The Sun. — London, England, 1801-08-27 00:00:00

~I - _ TO 711 E EDITOR OF TILE SU2I. • j''l 1: i . 4 Sir., I have the Flonoueto be, SIR, Yopr obedient Servant, • H. S. J. IVIILDMAY fiz;guit 24, 180 I: - HAVING lately seen, in several of the Public tnpers, a Narrative of the Proeeedings 'of the Lewes. Agricultural Society, I-have thought it necmary, mecely;:or the satisfaeion of those Gentlemen who may feel themselves interested in the credit of the. Devonshire Breed of - Cattle, fo•corre6 some itiac -curacies that' appear in that , part of the detail I refer . to,. in which I am •personally and somewhat invf diously introduced.—The nature of a 'proposal I made ,(from motives' extremely opposite to those which ai.e insinuated) at the last Meeting of that .S6ciety, are .stated with tOlerahle pre'citon,: but • ; 25- no intimation was cfimmunicated to . me of, the, intention of- any of the Sussex Breeders to accept' ~my offer, the - remaining-part . of the article in .'ques don is without :foundation, and .the observations introduced, wholely superfluous. - REPORTS FROM •THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE . HOUSE PF'COIv:MONS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE * INTO THE. STATE * OF TH.E PUBLIC * RECO I RDS OF THE KiiN;QDO, [CoutiUUed from our Pater of.yestoidqy] zdly., Of Calendars and Indexes.--,--Those which are - the private property •of the Officer should be purchased for the public use . and appropriated' to the Office of this description, the Keeper of the Re cords, at the Rolls Chapel, has not'fewer than fifty, the. greater, part" of which. he 'purchased. from his predecessor's9 - epresentatives; they relate to the Pa.: tent, Close and F ine Rolls,' from whence their im portance isevident. The 'Kee,per of the Itecords in. the. Augmentation Office has - several uceful In-' dees, which ?se also claims - to be 'his private pro-• perry,- and the present Secondary and Clerk of the in the Crown Office of the Court of King's Bench, have, as their private property, several in dexcs .conneded with the Records of that Office, - .which it—would be desirable to appropriate to the. use of the Officers foD the time being. The Public Indexes and Calendars should he •coniplited forthwith, either ; by the ordinary gerice - of' the persons Usually employed for the pur pose in each Office, or, if, necessary, ,by extra- as:. sistance, provided, at the. Oublic expencei, namely, by an express - -Commission for , rnethodiling • the, Contehts of the Particular Office, as was practised (during the present. reign) for methodizing .the • State Paper Office, and Augmentation Office. At the Chapter-House, the.largest and, most Va rious colleoiOn in the kingdom, one-third- part of the Whole Contents Of this Repository being hitherto unprovided with•any detailed Calendars or Indexes, and this part containing matters concerning the dis.. solved Monasteries, the proceedings of the Star Chamber, the Court of. Wards and Liveries, and the COurt of Requests, a Commission would be neces sary to - execute this business, if it was required to be done within any short period 'of time';' although the present , :mablislunent of Officers, with spell further ac,onimociation ,of building as your corn. mittee have already 'recommended, and a constant attendanCe might execute the most important parts Quit with sufficient dispatch. - • In the 'Power, by the , great and exemplary. dili gence an,l liberality of the present Officer, forty—five out'of one hundred and two Calendars and . Indexes have been a;lded within the last- twenty-five years; and. no part is now . unprovided with them, except the contents of some presses in what is called Caesar's Chapel, which, are supposed not to be im portant, and may be indexed giachially by the per_ sons at present employed in the Office. At the 'Rolls Chapel, it i's stated that no Indexes are wanting but what may be Progressively supplied by the ordinary diligence of the Officer, Within a reasonable time,. viz. the. Indexes to the Coronation ; Rolls, ,the Treaty .and Foreign Rolls, the Fine gons i Dispensations, - Rolls, and - Rolls of . - Pardon; Surrenders, &c. _• In the Court of King's Bench, it is very impor tant to the Interests of the Crown, and to His Ma_ jesty's Subjtds, that 'an Index should' , be made to the Baga de Secretr . i. ' One copy of it ought to be , deposited in the Press, with the Records themselves; And a duplicate, with the • king's Coroner 'and At. torney (the Master of the Crown Office) for the use ' 'of His 4,jesty's . Attorney-General for the time bcin "Ini;i work may requiro . special assistance, and to this Repository, or such other as His Ma . j,esty shall think. proper to appoint, all the Attain , der'Receris_ which have been delivered up to this Committee, and such as- rimy remain in the hands , of private persOns After the close ofany Special Corn !--mission, should be remitted in due course, the.Coutt of Common Pleas, Alphabetical In. ilexes to the Docket Rolls of the Records in the Treasury of that Court are much wanted ; but it would .require a great length:of time, and very con.. sidcraye assistance to sup& this defeo, In ,the Exchequer of Receipt, the Pell nice Re, colds contained in, the two upper apartments of the Pell .Office Tower cannot. be examined, or arranged ' without much help, .and no Catalogue has yet been shad; of the Records .formerly found there, and re. ;moved in the year 1770 from the custody of , the • Flous,e of - Lords to the Old State Paper Office ; but this latter defed-may be now suMied ; by the per_ - ;ions employed upon the Estab!ishment which has been reC,?lltly created for tliat .a.lpartaient. gemembrancers Office, there is a total v./.2.1t cf ..th4 necessary Calendars and Indexts Reco.7ds Which are ,arrunged ;* there are P;;o,. of apy sort which are complete ; and the ge, 4t,count which your Comi'nictec have caused to be 4rawc, up, - respecting the unarranged Records, ,;. , 411.,lerr i onstrate the utility of taking further steps ; 11 orP; 1 4 1 3 t44lniria6o, 10 . f1gLord Trf.tasureres Remembran !es'Qffice, rtf) IregglAT 4P4 c m fete AgrFory Pr Jroo4 1)0 been made since the Restoration, although some par tlcular IndexeS have been compiled by the industry of individuals, and of cbur'se much extraordinary assurance` will be waoteSrfor.chafobjeCt. Arrange. ments hive been suggested to your Committee for the proper 'execution of such a work, in which the present Officers express every !addable desire to con. tribute their services to the utrnosr ; bin there are at present some disputed' questions between the Re. .mentbrancer and Sworn Clerks, , respening the cus tody of these ,Recorl, which'may impede the bu siness, unless there be some interposition= adju. dication upon their differences... In the Office of the'--Auditors .of the Land Re • venue,•notwithstanding -the zeal and assiduity with which the present Deptiiy Auditor fur England has aboured, and notwithstanding much has also been effccled by the . peisol}s employed by your Committee under the /authority of the. House, some further assistance will,neverthefess be still wanting to render these preparatory labours completely useful t - the Public ; and amongst the rest it is represented, that great utility would result from. having a Gentral Index made for each diviSion of the Inrohinents. • In.the Augthentation Office, there' are about 201 D bags of . Records, of Which, the gcneral contents are known to the Officer,.'but there is no Calendar to them ; nor.any Index whatever. - These, however, it is apprehended may be. examined and methddized by the Officer himself, without any special assistance. In the office' of . the' Surveyor General of Crown Lands, some further Indexes to the Surveys,', alnd other, documents concerning the 'Property of the Brown, would be' usefbl, but no extra assistance beyond _the present establishment of the 'office is deemed necessary for the purpose of preparing them,. , The Clerks of the pea c e in general have no Crilenlirs or Indexes, and most of them think 'it unnecessary ; but others strongly recomMend the. • Measure ; and it appeaq to your Committee, that it.must be desirable'to have them completed, as to 'all matters concerning Inclosures, Roads, Bridges, Gaols, and other county worki Or buildings ; ai4 in e•. - ery.case it _would be expedient to have one general 'Schedule lodged, together with the Records • themselves in a ',public building, , and a duplicate thereof left with the of the Peace; for' the daily use of the office. • • • - In the British Museum, - it'Woilld'be,desi•rable to have a revision and corredion Of:the - printed Cata llque of the liarleian.MSS. which is extremely de, -feCtive in the. enumeration of many articles belong ing to the peculiar objectof this inquiry - ;.and it is 4tibinitsed by the Arincipal Librarian, that much convenience would be derived from theformation of . a separate Catalogue, digested under proper heads, cOmprizing all the Public RecOrds and Papers of State, dispersed-throughout the different coile6tions which constitute that Repository ; this work 'also would necessarily demand' much . . time and labour. idly, Of Transfers.—These may be eitkier pat.' _ .. tial.or general: . . : '- Soinepartial' Transfers have been proposed by :the Officers who have made their returns to your-Corn= mittee, for the purpose of colle4ing into the'samt repository the ,entire series of particular sorts ~1 Records. But on balancing the advantages ,of ;hi . sort of local convenience ag;iin , t the d. , advant,iges which might follow from confoundinA the known references in printed books, and de.!royn,g in some respeos the use of ,the present , catalogues; your Committee are of opinion, that . such transfers ale, not adviseable in .the present . state of the Record Offi or ; except or the purpose of consolidating any : of thein . „'as in The case of the Office of the Auditors . of the Land Revenue, and the Augmentation Of fice,• where . their Records are 'in many instances„ of a similar description; and where the Mirristers. accounts for alternate years happen to be divided between them, from which ' circumstance such a junction -night be useful ; and except incases where there may exist an actual ik,,e,sity for removing the Records from their present repositories, as did hap,. pen in part to the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's 'Office in : the year x 793 ; ; and as must happen-at no great distance ,of time, whenever* the other Offices of the EXchequer, of'Receipt 'and Account Are taken down to be rebuilt 'or removed. An cicasionai.rrads: fer of some of the proceedings in Chancery is'made from the ',six Clerks Office' to the Tower, and similar transferS are made from the Treasuries of the King's Bench and -CoMmon Pleas to the Chapter House, whenever the places of primary deposit overflow.; but there is no reason to 'apprehend that •any such necessity will arise for many years in either of the preceding instances. , No general Transfer of the Records of these se veral RepositOriesfrom their present local situations could'he desirable, unless it ..were for'the purpose of establishing 'a General Repository, either for chose Pnblic Papers and Records, which cease gra_, dually to be in use for - the current businessof Pub lic Offices, :or for. the registration of private Con veyances, in either of which cases the/General Re- , gister House for - Scotland would bea useful model for jmitation. The learned' and perspicuous Ac count of that . Institution, contained in ' the Returns from the Office of the Lent Clerk Register, toge ther with the Drawings which he has annexed to it, furnish a very valuable body of information, respdting the details of .the,Systeni and the con= struaion of the Tresent Edifice, which is admir ably contrived for the purposes to : which it -is" ap. propria 4thly, Of . the Establishment and Duties of Of. fizers. ft seems to your Committee,that where uo person is specifically entrusted. ,with 'the custody and arrangement of the Records which belong - to ;311) , office of .great public concern, such an Officer should he appointed,' and an irmance of this defea of Establishment occurs in the Lo'rd Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office, since •the I-en:ley:11 of 4hat Office to Sometiet-Placei from under the Care of the Chief U4i l er of,the couri.of Exchequer at West minsto.r„ to whom_ th,ft duty specially belanged.---: Your Committee ;ire also of opinion, that where there is -an Officer, but he has. no salary, and his whole compensation i 3 derived from Fees, he-should be remunerated input by Saiary and part by Pegs, to be. _regulated upon a moderate fixed so- that he may, receive an annual equivalent for the present average ;Inqqap his profit; 4nd emoittmentS, and His Majesty's. Subjths may hav'e access to the Records with les, cost - than at pre sent. These observations have Suggested ,theth selves to your Committee from considering the situation of the Keeper •of the - Records - in the RollS Chapel, who has no Salary„ and - of the Keep er of the Records of the Augmentation (Mae, whose Fees are not fixed by any standard vyhatever. - . An additional reason for such an arrangeMent will. oc cur, whenever the private Inde?tes of these C)lEcers are purchased by the Public, and especially if either tl - ose which are publie'or pr ivate should be printed, as this circumstance may tend. to diminiSh their fu►ure etholuments, by rendering their assistance less necessary. . ,) (To be continued.) THE SUN. SOLEM iaUIS DICEKL FAL3UM AunLAT ? L ND ON, AUGUST 27, 1801. No farther intelligence than that which we yes terday gave, has been received from Lord NEL. soN 7 ---It will be seen from our .Falmouth arti;le, that it is not only from the Flotilla under his Lord ship that the Enemy are to look for danger: it was expected that an ,attempt would be made by Sir EDWARD PF.LLEW'S Squadron to destroy the Enemy's. Squadron, lying at R,ochefort. The force, is stated to consist of Six Sail of the Line, one of them carrying an Admiral's Flag, and several Fri gates. As this Paper was about to be put to Press, we received, BY EXPRESS, Paris Papers to the 7th inst. -They contain a long account from Guada/o*, of the proceedings in that Colony, which come down to the 4th of July. We find little else in these Papers "remarkable, 'except a rise in the Tiers Consolid6 of 4. per cent. The last price is 48. The Hamhurgh Mail of Wednesday had not ar. rived when our Paper was {tit to Press.' Yesterday .a Court of • Dire&ors was held at the East India House, when a great number of Tenders were opened, of Ships of various descriptions, which were refereed to the , consideration of the COmmittet• of Shipping. . . • I...f.tters lbr the several Presidencies, by the ships now under dispatch, were sived., • , The Court adjourned at six o'clock,, when the Scrutineers of the Annual Eletaion dined with 'the' Dire:Ors. off theKiug's VenisOn. The inteljelcd visit of tfie. ROYAL FAmi to ith is not on account of -His MAJESTY, whose ile 4 fth i§ perfecliy recovered, but on account of'the 4 c2l'/Er,N, who has for some- time been indisposed, 'atx - i for wilom the Bach waters have been . rectpm metided as likely to be efficacious. • . Flour fell yesterday at ,the COrn Market ss. a sack. The hest samples of Wheat were nearly as Monday ; but those of an inferior quality were from ss. to tos. a quartet loner. Wheat fell on Thtitsday at Uxbridge market zol. a load. On Saturday last, in Chepstow" market, new wheat fell from 245. to 16s. 6d. per bushel ; and. a further redudion is. expeled next market. On the tgth,and 20 . th instant, Mr. SAYER, of Margat e , common eariier, employed his caravan solely for the purpose of fetching bread from Can terlzfury to Margate, and selling the same amongst the inhabitants there at 31-d. per. quartern loaf un_ der the usual price ; Tor which bread he had a quick sale, and not only,well paid himself for his trouble,.• but gaine4,the esteem of the people in general (ex cept the Bakers) at Margate; as the said' bread cost him only r3d. per quartern loaf at Canterbury, and was sold by him at Margate for 15d. and at the same time the' price of the 'quartern 10 4 1 a Margate was 031 d. On the following day, the Bakers of Margate lowered the priee of bread from i 82(f. to I 4.d.l)er quartern loaf. .' The Huntingdonshire Militia are on their route, by forced marches, for Dover Casile, from the Isle of Wight, where' they trave been•trained for some time in working the. Artillery. . The third B.attaliOn of the 9th Regiment of Foot are.encamped on Fair . light Hill, immediately above the . Port of Hastings, in Sussex. The first Regiment of Royal East-India leers had a field-day yesterday, in their grotintl at Islington. They went through .their various evOlutions with great steadiness, and much. to the satisladion of their Commanding Officer. By aletter received from Captain PAR kEtt,• ad dressed to his father in. Gloucester, we rejoice to hear that his wound is not ,so bad as had been repre - , stnted in - the Papers. 1-le. is not likely to - lose any limb, - and is, ,advancing very fast to a petted , r covery. • The splendid College Which has now been esta blished eighteen months at Calcutta, embraces Ori ental Antiquities of every clhss : Divinity, Law; Natural Philosopl4,,Astronomy.; Physic,' with Pro fessorships in 'each,' The Provost is the Rev. D. BR'OVVNE, Vice.,PrOvost, Rev. C. B UCHANAN ; the sarary of the Vice . : Provost, 50001. a-year ; of the latter 30001, The Marquis of. ABER CORN, under the' skilful management of Mr. LyNM, is in .a fair way of per fdt recovery.. fle.has.not tasted animal food since his accident, .Wit has conformed implicitly to the advice of Mr. LyNx, who has .remained at Stan more the whole time, The Maidstone Barges that were lately taken in to the service of His Majesty, to befitted - for Gun, boats, have been ; completed, and are at the Gun- NOW ) at chathatp r taking their guns on bo4o, WEYMOUTH, AucusT 2s. THE ROYAL FAMrLY. returned fr . om their af tic excursion yesterday evening at six o'clock, aft spending a very chearful day. While THEIR I\ ll JESTIES were on the water, a Transport bouqd Egypt, with Troops, Was spoke to by the prinfi Augusta Yacht. The Theatre was hcinoured with the presence the ROYA ,FAM LY, to see The School for Scattl in which Mr. ELL (STON performed the part Charles Surface with great spirit'; and Mrs. 14A 1 LOUT E .was much admired in the Charaaer of La' Teazle,.--Diekey Goss4, in . the Ent6riainment ' 11f). Grandmother, was well sustained by' Mr. ft SER. This morning none of the. Roy'Ai bathed. ... After breakfast, 'THEIR MAJESTIES and t ott ile PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, EL IZARETH, MARY, 3 1 SoIHIA, weni•to sea wi t h a fine bree ze , t h e. Wiv blowing South East. • PRINCE ADOLPHUS, ,attended by hi s Equerriel in waiting, rode out on horseback. • PRINCESS AMELIA, accompanied by Lady MAO' took an airing in a phaeton on the Sands. A very fine brig was attemptiA to — be launch here last night, b ut f a il e d. Sh e went off exceeding ) well this morning. The Guard belonging to the Mail Coach fell fro the box between Overton and Blandford, by ‘vhic accident he unfortunately 'broke his thigh. in tW places ; lie - was,left dangerously ill on the road. With such a Navy as we .possesi,. which"tri aimoSt be - said to exceed' the maritime s trength ° the Wprid if it were combined against us, it is e i:apossible that the French Government can pres utl' • to, hope that we shall assent to a .Peace inconsiste° with the dignityand interest ( - if this Country, ed in the largest scale of national imp ortance . If tll 3 ` 'Government can however. i6dulge soyresumpto tP an expectation,. _the PetVe • cf-the British Empirf; when the ,proposed terms ,are • submitted to the. i c consideration, will app rove t h e conduit of the l , RulerS, and evince a cordial unanimity in support o ' the honour of their Country. The French, •accordini to 'tileii•OvVrt amity' ; have had a rehearsal of the farc e of Invasion vil'ell f they have so !Ong been pr e p a ri ng ._ Mr. managl BERNADOTTE conducted this rehearsal at Brest, b d he Will doubtless ''not • perfirm' (race 134 ' fore an EngThh oldie/Ice,. from a rea-onable apPr e herision that it Will b e ren d ere d w h olly abortive b, l the decision of our Naval Critics. The Farce of the EMPEROR PAUL'S attack or li f' a wooden Malta, probably suggested to the Free the idea of their late Sharn-fight at .Brest. Tf `Chief Consul furnished a precedent to P44n, I°- taking•poSsession- of a C:ountry without previously_ making. out a Title,- the latter has afF)rd e d th° formir in return, a precedent foK a bloodless thumPb' Mr. BECKFORD, it is said,, emicavoured to olv i min a Peerage, but not seeing the least chance. having his ambition in that respea gratified, lie , l d disgust resolved to retire from - this country.' ~, hence took place the sa l e o f his .expensive h ae) which has been properly d escr ib e d tne.go'r o.—. .7 e : ous accumulation of inordinate fortune, and nate taste." The Promptership of Covent-Garden Theatr e was promised immediately after the death of WILDE, was known in London, otherwise it WO' most probably have been given to Mr.I . WALPIO t4 • who has beeh long known to the London Public' and who by jiiigrnent, literature, and . pradice, s+l al .veil qualified for, the-situation. CHAKLEs KEMBLE is now at Vienna, s tudy 4 hard at the German Language : His brother-Or Yeller, Mr. K'ER P''o TER, the Artist, •is well ca, i culated, by 'his professional ta l e n ts , t o . direal ll e pursuits in matters of , tarst,-, and by his schnlat acquirements to, assist him in those of LiteraN l T 'Mr; 'PORTER possesses Poe t ical" talents, that / cultivuted with equal assiduity,, : would render IP' as much distinguished by the pen a . s•by the pencil' The Drama from the pen of Pkilven FiotO, f ts ' which was forth-coming at the Haym ar k e t Theatr;" ismithdrawn, as the season is so far advanced. C o a t sidering, indeed, the aurae-Eon - of the Piece' at 9 present. performing, and the num b er ' o f Bene_7 l , l which are approaching, a new Play could hat e] now have had its proper ru n , as the term is, it 'proved successful. Mr. B N ran of Literature, could n° ti t o l :t h h aa Veteran had presented a tManager.eAnyprodnuettwipDra able o fro l but be highly acceptable to the Public. jt was' however, given too late for this season, an d- wi ll ' therefore, most probably be consigned to one of L i' Winter Theatres. , . . • Tuesday last an ; .unhappy accident happened 0 - Wiiggresworth, in. Hertfordshire. • As Miss"v"i o dinath, the daughter of a reipeaable 'Paviouo he r Spa-fiehts, who was on a visit to her grandmotii,. in Hertfordshire,.vvas amusing herself• With her,c- ° h e sip, a fide young man about 24 years of ages ' inadvertently took up a loaded gun, and jocul ar lyt i c pointing it at his breast, it. unfortunately weuff,i; The contents went through his heart and killed P,, 0 on the spOt.—The poor girl, wh o i s not m ore ( ;: c o t 6 years-of age, has been in convulsions ever SP : the fatal accident took place. Yesterday morning. a 'countryman from Sr. E 0 trmeN. Bury, was aCCOited in Oxford_street bye, very, respedablelooking man, about 66 years of "gto .who, after some cimversation, persuaded Ili° b e take a glass of Lisbon at a public-house ii l " neighbourhood. On their being shewn-,iiii° a t romu, a Dittmond Cross, with a bill va;uilig . 1201 —was produced, which the ShArper asstire4 Countryman he had picked up in his cotrir 4 , n tl ii;l and that of course he 'was .entitied to.hatt: At" instant, fortunately for the tarsier, a. Gentle ul s , ) who had noticed the ' t r ansa cti on • in t he street , , e er far forgot the r u le s o f g o od b ree di n g as to obtsw on their .privacy, which so offended the Sh °}3 ,., that he immedi ate ly po c k ete d his.' valuable CO ) .. ";, and sneaked out o f . the.room, leaving the Co. man to discharge the demand f:or . Lisbuti and biscuit -The Amelia, Buhl in from Demerara to Bri stol, is put back t o S t , Kitt's, having sprung .iter.b.°'i sprit, : -