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'F.> •," - ' ,‘,,.' , . . .. e-, te; .., „AY ;;lam; . ' . '0!„ 1 . ~. ~, , - /e'--:4\, -7 4 , ..:r .t 0 ~,.- •- r. , ': -- - .4.1+,.* , 4„,k4, , -; , .-. - _,-..-s,krto,•&; 1 .,:c _ ~ .---.- - -.-0.A,, , '-- . 144 '-- ri: - -...4 • .) A. -- --' ,- 0, , . tr,„r;,:,,'=-,,--::- • TI 1 - 10. v i 0 ;,./ Rlc SEVENP NCB . ; NTJMEER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1821. NAVY-OFFICE, Nov. 10, 1821. THE Right Honourable the LORDS COM MISSIONERS of his MAJESTY's TREASURY having appointed Money for the Payment of HALF-PAY to SEA OFFICERS, from the Ist of July to the 30th of September, 1821, according to his Majesty's Establishment in that behalf : These are to give notice, that the several Payments will be gin to be made at the Pay-Office, by the Treasurer of his Majesty's Nary, at Ten o'Clock in the morning, on the fol lowing days, viz. On the 12th, 13th, and 14th of this Month, to Admirals, Captains, and their Attornies. On the 15th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 21st of this Month, to Lieutenants and Chaplains, and their Attornies. On the 22d and 84th of this Month, to Masters, Sur geons, and Pursers, and their Attornies. After which the Lists will be recalled the first and third Wednesday in every month, that all Persons may then and there attend to receive what may become payable to theM ; and bring with them an Affidavit as required by Order in Council of 30th July, 1819, the Forms of which were publish ed in an Advertisement from this Office, dated 16th Septem ber, 1813, and may be procured at the Office of the Treasurer 0 the Navy ; and in case any of the said Officers should not be able to attend themselves, but employ Attornies for that purpose, that the said Attornies do produce the like Af fidavit from the Persons they are employed by. Where Officers are Abroad on leave, their Agents are to produce attested Copies of such Leave before the Half-Pay can be paid. And as by Act of Parliament passed in the 35th year of his present Majesty's Reign, entituled, " An Act for establish ing a more easy and 'expeditious method for the Payment of Officers belonging to his Majesty's Navy," it is enacted by the 20th Clause of the said Act, " that if any Commissioned or Warrant Naval Officer, who shall be entitled to receive Half-Pay, and shall be desirous to receive and be paid the saole,at or near the place of his Residence, he may apply to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy in London, to have such half Pay paid at or near the place of his Residence, Szc. in the manner pointed out by the said Act." And by a fur ther Act passed in the With year of his present Majesty's Reign, entituled, " An Act for enabling the Officers in his Majesty's Navy, and their Representatives, to draw for and receive their Half-Pay," it is enacted by the Ist and 3d Clauses of the said Act, " that if any Officer in. his.'Majesty's Navy, who shall be entitled to receive any sum of money for ornn account of his Half-Pay, shall be desirous of drawing a Rdl of Exchange for the same upon the Commissioners of his A7a i c slY's Navy, instead of receiving the same by Rem i ttance 'ill, he shall signify such desire by. Letter to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy; and that if any Officer in his Ma jesty's Navy, who shall he entitled to receive any sum of mo ney for or.on account of Half-Pay, shall be desirous of having his Half -Pay paid to him by Extract, at any of his Majesty's ho ck Yards, where Clerks for the Payment of Wages for the Novl shall reside, instead of receiving the same by Remit tance Bill oe [till of Exchange, he is to apply either to the Proper Clerk at the Navy Pay-Offiec in London, or at the at such Dock Yard, signifying such his desire." Nonce is hereby further given, that the Half-Pay ending the 8 0th of Su'ptember, int, will commence paying on the 12th 1 f Nure till'ee, and all Persons desirous of drawing for, or of la vllls their Half-Pay remitted to them, may apply as above directed. of Exchange drawn under or by virtue of the Act above recited, are not liable to the Stamp Duty. %o Persons reiidiug out Obis Majesty's Dominions are en titled to the privileges of the Act. " I An QUITE SAFE !" THE YOUNG MAN who left his FATHER'S HOUSE on :MONDAY the sth inst., is earnestly en treated to RETURN, or send his Address, by post, to his PARENTS or SISTER:, who are anxious to meet him with the kindest -indulgence, and freely to forgive whatever may re quire forgiveness. Secrecy has hitherto been observed, but it cannot be continued unless he accepts this Invitation. and J. SIVEWRIGHT are selling Up hill • drawn Tickets and Sharei . at their Offices, 37, Corn:. ; 29, Haymarket ; and 11, Holburu, where they sold and shared in the Last Lottery, 4.421 TWO Scc. &c. X=25,000 4,000 ItICH WHEEL—ALL MONEY. TWO of £30,000 ! 'THREE 5,000 TWO ' of &c. &c. NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. G,500 TICKETS ALREADY DRAWN. k30,0x) F OR THE FIRST-DUAWN PRIZE SECOND DAY, 20th This NlOlll h, November. Tickets and Shares are also selling by their Agents WIDOW WELCH'S FEMALE PILLS have obtained the sanction and approbation of Gen tlemen of the Medical Profession, as a safe and valuable Ittedicine, in removing- obsitnctiuns, and relieving other r cO nveniences to which the female frame is liable, especially h ose which ,at an early peri o d of life frequently arise from w ant of exercise, and general debility of the system. Thev creat e an appetite, correct indigestion, remove giddiness and nervous head ache, and are eminently useful in wind!' dis - Ord ers, pains in the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpi tations of the heart. Purchasers are requested to remark, that, as a testimony of au thenticity, each Bill of Directions is signed with the name of IC ./ fi Pla in wri • ting. Sold wholesale and Retail, in London, by Wright, t e o., 46, Fl eet Street ; Barclay and Sons, Fleet Market; New _ TY and Sons, S t. Clint eh Yard ; Sutton and Co. Bow Church Yard; ".350, Oxford Street, opposite Bond .;street Evans and Sang er, 'Son, Long Lane, Smithfield ; Johnston, Greek Street Soh o Butler • and lions, Cheapside ; Godfrey 41t Indus, " Bishopsgate Stre e t ; an d by a ll C o untry Vendors, 2 s• 9(1. Box. per — is * if.* It is•tiecessary to inform the public that KEARSLEY'S the only or i g i nal and genuine Medicine, and has been pre- Pared by - them fa:. more than thirty years. FOR THE SUN. PROOFS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. (LETTER III.) MR. EDITOR—The existence of man is wholly made up of pleasure and Of pain, and his constant Occupation is to procuie the former, and to avoid the latter. These two opposite sensations exist independently of man, and are not therefore in the least subject to his will. The notions of justice and injustice are no less prevalent amongst Men than those of pleasure and of pain ; and they are no less independent of the human will. They constitute the very basis of civil societies ; and no people has been found wholly destitute of the ideas of right and of wrong, of virtue and of vice, or rather of good and of bad actions. These ideas of justice and injustice, could not, however, exist, without a law, and without liberty or free-will ; because justice can consist only in the observance, and.injstice in the violation of some established rule or regulation ; and be cause if men have no choice in respect to their actions, but Adt only from the impulse of an irresistible necessity, they cannot be blamed for doingovhat it was not in their power to avoid,nor for omitting to do what it was impossible for them to perform.— The idea of necessity must therefore undoubtedly exclude those of justice and injustice, of virtue and of crime : and as these notions do exist, it follows necessarily, that man is a free agent, or that he may either violate or obey the laws founded upon these ideas. _ _ No law can poSsibly exist without a Legislator, by whom they must have been framed. They are intended to protect virtue, and to awe vice into submission ; to reward the merit, or to punish the demerit, which are necessary consequences of the liberty of human actions. Hence we find that the ideas of in nocence, and of criminality, or of merit and demerit, are neces sarily connected with those of pleasure and of pain, or of reward and punishment. The task of distributive justice must, there fore, undoubtedly be, to apply . pleasure to good actions, and pain to those that are of a criminal nature. Were not this the case, we should consider the Legislator as a senseless and op. pressive tyrant, who punishes those who obey, and rewards those who disobey his laws ; a line of conduct wholly incom patible with "the ideas of law and of justice, and therefore evi dently inconsistent and absurd. It is therefore the interest of men to study thoroughly the laws imposed upon them, and by conforming to them, avoid the evil which must follow the in fringement of them, and secure the benefits which must be the• portion of those who faithfully submit. The principles of justice are eternal and unchangeable, like the Divine source from which they are derived. They were not acquired by man ; they were implanted in his heart, by the providential goodness of his Maker, and are the emanations of eternal and infinite justice. It was his duty, therefore, to frame his conduct according to these principles, and thus to secure the good-will of his Author. Such was the obligation imposed upon him by the Law of Nature, the first guide of his actions, and the basis of morality and-of religion. It pleased, however, Divine wisdom to add to the benefits it had alreedy lavished upon man, the inestimable advantages of a written law, and the revelation of itself, and of the origin and end of Creation. As a rational and free - Being, upon whom duties are imposed purporting to be dictated by God himself, it is no doubt incumbent on man, ere he submit to these laws, to acquire the conviction that they are indeed the word of his Lord and Master. The result of his inquiries is, that this pro mulgation of the Divine will was accompanied by the most surprizing, the most miraculous circumstances; he must therefore, now believe, either that the laws, thus mira culously delivered, are the word of God, and submit to them ; or that God permitted the . spirit of falsehood to deceive him by these supernatural means; a conclusion he cannot possibly adopt, because it is contrary to the idea he has formed of the very essence of God, who would, were this the case, be the primary cause and propagator of error. As the idea of truth necessarily excludes that of error, so theidea•of God, who is infinite truth, necessarily excludes that of deceit; therefore, whatever is sanctioned by the evident intervention-of the Divine power, must carry into our mind the fullest and the most perfect conviction. . We are assured that the Jewish nation was convinced of the Divine origin of its laws and of its institutions, by the miracles which accompanied their promulgation. In a matter of such infinite importance, it is however right to employ a certain por tion of scepticism. As the wonders which accompanied the re velation of the Deity are only handed down to us by tradition, we must endeavour to ascertain their existence before we admit.- them as facts. Facts may be proved, either by ocular demon stration, or by the strength of the testimony of those by whom they were witnessed. . The credibility of tile facts recorded in Scripture might be denied or doubted, because they are super-• natural, - and because they. happened at a very remote period. But neither of these objections are founded upon rational prin ciples. We can judge of facts, whether natural or supernatural, only by means of our senses ; the' testimony of which can no snore deceive us in respect to the one, .than in regard to the other.' Every deviation from the known and established course of nature or of events must be immediately noticed, and can- . not possibly be mistaken. A whole nation that has crossed the parted waters of the Red Sea, is as certain of this. fact, however miraculous it may be, as it is sure that thie was not a common or ordinary occurrence. Besides, if God be the Lord of nature, and all powerful, he may, whenever he chooses, suspend the Itvs .he lies himself established, or produce what we term a miracle. .Facts that happened in distant parts, or in former ages, whe ther they be natural or supernatural, are established by the concurring testimony of creditable witnesses. An eruption .of Vesuvius has occured in Naples. It 'has.. been witnessed by thousands ; it e rs published to the world ; I am therefore as certain that such an event has happened, as if I had been on the very spot. Again, - in respect to time ; the daggers of the Conspirators stretched Ciesar lifeless at the foot of Pompey's Statue ; this transaction was seen by the Romans, and it has been handed down to us uncontradicted, from the time when it occurred to the present day. I have, moreover, no reason to doubt the truth of the event, and feel therefore as much con vinced that it did happen, as if I had been present in the Roman Senate. Such is the case with religion, .which has been trans mitted to us by the concurring testimony of past generations. We must now - inquire Whether the force of these testimonies be such as to carry conviction into our mind ? ' The facts upon Oita our belief in revelation must be found ed are contained inA book, said to have been written under the in fluence of Divine inspiration, by a person of the name of Moses, Who lived many centuries before the Christian era. This book contains an account of the creation of the world ; the cause of the present imperfect state of man ; the manifestation of God to a chosen people; the laws which he gave to that people, and a series of prophecies, announcing the coming of a Saviour, of a essiah, who is by his death to reconcile sinful man with his offended Creator. This book has been carefully, preserved by the people for which it was originally written ; and by which it is attributed 'to Moses, whom they acknowlege as their legis lator, and as a man who wrote under the direction of' God him self. In.order to ascertain how far these assertions of the Jews may be true, we must examine whether the Jews in any man ner altered the facts which are contained in the Books of the ()Id Testament. . _ _ As wan naturally prides himself upon a long line of ances, tors, so we find that Nations have generally endeavoured to trace back their origin through a series of ages. This system prevailed chiefly in the East, where the Nations, vying with each other on this point, have claimed an antiquity Ma hundred thousand of years,• The Jews alone, though.no doubt equally desirous with their neighbours to possess this enviable distinc tion, not only give . a .very late origin to their Nation, . but fix the creation of the World at a period comparatively proximate. This peculiarity in a matter considered highly interesting to the dignity of a, Nation, and on a point in which it is so easy to de ceive mankind, is a proof that the Author of the Jewish Annals . sacrificed the pride and vanity of his Nation tO truth, and that the Jews themselves were so much convinced'of the correctness of his siten:enti, and that his knowledge proceeded from a source highly respectable, that they did not venture to exalt themselves in the eyes of their neighbours, by alterirg the ,:ate of their origin... In this-respect, we are, therefore,.justified in concluding that no changes have been mode in the Book in question, by the people - for which it was professedly written. It mav be objected, however, that if the Jews did indeed sacrifice th eir pride in this one respect, they have not sent pled to takeample amends, by representing themselves as the. choice -people of 6 OD, and establishing this-asSertion on the wonders which they pretend lie worked ih their favour. The events consigned in the Bible were witnessed not by a few individuals, but were performed .in the presence of a whole people; amongst which -there were-many individuals hostile to their Leader, autteonse. quently well prepared to detect him, if he ventured any sort of an imposition. The books in which these miracles are re corded are undoubtedly the most ancient in the world. They form the basis of the religion, and of the government of a whole nation, which haS ever considered them as proceeding from God, and as such strictly forbade the least alteration of the text. If they assert that the Jews were the chosen and favoured people of God, they no less candidly expose the ine-ratitude, and the consequent punishment, of this - same people. 'Although filled with these heavy charges and containing the well-merited reproaches, and the moreiterrible threats of their offended God, the Jews have ever considered this book as sacred, and have preserved it with. the most religious veneration. The original was placed in the temple, to prevent the possibility of any alte ration; it was read PUBLICLY on the Sabbath whilst copies of it were DISTRIBUTED to the people, by whom it was CONTIN UALLY PE n USED. This 'same book is nowheld in equal venera tion by the Jews scattered throughout the globe, although it contains the proofs 'of their blindness and infidelity, and the foundation of the Christian faith, to which they are irrecon cilably opposed !—Surely nothing but -the utmost respect for truth can thus prevent a people from making some alterations in a work which establishes the creed of its enemies, and exhibits in the strongest light its own: perfidy and condemnation ! The new law is the fulfilment of the oktlaw. sooner had man fallen from a state of bliss, than Divine goodness steps to his 'assistance, and promises him a Redeemer. The promise made to our first parents, is repeated from time to time to the Jews. The Messiah is announced 14 7 . - the prophets, the place and the time of his birth are fixed!; the circumstances of his death are described, and the establishment of a new faith is predicted. Christ is born. He proves his divine mission by his miracles, and confirms it by • his resurrection. This miracle is asserted by his disciples, who saw and converse i with him during forty days after this event, and who witnessed his ascension into heaven. Urged on by the strongest possible con viction, and emboldened by the spirit of God, they fearlessly , preach. these facts to the Jews and to the Gentiles, and cheer fully lay down their lives in defence of the truths which they announce. The writings of several of them hate been handed down to us ; these epistles were addressed to the assemblies of those who in different parts had embraced the Christian doc trine, within a very short period after its first promulgation. In vain do tyrants raise up the most cruel persecutions against the believers in a crucified Redeemer ; the Christian faith, wa tered by the blood of its martyrs, spread its branches over the whole Roman empire, and the cross is finally planted in Pacran Rome, and adored by the successors of the Cmsars ! This victory of a religion, founded' upon self denial, and the mortification of the flesh, over one which sanctioned almost all the passions of men, together with the amazing rapidity with which it spread throughout the whole civilized world, are facts so singular in their nature, so very contrary to the usual course of events, that they may be consiuered, in sonic degree, mira culous, and afford alone a strong proof of the Divine origin of the Christian faith. These facts cannot be denied by the infidels, who are equally competent to allow the eminent ad vantages society has derived from the mild precepts of the Evangelical law :.but they refuse to believe the mysteries and the miracles upon which it is founded, because such doctrines are in opposition to their reason, which they consider as the sole and competent Judge of what must be denied or believed. In my next letter I will therefore inquire into the nature of rea son, and endeavour to ascertain whether it is rational to consi der it as an unerring guide. Ewhurst. ' A. P. INQUISITION AT LISBON. " LISBON, OCT. 20.—1 send you a description of the In quisition at this place, which I have been to visit. At the sit ting of the Cortes on the 10th instant, Senhor Figueras present ed a letter from the Keeper of the Inquisition, stating, that on the building being opened for public Inspection, the people had behaved in a very disorderly manner, breaking open doors and carrying away papers, &c. ; and that several persons had ac tually cried out that the building should be burned, whilst they held lighted candles in their hands, as if about to put their threats into execution ; which he stated they would have done but for the interposition of the Guards. The Keeper therefore prayed that measures should be taken to prevent the recurrence of such scenes. Senhor Bastos said, that if any such disorders as had been described had occurred, it was owing to the refusal of the Keepers to spew the instruments of torture and the lower cells of the prison to the visitants. In his opinion these Gen tlemen, the keepers, cherished a religious respect for the tribu nal, of which they spoke with apparent veneration. As it was apprehended the people might set fire to the place, it would be better to suspend lampS in various parts, and not allow the vi sitants to carry lights.—Senhor Fernando Thomas proposed that an inscription, of which the fbllowing is a translation, should be affixed on every place occupied by the Inquisition in Portugal : • " May eternal malediction follow every Portuguese, who does not hold for ever in abhorrence an Invention so in fernal.' " On the Bth of October, the Inquisition at Lisbon was thrown open for the public inspection, and for the first four days the concourse of people of all descriptions that crowded to view it was so great that the pressure at the entrance ren dered it an enterprise of some risk. The building is a large oblong, with a garden in the centre ; there are three floors, with it number of vaulted passages, along the sides of which are cells of different sizes, from six by seven feet, to eight by nine feet. Each 'cell has two doors ; the inner one of iron, the outer of oak, very strong. As there are no windows in the cells on the ground and middle floors, no light is admitted when the doors are shut." Che cells on the upper floor are larger than the others, and each haS an aperture like a chimney, through which the sky is visible. TheSe were appropriated to the use of those who it was supposed might be liberated. In the roof of each cell (for they are all vaulted) is a small 'aperture of about an inch in diameter, e and a private passage runs over each range, so that the persons employed by the Holy Office could at any time observe the conduct of the prisoners unseen, and if two persons were confined in one cell, hear their conversation. There are seats in these private passages so contrived, that a person sitting might inspect two of the cells at the same time, as by a turn of the head he could fix his eye upon the hole over either cell at pleasure ; or he could hear what was said in either. The persons appointed to listen to the discourse of the prisoners wore cloth shoes; so that their footsteps could not be heard. Frequently a familiar of the Holy Office was put into the cell of a prisoner, as a person arresteue in order to entrap the un fortunate inmate of this horrible place into admissions that might afterwards be used against him. I saw in several of the cells human skulls and bones ; most of them appeared to have lain there for many years, as I broke sonic of themeasily with my ringers • others were hard and fresh. In a number of the cells the names of the unhappy inmates were written on the walls : some had strokes, apparently marking the number ofdays or weeks the vic ' tims of this horrid tyr .nn y had been confined. On the wall of one celtl counted upwards of 500 of these marks. On the wall of another of the cells was written, Francisco Joze Carvalho, entered here the last day of March, 1809, and remained as many days as there are strokes in the. wall.' On the wall of another cell was written, -4 John Laycock ;' the name had been covered with white-wash, which had scaled off. There were a number of strokes under the name, and the figures eighteen were easily made out; the others were obliterated. 'Some of the cells which had not been used for several years were locked up, but the visitants soon broke them open. Human bones were found in many of these. In oue was - found part of a friar's habit, with a waist girdle .of rope and some bones. • The apertures like chimneys in some of the cells were closed : and I have been informed that it was a common mode of putting prisoners • to death, and to place them in these apertures ; which were then walledup, and quick lime being poured in from the top, a speedy end was put to their sufferings. • The furniture is very old; the chairs in the halls'are covered with leather studded all round with very large brass nails :-1 send you a piece of leather with one of these nails, taken from one of the best chairs. The large tables in the halls had drawers for papers; these the visitants broke open, every one being desirous of obtaining some relic of the once terrible Inquisition. In several of the cells there were mattresses, some of them old, others nearly new: which proves that the inquisition was no bugbear up to a very recent date. Besides the three floors which 1 have described, there are a num.. ber of cells underground, .which have not yet. been. opened. These it is supposed contain the apparatus for inflicting the torture, &c.—lt is understood :that these will be shortly throWn open to the public ; when they are 1 shall not fail to visit them, and shall send you a description. The spot on which the In-. "quisition stands was covered with houses in l7a.i, when the. great earthquake happened. by which they were laid in ruins ; so.that the present building liae not been erected inure than 60. years ; and all ti 2 victims - ere immolated in it must lia - ; -been sacrificed :thin that DUELS PREVENTED. On. Thursday information was received at Bow-street Office that Sir Wm. ADAMS, the cele-' prated Oculist, had received a challenge from Mr. GEORGE Rimini) MELIN, an Assistant Sur.: geon in the Army, who some time since resided in Duke-street, St. James's, to fight a duel, and t hat the challenge had been communicated to Sir W. ADAMS by Mr. RENDALL, Who was understood to be an Officer in the Army. This affair coming to the knowledge of the relatives of the parties, information was given to Sir R. BIRNIE, who issued his warrants for the apprehension of Mr. G. RIcHARD MELIN, the - Surgeon, and Mr. Jots RENDALL, who had communicated the verbal message to Sir Wil.r.tam. They appeared at the Office yesterday, and underv - ent a private examination, when both parties were ordered to find bail to keep the peace against Sir Wm. ADAMS till the next Sessions. The cause of dispute be tween the parties did not transpire; however, we understood that Mr. MELIN denied that the message he sent by Mr. RENDALL did amount to, or that he intended it for a challenge for a duel: Information was communicated to BACON, a constable belonging to the office, residing at Ken sington, about seven o'clock yesterday morning, of a duel about to take place between Lieutenant W. KELLY, and another Gentleman, supposed to be an Officer in the army, whose name was not known. BAcoN repaired to Chalk Farm, and arrived there a few minutes after eight, when he observed five or six gentlemen in a field near • the spot, where he learned they had been about three quarters of an hour making arrangements; the Officer approached them, when a tall gentle man observing him, presented a pistol at him, and exclaimed with a horrid oath, " By J--, who are you, what are you, are you a robber, for I will certainly shoot you ;" the Officer immediately ex hibited to him his staff of office, and said he was a Peace Officer. The Gentleman continuing to present his pistol 'at him, he desisted ap proaching towards him. One of the other party then came near the Officer, when BACON addressed him, and said he appeared to be of a milder disposition than the tall Gentle man, and informed him that his object was to keep the peace, and to prevent the duel being fought, and asked him if he was one of the party who was about to fight the duel ? He replied that he was not, and that he was attending there professionally as a surgeon: the Officer at the same time observing a pistol in his hand he made a sudden snatch at it to disarm him of it ; the Gentleman resisted, and in the scuffle it provi dentially flashed in the pan, or instant death must have been the consequence. The attempt at discharging the pistol is supposed to have been mere accident, and not design, from the conduct of the supposed Surgeon, who is strongly suspected to be Lieutenant K-. He appeared much alarmed, and ran off across the fields to wards Highgate, following his companions. The officer pursued them for some distance in vain, although he was unarmed. It never rains bud it pours.--This is an old. saying, and never better applied than to Bisn's offices : for we have generally remarked, that whenever he has begun well he has always kept it up, as the saying is. The first Prize drawn this Lottery was 7849, R 30.000, that 1.3t51l sold ; the next Capital was No. 602. RlOOO, that Bisn sold ; the next was 2032, 1. ) 300, that Btsli sold ; the next was 6'275, £300,. and that Bisn sold. There was not. a single oche: Prize drawn that day above X2OO, consequently he could not sell any more. There are.nowTwo R 30,000 Prizes, and Three X 5,000 Prizes to draw. It is very likely Bisit has not yet sold those, but it is not improbable he may have them now on sale at his Offices, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross. CHILD STOLEN.—Last Tuesday evening a little girl, aged three years and a half, the child Of a Mr. ALEXANDER, who lodges at a potatoe-ware house, in Tottenham-court-road, was, on her re turn from school, at five in the evening, sent down to play at the door, - and in five minutes was missed, and has not since been heard of, though the most diligent research has been made by the distracted father. The child was dressed in a lilac poplin frock, brown beaver hat, plum coloured shoes, and a pinafore. She is fresh 7 coloured, and her name is SARAH MARGERITE ALEXANDER.—The mother was confined in the morning, and to afford h . er quiet was -the'lreason of the child's being sent down stairs. The poor woman's state of anxiety is beyond description. An Account of a remarkobte 2' l ;w in the State Ohio.—Taken from a Cincinnati Almanac.— " On the land of Abraham Miller, in the town ship of Seal, county of Scioto, in this State, there is a forked hollowed sycamore tree, which mea sures, on the inside, 21 feet in diameter, and more than 00 feet in circumference, tapering from the base upwards, so that at the height,of five feet it measures only forty-two feet. The opening of :he cavity at the bottom is 10 feet wide, and seven at the height of five feet, termi nating at . the height of 6k feet. The fork is ,about 8 ,feet from the ground. One of ti ,branches is dead, and broken off about 11 feet high : the other is green . and thrifty: The,spa., cious cavity attracted the attention of thee: people in the neighbourhbod ; 140f . whein.assembled, on the sth day of June, 1808, on the spot, and 1 3 of them advanced, on horseback, into the trunk, and, at the same time, sat there with perfect ease. The other being; on a skittish. horse, did not yen lure iii ; but here Was a room for two more to he 'perfectly secure from a falling shower of rain." FOR THE SUN. Mn. Enrron,-L-Alaving, read with' attention the letters Of IN-i-ti'itG.l.Tort, in THE SUN of the .26th and 31st of October; I must say expected that some of the Mealmen or Bakeri Wonld of themselves, or by attorney, haVe con-: tradicted the factS therein stated, which it Seems so difficult to reconcile to their integrity or moderation. I recollect a fesi weeks back, there was something not half so bad inserted in the Times, and instantly a Baker set the calcu later to rights, who indeed was wrong in some respects ; but the cunning Baker calculated that a sack of flour makei only 80 qUartern loaveS7 notwithstanding the advantages of adding to the rising a certain. quantity Of boiled potatoes, which of course cost lesS than the flour, and are sold at the price of the bread. This particular, it seems, Isvgstfc-A.Tort good naturedly omitted, and indeed one would not WWI to say too much aboUt it, as it is at least an innocent addition, and requires the use of good sound flour to make up ,with. The truth, however, is, that the sack Of flour averages about 84 quartern loaves, and therefore INi-EStIGATOWS calculation is within the mark. I can by no means account for the Silence of the trade as to the calculations of In.. YESTIGATOR, but by supposing that they hope, and will be glad, if the subject passes off quietly, knowing that the more they stir, the deeper they will be mired. But what shall I say of our honest, conscientious, independent daily papers ? They who ferret out all kinds of things in the most disinterested manner for the good of the public, and are ready to run themselves blind or broken-winded to serve the people, and espe cially the good citizens of London. What shall I say of them, who have let these facts pass by so much as making the subject an article of news, as 44 We hear, or learn, or are informed (we know not on what authority), that the Meal• men are getting enormous profits, and that the price of bread ought not to be more than Sd. to 9d., when the average price of mealing wheat is 60s. to 625. per .quarter." Or thus:----" We re collect that during the assize of bread, the guar. tern loaf was calculated at ls. when wheat was worth 80s.; but we have lately paid is. when the average was not above 70s. There is some mystery in this which we, cannot fathom, but it plainly appears that by rescinding the assize of bread, which was had enough, that we have got out of the frying pan into the fire." But theSe conservators of the public peace, and disinl terested caterers of abuses and peculations, can find nothing reprehensible in these impositions on their readers and customers ! And what do you think is the reason of all this ? Why truly be cause such investigation is for the general good of the country, and tends to introduce a better system of taking the average prices of COll5 by which to regulate profits, and ultimately to sup.: port and benefit the agriculture of the kingdom. I say this is the reason they turn their backs on the matter, and how they can justify their con duct to the public, I do not know ; but I do very seriously and truly believe that no question was ever less of a party qtfestion, only they happily turn everything they touch to this, dirty dross :—I was thinking of a story I sornewhpre heard about some body who turned every thing he touched to gold, but I. have forgot how to quote it, only it appears to be the reverse of their method. By this time I doubt not but that you have found out by my style that I am but a larnp kin, and better acquainted with farming than thd classics ; so to confess the truth, I am your humble servant, Cambridgeshire, Nov. 7, 1821. A COUNTRYMAN. -' FRENCH IRON TRADE.— h e Moniteur of Sun day last contains an ordinance .relative to the. importation into France•of foreign iron stretched. by flattening machines (fers etrangers etires au laminoir.) The preamble of the ordinance refers to the law .which authorises the Government to change the regulations of the tariff of the Customs, and to present the alteration to the Chambers in the form of' a law project. It then states that it is necessary to protect the manufactured iron of France against the competition of foreign iron cures aU lanzinofr, the price of which is greatly inferior to hammered iron. It is then ordered, that from l 5 days after the publication of . the' ordinance (Nov. 3), all such iron, when import ed, shall be plated in veil-Tot, and shall after-, wards pay the duty which may be fixed by law when taken out of the warehouse for consump tion. : The Committee of Arts and Manufactures connected with the department of the interior is_ to decide on the doubts which may arise relative to the distinction' of flattened and hammered iron, after having considered . the opinion of the Direc-; tor-General of the Customs. Lord' SIIERBORNE bad lately killed, at his seat in Gloucestershire, a remarkable fat sow of the' breed,• of. that county, which Weighed thirty-seven 'score. It measured , from,, the nose to the, rump seven feet three inches and a half ;. round the body, seven feet two inches! A. decision was made yesterday by the Com missioners of Hackney. Coaches, of ,some im-, portance to the public, namely, that the present state of the pavement in Regent-street, justifies a coachman in deviating from that line in hist `passage from Piccadilly , to Oxford-streets and: charging his fare accordingly.