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THE LONDON JOURNALS. VITRA:CM PROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, April 2, 1822. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Report of the Agricultural Committee was laid last night upon the table of the House of Commons. The Report was not read, nor was any intimation given of its general character or tendency. It was ordered to be printed im mediately, and our readers may depend upon the early publication of so important a document. The Marquis of Londonderry gave notice that on the 9.2 d of this month he would move for a Committee of the whole House to take the Re port into its consideration, with a view to the adoption of some measure which he should then propose for the relief of the agricultural interests. The necessity of repealing the salt tax was again noticed-, and Mr. Calcraft stated, that if the Ministers did not propose some extensive and effectual measure of relief, he should even in this Session move for its -repeal. The seeming unanimity of the agricultural Members upon the expediency of such a measure, promises a moral assurance of success to the promised motion. — It is not unimportant to know in the mean time that the Government have resolved, as was last night stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to submit a measure to Parliament for facilitating the transfer of mortgages, by allowing the en dorsement of deeds by one party to another on paying the simple duty on the deed stamp, in stead of paying the ad valorem duty. The enor mous weight of the stamp duties in England has proved a most pernicious impediment to the easy and rapid transfer of property. The necessities of a commercial country require more than any other perfect freedom and facility in this par ticular, yet in no part of the world has the in judicious avidity of the Government imposed such severe restraints as in great Britain. The magnitude of the stamp duties is a great evil, and calls loudly for the revision of the Legislature : as a'measure of policy the imposi tion of our stamp duties militates against every principle of political wisdom, and even as a fiscal arrangement their magnitude defeats the purposes of the Government.—Mr. Robinson submitted his promised motion to the House re lative to the Trade of the West India Colonies, and obtained leave to bring in a Bill for opening a direct communication between certain ports in our West India Colonies and the Continents of Europe and America. The terms and conditions of this communication are such as we have already communicated to our readers. This measure must be considered as a great relaxation in our Co lonial System, and a wide departure from the ordinary principles which have governed all Eu ropean nations in regulating the trade of their foreign Colonies. It is undoubtedly a great boon to the Colonists, but we lament to find that if some decisive measure of this nature were not adopted for affording relief to the Colonists, there was a danger that the Colonies would to all useful purposes be neglected or abandoned. The last few years have operated a frightful change in the value of colonial property, and even in the best cultivated and most fruitful of the West Indian Islands, the estates, instead of relieving any portion of their burdens, have been unequal to the discharge of their ordinary ex peaces of management. To extend this contem plated relief to them is therefore not less a mea sure of sound policy than of humanity. No op position was offered to Mr. Robinson's motion for leave to bring in the Bill, but objections are seldom started in this preliminary stage of any measure. We are given to understand that the British shipping interests are apprehensive of being prejudiced by this measure, and threaten to give it their utmost opposition. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Government have, it seems, determined on uniting Upper and Lower Canada, with a view, as it is given out, to save the expenditure in curred by the present double administration. The measure, however, will not be carried into effect without great opposition in the country ; and Mr. Robinson, Attorney-General in Upper Canada, has been sent over with a Memorial and Remonstrance against it, and may be daily ex pected in England from New York. The Ad ministration of the two Canadas costs this coun try nearly five hundred thousand a year, without producinc , to us any equivalent advantage. But this is altogether the fault of the system ; and very different reforms are necessary than merely uniting the two Provinces to rectify the matter. However, as this project may be considered an invitation to discussion, we will take an early opportunity of entering on the subject. Our readers will see from our Parliamentary proceedings, that the Agricultural Report was presented last night by Mr. Gooch, and that it is to be taken into consideration on the 21st of April. Several questions were put with a view to obtain possession of the leading features of this production ; but nothing could be elicited either from Mr. Gooch or Lord Londonderry, who gave this notice of the motion for the 21st. _His Lordship wished, it, seems, to protect the Report " from the premature publicity which often led to erroneous impressions," and from its conciseness, he informed us it may be printed and circulated in 48 hours. There is one thing to be said,—the curiosity of the country is not likely to be so very ardent on this subject as to feel the disappointment very keenly.—Mr. llus kisson read a very important lecture to the Banks of England and Ireland, last night, which they will do well to profit by. The public are cer tainly much indebted to this Gentleman, for the hints he occasionally throws out, and the principles he lays down, which in fact point to' more important conclusions than he himself chooses' to draw. If is certainly no easy matter to understand how the Bank should be able to lend money to Government at Three per Cent., and yet unable to lend it to individuals at less than Five. But this is the curse of monopoly—that is made discretionary with the Bank from their monopoly ; which otherwise would be imperative on them. But we may soon have an opportunity for treating this important subject in the manner it deserves. It is a question in which England is deeply interested; and we are. only surprised that, with the example before them of the bene fits which are enjoyed elsewhere under a diffe rent system, the English have put up so long with this evil.—(lbid.) [THE TIMES.] The Agricultural Report, about which so much anxiety justly prevails, was presented last night. It will be in the hands of Members to morrow. But Lord Londonderry deprecated any discussion, till lie should introduce the measures which were intended to grow out of it. It is therefore clear that something is to be done, or attempted. For our own parts, we should be content to relinquish any chance there may be of good to be produced by his Lordship's legis lative measures, if we could be sure that he will do no harm. In truth, his Lordship cannot de precate discussion more ardently than we do action. We regret to state the continuance of con flagrations in the county of Suffolk. The cri minal men who commit acts of this nature can of course do themselves no good by the destruction of their neighbours' property. However, as they are not likely to be people in a station of life to peruse writings calculated to induce them to alter their conduct, we shall not address them much : we would rather turn to our gracious Governors, and. ask them what 'they may / think to be the cause of that disordered state or the public mind, which is evinced beyond all contradiction by the acts of which we are speaking. Is this the result of good government, diffusing plenty and happi ness ? If not, is it not worth the while to alter the system, were it but a little, and for the sake of experiment ?—(lbid.) [NEW TIMES.] Accounts have been received from Edinburgh, containing the melancholy intelligence, that Sir Alexander Boswell expired on Wednesday after noon at three o'clock. We have elsewhere quoted the various accounts given by the Northern Journals of the fatal affair of honour in which this Gentleman fell ; but we fully agree with The Morning Chronicle, that on such an event all premature judgment should be carefully avoided. Occurrences of this sort are commonly interwoven with so many delicate considerations, that even on a full view of the evidence which can be at tained, a man of the least sensibility or honour will feel great reluctance to pass a decisive con demnation on either party. How much more necessary is that reserve, in a case like the 'present, and in the present state of affairs ! On one point all must be agreed—that to choose a moment when the unhappy sufferer has just expired, or is expiring, and when his afflicted widow and friends are hanging in the deepest affliction about his death-bed—to choose such a moment as this, we say, to insult over his dying agonies, and to torture with mockery and insult the minds of those who are already inconsolable —is the act rather of a fiend than of a man.— We read, with absolute loathing, in The Times of yesterday, a letter dated Edinburgh, March 2.7,—the very day that poor Sir Alexander breathed his last ! The writer was aware that there were " no hopes " o the wounded man's recovery—that 44 his spine was injured," and " both of his extremities completely paralysed." Good God ! was this a time for reflections on his memory, for brutal scoffs, and for turning even his festive gaieties into subjects of unfeeling and exaggerated reproach ? Who could write such a letter, at such a time, we cannot conceive, and do not wish to guess. There is but one paper in the world, we believe, that would have pub lished it ; and that is the paper, which, in an nouncing the death of the venerable, pious, and excellent Queen Charlotte, loaded her name with calumny, even before her Royal Corpse was cold ! [MORNING POST.] Some discussion incidentally took place in the House of Commons last night, relative to the present state of the Agricultural interest, which deserves to be particularly noticed. Mr. Stuart Wortley, in presenting a Petition from certain Owners and Occupiers of Land in Linlithgow, praying that a million of money might be expend ed in relieving their existing distresses, specially called the attention of the House to one para graph in it, which was rather of a remarkable character. The paragraph in question considered the utmost reduction of taxation to be totally in- adequate to afford the Agriculturists any relief ; and, on the contrary, deprecated such a step as injurious to the best interests of the country. — The Hon. Member for Yorkshire declared him self much disposed to the same opinion as the Petitioners had thus expressed, and availed him self of the opportunity to arraign the conduct of the Bank of England, in not loweringtthe rate of its discounts, as had been generally expected, and thereby assisting the Agricultural classes in raising money to alleviate their distress, at a: re duced rate of interest. To illustrate the correct ness of this charge he observed the Bank of Eng land obtained a higher interest for its advances than any other establishment of the sort in Europe, Four per Cent. being, for instance, the rate of Discount in Paris. Mr. Manning, a Bank Director, while disclaiming any authority to offer more than his individual opinion upon the subject, replied to Mr. Stuart Wortley, and put forward as a proof of the willingness of the Bank to as sist the country, the fact that its whole capital of fifteen millions was lent to the public at three per cent. The Hon. Member further denied that lowering the rate of discounts could possibly reduce the interest of money, or contribute to relieve the distresses of the Agriculturists. Any measures f6r forcing dow❑ the value of money he considered injurious, as driving capital into foreign funds. Mr. Iluskisson, although one of the official persons alluded to by Mr. Manning, would now only give his opinion of the Bank as an individual Member of Parliament. If fifteen millions were lent to the public at three per Cent. the Bank, observed the Right llonour able Gentleman, had for that consideration obtained advantages which no other esta- blishment like it possessed, and no boon was therefore given. He further delivered it as his conviction, that though the Bank neither caus ed the agricultural distress, nor could wholly re move it, yet by lowering its discounts, he thought that distress would be very sensibly relaxed. The Right Hon. Gentleman at the same time disclaimed all idea of dictating to that Corporation, which no one had a right to do, or by any means to interfere with ; but still he felt satisfied that the measure he spoke of would be extremely beneficial to the nation. Mr. Huskisson concluded by forcibly re marking, that the object in establishing the Bank originally was not to create a firm of State Bankers, but to facilitate and assist all the opera tions of commercial intercourse, and thereby promote the public welfare. During this dis cussion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the determination of his Majesty's Ministers, under the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown, shortly to introduce a measure in our opinion of great advantage to the landed interest. We allude to an act for remitting the ad valorem duty at present payable on the trans ference of mortgages from one person to another, and merely subjecting the indorsement on the mortgage in such cases to a common deed duty. IThis appears to us a most judicious and benefi cial arrangement. _____ [MORNING HERALD.] We learn from the last account in the Irish Papers, that the spirit of crime had not yet been extinguished in the counties of Cork and Limerick. It would seem, however, that the organization is in some degree broken, and the system of desperate legislation, enforced by the terror of " Captain Rock's" name, abandoned. The recent outrages are chiefly acts of vengeance upon accomplices, who had given information, and appeared as witnesses for the Crown—or else attempts upon witnesses to appear on some approaching trial. The calendar is still dreadfully heavy, notwithstanding the dispatch by which the Judicial Inquisition, un der the late Acts, has been conducted. The Administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land appears quite null. The Executive Govern ment seems scarcely to move its little finger. As to the proceedings of the Special Commission under the revived Acts, these are matter of mere routine in Ireland. Lord Wellesley merely took up a trite and clumsy instrument of Government, which he found there ready to his hand. He has not as yet attempted to disguise the clumsiness or re lieve the triteness of his adopted Administration by a single original Act, whether of vigour or of grace. We are informed that a famine is appre hended in some of the disturbed districts during the spring and the beginning of summer. No steps appear to be taken, or in process, to prevent or mi tigate this dreadful visitation. The situation of the poor is wretched in the extreme. From the quantity of rain, the crops have fallen dreadfully short of the requisite stock. Yet in the counties of Cork and Li merick no preventative of starvation is thought of, unless indeed the exportation of Whiteboys may be regarded as such. In the county ,of Clare, the Grand Jury and Magistrates are acting with more prudence and humanity. A nume rous meeting of the Grand Jury and Magis trates was held at Ennis, to take into conside ration the means of alleviating the distresses of the poor, and of preventing starvation. The distress, particularly in the western part of the country, is such, not only among the labouring classes, but among those of a higher order, that the means of the gentry are no longer adequate to afford relief to all who require it. Under these circum stances, a Resolution was come to at the meet ing to which we have alluded—that Govern ment should be applied to for assistance. No answer had yet been returned. The application was warmly seconded by Sir Edward O'Brien, one of the Members for the county, who both as an individual, and as a public man, has exerted himself most strenuously to alleviate the sufferings of the poor, and preserve tranquillity. Be has supported the application to the Irish Govern ment with all his influence, personal and poli tical—urging not only the claims of humanity, but the expediency of giving relief, as the means of preserving the public peace. POLICE. Bow-STREET. —Yesterday Samuel Brookes underwent an examination before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, charged on suspi cion of breaking open a house in Gray's-inn-lane. The pri soner is a well known character, and was lately tried for rob bing the house of Mr. Frost, in Arundel-street, in the Strand, of jewellery goods to the amount of between 2 and 30001. The principal cause of his being apprehended was a suspicion of his being concerned in the murder and robbery of Mrs. Donatty. The witnesses saw him, but could not identify him; he was therefore not detained. WoRSITIP-STREET.—Yesterday John Maxwell, the self accused murderer of Mrs. Donatty, was re-examined, when he was discharged, in consequence of his story proving to be a fabrication at a moment of drunkenness. He was severely re primanded. TREASURER OF THE COUNTY.—The office of Treasurer for the County of Middlesex, we understand, became vacant, by the resignation of Cr. B. Mainwaring, Esq. on Wednesday last. This office, although not of great emolument, is one of considerable trust. Three candidates have already started for the situation—Mr. James Bourchier, son of Mr. J. Bourchier, who was formerly County Treasurer ; Mr. Stafford, of Bow street ; and Mr. Hardwicke, the Magistrate of Lambeth-street. A remarkable oak dorrell, or pollard, was brought last week- from Lord DORMERS seat of Grove Park to Warwick. The tree, although only 8 feet high, contained upwards of 35 feet of solid timber ; out of the centre was cut a plank of 12 solid feet. The other parts con tained the figures of the Amboyna oak, and bore an exact resemblance to various marbles. FATAL RENCONTRE.---.TWO men, of the names of Dempsey and M'Carthy, both prisoners in Newgate, had a fight on Friday last, when the former was overcome, and died soon after the termination of the contest. Coroner's Verdict— Manslaughter.—The quarrel originated in the deceased throwing at McCarthy some bread which had been steeped in gruel. The Paris Mail, which starts from the Angel Inn, St. Clements, was overturned on Saturday morning last at four o'clock, whilst descending the hill in the town of Stroud with great velocity, by which one person had his shoulder and collar bone dislocated, and several were severely in jured. The guard also was much hurt. FOR THE SUN. AGRICULTURAL LOAN. MR. EDITOR—No plain man can be surprised at the late RIOTS in two Eastern Counties who has heard or read the inflammatory speeches cooked up at those County meetings.—Yet it is to the County of Suffolk, and to the Suffolk Land holders in particular, that I appeal for the truth of the important fact, that the small Farmers have paid their rents punctually, whilst the great occu pants have been suffering distress, or rather the deprivation of some of those luxuries in which they wallowed during high prices. This fact I adduce, Sir, in support of a plan which I proposed, through your columns, upwards of two years ago ; and I now bring it forward again, because the A cI•RICULTURAL LOAN OF FOUR MILLIONS, which nobody seems to know what to do with, may thus be expended for the benefit not only of the Agricultural Interest, but of the country at large. The cry is to return to the standard of 1792, and I join in the cry—not as to expenditure and tax ation, but to agricultural regulation. After 1792, high prices led to high rents, to consolidation of farms, forcing thousands of small farming fami lies into the workhouses; and to unexampled luxury in the mansions and manners of the re maining Farmers, or rather farming speculators, —but High Prices are gone—what then is left but to return to the rents and to the sizes offarms, and to ,the frugal simplicity of farming families in 1792? But wherever Ten farms were thrown into one, nine farmhouses and homesteadings were pulled down to save repairs and taxes, and from not being wanted. Now, however, the reduced prices do not permit the occupancy of the large farms created or consolidated under high prices; and though the Landlord might find tenants for smaller holdings, yet without farm houses and homesteads what farmer can occupy the reduced holdings ? But the Landlords have no money to rebuild them—then let the Loan be applied to the rebuilding offarmhouses,--let itbe lent upon a judicious principle to those who wish to restore their Estates to the standard of 1792. If the possibility of getting small farms once becomes generally known, tenants will offer — then let us calculate the benefit that will result from an expenditure of Four Millions in stone and brick, and timber, and cartage, and masons' and carpenters' labour, &c. &c.—Why, Sir, half the money would come back to the Treasury in less than six months of its being expended, and the Opposition would have nothing else to to, but perhaps to grumble that from their own ob stinacy and pertinacity, they had not derived so much benefit from the Loa❑ as they might have done. Your's, IGNOTUS. FIRES IN SUFFOLK.—The alarm which the fre quency of these distressing occurrences, in more distant parts of our district, has occasioned, is naturally increased in this town by one of them happening at home. On Thursday night, at so early an hour as a few minutes after seven, a re markably fine barn, about' 80 feet in length, and tiled, containing 20 or 30 coombs of unthrashed barley, at Mr. Byles's (the Upper Hill House), St. Clement's, was in an instant apparently wholly enveloped in a tremendous sheet of blaze. A wheat stack of seventy or eighty coombs, an old waggon, and some pigs, were also destroyed. Providentially, another wheat-stack and the stable, &c. contiguous were preserved. This fresh instance of malicious depravity—for there is no doubt of its being the act of an incendiary —upon the property of a gentleman who is held in esteem by all classes in his neighbourhood, is another proof, we think, that this, like some other similar occurrences, was the .act of a stranger. From all we can see and hear, and from every source of information that reaches us, we are led to believe that the great body of the labouring classes in this country are not under those diabolical influences ; at any rate, there are but very few of them indeed so lost and de praved as to destroy, in this way, the property of others, in the foolish belief that they can thereby better their own condition. In this case, it is remarkable how short was the interval between the time when the barn was left secure and that of complete conflagration. The thrasher,who had been employed all the day in the barn, left it at half-past six ; twenty minutes afterwards, the farming bailiff was there after a ladder, and again left it secure ; and within another quarter of an hour—day-light scarcely gone—it was covered on every side with flame. This instantaneous bursting forth of the devouring element in all parts of the building strengthens the conjecture that some phosphoric, or other inflammable composition, is made use of by the incendiaries for these purposes. The premises, but not the stock, were insured ; and a reward of 2001. is offered. We understand, also, that a society of gentlemen, in and near this town, have agreed to subscribe from 5001. to 1,0001., to be paid on conviction, as a re ward to the discoverer of any such perpetrator in this neighbourhood. On Tuesday night, at eight o'clock, another fire at Mendlesham, terrified that neighbourhood. A barn, con taining 40 bush faggots, and a new waggon, loaded with stiaw, were destroyed on the premises of Mr. Wright. Yesterday se'nnight, about seven o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out at the back of the Lion Inn, Lavenham, ad joining to Mr. East's garden, which providen tially was extinguished before the damage ex ceeded 501. This is also supposed to be the malicious act of some inhuman wretch. In that town patrols are appointed every night. On Tuesday, Mr. Owen Roe, of Ipswich, discovered a firebrand (a burnt piece of wood, about two feet long), with a bunch of matches under it, placed in a straw-stack, standing in the centre of his stack-yard, and surrounded by many others of corn and clover. He has consequently had his premises well watched and guarded ever since. —(Suffolk Chronicle.) Three new kinds of indigo have recently been discovered in South America. These plants are of a superior quality to those of the Caraccas, Brazil, Mexico, and the East Indies. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF. BREAD THIS WEEK. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread throughout .he Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be 9d. he Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sell the Quartern Luaf, 'ruin one penny to two pence lower. lb. oz. 1 b.oz. Peck Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 Quartern Loaf to weigh 45f Half ditto.. ditto .... 81 1 Half Quartern ditto 41 IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Irish. Foreign. Wheat - Barley - -- Malt - - Oats Rye 3O -- - Beans - - Peas - - Tares Rapeseed Mustard Seeds 5OB Flour 116 Brank Linseed , SEEDS, April 1. Red Clover (Foreign).. 26s 42s—fine, 52s 60s —s per cwt. Ditto Englishß. 28s 40s—fine new, 50s 6 , ..zs 72: White ditto 34s 50s-fine, 63s -665 - - . Rye-Grass ... l4s to 24s per qr.: Turnip Seeds. —s Od 32s to 46s pr. busts. White Mustard Seed Bs to lOs 6d Brown ditto lOs to 15s 6d Red and Green ... —s Od to —s Od Carraway Seeds s6s to 65s—fine, 67s Coriander do. los I4s 15s Cinque Foin 34s to 36s—fine —s per qr. Trefoil Ribgrass ... .2Bs 37s—fine, 455.46 s Canary per qr —s 38s to 42s Od per yr. Linseed 4Bs s'2s—fine, 54s 565 per qr. ltape Seed Winter Tares 26s to 30s Od per yr. PRICE 01 HOPs ' per Cwt., Apt 11 i. Pockets. I Bags. 1 Kent .. 31 Os a3l 113 s a5l Os Kent .. 21 l6s a3l 16s a4l 15s Sussex.. 21 14s a3l3s a 31 lOs Sussex. el .tis a2l 16s a3l 3s Essex ..21 18s a3l lOs a4l 4s Essex.. 21 10s a3l los a4l Os Farnham, fine, 61 to 101 Os—Seconds, 41 - Oslo 71 7s Slllll HFIELL) Mt Kti.—tipri 11. (To sink the Offal—•-per Stone of Sibs.) Beef 2s 2d to as 6d Veal Muttou es 4d to 3s 4d Pork es ud to 4s Ou Lamb - Os od to us od HEAD OF CATTLE TIIIS DAY. Beasts '2,352 I Calves .. l7i Sheep 91,630 1 Pigs 239 NEWGATE AND LEAFENHALL AIAish.ETS. By the Ci. , case. Beef Is sd to 2s ad Veal 2s (Id to 4s Od Mutton .......2s Od to 2s 8d Pork 2s Od to 3s sG Lamb, os od to Os Od. ST. JAMES'S HAY Al.-O.K.ET, March 30. Hay.... 31 3s od to 41 4s od ClovEr, .... 01 Os to 01 os, Stiaw.. 11 7s Od to 11 19s Ud SMITHFIELD. Hay 3l lOs Od to 41 4s Ud--Average, 31 13s 041 Straw Clover 31 15s Od to 41 10s 00--Average, 41 Os od WHITECHAPEL. • Hay Si lOs Od to 41 4s New ditto... 01 Os Od to 01 Os Straw Clover 4l Os Od to 5! Os Od--Average, 41 6s Od Od-Arerage, 01 Us cd Od--Average, 11 11s Od Od-Average, 41 lOs Od RAW I lIDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordinary 2s 2d to 2s 4d 2s 1011 to as Or: Market 'Calf ~ each.. los od Middlings ... 2s 6tl to 2s sd Eng. Horse Os od to Os od SHEEP' Polled Downs SKINS. Shearhogs I Lambs 2s od to 850 PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 561bs each per lb MI to 21d Ditto, Sfi to tWlbs each Dressing Hides lid to 13d Coach Hides -Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting lid to 180 Ditto ..-.. 45 to sOlbs Calf Skins..M to 40Ibs 21d to 27d Ditto 50 to 'Nibs 26d to 33d Ditto 7O to 801bs ...., 24d to 27d Small Seals (Greenland) . 18d to —d Large ditto Tanned Horse Hides lsd to 17d Spanish Horse Hides PRICES OF TALLOW Town Tallow 44s 6d —s od Yellow Russia 45s ad —s od White ditto .. 43s ad —s ad Soap ditto.... 41s Od —s Od Melting Stuff 98s ad —s Od Ditto Rough.. 25s Od —s Od PRICE OF CANDLES, FRO) Price of Candles, per dozen . 6d per dozen allowe SOAP, &c. pur 1121 b. . , . Yellow Soap . 845 Mottled 945 Curd 9Els Graves Good Dregs "TALLOW CHANDLER'S HALL. ip 9s 6d--Moulds, 11s Od. !d for ready money. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of Slh.—March 30. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters), Os od COAL MARKET, April 1. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 744 Newcastle 221 Sunderland 1 Cinders MARKET. RKET, March 30 Barley, new, 01 16s to 11 )5 Beans, per qr.ll Os to 11 ios Peas-e, per qr. 11 3s to 11 6 3 Rye, per qr. 01 Os to 01 01 COUNTRY GUILDFORD MA Wheat per 1. 01 Os to 01 Os New Wheat .. 8; OS to 161 5s Oats, per qr... 01 15s to 11 5s New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Os MR. CLARK AND QUEEN MAB.—W. CLARK, the publisher of Percy Byshe Shelly's poem of Queen Mab, having forfeited his recognizances in a prosecution instituted against him by the Society for the Suppression of Vice for selling the above-mentioned alleged blasphemous publi cation, the Sheriff's officersientered his premises near St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, on Sa turday last, with a warrant issued from the Court of - Exchequer to distrain for the amount ; but Mr. Clark had taken the precaution to re move his stock previously, and also to absent himself. The officers not finding sufficient to pay the expences of a sale, left the premises, and proceeded to the hpuse of one of his . bail, with a similar process for a like default. MARRIED. At Douglass, Tsle of Man, on the 4th ult. (by special license) , John Joseph Heywood, Esq., his Majesty's Judge for the northern district of that island, to Elizabeth, only daught e r of the late Alexander Birtwhistle, Esq. of Dundeuch, Galloway- At the Cathedral of St. Columb, Thomas Kennedy, Esq., High Sheriff of the city and county of Londonderry, to Eliza beth Olivia Rosetta, youngest daughter of the late Georg ° Cary, Esq., of White Castle, county Donegal, and Cassino, county Derry. DIED. On Tuesday last, after a lingering illness, Mitchell Smiths of London-wall, gentleman, aged 72. On Sunday last, in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, Henry Semple, Esq. late surgeon to his Majesty's Navy, aged 68. At Clayton-hall, in Lancashire, very suddenly, Rieharol eldest son of R. G. Lomax, Esq. aged 22 years. He had walked into the garden about a quarter of an hour before b r eal;' fast, and, on the servant going to call him, he was found a life• less corpse ! In January last, at Madeira, where he had one for the recC;• very of his health, Edward Jeremiah Hill, Esq. !third son 0 . „ the late Thomas Hill, Esq. of llambrook House, in the c ountY of Gloucester. By his death we understand atonsiderable perty devolves to his elder brother, the husband of Mo. Hill, now of the Dublin Theatre. '. 16,, Of a consumption, at Richmond, on SaturdaY, age r 9 Henry Walker, the ast remaining child of 'William 'Walk e the late celebrated Lecturer on the Eidouranion. Printed and Published, for the PlloPnlETons, at the 511 0* OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIESs