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leatre last an Inter. Carmine, e, by Mr. whole of tint Mar• exceeding PR INCess PRII4. ;INGHAM * Cif; and Ships in 4Alssrr t tion : the on. Capt. rations of red. 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Last night the Comedy of Seed the Plough was represented with very little variation in the cast of character. Mr. LACY fippearel for the second time on this Sta ge , in the part of Sir Philip Blamdford. If this Gentleman does not possess talents equal to the more arduotis parts of the Drama, he certainly has ; every requisite to sustain with respe&ability cha raaers similar to that in which he appeared last tiight. His conception of the part was correa, and his enunciation distinka. Upon the whole, his per formance merited .what it received—general ap. plause. Mrs. LITCHFI LD appeared for the first time in the chara&cr of Miss Blandfard. It is unnecessary to s a y, that her ,performance was animated and cor reC.l; in the last scene she was particularly impres. sive. Of the other Performers we have often spoken before; Mori-DEN was, however, more irresistibly comic than ever. James ani Joseph White, two Soklicit of the /Zorcli Cork Regiment, have for the last two days been on their trial by a General Coart;Martial at Dublin Barracks, upon charges of forming a plat' to deliver up a post in the County of Wicklow to the Rebels. It is not for us at present to say any thing of the evidence, farther than that we are happy to observe, that nothing which has appeared tends in the least to implicate any ether man of this very excellent Regiment. The Prisoners were recruits lately enlisted in the County of Wicklow. A country girl residing between Waterford and Passage, who was confined with a fever, and was in a delirious state of mind, being left alone, dress ed herself, and got out through.the winclow. In a short time it was discovered she had direeted her Way to Ballygunner, towards which place some feisons having proceeded, they found her smother ed in a stream, her head and shoulders in the Wa. ter ; and her body on the .bank: It is imagined She knelt d'lwn to get a drink, and, having fallen In, was unable, through Weakness, to extricate her self. The Opera of Artaxerxes was rehearsed yester. (lay morning. at Covent Garden Theatre, prepara tory to the appearance of Mrs: BiLLENorora, who assisted on the occasion, rather to prattise the Reci tative than the ,4irs. 4BRAIi ANS IS not to appeat in the Opera of Ar -I,axerxesi as was expedied. The part of iitbaces 1 S still to be in the hands of Inc LF paw. The new Candidate for theatrical honours, who 31 to make his firs.t appearance oil he Covent Garden boards on 11/lon : day next, in the arduous ciiaraaer of Hamlet, has acquired so much reputa_ tion in a private Theatre, that he has been en, couraged to venture before the Public. tie has, we understand ; performed o,3wvian in The Moan `raieers, in the same place, 4-ith very great six- Cess. The London Performers of known takers derived rent profits from their Theatrical rambles in the innmer. MUNDF 11, by his trip to Irelatrdi is said to have been more successful than most of them, and returned heavy laden with the fruits of public favoUr. The Reaor of the Parish in which the Cleric - a/ - impostoi-• lately officiated, has aoed very properly la giving notice to those who wete not legally zi ,itted„diat the ceremony be perforrnekagain ;Zratis, as many o: the patties may perhaps think they -have rdrei:dv paid tor,- eL , arir: All the Papers agree in stating that the officiating parson at St. Martin's is a Gentleman of an tio. 17 eaning vacuity of ccuntenance, and stares horribly. rice f'alstaff, this is not only a starer llimself, but the cause of staring in others. I n the advertisement of a rcertfiting party for tigh t Dra2-oons are the following most Nrsuasive enco urag i ng arguments :—" You will be mount -011 the finest horses in the world, with superb ~ lOtl , g and the richest accoutrements ; your pay att PrivilegeS arc equal to two guineas a week ; you are every where resleded; your society is courted; You are admired by the fair, which, together with the chanc e of getting s , tvisbed to a buxost (widow, or hrushinz with a tic!, heiress, renders the situation truly enviable and desirable. Young men out of ein. ployment, or otherwise uncomfortable-i- , There is a " tide in the atlitirs of men, which taken at the good leads on to fortune;' nick it, and instantly apply," &c. COUNTRY BANKS.—Among other grounds of ohjeC.tion to Country Banks, their reluclanee to circulate the Notes of the Bank of England should he mentioned. They do not anually refuse them, but they avoid them as much as possible, in order t ° give currency to their own Notes. Travellers Put to great embarrassments in this respeft ; rthe evil is of such an extent throughout the e spire, as to deserve the notice of the Bank Di rs. MANsIoN-Hotst.—Yesterday the noted Mrs. i:orr;”gton, and two other females, were charged the LORD M A YOR, with having robbed a e ntleman of his pocket-book in Fleet-street. The s°.!lstable wh o h a d t h em i n custo dy to ld his Lord. huP, that th e G ent l eman , w h ose name i s D av ies, a been surroun d e d b y t h ese women , an d t ha t t h ey 13 ' 1 . Picked his pocket of this book ; but there 'ing nothi ng valuable in it, he supposed was the wasun Mr. Davies did not attend. The pocket-book that conveyed away. The LORD MAYOR observed, t(1 she was too old a praaitioner to be suffered gO at large. They.were ordered to be remanded, a t "Ite the person w h ose poc k et was p i c k e d ordere d to nd. h tt i,, bullock-h unter w as c h arge d w i t h d r i v i ng a erti ttlek. from Spi ta lfi e ld s t o Moor fi elds, and from his ki ti el usage to the animal, it gored a h ors e, an d Q a him on the spot. The butcher said, he had , e a- Obliged to pay to). for the horse. The boy ').O c°minitted for further hearing to the Poultry Ipter4 C A Y. 11,44., . - ntilt4e'r A LETtER iItCSU QutEle tAini ituG. 9: I hare just returned from an excursion to Up:: per Canada. The soil, the climate, and iMprove.: meets of that Province, I found greatly to surpass every conception, which, from the information of others, I had formed. The Population is already very great, and is rapidly increasing every day. Families from the United. States frequently come into the Province, bringing with them their stock and utensils of husbandry, in order to settle on new lands ; invited by the richness of the soil ; the mild ness of the Government, and exemption from Taxes. These either purchase lands from the British Sub jefts, to whom they had been already granted, or take them upon lease, paying the rent by a certain part of the produce. The immense forests of oak, which every where are to be seen, give an undoubt ed proof or the fertility of the lands. The common produce of the fields is forty to one in wheat, or any other grain, and some spots that have been in cultivation for sixteen years without manuring, still yield forty to one. The winter is very incon siderable, as during the last season there was only snow on the ground for a fortnight. tf On the arrival of the GoVernor at York, the Capital of the Province, in the month of May last, he received petitions and memorials from several places, setting forth that the Inhabitants were dis tressed by the superabundance of their produce, that their barns and granaries were ready to fall with the weight of the wheat, that their cattle and hogs, &c. were become by tar too numerous, and that unless some mode of transport could be afforded, to enable them to send their wheat to the Lower Pro vince, it would be impossible to find room for the produce of the ensuing harvest. Since that period many thousand•barrels of flour, &c. have been con veyed to Lower Canada, through the rapids of the St. Lawrence, upon rafts, and what they term scows, a superior kind of rafts, without any material injury. The conducing of that mode of transport, although unwieldy and difficult to govern, has now become more familiar, and immense quantities of wheat and gout will thus be conveyed every year into Lower Canada. The attention of the farmers is now be ginning to be placed on the cultivation of hemp, an article for which the soil seems happily calculated. The Legislature have voted 'zool. per annum for two years, to be distributed in premiums, at the rate of 51. per ton to those who shall raise the first hemp, and ship it in a marketable state for Lower Canada. This sum appears trifling to us, but it is nevertheless considerable for a Province that has not existed above twelve years. " The greatest part of the houses in the pro vince are construCted of wood, but a degree of taste-and neatness is here prevalent which we in vain look for in the lower country. In most of the branches of their business the farmers evince a su perior degree of skill, and fields of wheat are here to be seen as fine as in any country in the world. The winter wheat alone is cultivated. A stranger is struck with regret on viewing the vast quan tities of fine oak timber, which - by fire are daily destroyed in clearing the lands. The,Mode of first settling is by cutting down the small wood, and _sortie of the larger trees, collaaing them in heaps, and burning them. Some of the remaining trees are girdled, that is, a groove is cut around the tree ; to prevent the sap from mountingi and thus it very soon ceases to grow. After passing over the ground with a harrow, to scratch it a little, the grain is thrown in, the harrow passed over it, and being thus left, a most copious increase is produced. " The roads in the settled part of the country are at this season excellent, and two stage-coaches, the same as those in England, run daily between Niagara and Chippawa, a distance of eighteen miles, and two miles beyond the Falls, The scenery from Niagara to Queenstown is highly pleasing, the road passing along the banks of one of the most magnificent rivers in the universe, and up - on ascend, ing the mountains, where the river is lost to the eye, -the traveller proceeds through a forest of great oak trees until he is agreeably surprised by the Falls opening to his view, amid the breaks which are now formed in the woody banks which bound them. " Queenstown is a neat and flourishing little .town, remarkable for the beauty and grandeur of its situation. At this place all the merchandize and stores for Upper Canada are landed, and trans ported in waggons across the mountain to Chippa wa, a distance of ten miles, the rapid course of the river rendering the navigation of any vessel what ever totally impraCticable for that space. In the course of last winter a vessel of So tons, which was navigated in Lake Erie, was brought upon a slay, from Chippawa to Queenstown, across the mountain, drawn by oxen, having her masts and cordage standing, and was launched into the river at that place, without having received any damage. " The Falls of Niagara surpass in sublimity any description that has hitherto been afforded of that celebrated scene, the most wonderful and awful that the habitable world presents. No drawing can ever Convey any adequate idea of the magnitude and depth of the precipitating waters. " The breadth of the river, including the Island, and following the curvatures which its violence has produced in the American and in the Horse Shoe Falls, may he estimated a mile and a quarter; and the heighth of the Table Rock, ,which.with proper assistance I accurately measured by a plumbline, let down perpendicularly to the edge of the water, is one hundred and forty feet.. Along the boundaries of the river, and under the Falls themselves, the lofty and rocky banks are every where excavated by means of sulphurous springs, the vitriolic acid uniting with the lime stone rock, and forming plaster of Paris, which is here and there scattered amid the masses of stone which compose the banks beneath. These exca vations extend in many places to a distance of forty or fifty feet under the summit of the bank. Cast ing the eye from the Table Rock from whence the waters are precipitated into the bason below, the effeEt is awfully magnificent and sublime. No ob jet intervening between the spedator and that pro found abyss, he seems suspended in the air.—The lofty banks and immense trees which envelope the . . . 'ttipetc,oes scene; tiie irrei,istibli! force, th faptdity of n4dilon displayed in the failing waters; the coma on brillianty and changibg of colours and of shades; the ceaseless intur*seence and swift agi tation of the cla'shing waves below; the solemn and tremendous noise; and the Volumes of vapour rapidly ascending; which the- report and the smoke of ten thousand cannon could scarelyequal, tend to IMpress the imagination with an 1.3 ,- !ion of elevated sensa tions, which no other combinations are capable of producing—and which error, lest the treacherous rock crumble beneath elle feet, by no meaas con tributes to dithinish. " The Bason of York, commonly distinguished by its former name, the Bay of Toronto, exhibits a scene beautiful in a high degree, being of an oval shape, environed by fine banks, although not lofty,. which are covered by Oak trees. Its depth from the entrance to the extremity of the town, is up wards of two miles, and its greatest breadth, about one and a quarter. The town has made extraor dinary progress, having risen from the midst of woods in four or five years. But the Inhabitants of Upper Canada possess a peculiar facility and skill, in cutting down; with the greatest dispatch, the largest and hardest trees. It is almost to a stranger incredible to mention the number that a single Anleilegni with a good axe, can in one day level With the ground. A Gentleman who had newly` arrived in the Country, ignorant of the ex pertness'and expedition with which the clearing of lands is here performed, engaged a person to cut down some trees at sixpence each. He began his task at day-break, and before noon, had earned seven pounds. This circumstance convinced the owner of the land of his inexperience of the Country." FRENCH yLIDICATURE. A very singular case is now before the Tribunal de Cassation. A Priest, of the Order of the Prwmonstratenses, who was banished in 1782, on account of an intrigue, took refuge in the Fort of Kehl. The girl who had been the object of his pas sion, followed him ; and they fled into one of the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland, where they were married by the Chrate, under another name, which the Magistrate of the place allowed him to assume. After the Revolution the Priest returned to France, where he proved his identity, and his wife was acknowledged as such, and his marriage con firmed. The Executive Direelory by a Decree de, clared, that he ought not to be considered as an Emigrant, as his residence abroad commenced pre viously to the Ist of July, 1789. On the death of his wife, which happened a short time ago, her relations attacked the validity of the marriage; and the Tribunal of Appeal, at Caen, quashed it, on the grounds that the Marriage in. Switzerland was illegal, because, at that time, Priests could not marry, and that the marriage in France was not good, because, at the time it was confirmed, or what is the same thing, when the parties were re married, the Husband had not been six months re. sident in France. Against this determination the Husband has appealed to the Tribunal de Cassation, and great expettations are entertained as to the re sult. PUBiLIC-OFFICE BOW-ST.REET. YESTERDAY gobs Solman, in custody for extort. ing money from 'the Publican, under a threat of charging him with an unnatural Crime, was re examined before AARON GRAHAM, Esq. and fully committed to take his trial for a highway robbery, in stopping and taking the money from the Prose. cutor in the street. John Winch, Iffnr. Bishop, and Margniel War ren, were put to the Bar on the charge of having robbed a waggon of a quantity of fleecy hosiery goods, the property of Mews. Holland and Co. of Holborn. The principal Witness against the Prisoners was a Jew receiver of stolen goods, who stated that a few days ago the Prisoner Warren came to 'inform him that the other Prisoners had got something for him ; in consequence of which he went to their residence near Battle-bridge, where he was shewn a-quantity of fleecy hosiery goods, which the Prisoners in formed him they had stolen out of a waggon in Kent the preceding night, by the following device : —having filled a large bag with horse dung, &c. they overtook the waggon on the road, and pre tending to be extremely fatigued, bargained with the waggoner to let them ride a certain distance, when they took the opportunity of cutting open one of the bales, and taking out suffijent to fill their bag, emptying the former contents of it in the waggon, and afterwards sewing up the incision made in the bale,, being prepared with packing needles, &c. for the purpose ; that for the goods in question the Prisoners asked 121. but tools 81. los. (one fourth of their value ;) and that part'of diem he the same evening sold to a tallow-chandler whom he met at a public-house near the Haymarket, and which led to a discovery, the tallow-chandler taking them to Messrs. Hollands to know the price cf such articles. Dixon and Carpmeai, two of the Bow-street Of ficers, produced two bags, packing needles, an iron crow, chissel, sometnorocco leather, &c. they found in the Prisoners' apartment when they apprehended them yesterday morning at the before stated place. They were committed for further examination, that the Waggoner may see them. • Two Ships and two Brigs of the homeward hound Jamaica Fleet are reported to be on shore on He neaga. . • A Guineaman is takengoing down to Jamaica, after an action of three hours. On Wednesday morning, as a Tradesman in Market -street, Lancaster, was opening his shop, he was surprized at seeing a partridge running across the street, and taking shelter in a cellar, where he caught it, brought it home, and kept it in a pen till the evening ; when a friend coming to see it, he opened the door of the pen, and it immediately flew out, darted through a pane of glass in the win dow, and escaped. It had no apparent wound, when taken. Several others were seen in different parts of the town the same morning. DEFENCE AGALVST . . „ ERTRAE:T OF TIE PROCEEDINGS 042 MEETING OF LIEUTENPNCY, HELD AT t.1.,21,?7.7**4 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, ON THURS., DAY tHE I3TH DAY Of AUGUST; I ( 6 ,01 j 1-UR. 2 SUA'IN.iT TO NOTICE SIGNED ill' HIS MAJESTY'S LIEUTENANT FOR THE SAID COUNTY. SE-;TERAL Papers having been read, the At of the 38th of the Kings chap; i 7, intituledi " An Ad to enable His Majesty more eifedually- to provide for the Defence arid Security of t'cie Realni during the present War, and for indemnifying Per sons who may sutler in their Property by such mea sures as may be necessary for that i;urpos—:(sth April, 1798.)" A Letter from Lord FIOgARTi .one df Hls Ma.; jesty's Principal Secretaries cif State,, to His jesty's Lieutenant of this County, bearing date the 15th of : lune, 'Sot .and A printed Paper transrnitted in the said Letter, intituled, A Plan for removing tic Live Stock, &c. from the Coast of Great Britain, &c. &c." Resolved Unanimously, Thar-it is the most anxious wish of tli*?.s meeting zealously and cordially, either in their public or private capacities, to co.:operate as far as they are able; , with such arrangement as His Majesty shall" in his wisdom think proper to dirca, for Catty:ni into execution the provisions of the Aft of Parlia..' ment of the 38th of the King, cap. i 7, or foi other Wise prbviding for the defence of the kingdom, in which thiS County, having nearly ninety roiled of coast immediately opposite to; and within twelve hours sail of the Enemy,. feels itself niost deeplyand particularly interested. That on a reference to the Returns made, in the; year 1798, of the stock, teams, draft cattle; &c. in the County, it appears to this Meeting of thd Lieutenancy, althOugh these Returns may be, and probably in many particulars are, very &ranee:ls, that they are Sufficient, with the statements and calculatiohS which have been made frOm them, to prove, that there ate neither carriages, Men, or draft cattle; to remove the grain, and persons incapable of removing themselves from the distrit proposed They, therefore, wish to submit it to the consi. deration of the General conimandihg in the Southern Distrid, and to His Majesty's Ministers, whether the ideal circumstances of this County ; proving the imprktieability of removing ,the grain soon after harvest, or indeed at a later period; with the person's incapable of removing theniselves, from so large an extent of territory; as has been proposed, even in the first instance, and still less a second removal from a further extent of territory, it may not be more advantageotis for the defence of the Country to' avoid the confusion which an attempt at what can not be performed is likely to create ; especially, as it is presumed that if the mills are rendered for a time unserviceable, unthreshed corn would be of little use to an Enemy ; and whether the previous destrutlion pointed ouit, of what could notbe removed from a large tratA of 'fertile Country, might not prove a great and unnecessary waste in these times of scarcity, when posibly only a small part of it might fall into the Enemy's hands ? That it is further submitted to the tieneral, that if the depriving the Enemy of Supplies is to be com-. bined with the means of furnishing our own Forces with every requisite, the • removal of dead stock cannot be attempted, without depriving him of horses for the Artillery, and waggons for the sup plies of his Army. That he be requested to 'state what number of draft horses, oxen, waggons, and carts, he will want for this service, and that of the Commissariat, and the terms upon which he would retain them ; after which, when the new Returns come in, the Lieutenancy will use their best endeavours to for ward such an arrangement. That it appears by the before-mentioned Returns, that the number of oxen, cows, and young cattle, in the whole county, then amounted to 60,835 ; and sheep, deer, goats, and pigs, to 549,991. That if the General thinks any considerable part of these, or only the carriages, horses, and draft oxen, can be removed without creating much con fusion, it is submitted to him whether, for this purpose, and indeed at all events, it would not be better to subdivide the distritas pthposed by Sir Charles (now Lord Grey) into smaller portions, perhaps reverting -to the old division of Parishes' or Hundreds, would facilitate the execution as far as regards the Civil Power; and the General having a Map of the County, with the Parishes and Hundreds marked on it, would then be enabled, as occasion might require, to make his requisition to a Deputy ,Lieutenant for the removal of the sort of Cattle he would think proper, from such places only as he would wish to have tlie cattle drove from, without in the least hindering him from making his requisi tion, that the cattle from the whole of the districts, as marked out by Sir Charles (now'Lord Grey), should he driven, if he should judge so extensive a measure to be necessary and pra&icable. That as far as removing the carriages, draft horses, or oxen, from a few Hundreds, the Lieu tenancy conceive such an operation (which they un derstand is the most essential of any) could easily be performed with regularity, and they will readily apply themselves to arrange the execution of it. They will also, if the General will suggest such a plan as shall be approved of by Government, for engaging a Corps.of Pioneers to serve in this Coun ty, and the retaining bounties that should be given to them, give it every assistance in their power. As to the Corps of Gamekeepers, the Lieutenancy imagine, that the Officers of Yeomanry will easily induce men of that description to join them, in case of aCtual Invasion, when they trust that they may, in the first instance, and being so immediately on the spot, be employed in attacking or annoying the Enemy, rather than in retiring from him and driv ing away the cattle. That in respeEl to the Commissary General, the Lieutenancy trust he will be better able to make his Contracts with individuals, than by their fixing a price for grain or carriage, which, moreover, they are not apprised of their being authorised by Law to do. That the Lieutenancy do not find themselves an. thorised by any law to call upon the Clergy to take