The National Register. — London, England, 1816-09-09 00:00:00

1W vile lea the way the liarimitr and fortress of Landscrona. At Lund, as at other plar..4, the Crown Prince received tinmerons deputations ef peasants,-who, with artless and heartfelt do queu •e, ta•stiried to him Le warmest gratitude for die many favours which they had received from him ; they declared illi..otetvPll particularly affected by the paternal treatment wlthai their sons lord receivesf both in the held and In their military exercise, aarl repeated the assurance that the children or the country, who k new how to appreciate t: cir present situ ation, were ready to make the greatest ‘aeritice., anal, if neces sary. to spill their blood to preserve three precious ail vantatres. 10 a greets delivered by one of the peasants, there %sus the fol. lowina paSIMEe :—" Be conviiweri, Prince, that as the yaws and Aria of Sweeden never change their colour at anti season, nor oar : . oeks their places, so will our fidelity be at all times tinfoil unshakeu." DEN MARK. CoPPNTIAGCN, Airs. 24.—From most parts of the kingdom we hear complaints of the wet weather, which, it is feared, will injure the harvest. Here. in Copenhagen, it has rained almost es ery day for this tire or six weeks, hut the weather seems now Su be getting better. DISCOVERY OF TIIE HOLY CROSS. The followinz is a sketch of one of the numerous lc gcndtu7 absurdities which, in consequence of the re-esta blishment of the Papal hierarchy, are again to be ha posed on the credulity of the i;,morant and supersti tious. An article in the French Papers, dated Rome, the 6th salt. says, " The festival of the discovery of the Holy Cross has been celebrated here with all the pump usually observed in the grand solemnities of the Church. Miring the sacred office a crowded orchestra performed a piece of music worthy of Angels. The Dipl tic Roily. a great number of Osrdinals, all the Prelates, . and a number of Foreigners attended mass. The Royal Family , of Spain was also present." The festival here alluded to was instituted in comme . moration of the supposed discovery by St. Helena, in the yeai• 326, of the cross upon which our Saviour actually suffered. Some of the Catholic fathers relate that her • saintship, being admonished by divine visions, proceeded to Jerusalem, where she ordered excavations to be made amidst the ruins on the spot where the crucifixion was .ascertained to have taken place. The workmen, after digging to some depth, found three crosses. This eir eumstance occasioned considerable perplexity, as they were afraid, to use the words of Sulpicius Severus, " lest through human error they should consecrate the gallows of one of the thieves instead of the cross of the Lord." The providential passing of a funeral suggested an expe - dieTht for relieving them from this dilemma. Two of the • armies were applied.to the corpse without producing any effect, but on its. being touched by the third the dead body instantly started into life. This latter was, of • course, denominated the true cross, and was consecrated with great pomp. Others of the fathers tell us, that • the• miraule by which it was ascertained was the instan t tinieous recovery of a sick female upon her touching it ; • and St. Ambrose says, that the finders were enabled to distinguish it from the other two by the inscription on it • remaining entire. However this may be, Si. Helena •'is said to have carried a piece of it to her son, Constan tine? the Great. A portion of this fragment was enclosed in a statue of the Emperor, and the remainder was trans mitted to Rome. According to the ancient fathers, Con atantine also received two of the nails with which our Lord was fixed to the cross, one of which he converted ante a bridle-bit, and with the other he lined his diadem. St. Gregory of Tours, however, asserts, that four of the nails were brought to Constantine ; two of them were superadded to his bridle-bit ; the third decorated his helmet ; and the fourth was thrown into the Adriatic, which has ever since been less tempestuous than it had been in former times. By the latter end of the fourth century, there was scarcely a church in Christendom hut had been supplied with pieces of the true cross from Je rusalem, though most of them seem to have been subse quently lost ; but notwithstanding these incessant spo liation', if St. Paulinits of Nola is to be believed, the crass sustained no diminution, being miraculously endow ed with a perpetual power of renovation—" quotidie di efidawn surneutilms, et temper totant nenerantibua." Pau linus himself had a chip of it seat to him by John, the Bishop of Jerusalem, by which he extinguished an ex , tensive confiagration at Nola, when he found his own habitation endan g ered by its progress . St. Louis, whose festival has just been celebrated with so much eclat at Paris. had the merit of procuring for the Gallican Church the crown of thorns, our Saviour's robe, sword, the lance, the sponge, and a great piece of the true cross, which he purchased from the Emperor of the Latins. With re gard to the Litter article, the President I lei;zult says— " It is believed that this fragment of the genuine cross is the same that was brought from Jerusalem by St. he. lena to her son, Constantine the Great." If this <pi nion be correct, the piece that was inclosed in Constan tine's statue must have been as miraculously gifted as that which was left at Jerusalem ; for, us we above stated, the greater part of what St. Heieua carried off was sent • t a Rome. The English Consul, who Was at Gram, in Barbary, ie buppily safe at Mulaga. _ _ _ - A iiehres of the i sth 7 of July from Cape Francois state, shot two Englishoten hati hanged there by order of Christi. Ac; but whether on account of smuggling, or for 'tidal other cal Lie, the letter does not Xueution. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. _SUPPRESS,' VOL . ,UME OF BOA BD OF AGRICULTURE. —dr Our readers, doubtless . , remember the judicious queries lately circulated by the Board of Agriculture, with a view to ascertain the true state of the country, and the otlidally compiled summaries of the answers, for. the in finmation of Parlitunent. Since that time, the Directors of the Board, for the more complete information, at least, of their own associates, have printed the substance of every answer in an octavo volume of 412 pages, under the title of "Agriadheral State of the Kingdom in Fe benaq, March, and April, 18113, being the substance of Me Replie.s to a Circular Letter, 4c. printed fir the use of Me Members if the Board, and NOT FOR SALE. ** In the month of July this curious volume was completed at press ; but, after twenty or thirty copies had been issued, the further circulation it is ;mid was suddenly stopt ; and, without the command of Parliament, it is supposed, nu others will be delivered. Among those correspondents, whose information occu pies th , ;„ most considerable space in the suppressed volume, and whose communications are marked by the most active intelligence, tire-- Dr. Macqneen, of Bedfordshire ; the Rev. Joseph Scott, Sir George le•eds, Mr. John Mortlock. and Mr. J. Wing, of Cambridgeshire; Ali. John Vaitey, of Essex ; Mr. Quintin, and the Rev. Dr. Maltby, of Huntingdon-Jiire ; Mr. R. W. Forbes, Mr. Corlinge, ant[ Sir H. ()smith'', of Kent ; Mr. S. Taylor, 11r. Wyerley Birch, Mr. John Wright. Mr. Joint Motley, of Norfolk ; Mr. Edo aril Martin, and Sir R. Brooke, of Northamp tonshire ; Mr. Jahu Wright, of Rutland ; Mr. John Thompson, the Rev. Thomas Fenton, Mr. 1). Simpson, Mr. Thus. Archer, and Mr. Edw. Gwilt, of Suffolk ; and Mr. Thus. Page, and Mt. Joseph Pennington, of Surrey. The portraits drawn by these gentlemen of the general state of landlords, fanners and landowners, are deplorable, except in the hop districts of Kent. The remedies uni versally recommended, as essential to the salvation of the agricultural interest, arc an abatement of taxes and tythes; hind several correspondents consider it inclispensibly neees any to dispense with the Sinking Fund. The following are a few facts gleaned from the vo lume :-- At 1 3 ;:ge 43.—Mr. Charles Wedge says, the common brewers are poisoning the country. I'. 63.--The Cornwall Society complain. that the landholders arc protected at the cost of the hailed intere s t. I'. Gl.—Dr. Coke thinks the farmers .have over-ploughed ; and say many of them sell of and run assay. The land is going rapidly out of cultivation, and die farmer must have a preiniten flout the public to enah!e hiai to manure. P. 113.—Mr. G. Maxwell says, the country banks have done all the in4ehief, by enahiinc the farmers to speculate. • P. I24.—Mr. R. W. Forbes conceives the root of the evil to lie in excessive taxation. He doubts whether the interests of posterity require the preservation of a sinking•fund of 12 mil lions per annuin, or the protection of the present generation a standing army of 14J,Jall men. He predicts, that the landed property of the kingdom, if those establishments condone, is on the eve of changing hands to an extent beyond ail former example. He considers saving bank , , and all such projects, not only useless at this time, but, so tar as they create a false reliance mischievous. P. 171.—Mr. J. H. Moggridge thinks no relief can be ob tained but by general measnres. In his opinion high rents and taxes have caused the mischief, and they must be reduced: I'. 198.—Mr. Wyerley Birch says, he has let one farm with out rent, and another for 1001. instead of 8001. He can lied nobody to take farms offered rent free. At a sale, under a dis tress tor rent, seventeen horses were sold for 201. P. 207.—Mr. T. Corr states, that horses which, in 1813, fetched 401. on March 1, 1816, sold fur 111. Sheep 331. but 101 Ss. per score, and other things in proportion. I'.234.—Sir Brooke. de Capell Brooke states, that the over seers let out the men to any person who bids from 2d. to sd. per day, the parish making up the ditkreace, to a single man Ss. to a man and his wife Ss. and 2s. fur each child per week. P. 249.-31 r. W. J. Calvert gives a, similar statement; he says that the overseer calls a meeting on Saturday evenings, where be puts up each labourer by name to auction, and they have been let generally at from ls. tlil. to 2s. per week mid their provisions, their families being supported by the parish. He gives other details of this shockiog system. P. 31. Part 11.—Mr. E. Moor says, the labourers are billetted by the overseers upon the farmers at 6s. per week, the parish' allowing for the wife is.—with one child 2s.—with two Sa. 6d. —and so on. P. 42.-I'he Rev. J. Buck objects to all machinery, as re ducing the quantity of manual labour. • A subscription has been opened, at the Marine Library, Brighton, in favour of the widow and 10 children of poor Partridge, who was inhumanly shot in the Nancy, off Dieppe. The Duke of York has subscribed 51. The manufacturers of cyder and perry in the counties of Hereford and Devon have detenuined to petition Par liament for a repeal of the duty of 10s. per hogshead on cyder, imposed in 1805. ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE.—The Shrewsbury Chronicle says,—" The Right Hon. Lord Vitamin Dudley and Ward Las given a public benefaction of 20001. towards the relief of the existing misery among the poor classes of the community in Dudley and some of the neighbour ing parishes." 13ARTIIOLMRW FAlR.—Monday bills were posted in Smithfield, by order of the Lord Mayor, to warn persons concerned in the Fair not to erect stalls or bootie , heihie the Ito , tr of three, P. M. the same day. The inj wit:Lion was obeyed ; but utter three o'clock it scene of banding ensued of the roost rupid description.—About the same tune the earavaris, wit t, all the monsters and wonders el the nation, began to arrive in qtick sumession. Tuesday his Lord. OIT luociai4icl the Fair with the usual ceremony. _L SEPTEMBER 9. PROVINCIALS WE are' concerned to find, that other countries, as well as our own, have shared in the melancholy effects of the late storms of wind and rain, anti have thus experienced a presage of probable injury to the general fund for the provision of man. We refer our readers to our Provin cial and Coasting Intelligence, for details of those tre mendous commotions in the :tem:sphere, which during their short continuance, threatened evils of no ordinary magnitude to all exposed property, but particularly, at this critical period, to crops of all descriptions, whether in a ripe or growing state ;—and thus alarming every benevolent mind fur the future interest of the grower and the consumer, and presenting. in addition to the commercial and financiel difficulties of the times, a pros pective view of the ensuing Winter, dark and melancholy beyond the power of language to describe.—Let us hope, however, that the rays of contfitrt will still continue (as at present) to break through every rising cloud—and that the future possession of real OA will be enhanced by a retrospective view of the awful calamities, which might have befallen ns.—For present good let us be thankful—and prepare ourselves to meet, with manly fortitude, every probable, or possible, ill, which Provi dence may inflict upon us. Denys:sr.—Much wheat, we understand, has been cut in the eaatern and western pelts of this comity ; and report speaks fityouriebly of the crops, both in point of quantity and quality. Brighton paper. . The crops, particularly the wheat, in this district, still lank green; And harvest will nut generally commence for these ten days. A small but fine piece of wheat, very much laid, just turning yellow, belonging to 31r. Symonds, of this town, was begun to he reaped on Tuesday last; but the heavy showers Winch fell yesterday impeded the work. Almost all the crops are sadly driven about by the late storms: this, however, will furnish employment for the poor labourer, though It will make it an expensive vetting up for the farmer. There are some complaints, too, of a defect in the ears, owing to the cold rains which rat upon the wheats joist as they were in bloom. Esecpt from some hill) places, the crops of turnips arc must excellent in this and the adjoining hundreds.— aotfoUe paper. New wheat and barley were sold in our market on Satnrday. The wheat was of excellent quality, weighing 1a score alb., and fetched 2 guineas per sack. — Bath paper. The harvest has commenced is this county, and in many parts the crops arc very line; but, generally speaking, much damage has been sstained from the wheat being laid by the continued rains we have experienced ; and is here this is the case, the smut is very prevalent. The hops have been neatly all destroyed in the course of the last week by the inclemt lit season. The apples in ninny places are abtindant ; and if we are blessed with genial weather to ripen the friiii, a muds larger quantity of cider will be made than was at one paled ex petted.--Hereford Joarenal. New wheat and barley were sold in Bath market on Satur day. The wheat was of excellent quality, weighing 12 score filbs. and fetched two guineas per sack. On Monday night there was ;s considerable fall of snow in the lower Imes of "Cambridge and Huatiligelonsliires, where the frost was so severe• as to destroy all the crops of cucum• bees and French beans iu the extensive market gardens round the city of Ely. MainsroNC, Snrr. 2.—The appearance of the bine and bur is much more unfavourable than a week ago. The vermin is much increased and prevents the hop growing out. Mould is alarmingly increased and completely destroyed many hundreds of acres of fine grown bine. The dreadful high winds Of Sa turday and Sunday have done great injury every where by blowing down the notes, and large branches torn from the bine, with hops laying on the ground in all directions. It is consi dered that the calif wet weather will prevent the hops getting to half their usual size, and in many instances they will not get out of the bur. This accomit will apply to oast parts of the kingdom. Duty at 90,0001. If no change of weather in a few days, it is thought the deity will not be half of what it is now laid at. We have not had so high a wind at this seasou of the year, since August 11390. SEPT. 3.—The prospect of a favourable harvest, of which the fair weather of great part or last week had afforded a cheering hope, was on Friday night clouded by one of the most violent storms of wind and isin, continued with little intermission till yesterday morning, thathassoecurred at this period of the year, within recoilectiou. Its effects, independent of the tearing up and breaking of trees, have been to strew the shocks of con► on the ground, where cut and ready to be carried, and still more to injure that which was already lodged; to the hops in in this vicinity, %%Inch a ere just bursting forth in many grounds, promising a crop, the ilestructioa by the levelling of the poles and emisequent injury to the plant, has nearly equalled any similar disaster; and in the orchards and gardens the far greater portion of the fruit has been stripped from the trees. CHELMSFORD, SEPT. o.—The difficulty which the agricul tutists esperiencet in housing the present clop of corn, is much increased by its hulk. It is allowed by all, that a liner crop has not covered the face or the earth tor many years, than that which now only awaits the arrival of tine weather to fill not only bates, hut the stack-yards elso. Notaithstand lug the heavy rains which have taller, 07e husbandman has not been idle, as a considerable portion of the wheats in this neigh bourhood haw• been cut; amid some breadth of oats as well as burley now lay waiting the genial effects of the suit, and the brisk warm breezes, with widish we hope shortly to be blessed. The coosegaemees of the late frosts are very tapparent,altliough portialiy so. The. putatoz.s. the beaus, pease, and barley, thew the infects of this estraorilmary visitation. 7lie gripe-vines, the produce of which have uow -become very doubtful, are mart' leen rid, and ahead) remind us of the alive outs:tine winter. Miring the week vs e have had swims of had, and sonic snow is said to have fallen iu a neighbouring county. The second crop of clover and Mass is now lying, both in town mud country, in a state num•h to Ile regretted, and without static like weather shordy, will lose all its virtue. Although the si i.son is not so favourable- at the present moment as not iwpd ttent %sista. , ret i nue it, still ac are instructed not to despair; as we well know that out. sun-shiny day will, atthisseasunuf the year, lolly compensate for two days' rain; and the industrioug will be ever ready to " make hay while the spin shines."- That this has not !Will totally negleeted, the samples of new wheat produced at Braintici ti.itrisvt, on Wednesday, fully prove; sad where =I. and upwards was given fur this year's produce,.