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" T. -.,'.. : • i '. • ~: i. i ..v •'• 4 b r7l: . { . „. : „ 3v. !..,;!, 1, ~ 1- ~ • ~. ;. , '7 - ..' ~ • . ` l . ` l 7 1 , QP I ; ICC SlV** - P,F, I 24CE . ••••••••••••••• , _ * . ..• VI V ... • . ... , • . . - . • • • IfU Ab N IVIBIM 11.114 ] YETERINARY COLLEGE. MR. COL EMAN will begin his COURSE of LECTURES on the ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, Votl PATHOLOGY of the HORSE, on MONDAY, the 11th of November, at Twelve o'Clock. LOAN CONTRACTED FOR HIS MAJESTY THE .. • . . ..:, . FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD. ' Op in custody or Thiemas 111alhatim, a Constable of anise% GA a charge of stabbing two boys LEXANDRIX 211 a CO. not hiving succeeded en john gmbleton, a carver and glider, in the emPlef of . Mr. 4iL obtaining their Pared of Notes, amounting to eC31,199, Tijon, of Greek.street. Soho. said, that he took a walk with night m a me o f isis shopotates on NOpday afterimage to Chelsea. se sie taken from the Ipiwieli Mail on t h e of the 11th September , • • race. About MI o etoek he saw a nu ieb4.l of people they have considered it advisable to circulate a NEW ISSUE assembled at the end of Cheyne-row, to witness a felor-e u e u be. of Notes, printed in RED INK ; and in order to prevent the tween two females for a chemlee. Among the Crowd he ob . negociation of any of the Stolen ones, they have to request that , served the prisoner anti some other hove, one of whom, point. the Public will i ts , pleased to reject any Notes printed in ing at the prisoner, said, "he has stabbed another boy." The prisoner then moved towards the olace,Where witness was stand tag, and he saw him strike his cloned hand again t the side of IPSWICH and NEEDHAM MARKET, another boy. Witness did not at the time see whether he had WOODBRIDGE, any weapon 4n his hand, but one of his shopmatcs called oat, HADLEIOH, " he has stabbed the bny.i—he has a knife is his hind,' and the prisoner instantly ran away. The bystanders stood still in MANNINGTIME; ' - astonishment hut witness pursued and overtook the•prisoner And which their Bashers in Leaden are instructed, when near Chelsea Church. and seizing his right hand, took from it presented. to refer to themselves, at Ipswich. an open penknife, the blade of which was bent. He took the prisoner back to the place from which he h a d st a rt e d, an d t here Ipswich, October 2, 1822. • - •• he learned that one little boy had been stabbed in th e fleshy part Whoever will give informalon, either at Alexaeder's and Co. of the thigh, and another in the kit breast .. or at Fry's and Co. St. 51Sdretre.coure, so that the parties may A surgeon having eternised the wounds inflicted. said. that be apprehended, shall. on his or their conviction, and the re. In the thigh was but of trilling consequence, hot that in the was of a dangerous nature; witness therefore handed the corer y of the Property, receive the above Reward ; and upon breast prisoner over to the constable.—He was committed for further conviction alone, without the recovery of the Property, the sum exam i nat i on . .. __ • of TWO THOWSAND POUNDS. BRITISH FIRE OFFICE, STRAND XND CORNHILL 'ESTABLISHED in 1799, for Insurance of Houses , ' - • Buildings, Manufactories, Gnods and Merchandise, Ships, Vessels, and other Property, on the most equitable terms, and on rizicii3lrs affording solid and permanent security to those insured. DIRECTORS, &c. Hon. Donau,* Kniitaian, Chairman. CHAS. FRIMAX, Esq. Deputy Chairman. Rt. Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Francis Freeling, F.q. Sir John Cos Hippisloy, Bart. William Marsh, F..q. Sir Robert Wigram, But. Thomas Maude, Esq. William Agnew, s y. George G. Mills, Esq. J. P. Auriol, Esq. John Soane, Esq. John Bebb, Eaq. G. H. Sumner, Esq. M.P. S. P. Cockerel), Esq. Robert Taylor, Esq. James Henry Deacon, Esq. RICHARD BARNES, Secretary. A CHALLENGE TO ALL ENGLAND. "ME POOR LAWS. 120 CAPITALS!—ALL MONEY ! Jand J. SIVEWRIGHT request the attention of • their Friends and the Public to the improetd Scheme of the present Lottery. Tickets and Shares of which are now on Sale at their fortunate Offices, 37, Comittui.; I 38, HATMA IML; 11, Holborn ; corner of Coventry-street. The Scheme is formed by themselves and their Brother Con tractors in ob...4ience to the public wish, on the plan of the r (+pular old Lotteries. Every Ticket will be decided singly, ;ma all the Prizes are floating; all the Tickets will be in one Wheel, and all the Prizes in the other, the whole to be drawn ;.8 chance may direct. There arc Ho Capitals, including 3 of £20,000 3 cf £2,000 ... , 10000 10 ••• 1,000 . 2 , . . , 5000 20 • • 500 •• Wiz!, sp of ENO and .C. 200. The Drawing will commence on the neth of Tll 1S Mosni. 'Schemes may be had gratis at SIVEWBIG }ITS' Oakes, with tile particulars of the great ri .7.ti sold by them in the last and late Lotteries. TIIE REVEREND WILLIAM HETHERINGTON'S CHARITY TO THE BLIND. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, OCT. 2,18^2. • 11 T I1EREAS the above named Gentleman in his life time enabled the Governors of this Hospital to pay Annuities of Ten Pounds to each of Fifty Blind Petsons, in the hope that his example would be followed by other benevolent cilaracters; the Governors give this public notice, that, from 111:: very munificent additions made to Mr. Hetherington's ori ginal fund, more than 530 Blind Persons are in the receipt of th.:se Annuities. A Committee will sit in the Counting-house of the said Hos pital some time in the month of November next, to fill up such Vitzancies as may then have occurred since the election in Nnvember last. Petition- are to be had at the Counting-house aforesaid, from tl,t 7th day of October to the 3d day of November, annually, Iletween the hours of ten and four (holidays excepted), for any blind persons duly qualified, upon the personal application of 1 riend.• The leading qualifications are hereunder stated ; and unless the parties can respectively prove themselves to be strictly within the sense, applications on their behalf will he entirely fruitless, viz.— Eirth, in that part of the United Kingdom called England, exclusive of inks and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Age, 50 years and upwards.—Total Blindness for the space of the last three years.—ltesidence, the last three years, at least, In their present place of abode or parish.—lncome (if any) to be under the yearly value of twenty pounds. Those who have ever begged, received alms, or are deemed o'.:;_cts for parish relief, are eac!iied from the benefit of these "...rities ; the Donors having expressly declared the same for slcir only ss have been respectably brought up, and who want e•-ne addition to what they possess to make life more comfort ::;a under their misfortune of blindness. THOM AS WILBY, Clerk. • From the great extent of this Charity, it is found imprac ri:able to attend to letters. TOOTH-ACHE AND EAR-ACHE. DERRY'S ESSEN,.:E hts received the sanctioe it. and support of the most distinguished Personages in the X'zigdoni, together with the united testimony of the first Thysiciass in Europe, and numerous favourable comments in Ighly respectable Medical Journals, where it has been declared v. ha the "best thing ever discovered for the Tooth- Ache and iar-ache." It instantaneously reliever the most excruciating pain, preserves the Teeth sound and firm, prevents further decay, effectually cures the Scurvy in the Gums. fastens loose Teeth, and senders them firni and serviceable to the latest perioti, and dice wally prevents the Tooth-acbe. Said in bottles at ts. %&d. and Ss. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, and 220, Regent-street, London ; 20, Water km-place, Edinburgh ' • 34, Sackville street, Du blin; and by the principal Medicine Veuders throughout the United Kingdom. DR. BOERHA AVE'S R:'.l3 PILL, TS new considered a specific cure for every stage -IL and symptom of Venereal Complaints, as it eradicates them without confinement and inconvenience, a..d is found equally safe, speedy, and effectual. The many thousands who have been enabled by it to cure themselves with secrecy and dispatch, bear ustiniony to its efficacy. With each box is given a copious Bill of Directions, supply ..c7 all necessary information for the advantageous use of the ked 44. 6d. per box. Fold by Mr. Johnson, 68, Cornhill; Mr. Sanger, 150, 01- *nd-street, opposite New Bond-street ; and all MedicineVenders. LONDON. VAN EDWARDS, 66, St. Paul's Church-yard, 3-4 respectfully informs his Friends and the Public in general that he has just received front Manchester a supply of that well known and long-established Medicine, Mr. LIGNUM'S AN -;:SCORBUTIC DROPS. Recent C.se, illustrative of their superior efficacy. " Knutsford, 28th August, 1821. " Sta— A young man in this town,who does not wish his name he made public, authorises me to acquaint you with the fol !,..ving particulars of his case and remarkable cure : " several years ago be was in the habit of bathing twice, and t-rnetimes three times a day, In both hot and cold water ; this iractice soon brought on a most distressing scorbutic eruption, v. Nich completely covered his body, arms, and legs. Not finding the usual remedies to have any effect, he was induced to make trial your A NTISCORBUTIC DROPS: he had not taken them bag before the complaint apparently became worse, he however ; e rr:revered, and the result is a complete restoration of health, zi`.er an affliction of many years standing. I shag be happy to refer any inquirers to the young man himself, who wil corrobo- Lite the above and give any further particulars. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " WM. WRIGHT, Druggist, Knutsford. To Mr. John Lignum, Surgeon, Manchester." These Drops are 'plain moulded square bottles, at 24.9 d. 41.6 d. a .1 1i a. by Mr. Lignum, 63, Bridge-street, Manchester ; and by inid C. Evans, 4•2, Long-lane, West Smithfield; Sutton and t'o. Bow Church-yard ; Barclay and Sons, 95, Fleet-market ; T. and C. Butler, 4, Cheapside ; K Edwards, 66, St. Paul's hurch-yard,London; R. Butler and Soas,34,Sackville-street, and Newbery and Sons, 29,Damc-street, Dublin ; It. Scot:, and J. t rites, South-bridge, Edinburgh ; R. Nelson, Surgeon, and J. I...stet, Italian Warehouse, Glasgow ; and the principal Medicine V oilers in every Market Town. **4 whom also may be had, Mr. lignum's IMPROVED for all Scorbutic Eruptions, price is. 94. Duty KING OF PRUSSIA, BY N. ffi. ROTHSCHILD, IN LONDON. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in co formity with the General Bond signed by his Majesty tile King of Prussia, at Berlin, the 9th of May, 1818, wherein ro-• ference is made to the Contract of the above-mentioned LOAN, dated 51st March, 1818, according to which a Sinking Fund was provided, whereof the EIGHTH HALF YEARLY RE DEMPTION fell due on the first of the present month of Oc tober, his Excellency Baron Werther, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia to his Britannic Majesty, jointly with Mr. N. M. Rothschild, in the presence of Mr. Bonnet, Notary Public, have, on the Ist instant, cancelled and deposited in the Bank of England, accord ing to the form prescribed, the following amounts, via. £37,500 in Special. Bonds of the said Loan, as specified below, being the second half of the sum fixed for the redemption of B onds in the fourth year, viz. one and a half per cent. per annum on the said Loan ; and also the amnion of £12,500 in said Bonds, as included in the specification below, being purchased ftom the interest of the £459,200, which have been redeemed successively on the Ist of April and Ist of October, 18111, Ist of April and Ist of October, 1820, Ist of April, and Ist of October, 1821, and lit of April, 1822. Numbers of the Special Bonds cancelled, with their respective 47 Dividend Warrants, viz. A. Nro. 285 340 122 440 191 456 B. No. 701 748 C. Nro. 236 413 668 669 773 817 1430 1460 1805 1819 2286 2390 2649 2678 3050 3467 5582 3583 tSO 14,000 D. Nro. 433 X. .C. -9 1,000 9,000 ill 435 236 1148 615 1299 681 1 353 1061 •••ta • 476 670 951 154$ 1887 2420 2725 3463 3616 -56 500 4,500 136 167 448 533 538 539 549 565 569 637 1133 1168 1222 1597 1665 1678 1120 Q 2203 2519 2900 3012 3286 3585 3449 3624 3696 4137 4254 4308 4319 4324 4325 4326 4596 4810 4696 5051 " 5052 5059 5061 5212 5526 5610 5724 5725 3726 5758 6380 6381 6382 6383 6384 6385 6386 6414 6462 6880 6885 7244 7286 7288 7289 7412 7494 7581 7641 7785 7801 7851 7852 7853 7854 7855 7857 8035 8051 8248 8249 8250 8251 8531 8859 9089 9090 9091 9233 9505 9527 9890 .9917 10058 10059 10076 13077 10078 10079 10080 10494 10592 10882 10884 10886 11048 11091 11104 11442 11578 11720 11721 11816 11976 11997 12001 12015 12017 12019 12021 12119 12201 12202 12206 12208 12209 12375 12562 12824 12831 12935 15015 25048 13094 • 13255 13256 13257 15335 13537 13549 13597 13664 13780 15834 15335 14015 14424 14425 14501 14528 14618 14668 148811 14889 15007 15565 15805 16026 16040 16056 16091 16155 16377 16590 16636 16683 16751 17489 17958 18267 18346 18696 18999 19171 19172 19243 19244 19245 19248 19250 19251 19310 197.69 19370 19577 19760 19824 20081 20380 20489 20499 20527 20530 20656 20657 20794 20795 20796 21008 21022 21056 21057 21058 21173 21256 21518 21370 21483 21608 21880 22176 22256 22443 22559 22935 239.43 23574 23814 23815 23816 23317 24021 24094 24241 24413 24414 24426 24442 -225 100 22,500 Total X 50,000 THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE AND HER ROYAL MOTHER. IT is well known that during the late QUEEN'S A.Tra vels, she corresponded privately with her Daughter. Copies of their interesting Letters, having been put into the hands of the Editor of Bzu.'s life in London, for the purpose of publica tion, he begs to announce that they are now regularly appearing in that Paper. The first three Letters are just reprinted. To be had of all Newsmen and Postmasters in the Kingdom.— Price Seven-pence. la times Genuine Edition of the late Countess of Guernsey's Confessions. 'Third Edition. Just published by W. R. Mac donald, 194, Strand. This day was published, In Two Volumes, Bvo. price SI los. In boards, PHOTII LEXICON e codice Galeano de,ctipsit RICA RDUS PORSONUS. Sumptibus Cones Trini. tabs Cantabrigiz. Veneunt Londini, spud J. !lawman, 39, Ludgate-street. YT For an Account of this valuable Lexicon, see Edinburgh Review, No. XLII. p. 329. Of the Publisher may also be had, Poasem Anvasaaata. Edit. C. J. M lomfield et J. H. Monk; 1 vol. Sao. price 185. in boards. - - This day was published, In 12mo. price 4s. bound, a New Edition, of T ES AVENTURES DE TELEMAQUE, Fils d'Ulysse, par 51. Finiscon ; pricidees du discours cur le Potme Epique et suivies d'un Vocabulaire de Mythologic et de Gtographie. Nouvelle Edition, soigneusementrevue et corrigde sur l'Editioo Stereotype de Paris. Par C. GROS. Printed for G. and W. B.Whittaker • F.Rivington J. Scatcherd ; Longman and Co. Baldwin and Co. Harris and Son • J. Collingwood ; Harvey and Darton ; E Edwards ; J. Robinson; and B. Reynolds. Of whom may be bad, . An EngUshTrandation of this above,l2mo. price 41. 6d. bound. Also in French and English, 4 vols. 12mo. price 9s. bound. mAwrs GARDENER'S CALENDAR. This day was published, in 12mo. price Bs. bound, A New Edition of EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER; bein g a new and much more complete GARDENER'S CA LENDAR and GENERAL DIRECTORY than any one hitherto published. Containing Directions for all Work news eery to be done in the Kitchen Garden, Flower Garden, Green-houses, Orchard, Pleasure Garden, ,Ilot.houses, Hotbeds, &c. Shrubberies, &e. Vineries, ate. For every Month in the Year ; and best Practical Directions for Raising, Propagating, and Forcing, in each department ; and also relative to Soil and Situation. To which is added, a Com; plete Systematic Catalogue of Plants • By THOMAS MAWE and JOHN ABERCROMBIE. The Twenty-second Edition, brought down to the present state of Horticultural knowledge. - Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ; J. Cuthell ; J. Nunn ; J. Scatcberd ; Longman and Co. T. Cadell; J. Riehardsonl J. M. Richardson ; Baldwin and Co. G. and W. B. Whittaker ; Lack ingtoo and Co. J. Uawman ; Sherwood and Co. J. Booker; Harvey and Barton; 8. Barter; W. Stewart; T. Hamilton; 0. Cowie; It. S. Kirby; J. Robinson; Ogle, Duncan, and Co. K.Saaulderti lb &holey; &Edwards; and Simpisin and Marshall. CHARLES WRIGHT,Wine Merchant tohis Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. next to the King's Theatre, Opera Colonnade,llaymarket,London, has on see Cape Madeira, 18s. per dozen, bp six dozen, or 17s. less quantity; Old Port (Coin. pany s, 1817), and excellent Sherry, 565. per dozen.—C.W. buys and sells for cash only ; the sovereign advantages may be antici pated and participated by the consumer. Orders from the coun try must contain remittances.—Depots, 2, Ste.sex-street,Brighton ; 4, Abington.buildings, Bath; adjoining Mr. Gude's, Marine Parade, Margate.—C.W. pledges his honour and reputation the above Wines are genuine as imported. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Maxstow-licarsz.—Eduserd Mi t a butcher, was Charged on suspicion of having cut a usiusit ease in tux with a knife.—J. Williams, who attended with his nose strapped up, stated that he was a carman, ancLwas attending Leadenhall Market, when he had an altercation with the defendant, of which two tremen dous blows from the latter was the consequence. Witness fell to the ground in a state of insensibility. Upon recovering his senses, be found the blood streaming from him, and his nose se parated, as if by a sword. Neither the witness, nor any other, however, saw any instrument in the band of the butcher ; and a surgeon deposed that there were three distinct lacerations on the nose, which might have been inflicted by the knuckles, although the blow must have been extraordinary. The defendant, who said he had used only his fists, was committed in default of bail. GUILDHALL.—Saar PATIONACIL---Ned, otherwise Milkr Dou glas, charged with fraudulently obtaining money, under pretence of procuring a situation in the East India House, for one J. Curtis, as already noticed in the STAN was brought up yester day before Sir J. SHAW, Bart. the Sitting Alderman, for final examination. The charges against Douglas were, obtaining a 45 note, under pretence of payment for tees upon Curtis's appointment ; the forging several letters purporting to be the band-writing of a Mr. Hudson, notifying Curtis's appointment, acknowledging the re ceipt of the tees, &e. Bcc. and the obtaining of a further sum of Ale for a pretended treat, to be given Oir his appointment, to the clerks of the home. Curtis was first examined, and deposed to the receiving a letter which was produced, giving an account of the pretended dinner; and suggesting . iu what way the amount, said to'be a.few shillings short of £l4, should be remitted. He accordingly paid that sum Into the Lewes Batik, and procured a bill, payable at sight, upon the house of Sir J. Esdaile and Co. to Millar Douglas, Esq. which be inclosed to the prisoner. The bill was produced and sworn to by him as the one be so 'remitted. lie also swore that the indorsement upon it, Received thy above, Millar Douglas," was the prisoner's hand-writing. There are three gentlemen of the name of Hudson, brothers, upon the establishment. each of whom severally deposed that the letter signed Hudson was not of their hand.writing.; that they never received a note inclosing £5 from Curtis ; and that they never attend..d, or before heard of, the dinner said to have been given by Colonel Millar, at the Ship Tavern, Leadenhalhetreet. Mr. Adams, the landlord; had previously deposed that no such dinner had taken place at his house on the day mentioned. The £5 note had been inclosed in a sealed envelope, directed to H. Hudson, Esq. and delivered by a frieud of Curtis's to one of the messengers, wearing, the badge and livery, at the India House. Evidence was called tb prove, that the prisoner, becoming acquainted with some of the messengers by drinking with them, was always permitted to enter the lobbies. Letters whlchrame atter office hours were placed on the window in one of the mes sengers' lobbies. From the situation of the lobby, and the foot ing which the prisoner had obtained there, it was possible that he nught have gone there after office hours and taken away letters. Mr. LAWTON, who attended from the India House for the pro secution, intimated, that he would not press the charge of forgery, but only the misdemeanour of obtaining money Fraudulently. Sir J. SHAW said it was clear that none of the Company's servants were in any way connected with the fraud. further than as they had been made dupes of by the defendant. The offence, though bailable, was serious, and required heavy bail. The Al derman, therefore, ordered the prisoner to hnd two respectable bail tor .NlOO each, and to enter into his own recognizance. for £4OO, to appear and answer the charge. The prisoner's solicitor strongly objected to this bail, as exces sive. It was nut altered, and the prisoner in default was com mitted to prison. - - Losarru-tram.—Mr. Jolan Roberts, a brker, residing in Phillip-street, St. George's in the East, appeared to articles of the peace exhibited against him by a Mis. Harmson, a neighbour and customer of his, who now displayed a &stemma, aid a pair of black era. It appeared that chancing to go into a.pnblic-house on Mon day evening, she was accosted there by the defendant, who was sitting in company with some loose girls. She told him that was not the conduct which a married man ought to pursue, and said she would, as soon as she got home, depict the whole circum stance to his wife • upon which be jumped from his scat, and by me blow disfigured her face as It now appeared. The Magistrate said It was Seery gross assault, but that the complainant did not appeal in a very amiable character. How ever, the defendant should either find ball or make her some moderate compensation for the injuries she sustained. The complainant then demanded 203. for each black eye, and ss. for her eroktenne; which defendant thinking exorbitant, re fused to pay. His Worship was of opinion that ss. alone were sufficient, to gether with paying the expense of the warrant. The complainant refused to accept of tbs sum proposed by the Magistrate, and he ultimately discharged the warrant, telling her if she chose she might indict the man at the &salon& Maat.soacrunts-inuay.--Ceptrein Minis was charged with assaulting J. Jones, a porter O at one of the gambling-houses in Thy altereatiam arose from the porter touching one of the balls while the Captain was playing. Conceiving the coo duct of the former very insolent, the Captain seized a chair to knock him . down. This was wrested from him, but be neverthe less got the porter to the ground. The Captain, who had lost a considerable sum lately in the house, in his defence nerd th.it I be could not have entered into such a squabble without extreme provocation. Another of the porters; however, confirmed the Sault, and the Captain waa ordered to find bail. Qintini-atinaaa.—.Stesinso.--A bok i llr h ut 17 or to years of age, who said his name was• George and that he lodged with a dyer is an alley in Brick•lane, Oiditreet, was brought It appears by . the Report of the Parliamentary Committee on the Poor Laws, that on the average of the years 1783, 1784., 1785, just after the clo , e of the American war, the amnunt of money tamed under the Poor-rates was in round numbers ahoute2,l7o,oooi the year 1812-13, the People of England ;aid fOur times that amount ; and last year very neatly four times; yet the population of the island has certainly not doubled within the.saine period ; And as there . does not result froea the tables published any evidence of a retrogression in the amount if Poor-rate assess 4 ments, from the year 1812 to 1821, except a tran sient one in the years 1814 and 1815, afterwards more than balanced by a rapid and enormous in crease, it must be inferred that the progress of paue perism, since the peace of 1783, hal outstripped that of our general po ulation in the ratio of more than two to one. The COmmittee tale credit lot a sensible diminution in the Poor -rates of the year ending March, 1821, as compared with that of the year pre& ceding ; and calculate the reduction, at an averages throughout the kingdom, of about five per cent: We wish to go a little farther into this part of the subject: In the year 1812-13, when wheat stood at 128. per quarter, the gross sum levied under the Poor-rates was short of £8,700,000. The sum raised du.in g the year ended March, 1821, was upH arils of £8.44X),003 ••••I palpable reduction according to the C minittee but in the latter year, wheat x% as oily 62, BJ.—six pence, therefore, would buy more bread in 1821 than a shilling in 1813 ; and by that rule (-cuing .iside an increase of one tenth in the population for apse seven years?, the Poor-rates in March, 1821, ought not td have exceeded Et, 00,000 ; and allowing for the in• crease of inhabitants, the ‘•rttsi.te ought to have been £5,200,000. Here, then, i. a decided increase of pauperism in the year ending Match, 1821, as cotr.4 pared with March, 1813, to the amount of more than three millions stet ling. But let its try the inference which it has been the obvious wish of the Committee to establish, by some more recent data, concluding with those which they have themselves drawn from the Returns of 1813--20: The year during which the Poor-rates stood highest wa., that ending March. 1818, v. hen they reached the enormous amount of £9,300,(X)0: now they are £8,400,000. See what a reduction! say Ministers and their friends. But wheat in the former . car sold for 90s. 7d. and in 1821, for 625. sd. To find, there fore, the just propoitions between these pe. iods, str ike off nearly_ a third floor the nine millions odd thou sands, and the remainder would be much short of six minions and a half for that year, which it forms the boast of the Committee has not exceeded so the price of wheat in that same yea-, 1819.-qO, over which the Committee have affirmed so striking an improvement on behalf of the last year eliding March, 1821, was 69:;.—in the last, 625. which pro. portion ought to have reduced the Poor.' ates, not merely five per cent. as they ale described by the Committee, but nearly thirteen per cent. or nearly £1,100,000; whereas the nominal, ..i eduction was £300,000, and the real increase neat ly So much for the allega,ii7n that the Pooi.iates, down to March, 1821, had been diminished. Now, with regard to the second head of inquiry, viz, the pro portion between the sums actually given to the poor, and those which, under the name of Poor -rates, and otherwise, and often, we are afraid, improperly, divi posed of—it appears, that in the last year for which Returns have been exhibited, the pay men,* made "for other purposes than• the relief of the poor"—that is (although the Committee have forborne through de- licacy to say so), for all purposes under which em bezziement, malversatioo, or gi oss improvidence, may be cooprehended—amoUnt to rather more for Eng: land generally than sixteen per cent. on the gross as. sessments. In. Wales, the same desoriptioa of charges `average less than fourteen per cent.—but in the difa term counties of England, a sti iking and marvellous fisproportion is observable; as for Instance, in Che.; shire those sums from which the poor derive no be nefit, amount to 22b per cent. upon the whole; in 'Lincoln, 23 per cent. Rutland, 26; and Lancashire, 3,1, 1 While in other counties, as , Devon, they are k less than 10, and in Sussex little more than nine per tent. . Now, when such a rrodigious difference of pressure is inflicted on the Public for the identical same account, it would be of extreme inlet,' tance to scrutinize how much of the excess rebore the average, in those counties where excess to so great a degree is found,. might be fairly ascribed to vicious or erro neous practices un the part of the Overseers, or other Public Officers; the names of these charges may lead intehigent individuals to guess the.tacilltres which they afford for tnaladmicistration--s" Expenses at law, and expenses of attending Just` removals—salaries of Assistant Ow bf erecting or repahing Aurkhous aad - }' ~; ~I A ~ •I~ ~, i; Justices--chArge of )ierseers—expentes *es, or other -build-