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, ~, ~_ ~,~✓ )ughout be 9d. Lua:, NUMBER 9237.1 STATIQNERI OFFICE, MARCH 30, 18s2. NORWICH UNION SOCIETY. T'lE -COMVTROLLER and STORE KEEPER of. this OFFICE are ready to receive TEN bEItS for the Supply of Paper, Pens, atal Quills, for the Public Service. mittee, therefore, cannot avoid suggesting, whether, tinder a full view of all the circumstances, it may, not be the duty of Parliament to turn its immediate attention to the ruinous con= sequences which must follow an unlimited importation and free sale of the surplus prodUce of the whole agricultural world, which is known at, this time to be in a state of glut, at least equal to what prevails within this kingdom, no less impe -1 tient for, and unprovided with a market, with a commodity raised at much less charge than our own, which the proprietors would be ready to sell even at a considerable Joss, rather than not dispose of it at all. The excessive inconvenience and impolicy of our present system have been so fully treated, and so satisfactorily exposed in the report already alluded to (p. 10 and 12), that it is untie .cessary to do more than refer to it; adding only, that every 1 thing which . has happened subsequent to the presentation of that report, as well as all our experience since 1815, has more and more tended to demonstrate how little reliance cis be placed upon a regulation which contains an absolute prohibi tion up to a certain price, and an unlimited competition be yond that price ; which, so fai from affordin steadiness to our market, may a t one ti me r e d uce prices already too low still lower than they might have been even under a free trade ' . and, anoth Unnecessarily enhance prices already too high ; , which tends toaleteravate the evils of scareity," an d render more severe the depressant of prices from abundance. The mode in which these excessive inconveniences may re ceive.some modification (laying for the presentout of the ques tion what permanent basis may be ultimately the fittest for our corn trade) appears to consist in the imposition of a duty, uppn all fOreign corn, whenever upon opening our ports it should be admissible for home consumption. The occupier of the land would thus obtain, in proportion to the amount of such duty, a protection which is withheld from him under the existing law ; but in return for such protection, it is no more than reasonable towards the consumer, that the import price should be fixed at a rate somewhat lower than 805., because the new duty would otherwise not only check the sudden and overwhelming amount of import, but alsO enhance the price beyond that which it might reach tinder , the present system ; nor m us t it b e l os t sight of in any futur e regulation, that owing to. the great al teration in our currenby, 80s. may and do now.reties . ent a dif ferent and consider a bly hi g h er va l ue t h an in 1815, astseasured by the price of all articles of consumption. Should Parliament decide to legislate during the present Session, your Committee would recommend that, after our wheat shall have reached 80s., whenever circumstances, not now to be foreseen, may have effected so great a' change, a lower price may be assumed for the future import, subject to a duty. - . When the importers know that their grain can in no - ease come into the market without paying a certain sum as . duty, besides the charges of importation, warehousing, and other in cidental expences, they will ba s .less ready to adventure rashly than under an entirely freessuside ; they,islll also withdraw their corn, which may be lextied in warehouses gradually, and with more circumspection, than they do at present, and will naturally endeavour to feed the market rather than inundate it. It is now their interest to take their whole stock, immense as it may be, at once from under the King's lock; but when they Must pay duty for every quarter which is removed, they will pru. dently calculate the time that any large stock may remain on hand before they cart dispose of it to adiditstge, The foundation of any future Bill shoTt ld 111 the principle of so far modifying the operation of the existing law as to obviate, as far as may be, by the imposition of reasonable duties upon the admission of foreign grain for home consumption, the sud den and irregular manner in which such foreign grain may now be introduced upon the opening of the ports under circum stances inconsistent with the spirit and intentions of the law. For carrying this purpose into effect, it would be expedient, after the ports shall have opened at 110 s. (subject to a scale of duty hereafter to be fixed) to presetve the principle of an im port price at a rate somewhat lower than the existing import price of 80s., and your Committee are of opinion., that 70s. would not be an improper limit to assign to that price. That a duty f rom 12 s . t o 15 s . s h ou ld b e i mpose d upon f ore i gn wheat for home consumption, when the a rice is from 70s. to 80s. TO THE EDITOR. Sri--I have just Made—no, not made—but been assisted to a discovery which fills me with indignatiOn—l am, Sir, an insurer with the Norwich Union Fire,Office, and of course insured under two expeCtations ; the one, that if I had a lOss by fire, I should be repaid; the other, that I should get some dividend, or return of premium, at the end of 5, certain term. Printed particulars will be delivered, and'Samples of the Articles required will be .exhibited at the Storekeeper's Office, from ftleren o'Clock until Three, for twenty-eight days from the Date Iferqo' q;_TTING TICKETS for the FOURTH. and LAST DAY of DR-AWING FIRST LOTTERY for 1621. LOTTERY-OFFICE,. • SOM ERSET-PLACE, April 1, 1822. THE MANAGERS_ and DIRECTORS of the LOTTERIES dO hereby give Notic ; e, That Nism hers of Tickets and Shares thereof in all preedingLotteries may be examined at this Office every day (Sundays 'excepted), : Svith their Registers of. Benefits and Blanks Atiti l the said Managers and Directors ;;) hereby give further Notice, that they will cut °tithe Advent arers' Tickets 'to be put into the Wheel before the Last Day of Drawing the First Lottery for 1821, into. pox A, on Tmsday, the lath i tiltanf, at Eleven o'Clock in.the forenoon, at this Office. And the Laid Managers and Directors, do hereby give f'..w Ler Notice, that they will attend and oversee the Drawing of the said Last Day of the said First - Lottery for 1821, on Tuesday, the e3d instant, at Coopers' Hall, in Basinghall street, within the City of London. P "Well, Sir, I had a fire, got paid the whole amount,of my loss, • and a year or two, after received my dividend, and was mightily well satisfied till to-day, when I chanced to read Mr. 13EA'u/uoarr's excellent Letters against the Norwich Union Office. By these I find that I and, all the .other members are " deluded and disappointed." I certainly was not conscious of all this ; ,but it must be fadt, ItECAIISE MR. BtAUMONT says so," and of course I am 'in a great rage to find that I actually am miserable without knowing it. I shall lake care to give vent to my wrath at the next general meeting of -die Society; but mean time, that I maybe able . to Make a good speech on the occasion, will thank 'Mr. BEAt. MONT to favour me with a little instruction, that I may ex.: plain now I am " deluded," "disappointed," and" injured;" for, to confess the truth, as I have been paid my loss and my dividend, I can'tlee clearly what my injury is. I am, Sir, your's, &c. Banbury, March PLAINWAY. P. S. I am credibly info} ed that my case, as above stated, is that of 3,000 individ.uaisAtho have sustained losses by fire, and of near 511,000 persons who have received dividends of profit of the Norwich Uniop Office. pUBLIC MONUMENT to GEORGE 111. The BUB-00311111TTEE appointed to promote this great National Work, have to state, for the information of the Subscribers, Nobility, Gentry, and Public at large, that Mr. WYATT has already made considerable ,progress in exe cuting the of the Group. The design consists of a Sta tue of . his late Majesty George the Third, in a car drawn by four horses, accompanied bg figures of Fame and Victory. The Whole to be executed in bronze, and raised on a massive pe .4estal of granite, containing, on the four sides, bas reliefs re .llTc:setting his late Majesty encouraging the Fine Arts, on one ; n il another, Agriculture ; on a third, Religion ; and on a f ourt h, f:ccumerce. The whole group to be considerably larger than and to be erected in a conspicuous part of the British Me tropolis. LAW INTELLIG ENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.—TuEsnAv, APItrL 2. POINT OF PRACTICE.. JUDGMENT. The Lord CHANCELLOR this day adverted to the case of Mr. Schroder, who lately applied to his Lordship to receive a Bill in Chancery without the signature of Counsel being first affixed to it. He particularly adverted to the c a se re p or t e d by Mr. Dickens, in which he observed there were many very in tricate questions, as they bore on the present case. He had also taken into consideration the suggestions of Mr. Schroder, and had referred to the various cases cited. Lord Hard wicke had decided, that the practice was, settled, that no Bill could be received unless Counsel had signed it, and in this he appeared to be borne out by the general which had ex isted since the memory of man. His Lordship cited a /lumber of cases in support of his opinion, and remarked that Sir Tho mas More and all the Barons of the Exchequer were of the same opinion. His Lordship, under these circumstances, could not think of making any ord.er contravening the practice so long settled. ENOTAPH.—Mr. WYATT has the ho nour to ',inform the Subscribers to the Cenotaph in Me -1407, of her Royal Highness the late PRINCESS CHAR 2icorTE, that all the Figures are completed in Marble, and °Pen, for gratuitous public inspection during the present week at 19, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square.--April 1, 1822. NEWPORT, PEMBROKESHIRE. TO be SOLD, to the best Bidder, before , ABEL MO YSEY, Esq., Deputy, Remembrancer of tne Court of Exchequer, on the 14th day.of May, 1822, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, at his Office, Mitre-court Buildings, Inner Temple, London, pursuant to an Order of th e sa id C ourt Made in a Cause " The KING against JOHN OWEN , " a FREEHOLD ESTATE, consisting of a Messuage or i Dwelling-house, with the Appurtenances, situate in the Town ' .. of Newport, in the County of Pembroke, lately seized into the , King's hands, under a Writ of Extent.—Partieulars may shortly be had, gratis, at the Office of the said Deputy Remem brancer, No. 17, Mitre-court Buildings, Temple, London ; ~. e e Fisbguard Arm, in Fishguard; the Castle, Newport; and ....:._ ,liibila , . th Angel, Cardigan. 8 Mr. Schroder addressed his Lordship, and submitted that the persons who had been concerned in the cases which his Lordship had cited, employed an Attorney who was an officer of the Court, and had thus given up his inherent right. He (Mr. Schroder) had not done this, and humbly submitted that he was justified in acting as he had.l He concluded by thank. ing his Lordship for the kindness he had evinced in hearing him so tiently. The pit LORD CHANCELLOR remarked, that no thanks were due to him for what he did in the performhnce of his public duty ; but he was firmly convinced that he could not alter the standing orders of the Court, and therefore the signature of Counsel must be affixed to every bill before it was filed, and the present application of course dismissed. His Lordship said, that it might be convenient to inform the Gentleman at the Bar, that he should not be able to stay longer than two o'clock ; but if the House of Lords should adjourn over for the holidays, he would make Thursday a long day. Also : , that a duty of ss. should be imposed upon such wheat, when the price is from 80s. to 855. ; a ft er w hi c h t h e d uty s h ou ld be reduced to ls. And that.a further additional duty of ss. should be imposed upon wheat imported or taken out of warehouse for home cOn sumption, for the first three months after the ports open, and when the price is from 765. to 85s. And for the purpose of rectifying the scale which governs the import, the general proportion which the price of oats bears to the price of wheat, appearing to exceed the proportion which was assumed to exist when 275. was fixed as the import price of oats, your Committee suggest that it would be expedient to increase that] price, so as to bear a more accurate proportion to the price of wheat. The scale at which barley is estimated appearing to be more correct than that of oats, the same proportion which it now bears to wheat appears fit to continue, under any future alteration of the import COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT':- STREET, LONDON. PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES. The DUKE of NORFOLK, The DUKE of RUTLAND, The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD BRAYBROOKE, LORD KING, &c. &c. And Sixty Direetors. IManaging Director, J. 'l'. Barber Beaumont. Esq....F.A.S. ILNE WALS on Fire Insurance due at Lady 'licit*D wi ay mus be vt be paid within. 15 days therefrom,,or the lloid. 6 In the' above Offices, Permaneut Capitals, amounting to t 4 0,0001. have' been formed in addition to the fluctuating ePital arising from the Premiums ; which together consi _ erabiy exceed a Million Sterling. f Claims have been paid to Thirteeu Hundred a nd Fifty S u f. ti e .tra from fire, without a single Litigation. The Profits are ,! i ltled amongst 'those who now insure, as well as the Ori. " 14 1 Members, in just proportion to their respective Pay_ Lents. sire n inv a riab ly ce, Returns of 20 and 25 per Cent. have si paid to all Persons who have continued in -I,4;ed Seven Years, un Annual as well as upon Septennial ( 'lleieswhich Retur nsdosing the last Eight Years amount 4 , 3 6,0001. 40 "1 the Life Of fi ce, Bonuses of 131.85. and 261.125. t oge th er Per cent. have been divided during the last fourteen years. The 6th, 7th, Bth, and 9th clauses of the Act which regu lates the importation of corn make provision for admitting corn, meal, or flour, being the growth, produce, Or manufacture of any British colony or plantation in North America, for home consumption, when British wheat is at a lower price than 80s.; with regard to which colonies, it w ill b e consis tent with goOd faith and sound policy to preserve the same relative preference above foreign corn, in the event of any future alteration being applied to the scale ,of prices or of duties. In compliance with an application made to them by several of the owners of the foreign grain now stored in warehouses, your Committee have already recommended, that permission may be granted, unde r sufficient and adequate regulations, to convert it into flour, and ex p or t it i n t h at s h ape, by which means some portion of this large stock Will he carried out orthe ! kingdom, and remove all apprehension that the quantities so ground down can ever enter into competition with our home produce : but in the event of a large portion not being thus disposed of, and still remaining in store, it appears practicable to adopt a method which may render this remainder also advan tageous, rather than detrimental, in its effect upon the value of British corn, whenever the average price of our wheat shall have risen to 703. and fluctuate between 70s. and 80s.; for if it be then allowed to be taken out for home consumption, subject to a duty of 17s. per quarter for the first threeinonths, and after wards to a duty of 125., the interest of the proprietors of this grain will be brought strictly into unison with that of the Bri tish agriculturist, and into direct hostility to that of all other importers of foreign grain ; so that every endeavour will be resorted to, on their part, to advance the-pricelo 70s. 'that they may liberate their own stock ; but to keep it below 80s. that they may exclude all foreign competitors. The equitable .claim which! the holders qf the grains already deposited under the Act of the 55th dg the lateting, appear to prissess,will thus be bene ficially preserVed to them, and the danger of an immense influx of fohign produce will be mitigated and deferred, if not wholly prevented. Just published, price ss. td. Bvo. A PRACTICAL TREATISE on NER KIAL VOUS and BILIOUS . COMPLAINTS with agi new :thod of Curin Strictures without tke use of Boue or qustic. With an Appendix on the Diseases of Women and " By JOHN LYNCH, 44, Duke•street, St. James's. • Sold by Win. Crawtoid, Sun: 124, Cheapsille. SELECT ARTICLES. P• REPARED- only by MESSRS. BUTLER, t Chemists, No. 4, Cheapsid e , St. P au l' s , an d in t Regent - street, ' near the Argyl e R ooms , L on d on ; Wa ml°o-Plbace, Edinburgh; and Sackville• street, Dublin. C PLUM EXTRACT of SARSAPARILLA, (Simple and ,?' l3 l l ound), for, making the Decoctions, and .particularly ,c'gested to' the for its portable convenience and 3 °tunny. OPERIENT SODAIC POWDERS, forming an agreeable and..it; the. same time acting as armild and pleasant a!ive, relieving, Heart bnrn, Bile, Indigestion, Nausea, 'Wily in the Stomach, &c. CARBONATED S9.OAIC, GINGER BEER, and LE -11,9114DE POWDERS, for producing the much-esteemed of. the sdure tia 4 • 4 , -,TRATP,'D 'KALI, for makng lie Drauhts, recom ended by the,ProtessiOn for its i ve Saline connie n g nce, as more certain operation th an those prepared with Lemon. 'l4l CARDIA TINCTURE of TURKEY RHUBARB, a warm pleasan C t Laxative, adapted to Gouty Coast ituiions. EF FLORESCENT EPSOM SALTS; the disagreeable fla 'l`4)ll 1. which genera ll y accompan i es Epson) Salts, is greatly' ° rtated in this ' preparation; besides which, only half the quantity is required for the dov!. 1) CONCRETE JUICE of LIME, for Punch, Limade, S a lin e 'alights, Ices Jellies or any other purpose where the flavour °f L emon is required. OPODELDOC, an excellent application for su (allayin g th e i rr i tat i on ) , used also with much ccess in cases of Rheumatism, Sprains •r BITTER TINCTURE', a very agreeable "10, recommended in Indigestion, debility of the Sto roach, &c, COMPOUND TINCTURE of POMEGRANATE, as an astringent much used in Affections of the Bowels, indicat lu'g Relaxation Diarrlicea &c. Vie ' * TINGE ABLE TOOTH POWDER, and ASTRINGENT Ni:CTURE, for the Teeth and Gums, mach approved. :* The above Preparations, when Genuine, will have Messrs. BUTLER'S Name and Address attached to them, It must of course be left optional to the proprietors in ques tion to 040 themselves of This permission or to abide by the eonditions of the existing law, und er which they imported; but in the4irst case, the payment of a • moderate duty will enable them, at an earlier period, to enter a market over which they may exercise some' control c,otijitintly with all the dealers . in British corn; whil4,in the other, hey can hardly expect to stem the torrent of fetreign produce poured in upon our exist ing supply, and the immediate depression of value which must unavoidably accompany it. If the circumstances of • this country should. hereafter allow the trade in corn to be permanently settled Upon a footing con• stantly open to all the world, but subject to such a fixed and uniform duty as might compensate to the British grower the difference of expense at which his corn ,can be raised and brought to market, together with the fit rate of profit upon the capital employed, compared with the ..txpense of production, and other charges attending corn groNn and imported from abroad, such a system would in many respects be preferable to any modification of regulations depending uppn average prices,. with an ascending and descending scale of duties; be cause it would prevent the effects of combination and specula tion, in endeavouring to raise or depress these averages,and ren der immaterial those inaccuracies which, from mismanagement or negligence have occasionally produced, and m a y aga i n produce, such mischievous effects upon our market ; but your Committee rather look forward to • such a system as fit to be kept in view for the ultimate tendency of our law, than as prac ticable within any short or definite period. A protecting duty which might at this day be hardly sufficient to guard our home market from the most overwhelming competition, might, when the excessive abundance on the Continent shall have been ab -sorbed, operate against the real wants of this kingdom, and subject the growers, as well as t h e consumers , to the greatest inconveniences. Years of dearth may again make it indispen sable to have recourse to foreign produce for a part of our sup- 6: vy - 1 C \ 4 • • 1 • if • % v Av s • h "r" (` 441‘1741'' "I jie (k t r/ /18 .77.fraTe,iitil AN‘ '' • . , .• • _ - • PRICE SEV_ENPENCit, ply,, although in seasons of oidinary plenty it may v.::" . ... that our own ag r i cu lt ure h as b een so improved and. ext as to secure this kin g doM s frort a state of depend ence - ;•zt other, and eventually hostile, territori es - f or th e subsiste; 2 ,I its population. - -. --------- 4 Your Commtttee have felt it their duty, for obviOus reitei* to lay without further delay before the House, the result of their deliberations ; but they would consider that they had, omitted a most material part of the task imposed upon them; ie they neglected to inquire into the present syStem upon whys .". foreign coin is warehoused. Your Committee are now e , -- gaged in carefully investigating this important subject, at , .i they will not fail to report the result to the House as ea:ly J., A .., the nature of their inquiry will pormit. . April 1, 1822. THE SLAVE 'TRADE. A series of papers relativ - e to the Slave Trad , :. on the coast of Africa has been - printed 1Y order of the House ~of Commonsh It consists of three .letters 'from Sir CIIA R•L'E:4 -. 3 .l<`.CAitzg4, the tioyernor •of Sierri Leone, which prote-dr?' increased state of that horrible traffic. A memorandum enclosed in one of these letters, dated Sieira Leone. the 22d January, 1822, describing the proceedings of the British cruisers for,the last six months on the Leeward coast, states, that the Myrmidon, Captain Leeke, on arriving at the Bonny, found that river swarming with slave vessels tinder dif, ferent flags, eight of them French, of which four had their in human cargoes on board. Capt. Leeke had also ascertained. on good authority, that the numb er o f s l ave cargoes taken out of the Bonny, from July 1820, to October 1821, was actually 190 • and a similar return from the .Calabar for a like period, made a total of 162. On . the same coast, in Octoberythe Snap. per, Lieutenant Knight, in the course of ten days, fell in with nine slave ships, of which eight were French. The memoran dum then proceeds to describe the state of the slave trade on the Windward Coast.—The following is an extract :—The renewal of the traffic in human beings on the Windward Coast must be viewed by every friend to humanity with deep re gret ; accompanied as that renewal has been with cruel wars amongst the hitherto peaceful natives ; the arrival of a slave ship in any of the adjacent rivers is the signal for attack ; the hamlets of the natives are burned, and the miserable survivors carried and sold to the slave factors. The line of coast from the island of Goree to the mouth of the Gambia, and from thence to the Portuguese establishments . of Cacheo and Bissao, would s ee m t o b e t h e pr i nc i pa l seat o f this guilty traffic to windward. From this quarter, in addition to the Q . dinary exportation in large v esse ls, a ver y e x tens i ve carryi , ade is kept up with the C a p e d e V er d I s l an d s, prin cipally the small craft belonging t o G o ree an d S enega l . The s ave traders at Cacheo have lately given their traffic in the Rio Grand° a new feature of barbarous atrocity: they visit this river in armed sloops and boats, landing during the night, and carrying off as many as possible of the truly wretched in habitants. An appeal to this colony has been lately made on behalf of three villages lately ravaged in this manner. The fine rivers Nunez and Pongas are entirely tinder the control of renegado European and American slave-traders : most of the sk i ies sent from the former river find their way to Cacheo and t Cape Verds, front whence it is said they are shipped as domestics to the Brazils. A French schooner, M. Dees, Master, took on board 9.5 slaves ; and a Spaniard, commanded by one Morales, also shipped MO, some time since in the Rio i , ongas. This rivet not long ago was considered too hear this Colony to be ap- . proached with impunity by slave vessels. A general. ide a of the traffic to windward may therefore be formed from the cir , cumstance, that latterly a great number of slaves have been exported from the Pongas, and that slave vessels may always be found lying there. Fitom THx.-LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 9-, WHITtRALL, APRIL 1, 1822. The King has been pleased to appoint a Robe to be worn by the Preses and Members of the Society of Incorporated Solidi. tors practising in the Supreme Courts in Scotland. WHITEHALL, APRIL 1, 1822. The King has been pleased to give and grant until Elisabeth Anne Hunt, of Shaw Place, in the County of Berks, widow and relict of Charles Henry Hunt, late of Goldicote, in the county of Worcester, Esq. deceased, only daughter of James Pettit Andrews, late of Brompton, in the county of Middle sex, Esq. sister to Sir Joseph Andrews, late of Shaw Place aforesaid, Bart. both also deceased, and sole heir to her said father and brother, his Royal licence and authority, that she may re-assume and take her family surname of Andrews only, and also bear and use the armorial ensigns of Andrews only, according to the laws of arms. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. W. ,Earle, Church-street, Rotherhithe, victualler, 'from April 6 to April 20, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. A. Joseph, Magdalen•row, Prescott-street,"Gsoodman's-fields-.. merchant, f'ron - kApril 6, to April 30, at ten, li,f 4 the Court of Commissioners. BANKRUPTS. T. Standen, Lancaster, slater, to surrender April 18, at six, 19, and May 14, at eleven, at the King's Arms, Lancaster.— Attornies, Mr. Armstrong ; Staple I nn , Holborn, London; and Messrs. Lewthwaite and Son, Lancaster. T. Boultbee, Lichfield, coal-master, April 12, at four, 19, and May 13, and 14, at eleven, at the Flitch of Bkon Whicnor Bridges, Staffordshire. Attornies, Mr. J. Scuda more, King's - Bench-walks, Temple, London ; and Mr. S. Simpson, Lichfield. W. Fumival and J. Hardy, Stratford-upon-..A.von, ‘Var wickshire, corn-merchants, April 26, 27, and May-14, at eleven, at the Hotel and King's Head, Derby. Attornies, Mr. S. Taylor, John-street, Bedford-row, London ; and Mr. F. Bank: hart Leicester. , J.' Richardson, Kingston-upon-Mill, corn-dealer, April 12, 13, and May 14, at eleven, at the Dog a nd Duck Tavern, Kingston-upon-Hull. Attornies, Messrs. Rosser and . §on, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, London ; and Mr. R. Sandwith, Hull. W. Baker, Rew, Devonshire, farmer, April 16, 17; and May 4, at twelve, at the Half-Moon Inn, Exeter. Attornies, Messrs. Andros and Alderson, Chancery-lane, London ; and Mr. Pring, Creditozi, Devonshire. J. Westbrook, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, farmer, April 16, 2D, and May 14, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. London. Attornies, Messrs. Hodgson and Ogden, St. Mil dred's-court, London. W. Bartlll.4, sen. Kingston-upon-Hall, and W. 13arthrop, jun. Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstaplers April 8,9, and May 14, at eleven, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Lincoln. Mbar nies, Mr. Styan, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London; and Mr. Moore, Lincoln. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. SURREY LENT ASSIZES—KINGSTON, APRIL 1. CIVIL SIDE. THE KING V. PALMER AND ANOTHER. This was an indictment against Henry Palmer and Thomas Joshua Parker, for a conspiracy to defraud Sir Thomas Swim mer Champneys, Bart. of Bills of Exchange to the amount of 20001. and of warrants of attorney to the like amount, by means of false pretences, importing, in substance, that they were monied persons, and in a condition to advance money to the prosecutor upon such securities. The trial lasted from ten in the morning until half-past fivb in the evening, when it was adjourned until to-morrow morn ing by mutual consent. The trial not - being then finished, we forbear, in justice to the defendants, giving any account of the case as it was found and proved on the part of the prosecution, until the whole case is concluded. CROWN SIDE. William Bailey was indicted for assaulting Sarah Cavey, an elderly woman, on the King's highway,.. p e rt!ing her in fear, and stealing from her person two shillings an . sixpence, at Egham, on the 17th of November last.— No t Guilty. LAMENTABLE SUICIDE OF LIEUT. TRAJL. At three o'clock yesterday an inquisition was taken before THOMAS SHELTON, Esq., in the Committee-room of Beth lem Hospital, on the body of Lieutenant Charles Trail, aged. 30 years, a patient in the above asylum, who destroyed hiraself in the following manner : Charles Beech, one of the keepers belonging to the Institu tion, deposed that, on Sunday last, about 12 o'clock at noon, he 'locked the deceased in his cell in the gallery, having previously shaved and dressed him. He was in such a weak and debili tated state that he had not sufficient strength to dress himself. After witness had locked him up, he went into the Green yard to attend the other patients, but shortly returned to him, and then he was sitting on the side of his oed. Witness endea voured to persuade him to take his tation of food, but he re fused, as he had done for several days previous. Witness again left him, and in about half an hour after he returned again, and on unlocking his cell-door he found the deceased close against it, with his face towards him, as if he were coining out. Witness did not immediately on opening the door know that he had destroyed himself; but afterwards found that he was suspended to his white neckkerchief by the neck, the end of which was very ingeniously made fast to a single_wire of a slight fence over the door of his cell, enclosing the iron grating. He was quite dead, though warm; a wooden bowl which the deceased had for a certain use was near him, and on which he stood to fasten the end of the neckkerchief to the fence. Wit ness instantly procured 111 r. Wright, the medical gentleman, who bled the deceased, but life was quite extinct. Mr. Edward Wright, the medical gentleman, and superin tendant of the establishment, stated that on his seeing the de ceased he was quite dead : he op ene d a ve i n , b ut obtained no blood. The deceased had been a patient in the asylum since the Ist of November last. His case was of a most desperate nature. He was always under apprehensions of some evil de signs against him. He had refused food for six of saven days, thinking that it would be mixed with poison. His obstinacy in that particular was so strong, that his rations were obliged to be administered by means of a tube. The deceased had been a Lieutenant in the 95th Regiment, or Rifle Corps, and had served-under the Duke of 'Wellington in all his campaigns : he was a very enterprising officer, and had received gieat pa tronage from the late Duke of Kent. His father was a Gene ral in the 'British service. The deceased had been.of a very free disposition, which is supposed in a great degree to have brought on the direful malady. A Juryman thought that the patients would be prevented from laying violent hands on theniselves, if, instead of the wire-grating being over the door, a shutter with a round hole in the middle was substituted ; the' ventilation would be just the same. The whole of the Jurors i being of the same opinion,Mr.Wright, the superintendant, was requested to state the opinion of the Jury to the Committee of Governors at the next meeting, which Mr. Wright promised to do. The Jury afterwards consulted, and returned a verdict that the deceased " Hanged himself, being at the time in a state of desperate madness: DIVIDENDS, May 11, T. Sawyer, Ramigate, Kent, chemist—April 23. T. Lynn! Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill—April 23, C: Shoobridge, Kensington, draper—April 26, S. Holland, Bex hill, Sussex, coal-merchant—April 25, J. Richardson, Liver pool, merchant—April 26, S. Raistrick, Idle, Calverley,' York- shire, clothier—April 23; J. Dobell, Cranbrook, currier. .CERTIFICATES.-Asir, 23. T. Hall, Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, Middlesex, coach maker—J. Boultbee, Peterborough, banker—A. Roper, Gos port, Southampton, brewer—J. E. Pownall, Little Chelsea, Middlesex, money-scrivener —J. Wright, Bloomfield Cottage, Vauxhall Turnpike, wine-mm•chant—T. Swann, Wardour street, ‘vestminster, eating-house-keeper—B. Gardner, Leigh, Worcestershire, farmer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. N, Somervell and J. Campbell, Edinburgh, wine-merchants A. F. Pieschell and Co., London—T. Jones and G. Bailey. Chester, auctioneers—J. Bushell and T. J. Severne, Colemari , street, London; woollen-factors--P. and E. Bullock, High'. street, Reading, linen-drapers—J. Cooke, sen. an d Co. Wa;- worth, Surrey, bricklayers—R. Stonehouse and J. Rickaby., Scarborough, Yorkshire, carpenters--J. Horne and W. Tay lor, Queen-street, Cheapside, London, librarian s -_ T. Hi re: and Co. Leeds, cloth-manufacturers—J. Bray and J. Blinkir,- sop, London Wall—N. Dowrick and J. Way, London, soar.. makers—T. Whitehead and E. Mallalieu, Philpot-lane, Fen church-street, London, insurance-brokers--J. and E. Prat:. Lovington Mills, Somersetshire, mealmen—T. Smith and H. Whiteman, Exeter-street, B#minghani, engravers. lb.oz. gh 4 it .. I 91 Foreign,. 6C 0 C`Vt. s 72. per qr. ►er cwt. a 41 ris a JI '3s s a 410 s o4s 6d 043 04 ....I7t ....230 :0 4S oit :o 3s BLl_ to 01 'Os 1 15s Od I 9s 6d I Os Od 1 Gs Od Os' Od 111 s od , los od to Is 4d .. lOs Od to Qs Od ito 11d (I to Bs 6(1 to 214 to 244 to ,IBd to 19y to isid to 20iti to 27d to 33d to 27d to —d to IBti to :7d to 20d 845 ▪ 945 ▪ 981 145 's lIALL. 1 is od. 7ch 30. Os od a 41s Od a 415311 a '24s od 6s to 11 Is s to 11 iOs sto 11 Gs s to 01 Os CLAIM, mein of kizanceS by the selling s publi premises L, on sa •om the mount ;, to re o absent cient to ises, and 1, with a al license), ge for the. laughter of Galloway. tedy, , to Eliza" ate Georg° id Cassino, hell Smitiit den, Ilea ged 65. Richara/ s. He 1 1 ° 1 efore bre4' ound a rile' For the recut third son 0 the couriti aerable of Mrs. y , age d 16 , n 'am' eta at the SUN• 'rice. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1822. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations. of the. several petitions which have been presented to the House in the last and p re s ent S ess i ons o f Parliament, corn-- . plaining - of the distressed state of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom, and to report their observations thereupon to the House,. ' . ' ' . . Considered that.among all the - important objects referred to them, none.could be more deserving of their earliest attention than an inquiryinto any measures that could ' be suggested for 'affording some temporary relief to the distresses of which the numerous Petitionera:with so much reason complain, and which appear, from the returns or the average prices of corn during the late weeks *, to be progressively increasing rather than di minishing:. - - . • Your Committee do not venture to determine whether the present state of the Corn-market 'be owing to an excess of pro duction, or to what extent 'that- excess may reach, beydnd the usual and requisite. supply ; or whether the necessities of the occupiers -of land cause an unprecedented eagerness to dispose of their produce at ahrsott any price : but it appears from an official return; that the quantity of British wheat and oats (but nett of barley) sold in Mark-lanssabelvseesiatheaat of ,November taai . a.asd the Ist of .March last,- has very..coriliably exceeded the -antitysold in the - corresponding months of the 20 preceding .yeara. 'Such an excess of supply beyo n d d eman d can have mo other effect than to continue the depression of price r and increase the accumulation of thestock tton hand ; while it is evident, from the present very low rate of price on the continent of Europe, as cegipared with prices in this country, that there is no'chance of resorting to the natural eXpedient of relieving the market by exporting any portion of our own corn; even with the aid of any bounty which would not be excessive. - Two other modes have therefore been under the consideration of your Committee ; by the first of which it was proposed that one million of Exchequer Bills should be applied to purchas ing, through the agency of Government, and laying up in store a certain portion of wheat grown in the United Kingdom - ; and by the second, that Pacility and encouragement should be offered to indiViddahato deposit a part of their stock in ware.honies, so that they might not be forced to come into the market simulta- , neously, arid under the disadvantage of excessive competition, but might be eaabled to wait until the supply, having approach ed nearer to the wants of the consumers, might afford, if not a remunerating, lit least a price somewhat lesirruinous for their J produce. e . With regard'lo the first of these proposals, the gerferal 013: jections against,making the public, through the executive Go. vernment, a dealer and speculator in corn, the suspicions to which it might give rise, and the uneasiness in the public feel. ing which it might eventually excite, the danger of its being drawn into precedent, the claims which it might be supposed to give to other important articles of domestic produce, whenever they might be exposed to similar depression, and the universal rule of allowing all articles, as much as possible, to find their own natural level, by leaning the supply to adjust itself to the demand, discourage your Committee from recommending it, even under this extraordinary emergency, and with all the guards and qualifications of a temporary expedient. But with regard to the second, although much less efficacious in its ope ration, the objection of Government becoming a purchaser does not apply, as individuals would in this case act for themselves, and according to their own discretion, the Government inter fering no otherwise than by ma ki ng a d vances upon the commo dity deposited, which would be repaid, with a low rate of inte rest, as soon as the article should be brought to market. For effecting this object, two different modes have been sug gested, by one of which it was proposed that when the weekly average priceis under 58s. (theirnport scale remaining as at pre sent) wheat should be Stored, subject to a monthly allow.. ance of sixpence per quarter, until the average price should. reach 655. The whole quantity not to exceed 600,000 quarters, and the time fur which the allowance should be payable not to exceed 12 or 18 months. Not snore than a certain number of quarters, nor less than another specified number of quarters, to be stared on the part of any individual or.firm. The•owner of the corn so deposited to be at liberty to with. draw it at any time, waving his claim to allowance or refund ing it. The other proposition was, that for the purpose of relieving the glut which sit present presses upon the grain market, the Government, whenever the average price of wheat shall b e un der 60s. should grant advances of money upon such corn of the growth of the United Kingdom, as should be deposited in fit and proper warehouses upon the river Thames, and in the ports to be hereafter specified, to an extent not exceeding two-thirds of the market value of such corn ; the quality of the corn and the fitness of the warehouses to be approved of by Officers to be appointed by the Government. The loan to be at the rate of 3 per cent., and the period .of deposit not to exceed 12 months. The corn to be withdrawn at the will of the depositor, upon payment of the interest, warehouse rent, and other charges. The sum of one million so applied would probably be fully adequate to give a tempera-ry check to the excess which is continually poured into the already overstocked market. If the (louse should be inclined to agree with your Commit tee in countenancing the latter of these propositions, it as evi dent that it ought to lead to some immediate proceeding e and although no very great effect ta r n be contempl a t e d f rom adopt ingit, Its operation, as far as it may extend, can hardly fail to afford souse temporary relief. There is another measure also to which it is fit to call the early attention of the House. The foreign grain and flour of all sorts in different ware houses under the King's - lock appears to have amounted, on the sth of January last, to. 897,136 quarters, with regard to which, although there is little probability that it can soon come into competition with our home produce, yet it still hangs over the market in a formidable mass, ready to be poured in at once, creating no small degree of panic as to its future operation, and invested with a sort of claim (Which is of the utmost importance) to be brought out free from duty, whenever the ports shall be opened under the existing law, even supposing any duty shall be imposed by Parliament, un d er an alteration of that law, upon all corn hereafter to be imported from foreign parts. To relieve the market from both these 'inconveniences, it may be proper to permit the holders of such torn now in ware houses, under certain adequate regulations and restrictions, to have the same ground. into flour for the purpose of exportation ; and also to provide by legislative enactment, that in future any foreign corn warehoused-ire this kingdom shall be considered as corn coming from abroad, and subject to allauch duties and re gulations as are or may from time to time be imposed upon corn coming directly from a foreign port. " - A proposition, which was submitted to your Committee, for advancing loans to parishes on the credit of the rates, appeared to be attended with so ninny difficulties, and to be so little ap plicable to the purpose of alleviating the distresses which are complained of, that they do deem it necessary to enter into any examination of it, nor to lay it before the House. Much as your Committee lament that so little prospect of im mediate relief can be held out to the urgent distresset which have been submitted to their anxious consideration, they think it material to obviate and - counteract any unfounded alarm which may have been, either casually or industriously, circulat ed, that there was ever the least intention entertained by your Committee of rendering the present condition of the British cultivators worse than it is under the existing law; and they therefore submit, with great confidence, to the House, that the Act of the 55th of th e l ate Ki ng, c. 26, which regulates the ini portation offoreign corn, ought to continue in force until the average price for wheat shall be 80s. per quarter, and other kinds of grain in proportion. It is impossible to carry protection further' than monopoly ; and it cannot be denied, that this monopoly the British grower as possessed for more than three years, that is, ever since ebruary, 1819, with the exception of the ill-timed and urine ' cessary importation of somewhat more than 700,000' quarters of oats, which took place during the summer of 1820. It must be considered further, that this protection, in consequenee of the increased value of our currency, and the present state of the supply of corn combined with the prospect of an early harvest, may, in all probability, remain uninterrupted for a very consi derable time to come. But for the purpose of obviating the dangers in which this law can hardly fail, sooner or later, to involve the cultivators of the soil, and in conformity to the reasoning contained in the report of the Committee of the last session upon the same 'sub ject, some material change must be contemplated : your Com- } • Prices, 16 March . 45. 11. 9 . . . 46. 10. the highest price of any one 2 .. . 46. 11. week in 1822 was 50s. 7d. 23 Feb. . 47. 7.