The National Register. — London, England, 1809-10-08 00:00:00

OCT. 8. LATE OVERTURES. The following are said to be the most correct particulars of the late Overture to Lords Grey and Grenville : The Overture was made by a Letter from Mr. Perceval, which, in substance, stated, that, in consequence of the Duke of Portland's resignation, his Majesty had autho rised Mr. Perceval and Lord Liverpool " to communicate with Lords Grey and Grenville, for the purpose of forming an extended and combined Administration :" for that pur pose Mr. Perceval expressed a hope that the Noble Lords would come to town; stating to each respectively, that he had by the King's command made a similar communication to the other, and adding, that Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Carming had also resigned. LortGrey, who received the letter in Northumberland, immediately acknowledged the receipt of it, hut declined corning to town, stating, that if his Majesty had had any commands for him personally, he would have obeyed in stantly, but that as it was proposed to him to communicate with his Majesty's present Ministers for the purpose of forming a combined Administration with them, he must at once declare that such a union was, with respect to him, under present circumstances, impossible. Lord Grenville was in Cornwall ; he also immediately acknowledged the receipt of Mr. Perceval's letter, and stated, that understanding it as an official signification of his Ofajesty's pleasure for his attendance in town, he would lose no time in repairing thither in obedience to his Ma jesty'S commands, deferring until his arrival all observa tions on the other matters to which the letter referred.— His Lordship arrived in town accordingly on Thursday night; and on Friday morning wrote another letter to Mr. rtreeval, in which, after noticing his arrival in town the preceding night, he states, that he thought it his duty to lose no time in expressing the necessity under which he felt of declining the communication proposed, as not likely tole productive of any public good. The letter proceeds to state in civil terms, that his opinions were not founded in any feeling of personal. hostility, nor iu a desire of unae cessarily prolonging political differences.. "That his object has always been to compose,,not to inflame,, the divisions of the empire, which was.now mo than ever the duty of every loyal subject ; but that " his accession to the existing Administration" could not contri bute to that object, and could only be considered as a de reliction of public principle. " That his objections were not personal ; that they ap plied to the principle of the Government itself, and to the circumstances which attended its appointment," 't'o this letter we understand that Mr. Perceval replied by expressing his and Lord Liverpool's great concern at his Lordship's having declined the communication ' and by stating, that in making the proposal to his Lordship anti Lord Grey, under his Majesty's authority, to communicate with him and Lord Liverpool, "not far the accession of his Lordship and Lord Grey to the present Administration, but for the purpose of forming an extended and combined Ad ministration," they had not conceived any dereliction of p:iblic principle necessary on either side; and, after some acknowledgment of the civil expressions in Lord C ren ville's letter, Mr. Perceval concluded by assuring big Lord ship, that in informing the King that his Lordship had de clined the communication proposed, he would do justice to the dutiful expressions with which the refusal was accom panied. Grand Lottery .—T Hundred Thousand Poundii to be divid:'d between the Public in One Day. Tickets and Shares are on Sale by EVTON, at his State Lottery Oilee, late Partner with Sir JAit cs A N SCO n, No.', Cornhill, near the Mansion-house. Only 5,000 Number:. Sche;nes and every particular relative to the Lottery, to be had, gratis, at the above Lucky Office. in the last Lottery the following CApital Prizes were gold in 130 Shares, by - F. YTON :-9,123,20,00Q/.; 90, 00( //- IS 9.77 1 20,0001. ; 1-2,707, 10,000 1 . ; 4,390, 5.00 W.; 15,1 - .:7. 3,00 0 %; 3,001, '2.00W. ; 119,500!,; 18,579, 5001. 19,t 50:11. Like k ise, No. 3 ) 611, the Grand rcipt of 10,C00 Tioke . ts, entitled to 21,701. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE COURT. Wednesday, about twelve o'clock, his Majesty came to town from Windsor, and was received at the Queen's Pa lace by the Dukes of Kent and Cumberland. The following had the honour of being presented to his Majest : Mr. I 'erceval, upon his being appointed First Lord of his Majesty's Treasury , in the room of the Duke of Poi tland, re signed ; Major-General the Earl of Thilhonsie, upon his being appointed to the comman3 of the 6th Ciarrion Battalion ; Lieu- . teunnt-General Sir .leolin Cradock, upon his return from Gibral tar; the Earl of Coventry. upon coining to his title, by Viscount Deerbur•t ; Lieut.-Colonel Torrens, upon his being appointed Military Secretary to the Coininander in Chief, by Sir David Ditadas. the Commander in Chief; the lion. Alajnr-reiteral Stewart, upon his return from Zealand, and upon his being ap pointed to the Colonelry of the 34 Battalion of the 05th Regi ment; Major Montalembert, Permanent A &.s;staat Quarter-Al al.. ter-tieneral. upon his return from foreign service ; Capt. Ben-. ver, R.N. 1 100 n his return front the West Indies; Lieutenant- Colonel Nichols, of the 14th Regiment of Foot, upon his return . froin Walcheren. CURIOUS CitLCULLTION. A human being is supposed to consume anneally tht pro- , duce of rather inure than 3fr acres of land, namely, pall an acre for bread, of ditto for beer, cider, &c. 1-50th ditto , for vegetables, and ‘,2i ditto mumal food; 39 stoue ot which each person, on an aver Ige . population of !en millions, is computed to devour. It is estimated that there are in England and Wales 1,759,000 horses for labour and pleasure, and that they, with colts, &c. require for their su:Tort 7,500,000 acres of land. in the county of 51 duiesex • the number of taxed pleasure horses in 1797, was 1'e,7!66; for agriculture, &c. 12,709—t0tal 30,97 5. The cultivated lands in Lngland and Wales, allowing 3,603,000 acres for hedges, copses, wood, water, and roads, is computed at 39,027,000, of which about 14,000,000 are supposed to be arable: namely, 5,550,000 under wneaL 1,0 0,060 barley and rye; 3,500,000 oats and bans : 1000,000 clover, rye grass, &c.. a like quantity under tuaiip. and other roots ; and 2,800,000 lost annually by the i ;enerally inju rious system of fallow. The commons and waste lands are slated at 7.889,000 acres, in king the whole snperticies of the kingdom 46,916,000 acres. -The metropolis consumes butchers meat to the amount of seven millions sterling annually. A calf fed for the London market is stated to consume as m-ch milk.as would make a hundred weight of cheese. The number of sheep in England and Wiles, according to the evidence given on passing the wool bill, exceeds loch mil-' lions ; of w hich, including three millions of lambs, about fifteen millions are killA annually. The total annual pro duce of 46,916,000 acres is estimated at 126,720,000/. which' costs in labour, artificers, and horse-keep, 56,720,000/. leaving an annual net merease in value on the produce of of the land to the amount of 70 millions sterling ; of which the landlord is snpposcd to receive 42 parts, taxes and tithes 13, and the farmers 15. This latter allotnient• we presume to have been made at a period infinitely less pro ductive to the farmer than the present. This Month.—T. nisii respectfully reminds the Public, that the State Lot. tery not only bez ius but tlaislies on Friday', the Voth of this Month; therontre• all wbo wish to have a chance to gain Ei.rlity Thousand Pautuls by the put c'iasis of a single Number, mast bui before the drawin; bedits, as the whole botery, consistlag of S-200,000 in prizes, will he deAted in out day. Ticaets and. shares ate selling in treat variety at his old rstabli.ilted Offices and by hie ANentil in the country ; who, in the late Lotteries hue been remark:dd . , forti.nate In - sellirm and ii! - 1 trite; an immerse number of capital Prizes, partietilsri, the two last e k'.lo,ooo Prizes, the last 1'7b,000 Prize, ac c t the last capital Prize ever drywu. Persi..is in the country may be supp.ied the same as if present, by sending . their orders (past or carriage paid). act. mmanied with hank notes, good bills, cash, or post office orders, to :either of his old Established Otllces, No. 4, Gimbal, or 9, Charinz-cross, Londoa ; where all business is tl e Pantie, Funds is transacted with fidelity and itispatchs—Please to remllek Ike State is the tatty Lottery that will be dr mu this year. 4 4