The National Register. — London, England, 1816-01-07 00:00:00

Tilt NATIONAL REGISTER: 851 mediately sent an Officer on shore to inform the Lieutenant- Governor that he had fired seventeen, and expected hs salute to I Le returned gun for gum, and he therefore demanded that two more gunv should be immediately tired. The Lientenaot-Go rcrnor apologised, and fired the other two guns. Thus you see, The dear--, that an American Comm dote can now (!einand respect f rom these who formerly would scarcely have noticed bitn."—[ l'ho comments of the Editor on this insolent gasconade are just an echo of the vain boasting it contains.] It is said, that Sir Sydney Smith, as President of the Associa tion of Chi istian Knights, voluntarily enrolled for the purpose of putting an end to the atrocious and degrading outrages of the piratical States of Barbary, has appointed (siert. Carrot his Lieutenant and Managing Director, for the United Kingdom of (great Britain and Ireland, with full powers and instructions to forward the gene' al design by all practicable means. It is also asserted. that representations have been sent from the central office of this new Crusade to all the Ministers now in London from the t 'out ts of the Christian Powers or the Mediterranean, and of ail those whose flags are insulted, their properties plan tiered, and their subjects carried into slavery, urshig them in the strongest terms to press for the sanction and support of the itish Cabinet to the Crusade. Ii is Royal Highness the Prince Regent sent a Message by Sir L. Otwav to the Duke Wellington, inviting him to the grand Fete at the Pavilion on Monday next. Government are said to have it in contemplation to reduce • the interest of money to one legal standard of four per cent. The extent issued against a late public defaulter is for 41,00 a Ile was looked up to as the leading man in the pa: ish whet c he ns'cled. The last acs °tints f cm Leland are more consolatory with respect to those part , which were the scenes ofdAturb ince, and this amelioration is mainly due to the excellent measures of the Go, eminent, and the ale manner in which they have been seconded by the Maeistraey. ts; .Meetings have been le hl at the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh, of the merclianis and olulers, to talc into considera tion the propriety of referring disputes, and errors in accounts and mercantile' transactions, to arbitration ; thereby saving the ery heavy exi•ense atiendioe litioations, nut only occasioned by the milltiolicity of piolessional charges, but by the stamps used in law proceedings. c oa os ‘V o soneow's prosecution against Sir N. Wraxall has been averted by the friendly mediation of Mr. Hastings At a meeting of the C( rooratioo of Gloucester, a few clay since, R. Naylor, Esq. was elected Mayor, and H. Howard Mos Irneux, Esq. 11101 Stewat d ; and at a Special Court held on Friday last, Mr. D. Walker was choscn Alderman, all th:•er offices vacant by the death of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. The Naling/tam review say s-" Two guns are now in this town, value'6oo/. each, on their way from mieeham, to he shipped fur St. Helena, for the use of Napoleon ! ! !" A committee of Magistrates was appointed at the last Quar ter Sessions for the county of Surrey, to consider the great in este-se in the nund•er o'f shops for the sale of gin and other soirituous liquors, and to report their opinion of the conse quences of such increase, nod the most efficient mewls of sup pressing or regulating the same. Of the three houses that have so recently failed at Liverpool, two were in connection with an eminent mercantile house in London. The other was deficient from other causes, which, however, may he very easily explained, as exports of manufac tures and British commodities h lye been sent to the Unite,l States fi um Liverpool alone, within a short interval, to the amouut of upwards of 16,000.001. sterling. it is computed that including Glasgow and the other lit itish poi ts trading to America. the total expos t in the same interval exceeds 30,000,0001 sterling. On this immense suns no returns have, front unavoidable causes, been received it is true that the Republican Merchants had pies iousiy considerable funds in the hands of the con signors. yet in no proportion to this aggregate amount. The Clomnel Ilerald says, that W Fogarty, Mich. Grady, and Denis Grady, were committed to Clomnel Gaol, by Richard Esq, charged with the murder of W. Bal:er, Esq. JAN 7. AGRICULTURE. MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The early part of last monll has been employed in getting in the wheat seed, which remained front the variable weather of the pre ceding. Never was a finer plant than the early sown wheat. Re port from various counties states the unexpected fact, that a greater breadth of wheat than usual, or even proper, the state of the land considered, has been sown last season ; in sone part', of course, the reverse has happened. The farmers have been since, and are at present, employed in threshing those immense quantities of corn which have come to in irket, attending the straw yard cattle, carting, turnips, manure, and in the various operation,: o f hus bandry appropriate to the season. The cattle and horse entered the straw-vard in good condition ; and, from the almost general good character of the straw this year, we may presume that the mildew was neither so mil eersai nor so injurious as was apprehend ed, but the operations of rain and frost have since been in a con siderable degree, prejudicial ta the unsheltered cattle. Turnips likewise prove far beyond exoectation. there being an average crop where it least was expected, and in the North, wh:re they escaped injury front droueht, they suprrahound. Labourers wages are generally reduced, and many are said to renta;n unhired. The Merino, or fine wool improvement, seems about to be left, as originally, in very few hands. Long wools maintain the ascend ance. Dairy cows and dairy produce still support a remunerating price. The butchers and bakers, in turn, are at w making hay under a splendid sun. The late revising c orn markets have suf fered another relapse, and the complaints of the country are louder than ever. EARL SPENCER AND HIS TENANT in The tenants of Earl Spencer have presented to his Lordship at his seat at Althorp, in Northamptonshire, an elegant silver vase as, a mark of the noble Earl's constant attention to their general inte rest. The ceremony of presenting the vase took place on Satur day se - nnight. Earl Spencer, surrounded by those of his family and friends who were his guests at the time, received the tenants in the Picture Gallery, at Althorp. The piece of plate was sup ported by Mr. Dewing, of North Creak, Norfolk, and by the two Mr. Nitelies, of Castle Thorpe, near Fenny Stratford. Mr. Clark, of Sandtidge Bury, near St. Alban's, was selected by his brother tenants to address the Noble Earl on presenting the vases, to which his Lordship very feelingly replied. After which, the tenants, to the number of ninety, sat down with Lord Spencer and Lord Althorp, to a cold collation, which was prepared for them in part of the gallery where the ceremony took place, and departed in the afternoon, well satisfied at having been parties to a transaction so creditable to the feelings of those who were concerned in it. We understand, the value of the piece of plate is one thousand three huudred and thirty pounds; it is of most beautiful workmanship and design ; and the number of tenants win) subscribed is one hundred and fifty. STATE OF T FIE COUNTRY —That our pecuniary engage ments arc immense, that our burthens arc heavy, and that there is much (listless in the country, no one will or can deny. But that our credit is also good, our resources great, and our diffi culties capable of being lessened or removed, ate truths equally demonstrah'e and consolatory. The existing stagnation Of trade, and the agricultural suffering(, which are but too manifest, naturally and necessarily result eotn the altered state of things by the terminati mof the war.—'The same happened at the close of the American contest, and the evils were then very temporary. Britain, rich in capital, in the industry, activity, and genius of her populatit:n, rebomided thefrom he shock, and rose in tenfold strength an d p ower. And so will again, Commerce will soon flow into the ne A , and as et unaccustomed channels ; society will again poise and ballance itself, and all tho varying relations of the different classes of the community will acquire harmony' and consistency. It is only do;•ing the period of transition that we most severely. feel the inconstate ve . nienres of change from one s y stem to another,of from the war, with war expences, and war prices, to the state of peace, with peace savings and reductions. One part of the Common wealth feels this at first more than another ; that part is dis tressed, and its distress affects the whole mass ; but the ca , e very speedily o p e rates its own remedy, and every thing finds its n.atuial and relgitive I -listo-ok-. 4r