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ap. to ye. lU ext Ing it forbear , to refer k to the future deliberation and fuperior wifdom of the Houfe. Upon the whole, though your Committee are of opinion, that the Rate of the Corn Trade iq this Metropolis, admits of and requires regulation and improvement, with a view to the more convenient, open, (air, and fat4aCtory mode of carrying it on I and although they are inclined to think that prat:tires have at times prevailed, inconfiftent with the perfed jußice due to the public, yet that thefe have not been proved to exilt to any very confiderable extent, or to have contributed mate rially to enhance the price of Bread Corn to the enormous amount which it has molt unfortunately maintained for a long time paR. The original caufe mu(} be fought for, principally, in the dearth and fcarcity produced by fuch a fucceifion of un favourable feafons, as is not to be paralleled in the modern hiftory of Great,,Baitain ; which has ren dered the fupply inadeqintte to the ufual demand. Other circumaances have undoubtedly contributed in a degree to aggravate the diftrefs the country has been obliged to endure : the return of plenty will, it is hoped, remove this evil; but your Com mittee cannot conclude without obferving to the Houfe, that.it is during plenty that it is molt fit and fafe toprovide agamil the probable recurrence of fcarcity, by wife regulations, by wholefome and well confidered Laws, and, above all, by every praCtipable and rational Mode of encouraging and improving, Agriculture within the realm ; upon which, under Providence, every great nation. matt depend for its exillence ; and w ithout which commerce and manufaCtures are of littlecomparit ti* advantage.; LONDON: . SATURDAY. JUL? 4: ,3. ; : PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Coed for opg. 624.1tidticed 6of f—Oninium 93 Loa zo3. 4 per. Cent. 799 3.—New 5 per Cent. 95i 96.. ?RICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY. Jkak Stack *6B 161 Lops Ann. 185-16* 3 per C Red. 60f f Abort Ann._ . 3 per Cent. Gong Eye . buil- 3 Pa' Coat 544 I 4 per Cent. Coat p#33 : trim s per Cent. peg a pa . c N av y gime ' °minium so 5 Pay C Lab OS vst . Conf. for Ace.6a3 6a ' Donuts, Pan So. -.Price of Stocks this day : . # Cent. Gov. Deb. 4. bark of Dublin on LoSca z3f a 14. , This Morning Btigadierageneral Mausit at rived at Lord Hoaarr's Office, with difpatches from the Well Indies. It is reported he brings accounts of the furrender of Guadaloupe. • There teems now to be no room left for doubting the truth of Portugal having procured peace, by tub/flitting to terms didated by the enemy. Capt. MILLET, of the Pointer, :refired at. Plymouth, and which left Lilbon fitre dayi later than the Sur. prize, confirms the intelligence; bat the terms had nit tranfpired, only Btitifi . Olean property it was faid was to be refpeeked, though out' !hip of war were to be refufed adinittance into the ports of Portugal. The Spaniards and French are to be put in porefflon of different firong places; and in to dernolifh fome of the fortreffes on the frontiers of Portugal. What could the latter do? the Britifh army having gone to drive the French out of Egypt, which formerly ferved to keep them out of Portugal I llM•l•Miiii• Yeßerday morning at feven o'clock their MA. 3LIVIEI and PNiNCESSig left Mr. Ross's feat at Muffnels, and went to Tbe Cottages, the houfe of r. Hass y RosE, near Chrißchurch, where they breakfafted. At h,l f pall ten they embarked on board the yacht; as the veld hada fine wind, it was a very agreeable fight to fee them, as they glided along before the breeze. Their MAJssr ris and fuite arrived at Gloucefter Lodge, Weymouth, about four o'clock in the afternoon : the (bore was lined with fpeitators, who hailed the Royal Family with acclamations of, w Long Live his -MAJLITY and Family."-aThe troops were drawn oat on the fands, and fired airs de pp, which was anfwered from Portland Caffie and the (hips lithe Read. Mr. Argo Narom gave a grand dinner yalterday at his refidence at Wimbledon. The company who honoured the Prime Minißer with thcir pre tence, were Prince CA3TILIICALI, the Duke of Posri.iao, the LORD CHANCRLLOR i . Earls WILIT• RIOLII.AIIb, ST. VINCENT, CHATHAM, Count Bun. :rots, Count Worroasow, Lotd HAwsmistraY, Lord H , Lord Hoatar, Lord Patna*, Mr. Purr, Mr N. V•IISITTART, and Mcffrs...Hass- 11101 ID and Day es moan. The Patacs of WALSS and a fele& party (upped laft night at the Maims: is of HIRTFOILIIN. Earl RossLYi leaves town on Monday for Wey-. month on a vibe to his MAJarry. It is (aid, that in the paffsge up the Red Sea, Admiral BLASI= loft la FORTI frigate (taken from the French), and a traisfport with provifions. The crews arc fared. On Monday afternoon about three o'clock, the Hon. BUTLAR Dan v aas and Captain EDWAIDI, O( the Light Dragoons, attended by their" fecal**, Captain HALLIDAY, of Berkley-fquare, and Joan I FEI/ItS, tfq. with Mars. Dust and 1-livissaa, l Surgeons, met to decide an affair of honour, ow the three mile-Rune Uxbridge Road: after havile exchanged a brace of pillols without effed, the IP► terpolition of their recoil& elicited a reconciliation. We are forty to learn. that on Tuefday left, them tublic fpirited yourg Nobleman, Lord Viking*taawaLL, la L, met with an accident, which had newt , ' primed fatal: exerclfing his troop of volunteer cavalry, together with his corps of infantry, on the lawn before his boufe in Denbighfhire, in making a charge at the head of the former upon the latter, his hurfe reared and fell back with him, -with Inch violence that his helmet was completely crufhed,but fortunately prevented hisfuftaining any Trate material injury than a fame roatufion on his neck anti back. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STAMFORD, TUESDAY, JUNE 30. • The Town Plate of 501.-3 yr. olds to carry 6ft. 12lb. 4 yr. olds, Bft. 71b. 5 yr. olds, oft. 31b. 6 yr. olds, of. 811. and aged, 911. tolb. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. The belt of three heats; twice round for an heat. The winner of a Plate , or Sweepftakes this year to carry 41b. extra.— The winner, with his engagements, to be fold for is s. if demanded, within a quarter of an hour after the race, the owner of the fecond horfe being firft entitled, &c. Mr. Girdler's b. h. Capricorn 6 obi - - Mr. I-Inaba:tea gr. h. Trots: ra aged - - 3 2 Mr. Ether's b. g. Griffin, 5 yr; old - - 1 3 Six to 4 on Trufs, and 5 to 3 agli. Capricorn. The Ndblemen and Gentlemen's-Sweepftakes of 20 gs• p. for 3 yr. olds.—Colts to carry 811. slb. fillies Bft. Lord Sondes' c. by Vofoliar -. Lord Fitzwilliam's b. f. Patch, by Standard Sir O. Heathcote's b. f. by Delpini Lard Grofvenor's b. c. by Mr. Teazic Duke of Oraftoo's eh. c. Flambeau . I . i - ' Pd • pd - ' pd pd - Pd Mr. J. Heathcoten ch. e. by Precipitate Mr. R. Hcachaote's Paalo,brotker to Vivaldi Three to . l on the Colt. kIUTMAL,IiirTELLIGENtg. ottEEtteCK, joxs lg. Oit Saturday arrived the Mac, Itraats, from Charleftawn, in 33 &i f; with rice and cotton ; on the isth inftant in 53. 29. long. 3a. (Poke the brig jenny, from Liverpool, for -Newfound land, out sr days, all well.—Yeterday , arrived the Mary, Mime, from Savannah. with rice and cotton, 35 -days pairage ; as alto the Lord Dun can, MILLER, from Antigua, one of the Leeward Iftand Rea, came in North Channel, parted con voy, as did 5o fail more, on the sth infant, in a heavy gale of wind and thick weather ; the Unity, KERR, from Tobago, another of the fleet which parted, arrived this morning. As the wind is now favourable, the reft of the chips may be hourly lookzd for. YARMOUTH, JULY 3. Sailed the Pitozwtz lugger.—Arrived the PRO NCE cutter, and the GLATTON and ARDENT men of war, being part of "the Baltic Beet under Admiral Pola.—No Packet yet arrival/um Cux haven. ' PLYMOUTH, JULY 2. . Came in the Harm my, Captain R.. Jaccum, and the Recovery, Captain PAIMORB, both from Oporto, laden with wine, for this port: they parted from the fleet yenerday off the Edyflone, confining of about So fail, going up under convoy of the Com STANC 1., of 24 guns ; the (hips for the Briflol Channel parted fall Monday : the fleet were dodged many days by a French privateer, but the could not fumed in capturing any of , them. The (hips which ccnvoyed the Oporto fleet, captured un their voyage home a Spanith brig laden with wheat, which is feet to Portfmouth. Sailed the Hutounsis s armed brig, of ta guns, with a fleet of Vieuallers for the Channel fleet off Brea : arid the SPIADWILL, Captain Mama, from ' Demerara, for London. SHEERNESS, JULY s; Sailed the PROVIDENCE cutter Lieut. COHAN, for Yarmouth.—A Court-Martial was held this morning on board his Majelly's lhip Isis, lying in this harbour, Rear-Admiral Rower Prefil dent, on WILLIAM SMITH, Boatfwain of his Ma• jetty's (loop Ataow, for negle& of duty, contempt and infulence to his Superior Officer : after a trial that kited fome time, the charges again& him having been clearly proved, the Court fentenced him to be broke, but to ferve in any (hip before the mart Admiral GRAMME mall think proper. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. D.s.aLo JILT v—AsTived the fleet from the Well-Indies'under convoy,fame of which are failed for the Riven-I-Wind W. N. W. _ G ii!, J U LY s:.--raffed by the Bailey, Ws Lsoir; front Ls:lbon; Algae., Goytisolo, from Stockhciat ; Ceres, Read, hula Cork; and fes, Fooeivsom, from Charleflom—Sailed the Sir Andrew Hammond, Toon rsoo; for Jamaica; Anna Juliana, GROSS, for Dantzick ; Louifa, OIL Ku!, for Rotterdam ; and Major Somme, for Bremen. • GIBRALTAR, MAY sc. On Monday lafffixty-eight prifoners of war, be longing to various'Englifh privateers which had been captured and carried into Spanifh ports, ar rived in the rarrifon. They bring us the follow ing information, the truth of which has fince been (volumed: On the 7th inßant his Majefly's brig of war 'SPEEDY, commanded by Lord Coc MILAN`, fell in with lbws Spain& veffils, under convoy of his Catholic Majefty's xebec, El Carno. of a5B men, and 36 guns. The SPUMY captured nine (hips of the convoy; and, after having feat men on board each of the prizes, there remained only twenty-five men out of feventy, her original comple ment : the carries fourteen 4-pounders. In this fituation the was chaced by the xebec which gained upon her rapidly, until at lafi the SPEEDY found it impoffible to efcape ; but her brave Commander was refolved the (hould not be a cheap conqueft. Accordingly a warm aAion commenced, which, however, did not tall long, as the xebec, after having loft fome of her hands, furrendered to the Stunt.; and was taken by her, along with the other prizes and prifoners, into Mahon harbour." Extra of a Letter from St. Vincent, 9th May, tt The running (hip Union Wand, Capt. Daum. for Britlol, which failed from this place the t3th ult. fell in with a French privateer of 14 guns, 6-pounders, and 160 men, on the 18th, near mile. gads. After a dafperate engagement, in which the Captain of the Union Ifiand and five men were wounded, and two men killed, the privateer was beat of, with the lofs of her Captain and a num ber of men killed and wounded.", Ldor INTELLIGENCE., COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 3. ODRVELAND T. MEL!. This aftion was brought to recover damiges for a falfe dieters. A Mils Mackie had taken a houfe in Welbeck•fireet from the Defendant, who is a houfe broker. This flue let out in lodgings, and one of her lodgers was Mrs. Cleveland, the Plain tiff. It fo happened that Mira Mackie was confider ably in arrear to her landlord for rent, and being a good deal importuned by him flue took French leave of his premifes. Mrs. Cleveland alarmed for her property, began to remove it ; but while there was (till a confiderable number of things remain ing. behind, Mr. Kepple fent a fervant with his compliments to the lodgers, and defiled them not to be at all uneafy,..as their effeas fhould all be fate. Next day, however, he came himfelf and diffrained them. Mrs. Cleveland was very anxious to get, poireffion of her papers, and teeing a real in the drawer of her cabinet, welted to take is with her. Mr. Kepple ordered her to lay it down ; fbe perfilled in feizing it ; he tried to wreft it from her hand ; fhe fucceeded in putting k into her pocket, 1 and then fell into fits. He then went away, and the fcnt for the Earl of Kinnoul, who provided her With other lodgings. The witnefs, who principally (poke to thefe faits, was Mifs Douglas, a niece of Sir John Douglas. This lady fubmitted with great reluitance to the interrogations of Lord KRNYON and the Gentle. men at the Bar.—She called out feveral times, is. Will this have no end f Oh that I ever came hire! I ought to be in bed, attended by a phy gciaii. lam to agitsited! What a (hock. is this for my poor nerves ! ' Lord KENYON, upon confulting the Aft of Par liament, was of opinion that the Defendant's con duit was probably fanitiOned by law, and upon his recommendation a juror was withdrawn. HURST V. TYLER. This aftion was brought by the Plaintiff, a Dancing-ma fter, in the neighbourhood of Green wich, a man of much refpetiability, and who, it ap peared,h ad taught the daughters of Lord Thurlow, and the young Ladies at averal Boarding•fchools, to recover damages againft the Defendant, a n ir fery-man, for not repairing the path adjoining his pales, in confequence of which he flipped, and re ceived a very material injury. It appeared, how ever, that the Defendant was not bound by his te nure to repair the path. Lord KENYON walled that a Juror might be withdrawn; but tae Defendant, who was in Court, Rated, that his poverty did not enable him to pay the coils, upon which his Lordfhip was compelled to dire& a nonfuit; at the fame time recommending that the Attorney would make out as moderate a bill of colts a s poffible ; and alto reprefent to the furveyors of the roads for the diftrie, that they were bound in juftice and humanity to make a corn penfation to the unfortunate Plaintiff. DUST ♦ND NICOLLS ro. COWDEIY. The fubjed of this contention was a warm one : it was an adion brought by the Plaintiffs, who re• tided at Bath, and were patentees of what they called a new-invented mode of making portable ovens, againft the Defendants, alfo of that city, to recover damages for having infringed on their pa tent. Mr. Easaists opened the caufe by extolling the merit of this marvellous invention, which, had it gone a Rep farther, and baked the bread without fire, would certainly have reached the very acwJ of perfeftion. True it was that nothing under the fun could be Paid to be entirely new—the powers of mechanifm, the properties of the elements, the application of them, either to aftift human labour, or promote the comforts and conveniencies of life, had been fully underflood for centuries—it was therefore only by the adaptation and combination of tbofe powers and properties different from their previous application, that an ingenious artift could claim to have the exclufive right of making and vending the °hied of his difcovery fbr his own pro fit, fecured to him by a patent. Of fuch a nature was the invention in queftion ; it was framed on a conflruaion fo portable, that a man, contemplat ing a long journey, might whip the oven under his arm, metamorphoft himfelf into a walking baker's Chop, and, whether traverfing the immea furable ocean, or the wide extended defart, could, without the aid of magic, at any time, command the appearance of a 'well-baked quartern loaf—it was an article in itfelf not only elegant, but claffi cal—it was framed upon a tripod limilar to the footftool of Jove, or the feat of the Sybilline Oracle peculiar conftru,tion was fuch, that the cir eumambient air correfted the ardour of the pro methean element, and produced a fpecies of bread of a flavour fo divine, that it refembled ambrofia or manna. The Defendant, jealous of the merit of fo extraordinary an invention, had pirated it, and thereby defrauded the Plaintiffs of thofe im menfe profits which they bad a reafonable right to have expend from the liberality and gratitude of the public. The firff witnefs produced was •the wonderful oven itfelf ; it did not bear any external or internal evidence of thole mighty properties afcribed to it. The ATTORNET-GIMIRAL crofs-examined it, and pretty clearly (hewed that it was not the firff of its family, but a collateral ramification of one which had for years betas/nil known in every coun ty of England, but particularly in the North. Lord Eng land , vow thought that the pltilofophical principles of this felf-baking oven were equally in herent in the conflitution of a chafing.difh. The celeftial tripod proved to be nothing more i nor lets than a three-legged trivet, common in every but in the kingdom; and, as to the oven, it appeared that a grate and fire were neceffary to be placed under it; two things certainly not of the molt convenient portability. The Learned Counfel, nothing dill:flayed by the 1 Corry exhibition of his firfl witnefs, proceeded to ea 'bore who were enabled to , give oral tellimosty of the excellencies of the miraculous oven. The vritnefres defcribed it in terms no lefs glow. ing than thole adopted by the Learned Advocate. From their account it would have appeared that the inventor was intitled to little lefs celebrity than the inventor of the iteam-cogne. The fpecifica • '• don was alfo produced, and in the 113011 Ligh •flonni and lealphaniclanguage defcribed the oven alt equally adapted for ufe by fea or by land, above ground, or under ground, on oceans, or on river s, in gulphs, or in bays, on mountains, or in vallies, in rorelts, or in groves, in uplands and lowlands,. hills, or dales; &c. &c. and fo on in a (Lyle of hy perbole, exceeding the molt flowery and meta• phorical defcriptions of any of our moil florid modern auaioneers. Unfortunately for the invention, and for the witneffes, and thofe on whofe part they gave their teftimony, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, having pa tiently hauled for fome time, produced an old Ma gazine of the year 1761, from which it appeared the terms of the fpecitication had been copied ver. batim. He convinced this fury that the principle of the fuppofed invention was as well known as the article which it baked. Lord Kt vow obferved, that the anion was truly ridiculous ; and Mr. beg KIN!, when he found himfelf too hard puthed to contell the point any longer, feemed, with the greateft good humour, tacitly to mirth, that, in the country, on which he retleas no lefs honour than he derives from it, this fort of ovens had, from time immemorial, been.ufed to hake the oaten cakes which have nurtured the infant an machs of fome of the greatell geniufes Great Bri tain can boat. Mr. GAR ROW, who was one of the Connie' with the Attorney-General, remarked, that patents were now-a-days granted for the mot childifh and ab. ford inventions. It was but the preceding even• ing he had called upon his Learned Friend, and had found him deeply engaged in perfuading man, as foolith as the prefent Plaintiff's, not to,ap!. ply for a patent for a new-invented implement of domeftic utility; viz. a chamber-pot, as good as ever was made of wood !—Plaintiffs nonfuited. HICKS'S HALL, CLERKENWELL,, Jour 3. GEORGE PURIM V. ADJUDICATION OS' BASTARDY. Catherine Bailey laid fhe went to live with Mr. Marfh as a fervant on the 2t ft of April, t 800. About a fortnight after (he was there, fhe began a criminal intercourfe with him, and was delivered of% baflard child on the 3 t ft of December.—Upon crofs-examination, fhe admitted that the had pur loined a filver table fpoon and other articles, and • that (he never told her mailer of her being with child until (he had left her fervice. Mr. Cow s icontended,th4 -no credit ought to be given her under there circumliances, efpeciaty al the was delivered before the ufual courfe of nature —in addition to this he called a Mr. Duncan, a Surgeon, who Paid, that between the 22d and 29th of April, fhortly after the entered into Mr. Marilee fervice, the complained of fymptoms, which he conceived proceeded from pregnancy. The woman perfilling that (he never bad any in tercourfe but with her matter, the Court affirmed the Adjudication of the Magifirate. R. Pt/DDINGFORDV..II CONVICTION OF J. GIFFORD. This was a convielion againft the defendant, who is a baker, for expofing new bread for fide, contrary to the provifions of the St.tle Bread ACT.. Hopkinfon, the Informer, Rated, that on the 28th of January lai he was with two others, and purchafed three new loaves of the defendant. It was on a Saturday night, and there were many other loaves in the (hop, above the number of for. ty. In his crofs-examination, he laid that he was not an Informer, being paid byhim as an evidence. Mr. Tranter, the Informer, was his employer. The man had been convieted for felling the three loaves, and had paid the penalty. The Court thought that the bread being in the (hop at that time of night, was not fufficient evidence of its being expored to fele, they therefore quathed the conviCtion. OLIVIA v. A CON•ICTION OF MR. JUSTICE NASH. This was an appeal from a conviition upon the Hair Powder A. The witnefs in the laft cafe proved, that the defendant had his hair whitened in a manner, exaftly refembling a powdered head. on the ath January lift. The defence let up was, that it was not hair-powder he ufed, but flab 41114 k—that he ufed it medicinally, as be was fubjeft to violent perfpirations in the head. A witnefs was called to prove the fad,and produced tome of the white; but the Court thought that powdering the head with flake white, to prevent perfpiration in January, was too ridiculous a de fence to be fnpported. They accordingly affinited the Convittion. 11. RICIIWOOD In • CONVICTION OF J. OtFFORD, ISQ : . This was an appeal again& a.convidion upon the Armorial Bearing AR. Mr. Hopkinfon, the fame witnets, proied the fact, that there was an armorial bearing upon the winkers of the harnefs. The circumaances of this cafe were, however, a little fingular. The defen dant was a poor man, and the bailie(' in queflion was part of an old harnefs he had long ago pur chafed for his cart and horfe. The Magiftrate who convicted him, thought that the wo r ds o f t h; AR were fo imperative, that it left him no difcre tion upon the proof of the fait. Mr. MAINWARINO faid, there could be no doubt that Inch a cafe as the prelim was not within the fpirit and meaning of the AR, which was meant to attach only upon perfons who ufed arcnoajal bearings, for the purpofes of oßentation or parade —the Court concurring, the aonviCtion was quails ed. It Teems that the opinions of the fate Attor ney and Solicitor Generals have been taken upon the conftruaion of the Armorial Bearing AR— and they were of opinion that plate given or left to any perfon, with the armorial beasiagi of the donor engraver upon it, was not liable to the duty in the hands of thofe who received it. The Greed &Het of Anion, named the Frre reap or Jaws and 160164 meets the utmoß appro. betroth not only of the Public at large, but that al. fo of . the firfl circles and numerous parties of the Nobility, who every evening are beheld at the Royal Circus, St. Georr's Fields, tettifying the great pkafbre they receive at the Onprecedented Scenes of Magnificence, Ste. which that produc tion difplays--thcir plaudits keep equal pace silo with the tell of the houfeohrough the favourite Pantomiine of the Blio 5 i A