The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-24 00:00:00

HA R V ESr.-M3 Rh ETS. On speaking of the harvest last week, we intimated 1 to the farmers, that in our view, there was a fair pros pect of fairer weather; and we have now the satis faction to state, that the favourable change was ex perienced to an extent that enabled our Downieh gaowers to secure all their outstanding wheatlrotouny: further risks of damage, by getting it well into stacks, barns, or small mows ; and this, we believe, was ef fhtect before Friday, till when not a drop of rain during the week had fallen, to stay the'busy •Land of the harvester, and since which the trumpet of alarm has almost ceased to sound. A great deal of Lent Corn Was also carried in the course of the week; and of this we have the plasure to say, there now remains in our neighbourhood but little to be carried. A provident "kit induced several farmers, yester day senoight, to send their work people to the harvest field; and from a firm conviction, no doubt, that under ezistiegeirrnmsiances.no one would be so uncharitable as to consider it an abase of the Sabbath. The harvest in Prance, we are well informed, has been as muOli impeded by unsettled and wet weather, as it has been 'in England; its offects, in both coun tries must 'therefore have been the same.-.--(Susee.r. dletoeftirer, Sept. 43.) CORNWALL MARKETS. ICaleulated at 94 gallons to the bushel.) Tenno.-IVbeat,(average) 255. 9d.—Barley 101:6d. Ohts, 7s. 6d. Lauscestow.—Old Wheat MA new Wheat, 19s. to 22s.—Barley, 9s. 64.--Oats, 7s. • EAST Lo o Whe it, 30s.—Barley,i1s. 61.—Oats, 13s.—Butcher's meat, 41. to sd. The fine weather with which this country has been hhised during the last week, has tended greatly to ell.ty those apprehensions relative to the Corn harvest, o Melt were seriously excited in the minds of those, who 'lsl.) , feel for the privations of their humble fellow rreaito es. And after all, the rainy visitation has been by no means so general as was feared ; at least, such a conclusion must be drawn from the statements of se veral gentlemen, just returned to their Bath winter quarters, front visiting distant parts of the kingdom ; one of whom reports to us, that during a fortnight's ramble through the Yale of Llangollan and its roman tic neighbourhood, in Denbighshire, he merely used his umbrella once or twice as a shelter from passing showers; and from the Devizes returns it appears there was a deduction of Ss. 6d. per quarter; but sales were very limited at the latter place. Only 470 sacks having keen disposed of yesterday: whereas at the prece.:ing market, 1,235 sacks were enteteilias sold.— (Bristol Alereury. Sept. 22.) A Farmer, in' the northern part of the county, in- forms us, that in his neighbourhood, the harvest has hitherto been so unfavourable that not mere than one• third of the grain is housed, and some of that is da maged. Tuesday and Wednesday were fine, and many fields of wheat were stacked in this neighbourhood ; hitt we are sorry to add that it rained incessantly on Thursday, and yesterday the weather was not very fa vourable.—(Stqffordshire Advertiser, Sept. 22.) We bare had another week of precarious harvest weather. Wednesday was a brilliant day, and the night and day which preceded it being favourable, millions of lroperty was, we have no doubt, secured throughout the country on that day. On Thursday morning elle.) , the weather took an unfavourable change, and has continued rainy ever since. In this immediate neighbourhood a considerable portion of the wheat is r+4) n• secured ; but taking the crops of grain in York-' shire generally, we'belive three fourths of them, at least, are in the fields, principally cut.—(Leeds Mer coirll, Sept. i'4.) This district has been favoured with several fine harvest days since our last publication, the few showers that have fallen have been too gentle to injure the crops, which are abundant, and we trust, will all be bowed in good condition. Our northern farmers, will, of course, benefit by the damage which the crops of the south and west of England have sustained, if the circuinstatuce be nut incautiously pushed too far, unto the opening of the ports, in which case, the markets will he overwhelmed with the accumulations now waiting on the other side, for that purpose; it being in evidence by Mr. Jacobs, an intelligent tra veller and writer, before the Committee of the House of Commons, that the greater part of the population of the Continent, which was set at liberty by the ter- initiation of the war, were employed in cultiv a ting corn fur which they looked for a market in this country.— (Newcastle Courant, Sept. 21.) At Newcastle market, on Saturday last, there was a tolerable supply of country wheat, which met a brisk sale, at an advance of from 10s. to 12s. per quarter from the prices of the preceding week. Some sales of granaried wheats had been effected during the week to speculators, at an advance of 12s. to 14s. per qr. ; hut the millers were not inclined to buy at this ad vauce. Fine Rye 4s. dearer. Little Barley at market. Oats Is. to 2s. pet qr. higher. Current rates :—Wher Northumberland 625. to 725. ; Norfolk 445. to 70s. ; Scotch 60s. to 70s. ; Rye, English, 325. to 38a. ; Barley, Norfolk, 30s. to 365. ; Malt, Norfolk, pale 50s. to 645. ; Oats, potatoe, 245. to 265. ; Common 2.15. to 24a. ; Foreign 20s. 225. per qr. ; Fine flour 50s. to 545. per sack. The weather, with the exception of yererday, which was throughout wet, and an occasional shower or two on other days, has for the last week been rather fa vourable for gathering in the harvest. The fields of Cumberland are now presenting a beautiful and truly gzatifying appearance. Every where the eye is sa luted either by, the golden grain falling before the sickle, or nodding in yellow grandeur, as if to invite its approach. Much of the barley is already cut and carried away, while little of the wheat is gathered, though a considerable portion of it is perfectly ready for the waggon. The honest farmer, in spite of his difficulties and numerous causes of vexation, still con tinues cheetful and jovial—he does his duty, he puts his shoulder to the wheel, and if he cannot work sui rneles in order to pay an enofmoss taxation and an overstrained rent, he will do all an economical prin ciple and an healthy industrious mind can enable him to perform.—{Carlisle ioarmal..Sept..22.) • Since our last we have had several very fine days, and particularly favourable foe carrying on the ope rations of the harvest. The sky has bees generally Clear, with a strong breeze front the W. or W. N. W. black grain has coneogsently been cut and housed in the present week. Had it even been much later in the sasses than it is, there was no good reason for the THE STA' alispos %lick elm been elated, lest the recent vootablo argather perteisded a bad harvest.--(Edia baigh Star.) EDINBURGH, Sewn. 19.-We had a small supply of goes to-day of . . curry land. Sales brisk, and pekes eonliderahly higher. Top vrice of new wheat 495. ; old :I2s. 'Only two samples of barley in market, which sold at'24s. Bd. to fss. 6d. per boll. DatactTn, Stsw.2o.-4 large quantity of reheat at . thisday's market, which sold heavily (on account of the y London-market being lower by this day's returmi), how- . ever, considerably higher than this day week's , market, for both old and new: best old )10s.; new 365.; current 30.. Barley, 'a ready 'sale and higher; best 'new 25.: Current 235. Oats also a readrsele; best newlls. cur rent 19.. inferior 17s. Peas and beans from ISs. to 20s. per bell, The state of the weat!ler since Friday, has removed most of the apprehensions which were entertained re garding the prospects of the harvest, particularly in lrelsmd. The days bare been as fine, indeed, as the most sanguine could wish. The consequenee has 'been as the reader may perceive by the Market note, a con siderable decline in the price of all sorts of grain.- The English corn note has also experienced a similar decline. It has advanced, on some samples, 20s. The last average being 545. of course it reached three or four shillings beyond the importing price. it has fall en, in the coarse of one day, from five Seten'shillings. Evening Post, Sept. 20.) S ErTiAl i a 19. In consequence of the advance in the English Markets, we have had a good demand for every description of grain this day, with an advance on new Wheat of 25.; on new Here and Rapeseed, Is. each ; and upon new Oats, of 6d. per barrel, on prime samples; Malt was also Is. per barrel, and old second Flour Is per cwt. dearer than last week.-The general prices this day were:- old white Wheat, 455. to 50s. ; old red Wheat, 40s. to 455. ; new white Wheat, 30s. to 365.; new red Wheat, 265. to 365. ; old feeding Oats, 14s. to 175.; new Oats, 10s. to 13s. ; new Bere, 12s. to 13.. ; Barley, 13s. to 145.; Rapeseed, 28s. to 315.; Malt, 3Ss. to 40s. per barrel; old second Flour, 28s. to 30s. ; e new ditto, 265. to 275.; old Oatmeal, 13s. to 154.; new ditto, 14s. to ,16s. per cwt. Ituaux, Sem 22.-Our market was well supplied with grain yesterday. Wheat, which was in large supply, sold, at the commencement, very briskly, at Wednesday's prices ; but those who were in too great a hurry soon had reason to repent of their purchases. In a short time sales became heavy, and a fall of full 2s. per barrel took place, and at the close of the market, a much greater reduction would have been agreed to, a considerable quantity then remaining 'in disposed of. Good old feeding Oats and Barley were in demand. Flour and Oatmeal heavy, but no ahem- tion in prices. flood old Red Wheat, 40s. to 425. ; White, 431. to 445. ; New, 325. to 345.; New Oats, 12s. to 135.; Old, 148. to 15s. ; Ne►w Barley, 12s. to 13s. ; Old, 14s. to 15s. per barrel ; Flour, 295. to 305.; Oatmeal, 12s. to 14s. BILIPAST,SEPT.2O. - New Oatmeal from 14s. 841 to 15s. per cwt. of 1121b5.; old ditto, 13s. to 13s. 10d. ; red Wheat, I Is. 6d. to 12s. 6.1.1 white ditto, 12s. 6d. to 13s. 6d. ; Barley, 7s. 6d. to Bs. ; new Oats, 7s. 641. to Bs. ; old, Ss. 6d. to 9s. ad. ; Float, attlAlrsts Vis. 6d. ; second, 265. ; third, 12s. HOP INTELLIGENCE. Woucerrna, SM. 12.—0 n Saturday 70 new Pockets were weighed.—At our Great Fair this day the supply was unusually small, in consequence of the backward ness of picking; not more than 900 new Pockets were at market ; of these nearly 800 have been sold ; the prices were 455. to 85s. }few samples, however, fetched this latter price. Though there were some mouldy hops, the greater part of those at market were much better in quality than the growth of 1820.—N0 old Imps were sold.—lt is the opinion of some persons that the duty of the Kingdom will be the largest ever paid. A dreadful accident happened at Keigbley last Sun day in the afternoon. There has lately arisen in York shire, and in various other parts of the kingdom, a religious community calling themselves Primitive Me thodists, from what they consider an adherence to the principles and practice of the original followers of John Wesley ; by others they are called Ranters, from the fervour of their devotion, which frequently mani fests itself in bursts of enthusiasm, which run through their public assemblies. On Sunday last,in the after noon. upwards of 200 of these persons were assem bled in the upper room of a wool warehouse, at Keigbley, for the purpose of holding a love-feast, which is a species of religious service consisting of a simple repast, after which, such of the congregation as think their own experience will be edifying, relate the parti culars of it to their fellow-worshippers. When the services of the day, whictt had been peculiarly ani mated, were drawing to Irclose, and the people were about to depart, a dreadful crash was beard from the breaking of the timbers of the floor, and in a mo ment the whole assembly was precipitated through the floor into the room below. It Is impossible to describe the scene of confusion and dismay which followed.— The shrieks of the females and Itrgroani of 'the wounded spread consternation through the neighbour hood. The young and the more active generally escaped without much injury, but from 50 to 60 per sons, a large proportion of them old women, were se verely crushed and wounded. An elderly woman, of the name of Martha Wood, died on Monday night tL and a number of others lie at the present moment in a very dangerous state. The following is a list of some of the sufferers, with the nature of their injuries : Timothy Ambler, leg and arm broken ; Mary Peel, one of her legs broken ; Harrison Ingrew, on e . of his arms broken • Widow Waddington, one of her legs broken ; Blijab (keen, his leg broken in two places; Sarah Sunderland, her leg and thigh broken ; Martha Bradshaw, foot dreadfully injured and arm broken; John Naylor, his arm broken ; Susannah Leach, her thigh broken; Mary Jones, her leg and thigh broken; Mary Carter, a widow, with three children, her collar bone and three ribs broken ; Mary Ramsden, severely hurt, and since delivered of a dead child at a premature birth ; Widow Wilkinson, crashed so dreadfully that her life is depaired of. The other sufferers are many of them laboariag under severe wounds and contusions, and the situation of the principal part of them is truly deplorable.... Poverty, in most of these cases, is added to their suf fering ; but the more opulent inhabitants of the place bare very laudably opened a subscription for their relief.in aid of which feed a charity sermon will, we hear, be preached to-morrow,akibe New Jerusalem Chapel, Kaigbley..--(teeds Nertieri) BROW N's CO/FEE-HOUSE. M ITIUtCOURT, FLEET STRE ET. - F W. WILLIAMS, (late of the Globe Tavern, ■ 4 • Fleet-street.) respectfully informs the Public be is now at the above House, where they may depend on the ut most exertions being used to promote their tenant. Very superior Old 'Wine*. PRICE OF STOCKS TITI Bank Stock II per Cent. *ad I per Cent. Con. 16} et per Cert. 4 per Cents. shot 6 per Ct.Nevy IBM per Cent. Long .4: , n Imp. 3 , er Cent. With 6 per Cent. DAY AT ONP. O'CLOCK. India Stook 434 Ditto Bonds ..a. 631 —a. pm South-Sea Stock Routh Sea Old Ann. Ptllatd. 10000. 43. p. par Email Os. 53. 7a. pm. Bank for Account India for ditto Coo. for Acct 781 Lott. Tickets IW. 183. ■IOA WATS* AT LONDON-BRIDGE To-mokaow. Morning 110 .In. after I.—Eveniag4l min after I. We have received, with much concern, the complaint of a Correspondent, at Royton, neat Oldham, that the " STAxasmAte' Newspaper, which he has reason to ex• pent regularly, is very often stopped for a day, and sometimes does not come at all. This, he says, has been tha case several times within The last few weeks ; and. Indeed. very generally happens When any important intelligence is expected. We shall do our almost to detect the cause of the obstruction, and to apply the remedy desired, Cbt gotattaman. ,* mit Bairns STATltslikls" Is UICOIPOIATIP WITS " Tin STATEslimi." LONDON: MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1821. SIR ROBERT WILSON. Our feelings on the dismissal of this Gallant Officer have been strongly manifested in Tee STATESMAN of last week. We waited to see if Sir ROBERT would take public notice of the ill-advised affair. On find ing he was at Paris, we at once concluded his first in formation would be through The London Gazette; that, and that only, prevented us calling upon our fel low-citizens of all ranks, from the Peer to the mechanic, to commence Public Meetings, particularly those on Surrey side of the Thames, by no means confining the meeting to his Constituents in the Borough of South wark, but to the county at large, or the Hundred of Brixton ; we wish to have an unlimited expression of public feeling on an event so pregnant with conse quences the most mischievous, and so disgraceful to the advisers of it. The best and most virtuous men in the country have been made to suffer by petty de spots. The ties of consanguinity have been insufficient to allay persecution. A horde of hireling literary as sassins, (who would as soon abuse their employers as the objects of their malignity, were they better paid,) employed to abuse and irritate the people, and a petty fogging junta without honor—without character, allowed to place themselves above the law, as pro tected Inquisitors We have seen a Monarch render himself dear to one part of his dominions by uniting his subjects in a brotherhood of ejection, I which his Ministers, but a few years before. termed High Treason. We hare seen the seat of Government turned into a scene of blood and tumult, by the unne cessary employment of armed men. We have seen the civil interference rejected and the slaughter of the King's subjects scoffed at. We have found - the ad. visers of a nefarious measure recommend the dismissal of the honest and worthy Magistrate, at the head of the Police, who would not add infamy to his name by the destruction of his neighbours Lees and liberties. —We have also seen his place filled up by a man, who was but a few years ago a tradesman, made a Police Magistrate by courtly interest, although the situation of Chief Magistrate of Police, heretofore, has been generally filled by a gentkman learned in the law. After a concatination of such extraordinary cir cumstances, can the country wonder that his Majesty was advised to dismiss one of the Lest Officers in the service Oh, dear, no ! there is nothing wonderf4l iu such measures, when we consider who dictate them. When we see an army paid by the people, covered with fringe and gin ge rbread,em ployed to overawe that people- For, in times of profound peace, there can be no other use for a standing army. The visible drifts of the thing is derogatory to the Constitution of England. But the darling system of an unholy alliance is well known ; to govern by the sword, instead of the 1.. w, is their maxim, to which some of our omnipotent noodles are so anxiously attached. Is not the Com mander in Chief of that said army placed by the Knte at the head of a Commission, to govern the united kingdom during his absence on the Continent? This circumstance, combined with a knowledge of the past, give a very dreary picture of the fatttre, and should place the feelings of Britons on the alert, if the Con stitution of the country and its wholesome institutions are to be again placed in jeopardy. What may the people expect ? Let them answer the Interrogatory I it behoves them, before their lives and properties are at the mercy of their mild and kind hearted task mu masters. We anxiously look for Sir ROSEET Wile SON'S declaration on the business; we know his heart, and respect him as one of the firsA and best characters in public and private life. He is s real soldier, and a gentleman. If by hit interference the effusion of human blood was stopped, the blessings of the nation must be again his portion. It was a second attempt to prevent murder. The brave LATALETTE, the prescribed victim of Royal vengeance to wit. By that be obtained a crown of never fading laurels, then what should 'belie reward for endeavouring to pre ' serve the lives of his own countrymen, assembled to • pay a christian tribste to the remains of persecuted Royalty, to the Wife of that Brno who ordered his . dismissal ; shame to the advisers of the one, and ever , lasting glory to the other, 1s this a reward to Sir ROBERT WILSOM for rearing the British Standard p triuniiithant all over Europe ? Is this a Godly act of protecting the English people reward of a good father, a good husband, boar, and the noblest work of (Jon, as ho► ROBERT never involved the British arm, he never persecuted and prosecuted his blood--nor did he ever act unlike a ma, man, we therefore hope his cause will be the country at large, and that all descriptions . in the United Kingdom, will be earnestly applied to, for ways and means to supply the want of that pay It cost Sir ROBERT the beet part of his fortune to purchase. None of your A. 11. C. No Slop appeal s to nobody. None of your nobody subscritions, bat the noble offerings of liberal Englishmen, from one peo n y upwards, to be received under the heiids of the several parishes, and to be paid monthly into an appointed banker, under the direction of a Committee; and for tUs especial purpose of raisins as income, at least adequate to that pay he has been so recently deprived of. Oar mite and exertions shall be devoted to the interests ef t this brave, this patriotic Englishman ; and we feel so tiNfied the cause will be taken op by the Independent part of the Public Press with that warmth and pbilaur thropy which has already characterised it—The SAN. Anchor of Me People. In another part of our paper will be found a coition selection of intelligence, derived to day from various districts of the Kingdom,on the highly interesting sub ject of the Harvest. From these accounts, it is mani fest that the apprehensions which had prevailed con cerning the quality or quantity of the crops, have very generally given way to enlivening expectations. There is good reason to hope, from the state of the weather at present, and the progress that has been made is cut ting down and getting In the corn, that the crisis of alarm is past, and that a fall of price in that essential article of life, will certainly, though gradually, take the place of the sudden and exorbitant rise to which it had advanced. At Mark-lane, this morning, on ac count of the superabundant quantity of core, there were scarcely any buyers, and the sales that were made in Wheat are stated at full six shillings a quarter lower than on Friday. Paris papers to the 22d have come to hand. In ab sence of direct and official intelligence they contain an article from Frankfort, of the 16th Instant, which gives the conditions said to have been demanded by Russia of the Porte since the departure of Baron Strogonoff. 'I he conditions art u fellow I. The re-establishment of its church'', timi the re pair of the Patriarchal Basilica, where the remains of the Patriarch Gregory should be deposited in a mord. ficent tomb. 2. The restoration of the confiscated property of the Greek families whose most distinguished Individuals have perished in the Revolution. 3. The indefinite liberty of the orthodox worship, so der the protection of the Ambassadors and Cowls of the Emperor of Russia, who will, for this purpose, esta blish Agents wherever he shall judge it proper, foe the support of the worship of the Members of the Clergy. and of the Christians of the Orthodox church. 4. By way of security, the occupation of the princi palities of Moldavia and Wallachia, and of the Turkish fortresses on the right bank of the Danube, by Russian troops. 5. In order the better to insure the execution of the stipulations, the Emperor of Russia demands that one of the ports in the Archipelago, which be may judge convenient, shall be delivered up to him, where be will station a squadron, the expense of which, as well as of the army of occupation, in the Ultra Danubian Provinces. shall be defrayed by the Turkish Government. • These conditions are evidently of so hard a kind. and so much at variance with ALZIANDER'S profes sions of moderation, that we cannot believe them to be correctly stated, or that, if proposed, they would meet• with the acceptance of the Porte. If these terms were acceded to, the autocrat would he as completely master of European Turkey as he could possibly desire. An article from Madrid, dated Sept. to, in the Paris papers, states the refusal of General Valansat to accept the office of Minister of War has been acceded to by his Majesty. It is reported that the new political chief. M. M. Saint Martin, bas declared, that he would lose his name if he did ' not shut up the Fontana, or at least Induce the orators to silence. It is alleged to be tends' that bt is going to take rigorous measures that no forelgwr or Spaniard may reside in the Capital without good ism rities, without declaring his motives, and without hav- ing an express permission from him. News is this moment spread, after the arrival of an express,' tbat the troops in Catatonia. the Pledmontese refugees, and some French, followed by a great number of Peasants, have marched to deliver Riego. Cosotitatiomsel of the tlft int. has the follow; ing :—Sir Robert Wilson, whose dismissal we se nonacid yesterday, is now at Paris. We are informed that the General has written to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief to desire an Inquiry into his conduct before a competent tribunal. According 56 the military legislation of Great Britain, and to prw cedents which are respected there, compliance with this lost desire cansot be refused. There is every res. son to hope that the principles of justice appealed to try General Wilson, will triumph aver the private see• daunts to which they appose to have been sacrificed, aad that ble worthy citizen s whose reputed's. in Ellgiend, ie fottmlod at . the most eminent services, h-F ip wilt see a mesonto - nranbed of which there ace voev few les in the bletoey it the EeglishOilVertrtkent• aits rca Ciacts..ltallanday. ez Div. tai[ rib I ----- senS/ reward for the tie ? Is this the , a good neigh, finest man ;_.Sir ay in disgrace ; , t own flesh and in and a geode. be taken up by tuns of persona • • .:~ . - F