was to be kept up for the purpose of protecting the country against at the population at home. He made some ob- servations on the arrears of the Civil List, and on the late increase of salaries in different departments, at a time when economy was recommended in the speech from the Throne ; declaring his opinion that the reve- nues of the country would be found inadequate to the magnitude of its expences. The Earl of Blessington . defended the peace esta- blishment, as a temporary measure, which he con- ceived the present stale of Europe rendered absolutely necessary. Earl Bathurst could not see any ground for a motion of this kind, which could not produce any practical good; but, on the contrary, must greatly embarrass the operations of the Government. As to our expen- diture, no comparison could be made between the present and former times, which arose certainly from the great difference of circumstances If the state of Ireland called for inquiry, then let there be a specific motion made, for an inquiry to that effect, and let it not be mixed with any motion for going into the state of the nation. Lord Darnley said it was not only as a standing army in time of peace dangerous to the liberties of the country, that the present enormous establishment was to be considered; but it was also connected will) the financial part of our system, at a time when taxation was so very burdensome and oppressive. The Property Tax, if merely at tax on property, and if necssary, and continued only in a time of war, lie thought would not be the most objectionable mode of raising a revenue ; but at present it had neither of these characters, and lie therefore thought that Ministers should pay a proper deference to the opinions of the nation. The Duke of Bedford briefly replied to all the argu- ments against, his motion, when the House divided— Contents, 71— Non- contents, 140— Majority against the motion, 69. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 8. About twenty petitions were received from different places against the Income Tax. The Report of the Committee of Supply being brought up, Mr. Cocks objected to the large cavalry force pro- posed to be kept up, on the mere pretence of prevent- ing smuggling. Mr. Newman and Col. Foley also objected generally to the peace establishment. Mr. W. Courtenay, while he admitted that a system of economy was indispensable, was at the same time perfectly convinced that Ministers would be deficient in doing their duty to the country, if they shrunk from upholding an establishment which they conceived was necessary to the interests of the State. He con- tended that the force destined for Great Britain was necessary. The light cavalry had always been em ployed in checking smuggling formerly, and in the hour of trial they had never been found deteriorated by such service. Sir J. Newport implored the House to consider of some other mode of removing the discontents of Ire- land, than that of keeping a permanent large military force in that country. He was apprehensive, from the acknowledgment that this force was to be main tained there for two years, it followed, that no attempt was to be made to eradicate the evils which had for centuries been permitted to exist in Ireland. Mr. C. Grant supported the proposed establishment from which he apprehended no danger to our liberties He deprecated the practice of taking every opportu- nity of ridiculing the army, and holding up its foibles to public odium and contempt. Mr. Wynne was not aware of any ridicule thrown upon the army, although he had heard many just de- scriptions of that absurdity of drees, and of those fopperies, by which many regiments were disfigured. Hits he believed to be a source of great discontent in the army, and of great grievance to many officers, who were obliged to be at the expence of perpetually equipping, themselves anew. Was this to be regarded among the foibles of the army, or as any essential part of it ?— He then replied at some length to the argu- ments which had been advanced in support of the Estimates, in which he maintained considerable re- trenchments ought to be made. Sir J. Beresford said, that no part of the force pro- posed for the West Indies could be dispensed with. Lord Milton repeated his former objections to the Estimates. Mr. S. Wortley thought the establishment for Great Britain might safely be reduced one half. Mr. Wilberforce, with the must grateful sense of the services of the army, could not help, as an English- man, feeling great jealousy of a standing army. If we suffered a larger force to be kept up now than at any former peace, Government might wish to increase it at the next peace, and so we might go on until the liberties of the country were entirely subverted, lie thought that this country was always loo ready to go to war, and nothing was more likely to encourage that passion than a large standing army. If we at- tempted to interfere in all continental affairs, we should unnecessarily and unwisely involve the Con- stitution, the finances, and the morals of our country. Lord Palmerston defended every part of the Esti- mates, and ridiculed the fears that were entertained of danger to the Constitution from the force proposed to be maintained. After some observations from Sir J. Sebright, Mr. Tighe, and Mr. F. Prittie against the Estimates; and from Mr. W. Fitzgerald and Colonel Vereker in sup- port of them, the Report was read a first time. Mr. Wynne then moved for re committing it. The motion was negatived, oil a division, by 190 to 12a Majority, 68.— The Report was then agreed to Adjourned to Monday. MONDAY, MARCH 11, Numerous petitions were presented against the Properly Tax. Mr. Tierney wished to know on what day the con- sideration of the Property Tax would be laid before the House. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, as the debates had been so much protracted, and would probably continue to be so, Friday would be a more probable day than Wednesday for bringing it on. Mr. Tierney wished, as it had been so often de- ferred from day to day, that some certain day should be appointed for the consideration of the question, and thought, that perhaps Monday would be lite best day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer assented, and ap- pointed Monday. ARMY ESTIMATES. On the Order of the Day being moved that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of Supply, and that the Report of the Army Estimates be re- ferred to the said committee, Mr. W. C. Wynne thought it would be necessary, before the House went into a Committee, that each particular item of service should be separately voted, in order that a separate provision might be made for each. For this purpose be moved— That it be an in- struction to the Committee to make provision to defray the expences of the troops at home under the head of household troops and of guards; of the cavalry and infantry in Great Britain ; of the cavalry and infantry in Ireland; of the troops in the Colonies, & c.; of contingencies at home, and contingencies abroad. Lord Palmerston said, that, as far as the thing could be done consistently with former practices, he " should bring forward these points in such a way as must answer the object of the Hon. Gent. He meant to propose a general estimate for the charge of the land forces in Great Britain and Ireland; then an estimate of the household troops, guards, garrisons, and troops on foreign stations, as well as contingencies. He should propose the charges that were applicable to Ireland separately. The motion was agreed to. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Estimates. Lord Palmerston moved, that the sum of 385,2751. be granted to his Majesty for defraying the expcnce of the household troops for the year ending the 25th of December, 1816. Mr. Calcraft said, there were three regiments of Guards, which were kept merely for parade, and whose duty was confined to the metropolis. He thought these might be reduced nearly to the number at which they stood in the year 1791, namely, 8765. Now the number was 8000, and he proposed that this number be reduced to 4050. Lord Castlereagh observed, that the House had al- ready come to a decision as to the number of troops that were to be kept up; and therefore could not, with any consistency, reduce that number. So far from the troops alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman being kept solely for parade, there was a brigade of Guards now kept in France, and it was not intended that they should be brought home. With respect to the cavalry, to reduce their number would be at once productive of inconvenience, and not attended with any saving whatever. It would be a great advantage to keep up a body of troops which might be ready for service on any emergency that should occur. If these were disbanded they must receive pensions; their horses, which were excellent, must be sold at a con- siderable loss. Four thousand men, who had each cost 1001. for bounty and equipment, and who had fought most bravely against the enemy, would be sent adrift, and they must be replaced by dragoons, who would be newly enlisted from among the peasants; and thus would the country be subject to all the in- convenience attending the raising of new troops, with the losses occasioned by desertion, & c. so that nothing could be gained in point of economy, but, on the contrary, very serious losses would be incurred; therefore, he conceived, that the House could not. consistently with its own proceedings, or on any principle of economy, agree to the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. Brougham, in an eloquent speech, commented on the dangerous tendency of the proposed Estimates. He objected particularly to the household troops, a phrase, he said, which was borrowed from the French, and unknown in this country before the present time. It would be for the Committee to consider if the troops in London now should be double the number proposed by Mr. Pitt in 1792. Had any new demand arisen for them, or was the country more disturbed now than at that period ? Certainly not, for it was at least two years since the Attorney- General found it necessary to issue a single ex officio information. The Hon. Gentlemen contended that soldiers could never be degraded by being brought into the class of citizens, and opposed the Estimates, as most unconsti- tutional anil dangerous to the liberties of the country. Mr. W. Pole congratulated the Uotise on the libe- rality evinced during the discussion. Such candour on the part of Hou.' Gentlemen on the other side would make it imperative on his Majesty's Mi, listers to con- sider every possible means of reducing the peace esta- blishment, which he could assure the House was not intended to be permanent. General Loftus dwelt on the importance of the Guards, as a corps always ready and disposable, con- tending, that their services might, upou any emer- gency, be called into immediate action. The Chancellor of the Exchequer argued, that they tvere not now proposing a permanent establishment. The question was, whether they should continue what . was in cessary to the security of the country, or have to t'orin a new military establishment} and thus double Its expences. The reduction would be i source of weakness to the army and of expence to the Treasury. Ministers were justified in retaining such a force both by land and sea as would secure the empire. The pre- sent was not to become a permanent peace establish- ment. The House would have hereafter to consider what that establishment should be. On a division, the Resolution was carried by majority of 85. Lord Palmerston afterwards brought up a Resolu- tion, that there be granted to his Majesty the sum of 333,6921. for the expeiic. es of the cavalry and the waggon train. The House then divided on a question of adjourn- ment moved by Mr. Tierney, when the numbers were •— for the adjournment, 62— against it, 126— majority for Ministers, 64. TUESDAY, MARCH 12. Mr. Croker moved for leave to bring in a Bill for regulating the Royal Marine Forces, while 011 shore. The IJili w is brought in, and read a first time. Mr. Western presei lited a petition from the inhabi- tants of the town of Colchester, against the Property Tax.— 1. aid 011 the table.—' Petitions were preseuted from many other places. DETENTION AND CUSTODY OF BONAPARTE. Lord Castlereagh., in calling the attention of the House to the means which ha< l been adopted for the safe custody of Bonaparte, alluded to the regulations in St. Helena for that purpose, for the carrying into effect of which he now rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill. Considerable doubt had arisen upon this subject, and it was thought ne- cessary to call upon Parliament to make a law that might sanction what had been already done, and what his Majesty's Ministers might think It advisable to do for the future safe custody of that person. It had been asked in what light he would be considered; but he thought, that in whatever light lie might be viewed, the necessity there was for keeping him in safe custody, for the preservation of the peace of Europe, would stand unquestioned, it might be said that he was a prisoner of war, and that though the treaties of peace had provided for the restoration Of ordinary prisoners taken by each country, yet that so far from his being included iu those treaties, lie Was particu larly excluded, and that an especial exception had been nude with regard to him by the Government of France. Or, in another view, he might beconsidered as an enemy who had broken a direct treaty with Great Britain; as a Prince with whom we had been St war, and vvilh whom we did not make peace iu consequence of particular circumstances of aggrava- tion. He had no doubt that the House would not feel itself inclined to oppose his motion, when the necessity of it was considered, and its great iniporiauce to the general security. It was, lie was confident, a trans- action equally agreeable and consonant with the ge- neral laws of nations, as with the particular necessity. At ( lie same time that he was a character recognized by the iavv as a prisoner of war, it was neccssary that those in whose more immediate custody he remained, should know that he was to be treated with every in- dulgence consistent with his situation, and with his secure detention. Every thing should be done that cou d tend to preserve the line of policy which his Majesty's Ministers, had pursued for promoting the interests of the country and for securing m, iv « rpal tranquillity ; and as this was an essential consequence of that policy, lie hoped the Bill iu its progress would meet with little opposition. He had also to move for leave to bring iu another Bill, consequent upon the former, for the regulation of the intercourse of Great Britain and St. Helena, in which some rules would be laid down respecting the touching of merchant ships at the island. Some difference would be observed in these regulations, however, as regarded the East India Company, considering that their vessels, as they were more like ships of war, were subject to a very strict discipline. The Noble Lord then concluded by mov- ing, " That leave be given to bring in a Bill for maintaining iu custody Napoleon Bonaparte." Mr. Brougham said, whatever he might have to urge upou the subject of Bonaparte's conduct, lie cou'd not l » ut agree with the motion of the Noble Lord, and he thought the House would give an almost immediate concurrence to any measure, which had for its object the safe custody of the prisoner. General Matthew wished to know, if the officers w ho were with their master were also to be detaiued lord Castlereagh said it was not intended to detain the officers now with him. After some further observations, the motion agreed to. Lord Castlereagh then moved, that leave be given to bring in a Bill for regulating the intercourse be- tween Great Britain and St. Helena, during the time of Bonaparte's confinement iu that Island.— Agreed to. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. Mr. Gooch presented a petition from the County of " tof Suffolk, against the Property Tax. He observed that the distress throughout the country must be much more serious than the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer imagined, or he and his friends could not speak with the indifference which they had on the subject; he believed Ministers to be entitled to con- fidence, and he gave them full credit for goodness of intention; but at present they had done nothing to remove any of the just complaints of the | K> ople. The petitioners truly stated, that their distress was insup- portable: so far he went with them, and hoped that they would be relieved. At the same time he felt it a painful duty to state, that he could not agree iu their views of the Property Tax. He believed it to be the best means which could be resorted to, for winding up the expences of the war. He certainly felt all the strong objections to the inquisitorial powers of the tux, but if modified so as to remove this objection, he could not but consider it, with all its imperfections 011 its head, to be better lhan any other mode that could be devised of meeting the temporary wants of the State. He was decidedly of opinion, that if the War Malt Duties were taken off it would be a greater relief to the tenants and the poor, than the non- renewal ol'llie Property Tax. Mr. Round said, that Ministers brought forward this unpopuiar measure iu the discharge of their duty, as the least burthensome to the mass of the peop e ; they were actuated by a feeling which would be pro- perly appreciated, and entitle them to the support of the House, which he trusted they would have, notwith- standing the efforts made against thein. The petition was then laid ou the table. Mr. Round presented a petition from the Innkeepers, Victuallers, & c. of the Borough of Ipswich, praying relief front the heavy duties 011 licenses. Mr. Gooch presented two petitions from flu; Vic tualiers, & c. of the County of Suffolk against the in- creased duties on licences. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Lord Palmerstone moved, that the sum of .133,6921. 1 Is. 6 I. be granted for defraying the charges of the Or a goo it Guards, and Royal Waggon Train. That 514,2961.17s. 44. be granted to defray the charge of infantry of the line, proposed to be employed in Great Britain aud the Islands of the Channel for the year 1816. That a sum not exceeding 142,8721. Is. 2d. be granted to defray the charge of cavalry proposed to be employed iu Ireland ( or the year 1816. That 71 » , 100l be granted to defray the charge of in- fantry of the line proposed to be stationed iu Ireland for the year 1816. That 1,539.7591.10s. 4d. be granted to defray the chatye of forces proposed to be employed ou stations abroad, ex- clusive of France, for the year 1816. All which were agreed to. The following Resolutions were also put and agreed to:— 462,7601. for Miscellaneous Services. 119,8561. for Expences of Troops in Ireland. 20,8351. for the Army in India. 550,0001. for the embodied Militia of Great Britain and Ireland. And also for various other sums for half- pay, pen- sions, hospitals, & c. The Bill for maintaining in custody Napoleon Bo- naparte, and the Bill for regulating the intercourse between Great Britain and St. Helena, were brought up, and read a first time. OFFICIAL COPY OF MR. WESTERN'S PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF AGRICUL- TURAL DISTRESS. A letter from Naples, of the 21st ult. says :— " A division of the British troops, Mitch were formerly stationed at Genoa aud along the coast, have arrived in the Calabrias, and will be distri- buted amotig the different citadels. The towns of Otranto and Scylla will have garrisons composed of those corps. Barracks have been constructed in the environs of Scylla for their accommodation, until they can be quartered in the town. These troops have brought with them every article requisite for their support. Our Government, it is said, is charged with their pay. We do not yet know why the English have deemed it expedient to transport troops into our territories. There ate still too many foreign soldiers atnong us ; the Austrians do not discover any inclination to withdraw. This mystery will, perhaps, be revealed in time. The nationalanny is organising with the greatestactivity. The King, at no former period, found such resources in his subjects. Our commerce is still languid; the English ar^ everywhere with their merchandize. We tear of an intended Treaty of Commerce to limit the amount of the articles of importation,— 1. That the portion of the Community, Whose capitals are engaged in Agriculture, as well as those numerous classes whose employment depends thereon; are at present suffering under the pressure of unexampled distress. ' 2. That the continuance of such distress is fraught with extreme danger to the most important interests of the country. 3. That the demand for the extended produce of our Agriculture is, at this time, insufficient to produce that price which is necessary tb cover the heavy charges and burdens upon it. 4. That the demand for Barley has been very materially reduced, by the excessive duties to which it is subjected, iu the course of the various operations which adapt it to the use of the consumer. 5. That the continuance of those duties, during peace, wheu the facility of smuggling is so much increased, cauuot fail to injure the home manufacture of Spirits which must still further diminish the demand for Barley. 6. That it is therefore necessary to reduce the duties ou Malt, Beer, and Spirits. 7. That iu order to equalise the supply of grain, aud promote its cultivation, it is desirable that an appropria- tion should be made from the ex'ra produce of abundant harvests, to supply the deficiency of seasous le « s favour- able. 8. That the admission of Foreign Cora to be warehoused prevents such application of our owu occasional abund- ance, and assigns to Foreign Agriculture the formation of those stores, which might otherwise be created from the produce of our own. 9. That it is therefore expedient to repeal so much of an Act of last Session for the Regulation of the Corn Trade, as permits the warehousing of Foreign Corn, at all times, Duty free. 10. That iu order further to promote the appropriation of a part of our present abundance, and reserve it for future consumption, it is expedient to aid the means of those individuals, who may be disposed so to employ their capitals, by au advance of Exchequer Bills, to a limited amount. 11. That excessive Taxation renders it necessary to give protection to all artic les, the produce of our own soil, against similar articles, the growth of foreign countries, not subject to the same burdens, and, in conformity with that policy, which has been uniformly observed, of pro- tecting by duties and encouraging by bouuties or draw- backs, all our other manufactures. 12. That it is therefore expedient to impose additional duties and restrictions on the importation of all articles the produce of foreign agriculture. 13. That it is expedient, under due limitatiou, to en- courage, by bounty or drawback, the exportation of the reduinlaut produce of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom. 14 That the Tithe, and the Poor- rates, to the payment of which, those whose capitals are engaged iu Agriculture are almost exclusively subjected, have recently been felt to press with increasing and unexplained severity, aud that it is therefore necessary to relieve them, as far as possible, from the operation of other burdens. LONDON The last accounts from Madrid announce the arrival at the Island of Madeira of the Princesses of tho Brazils, ( he. future spouses of the . Princes of Spain. It seems that they will disembark at Cadiz, where the body guards have gone to meet them. Letters from Milan of the 20th ult. announce the arrival at that place of Mr. Liston, the British Ambassador at the Sublime Porte, on his return from Constantinople, The same letters mention, that the apprehensions of the progress of the plague in the interior of Italy had subsided. We have received United States' Papers to the 15th ult. The Commercial Convention with this country is in actual operation. On the 7th ult. it was officially notified in New York, that British vessels would be placed on the same footing as the native shipping with respect to the tonnage duty, and that the productions of the United Kingdom, in British bottoms, should be subject to the same duties as those imported in American vessels. The " beloved" Ferdinand's Minister had left Wash- ington with a precipitation altogether unwarranted by the gravity of the Spanish character. His Ex- cellency appears to have been offended at the blunt treatment he has experienced from the Republican Government. An immediate war is apprehended, but one in every point of view with more disastrous prospects could not present itself to Spain in her actual wretched and forlorn situation. The United States, some years ago, purchased Louisiana from Bonaparte, to whom it had been sold by his own party in the Spanish Cabinet Whatever may be said respecting the validity of this sale, Spain insists that the United Slates can, under the name of Louisiana, claim 110 more than what was transferred to Bonaparte; but they have also taken a large part of West Florida. It appears by a letter from Paris, that the French Government mean to try Messrs. Wilson, Bruce, and Hutchinson, not merely upon a charge of mis- demeanor, but upon one of treason, there being a clause in the Code Penal, which brings the assist- ance of certain prisoners in their escape within that description of offence, and makes them liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than two, nor more than five years. The Juge d'lnstruction made his report on the 29th ult. to the Chamber of Council, in the affair of Messrs. Wilson, Bruce, and Hutchinson. The Council has, iu consequence of this report, issued au Ordonnance, by virtue of which, Mandats of arrest have been issued against the three accused, in the following terms :—" Wilson, accused of con- spiracy; Bruce and Hutchinson, accused of being accomplices in a conspiracy directed in general against the political system of all the States of Eu- rope, and having for its special object, to destroy or change the French Government, and to excite the citizens or inhabitants to arm themselves against the authority of the King; as also of hav- ing attempted to further the execution of this con- spiracy, by endeavouring to rescue from the prose- cutions directed by the King, the individuals com- prised in the first article of the Ordonnance of the 24th of July last, and chiefly by concerting, carry- ing 011, and effecting the escape and concealment of Lavalette, condemned for the crime of high treason." Letters from Vienna assert, that the Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, arid Prince Leopold of the Two SiriHes, will espouse two Archduchesses, daughters ol the Emperor of Austria. measure very much wanted in the present dis- tressed state of national commerce." The Theatre of St. Charles at Naples, the largest in the world, has been totally destroyed by fire. Happily, no lives were lost. On this subject, a letter from Naples, of Feb. 14, says, " The Theatre of St. Charles exists no longer. That glorious monument of the arts, and of the magnificence of Charles III.— that immense edifice, which lecalled to the Neapolitans and to strangers flic good tasfe of Athens and the power of Rome, has been entirely destroyed by fire, iu a few moments. It took fire by the negligence of a servant, who had left a lamp alight. It was impossible to stop the progress of' the flames. Presently the whole roof fell in, and the Palace of the King, the neighbouring edifices, and the squares were covered with burning ashes. The concourse of all the citizens, their zeal, and their prodigious activity at the King's Palace, pre- served that great city from the misfortunes with which it was menaced."— Another letter says, that the fire broke out soon after the rehearsal of u ballet, the wind haviti" blown a spark, from a lamp upon some combustible materials. Letters received on Saturday from Berlin state, that the Government feels some uneasiness at the continuance of the numerous societiesin the country, whose abolition has been repeatedly demanded, but in vain ; and that the Prussian Government has prohibited the importation of all British manufac- tures and refined sugars. Letters from Bombay, of date the end of Sep- tember, have been received, up to which period all was tranquil in that part of the country. None of the combinations among the Mahrattas, of which we have heard in England, are mentioned iu the East Indian papers. Christophe has received another proof of the treachery of his troops. On the 17th December, 200 of his soldiers, each having three muskets, with powder, ball, & c. and 2000 Spanish dollars, were sent to join old Gomar in the woods, who for five years had been living 011 the mountains to an- noy Petion's party. On the 18tli, the 200soldiers killed their Commander, and entered Jeremie, sur- rendering themselves, with their equipage and cash, to the Commandant of that place.— President Petion has increased the tax upon territorial pro- perty, to be in force until the 31 st December 1S17 Upon coffee and cotton fifteen dollars the 1000 weight. Cocoa, sugar, and molasses, and yellow lignum vitae, have all been increased. Accounts from Genoa to the 27th ult, state, that The repairs of Harcourt House, Cavendish- square, for the" residence of the Princess Charlotte, are proceeding rapidly. It was in contemplation to have appropriated the Board of Ordnance Office, in Pall Mall, whibh has a communication with the Gardens of Carlton- House, for her Royal High- ness's residence. On Monday morning the Archdukes John and Lewis embarked on board the Royal yacht, at Dover, which sailed at eight o'clock with a fair wind for Calais. The Gazette of Saturday contains the following appointment :—" The Prince Regent has been pleased to present tlie Rev. Rowland Hill, M. A. to the Rectory of Delemere, in the county of Chester." CATHOLIC QUESTION.— The divisions in the Catholic Body begin to assume features of a more fixed description. Oil Saturday se'nnight two different meetings of Catholics were sitting in Dublin, at different places at the same time— the Association at Mr. Fitzpatrick's, and the Seceders at Lord Trimleston's. They have appointed dis- tinct Secretaries, the Chevalier M'Carthy being Secretary to the Seceders, and Mr. Hay to the Association. The Seceders will commit their petition to Mr. Grattan, and the Association to Sir H. Parnell, for presentation in the House of Commons ; but Lord Donoughmore unites the opinions of these discordant meetings, as both have resolved to commit to him their respective petitions to the House of Lords. Ou the night of the 1st instant, the boat of the Hope sloop of war, being on the look- out for smug- glers, ran against a sunken rock between the Mewstone and the land, and immediately sunk. The Lieutenant and one of the men saved them- selves by swimming to shore; but the remaining five seamen and one marine were drowned. The Hope was in Dartmouth harbour on the 2d instant. What the Minister cannot forego in direct and in- direct imposts on the farmer, must be secured to him in the value of the produce he rears. IF die quantity be above the effectual deuiutid, lessen the supply, and an equivalent will he obtained ; if it be, although low in price, not in positiye abund- ance, afford a temporary market lor its disposal, and a Just level will be the result. We should suppose that the most simple and efficient attempt would be to make Government purchases, when the price is to a certain degree below the importa- tion price. These purchases would be more sub- stantial deposits than those projected ; they w ould form supplies for our colonies, kc. would prevent the great rise of corn in times of scarcity ; and should ultimately an excess of growth occur, the final exportation to find a market, and loss thereon, would be the only bounty the public would have to pay. A very limited sum would fully answer this purpose, which could be readily raised by Govern- ment securities, and the experiment would fully prove the real cause of the distress. To look- for the benefits of future years, is to destroy every vestige of agricultural property; to destroy the revenue of the State; to extend ruin anti desolation throughout the country ; and to convert the blissful era of peace into one horrid spell of despondency, anarchy, and want. The remedy must be imme- diate, or the most calamitous consequences must ensue. BANKRUPTS. William King, Thorpe, Norfolk, miller, March 29, 30, April 20, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Attornies, 11 ; ssrs. Simpson and Rackham, Norwich; and Messrs. Taylor, Featherstone- buildings, Holborn. John Jones, Norwich, hatter, March 26,27, April 30, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Attornies, Messrs, l) e Hague aud Stone, Norwich. William Howden, Cannon- street, London, insurance- broker, March 12, 19, April 20, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Kearsey and Sourr, Bishopsgate- street. John Pearse, Aldersgate- street, London, commission- agent, March 16, 23, April 20, at Guildhall Attorney, Mr. Coates, Paul- street, Finsbury square. William Nesbitt, North- street, City- road, London, Tun- bridge ware- manufacturer, March 10. 23, April 20, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Bennett, Tokenhouse- yard, Lothbury. Richard Amos, of St. Bartholomew's, near Sandwich, Kent, cattle dealer, March ' 25,2( 1, April 23, at the Guild- hall, Canterbury. Attornies, Messrs. Plumber and Son, Canterbury; aud Mr. Nethersole, Essex- street, Strand, London. William Oakley, late of Church street, Bermondsey, wool- stapler, March 16, 30, April 23, at Guildhall. Adel- ines, Messrs. Bridges and Quilter, Red Lion- square. Edmund Crultenden, of Sitting- bourne, Kent, salesman, March 16, April 2, 23, at Guildhall, London. Attornies, Mr. Nelson, Essex- street, Strand, London; and Mr. Jefferys, Chatham. Alexander George Milne, of Mitre- court, Fenchurch- street, London, merchant, March 16, 23, April 23, at Guild hall. Attornies, Messrs. Kaye, Freshfield, aud Kaye, New Bank- buildings. Daniel Pullen, of Spread Eagle- court, Threadneedle- street, London, bill- broker, March 16, 23, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Bellamy, Angel- court, Throgmorton- street. Edward Woodcock Gooch, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk victualler, March 28, 29, April 23, at the Queen's Head Inn, Ipswich. Attornies, Messrs Braham and Notcutt, Ipswich ; and Mr. Edmund Walker, Chancery- lane, und Exchequer Office of Pleas, Lincoln's Inn, London. THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE. Itle last ttiTioiuu yjf 1>. ..-- il. J ... ocvcia transports, three days before, for Malta. It was rumoured that these troops were intended to act against the Barbary Powers. Genoa is now left under the protection of a hotly of 7 or 8000 Pied- montese soldiers. His Majesty's ship Berwick was still at Genoa, and it was reported that Admiral Lord Exmouth was soon to call off that port, and was about to collect his fleet for some important object. Accounts have been received from Jamaica, which state, that from a mistaken notion among the Negroes that theif complete emancipation had been enacted by the British Parliament, a general in- surrection of those deluded people was apprehended. The necessary measuresaf precaution had however been adopted, and thers was every reason to hope that any attempt at revdt would be promptly aud effectually frustrated. Letters from Cambray state, that on the 1st the right wing of the army of occupation was entirely organized, and established iu its positions. These positions form a tripleliue, connected by posts at certain distances, so tint the service is every where perfonned with the greatest exactness, and iu case of need 70,000 lien might be united with perfect ease and promp. ness. It is, however, not at all probable that sich a measure will become necessary. Order, peace, repose, the happiness of being able to breathe after so many convulsions and misfortunes, these are the sentiments which animate the immense majority of the inhabitants of Picardy, Artois, and French Flanders. The arrival of Lord Wellington is still uncertain. Above 300 waggons, loaded with ammunition, & c. have lately arrived at Valenciennes, to be distributed in ali the fortresses garrisoned br the army of occupation. The trial of Admira Linois and General Boyer, for their conduct iu hoding Guadaloupe for Bona- parte, has commenced. Afresh Order has jost been received at Calais, directing that no foreigners or strangers shall be allowed to proceed from thence to Paris without, a passport from their Ambassador or Government. Several persons have been obliged' to return from the Ship Inn at Dover to London, in order to pro- cure such passports before they embarked for Calais. The Prince Regent held a Privy Council on Saturday, soon after four o'clock, at the Pavilion, at Brighton.— On Sunday another Privy Council was suinniont^ i for the express purpose of con- sidering the union of their Royal Highnesses, when the consent of his Royal Highness the Prince was officially given in Council to the marriage of his Royal Daughter to Leopold Prince of Saxe- Cobourg and the Lord Chancellor affixed the Great Seal of England to the instrument afterwards published authorizing their wedding to take place. The Queen had a select party on Saturday even ing. Sunday the Duke of York, the Princess. Sophia of Gloucester, and a numerous assemblage of the Nobility, visited the Queen and Princesses, — The Queen and Princesses left town for Windsor 011 Monday. Her Majesty, during her stay in town last week, it is said, gave commands for the arrangement of the dresses and jewels to be worn by her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte ou her jiuptials. A message was on Thursday delivered to the two Houses of Parliament, by the Earl of Liverpool and Lord Castlereagh, communicating the consent of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to the mar- riage of the Princess Charlotte of Wales with Prince Leopold of Cobourg, aud expressive of Lis confidence that a provision would be made by Parliament for her Royal Highness suitable to the honour and dignity of the country.— In the House01 Commons, a Committee was appointed, on the motion of Sir S. Romilly, for investigating the effects of the Insol- vent Debtors' Act.— Mr. Grenfell moved a Reso lution relative to the balances in the hands of' the Bank of England, whi< h, being public property, he conceived ousrht to be converted, at this period of public calamity, to the exigencies of the state. Mr. Tierney, and several other Members, concurred 11 opinion.— The Resolution was opposed by Lord Castlereagh and the Chancellor oflhe Exclnquer; and on a motion of the fitter, that the House do proceed to the Order of the Day, it was of course negatived. Extract of a letter from Quebec, dated Feb. 4, 1816 :—'" On the night, of the 26th January a very alarming and destructive fire took place, which totally consumed the arsenal and the whole rang ® of buildings to the end tow ards Palace Gate Guard- House. Most of the arms and Ordnance stores, to an immense amount, have been consutuid. Private letters from Paris state, that the advo- cates of Sir Robert Wilson, in the name of himself and Messrs. Bruce and Hutchinson, demand the postponement of their trial until the 1st of April. VY hen it was objected that tin y had had full time to prepare their defence, they replied, thai the m w and unexpected accusation presented against them, would not allow tin in to name a nearer period.— They call for a Juiy, composed one half of English- men, because the Code Civil declares that forms shall be adopted towards foreigners similar to thos<* which in their country may be adopted towards th » - French. Great ne the difficulty is to alleviate the distresses under which the agricultural interest suffers, we have thought, aud are still convinced, that, if not complete relief, a considerable amelioration is within the power of Parliament to bestow, and that without one infraction of the rights of any other class of the community. The sanguine hopes which Mr. Western's intended motion on this sub- ject inspired, have been materially heightened by the impression his able efforts in the execution of his object made on the House. It was a minute detail of the rise and fall of agriculture ; a faithful description of its importance, and its existing distress; and a just and reasonable suggestion for its. relief. We are ever inclined to doubt opinions which are not strictly consonant to the judgment of those who have laboriously investigated the materials from which alone an accurate estimate can be formed, aud we can scarcely imagine a case in which this deference should be more apparent than that which at present occupies our attention, when to zeal there is united every requisite to give that zeal effect. Amid this courtesy our solicitude influences and although we do not aspire to elicit one particle ot Mr. Western's statement, we cannot altogether forego those remarks which press as relevant to the cause he so laudably espouses : First, we hav< believed, that much as the importation of foreign corn operated, during its continuance, to increase the fall in the price of corn, we have viewed the present depreciation as resulting almost exclusively from the want of money; not that there was too much produce, but that poverty had narrowed the demand ; and while that cause increased the num- ber of sellers, it augmented the injury, by lessening the number of those whose pursuit it was to buy.— If this be the real situation of agriculture, the ' increased duty on seeds will be injurious in a na- tional view, by reducing the growth of corn at home, for the purposes of their extended culture, and thereby obliging us, on an average of years, to look to the foreign market for support. We have never seen any Report which goes the length to prove we grow more corn than we consume ; and unless this point is incontrovertibly established, national policy forbids a systematic reduction of its cultivation, however beneficial it might prove to the persons immediately concerned. But the truth, we fear, is, that the losses of the two preceding years have totally expended the circulating medium. Government continues to demand taxes almost twice the amount of the interest of the national debt; and there are no sources, now the army, & c. are supplied abroad, to return the amount received, so as to replenish those channels whence future support is required. Nothing can possibly remedy this evil but money, and the only question is, how that money can be applied. Mr. Western's plan of warehousing corn, and Government advances, promises great assistance; but it is surrounded by difficulties, and even dangers, which forbid us to calculate 011 its adoption. The difficulties are, the number of persons who may wish to make the deposit, and the minute care which such deposits require ; the danger, that they may be prodigiously extensive, and create, in seasons when it is hazard- ous to import, a price unnecessarily great. The object of Government is to secure to the growers of corn a remunerating price, which price is completely regulated by the ratio < jf taxation. COLCHESTER, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1S16. ESSEX Hounds MEET — Monday, March IS, at Hat- field Heath- Wednesday, March 20, al Parndon Wood- Saturday, March 23, at Leading Roothing Wood. EAST ESSEX Fox HOUNDS MEFT— ON Monday, March 18 at Toppinghoe Hall— Thursday, Boy, Chelmsford. THE EAST ESSEX UNION FOX- HOUNDS MEET— On Tuesday, March If), at Toppesfield— On Saturday, March 23, at Sible Hedingham— Hedingham country, at Ten e^ cli In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Mr. Round presented a petition from the innkeeper.*, & c. of Ipswich, complaining of the heavy duties on licences, and praying relief therefrom.— Mr. Gooch presented two petitions, to the same purport, froni the innholders, & c. of the county ol Suffolk; and also a petition from the freeholders and other inha- bitants of that county, against the continuance of the Property Tax. A meeting for the formation of a Church Mis- sionary Association, held in this town, on Tuesday last, was numerously and respectably attended, The collections, after the sermons at the churches, aud at the meeting, amounted to 1401. 4s. yd. which, together with donations and annual sub- scriptions already received, fonn un aggrteate of 3751. SUFFOLK COUNTY MEETING.— On Thursday se'nnight, a numerous Meeting of the land- owners, farmers, tradesmen, and other inhabitants of Suffolk, was held in Hie Market place of Stow- market, to take into consideration the distressed state of the country, and to address a petition to Parliament, praying for relief.— The Sheriff having- read the Requisition, Sir William Middleton stated to the Meeting, that as there cculd be but outt opinion upon that distress, which was so general, and which certainly pressed particularly hard upon the agricultural interest, it would he unnecessary for him to expatiate upon it at length. He con- gratulated them upon having now an opportunity afforded them of collectively stating fheir grievances by petition to the Parliament at Westminster, and should request the Sheriff to read Ihe Resolutions which hud been prepared, reserving to himself the right of answering any objections ill . t might be made.— Sir Charles Blois then read the Resolu- tions, stating the grievances that prevailed, and recommending economy and retrenchment in the public expenditure ; which were adopted.—' I lie Sheriff then read the petition, founded 011 the sen- timents expressed in the Resolutions, which, being seconded by Joshua Grigby, Esq. was unanimously approved. Mr. Reinhold, lately deceased, who was brought over by Handel a boy from Germany, and who re- sided many years at Great Baddow, lel't bis favourite ring, with an intaglio head of that great composer, to James Curtis, Esq. and, after a few other small legacies to Sir Henry B. Dudley, Bart. Mrs. Daniel, & c. as Essex friends, bequeathed 51. to Sir Wm. Blizard, on express condition, that he divided the windpipe of his throat before his interment, lest he might be buried alive; an operation that was duly performed. LOCAL MILITIA.— Of the 900 men lately ap- portioned by the Deputy Lieutenants to serve for the Western Division of the County of Suffolk, upwards of 500 have already been sworn in by voluntary enrolment,— thus saving their respective parishes the { rouble and expence of the ballot. •' 3 10- ftl to f the i the il it Ullll- psal, luuld SHipl uhen Bta- ftub- ould Vtilt and the ton, e to this ern- felly " tor Vt ry tlio tiou iSlul » ' y, ine- UUst two aiid ir of n- ar- ivice enre t for and ons, S ir isol- ts< » the riod e.— rrcd - ord ler; s, do urse • 4, fcry ii< U Urd- , to Ivo- Silf I lie > ril. e to Jt'W tin, pi- ' HIS OStJ lllt*- lat- d— rch net On tch icb ift. ra, on Mil [ » ii nd 18- of is. » y 68, Id. b- of a7 rs, of W' ed to so- ld ue 0, ID n- • r es id MS m > e j- id le 1U l- g y > t : e r, t t i On Saturday, a numerous and respectable County Meeting was held at the Shire- Hall, Norwich, atr » hich a number of Resolutions were moved by W. Jary, Esq. of Burlingham, and adopted, and a petition, founded on the Resolutions, was directed to be prepared. Some objections were made, that the Resolutions were too confined in their object, being only for relief generally to the agricultural • interest; but no serious opposition was made, as those who wished for more liberal and extended Resolutions and Petition, have, we understand, signed a requisition to the Sheriff, to call another County Meeting, which, it is expected, will take place on Saturday, the 23d instant. On Monday last an inquest was held by Mr. Codd, on view of the body of John Waylett, servant to Jeremiah Kersteman, Esq. of Canewdon, who was found dead in a ditch, on the road- side, leading to the above- mentioned place, and the horse on which he had rode lying lifeless upon him.— The only way in which this circumstance could be ac- counted for was, the animal being very old, ( about 28 years of age) is supposed, from fatigue, to have suddenly fallen, in the extremities of death, and that the man, being precipitated into the ditch, the horse had rolled upon him, and thus preventing the power of extricating himself, had caused suffo- cation.— The deceased was about twenty- six.— Verdict— Accidental Death. ESSEX ASSIZES. The business of the Assizes commenced on Tuesday morning. Mr. Justice Abbott sat on the Civil Side, sud Mr. Justice Bailey on the Crown Side. The • number of causes entered was more than usual, but none of them were calculated to excite particular interest. The Criminal Calendar consisted chiefly of charges for petty offences, and amongst the capital crimes, none were of a very aggravated description. CIVIL SIDE. ENDERSBEE V. GOOCH-—' This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who keeps a livery stable iu London, to recover froiu the defendant, who is a veterinary surgeon at Chelmsford, and also occupies a farm at Chigwell, the value of a horse, hired by Simon Attridge on the 29th December last, which, whilst on its journey to Ougar, was met by the defendant's servant in another cart, aud from either I accident or neglect, the evening being dark, the shaft of defendant's cart entered the shoulder of plaintiff's horse, so as to cause its death a few hours after.— Verdict for plaintiff. Damages 151.— Costs 40s. ROBERSON r. BARNES.— This was an action brought by the Widow Roberson, of Colchester, carrying on the busi- ness of a currier, for goods sold and delivered to Thomas Barnes, to the amount of 231. on the credit of the defen dant, Isaac Barnes, his brother- in- law. The plaintiff's son proved that Thomas Barnes, a collar- maker, at Colchester, having become a bankrupt, his mother refused to give him credit, but consented that if the defendant passed his word for the goods which Thomas should order, she would let the latter have them; that the defendant accordingly called upon the plaintiff, and said he would b « answerable for goods to any amount which his brother- in- law should re- quire.— The goods iu question were accordingly sold aud delivered to Thomas Barnes, upon the sole credit of the defendant, who refused to pay the amount of them.— Mr. Gurney aud Mr. Dowling, who appeared as Counsel for the defendant, having no evidence to contradict the case made out on the part of the plaintiff, the Jury gave her a verdict of 231. and odd shillings. CROWN SIDE. James Turner, a carrier from Weathersfield to Brain- tree, was indicted for stealing in the dwelling- house of • Mr. Linsey, a quantity of linen and wearing apparel. The value did not, in auy i. ue article, amount to 40s aud as the prosecutor could not swear that they were taken all toge- ther, the capital part of the charge was quashed iu the first instauce, aud Ihe Jury found the prisoner not guilty gene rally— The prisoner was again indicted tor stealing, on the 16th Hi' August, four ounces of tea. the properly ofJo- v teph Reeve, grocer, & c. of Bocking.— The Jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the Mouse of Correction. William Drake was indicted for stealing two trusses of straw, aud 30 lbs. weight of hay, the property of Henry Eve; and Thomas Whitbread was indicted for feloniously receiving thS same, he well knowing it to be stolen. — The Jury found bolit the prisoner* guilty, und the Court sen- tenced Drake lo be imprisoned two years, aud Whitbread to fourteen years transportation. William Evans was capitally convicted of feloniously breaking into the dwelling- house of James Burrows, of Great Chishall, in the day- time of the 23d of July, aud stealing therein goods and chattels to the amount of 5s. aud upwards, his property. William Flower was capitally convicted of robbing William May, a labourer, ou the highway, near Aldham, on the 29th of February, of five Bank tokens, value 15s. William Webb was indicted for assaulting, with intent to rob, Mr. Joseph Lloyd, of Laytonstone, ou the l « th of September. The prosecutor strenuously resisted the at- tack of the prisoner aud au accomplice, who, when about half way across Wansted Common, wilh bludgeons iu their hand-, jumped from behind a bush, and demanded liis money. Appalled by the determined resistance they met wilh, they made oH in contrary directions. . Mr. Lloyd, however, pursued the prisouer at the bar nearly to the park- gate, where, by the assistauce of a gentleman's ser- vant, he was takcu into custody.— The Jury found the pri- soner guilty, and the Court, in passing sentence, told htm, that he ought to think himself fortunate, that the gentle- man he met was so resolute in his resistance lo the object of the attack, for if he had obtained even a snilling, the crime highway robbery would have been completed, and death would lutve been the punishment.— He was sen- tenced to transportation for seven years. Richard Sutton, William Bough, and Sarah Sutton, • were t - parately indicted for forging Bank- notes, with inteut to defraud the Governor aud Company of the Bank of Eaglaud, to which iiidietineuts they severally pleaded not guilty. They were also separately indicted for know- ingly, wittingly, und without lawful excuse, having iu their custody a id possession certain false aud counterfeit notes, made wilh intent to resemble certain notes issued bv the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. To these last mentioned indictments they severally pleaded guilty ; in consequence of which the Bank thought proper, by the permission of the Court, not lo prosecute on the capital indictment — The prisoners were sentenced to transportation for fourteen years each, which punishment is ascribed to all such convictions, by statute. William Seagull was capitally indicted for stealing, in the night time of the 21th of June last, iu the dwelling- house of William Bull, a banker's check for the amount ol 41 7s. 8d. a promissory note for payment of 51. another for payment of 21. and three others tor the payment of II men. his properly, having secreted himself therein — At Hertford Assizes, Sarah Cook Was indicted for the wilful murder of her male infant child, by throw- ing- it into the river at Aston, on the 13th of August last The prisoner was a married woman, but did not cohabit with her husband; she left her house, pregnant, on the first of August, with the avowed intention of going to Loudon, but she was taken in labour at Ware, and was delivered of a male child; she continued at Ware until the 12th of August, aud then left that place to return to her residence at Wat- ton, which was some distance. She slept that night at a public- house in the village of Aston, which she left the next morning. The same day the body of I he child was discovered in the river, covered with weeds. She was immediately apprehended.— The Rev. Philip Godfrey, the Magistrate before whom she was carried, stated, that she did not deny the act, but, without disclosing any of the circumstances, said she was sorry for what she had done The Jury found her guilty, and the Learned Judge immediately pronounced the sentence of the law, that she should be hanged on Monday morning following, and her body delivered lo be dissected During the whole trial she appeared quite callous and insensible to her awful situation, but the Learned Judge was more than once interrupted by his tears. Edward Carey, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, at Chipping Barnet, on the 25lh of August ltas, by giving her a blow on tlie head. The prisoner and his wife were hay- makers, and they sometimes quarrelled when they were in drink. In general the prisoner was a good- tempered man. The surgeon stated, that the blow given was not of any great force, but falling obliquely, it had unfortunately divided the temporal artery ; thai the woman b: ed to death for want of proper assistance; that by simple pressure alone, the bleeding might have been stopped, but they had suffered Hie blood to run until it haii matted the hair, aud the blood was left flowing uudenieatU until she died— The Jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. The following prisoners were capitally convicted:— James l'estell, for stealing at Hitchin, a gelding, the property of James Bevan ; Thomas Gray, for assault- ing John Simkins, at Wheathamsied, and robbing him of about thirteen shillings; John Baruett, for breaking into the dwelling- house of Joshua Tyler, in llie day- time, and stealing a coat, breeches, and other articles; John Hill, for stealing at Kimpton, six sheep and one lamb, value III. the property of John Baron, the elder ; Maria Cooper and James Smith, for break- ing into the dwelling- house of Sarah Godfrey, at King's Waiden, and stealing money and wearing ap- pare.. The latter, a boy, w as recommended to mercy by the Jury.— William Satterthwaite, for stealing from Mr. Matthias Gilbertson, Bank of England and other notes, value 47i. aud silver coin, value 21. 1 Is.; Wil- liam Humphrey, for breaking and entering the dwell- ing- house of Richard Jepps, of Paul's Waiden, and stealing a silver watch and silk handkerchief, the property or Benjamin Houghton. W. BUCKINGHAM, JUN. RESPECTFULLY informs the Public, that the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, & c. advertised for Sale, at Witham, on Wednesday, the 20th of March, and following Days, will not be sold by him; as a necessity, which the Proprietor regrets, unexpectedly obliges him to employ another, but for which transfer of Sale, W. B. will receive satisfaction. LOST, On Tuesday last, on the Road leading from Colchester to Stratford, APUG DOG, light coloured, answers to the Name of PRINCE. Whoever has found him, and will bring him to the King's Head Inn, Ardleigh, shall be handsomely REWARDED for their trouble. A BURGLARY. WHEREAS, on Sunday last, the 10th instant, during Divine Service, some Person or Persons broke open and entered the Dwelling- House of Samuel Gossling, situate in the Parish of Little Bentley, in the County of Essex, and stole thereout two Shirts, Hand- kerchiefs, and various other Articles — Whoever will dis- cover the Offender or Offenders, shall, upon conviction, receive TEN POUNDS REWARD, on application to the Churchwardens or Overseers of the said Parish. SPRINGETT'S BANKRUPTCY. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, On Tuesday, March, the 19th, 1S16, at Stratford St. Mary's, ALarge Quantity of useful BUILDING MATE- RIALS, in Lots, arising from an extensive Malting, late in the occupation of Mr. Robert Rand ; consisting of large capital Oak Beams, Sills, Rafters, Ceiling Joists, Plates, Studs, iu good preservation ; aud about 100 feet of Fencing and Stable as it now stands. Sale begins precisely at Eleven o'Clock. TIMBER, AT WICKS, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN KING, Oil Tuesday, the 26th of March, 1816, at Eleven o'Clock iu the Forenoon, upon the Farm called Parker's, in the occupation of Mr. Rayner, TREES, viz. twelve Oaks, one Ash, and the remainder Elms; to be sold iu lots, as they stand, at per load of forty feet. To be viewed auy time before the Sale THE Creditors who have proved their Debts under this Commission, may receive a Dividend of One Shilling and Sixpence in the Pound, on application to Mr. Cana, one of the Assignees, at Woodbridge. JAMES PULHAM, Solicitor. Woodbridge, March 9, 1816. A MEETING of the Creditors of the late MARY AMES, of Grinstead, Wheelwright, will be held at til-- Crown and Punch- Bowl, on Wednesday, March 20, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of paying . ho Dividend arising from the Sale of her Effects, amongst the said Creditors. MARRIED. On Wednesday se'nnight, at St. George's, Hanover- square, John P. Alix, Esq. of Swaitham House, in the county of Cambridge, to Maria, only daughter of the late John Pardoe, Esq. of Low Laytoy, in this county. DIED. Yesterday se'nnight, at his seat of Terliug- Place, in this county, iu the Si'th year of hi* age, John Strutt, Esq. lineally descended from Sir Dinier Strutt, Bart, an ancient family, formerly seated at Warley.— He served in Parliament, as an indedendeut Representative of the Burough of Maldon, for several successive Sessions, displaying iu the discharge of his legislative duty a clearness of conception, and soli- dity of judgment, which rendered his opinions not unfre- quently appealed to iu branches of political economy, by the ruling Statesmen of those times.— As a Magistrate he was no lesB indexible iuthe due administration ot justice To his tenantry he was kind and lioeral; to the needy, benevolent, without parade, or ostentation. In a word' the whole tenor of his life was regulated by that fixed principle of rectitude, and unceasing solicitude forth- public good, as widely to conciliate the admiration and esteem of all around him.— As successors lo Ins ample estates aud fortune, he has lefi two sous. Joseph Holden Colonel iu the Essex Militia, Member for the borougl, Maldon, and a near relative by marriage of the Duke of Leinster; und Gooday, who was severely wounded, with the loss of a limb, some years since, iu tlie gailaut defence of one of our Caribbee Islands, aud is now a General in the Army, aud Lieutenant- Governor of Quebec. Yesterday se'nnight, after a long illness, Lieutenant- General Sir Wroth Palmer Aclaud, K. C. B. Colonel Com- mandant of the 1st Battalion t> Ih Foot, some time since Commander of the garrison at Chelmsford. Same day, suddenly, of an aplopiectic fit, much re spected, Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy, many years of the Red Lion Inn, Weathersfield, aged 65 years. On Tuesday se'nnight, much respected, aged 66 years, after a long and painful affliction, which he bore w iih great fortitude aud resignation, Mr. William Owers, of Great Leighs, formerly of St. Ann's Castle— This is the third death, iu the same family within the space of two months. On Saturday last, in Curzon- street, London, of an inflam- mation Oil the chest, in his 13th year, Master Everard Vincent, second son of the late Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. of Debden Hall, in this county. On Thursday se'nuight, after a long illness, aged 47, Mrs. Barnard, wife of Mr. Barnard, saddler, of Cambridge. Oil Wednesday se'nnight, at Ipswich, much respected, aged 32, Mr. John Blomfield, eldest sou of Mr. Blomfield, of Needham- market. Oil Tuesday evening, at Harwich, after a lingering ill. ness, aged 72, Captain Anthony Deane, who had formerly been many years Commander of one of his Majesty's Post- office packets from that porl, aud one of the Aldermen of that borough. At Reading, Berks, after two days illness only, Mrs Thornton, wife of Mr. Thornton, who for twenty- out years has been manager of Chelmsford Theatre.— As a wife, mother, and friend, Mrs. Thornton bore a most ex- cellent character, and was generally admired iu the pecu- liar line she acted iu her profession. On Sunday last, after a long affliction, at the advanced age of 04 years, James Punt, of Lawford, iu this county. Oil Thursday last, sincerely lamented, Mr. William Garrad, tanner, of Bures. WILLIAM CAWSTON, of Harwich, in the Couuty of Essex, Butcher and Farmer, having assigned over all his Personal Estate aud Effects to Anthony Cox, of tne same place, Esq. and John Golding, of Weeley, in the said County, Farmer, in trust, for ihe equal Benefit of themselves and Ihe rest of his Creditors; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Deed of As- signment is left at the Office of Mr B. Chapman, Solicitor, Harwich, for the Inspection and Signatures of such Cre- ditors. All Persons, therefore, who have any Claim or Demand against the said William Cawston, arc requested to send an Account thereof to the said B. Chapman, within one month from the date hereof, or they will be excluded the Benefit aforesaid ; and all Persons who are indebted to the said William Cawston, are requested forthwith to pay the Amount due to the said B. Chapman, to prevent Proceedings for ihe Recovery thereof. Harwich, 13th March, 1816. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY THOMAS NICE, In the Market, High- street, Colchester, THIS DAY, the 16. h of March, 1816, LIVE and DEAD STOCK, SEEDS, and other Property, viz: forty hall'bred Norfolk aud Down sheep, in lots of ten each ; four horses and mares; fifty bundles of new fir lath twenty bushels of trefoil seed, ill five sacks: two bushels of teazel seed, in one sack ; twelve bushels of mangel- worsel seed, in three sacks, & c. Sa! e to begin at One o'Clock. WIVENHOE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY THOMAS NICE, ( By Order of the Proprietor) on Tuesday, the 19th Day of March, 1816, at Three o'Clock hi the Afternoon, at the Falcon Inn, Wivenhoe, Essex, in One Lot, ( unless sooner disposed of by Private Contract, or Let, of which due Notice will be given,) AFREEHOLD Briek- built MANSION- HOUSE, replete with every accommodation for a respectable Family, with a large Yard, and ueat Garden in front; also a Malt Office and Cinder Oven, iu good Repair.— This genteel Residence, which stands by the road side iu Wivenhoe, iroutingtothc South, commands extensive and d" iightfiii Prospects over a Park aud Plantations in front. The Mansiou- House include* t » u Iron* u Hock parlour, kitchen, dairy, aud pa. itry, four bed- rooms, aud two attics. There a Pump of excellent Water upon the Premises. The above Estate may b* viewed on application to T. Nice, Land aud House Agent, 37, High- street, Col- chester and immediate Possession may be had. THE STOCK IN TRADE OF A BOOKSELLER, AT IPSWICH. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, CFree of J hi In y BY SPARROW AND SON, Under a Commission of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday, the 26th of March, 1816, and Three following Days, THE entire LIBRARY, in about 4,000 Vo- lumes; also the Printing Press. Types, and Imple- ments in Trade, of Mr. Charles Battely, Cornhill, Ipswich Likewise the ueat'aud genuine HOUSEHOLD FURNI- TURE, Paintings, and Printsf handsomely framed; China, Glass, and other valuable Effects. The Sale each day will commence at Eleven, Catalogues to be had of the Auctioneers, at their Furni- ture Warehouse, Butter- market, Ipswich, and of Messrs Swinborne and Walter, Booksellers, Colchester, four days previous to the Sale. WITHAM, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HAWES AND FENTON, On the Premises, opposite the Angel Inn, Witham, on Wednesday, the 20th Day of March, 1816, and follow- ing Day, by Order of the Proprietor, who is changing his Residence, ALL the modern and elegant HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Linen, China, Paintings, Draw- ings, Prints, Books, & c- The HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprises fifteen bedsteads, with dimity, chintz, aud other furnitures; fifteen goose and other featlicr- beds, mattresses, and bedding; mahogany and wainscot chests of drawers, ditto secretary aud bookcase; a new patent piaua- forte, ( by Clementi and Co.; Brussels, Kidderminster, and Wilton carpets; Grecian couch; mahogany, bamboo, and cottage chairs; mahogany dining aud card tables; capital gun, ( by Nock); steel fenders aud fire- irons; kitchen and culinary articles,& c. Many of the PRINTS, DRAWINGS, and PAINT- INGS, are iu burnished gold frames, a valuable collection in folios, with a threat variety of progressive lessons, well worth the attention of teachers. Among the BOOKS are Smith's Geography, 2 vols.; Arabian Nights, 5 vols. 8vo. with twenty- five beautiful engravings; History of England, with Smollett's Conti- nuation, 15 vols.; Shakspeare, 8 vols.; Rollin's Ancient History, 12 vols.; Gilpin's Forest Scenery, 2 vols ; Blair's Sermons, 5 vols.; Stevens's Sermons, 8 vols.; Enfield's Encyclopaedia, 10 vols. ; Antiquarian, with three hundred beautiful engravings, See. as will appear in Catalogues, to be had three days prior to the Sale, of Mr. Youngman, Witham aud Maldon; at the Black Boy, Chelmsford; Angel, Kelvedon; and of the Auctioneers, Colchester. Sale to begin each Day at Ten o'Clock. BENEFICIAL SPECULATION. LONDON MARKETS. MARK- LANE, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1818. There was a tolerable supply of Wheats this moruing) fine samples in demand, at full last Monday's terms, aud rather brisker sale for middling qualities, but no advance in the prices.— Barley of inferior quality, about Is. per quarter lower; middling Malts were also Is. per quarter lower.— Hog Pease sold readily at former prices; but Boilers were heavy in sale. — The supply of Oats was large, und heavy in sale, at Is. per quarter reduction.— In New Beans no variation. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. There being but few fresh arrivals of Grain of any de- scription since Monday, and the Market but thinly attend, ed, sales were exceedingly heavy, except for Barley, which is about Is. per quarter dearer.— Other articles re- mained nearly stationary. FRIDAY, MARCH 15. In our Corn Market no material variation is observable since Monday. Fine Wheats meet a ready sale; but every other article is heavy in disposal. PRICE OF GRAIN, PER QUARTER. Monday. s. s. Wheat, mealing Red, 40 a 56 Fine — a 60 White .. 42 a 64 Fine — a 68 Foreign Red 30 a 56 Dantzic — a — Black. 26 a 48 Rivets 40 a 48 Rye 28 a M, White Pease 26 a 2s Boilers oy a ^ Grey Pease 26 a 30 Horse Beans, new, 24 a 2 « Fine Old... ... — a 31 Tick Beans, new .. 20 a 25 Fine Old — a 27 Broad Beans — a — Superfine a — Long Pods — a — Barley 16 a 2 i Superfine — a — Oats, long feed 13 a 17 Short — u 22 Poland & Brew 23 a 26 • Malt 56 a 63 Tare's, 2s. Od. a5s Od. p. bush. Wednesday. s. s* Wheat, mealing Red, 40 a ad Fine White Fine Foreign Red Dautzic Black Rivets Rye White Pease Boilers Grey Pease Horse Beans, new, Fine Old Tick Beans, new . Fine Old Broad Beans Superfine Long Pods Barley Superfine Oats, long feed Short Poland & Br Malt a ot) 40 a i> 4 — a 6fi 30 a oti 36 a 41} 34 a 48 •- S a „ 0 26 a 2S —• a i. U 2."> a 30 25 a 2! I — a 31 20 a 2d — a — ... 20 a 27 ... 14 a 18 ... 19 a ••£> ew. 24 a 26 4 a trt s, 2s. 66. a 3s. fid. p. bush PRICE OF SEEDS, & c. Turnip. White, p. bl. 10 a 18 Red & Green ditto 22 a 26 Mustard, brown ... 12 a 16 white 7 a 9 Canary, per quarter 48 a 52 Rape Seed, per last 25t'a30/ Linseed, — a — Clover, red, p. cwt white • Foreign, red 48 » 63 72.. 105 Trefoil Carraway Coriander 14 a 21 .... 60 a ('•'. ... b a w Rye Grass, per qr... 30 a 52 PRICE OF FLOUR. Fine English Flour 50(. a55s.— Second ditto 4os. a 50s. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN PER QUARTER, For the Week ending March 2. England and Wales. s. d. Wheat ; 55 II Rye 33 6 CHAPEL STREET. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY THOMAS NICE, The First Week in April, ALL the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and other Effects, of Mrs Blackwell, deceased. Particulars, and Day of Sale, iu next Week's Paper. TRUE BRED SUFFOLK CART STALLION. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR CANA, On Wednesday. the 27th iusiani, March, on the Market Hill, Woodbridge, at One o'clock punctually, THAT very capital HORSE, called BRITON, chesnut colour, full mane and tail, beautiful symme- try, and great strength, seven years old ; has attended markets regularly for about three years, and at the last Show of Suffolk Cart Stallions, at the Lady Fair, at Wood- bridge, ( 1815) judges of the highest r • nutation allowed him to be one of the completest Suffolk Horses exhibited. His sire. Smith's horse, of Parham ; dam, a favourite mare of Mr. Pope's, of Benhall; whose slock has been much sought after, and long celebrated iu the county of Suffolk BRITON is the property of Mr Robert Brady, of Chil- lesford, and submitted to Auction on account of Mr. Brady's leaving his farm at Michaelmas next. May be viewed at the Premises any day preceding the Sale, and at the Bull Inn, Woodbridge, that Morning, from Eleven till One. Shortly will be published, AREPLY to the recently published LETTERS of the Rev. J FIELDING, to the Church aud Congregation assembling at the Great Meeting- House, Coggeshall; and a VINDICATION of the Persons aspersed in those Letters. PRINTING OFFICE, COLCHESTER, March 15, 1816. SOME malicious and envious Persons having, in the course of the last Week, raised and pretty gene- rally circulated A REPORT, That it was the Determination of I. MARSDEN Immediately to sell off all his Property in tills Town, and to leave it; he takes the Liberty of informing his Friends and tlie Public, that he has no such Intention ; but, ou the contrary, that, while they shall continue to favour him with their Support, which he is sensible has been libeial during the last twenty years, iu the Business of a Printer and Bookbinder, hopes they will find iu him an increasing Attention to their Commands, at his House, No. 34, CULVER- STREET. GREAT BARGAINS IN LINEN- DRAPERY, NOW SELLING AT THE COMMISSION WAREHOUSE, GEORGE- LANE, COLCHESTER. THE Proprietors of this Concern repectfully inform their Friends and the Public, that they have disposed of their Shop aud Warehouse; and, as they ure restricted, by Agreement, to a very short Period for quitting and clearing the Premises, they have deter- mined on SELLING OFF their VALUABLE STOCK at Prices considerably under what they cost; and there- fore beg to solicit the early Attention of Country Shop- keepers, Private Families, and the Public in general. The neat and modern HOUSEHOLD PURNITURE will be disposed of by Public Auction; particulars of which will be given in due time. All Persons to wli* m the above Proprietors stand in- debted, are requested immediately to send in their Ac- counts, whfn tney will be discharged ; and all those- who are indebted to the Estate, are requested to pay the same without delay. Wm. Gosnall deposed that he was iu the service of Mr. W. Ball, landlord of the Three Cups Inn at Harwich, and tool; cure of ihe tap of that inn. He proved placing the notes ill question in a till, in presence of the prisoner, who was drinking, with several others, iu tlie tap room. At about eleven o'clock, the prisoner went away, a » lie supposed, wishing him a good uight; soon after which he locked the till up. There were aboul fifteen pounds iu it, all together. After that, he boiled and barred the door leading into the street. He locked the other door, and took the key up to bed with him. On his coming down stairs in the morning, between six and seven o'clock, he found the till had been forced open. The check was proved to have been paid by the prisoner to a person named Hannah May, who keeps a public- house at Har- wich.— The prisoner stated in his defence that he found the check iu the street, but could not state where, nor when.— The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing to the amount of 40s. aud upwards, iu the dwelling- house, Tint not guilty of the burglary. John Wright was indicted for feloniously stealing in an out- house, belonging to the dwelling- house of Ellis An- derson Stevens, Esq. of Steeple Bumpstead, a Bank of England note for payment of 21. the property of William Prew, coachman to Mr. Stevens, to whom the prisoner was fellow servant — The fact was proved; but Mr. Andrews, as Counsel for the prisoner, objecting that the saddle- house, in the pr" « ^ nt case, was not the out- house be- longing to a dwelling- house," contemplated by tlie sta- tute, the Court promised to reserve that question for the consideration of the Judges, in the event of the prisoner being found guilty.— The Jury fouud him guilty, and his judgment will he respited. William Wells was indicted for robbing Simon Wall, a servant to Mr. Holloway, a farmer, at Hornchurch, as lie was goiug1 to London, with a load of hay, between two aud three o'clock iji the morning of the 13th of January, near the Whaleboue Gate. Upon this indictment the • prisoner was acquitted; but being again arraigned on a charge of having robbed William Field, the same morning, iiear the above- mentioned place, of a three- shilling token aud two shillings, the Jury found him guilty. Th& Ass:.* es not being terminated when this Paper was put to press, a further Report will be given iu our GREAT COGGESHALL, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MATTHEW'S, SON, AND BRIDGE, On Tuesday, March the lflfh, 1816, ou the Premises, near the Swan Inn, ALL the eleeant and modern HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, & c. of Mr. William Bolingbrooke, Hearth- Rug and Carpet Manufacturer, who has taken the Prince Regent Hotel, Brighton, Sussex; comprising handsome four- post and tent bedsteads, with morine, dimity, aud chintz furnitures; prime down, goose, feather aud nock beds, bolsters and pillows; excellent white wool mattresses; mahogany double and single chests of drawers, night, chest, easy chr. V; four sets of haudsome drawing- room and chamber chairs; eight mahogany ditto, I air seats, with two elbows; three- feet six- inch and three- feet nine- inch sets of mahogany dining tables, with cir- cular ends, good wood; pillar and claw inlaid Pembroke ditto; dial- face barometer, Brussels and Kidderminster carpets and rugs: excellent proof prints, Views in Ame- rica ; tea urn and china, good Windsor and kitchen chairs; copper boiler?, saucepans, patent roaster, sweet beer- casks, forty gross of bed- lace, bindings, & c. Catalogues may be had, in due time, at the Plate of Sale, neighbouring Inns, and of the Auctioneers, Cog- geshall.— Sale to begin at Ten o'clock. N. B Mr B. having taken the Furniture, & c. at tlie Hotel, the whole of the above will be sold without Re- serve Pointwell Mill, Little Coggeshall, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MATTHEWS, SON, AND BRIDGE, On Friday, the 22d Day of March, 1816, by Order of the Executrix, without R" serve, PART of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, excellent Stack of Grass Hay, young Suffolk Cows and Calves, narrow and broad- wheeled Flour Carts, Har- ness Brewing Utensils, and Beer Casks, of Mr. Daniel Barnard, Miller, deceased. The FURNITURE ( which w ill be sold first) comprises four- post bedsteads, various furnitures; feather- beds, & c good eight- day clock, chairs, tables, chest of drawers, pier and dressing glasses ; copper boilers and saucepans, good forty- gallon brewing copper and tubs en suite, ex- cellent good sweet iron- bound hogshead casks, aud various other eff- ets: Catalogues of which may be had, in dye time, at the neighbouring Inus, and of the Auctioneers, Coggesha'l — Sale to begin at Ten o'Clock precisely. N. B The Hay. for the Accommodation of Purchasers, will bp cut ti « v\ ki pilar to the Sale, and sold in Lots of one ton each. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HAWES AND FENTON, At the Red Lion Inn, Colchester, 011 Tuesday, the 26th Day of March, 1816, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, unless sooner disposed of by Private Contract, of which timely Notice wilt be given, AVested REVERSIONARY INTEREST, ex- pectant 011 Ihe decease of a Lady about fifty- five years of age, of and in One undivided Fourth Part of all that most desirable and well- known FARM, containing nearly Two Hundred Acres of rich Arable Land, situate iu the Parish of Lawford, iu the County of Essex ; wilh a capital a. id most substantial Mansion- House, extensive aud pleasant Garden, planted with fruit- trees; large double Baru. aud all suitable aud convenient Out- build- ings standing thereon, or belonging thereto, now iu the possession of Mr. James Taber. N. B. The whole Estate is at present subject to the Dower of a Widow Lady between forty and fifty years of age. For further particulars apply to Mr. Rashbrook, of Brautham, Suffolk; Mr. Daniell, Solicitor, Head- gate, Colchester; or to the Auctioneers. Barley.. Oats 24 4 17 11 England and Wales. s. d. Beans ... 29 !) Pease 31 10 Oatmeal 24 « Big 0 O PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW . Smithfield. i". s.— £. s. Hay :( 10 to 4 15 Clover 5 0 to 5 18 Straw 1 S to 2 0 St. James. Hay 3 0 to 5 1 £. s.— £. s. Straw 1 13 10 2 5 Whitechapel. Hay 4 0 to m 0 Clover 5 5 lu 6 O Straw 1 16 to 1 18 PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH. New Bags. ± 1. s — £'. s Kent 4 18 to 8 0 Sussex 4 15 to 7 0 Farnham 12 lito 15 l New Pockets £. s.— £. s. Kent 7 0 10 10 0 Sussex 6 0 to 8 0 Essex 7 0 to V 0 HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AT COLCHESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN TAYLOR, Ou Tuesday, March 19, 1816, at Mr. Shave's, at the Chaise and Pair, North Hill, Colchester, SUNDRY useful HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, late the Property of a Lady, deceased; comprising four- post and tent bedsteads, with check and other hang- ' iujjs; mattresses, feather- beds, holsters, and pillows; quilts and blankets ; mahogany and other chairs ; maho- gany and wainscot tables; Kidderminster carpets; set of I good block- tin meat covers; variety of useful kitchen re- quisites, and many other articles ; which will he expressed in Catalogues, to be had of the Auctioneer, and at the Place of Sale. Sale to begin at Eleven o'Clock. NEWGATE AND LEADEN HALL. Per Stone of 81b. by the Carcase. s. d. — s d. s. d. — s. d. Beef 3 4 lo 4 4 | Veal 4 0 lo 6 0 Mutton ... 3 4 to 4 2 | Pork. 3 4 to 5 4 AVERAGE PRICE OF BROWN SUGAR £• 2.12s. 7d. pei c » t Exclusive of the Duties 01 Customs paid cr payable thereon on Importation tliereot lulu Great Britain. PRICE OF MEAT AT SMITH FIELD. Exclusive of the Odal, which consists 01 Heuu, ij.. trails, & Hide, and is worth about Id. per lb— Per Siouv of Mo. Monday, March II. s. d. — s. d Beef. 4 0 to 5 0 Mutton 4 0 to 5 0 Veal 4 4 to 6 0 Pork 4 0 to 5 4 Friday, March 15. Beef. 4 Mutton 4 Pork "... 4 Veal 6 d. - 6 Id 5 6 lo 5 0 lo a 0 to 6 d. 4 4 • i H Farming Stock, Household Furniture, Coptford, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN TAYLOR, On Tuesday, the 26th of March, 1816, THE FARMING STOCK, and Part HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, of Sparks, leaving his Farm. Particulars in next Week's Paper. of the Mr. John Head of Cattle at Smithfield MONDAY....: Beasts 2,180 Sheep... 13! KM Pigs 350 Calves... 140 FRIDAY.,, Beasts 73( 1 Sheep.... 3, loO Pigs 450 Calves .. 120 PRICES OF SUGAR, COFFEE, COCOA, GINGER SUGAR, s. s. Raw ( Barbad.) 77 a 90 Do. very tine 92 a 95 Powder Loaves... 121 a 134 Single do. Br 122 a 123 Molasses... 26s. 6d. a— s. Od. COFFEE. Dominica and Surinam. Valuable Farming Live and Dead Stock, Twelve Tons of Meadow Hay, Six Tons of Clover Stover, House- hold Furniture, fye. Donyland Place, near Colchester. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN TAYLOR, O11 the Premises, under a Deed ot Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, 011 Thursday, March 28, 1816, ALL the valuable FARMING STOCK, and other Effects, of Mr. Benjamin Sebborn, of Dony- land Place, East Donyland, near Colchester; comprising I five young useful cart mares and geldings; a chesnut riding mare, four years old ; a year- old colt; three hand- some four- year- old cows, well timed iu calf; a ditto, five years old; handsome young sow aud eleven pigs; a most excellent road waggon, nearly new ; a good ditto; two tumbrels, a ton cart, a three- horse roller, three other rollers, two gangs of four harrows, three wheel ploughs, cart and plough traces and thiller's gears, two timber chains, capital cart ropes, corn skreens, malt mill, and various other implements in husbandry; also about twelve tons of good meadow hay, six tons of clover stover, forty quarters of oats, four sacks of seed beans, and a small parcel of tares ; a quantity of 1^- inch oak plank for barn floors, ditto of elm weather- boarding, posts, and rails. The HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprises bed- steads and beddiug, tables, chairs, aud drawers; a wheel baromer, various kitchen requisites, a washing copper, a two- hogshead brewing ditto, brewing and dairy utensils, and various other articles ; which will be expressed in Catalogues, to be had, three days prior to the Sale, at the Rose and Crown, Wivenhoe ; Whalebone, Fingring- hoe; Ship, East Donyland: Bowling- green, Elmstead Market; of the Auctioneer, Colchester; and at the Place of Sale.— Sale to begin at Ten o'Clock. SALE OF BRITISH WINES, COLCHESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN TAYLOR, By Permission of the Honourable Board of Excise, on Wednesday, April 3, 1816, at the Coffee Room, at the Red Lion Inn, by Sample then and there produced, ABOUT 1,200 GALLONS of Orange, Sun, Smyrna, and Raspberry WINES, late the Property of Thomas Jones, deceased. Also a quantity of wine pipes, hogshead and other casks, a capital cyder mill, with double loaded flyers, a coffee roasting machine, about sixty pounds of double and single seal gunpowder, 4 cwt. of shot, and several other articles, which will be expressed in Catalogues, to be bad, in due time, of the Auctioneer, and '• at the Place of Sale. N. B. The Wine will be offered iu lots of ten, fifteen, and twenty gallons each. Sale to begin at Ten o'clock. Fine Good Ordinary Jamaica, fine Good Ordinary 95 a 105 . 8b a 9, 68 a 7s 95 a 102 82 a 9 . 62 a 72 a Triage 50 a 55 Mocha 110 a 11- 4 Bourbon 75 a 85 St. Domingo 68 a 72 Java 70 a 7 » COCOA. Trinidad lot) a 160 Carraccas 225 a'.' 3t » Mar an i. ain 66 a 7U GINGER. Jamaica white 200 a 2. Y2 black 147 a 168 Barbadots — a — PRICE OF TALLOW s. Whitechapel Market... 3 St. James's Market 3 Clare Market 0 6 2 Average 3 0' LONDON, MARCH 8 s. d. Town Tallow p. cwt. 54 G Russia ditto Candle..'. 53 O \\ hue dit; o — O Soap ditto 5" 0 Melted stua .. 42 0 Rough ditto ... 26 0 Greaves 14 0 Good Dreg. 8 0 Curd Soap 90 O Mottled 86 0 fellow ditto 76 0 PRICE OF LEATHER AT LEADENHALL. Butts, to561bs. each 20 to 22 Ditto, to 66lbs. each 24 to 25 Merchants' Backs — to 19 Dressing Hides... 15 to 17 Fine Coach Hides 17 to 18J Crop Hides, 35 to40lbs. ' or cutting 15J to 17 Crop Hides to 501 bs. 18lo21 Call Skins to 40lbs. 21 tu 23 Ditto to 70ibs 24 lo 30 Ditto to SOIbs. 23 to 2& SmallSeals( Greend. 34 f. 38 Large do. p. doz. UUslolOOs Tanned H. Hides — to — CURRENT PRICES OF SPIRITS, per Gallon. Excl. of Duty. s. d. s. d. Brandy Cognac 5 - Bordeaux 4 Spanish' 0 Geneva Holland 3 Rum, Jamaica 3 9 a 6 9 a 5 0 a 0 2 a 3 6 a 4 L. Islands 2 11 a 3 4 SPIRITS AND WINES. WINE, Dealers' Price. Claret, per H 63 a — Lisbon, per P 48 a — Porl 56 a — Madeira 60 a — Sherry, per Bt 60 a — COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam 38 8 B. 2Us. Bilboa3a— Barcelona33^ St UllX Ditto, at Sight. 37 4 Amsterdam. 11 16 C. F. Ditto, at Sight. 11 13 Rotterdam 11 17 2 Us Hamburgh 35 2 2| Us. Altoua.. 35 3 — Us. Paris, 1 day's date 2 . 60 Us. Ditto 25 30 2 Us. Bourdeaux ditto 25 30 Madrid S5 Effective. Cadiz 34 Effective. 33i 33| II St. Sebastian's Seville Gibraltar 3lJ Leghorn 48 Genoa 4n£— Venice 25 70 Malta 47j— Naples 40 Palermo 116 per Oz. Lisbon 59— Oporto 59 Rio Janeiro I> 4 Dublin 13| Cork 14 per ct. Agin of the Bank on Holl. 9 PRICE OF STOCKS, MARCH 15. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. C. 61J Omnium — Ditto for Payt. 18 p Exchequer Bills p. 4 d 4 per Cent — : per Cent. Navy 90S Long Ann. — Cons, for Apr. 62 § . South Sea — Old Annuities POETRY. THE DOUBLE DECEPTION. Of Woman every simple swain Can seethe beauties rare; But Man has sometimes to complain That they are fake, as fair! ANNA can every bosom warm, Is blooming, blithe, and free j In spite of her angelic form Yet doubly false is she : Her hair, ' tis true, is black as jet— Her eyes are heavenly blue— But for her hair she's still ia debt, And far her left eye too! FROM THE GERMAN PAPERS. NUREMBERG, Feb. 20.— The following letter has been sent to us to correct a statement which we gave frofn an Augsburg Gazette, at the end of last year;—' Hie papers taken by the police at Vienna, on the 11th of November, belonged to a Polish Countess, to an English lady, the widow of an Austrian Colonel, ( which two ladies had resided in Vienna for nearly twenty years) to two English- men who had been long known there, and were esteemed by many dislinguished persons of the Austrian Court, and lastly to an American mer- chant, lately arrived from England. Among all these papers, which were numerous, and on which the Commissioners appointed to examine thein were employed five days, there was not only no letter from the Princess of Wales, but vot even a Hue which had the smallest reference to her Royal Higbtmss; this Princess never having honoured any ol the above- mentioned persons with her com- mands, her correspondence, or even the most ti itii: i< r commission. It is possible that the two Englishmen may have had the honour of being presented to her, but the oilier certainly never saw her. Of course there was no trace of any corres- pondence between her Royal Highness and Madame Mural, and il is most probable that they have not written to each other since they lelt Naples.— Particularly indelicate and unjust is au article, dated Vienna, December 1, in another Augsburg paper of the 7th of December. The writer puts together the departure of her Royal Highness from Milan, and the arrest of the Englishmen at Vienna, by which he leads his readers to the belief that her Royal Highness's departure was occasioned by the accounts sent, as he supposes, from Vienna, whereas b'> th the departure of the Princess and the arrest of the Englishmen took place on one and the same ilay, ( Nov. 11,) in two cities distant at least sixty posts ( 800 miles) from each other. The papers were considered as so unimportant, that they were restored to their owners without exception. There was among them only one letter from Madame Murat to one of the Englishmen, in which she thank-: him for having recommended her a clergy- man to educate her children. The supposition that Madame Murat had en- trusted to one of these Englishmen a considerable sum of money, is just as unfounded as the ridicu- lous, assertion that the same Englishman belonged to the party of the Opposition, in his whole cor- respondence there were not found a line about politics, or any thing which could in the least excite un idea that he was concerned about them. If it he true ( as the Augsburg paper, in the article, Vienna, 15th November, states) that Murat kept tip an extensive correspondence in Germany and Italy, it is equally certain that none of the persons whose papersjwere seized were concerned in it, and that there was not any trace of such a correspondence among those papers, which chiefly consisted of family and commercial letters. The assertion that Midaine Murat and the Countess L were in- timately acquainted, is also erroneous, for these two ladies never saw each other. It is true that Prince Cariati, Neapolitan Minister to the Congress, lived in the first floor of the Countess of L ' s house for six months ; but the general opinion may deride whether this circumstance can throw a suspicion on a lady who has been known for near twenty years, as particularly attached to the Aus- trian Government, and who never saw her lodger alter he'ehanged his abode, when his time was np. It cannot yet be explained why one of the English- men was obliged to leave Vienna, notwithstanding there was not found the smallest trace of crimi- nality in live domiciliary visits made in his apart- ments, by order of the Minister of Police, Baron Hager; but as representations from superior au- thority have been made in this business, we refrain from every remark, till we shall obtain further in- formation on the subject.— Nuremb. Correspon- denten. WARSAW, Feb. 19.— A few days ago there ar- rived here an Indian Prince, who iias already pro- ceeded on his journey to St. Petersburg!); he is the son and next heir to the Emperor of the Bir- mans, w hose dominions comprehend the Kingdoms of Ava, Aracan, and Pegu. He has been presented to the Grand Duke. It is pretended that he is sent by his father to learn the European art of war. He is twenty- five years of age, and speaks several European languages. After the retreat of the French from Russia, he arrived here, and was arrested by the Russians, but afterwards liberated. He has hitherto lived at Bucharest and in Austrian Gallicia. He. was requested by the Commandant of this city to produce documents respecting his character, and to give au account in writing of his journey and adventures. ' I he Protocol tills several sheets. He was treated wi h all the respect due to the rank he claimed, lbs father's Empire, which was first formed in 1754, is considered as the fifth great Power in Asia, and contains, it is said, 17,000,000 of in- habitants, and borders on the Kingdom of Thibet, the Chinese Empire, the Kingdom of Siam, the Bay of Bengal, the British possessions in Bengal, and the Kingdom of Asain. BRUSSELS, March 3.— The plan of the works to fortify the town of Charleroi having been now definitively adopted, these works will be com menced immediately. It is affirmed, that above 8000 workmen are to be employed on them several pieces of ground, and above forty houses belonging to private persons, have been purchased by the Government upon terms highly advantage- ous to the proprietors ; all these are to be included in the new work. Charleroi will become au im- po lant fortress, and will cover the Sambre. One of our most celebrated lace manufactories has had the making of the lace dress intended for the Princess Charlotte of Wales on the day of her marriage. It has just been sent to London.— Another manufactory is making a similar dress, intended for the consort of the Prince of Orange. These two dresses are of admirable workmanship, and do infinite honour to our national industry. VIENNA, Feb. 22.— The damages done in Hun- gary by the quantity of snow, and violent storms of wind, are immense. The inhabitants of adjoining houses could not get at each other for two days together without running the risk of sinking in the snow. In the county of Beregh 20,000 sheep; were lost, and a farmer in that county, whose loss was perhaps not the greatest, had 1200 fat oxen frozen to death. MONEY PAID BY AND DUE FROM FRANCE TO THIS COUNTRY. Copy of a Paper presented to Parliament, pursuant to an Order of the House o f Commons. An Account of all Sums of Money paid, or now due and payable to this Country by France ; ill virtue of the Treaties or Convention concluded at Paris on the 20th of November last; and of such parts thereof as have been received, specifying by whom ;— together with an Account of the application thereof, and of the Authori- ties under which the same has been issued. Under the Convention concluded in conformity to the 4th Article of the principal Treaty, France is to pay to Great Britain 125,000,000 francs, at the periods hereunder spe- cified. During the year 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 Francs .... Francs. ... 15,000,000 ... 27,500,000 .... 27,500,000 ... 27,510,000 ... 27,500,000 125.000,000 There has been already made over by France to his Majesty's Commissioner ut Paris, in Bona on the Tresor Royal, 5,000,000 francs being for th? first four months, commencing on the 1st December, 1^ 15; and these Buns have been regularly paid from the 1st December, 1815, up to the date of the latest advices received from Paris, at the rate of 44,000 per day. The above sum has been appropriated, under the autho rity of the Lords of the Treasury in manner follow ing There has been retained by his Majesty's Francs Commissioner, on account of the ex- v 41 000 peuces of hit. Establishment J ' The remainder has been deposited ill the J Militarv Chest of the Army commanded V 4,959,000 by the Duke of Wellington ) 5,000,000 Under the second Article of the Convention, which re- lates to the fifth Article of the Treaty, the British share of the payments to tie made by France on account of the Army of Occupation, w ill be— Francs. Cents. Durinr the year 1816 6.428,. i7l 42 1817 11,785,714 2S| 1818 11,7.85,714 28^ 1819 11,785,714 2SJ 1820 11,785,714 28| 53,571,428 55 i Francs. s53j, 714 Cents 29 There has been received by his Ma- jesty's Commissionerat Paris, being the aniountdiie to Great Britain, for the month of December, 1815 j Ditto, for the month of January, 1816... 535,714 2St And the above sums, amounting together to 1,071,428 francs, 57 cents, have been paid into ills military chest, and applied for the service of the army, on account of which the payments were made, under the like authority of the Lords of the Treasury. C. ARBUTHNOT. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 29th February, 1816. SURREY MEETING. INCOME TAX. Saturday, a Meeting was held at the Spread Eagle Inn, at Epsom, to take into consideration the xpediency of presenting a petition to Parliament against the renewal of the Property Tax. Mr. Dennison addressed the Meeting in a long and able speech, in which, amidst the applause of a most respectable assemblage of the Nobility and and Gentry of the country, he pointed out the in- justice, cruelty, and oppression of the impost now so unnecessarily and so unmercifully attempted to be continued in time of peace. He concluded by moving " That a petition against the Property Tax, and a large Military Establishment, be presented to the House of Commons." The Earl of Surrey spoke as follows :—" Con- curring, as I do, in every sentiment uttered by the worthy Gentleman whose opinion you have just heard, I am happy to take this opportunity of seconding the motion. In my humble view of the subject, nothing can alleviate the distresses of this country, except the abandonment of this odious and pernicious tax, conjoined with the most rigid economy in every department of the State, and a reduction of our military establishment, as far as is consistent with the defence of the country, and the security of our rights and liberties, as they were established at the period of the Revolution." The petition was then read. It reprobated, in in very strong terms, the projected renewal of the Income Tax, and pointed out, in forcible language, the dangers which were likely to be created by the establishment of a large military force in time of peace; and prayed that the House of Commons would refuse its sanction to either of these uncon- stitutional measures. Mr. Benjamin Shaw, M. P. observed, that he was decidedly hostile to the Income Tax, and was of opinion, that tile petition should have for its object, and for its object alone, the repeal of that tax. Mr. Calvert spoke against the Property Tax and the Peace Establishment. Mr. Lowndes was in favour of the Military Es- tablishment. He regretted the subterfuges to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had had recourse, but still thought there was something in the situation of the country that demanded the renewal of the Property Tax. Mr. Hurst, M. P. strongly reprobated the Pro- perty Tax, and opposed the proposed Military Establishment. Mr. Palmer and Mr. Trotter advocated the mea- sures of Government, as did Mr. Home Sumner. The latter gentleman, however, distinctly declared, that if Ministers attempted to continue the tax beyond two years, he would no longer support them. Lord King, Mr. Freemantle, Lord Althorpe, Sir T. Turton, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Waithman, and Mr. Hare Townshend, dwelt with considerable force on the iniquitous nature of the tax, and of course sup- ported the petition. The petition was then agreed to, and, on the motion of Mr. Perry, signed by all the freeholders and inhabitants of the county then present. The High Sheriff then read a letter from Mr. Samuel Thornton, one of the Members for the county, apologizing for his absence, and attribut- ing it to indisposition. He approved of the Mili- tary Establishment, from his conviction of its necessity; but, with respect to the Property Tax, he considered it objectionable in every point of view, and as demanding many material modifica- tions. Until the modifications proposed by Mi- nisters were brought under the consideration of the House, he should refrain from pledging himself decidedly on the one side or the other. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE. A letter from Belfast describes the following inhuman transaction:— We never had occasion to record a more atrocious outrage than what occcur- red in this town on the morning of Wednesday last. About four o'clock, a band of armed rutfians at- tacked the dwelling- house of Mr. F. Johnson, mus- lin- manufacturer, near the head of North- street, while the family were asleep, consisting of Mr, and Mrs. Johnson, eight children, two maid ser- vants, and one servant man. The banditti began their operations by forcibly breaking oil'the shut- ters of the parlour window, which were sheathed with iron; having effected this, they raised the sash, and horrible to relate, they then introduced a large box filled with pitch, tar, hemp, and other inflammable materials, and to render their diabo- lical design still more surely and direfully destruc- tive, they had attached to these inflammable sub- stances a large ball or bomb- shell, filled wilh gun- powder and other combustibles, communicating with which was a fusee, to which they set fire; and having thus deposited their infernal machine, they retreated to a short distance to witness the com- pletion of ( heir diabolical conspiracy, which, they expected, would, in one awful moment, consign to destruction this numerous and happy family. The servant man, however, was awoke by their opera- tions, and seizing a pitchfork, being the first wea- pon he could find, he ran to the parlour, at thesame time calling to alarm the family. When he entered the room he perceived the ball and flaming fusee, and in the momentary confusion, not knowing what it was, he dashed it with the pitchfork, and the prongs having stuck into it, he drew it towards him, and retreated with it to the kitchen. In the midst of the agitation which this unaccountable circumstance produced, lie, for a moment, aban- doned the pitchfork and the flaming ball, to call to his master up stairs. In two seconds the combus- tibles exploded like a clap of thunder, and rent the house from top to bottom. Not a wall but was shattered ; the windows were blown to pieces, and a back- door of the kitchen fortuuately burst open, which gave vent to the fury of the explosion. When Mr. Johnson was first alarmed by the ser- vant, he immediately started out of bed, and lay- ing hold of a blunderbuss which was ready loaded, he went to a front window, which he opened, and perceiving eight or ten of the ruffians at some dis- tance, he fired among thein ; but he had scarcely done so when the explosion took place in the kitchen, and threw his family into the utmost state of consternation. The assailants, on hearing the report, returned again to the front of the house and commenced an attai k with fire- arms, upon which 31 r. Johnson, having one loaded" pistol, tired it at them. By this time the neighbouring fami- lies, being alarmed by the explosion and the firing, were coming into the street, upon which the banditti ran oft'in different directions, and, owing to the. daikness of the bight, effected their escape. Not one of Mr. Johnson's family received the smallest injury, exceptiug the agitaiion into which they were thrown by the dreadful occurrences in the course of the tremendous conflict. The nightly patrole had, iu going their rounds, passed Mr. Johnson's house not half- an hour be- fore the attack was made on it; and on hearing the. explosion, which w as the first signal of alarm, they instantly repaired there, though the banditti had by that time escaped. A Town 31eeting was called, upon occasion of this horrid circumstance, when it was agreed to offer a rew ard of 5001. for the apprehension of the offenders. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. According to a letter from St. Helena, dated the 12th January, Bonaparte had begun to show symp- toms of discontent at liis situation. It is said he expressed dissatisfaction at Captaiu Popplewell, of the 53d regiment, who is appointed to watch him, appearing in uniform, and a request that he should attend in plain clothes was granted. Not satisfied with this, however, iu the course of one of his rides, Bonaparte haughtily ordered Capt. P. to fall back in the rear among his attendants, lor he knew nothing of him as a companiot. The next day he sent to Capt. P. to say he intended to ride; to which Capt. P. replied, it did not suit him to go out that day, and that therefore he could not go. The day following Captain P. attended him, but iu his uniform, and in that station which became him as having charge of a prisoner. Captain P. guards him at night by sleeping in the room adjoining, and he must go through Captain P. s room to his own. The same letter states, that Bonaparte has behaved very rudely to the Polish officer who was sent after him on account of the great attachment he manifested towards his old master, and that he affected not to know the Pole on his arrival at St. Helena. When the missionaries at the Cape heard of Bonaparte's arrival at St. Helena, they addressed a letter to him, recommending his attention to the Bible, which they inclosed, as containing principles, through which, if embraced, even he might obtain future mercy. The Admiral so far sanctioned the deed as to let the packet pass on to him. Bona- parte read the letter, and having done so, he shoved the book aside, saying, " I know all about it." EARTHQUAKE IN SPAIN.— A vessel arrived 011 Saturday from Seville, which she left 011 the 13th of February. The Captain reports, that a day or two before he sailed, a violent shot k of au earthquake was felt at that place, which lasted between five and six minutes, attended with a rumbling t. oise resem- bling thunder. The people were thrown into the greatest consternation, running in every direction to avoid destruction from the apprehended fall of the houses. Happily, however, the damage was c hiefly confined to the Great Square. It is remark- able, that of the fourteen gates, only that of Ferdinand was thrown down and broke to pieces.— The Captain did not learn that any lives were lost, By a return made to the itouste of Commons of the Poor Rates or other Rates paid in the year ending the 25th of March, 18lo, it appears, that the amount paid by 12,889 parishes of England, and 1,033 parishes of Wales, was 7,023,3801. 18s. 8d. 773 parishes of England, and 81 parishes of Wales, have made 110 return. So that the sum total paid by this part of the United Kingdom cannot be less than eight millions sterling per annum. On Saturday Captain Is an by exhibited to the Commissioners for the Affairs of Barracks, an efficacious method for the extinction of fire in storehouses and other buildings, in which its pro- gress is always rapidly destructive. It enables the person who discovers the fire to proceed at once to extinguish it by a machine, which he may easily carry by hand, charged with a fluid, so strongly impregnated with antiphlogistic ingredients, as instantly to quench, wherever it falls, the fiercest combustion. The quantity of fluid thus impreg- nated, contained in the machine, will, before the force with which it is projected is at all diminished, effect as much towards extinction as 120 gallons of simple water, however well directed by any other means. A case containing two more such machines, ready charged, aud reservoirs of the fluid for re- charging all three, constituted the apparatus. Its merits are, that it is always ready for instantaneous application; that it may be carried by only one person to any one part of the building, and directed to the most intricate recesses of the incipient fire; and that it offers, in a box, one foot deep, tw o wide, and less than three long, means of extinguishment equal to a quantity of 720 gallons of water applied by any other mode at present in use. It was highly commended by all who witnessed it, and excited a perfect conviction of its complete adequacy to ac- complish its object. SHAKSPEARE.— A meeting was lately held at Stratford- upon- Avon, for the purpose of determin- ing upon the best mode of commemorating as well the anniversary of the birth of Shakspeare, as the second centenary from his death, both of which will happen upon the 23d of April next, when a highly respectable Committee was formed. It will be recollected that the last Jamaica papers announced the murder of a gentleman iu his bed by an inmate, for which no particular motive appeared at the time. The affair is now explained as fol- lows :—" General Bolivar, who made so gallant a defence at Carthagena, effected iiis escape in the confusion in a vessel to Jamaica. General Morillo was exasperated at the circumstance, and dis- patched another vessel after him, with a confidant on board, who undertook, iu case he could not intercept the fugitive in his passage, to have him murdered 011 the island ; for which service he was promised 50,000 dollars, and a free pardon from the Spanish Government. Bolivar reached Jamaica in safety, and took up his abode at a lodging- house. One night he had occasion to sleep out, and, as it fortunately happened for him, it proved to be the very night when the desperado had laid his plan for his assassination. General Bolivar's intention being unknow n to the assassin, a strange gentle- man by chance slept iu his bed, aud fell a victim to the diabolical scheme. The Spaniard who un- dertook the murder was afterwards recognized by General Bolivar, and apprehended. General Bo- livar had left Jamaica, and gone to Port- au- Prince. He was determined to adhere to the patriotic cause." On Thursday se'nnight two Jews were baptized into the Christian faith at the chapel of Lewis Way, Esq. at Stanstead, in Hampshire, who is one of the Vice- Presidents of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge among the Jews. There are, it is said, near Stanstead, as many as sixteen or eighteen Jews preparing for the same purpose.— They were baptized by the Rev. G. Way, brother of the above. One of the converts came from Poland, and will soon return, having left there a wile aud family. In the evening of Thursday se'nnight, a most barbarous and inhuman attack was made on the life of Monsieur Girandieu, a respectable refugee French Priest, residing at65, George- street, Port- man- square, who had nearly fallen a victim to the hands of three assassins, his own countrymen. It appears they had called 011 him about one o'clock the same afternoon to solicit charity, stating that they had been recommended to him by his cousin in France, and likewise by a French clergyman at Bristol, from whom they had received a letter of introduction, which they unfortunately lost. The poor Priest told them it was not in his power to relieve them himself, but if they would sail again in the evening, as he was not very well, he would write to a friend whom he thought a likely person to relieve their wants; they then left him, and about six or seven o'clock the same evening they called again, and were shewn to his apartment, when just as he was about to write as he had pro- mised, to the French Ambassador's Chaplain, one of the villains seized him by the collar, threw him down on the floor, and held him, while another made eleven stabs at him in different parts of his back, five of which are of a most serious nature, with a large French knife; the third man kept the door. The assassins made their escape out of the house. Surgical aid was immediately called in, and every possible assistance rendered to the un- fortunate man. A full description of the persons by whom he was attacked has been given, and it is hoped they will not escape the vigilance of Foy anit the other police officers. At the Public Office, Bow- street, 011 Monday last, James Evans was charged on suspicion of an extraordinary act of felony, iu stealing two coaches, antl two horses with each, aud with attempting to steal another.— George Gore, the driver of the hackney- coach, No. 857, belonging to Charles Gates, of the Cumberland 31ews, North 31ary- le- bone- street, stated, that on Saturday night he took two gentlemen to the Opera, who ordered him to wait. At the time the performance was about concluding, he went to look for the gentlemen, to inform them where his coach was. On his return- ing to the spot where he left the coach, he could not find it. In some time after, the prisoner was detected in endeavouring to drive another coach away, when it was ascertained that, he had driven his coach to the Green- yard, in Surrey- street, in the Strand, for which he had received 3s. from the keeper of the yard, w ho demanded and took twenty- six shillings as fees from the coachman, before he would let him have the coach and horses. The prisoner had taken another coach aud horses to the Green- yard, on Friday night, under similar circumstances.— He was remanded. A Berlin journal announces, that in ftttuT the titles of Mr. Mrs. aud Miss, shall be suppresses in the. play- bills. The actresses are to be designated by tile title of frau ( woman). For instance, iu tj-. e bill announcing the play of Othello, which was performed, on the 3d instant, Desdemoua is per- sonated by woman Schrok; Emilia, Ly Louisa Beck, & c. Among the wounded survivors of the Inniskil- ling Dragroons now in Exeter, there is a Serjeant who received in the battle of Waterloo thirteen sabre wounds in his body, a musket- ball passe d through his thigh, and'both his arms were broken. In this state he lay on the field of battle ( uiuidst a- heaptif slain) from Sunday to the Tuesday evening following, when the persons employed to bury the dead observing some signs of life in him, he was couveyed to an hospital and recovered. There was a dreadful thunder- storm at I. angtoft, near Market Deeping', 011 Monday last, about two o'clock in the afternoon, when a tire- ball was seen to pass 011 the turnpike road, near the church, which turned to one of the windows, forced tip the lead projecting over, and made its way up the church leads, through the steeple, down into the church, without effecting damage in any material degree. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.— In the evening of Sunday se'nnight, Mr. John Holman, a farmer, of Perran, Cornwall, on returning from a place of worship, over a common to his own house, u heavy mist falling, he mistook his way, and fell into an < posed shaft of a mine, ninety- six feet deep, besides nine feet of water in the bottom; and, almost miraculously, he reached the water without re- ceiving any serious injury. Being an expeit swimmer, he kept himself afloat during the night, occasionally relieving himself by clinging to the projecting points of rock in the sides of the shalt. The return of day- light on Monday, enabled him to see a kind of ledge, 011 which he contiived ti » get, and on which lie lay the whole of Monday, calling for assistance; but no person approached the place, aud Monday night came on whilst be contiuued in his perilous situation, where, cvei- come by fatigue, he fell asleep, and a. ain leil into the water. The daikness of the night pre- vented his regaining his resting place, and he to support himself as before, uulil ' 1 uesday morn- ing, w hen he regained the spot from whit li he tell. He had now become quite hoarse from cold, aiid almost incessant calling lor help, so that ibr cuiy resource he had for drawing the attention ot tins* whom, he supposed, would he se;. t to seek him, was by throwing stones into the water, ' i uesi. y night came without afiordiiig him any relief ; but the terror of again falling intd the water effectually prevented his sleeping. On Wednesday, . however, the noise made by the stones wh ch he continued to throw into the water, attracted the attention yf some persons whom his distressed family hud dis- patched iu search of his remains, supposing hint to have been killed, and he was extracted from the dreadful abyss, wi. hout sustaining m. y se. ie, as contusion. HATTON- GARDEN.— On Saturday the Church- wardens of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, accompanied by a most interesting looki. g ye, unit woman, who claimed parish relief, LieLg aest tted,, by her husband, attended to have the case decided, when the following circumstances transpired:— A young man, about seventeen years 0; age, son to Mr. Armstrong, a respectable pawt. brokt r, in Baldwin's- Gardens, paid his addresses to this young female, who is about his own age ; she is an orphan, without fortune, and livcu w ith In r uncle, 31 r. Foster, a pastry- cook in Holbern; his addresses were favourably received, the father's consent to the match was not to be expected, so they had the banns published, whit h passt d unno- ticed, aud they were mariied on the last Geut r;. l Thanksgiving Day.— This difficulty got ever, ihu next thing was, how the marriage should be Kept from the knowledge of 31r. Armstrong, and th y still Jive together; for which p:? rnose the you g- woman quilled her uncle's, and hired herself as servant at 3Ir. Armstrong's, where she remained some weeks, until at length the behaviour ot tin » young couple attracted the notice nf the family, e> 1 which she was discharged. Shortly afterwards it came to the knowledge of Mr. Armstrong, tlu. t hi* son had been married by banns to his disi har^ t d servauf, and having some suspicion that it was conspiracy on the part of the y* ung woman and her friends, he forbid his son to go near her any more, inasmuch as his marriage illegal, on the grounds that he was an infant under age, i. ud could not marry without his lather's consent, ' iIt- son complied with his father's desire, WIIK h had such an etfect 011 the young woman, that she was determined to put an end to her own life; and she wrote a letter to Mr. Armstrong1, informing h 10 of her intentions, and that some morning in the coursa of the week he would find her clay- told body lying at the steps of his door. In consequence ol " iliu letter, Mr. Armstrong employed William Read, sen. a police officer, to watch about the door, in Older to prevent, if possible, tile threatened a » t. On td- nesday night, about eleven o'clock, when the officer was oii watch, he saw a gen tec I lock ; ig t'ciu. da come aud seat herself 011 the steps of the elor, aud before he could lay hold on her, she swallowed the contents of a phial slit held in her- hand, and then exclai med, " It is accomp'isht d; I > hall soon be no morel" The officer took her in his arms to a neighbouring surgeon's, where a second surgeon was sent for, and by their united exeitioiis a,. J persuasions,' she was induced to take some pre- ventives, which caused her to throw up the poison she had taken: and she is now peifect'y out of danger. She has since been induced to apply for parochial relief, which causetl the parish office rs la procure a warrant against the husband, to sh , v » cause why lie refused to maintain his wife. Sa- turday was the day appointed to have the cause decided, but the young man being out of town, did not attend. 3Ir. Williams attended ill behalf of the defendant, to show that he was an infant, huv- ing 110 property, and consequently unable to pay any thing; that his father was not in law bound to maintain his wife; and that 3Jr. Armstrong wu » determined to appeal to the Ecclesiastical Court to set aside the marriage, 011 the ground that it was a conspiracy to delude his son. The parish offeers agreed to allow the young woman a weekly stipend until the case is decided ; and 31 r. Williams pro. inised the young man should attend as soon he came to town. BRAINTREE. Mr . JoseELYNE BALUNGDON Mr. HILL, BRENTWOOD Mr. E, FINCH BURES Mr. DUPONT BURY Mr. RACKHAM BERCHOLT Mr. BARNARD Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, and Orders for this Paper, are received by the following Agents.— LONDON, MESSRS. NEWTON AND CO. 5, Warwick- Square, Newgate- Street, and MR. WHITE, 33, Fleet- Street. MALDON and DENGIE> BECCLES Mr. S. CATTERMOLE BOTFSDALE Mr. H. 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