The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-07 00:00:00

=-~-',,; WILLIAM COBBETT, ESQ. Birmingham, Jan. 2, 1823. Stn,—ln a late STATESMAN% and in the Register of Saturday last, I notice a trifling error, which I beg the fivoar of you to correct. I did not attend the Meeting at the London _Tavern, respecting Mr. Peas WI.. It was tho Member for Vallingtos, whom you mistake for mei and *boss sow has often been mistaken for mine, more perbape to my credit than his own. lit the Sivisicsa of the spoils of the landed interest, you seem not to know, *bat I mean by "the Lies's Share." Political Power is the Lion's Share. The Jews and the lawyers are taking the estates and the rents. But the People will take the Political Power. They will then bring the Jews. sad lawyers to or strict account. Hard indeed will be their fate, if they receive the same lodg ment, as thefhavi awarded to otters. have noticed upon several occasions, that you consi dcr me as adrestating exclusive!, the restoratioo of the Paper SYtteas., The amomption is sot quite correct. Perhaps you will allow me to explain, what I have ad rotated/ sal What Istill continuo to believe, about as firmly as I believe my own existence. lerom iSIA tp tba present time, not a year bas elapsed, wishoat itylrariog published either pamphlets or letters, for tho mirage purpose of proving,—first that to restore the 'scion Metallic Standard of value would literally double the National Debt. and every other Dcbt.Vaa. Tithe, ken:, and monied oblig ation In the kingdom.-- _ _ _ _ Setiondly, that this doubling el the National Smitten', would iaevitloblyProduceao much misery and discontent, as would neiteetaavily folitt to a Revolution, similar to that of ('sauce,.-Millikettileat it WAS therefore necessary, either to centimes Ow Paper System for ever, under pro per limitation, end obligation. ; or else,—Fourthy, that it was necessary, to reduce the Metallic Standard of V•rlne, so as 14 bring down the Value of Metallic Coins, to the same level of depreciation, as existed permanently in the actual Currency of the Country ; coining about ten, of one old Mint Shillings, into a Pound Sterling, ;Weal of twenty of those old Mint Shillings ; or in other weeds, coittial an ounce of silver into 10s. 4d. sterling, and an ounce of goW, into ;1. • Lis. 9.1. sterling ; which being jest double the prices of the Metallic Standards of 1791, would Necessarily preserve that doubted level of the priees'Of Injeottroand of the products of labour, which be4me permaneit during the War.. 'these four parities, ere visible in my pamphlet's, poled listed In 19111.ead 1817, led they are still visible lean mat letters. Even 10%4 :Which you have last inserted in the SrareswaN, Iltetei eipressly stated, that on t h e retina 41. Mee, .coesiderieg 10 *ld blot Shillings to have been the real Ales of the Pound sterling daring the Sinsi,ll Noe slillyic tbi Legislature to have coined bill!, tirglitl a sir :ee 4 epj met' titre old Mint Shillings Win P Plinitikelerbligt in Ptefereece to rendering it coo vettiblil leao 418 of those old !dint Shillings, which is • felt silditifeirbat the Potted Sterling Wm wietb, es i tett yitir'e 'mirage, dining . the War. I still thiwkit &so -44 *gawp, awl peryietly, jolt and right,. go tadviwn. thoilletteletbent et tea 41*tillic Standard le't'tuce. jeer emit, In OraPti•presetv• Are *Honied prices of properly and labour at that high war level, upon which all the, obligations of property and labour have been founded; or to whirl; they have been long accommodated. 1 ore,. :me Aim that these have always been my viltere, and that-Fads not excinsively a "Paper System gee." ii.i will perhaps elloir me to trouble you with the following 'extracts from two of my pamphlets. Coaclesioo of tar letter so Mr. Vansittart, polo/idled in illuy,ls7, • , "''nese mast hi no hesitation about the price of the " g • • Whetbrr the guinea passes for 21s. or for i ios. " al teljektoftswimportanCe - atoll. It will not Wore " tla e l sithio, 'fl will not injure either public or priv a te " itedtiori: . list to support life, to promote and secure el ihir merlin* ty:lfire, is the first, and the last, and the .''only disti Of thrrlnislature. The guinea was made o.lor MA L and4ol man kettle guinea. If the inc r e ase obf tholCireithtf: , i IlledisMorhich is necessary, in ,s'orari , N I reefer, me and the happiness of 0 man, drOwlir are ire effect of raising th e mon i e d si'ples if tr ineti a the legal price of the G u in ea 0 Intro be it eed lecriedligly t or the Guinea must be 0 disenfranchised. .lint man must not he cut down in 0 his wants, his uteans,lfs modes, his life, in order to aecommodate his dlininslons to the Guinea. The 0 great interests of the lotion' must not be sacrificed ; a ...fifth of the Population must not be exterminated, in g realer to force a mitzinsom upon Gold !" Extract from a series of Resolutions which I proposed to the Chamber of COMISMO at Birmingham, and . which were printed by the Chamber in May 1619. • 1 9th Resolution.—" That it appears to this Chamber, • that during the Operation of the Bank Restriction ' Act, the general atreeticy a the country has depre. " eiated to one keg he &enter value, a given sum now 46 commanding net more than one half of the property " generally, which it commanded before that period; is built appears to this Chamber, that owing to various sa ee e s ee t oippareet depreciatiou„ when compared with • bellhes,.lllo Not at any time amounted to more than " 20 or *pee nut., and is at present no more than 3 " yr cent_; bat, nevertheless, this Chamber is of opi• " nt.r, that any reduction of the prices of bullion to " the old standard, which may be effected by a ditniewt " don oldie circulating medium, will also necessarily " hate God effect of reducing the prices of labour, rents " and property generally, to the same ratio as was ear. is rent before the Imposition of the Bank Restriction " Act. And this Chamber is further of opinion, that 41 such reduction of the pekes of labour, rents, and pro. " petty generally, can ooly be effected through the ut " most distress and confusion among all 0411111.11 of the " community ; and when it should be fleeted, it would " still be necessary for Me Legislature to interfere, and " to reduce 6y law Me monied birdies, of the National " Dag, and of all 'Private debts, teases, an d engage " meats to one half of their present monied amount;' " and therefore this Chamber declares, that the restore " taws of the old Metallic Standard ought uut;to be at- " tempted, but that such other Metallic Standard ought s. to be adapted, as may be conforniahle to the present 46 s t ate o f prices, nr to such other prices as the necessary " issue of a circulating medium may render current." Hers, Sir, is your Nen plan for the redress of the ea tool) grievances, laid down upon print, near 4 years offeyas the inevitable result of that general reduction riqvices, which Mr. Peel's Bill was certain to occasion. 1, sent my resolutions, 24 . in number, to all the Ministers, and to every influential member of both Houses of Par. tbsinent. I Alight as trell bare thrown them into a tiParYi I-1 THE ConcloskM 4 my first Wier is Laird fished*: May 1819. „ 1 . Ng Lord,l will trouble you no more. Our road' "is clear as the bright sun,in heaven. It is to arcons "'Mate orrrefteoge to num; mina men us ewe eefiel " age. The first duty of the Legislature is to peptide; " Bread for the people. The second. is to securejustice " and peace, and order in society. - If we are to neglect' " the warnings of experience; if we eve to contract all " the transsetions, of life within the range of an anti " ouated maximum; if we are to force all tfie wants,and " modes, and means of man, into as arbitrary conformity " with Bold, we must re-organise oar armies, and don " ble their pay ; for it is only "through slaughter and " anarchy that we shall succeed. The following is another extract from a note in this last pamphlet, which was published whilst you were in America. I have treated you rather cavalkrly as yon ' will perceive. Bu: you have not treated me much better upon some occasions. And besides, you must observe, that I was bred up a thorough Pittite, and that a few years ago, I uas accustomed to look upon you, with pretty much the same eyes, as you used to look with upon the Jacobins and Reformers of 1798. ':1 did not absolutely believe, that you had a "cloven find." But 1H suspected many bad things in you : more experience of you, and your oppoisesito; has latterly tended very touch to correct. • " 1 wish COlthCit tens among them now. It would prolong his life at least 20 years, to see how the thee " rises would be pulled on the one hand, by the difllcalty "of fee the and employing the labourers ; and, on the -" other, by the utter impossibility of collecting the necessary taxes for the payment of the army, and of 4 1 the dividends of the natiemal debt. But to speak " seriously ; 1 solemnly believe, that if the Secret Com " mittees, had been sitting for the express purpose of "forwarding the ends of Coblvett, and his hosts of lee's " lators, they could not possibly, have devised any thing " more truly to their hearts' content, than the reports "which the Committees have agreed upon"! Why this was written in Eng/await, whilst you were sitting in Long Island, like a lion watching for'his , prey ! The words were scarcely printed. before ybor notes of triumph resounded from the other aide of the , Atlantic! I knew that your prey was ready. I knew that the Boroughinex were lost for ever. if they payed and persevered in, Mr. Peel's Bill. I stood by their. side through fair, and through fool; I warned them at every step. 1 proved to them again and again, that it would " be easier to govern a nation of fiends, the* "to govern England under their measures.", I literally dinned them with proof upon proof, .that the Act whichl they were committing was felo de se. They refused to listen to me, who was their freed. They refused to lisle! to you who were their exesny.Vragged on by • fate,wbieb we sometimes witness, in men, " whom hoar is •come." they have persevered in their course of error; and 90w their ruin is secure. Whether they adopt your remedies, or mine Sir, or adopt no remedy at all, they will be for tunate indeed, if they escape that RADICAL Rumex in the Representation of the People, from the want of which all our sufferings an all our dangers proceed. But, although it is evident from these extracts, that I have always advocated the adoptiew of a just and prat tirattc Metallic Standard of value, yet, I (reedy ac• knots ledge, that In all my writings, I bawinclined more to the restoration oldie paper systemmeder propel limitations and obligations; or t o the estahllelsment of some other papersystem, which might Mae all tiro advantages, without any of the di "which bare attended Ai circulation orbitiFfsottifi I mere the paper. But 1 have not the feat objection to the Bold. All that 1 have desired is, to such a Metallic Standard adopted as shall be feat and practicable. 'fhb standard which we are sow attempting to enforce, is neither: It is ontrageonslysinjuse so 99 cases ost.of a hundred. his absolutely impossible so be carried into effect. I know that in this latter opieihn, you disagree with me. You think it possible to be carried Info ef fect, by the aid of " concondtant measures." 1 think it utterly impossible, by the dof any human means. The difference between your mode of proceeding, and mine, is this: you would cut down the things measured, to the level of the measure. I would cut down the mea sure, to the level of the things measured. You would leery change into every head, and a sense of injury into every heart, in order to accomplish the very same ob ject. which 1 would accomplish, without altering the calculatiost of say head, or so mach as touching the feelings of iv hcart.. You would act by open, *Went, and direct mesas, lactating and tigitattag every class, and every indiVidual of community in succession. I would act a way, quiet, silent, unseen, and unknown, dispensing justice, and the means of prosperity to ail, without the possibility of do log either real or imaginary wrong to any. Four made of proceeding assumes that the Metallic Standard has already nearly completed its edit" and that the great hulk of all the existing relations of Society, are already accommodated to its level. Aline bores upon the posi tion, that the Metallic Standard has scarcely yet com menced it: mortal operations; and that at least nine tenths of all the existing contracts in the Mims, are yet formed upon the IVar Prices, or founded upon the War habits and calculations. In my judgment, your mode of proceeding, would compromise the safety of all Interests, and endanger the very foundations of So ciety ; but mime would reconcile and harmonise all In terests, and secure them all, in their just and equitable rights, and in their due relations with each other.— With the mere assistance of an optional release from contracts formed since 1818. sad a general revision of the Robberies which have taken place since that period, anklet) yon yourself , areoae victim amonguthousands. I t would render justice to every human being as far as it .is possible too human 1040909411 I. Dada it. Togo back beyond the year 1818, to miss the injuries done in 1797 and 1793, would be about as useful, and about as practicable, and about as necessary for the present g tion of men, as to wand, r over passages of our musty Law Books, in the vain attempt to redress the injuries which were occasioned by either nacaraary or unareentary reductions of the 3letallio Standard, in the days of Ilarry the Eighth, or Edward the Third. Let us leave the dry bones of our Ancestors, to moulder amidst the errors and the crimes, the effects of which have long since passed away ; and let us take care that the preseut generation of living men, is not precipitated to an early tomb by measures which are far more un just. and infinitely more ruinous, than any which the maddest of Tyrants, have ever attempted or devised be fore. I am with sincere respect, Sir, Your obedient huruble servant, THOS. ATTWOOD. Mr. Cobbott, P. S. The Postscript to my last letter in the Farmer's Journal, was not sent after the letter was printed, as you conclude, but it was sent at the saute time with the letter itself, as you may see noticed in the Notice* to Correspondents in the Farmers Joirnal, on the day the letter was printed. I have never been desirou.s s to tract in any way, from the merits which attach to yowl. self personally, in the discussion of this great question. 1 have known many men who, in my opinion, have al. ways understood the subject, quite as well as yourself; but ! bare known none, whose labours have been so va rious, so able, and so indefatigable, or have bad such important and extensive effects upon the public mind. i~ `.~'•A I. „ ( ...,„ , • -^•-, 7 Aets „MAILS. I' - Taps. AIR. DVII. j• - 0 0 Holland . 0 U Hambro • 1 • 1 Franco - - 0 O Flanders - 0 O final - - 0 O 'Waterford 1 6- G.* Jersey - 1 • '-' Lisbon - O Gottonberg • 1 - - - PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAV AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock -245k i India Stock ...... •• • • •• • • 3 per Ct. Red ......701 i • Ditto Bonds a. $ ..9. pin. 3 par Ct. Cons 3i per Ct • 791 ISouth1 South Sea Stock... .. .... 91 i . South Sea Old Ann.. 4 per Cents... 97 i ' Ex.Bill.2d. i s 9s. lls pm. New Fours 5 per Ct. 1797 3004. a. 9e Its pm. Long Ann ... .. ..20.1 5-10 1 Small ell Op I Ispm. Imp. p per Ct l Con. for %cc'. SOM Irish 3 per Cents I Lottery Tickets VI. Wi.. Zia ottatcontan. LONDON: TUESDAY, EVENING, JANUARY 7, IS2I STOCK EICIIANGE, lIALF.PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK.-- Consols opened this morning at 8011, but, owing to no' express arriving this morning, from Paris, with an ac count of the French Funds, and to the warlike appear. ance of Spain, they became heavy, and were done at NM The well informed in the city state, that Lovd Fitzroy Somerset is gone to Spain, to assist the Spaniards in the it negociation witb the French, and that be will, at the same time, endeavour to persuade them not to break off the ne. gociation, should any trifling difficulty take place. Some hint has been thrown out this morning at the New Rooms, Capel Court, that the Colombian Charge d'Affaires %sill have an interview on next Thursday, with some of the parties concerned in the above loan, but whether it is to give them hopes of the ratification of the said loan, is at present a matter of conjecture. —The hidders should be rather cautious how they act- Wit theColumbianCharge d'Affaires sentiments are . po sitively known on the subject. FORUM N ➢UNDS. Chill, 74—New Spanish, 640-01 d, 00—New Prussian,. Sif to 83-01 d, 851 to 80-11ussian,82i1j—Danish, 1591 Neapoliten Scrip, 771—Colombian, 021—Peruvian 78— Spanish Scrip ILI dis. Little business doing in the above market this morn• O g. Colombian opened at 6:h and went down to tilit Paris papers have arrived to the Sth instant, but are still barren of important intelligence. An article from Semlin, dated the 10th ult. confirms a report, which had already reached us from other quarters, that Choursehid Paella had committed suicide, to avoid felling into the hands of the exe catiOner. It states also that seven Padilla had been deca pitated In eonsequence of orders from the new Government at Constantinople. Accounts in the Paris papers from Ma drid are to the 211th ult. but others, which we have receivde direct, come down to the 30th. By t h e former we learn that 'Mina hes been raised to the rank of Liesteeant Oeneral,and that the greatest tranquillity prevailed in Madrid ; and by the latter that the drawing for recruits in that capital had been *deducted ;with the greatest order, and that mud , 'eirrps of - htfentry and Cavalry are on their way from different', palate of the P•minsula, to reinforce Mina's army. The siege of the Castle of Mequinenes, the only place of strength j is addition to the Fort of Urgel, occupied by the rebels, was to commence °tithe nth Ult. r' 1: AT PARIS, JAN.. I.—Fise per Cents. opened at S. 10.: closed at 87.95. Bank Actions, 1,1303. Nefpoli tan Stock, 741 ex. div. Spanish Bonds, 6:11. Exchange on London, one mouth, 23. SO. ; three months, O. 15. MR. ATTWOODS LETTER. In another part of our paper, oar readers will futi a letter from Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD. Twit or three re marks on it are necessary. He says that I have ascribed the opposition, made at the London Tavern (the opposi tiv. to Blr:Patt.'s Bill), to him when I ought to have ascribed it to Mr. MATTIII43 ATTWO9D, who is a Member .of Parliament. The fact is, that I, at fiat, did ascribe it to Mr. ,MATTIIIAS ATTWOOD ; but changed my man in consequence of two or three people writing to me to tell me that it was Mr. Twostas Arrtroork— This is my way: I listen to advice with so much pa tience; I follow the opinions of others so readily; that am often led astray. I have invariably found that when I stick to my own teat I was right, and that when I did not, I was wrong.—As to the matter of Mr. Arr. W00D . 3 letter I must pay more attention to it another time. I must observe, however, even here, that his mode of proceeding would create much MOTe confusion than mine; notwithstanding its srcresy and its slyness.— At any rate, his is a plan fur reducing Mc interest of the Debt. MATCHLESS IMPERTINENCE. ■~ The Morning Chronicle of to•dar, says, that the Yea manry of Norfolk have given " the best evidence of their 4.` ignorance and error. we have obtained the proof of ' this," says the wise Chronicle, shutting both its eyes. " We have obtained the best proof of this, and the next "step is, to administer instruction!" Oh ! yes, by all means ! Bring us up some Scotch Schoolmasters into Norfolk ! Let them not forget their mull and their horn spoon. They will teach the Norfolk Yeomen how to take snuff with a spoon. What instruction from old Chronng! and from the Scotsman ; and from the Feely siphers who swear even to this hour that the cash ;mea• sures could not lower prices more than four and a half per cent These are pretty creatures to give instruction to the county of Norfolk ! However. from the shocking cant of this article more will be said hereafter. The Yeomen of the County of Norfolk will,in the mean time, not break their hearts in consequence of the disappro b ition ofold Chronsey, when they recollect that this paper has been for months past, congratulating it.' readers on Mr. CANNING " hoeing thrown his shield over the Peninsula." When it. now turns out (unless this paper itself tells lies) that our Minister has just be. gun a quarrel with the gorern , nent qf Spain, at the very moment when the French are preparing to invade that country ! I have only time, at present, to observe, that one of the two things is n ndeniable : the Morning Chro• nick has been for several months past, a most preyiiundly ignorant journal ; or it has been tolling hundreds npnn hundreds of falsehoods for stock jolibiag purposee.-- This is • pretty instructor of the Yeoinanry of Norfolk. --I perceive that the leaches 0 Kerrey, and Kent are shout to assemble.-- I trnekthat the Norfolk petition . the whole of the Nor. Yolk petition, and nothing but the Not folk petition, %%lit be adopted by those cauntieg.—ln the next Itegi,te: still challenge Old Chronay to come out fairly into the field of discussion. I will take upon rne to maintain Ow justice and necessity of the Norfolk petition;: and I shall call upon the Ciro/tick, the Scotsman. and the Edi• bare. Reviewers w answer me, if they can. In our piper of yesterday we gave a copy of the dal statement of the Revenue far the year and the quarter just expired. By this it appeared that the Revenue of the year 1921. exceeded that of list year by• 830,000/. The duties on malt, leather and salt havismr been reduced, a diminution of rcrenne arising from these articles, was to be looked for, bat nut in others as the redaction of the taxes on theurmight he esiotamet/2 to enable the consumer to make a more extensive' are t • other taxed commodities. Titer • is, however, a falling off to the amount of 84,0901. under the head of Customs. where there was no such ground fur expecting a dimi nution ; bat the Mercantile world need be under no conrern on that account, for the Co:tricr satisfies itself that the commerce of the country has increased and is increasing In our paper tcoday is an account of the produce of the Excise Duties in time last year and last quarter, and of that of the two preceding periods. On comparing time 102 counts, a serious falling off will be found under the head of Assessed 'f axes. Time owners of the land begin to sytnpathise with the occupiers, and are evidently compelled to reduce their establishments, The reduction of the tax on Malt, has, as was expectee, promoted the consumption of Britibli spirits and beer. In the latter article there has been an inesease last year to the amount of more than 176,04)0/ , and in the former to above 306,0001. What the whole amount of the comparative deficiency of the revenue may be, cannot, however, at present be ascertained, as the balances in the bands of the receivers are supposed to be less than usual, and the receipts in the Treasury larger than common at this sesson . of the year. Lord F. Somerset is gone to Madrid, in consequence, it issepposed, of strong remonstrances sent by this country to Spain, on account of some seizures of ships by that Government, whieb, in a haughty tone, they re fuse to release. P'ubllc meetings are incontemplatiou, we understand.. io the counties of Kent and Surrey. A Requisition has been sent to the High Sheriff of So ', otersetshire, signed by upwards of thirty Magistrates. desiring hint, previous to the meeting of Parliament. T.' convene the county, to consider of petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying some alleviation front. those unequal burdens which now press upon all tbo4,- engsged in the cultivation of the soil, or arein any mari ner connected with the landed interest.—(Gloucest iferald.) hewers that some doubt exists whether Mr. Pel ham, the new member fur Shropshire, who recently beat the Tory candidate. Mr. Child, is himself a Wbig Of a Tory. The Hon. Gentleman has been claimed by hotly parties, and we Wy the votes of Parliament to decide the trertion.—(Mid.) Friday. Sir Jews Mackintosh was Ma*Met Tau )).• ,office of the 1.0141 Rector of the University of Glasgow. ..Sir James and - his friends afterwards dined with , the Principal Professors in the front Hall of the CoUeze. Tie atmosphere was more leallesi,with dense endgame charged clouds on New-year's day, than has been known fur many years. ..The cergyman' in Tynemouth church, with difficulty got through divine service with the aid of candles. • We nneleretelid;' that in consequence of the brewers being obliged to go l f& England for barh y this sensor. *wing to the inferior quality of our own growth, they have made an increase on the price of table beer, to Si. per anker, for ready money : and that they are to give no discount is future.—(Aberdeen Joursal.) Hants I..amirs.—Mr. ',rapping, of Fingland, parish of Bowness, has six ewes of the Brarnbroshire breed, that have veined eleven iambs between the IStb Dec. an 4 the 2d inst. which are nitre and healthy. Tug LATE FROST.—The frost continued steady during • Tuesday and Wednesday, and enabled the amatenrs of skating to indulge themselves without intermission. The weather has been uncommonly line, and the w i n d gene . rally in the south. Skating and Curling Clubs assetn bled at Dnddingstor each morning, and were visited by Oloreladiesthan we ever recollect to bare sees on the ice. We regret to hear that a woman fell during the coarse of Wednesday forenoon on the loch, and had her arm breken. A military band was present. The ther mometer has never Even lower than 21 buret Star of Friday.) 1 he frost has shut up the communication by the Union Canal. On Tuesday un attempt was made to clear the passage by means of ao ice -boat, with ten horses, but it was relinguisked after proceeding the length of than second bridge, the ice proving too thick, and threaten ing, in breaking 1., to damage the banks.—((itid.) A letter from Manbeim, dated Dec. 2f, states the Neckar and the Rhine to be frozen over. No person remembers the latter to have been so before, when the cold was so ineonsiderable, it being only 10 or 12 tie, greet of Reamur. This is owing principally to the shal lowness of the water. _ _ _ FIRE ON WATER. —On Monday last, 30th alt. Messy. (:.and IV. Hilder, and 'l. . Mcbardsen, imeoropanied by a few otti r gentle Men, Went on a dilating excursion to Bodi..m, Sussex, where the ire was particniariv invit ing, and so strong, that for the novelty of the thing. they agreed to ma ke a Ere on it, and diclso ; soon after which Mr. Derricks, who had just shot a mallard as it was winging its way over the moat, came along, aid I offered them the bird, if they would cook it on the icr, and on this condition, the in,aliard was received, picked, cooked, and eaten with high relish, in the presence of many of the inhabitants of Bedlam. The culinary uteri sil used for the purpose was a Dutch oven. The late thaw brought to our Levels large (bias of geese, and various ..dher desrtiptions of wild fowl, which gave great promise to our gunners ; but on taking their stations at what is Called aught-lim ' e they had th e mcr tification to hear the wings of the birds whistle at 34 altitude which bade defiance to the range of their st ot. and very few were in consequence killed, or wounded so as tole brought to b , g. The Snipe shooters have been more successful, bat few, we believe. having had cause to complain of the want of sport.—(/.sines Paper.) The extreme serenite of the season cannot be better exemplified than by the transcendent melody of th? thrush, accompanied by a clto;r of little warld, r . heard on the tlth inst. on the Mate of Mr. Scott. Saughtrees, Itmcastle, one of the N. E. parishes of thy: county.--i II the same eists ict, the winter wheats hart a luxuriant sod flattering prospect. The Rinterine stock in the aforesaid parish and adjacent di•trieti, note ithstanding the huutiJity of the last two nionti have been more fortunate than rsight have been unbo wed. the mortality amongst the white stork heingresy • trivial; and, should the season continue as ealahriaet f and congenial, as of late, no doubt can exist. of I proving advantageens to the hreeders. -• , A-." J..i•••....u..2. ..e. ...... I the MI cal Ira fou al' pe ten 'Of we a fa wie try sing lic is 5 cei ew Mei ths of I iii will PCs Tcn Dig - -