The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-10 00:00:00

1} t --• 4r ~~ TO VIE k A IIUR. Sin—As there is ho object of cultivation that will furnish so much employment to the pair es flax, particularly by the new mode of preparing it, with • out dewretting and watersteeping, will you allow the following instructions for growing it, an early place in your Paper, with a view of inducing pa rishes to cultivate the sm.: for employing their poor. The subsequent (observations will perhaps be considered applicable, at a time when it is proposed to grow flax and hemp at Dartmoor.—l am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, J. B. It was formerly supposed that flax, as a crop, was injurious or hurtful to the land. By the present mode of management it is not so, because the plant is gathered before the seed is allowed to ripen. and that three fourths of the crop is returned to the land, the chaff from the seed threshed being excellent flood for horses and cattle, and the woody matter pro duced by the present mode of breaking, when sitied fit for the same purpose; or as a top dressing for steeds, or turnips, all of which was lost under the old system of &meeting, and of course no return to the land. The average produce per acre is two tons of flax, end nine or ten bushels of wheat. The land intended fur flax should be very clean ; if stiff or heavy (which is in general good for the purpose) it should be ploughed before toe winter, or early in the spring, that it may receive the nights' frosts and rain ; just bethre sowing it should be work s d by a searrifler or cultivator, about an inch and is half or two inches deep. Light free laud may be. ploughed just - before sowing, but in all cases the Win should be tine, to the depth of an inch and u halt or two inches. The time of sowing must .pep, ml on the state and quality of the lands ; un warm dry soils it should be sown early ; on cold and damp soils later, from the latter end of March to the end of April is the best time ; the early sown flax is always best. The quantity of seed necessary is from two to three -bushels to an acre, according to the goodness of the land; the better the land the more seed it will carry. After owing, it should be harrowed with $ light or bush harrow, and then rolled. If the land is very light, it may be judicious to roll it again when the plant is about two or three inches high, but this must be done in the middle of the day, when the land is very dry. When the flax is from 3 to 6 inches high, it should be weeded; it should be pulled when the plant begins to turn yellow near the root and a little way upwards, and when on opening the most forward of the pods the seed is found to be formed, but in a soft state, with a smell speck of green in the middle. The flax should then be spread on the ground in bundles, about as much es a woman can grasp in .isoth hands, there to remain till the upper part is dry, which, in very fine weather, will be in fern t 4 to 48 hours, but should not remain to be disco loured by the sun, The bundles should then be made up, the dry part inside, end set up in shocks of tea bundles each, till the pods and every part is dry. Great care should be taken to keep the root. ends quite even ; it will then be in a state to be worked, housed, or stacked; the stack.; should he well eintched, and the rout-ends plues(l (rash:to-- barge , inantitics ef in very dry weetlier. have been palled iu the morning and middle part of the day. tied up in bundles, and set up in elle:Is in the eivenire of the s"rnc day, with very great success.— The ere? is (Alen har'es'od by the and ef Jars : if' se, the land is then Fever with turnips The farrier will have cowrie's:ly rained the flax crop. If litter, the Wet may be sewn with rye for springy feed. or dressed end sore eith wkeat. B. I air , TA Thfl'E.VT TEltsoys , APIINr: .:s cuATP,'.:I4IC.ERS. Where^c fiernvenience- are roved to vein, trim the "set of legal knowledge in mnr.. ;timers , :ho uthe urn themsel-e!!o practice -1 .sioisiTerricers.nf real estates and cha•tehi real For the tire..ertion thereof, be it enacted by C. 4 Eir.g'a roost ereeiler.s. :4-: .4c. I, c... 1 with the :Asia sitl rowel): of the Lords Writ/oil ind temporal. and Common'', in Parliament aseemillerl. ini4 t-i and . ctlt the coth , ,rity of the acme. 1:.... it aiiall net be 11-.7cul; from and i"tur f...r my erne. , wituia litiglow , iinl Wafts, to practise as a convecitr er in the tlrwieing •r preparing an, r!ectiso , other instrumyntv. f.e don oesntir l . oculing, or tra i . afer-ing Of any real write or chitt .I.: t c...1, t o tsl-a aim in ths.: life time el -ny pirty ranting, settling. or trans ferring the same, unless such penes. shall be a sergeact-at law harriater. admitted solicitor, attorney, or proctor. having ob: tained regular certificates to practise as such. or shall have been a pup il f or t he taro t of two ye:tr, in the office of some sergeant or barnster.at-law alleged in th e practice of conveyancing, csi:d have kept at least eight terms 'n some or one of the four inns of *tun; and that if ar v ;lemon ellen, after the time aforesaid, practise as such conrcirimeer in manner aforersiti, contrary to t!,e true intent and meaning of this act. every such pirci ;lieu forfeit and pay for curb oflimee the sum of il,i. P ro sided always , end he it further enaotod. I r l7notl.log in t .4 Act contained sh•ill extend, or be einitruod to eN.teeri. to p event tiny perscri from dree'og er preparing any dere, or shher instruments. iv,. tile granting. settling, or tratacrring any 1:al estates or chattels real aforeqth..'y ho on the -hall bow fide be carrying on the business. and be estaleil, •it in I, t: way of gaining his livelihood in the proftosion of a convey ancer to the Drawing or preparing of deeds or other instruiunts, 4 can Ng the Ling, acttling, or tiaosferting . of real estates or chat he e e _. or to prevent any person who ;seer shall be appointed lowa or any manor. lands, tenements, or hereditament., from ilaltlog or preparing soy leare or Imre of any ouch rumor, ?lIE NATIONAL REGISTER. lands. tenements. or hereditaments, of or belonging to the per son by whom lie shall be so app ointed. And be it further enacted, nut ITOM and after if any person authorized to draw and prepare deeds or other in • struments. for the granting, settli-.g. or transferring of real estates or chattels real, shall permit or suffer his name to be in shy manner used by or for the profit of any person not qualified to draw or prepare the same, or shall permit or suffer any un qualified person or persons to participate o. slifire in the gains or profits seising from the drawing or rewiring of any such deeds or other instruments, every person so ei.mlirg shall forfeit fur each caw= the 41.1111 of pounds. --- - PRESTON, Dec. occuirence has this week taken 'dare, which has caused no hale sensation in this town. On Tuesday last, two officers belutiging to the• \laticitt•ster Police arrived Isere, with warrants to apprehend seven Mai% ithials, against whom charges of 'edition had been preferred before the Nlagistrates of .laicicstt•r. These warrants, however, were filled up in so linos atsd itideEnitr a itiauster, that much difficult) was found its fixing upon the real persons to whom th drained , aid there is the strongest groused to believe, I oat. the only INVo which !ite yet been executed have lit•ill beret d upon two Intlit Hu 16 lith iu 411 V rttiteel linpliCtied iu tile charges. These persons are, Mr. John Etiller, a respt•ctaidt• msanrlfac•urer and Mr. Janie, Southwortli, a man, we are told, who lakes no part , Ilateter in pointrai iss viers. N.. 1 satislie•d with taking he person of the tunnel - , ono Ito bate answered the des ription of tile war tarn that Isis tiortstian name i-. Jon, v Itereas the doeumein applieS to some Tint nas . Elsner, tile officers proceeded to ....arch every party( hr - nweilt ig-Clouse, and carried aw..y Seter.ll lout► sense . He, together with Mr. Sotailtwortli, was vlrred in the lock-tip in this town, during the whole vie night or Tuesday, and the v were both conveyed lir Manchester by to, Coach thi We b..lteve it t. duo pretty well a ,certatned tint the p e rsons against whorls the rotor Ilallmll4 are laid have all ali.eodded, lie partie. n.tuig been aliprltie4l of %hal they tingist expect by a wittioer id prisoners similarly csiar k ers, w..) passed 1..113.1iii tile 11)W Lancaster a ww horns be:ore th seine. ra arrival. JA X . I.—lt has turneu out, as we confidently antici gated it would. that the at" ..named Mr. Lans..r alit! boothwo,lii were apprehended without the slightest charges haying been emelt oiled against them. They ',nit town. d to Preston iate last night. ¶,V ale list tit, their atrital at ItiliCileitcr, oft %VW tie3.l.ty ill rnimg, I hey were taken host to thr Niter °dice and then to the N, w Bailey, at which latter ',tree tev were lucked up in one of me cells of the prism", arid reitia.tied there all ingest, w dhoti' beddi►g of any dis cr.phint. Next ttttt rinng they wt re I gilt before the magistrates, and being cu.urouted desire Ineir post .l accuser, the latter declared more, that they were net 11.1 of them the versions ne mended to eivirge. 'l' hey seer. , of course, immediately disallowed. lite n►.•n who executed the warrants in the cases ate, Jimmies., answerable for any error they may have been led mi.. by ae•oser zealous dischartre of their duty ; but w e e ar s. 1101 tiatiik the Magistrates entirely blameless in the bu siness, for we understand 60 much was left to the dis creti tttt of the petty. officers, that (lull of the whole seven warrants with which they were charged, hot one gave the full description of the individuals against venom they were intended to 1w issued, and souse of them were eves' sighted with a black fur the Christian MIMI ut the par ties accused. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER. The mouth bas been favuuroble to the usual course ut husbandry et this season. The heavy lands, which re niained unsown from the heavy rains in November, hare worked kindly for the seed. The young wheats In the principal corn districts being tree bum slug or out wore', 'meet appeared to plant better. The frost s beset in timely fairies's big the stultifies for early beans and peas, which the light laud fainters have beget, to dibble, in lb , . home diltrict ; and the felluws, in their last filth, will work kindly fur Lents:ore-sewing, from the seine cause, The decayed state of the turnips, particularly the forwasd Swedes, is generally complained el, end lass given a rise to hey in Sue grazing countries. There remains meth feed on the gresind, upon which stock will do well, unless locked up by a fall of snow. Clever...mil, from the drought of tart tummer, yields but a scanty produce; meat, ' importations, however, are expected from Holland and Monsters, ' , these their mom were good The Wool-staplers Mese become pretty . active in their researches after all kinds of .ieei es, and comiiderv"le purchases nave lat• ly heeu made nt ago as:vance in price. Tee meat markets have had large sepplies of well fed beef end wettest; hut the tinaitiotield club did nut afford the usual t.hrutivais of prime oxen and wedder sheep, probably ening to the subsidieg rose row extreme fatness. Lean-stock, inisticulaily in good ared beasts, is become scarce, and of course higher priced. Vic regret in nest being ride to cline our resorts for 1819 ods a more favourable prospect, from that which the ' btute erarricullitur throsi,„lsout En4land st his time rreserts. tae oast crop of moss kinds of Kraln 16 found nut only delcient its produce, but in most parts so farrier iu quality as scarcely to be saleable ill wheat at ‘l.ls. per °r. uelow the few prime samples at Mark:lane. View this and other pressing causer, the occupiers of the soil finding also the best priers insdermate to their expendi ture, are sig r petnions to Pal 'lament, tin :velum all Ike principal core districts, praying for some legislative f oie'. w h acks protecting ditty tei the excessive lagoons bees of foreign grain might probably affurd theme. .Tettsev.—A Messenger of tiut. ilinh Cron of Admiralty came here lately with a sutuntons u' Jet its great seal, calling on a merchant. of the island to appear, to answer to a charge made upon him in that Court for salvage. The Messenger wns itu mediatcly arrested, slid tl.e day brought bctUre tt'e ”oyal Court, and ten pounds damages to the merchant. It is presumed by the islanders, that the execiting of any procoss whatsoever (except Wan conics from the Royal Court) is a breach of the rivileges of the island, THE OLDHAM INQUEgT.—Seven out of twelve of the Jury have signed the following letter to Mr. Thomas Ferrand, coroner : St at,—‘l e, the umlersi,.sied, mediae,* of the Jury compel. led to inquire Hilo toe came of toe death of John 'Lees, of Oldham, stodee.tamling Ili,tt our woe...Alin.; to the dote of that iiivrstigid 00000 0 according to the altildirillOtne made lay you, has been Interrupted lu einuaespia our of hour net having eintielled ulth the retool mesas of the law, by Vitt. iug the 1.00.1 y, is. company with a., alter we *Cremona by yourself, hereby totem you, teat we ale note ready tap faihl the strict letter of our dui), by Arno.; wish yam to view tae body. At w e have already seen the bud), is. company will, a medical gentleman, as a very early period utter death. and us you hate al-10 berftre .ern it, tte rooreme awl it second vie*, (veil in its presi id state, would be amply auCh ca. sit to remove the feeiiiiical %hurl! you have r 11111 l slatted, hod to it hit h ste lute wuat.utwually been math, p.m let. W. nook it fight fortlwr w declare to you, that, from a caacCul and casaba ex mount' of the I.4lllellre lotherto adduced, ae ore of flow 0000 0 Inat so sae run- of Joh.' tees a foul autoder was eon 00000 tied, %serve aoti.wsl a proceed to tile conciliation of lute enquiry, is. order tont, if swilling of future evialesiee 11110111 d liredi tat t..4i n • our to Illitlll., wit III.) fliolll that emir smolt mr.tousi itome wan inhumanly anal b aril:dowdy assain led a us, ii tug ly a4enibled fora legal purpiee, who h,ve 1111111'1W relllnilled at I,,rAeoudwitmimidt.ut the elhlrlUllW of liielf E 11. 1 ,0, We have alio to aria, that reknit. Hiatt - been carcitialed, I. Srll Irawcl you UNC lu a,.frula the situations for ult, you have wag • f.uutirell a. port), its tupt.,u4tmg that or h tr bees. latopet eu aHa t for it becebstrfy to tieriart , taloa .41r opitisous as to the Ca tate of the draw of John Lyre hove be. a fat liked f rim a coo:clew WU/ at teutioo ao toe es 'dente ; Aid Idiot, 11.142 Allemplb Oren made I. istettree Ito 10 IoN er% e Prom the WWI line of out duty, wit ,uttald have last them a lab merited lodignat • (Sigurd) J. J Acavon. J. Kaye, f. W J. 0 eattll, G. Boot it, J. ()whim. J, l.ox rus. A letter from Buniundee, dated May IS, in a late Calcutta journal, contains the following shock. ing • • -loom ;iti'eMeit in the enernouto of Ine.day the 26th teat. some of sty brsll.l.llll came I g into the room in stir grrate.t alarm, say lug • bat an alligator had Jost taken a wry, about 14 years of age, from one of the giants near Ilse hamar. Every irony near the place was seer running ti eke ghoul, lit aid( it plate 1 pioceeded in company wins a gruiletimu, as fast as postolite, to hopes of tendering Some absialoitCr. A little 11;11 , 1 we arrived at the river 11146 . , AMR.. Ohr oolinigst the bast her of natives col. leettbd cited ellii unit lie could are it, and on looltiug down the $ tyro, at a short distance we clearly saw the alligator wits the imy to in. mouth ; shortly tiller hr disappeared, ilien rust. tamales, visit elt 'rating Imuseit atilt his brad oat ii•e oilier II as 4 feet, he still held the boy in Millionth by the hand, mid tossing him 'Colo one side to the other in 'he Mb earth toe en a. si violence and rage; then, dashing Min Oil Wr Airtaei of the water, atilt the hope, as w• imp ! um., of iliii;ocao Ina his bosses, the muse ramly to gorge him This he learaten several time., out nothing at the in iuiviit eoald tie done ; in the hope of saving the boy's life; every thing was thought of to recover Ilse body, and people wet r sent oat for lishettm 15 a earthing near the place a bun above an hour expittd beguile they came with boats amid' ag-lines. Ott their al twill or provided them with these, in the hope of obtaining the boy ; and after drag ging with the bite op and Joan the river near the place where they were *cell. we succeeded in hooking up both troy and mitigates. The latter, however, made his escape, but the body of the buy was secured, and though iheadlully wangled, with t h e loss of head and shoulders, was torought on shore, and delivered to the parents for baths'. '1 he boats were again sent out, and again caught the alligator; out iu ti.dibbilig him to tile surface of the water to has maim him, be broke the line. and got away a reetriel little. It being then very late in the eveuiug, nothing could be done, hut the fishermen requerted to attend the twat unitising to make another attempt. This alligator. as tar as we eau judge, was about la or fees Ala." The weather during the last week appears to have been unusually severe. The snow drifted as much as eight feet deep in some parts b3ween Sal isbury and Bridport, so that nu coach could get entirely through ; but by the active exertions of the officers of the mail coach department, and of the guards, the western mails, though much out of time, have daily reached their destination, being conveyed partly by the coaches with six and eight horses, and partly by chaises, or on horseback—in some instan • ces to the hazard of the lives of these employed. The road from Poole to Southampton is also *wend with deep snow, through which the coach un one day could not be forced. The road through Shaftes bury to Exeter is not quite so much impeded as that through Bridport. From Bath to Exeter there has also been great difficulty ; but the mail coach has ' managed to pass, and is the only coach which (lid pass on that day. tt here the snow is deeptait the roads are now cut through and a track made, so that without a fre=.ali fall the wails will travel pretty well. There are, however, threatening appearances of bad weather, the snow being very heavy in Yorkshire and in Scotland, but not having drifted, travelling is net much impeded. With all these difficulties the letter carriers have been dispatched each morn ini from Loruhard-street, as early as half-past nine o'eloe': with awry mud arrived. h is understood that Lord Talbot wishes to have L o o m Ju s sisv: nmiointed, for the adsniaistration of knKerneaent in holtsud, while he attend' the oboa quit:* of his late Countess here. A young man, known by toe 114111 C of Earl ran ten wiles on the road leading from Coventry to Warwick. on Thursday last, iu minuses and a ball. T