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Tii E LONDON. JOURNALS. SIT/CWT. - 4 FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, Febrztaly 1822. . . [MORNING POST.] 'ln the House of Commons, last night, the Chancellor of the Exchequer unfolded his plan for the reduction of the Five per Cents., the de tills'of which have already been laid before onr reltders.• if e stated.that the amount of the Bonus wOuld•add seven millions to the National - Debt, but that, notwithstanding this increase, the public would be benefited to the extent which had been originally announced. Mr. Ellice and Mr. Ma berley objected to the brevity of the time which was allowed to the holders of Five per Cent. Annuities to express their assent or dissent to- the measure, and wished that it should be lengthen ed from the 16th to the last day of March. The original resolutions, however, were passed with out any division, and in a Committee on the An nual Malt Duty, the Chancellor of the Exchequer afterwards fulfilled his promise of reducing that Tax one shilling per bushel. [BRITISH. PRESS.] The public, we are persuaded, will feet a very tincere gratification in learning from our report of the proceedings in, Parliament last night, that measures are about to be adopted seriously for relaxing the severity of our import laws. Mr. Wallace, in moving- for the re-appointment of the. Committee upon the Foreign Trade of the Empire, intimated that the attention of the Com mittee would he principally occupied by the consideration of this strbject. It is delightful to. witness the progress, though slow, of those sounds iinCiples'of political science which have been so admirably developed by our standard writers on commercial affairs, and it certainly heightens the. pleasure to find that they have at length forced their way into the 'Cabinet of our Ministers, as unhappily their success in that quarter was a necessary prelude to their eventual triumph. It mattered little to the advancement of foreign, commerce—little to the prosperity of the em pire, that the Marquis of Lansdown, or any other Member of Parliament, aided by the authorities of the ablest writers on political science, should expose the evils of the old system of restriction,. or point out the necessary benefits that must re sult from- relieving the industry, enterprize r and capital•of the empire from the paralyzing load of prohibitions and the curse of protections—such ,tfforts were all vain, and the words of wisdom fell heavily upon the ear of Parliament ; but now the Ministers have acknowledged the truth - of the doctrines, they have felt the necessity of sa crificing the prejudices and- interests of a few to the welfare of the many, and no further objec tion will be offered' by Parliament to the correc tion of its former errors. [TILE TIMES.] We have no space to comment on the financial project discussed last night in the House of Com mons. The subjoined clause of the Act by which the Navy , Five per Cents. were established, may perhaps inform many of our readers of a fact of which they were not before aware—namely, that this stock was, by the original contract, not to be reduced till after 25 millions of the then ex isting Three or Four per Cents. had been paid off. So far from that having been the case, the public debt (as was 'observed by Mr. Williams last night in the House of Commons) has been increased from '29.9,000,00U, its amount in 1792, to above 800,000,000/. In the mean time, it is obvious that a certain dread has been created in the money market of this country ; whilst all kinds of Foreign Stock have advanced with un precedented rapidity. French Stock has risen in London to 92 ; Spanish, which was only 59 on Friday, is now at 63 ; Prussian Stock is advanced. to 90 ; and Danish bonds from 81 to 86. We are sorry to sec money thus going from our funds. " And he it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the said annuities, after the rate of five pounds per cen t= per annum, shall be charged and chargeable upon, and payable out of, the monies which shall from time to time arise and be in the receipt of the Ex•:hequer, of the fund to be established in this session of Parliament, and: for which the fend, commonly called the Sinking Fund, shall he a collate ral security ; and that the said annuities shall be irredeemable until twenty-five millions of the public debt, bearing interest after the rate of either three pounds per oontum per annum, or four pounds per ceatmn per annum, shall have been re deemed and paid off."—Act 44 Geo. 111. " for granting An nuities to satisfy certain Navy, Victualling, and Transport Bills, and Ordnance Debentures."—Sec. 6. [NEW TIMES.] Accounts from Vienna to the WM inst. reached town yesterday by an extraordinary conveyance. They reiterate the pacific assurances which have so constantly been made from that capital, touch ing the negociations between Russia and' Tur key, and assure us that matters are definitively arranged. The Russian Ultimatum, which was some time ago stated to have been acceded to by. the Sublime Porte, with certain modifications, and forwarded to St. Petersburgh for the ratifi cation of the Emperor Alexander, is, in• these letters, 4tated to have met with a favourable attention from the Northern Autocrat. It is added, but we do not pledge ourselves for the truth of this statenient, that a copy of the document, with the Emperor Alexander's appro val, is in the possession of the Austrian• Cabinet. By the Army Estimates for the present year, it appears that out of a charge of six millions and a fraction, nearly two millions and three quarters are made up of half-pay and pensions, claims which, while they last, are as sacred as any that can. be made on the justice of the nation ; but which, in. the course of nature, every succeeding year must rapidly diminish. With the exception of the regiments in the East India Company's territories, the actual army on foot, for the pro tection of the most powerful empire in the world,. amounts to little more than sixty thousand rank and file !—And yet we are told by the most stupid, or the . most unprincipled of men, that England is verging towards a military despotism! [MORNING DIIRONICLE.] The question. in . which. so many individuals are now deeply. interested, namely, the Reduc ii= al ' the hive . per Cents. was yesterday brought forward . in a Committee of the House, .by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who intro duced his measure with an account of the Reduc tion of the Four per Cents. in 1749, by Mr. Pelham, on which he relied as a precedent.— Without opposing the measure, Mr. Ellice point ed out in a forcible manner a number of objec tions to which it was justly liable. He contended that it differed from the plan of Mr. Pelham ) in all its bearings, but more particularly in the con trast it presented of every thing that was trick ing, crooked', and uncandid, to the candour and fair dealing of the proposal of 1749. Why not, he asked, as a sacrifice must be made, propose to the holders of the 5 per cents.. gradually to re duce the interest,, and give them time fully to weigh their situation, by- a notice of three months, and then require theirassent, instead of their dis sent ? Besides these objections to the fairness of the- measure,. Mr. Ellice called also the attention of the House to several circumstances of great importance to a just consideration of it.—ln con sequence of the manner in which Government had proceeded', the Transfer-Office at the Bank had been attended by bona fide holders of small sums, for the last week, anxious to avoid the consequences of the measure r who had sold their all to the ready dealer in the Funds, and con verted it into Foreign Stock, so that French Rentes, Russian, Prussian, Danish, Spanish, Austrian, and even American Stocks had risen since the first announcement of this operation, and were still rapidly advancing.—On the whole, Mr. Ellice much doubted, whether, looking to all the circumstances in the situation of the country, this was- exactly the moment for the measure which was about to be attempted. r:I , IOTCNING _ _ There appears a, dreadful relapse into-outrage it) Ireland, and under circumstances of aggra vated atrocity. We should observe, however, that the Irish newspapers—at least, those of a local , circulation—heighten. the crimes of the wretched peasantry, by clumsy falsehoods,. and exaggerations of language at once base and bur- lesque. Yet one would think there was quite enough of horror in the bare reality. We shall abstain from recapitulating or remarking on the shocking enumeration of outrages brought by the last Dublin mail ; they are characterized not only by infuriate audacity,.but, if these accounts may be relied on, by that brutal savageness- of the passions, released from• all , legal and moral restraint, from which one turns away with disgust, in the humiliating conviction that 'man, when his bad instincts are called forth, is the most barbarous, cruet, and truly beastly (in the fair sense of the term)' of all animals. 1.1 any thing were necessary to prove the dreadful demoralization which the state of the disturbed parts of Ireland is• calculated to• perpetuate and increase, it is these recent outrages, and it was ,because we thought it desirable—nay, of the *last moment to the interests of humanity as well as of the state, that the measures of efficient operation, how-ever harsh, should be instantly adopted, that we saw no reason to censure the character of the two late Acts, and the haste with which they were carried through both Houses. But unless their harshness is justified and redeemed by the application of measures of another and a milder nature, there can be no language too strong to condemn those whose more particular duty it is on both sides of the Channel to attend to the Administration of Ireland. THE ARMY. DPtcrehments of the 18th, 28th, 51st, SOth,.and 85th regiments, are ordered to embark at Cowes, on board the Urania transport, for the Mediter ranean. The Barrack Department is to be transferred :o the Engineer Department of.the Ordnance. _ _ Lieutenant-General Sir Tnom.ts IhsLop, Bart. and G. C. 8., is appointed Colonel of the 93d Regiment, vacant by the death of Gen. IV EMYSS. ABSTRACT OF TIIE ESTIMATES OF AIME SERVICES, FOR • THE YEAR 1822.. - L- Total -, No. Total Amount. - - 64302 £2,532,469 14 6 118,909 18 , 7 131,582 19 26,356 12 6 185,569 19 8 Land Forces - - Staff' (exclusive of India) Public Departments Medicines. - Volunteer Corps I. Regiments in the East India Coin— pany'S Territories (exclusive of Recruiting Troops and Corn.. parries) Recruiting Troops and Compa nies for ditto Royal Military College Army Pay of General Officers• Garrisons Full Pay for Retired Officers Half Pay and Military Allowances Foreign Half Pay - In-Pensioners of Chelsea and Kil- 19,917 775,73 T. 3' 7 - 286 23,198 5 11 13,662 1 7 182,423 18 7 35,153 10 10 1464234 11 4 870;810 18 11 L 14,870 0 11 mainllam Hospitals Out-Pensionersof ditto Royal Military' Asylum Widows' Pensions • - . 58,912 14 4 - - . 1,181,147 9 9 .. 26,149 14 6 - - 124,276 19 2 Compassionate List, Bounty War— tants, and Pensions for Wounds Superannuation Allowances - Exchequer Fees - 179,202 0 5 43,958 11 9 33,000 0 0 Total - . - 89,065 6,795,623 5 0 Deduct—The Regiments for Ser vice in India - 19,977 775,731 3 7 Remains, exclusive of the Royal Veteran Battalions - I.V. Add, the Charge for the Vete ran Battalions - 69,033 6,019,892' 1 5 - 2,691 83.176 10 9 Remains to be provided for in 1822. - - • - 71,779 6,103,08,812 2 IVar-Offiee, Feb. 20, 1822. PALMERSTON. The amount of stock now existing, in the Navy Five per Cent. Annuities, created under the se veral Acts- of Parliament from the 24th Geo. 111. to rst Geo. IV. is 141,830,0571. 9s. 7d. We are assured that the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope has been so far iruproved, that the expenses during the two years' acting Go vernment of Lieut.-General Sir RUFFIN DONKIN, K.C.B. were all paid out of its revenues. The administration of its affairs by Sir It. DoNKIN gave great satisfaction to all classes of the Colo nists.—(Hampshire Telegraph.) A • Meeting of the County of Cambridge, on the subject of Agricultural Distress, will take place on Thursday next. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. , As the general Agricultural pressure speaks , too feelingly to be contradicted or resisted, and . tends to involve the whole community in one common ruin, it is the duty of every thinking man to turn his thoughts to the subject, and en deavour to contribute his mite to the public re lief by any suggestions in his power. To the writer of this it most plainly appears, that the limmediate distress of the country arises almost wholly from one cause, which removed, and some what assisted by certain collateral aids, all the distress arising from immediate pressure would at once be done away, and the country restored to what it was, at least within these two or three last years. Of all the weak or wicked measures that can be adopted by a great commercial coun try, unless urged by absolute state-necessity, is a change in its currency, which sets afloat all ex isting contracts, and wholly disarranges all the monied system of the kingdom. To make great efforts, when a country is struggling for exist ence, or the support of its constitutional rights, a measure of this kind may be adopted : and, in deed, in the long war in which we were lately engaged, nothing but a change of currency would have enabled us to have carried it on, or, indeed , have prevented us, in common with the rest ofl Europe, from becoming a dependant or province of France. By the establishment of payments in paper by the Bank, we carried on the war with that paper, supported by the general credit of the country, and in some years raised larger sums by those means than could have been produced by all the precious metals of Europe. In some years, 100 millions and upwards were raised in this way, enabling us to take the lead in Euro pean politics, and oppose with effect the over ruling despotism of our determined enemy, when all other nations, no longer able to resist his over ruling power, quietly submitted to his yoke.— When all those other nations tacitly acquiesced in his domineering influence, we alone single ' handed opposed it, and set that example which has finally been attended with such beneficial effects. Under this currency, necessarily sub jected to a certain degree of depreciation, when in concurrence with the precious metal,. were all our loans contracted, all our taxes laid, and every 'species of contract, public and private r adjusted, so as to create a perfectly new system, and alto gether substitute one species of currency for ano ther. At the termination of the war, a faction, always adverse to the real interests of the State, and , availing itself of every opportunity to clog the wheels of Government, raised a clamour on the subject of the subsisting paper currency, re minding Government of its original engagement of returning to the old metallic currency, as soon as the pressures arising from the war were at an end, and all the relations of commerce once more placed upon their ancient basis. In an evil hour did Government listen to these suggestions, and without duly weighing all the consequences of a total change of system, years before such a change could be effected with any degree of safety. to-the State, changed, by a single vote of the Commons, the whole currency of the King dom, altered all its contracts and relations, pub lic and private, and caused at once that general depression of prices, of which the whole commu nity, the funded portion of it almost alone ex cepted, has but so Much substantial cause to complain. It was at first calculated that the de- preciation would not exceed 2 or 3 per cent., but now they talk of 5, and if all things were duly appreciated 20 or 25 - per cent.. would not be found to exceed its real and' substantial amount. Sir It. PEEL, a gentleman, who, by his unwea ried attention to business, his intimate know ledge of it in all its bearings and relations, and a due application of capital, has accumulated an immense fortune, is reported to have said at the time, that he would not interrupt the unanimity of the vote of that Committee, of which his son, was Chairman, and most sincerely wished success to the measures about to be adopted, but that he totally differed in opinion with the Committee, and foresaw consequences which he was almost fearful of exposing in detail. That prophecy has been but too fully verified, and we have now to lament that, carried away by fine speeches and erroneous calculations, we are reduced to that pitch of distress, which pervades almost all ranks of Society,. and reduces some to the very verge of ruin. Was it not to be foreseen, that every million raised, every tux imposed, and every pub lic or private contract entered into under the sanction of one currency, could not be maintained without the greatest injustice under another totally different one. The contractor for a loan, on the part of Government, stands fairly entitled to the monies advanced, with the interest, the bonus, and all the advantages fairly attached to his contract, but upon no principle of common justice cart he stand entitled, over and above all these advantages, to receive more than he ad vanced, and having lent his capital subject to one species of currency to receive it under ano- ther of considerably higher value. This prin ciple, in fact, attaches to all contracts, public and private, and cannot be violated, without the most evident injustice. The sums borrowed be come increased in substantial value, and the taxes raised for their security in a like ratio, whilst the improvident private debtor finds his lands mortgaged to a much greater extent than was ever in contemplation, whilst his means are sen sibly diminished by the depreciation of his lands, and all their articles of produce. In fact, to the unhappy debtor, mortgager, or otherohe candle may be said to be lighted at both ends, his pay ments being increased, and his means of payment diminished at the same time, and in a like ratio, so that a large portion of the landed property of England must almost immediately change hands, and be transferred to the mortgagee, or to any other party, to whom the auctioneer can sell them to the best advantage. Can any thing be more unjust or mo re decidedly opposed to every principle of fair dealing, and can any community maintain itself under such discouraging circum stances ? It is commonly said depreciation has reached its lowest ebb, and that things will very shortly find their level, and come round to firm and fixed principles. Even were it so, that very depreciation is, for the present, ruinous, nor can agriculture support itself under its pressure; but that is not in fact the case : an erroneous prin ciple once adopted and persevered in, daily and hourly goes from bad to worse, and so far from reverting to a right course, and leading the wea ried traveller to the end of his journey in ease and safety, the further he pursues his course the further is he deviating from that which he ought to pursue, every step leading him further from the object of his attainment. It seems quite be side the purpose to say you have already done sufficient mischief by trifling with your currency, do not hazard a greater by further trifling with the same edged tool, for what is this but an acknow ledgment of the error you have committed, and furnishing the very worst of reasons why you should not acknowledge your error, retread your steps, and reduce things to that state in which it found them_ previous to that injurious vote, by which the whole currency of the Kingdom was at once completely changed. It is with dif ficulty that any private individual is brought to confess his errors and retread his steps, and with much greater is Government, actuated by good and honourable motives, yet assailed by powerful factions, both from within and without the walls of Parliament, to be brought to that confession which gives its opponents evident advantages, and enables them to hold up the power of the State to the contempt and derision of the people. Yet where power, and good sense, and honour able intentions exist, the magnanimity of such confession would be approved by every honour able and well-intentioned mind, and very shortly reap the fruits of its concession in general applause. In the present instance you have only to rescind the destructive vote complained of, and restore the Bank restrictions to that state in which the nation has flourished for the last 20 years, and so far the mischief is at once remedied : years of uninterrupted peace and a flourishing commerce may, in the course of time, render your paper fully equal to your metallic currency —but till then the adoption of a totally different system is premature and destructive in the highest degree. It is well for Mr. R. and the great fund - holders to hear that the revenue is flourishing ; that a surplus of upwards of 5 mil lions is found to meet the demands of public creditors, &c. they cannot receive more delightful intelligence, or in fact be placed on a better foundation than they at present stand. Their monies, borrowed under one currency, are to be paid under anotHer greatly more beneficial, whilst all the articles of life are furnished them at de preciated prices, so that whilst the poor agricul turist is beat to the earth by an increase of taxes, and a diminution of the means of paying them, the fundholder is in , the enjoyment of a much larger revenue, and that too considerably in creased in value by that very distress of which the landed proprietor so feelingly and justly com plains. What was one thousand pounds under the Bank Restriction Act is now in fact some• hundred pounds more, whilst every pound pur chases nearly twice as much at market as it did before, through the general depreciation of prices, principally•caused by this change of currency.— Much has been said about supply and demand, and it is certain the one must be proportionably regulated by the other, in favourable seasons ; if the soil, under good cultivation, yields more than the community can consume, prices will neces sarily fall, and to that the landholder must sub mit; be may possibly be compensated in quantity for a certain depreciation of price,but whether so or not, he has but to submit, in common with all his fellows, to• the disposition of Providence ; but when any great disarrangement of things takes place, of which the oppreision felt is in conse quence of the errors of the ruling Powers of the State, he naturally and necessarily complains, l and when he peremptorily points out the evils, and calls for redress, it is the duty of a just and benevolent Government to listen to him. In the humble opinion of the writer, let the complained of vote be rescinded, and a very considerable portion of the mischief is at once remedied. In addition to this, let the Minister consent to the repeal of one, no very considerable tax, not more than equal to the reduction of one shilling, as proposed on the Wit Duties, and the whole evil is at once done away. That is, the taking off the stamp duties on the notes and bills of all private bankers, which now nearly equals the interest gained upon them,.and renders all accommodation to the farmer and others impracticable ; the banker would• then. be able to assist the farmer, as on former occasions, with advances to pay his rents, his tythes, and his taxes, and place the whole agricultural system on that flourishing footing, which would afford an ample rent to the land lord, and to the tenant not merely the means of scanty subsistence, but comparative opulence.— With regard to the Corn Laws, they are cer tainly most egregiously defective, and require early amendment; but that is a wide subject, and requires more attention than the writer is at this momentable to give to it ; besides, the pushing two points at once may tend to defeat both ; let only an immediate remedy be applied to an immedi ate evil, and the rest may follow in course. When the prices of agricultural produce are raised, so as to give an adequate rent to the proprietor, and a decent maintenance to the farmer, on the skil ful and prudent application of his labour ; we shall then see most plainly the principal defects of the existing Corn Laws, and be enabled to apply those remedies by which a home market could be secured to us without pressure to the commu nity at large. That low prices and high taxes are incompatible is self evident; so that if nothing be done to raise the one, it is impossible that the other can be productive, nor will it be less so for the revenue to meet the expectations of the Minister or the exigencies of the State, if prices continue as they are, to the utter destruction of the productive orders of the community. Although it has been already urged that common justice will not permit that what has been borrowed or contracted for under one system of Currency shall be enforced under another of a very diffe rent description, yet as a due consideration of the subject is of the highest importance, the writer must be permitted again to inforce, and it cannot be too often repeated, that every million borrowed, every tax imposed, every pension granted, and every salary created or increased under one currency, cannot be transferred to ano ther without the most evident and crying injustice, whereby one portion of the great community is placed wholly at the feet of the other, without any possible compensation whatsoever. Many of those who contributed to the destructive vote in qtfestion were not aware of those necessary consequences, or they would not, they could not, at one single stroke of the pen, have disturbed all existing comforts, and placed the whole monied system of the Kingdom upon so unjust and so destruc tive a foundation. The powerful promoters of this measure were probably actuated by honour able intentions, but the sincerity of those inten tions will be shewn by a confession of their error, and their endeavouring to undo all the mischief they have occasioned by the shortest and best means in their power. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD THIS WEEK. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread throughout the Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be lOjd. the Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sell the Quartern Loaf / from one penny to two pence lower. lb. oz. 1 b. oz. Peck Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 Quartern Loaf t o weigh 451 Half ditto.. ditto .... 8I I Half Quartern ditto .. .2 2i IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Irish. Foreigis. Wheat ........-....- ...... 16,103 --- 900 Barley ..- 8,582 -. —„.. Malt - ....m.....1 Oats - .-..--, Rye l4. ...-...-. .: Beans . 3,088 .......... .. -...: -..- Peas - Tares 69 -- Rapeseed - Mustard Seeds - 841 130 '--..- Flour - -- Brank Linseed ',, 59 .--.. PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Feb. 22. Pockets. I Bags. Kent.. 21 las a4l Os a5l Os Kent .. 21 los a3l 10s a4l 159 Sussex.. 21 lOs a3l2s a 3i lOs Sussex 21 6s a2l 14s a3l 35 Essex —2l 16s a3l 15s a4l 10s Essex.. 21 149 a3l lOs a4l 4s Farnham. fine, 71 to 101 Os—Seconds, 41 lOs to 71 7s SEEDS, Feb. 25. Red Clover (Foreign) 26 s 42s— fi ne, 54s 68s per cwt. Ditto English 28s 40s—fine new, 56s 75s ' White ditto 34s 50s—fine, 63s 68s Rye-Grass ... l4s to 24s per qr. Turnip Seeds. —s Od 32s to 46s pr. bush. White Mustard Seed Bs to lOs 6d Brown ditto lOs to 15s Od Red and Green ... —s Od to —s Od ' Carraway Seeds 565 to 65s—fine, 67s Coriander do lOs I4s 15s Cinque Foin 3Bs to 39s—fine —s per qr. Trefoil Ribgrass ... 2Bs 375—f1ue,45s 46s Canary per qr —s 38s to 44s Od per qr. Linseed 46s 48s—fine, 52s 54s per qr. . Rape Seed Winter Tares SMIIHFIELD MARKET. —Feb. 25. (To sink the Offal—per Stone of albs.) Beef.. ..... -. 2s 4d to 3s ad I Veal: " 3s 0,1 to 5s 4d Mutton .... 2s id to 4s Od Pork , 2s Od to 4s 0.1 Lamb Os Od to Os Od • HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. Beasts. 2,479 I Cakes 164 Sheep 16,740 I Pigs 240 NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. ' . By the Carcasc. Beef 2s Od to as Od I Veal Q s 8d t o 5 3 od Mutton .......2s od to ss Od f Pork .2s Od to 4s od Lamb, 05 od to Os Od. Si'. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, Feb. 23. Hay.... 31 Os Od to 41 4s Od Clover, .... 31 lOs to 41 10s Straw.. 11 5s 6cl to 11 19s Od SMITHFIELD. 31 lOs Od to 41 4s od--Average, 31 156 Od Straw Chwer.......81 153 Od to 41 lOs Oa - Average, 41 0 ; od IVHITECHAPEL. Hay Si lOs Od to 41 4s Od---Average, 41 6s od New ditto... 01 Os Od to 01 Os od-Average, of Os od Straw ll 8s Od to 11 16s ad-Average, 11 Its od Clover 4l Os Od to 5! Os Od-Average, 4! lOs od RAW HIDES. Best Heifers & Steets; per st. Ordinary 25 Od to ts 2d Qs 84 to 3s 04 Market Calf .. each.. los Od Middlings 2s 4d to 2s 6d Eng. Horse Os Od t o. O s Od SHEEP SKINS. Polled Downs 4s Od to 5s 3d f Lambs , Os Od to ()sod PRICE OF LEATHER. - • Butts, 50 to 561hs each per lb 21d to 22d Ditto, 51 to 661bs each 52d to 24d Dressing Hides 17d to 18d Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting 17id to 180 Ditto .... 45 to 50Ibs Calf Skins..:3o to 401bs 22d to 27d Ditto 50 to 701bs tsd to 34d Ditto 7O to 801bs • 264 to 28d Small Seals (Greenland) 184 to 20d Large ditto ...1511 to ISd Tanned Horse Hides ' 164 to :80 Spanish Horse Hides lBd to 22d PRICES OF TALLOW Town Tallow 56s Cd —s Od Yellow Russia 59s Od —s ad White ditto .. 523 od —s O& Soap ditto.... 49s Od —s ad Melting Stuff 40s Od —s Od Ditto Rough.. 30s Od —s Od PRICE OF CANDLES, FROM TALLOW CHANDLER'S HALE.. Price of Candles, per dOzen, 9s 6d--.Moulds, lis Od. 6d per dozen allowed for ready money. , SOAP, &c. par 11216. IYellow Soap 845 Mottled 949 Curd Graves Good Dregs 7s PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of 81b.—Feb. 23. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters), 3s lid FOREIGN W Span. Sheep. s. d. s. d. Leonesa 3 G a 4 6 Segovia 3 0 a 3 9 Soria 2 9 a 3 3 Seville .pOLS, per lb. s. d. s. d• Saxony, Ist .. 5 6 a 7 3 2d.,4 0 a 5 " 3 Bobem. Ist .. 4 9 a 7 6 36a 4 0 PRICE 0 SUGAIt. REFINED. Single Loaves.... 79s a sos. Double do lo6s a 108 s. Hanthro'........ 81s a 835. Bastards........ 60s a 70r. Molasses Candy, Brown HAW. Jamaica, Brown s3s a 59s Middling Good Antigua, Brown s2s a 57s Middling Good COAL MARKET, Feb. 25. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 804. Newcastle egi Sunderland COUNTRY MARKET. GUILDFORD MARKET, Feb. 23. Wheat per 1. 01 os to 01 Os Barley, new, 01 17s .10 11 25 New Wheat .. Si Os to 171 lOs Beans, per qr.ll isto 11 105 Oats, per qr... 01 14s to 11 5s Peas e , p er qr . 11 3 s to 1 1 75 New ditto. ... 01 os to 01 Os Rye, per qr. 11 2s to 11 55 BIRTHS. On Sunday morning lasi,tiiel.aay of H. D. Lowndes, Es+, of a son. On the 20th inst. in Rutland-square, Dublin, the lion. LadY Levinge, of a daughter. MARRIAGE. On the 13th inst. at Curas Park, Richard Martyn, Est• of Galway, to Lucy Anne, eldest daughter of Mark Lynch, Bscl , of Duras Park. DIED. On the Oth of September, at Ooruckpore, in the East Indies, Jane Grant, wife of Robert M. Bird, Esq. Judge and Magic' trate of that place. Oa Saturday last, at his house in the Cloisters, Windsor, pr. G. Heath, Canon of Windsor, and Fellow ofEton College. Printed and Published, • for the PROPRIETORS, at the §vii* OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.