Star. — London, England, 1801-07-28 00:00:00

.~ I iIdU#ICAL'INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.--Wind W. N. V. Jaws: , DU% a Dublin, Jut? , 24, • Waterford. kilt 23, • Lenard Wands, kw as 0 FALMOUTH, JULY ti. Arrived the DUKE or CLARRNCE packet, Capt. ztissass, from the Leeward Elands, with Marls, i n 37 days, from Tortola : the failed from hence on the sad of April, and arrived at Barbadoes on the sad of May; at Martinique the found his Ma jetty's (h i p s AMPHITRITE, SURINAM, HORNET, H Aw as, the PHARO3 tranfport, and TRUMP prifon (hip; the landed her Mails at the feveral Iflands.--The Howl. arrived at St. Kitt's with t h e c onvoy from Martinique on the t eth of June, and on the 13th ; the Altai arrived there With part of the convoy from England,as did the Am PH I 1. errs and DROMEDARY with convoys from the different Wands : the failed from Tortola on the 18th of June, under convoy of the Fatal , 'loop of war, who parted from her on the aad, in lat. 26. 30. long. 63. and arrived here this day without meet ing a ny particular Occurrence, nor do I learn that the brings any news of importance. The only paf fenger war Me. Feemosos, the Collator of the Cullom& at foti .PLYMOUTH, JULY s 6. . . ThiSinerning isrrived his Majefty's (hip DORisj 61. !l4 Ca*. HALLIDAY, from a cruize, and brought tK laVheaerette, a beautiful Ftench Na tional corvette, of is gins, which was cut out of Camaret Bay, on Wednefday night hit, by is boats belonging to his Majefty's (hips ROROST, of 74 guns, Besotieo, of 44 guns, UaAere, of 38 inns, and DORIS, of 36 guns; which (hips com peted part of the in.fhore fquadron cruizing off Brett: the attack was begun during the night, but as foon as the enemy difcovered the Englifh boats approaching, they opened a tremendous fire from the corvette, .and the batteries on the (bore, and the undaunted bravery of the Englifh officers and feamett was perhaps never more firmly oppofed by an enemy, than in this dreadful contell, which continued two hours and a half, during which time the Mott terrible carnage took place on both fides, fo that the Frenchman's deck, when (he ftruck, was. literally covered with the mangled bodies of the contending parties. The lofs of the enemy was immehfe, but is not exally known; the lofs of the Britifh 'alto was very confiderable in killed and wounded.—Lieutenant MAXWELL, of the Biloll/11/, !lightly wounded;. Lieutenant Mutts, of the UaAx a, badly wounded; Lieut. Snictita, of the Marines of the Besot-no, Mid; Mt. %Valetta, bEdlhipman of the Kozo rr, kOlegi.sad a Lieutenant of the fame !hip 'rounded. fietend other Officers were badly wounded, but thelatsticulars of the lofs cannot yet be afcertained. This very dear bought corvette is a very fine (hip, and had juft been completely equipped and vitlual led for a voyage to St. Domingo, where (he was bound with difpatches. Whether the difpatches were taken or not we have not yet learned, nor ire any further particulars of the glion worthy of credit yet known; only it appears to have been one of the molt fevere conflids, and defperately con tefted glib= during the war. An account has been received that Lieutenant THOMAS Nityrrott, Commander of the Nits cut ter, of t 4 guns, was killed a few days ago, in at• tempting to cdt out a gun-boat from tome Bay on the coati of France ; many others of the crew were killed and wounded, but the capture not defied. PROM LLOYD'S LIST. DtiL,ULY 57.--Sailed the Aa ROW hoop, on a cruise, Arrived the Loyal Britain and Aurora tranfportl,from Portfmooth, with the lick and hap gar of the 9th Regiment of Foot. Wind E iill•VtsllilD, JULY s7.—Arrived the Supply, —; Port of Sunderland, i Champion, Quoit ; Perfererance, and Uriana, fsom Peterthurgh ; Vtiendfcap, —; and Simp, &MATT, from Rotterdam i Frederick and Elisa beth, —; Poll and Catharine, —; and Ni cholas and Ann, SA as, from Norway I Rein Deer, Faosr, from Baltimore; and St. Patrick, CAMPISILL, from Baran. ARRIVED. AI Pakeasth—EAttabeth. laPC.hte; and Made frigate, with a &et under convoy, from Quebec. At Briftob—Friendthip, Nue; from Virginia; and Nanny, from Bolton. At Qyde—Trio, Bean, from Heldman; Pqzy, Carrick, from Virginia; Hercules, Crawford; Jean. 11d.bugald; Sur. Price, C Yi Providence, Commerce, Blake; Minerva, Potter; Elita, Parry ; Fortuna, Leitch; Gothaid,Rudd ; Bet fry, Twit ; John, Scott ; and Columbus, Thornton, from Jr rla kA;Marf Young, float Virginia; and Friend ailp, Link Liter, from Oporto. At &VAR— Jane, sawyer, from At Cerlb—Portlsod. leek, from Pardon.' Nymph. 141 g. Cm, from Virginia; Etta. Lung; and Robert. (leak, fiom I" o2 ica ; Silky, Tripp, from NOW Vat; and Nancy, At. kmfon, from Ronan. At Dubbn--Prankly, Tucker, from Philadelphia; Julius ezrar. (;rant; Commerce, Grant; Ruby, Grantham; and 14'1"t7rnerf, Ainfwords, from Jamaica. At Lrith—Chancr, I oraben, from Perriburgh. At Atufiordion—Csiftor and Pollux, Sintpfou, from Salta more. tbc Patrick. Cuisphelk fmtn tclUt Ulf Deer, Trott, from Maryland. At Owl - orgy—Nancy, from "Ihmlsf" Os Wit tbv--Mari. liotcheilfais ; Commerce, Howe ; Pcf• irventr , t. 6..rbut t and a large Boat. from Peceelbinzb. At Ses.l.ro'-..ktutalictli, &Nita, ffoin Rra Az %dies—Assn and (faticia, Patrice; Maas. Fatima) sadAllitatars. Wm, frog Lain. 14 ARWICH, stl. Yefterday the MOWREY gun vigil, Lieutenant, CeaseLt.'s, failed from hence to Sheemefs, alfo the AIIOVEI revenue cutter on a cruize. The HasT, gun veffel, Lieutenant Callum-ow, failed hence this morning for Sheernefs; and the Hala l armed brig to the Northward.— His Majetty'sl Grip susv, of 64 guns, commanded by Sir Ea. WARD BERRY, is expeded every day in Ozely Bay, where flue is to be Rationed for the protec tion of that part of the coati of S'itFolk. Five fifhing fmacks have been hired at this place, by direftion of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity Houfe, for the purpofe of being - Rationed at the ' buoys lying at the refpeEtive fands at the entrance of the Swin, in order to cut the buoys away, or deßroy them, in cafe an enemy's fleet fhoulci make its appearance. His Majefty's fhip Coigns/110R, of 74 guns, will be completed and ready to launch ' in the courfe of two months. Captain Lusts- Dims, latv of the Pow/ex Arius, is to have the command of this fhip. His Majefty's fhip.lsis in getting into the Downs from the northward, on Saturday night, got upon the Brake, but was got off again by the aftance of the Deal boats, without receivinvany apparent damage. OnEriday fe'nnight arrived at Leith, the Truf ty of Dyfart, JOllll LAYEROCI mailer, laden with hemp, Ste. one of the Britifh (hips that was de tained by the late Emperor PAUL. The Trolly failed from Riga on the 25th ult. with three other veffhls, and joined at flu. Sound feveral more, making in all 26 fail, chiefly from Peterfburgh, having failed on the 9th inftant, under convoy of the SELBY floop, Capt. WILLIAMS. Capt. LAVE. ROCK Rates, that he and his crew, with thole of other !hips detained, were marched to an inland tbtro, about So miles up the country, where they were very kindly treated; andwhen he returned and joined his fhip, on the 26th of May laft, he found her in much better order than he was taught to expe6t, and, before he failed, the was completely caulked at the expence of the Ruffian Government. The Trufty, in her pelage down the Baltic, pallid three or four fail of Britifh men of war cruising between Bornhollis and Falftervon Reef ; ana Capt. LAVE/OCR reports; that on the Sth inftant he taw the Britifh fleet, confifting of about 4o fail of veffels, pafs the Sound downward. Saturday, according to annual cuftom, the elation of the fenior boys educated on King Henry the Sixth's Foundation, at Eton School, to,the Scholarfhip of King's College at Cambridge, com menced at Eton College, before the Rev. Dr. Syron la, Provoft of King's College.—ln the even ing, the Etonians in celeatiott of the event, and as a prelude to the commencement of the Eledion Vacation, bad a grand regatta on the Thames. — The boats were decorated with Calk flags, and the rowers appeared in the fame fuperb dreffes as on the King's Birth Day ; their aquatic excurfion extended to Surley Hall, and in an oppofite mea dow they refrefhed themfelves with an abundant cold collation, and plenty of the belt wines; the ' drums and fifes of the Guards attended to enliven the G*o^.4 rhvin f evera l rnarri.i [once .1 the Town Band proved but a forry fubftitute for the Regimental Bands, which have generally been employed when at Windfor : unfortunately for the liberality and fpirit of the young Gentlemen, the Panics of Wats s's band was previoufly removed to Brighton. The beauty of the evening aura, ed an itirmenfe concourfe of fpedators to both fhores, and the old bridge was not deftitute of its ufual vifitants.—After palling under the bridge, and fainting the company by reiterated huzzas, the amufements of the evening were concluded, by the rowers coming on chore and retiring to College.— A good difplay of fire-works took place, under the diredion of Fire-worker MOODY. Wroxham Broad on Fridayfe'nnight, wascovered with numerous boats of various defcriptions, and the novelty of a Sailing Match attraded a great deal of genteel company. The boats which enter ed for the Silver Cup were the Union, Ethalion, Telegraph, Companion, Nelfon, Ceres, Albion, and Fly. About two o'clock, buoys having been previoufly placed to mark the courfe, the fignal was made for unmooring, and the boats immedi. ately got under weigh, andfailedthree times round the Broad, continuing in fight all the time, when vi Gory declared in favour of the Union. An ele gant Silver Cup, with an appropriate infcription, was then prefented by the Rev. Mr. Palermo to the fnecefsful candidate ; after which the company dined on board their refpeiive boats, and the re mainder of the day was fpent with much convivia• lity and good humour, which the pidurefque fee nery of the place the attendance of an excellent band of MUfiC, and the favourablenefs of the wea ther, could not fail to heighten. The highly intending fcenes of the Fire Kmg. or Alerrt and Rol a', at the Royal Circus, St. George's Fields, are fo profufely embellifhed by the height of magnificence, and the whole fo capi tally aided by the much-admired Pantomime of the Brijh i, 404 that we are by no means fur prifed at the crowded audiences feen there every evening—this, however, we find is the lad week of the prefent performances ; and a new fplesidid Comic Pantomime, which has been a long time in rehearfal, will be fpeedily produced. The New Spedacle of R e ...a or Pormilvei Bower, prefented for the &II time at the Royal Amphitheatre. We Reinder Bridge, left night drew a n amerous, and though in rather an advanced date of the funtmer,a very falbionable.andience at an early hour in the evening. Our contemporaries in the prints of this morning have feverally given their opinions of this produd ion, in a general and impartial manner, and happy are we to fay, that, however flattering has been the notice takes of this pathetic., fuperb,and very laurelling fpefteele, our voice, judgment, and hands, join ace with the thundering plaudits bellowed on Fair Refamend la , night by a delighted and admiring audience : the entr/ e o: Henry as a conqueror from France, with his knit, warriors, horfes, and trophies of vic tory, beggars any thing like defcription, and mud be fern to bt credited. PRICE :OF PROVISIONS. , The following is a Copy of the Report made to On Court of Common Connell, on the Both ult. by the Committee appointed by the Court, on the 25th of April, tgoo, " ,to take into Conlideration and report, if any, atxl what Remedy can he ap plied to rebore the .estravagent 'high price of every necelary Article lot human futtenance." TO THE RIGHT HON. TAR LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMONS Of THE CITY Of LONDON, IN COM- MON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED. „ We whofe names are hereunto fuhfcribed of your Committee, appointed to take into confide 'ration the Refolution,of this Honourable. ton of the asth day of April 180 e, which,ftates, " That the prefent price of every neceffary article of hu man fultenance is fo extravagantly high as to be come truly alarming ; " and 44 to report, if any, and what remedy can be applied to remove f 6 ge neral and fo great an evil:" Alfo to take into con. fideraton the Refolution of an Extraordinary General Meeting . at the Marine Society's Office, relating to obtaining an increafe in the fupply of fifh," and to report our opinion thereon • do cer tify, that, being duly impreffed with the impor-1 tance of this fubject to the Public, and that ex:' tenfive enquiries were neceffary to enable your Committeb to form an accurate judgment upon , the Paid refetence ' We caufed ' advertifements to be inferted in th e Morning and Evening Papers, inviting communications from the Public ;, and in addition thereto we , agreed to meet on Tuefday and Saturday in every,week, to examine fuch pes. fons as Were willing and competent to afford us information, . That your Committee having, upon the tequeft of feveral of the parties who obligingly communi cated fuch information, agreed that their names thould not be divulged, have formed their opinion upon the refulLof their evidence. Your Committee beg leave to refer to the four reports made by them to this HOnottrahle Court in the courfe of the laft year, viz. of the 16th of May, 7th of June, 14th of October, and 4th of November, for a detailed account of their pro ceedings to that period. By the firs of which it appears (inter are) from the concurrent teftimony of Salefmen, Carcafe, and Cutting Butchers, and others, " That the then exifting fcarcity of fat cattle was occafioned by unfavourable (colons, but that there was a fufficient (lock of lean cattle to prevent the.apprehenfion of fuch fcarcity being of long continuance." " Your Committee have the fatisfaelion to re ? port, that the opinion then formed has been rea lized by the markets having been and now are plentifully fupplied with fat cattle: And although a very confiderable reduction has taken place in the price, yet the fame Rill continues fo exorbi tantly high as in a great meafure to deprive the poorer claffes of fociety of this neceffary article of human fuftenance. • Your Committee, in order to put a flop to the nefarious practice of regrating in Smithfield mar ket, noticed in their laid Report (and which in their opinion is one caufe of the prefent high price of Butchers meat) directed Mr. Solicitor to profe cute the parties; and although Tome of the offen ders have been convicted, yet the practice Rill con tinues from the inadequacrof the penalties, and the difficulty of obtaining evidence to fupport,the legal proceedings neceffary under the Statute of King Edward the VI. We therefore recommend, that an application fhould be made to the Legif-11 lature for powers to increafe the penalty, and that the fame may be recovered in a fummary way be fore two Juflices of the Peace, as the molt effec tual means of putting a flop to fo grievous =evil. By the fecond Report, your Committee recom mended (inter arm) an application to be made to the Lords of his Malay's Treafury, to take off the duties on falt'ufed in curing and prefervipg 6th, which it appeared from the evidence laid before us, would enable the fifhermen of Harwich alone to fupply the London market with sco tons of cod, haddock, ling, and other &fit that would other wife be deftroyed, from their inability to bear the expence of the Salt Duty; and although this mea fore was afterwards adopted by Parliament, yet we lament that the oppofition it experienced in this Honourable Court. prevented the Corporation having the credit due to a meafure fo highly bene ficial to the poor. In our third keport we adverted to the prac ekes which prevailed, of fupplying the metropolis with butter and cheefe, through the medium of Contractors; and to fuch an extent is this fyfteux carried on, that the whole produce of the Dairies are agreed for by the opulent traders., and the (ap ply of the metropolis now depends upon the orders tranfrnitted by thofeCapitalifts to the Dairy Forma. Your Committee are therefore confirmed in their former opinion, that thefe articles being fo impro perly Intercepted or aontroulad, is one very. prin cipal caufe of the prefent high price of there ne ceffaries of life, and which can alone be remedied by the interference of Parliament. Your Committee have the fatisfaftion to Rate, .that the meafure of vending Potatoes at reduced prices, recommended in our fourth Report, has been productive of the nooft beneficial and fidutary effects to that defervtug clefs of fociety, the induf trious poor, who have been fupplied with this ne ceffary article during the winter and fpring, at lets than one half of the price At which they were fold, previous to the Refolution of this Court to korai gate the caufes of the unprecedented high price ofl every article of life. Having in our former Report anted it as our unanimous opinion, that a legiftative interference was abfolutel y neceffaryto remedy the evils fo juftly complained of, we faw with great fatisfaelion that both Houfes of Parliament had appointed Com mittees " to confider of the prefect high Price of Provifions, and to report the tame, with their opi nion thereupon, from time to time to the Hoar, ' Your Committee,. with every deference due to fo high and refpeitable an authority, feel it their duty to Rate to this Honourable Court their opi nion, that there are other conies to Which the high prices of provibous arc attributable, than thole no ticed in the Reports made by both Houfes of Par hameut upon the forane reference, and which have been gradually operating for many yetliglin# itre now me:raring with fuc k alarming tapitiley' as to threaten the - snot} (crious calamities b amocgft which are to be claßcd : _ . Fird, The incrcafed and increa(ng confutnpti . ort of Wheat and Anitnal Food from !more Incurious. habits ofliving, and the greater nurnbet of perfons taken from agricultural occupations than hereto fore. . _ Secondly, That too confider/tide confdidation, and confequent enlargement of Farms, whereby a lefs produce of various articles of proviflon, foch as poultry and . pigs, takes place, they being TWA' deemed too unimportant for the opulent Farmer to attend to, who is stlfo enabled to give a higher rent than the perfon occupying a (mall farm, on account of the reduced proportionate expence of cultivation ; and instead of bringing his . produce to Market, as was formerly the cukom, in order. to,dife.harge his rents, he is enabled to Withhold it,' add the charader of the Farmer is loft In that of the Speculator and hfonopoiik, to the great in jury of the Public. Thirdly, the,great inCreafe of the Country Banks, and the inundation of their paper, by which the Farmer and the Crazier are enabled to raifc an artificial capital on the credit of their crop or ffock, and thereby to feed the Market as fuits their. avarice or convenience. 'Fourthly, From a variety of evidence which has come before us, it is 'our opinion. that thp extra demand for the (apply' of the Army anti Navy, during a Rate of warfare, neieffarily cauks an advance in the price of cattle, and has a ten dency to produce a firnilar Oh& iii various other articles of provilion. Your Committee have, among( other objets of importance, direded their attention to that clefs of perfons denominated Jobbers and Middle, Meni, and although a '.Conffdentble difference of Opinicni exists Orin thislubjeft, they have (Mani:stoutly agreed to recommend, that they tiontd be Cub jeCted to Parliamentary regulation, and Cmongfk others to the following: Tirft, that every Fador or Agent to whom corn, cattle, sth, butter, cheefe, potatoes, or any other articles of provi fi Ons fhould be configned, thould. be annually licencfd, and enter into a bond, with fofficient fureties, not to buy or fell, direkly or: indiredly, on hit own account, or deal in any articles tonfigned to him for Pale. • i Secondly, That all corn, fat cattle, clreefe, but , ter, po tatoes, and other tweeffaries of life, when difp , d of by the oamer, escept by retail, Mould be fold in a public open market, or,conligned for fate to a Scented Fattor, or Agent; and that all contra& entered into for buxing the fame before fo publicly expofed for tale, or configned as afore fold, thould be void, and .the •itintraiting parties; as well buyer as feller, fubjefted to Penalties, which penalties Mould be recoverable in a flimmary wj before two Justices of the Peace for the county or town where filch offence ilia be committed. ' Thirdly, That the Clerk of the Market Amid keep a bookfor regiftermg all wholecalefeles ' conned' tits& in franch markets; and that the ter kr should deliver to fuchaerk of certificite In ing, fpecifying the =line and refidenee ofthe buyer and feller, the quantity fold, and the price patd kir the fame. . Fourthly, 'That in order to pot an effedual flop to the nefarious melees of regratirsaand alto of intercepting the fupplies of provitionffor the Me tropolis, by which the price is not only confidera bly enhanced, but the Farmer and Grazier futtain great injury, we are unanimoufly of opinion, that the purchafe of any article of provifion, configned to the Metropolis for fele, thould be prohibited before the fame is brought into the public market ; and that the offenders Mould not only be fubjeCted to heavy pecuniary penalties recoverable as afore. faid, but the contrails declared void. Fifthly, That the Clerk or Clerks of Smithfield Market,.ihould regifter in a book to be kepi for that pupae, the cattle, (peep, &c. brought into the market for tale, and when fold the fame should be ;parked, and the feller and buyer deliver to fuch Clerk or Clerks of the Market, a note in writ ing, containing a particular of Poch purchafe, and the price paid for the fame ; and that no cattle, Cheep, &e. should be refold on the fame day, nor within fourteen days afterwards; and that all con tralts for fuch refak fhould be declared void, and the buyer and feller each fubjeeted to penalties, recoverable as aforefaid; and that the time for holding the Paid market %Inds' alio be afcertained and limited. _ _ Your Committee are alto of opinion, that if the wage lands were thrown into cultivation, a fuffi. cient fupply of corn would be produced fo as greatly to fuperfede the neceffity of importation; end if in addition thereto a fmall portion of tend was allotted to each cottager, he would be enabled to cultivate the fame at lusleifore, and raife a fuf ficieot fupply of potatoes and other vegetables for the confumption of his family, by which the con dition of the indoftrious poor would be very con fiderably ameliorated. Your Committee are further of opinibn, that an A& of Parliament to compel Farmers to employ a reatonable cumber of oxen in ealtivating their farms, in proportion to the ftze and quality of the foil, would be produetive of the' moft beneficial effeas to the Public, by reducing the confumption of oats, increa fi ng the fupply of - animal food, and thereby diminith the price of this di - coital necelfary article voile. Your p Committee have alfo direaed their anvi -1 don to the laws for rutting the Atfize of Bread, and from the evidence they, have received, and the heft coolideration they have been able to give this fubjea, are of opinion, that the benefits pro pofed by the late ACt of Parliament have been de feated by various nefarious praaioes; and that the fame lhoold be repealed, and io lieu thereof that au Aa fhould be obtained for letting the Alias upon the weight : and quality only. All which we fubosit to the jndgment of this Roo. 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