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THE LONDON JOURNALS. Ain:ACTS FROM THE DAI LY MORNING PAPERS, Februal y 19, 1822. [BRITISH PRESS.] • We have the satisfaction to inform our readers that our Government has at length resolved to =terminate all the commercial difficulties which 'have for some time subsisted between this Coun try and the United States of North America.— Instructions have actually, as we understand, 'been sent to the several West India Islands that :the ports should be opened immediately to the direct trade of the United States upon the prin ciples of reciprocity proposed by the American Government. By this arrangement the United States are permitted to send their lumber and provisions in American bottoms direct to our Co lonies, and are authorised to take in exchange colonial produce. This arrangement will, it is loped, be productive of very extensive advantages to our colonists. The same trade may have been, and, in fact, has for some time been carried on between the United States and the British Co lonies, through the medium of Bermuda, which was erected into a free port for the express pur poses of this commerce ; but it was so very cir cuitous, and attended with so much expence, that neither party could derive such service from it -as from its nature might have been fairly antici pated. We regret to say that the extreme dis tress of our West Indian Colonies requires every effort that can be made for their relief. To compare their condition with that even of our :distressed agriculturists, would but inadequately 'express their sufferings, and the arrangement to which we have now referred has been anxiously sought by them, as the only means likely to re lieve them from a destruction which seemed otherwise inevitable. [NEw TIMES.] We are extremely sorry to be under the ne -cessity of excluding from our columns many valuable communications respecting the Agricul ture and Finances of the country ; and the more so ) as that necessity originates in so foolish a cause ,as the Epsom Meeting. It would be highly de sirable that the spouters at these exhibitions 'should be alloWed to talk unheeded ; but so long as a curiosity exists to hear what all men of 'sense confess to be not worth hearing, a public Journalist must report what certainly is very little worth reporting. Notwithstanding our limits are thus narrowed, we cannot refuse our selves the uncommon pleasure of quoting twelve consecutive sentences of substantial good sense from The Morning Chronicle:- 4 , We are inclined (says the Editor) to suppose that the heaviest and must oppressive tax on the Agriculturists of England is that imposed by their own stupidity, if we may use so harsh a term. In that very county which is this day meeting on the subject of agricultural distress, the county of Surrey, we observed, on Saturday last, in various places, four horses and two men employed at one plough, on. a light sandy loam. A Norfolk farmer would have made two horses and one titan do precisely the same work. The sante awk wardness and want of econuny are to be found in almost every farming operation, in all but one or two counties in England. It is hardly going too far to state. that nearly twice as many hiirses and men are employed on a farm as are Featly necessary for its cultivation. Hence the enormous bills of labour produced by many of the farmers before the Agricultural Committees! In carriage, the same unwieldy wag guris are generally employed on every road, and foreverypu r pose. But theirolistinacy is proof a gainst all reasoning and all experience. We know an instance ofa farmer, ten miles distant from Warminster, who took to market nine quarters of grain in two Singleshurse carts, attended by one man, who went all at eight in the morning, and returned by six in' the evening, while a neighbour of his, at the same distance, and on the same road, employed for carrying the same load a waggon drawn by four horses, and dr!ven by a man and boy, who left bome. at five in the morning, and returned - at six in the even ing. The difference of expence between the latter and the former was no less than nine shillings each time. Yet this speaking demonstration of the advantrue was quite thrown away on those who witnessed it. If the British manufacturer were equally dull, equally proof againt improved and r co:to pical radices, would our manufactures have attained their present excellence, and British industry be in the enjoyment of so high a reputation ?" Now, these are plain, intelligible, and judicious observations. Evident as it must ' be to the meanest capacity, - that any measure proceeding froth Governs ent alone can go but a short way indeed in alleviating the distresses of the Agri cbiturists, we wish them to think of the old fable book, where the clown is represented wringing his hands, and praying to Jupiter to draw his waggon out of the slough. Let them put their owilshoulders to the wheel, and they will do more for themselves, than five hundred Ilutnes and Cobbetts ever will, or ever can do for them. [MORNING POST.] After the ti ial of the action Cartwright v. Wright, which took place yesterday in the Court of King's Bench, the Radicals will, it is hoped, discontinue •their attacks upon " The Constitu tional Association ;" for a step more calculated to destroy .the Liberty of the Press was never taken. By the report of the trial (See our fourth page) .it will be seen, that the " Venerable Veteran," as he is called, sought to recover the moderate sum of One Thousand Pounds da mages from Mr. Wright, the Editor of a little work called " Ma Book of Wonders," for certain words copied into that work from Cob hett's Register, and addressed by him to the tiarajor himself, so, far back as the year 1817. if his " name, fame, and character " had been in jurecl by the use - of the said words, why did not the honest old gentleman proceed against Cob bett, the original writer of the alleged libellous words, and net against Mr. Wright, the mere citer of them ? Verily, there be some folks who can strain at a gnat and swallow a camel! 4 - [ M . ORNING CIIRONICLEM The discussion of last night' on the motion of Lord Londonderry for what may be considered :the re-appointment of the Agricultnral Corn mittee, will, with the speeCif of his LorOship Friday evening, put the Agriculturists in posses sion of what they have to expeCt from Parlia inent. Several of the CoUntry Gentlemen in the Roine, who. appeared at County Ueetings quite indignant at the profusion and prodigality which prevailed in every establishment of the State, declare thernselVessatisfied with the reductions w.litch have beenyroposed by` Ministers. What the AgriculturWs, have to look forward to In flie 'way : of — relief from taxes, will there fore 'amount to next 'to nothing. Much stress ifiai — l'aict by bird Londonderry on the effects which the contemplated increase of the Sinking Fund would produce in the way of relieving the embarrassments of the Country Gentlemen, by lowering the interest of money. It was shewn last night satisfactorily by Mr. Ricardo, that these views were altogether delusive; that the rate of interest could not be affected by the state of the Sinking Fund; that it depended on the rate of profits, and the rate of profits again de pended on prices ; that, for instance, when prices were low profits were high. As Mr. Iluskisson in his speech on Friday night took care to pro claim his knowledge of the doctrine of prices and profits, we wonder he could not contrive to infuse some portion of that knowledge into Lord Londonderry and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—A press of interesting matter will not allow us to enter into farther observations at this time on the important subjects to which we have been alluding. The news containd in the last arrival of Irish papers May be arranged briefly under three heads the College Election, another Catholic meeting, and a repetition or multiplication of outrages in the South. On Tuesday last the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, proceeded to a new election, to supply the vacancy caused by Mr. Plunkett's acceptance of the office of At torney-General. That Right Honourable Gen tleman was re-elected without opposition. Mr. Plunkett, before the question was put, made a speech to the Electors, which appears worthy of notice only for the assurance conveyed in it,' that the Right Hon. Gentleman had not, by the acceptance of his office, made the slightest " compromise - of his principles." Mr. Plunkett is a man of eminent talents, and in many circum stances not be classed with the vulgar herd of Placemen. This declaration, however, on behalf of his own consistency, he shares with the mean est of them all. No one ever secedes from his party, without boasting that he retains his principles ; and such principles as he had, no doubt he keeps. But not meaning any irreve rent allusions to individuals, it really does appear to us, that Ludy Teazle's speech to Joseph Surface, when he preached about his 44 honour," while he was debauching his ideal's wife, would not come amiss on certain other occasions—" Now, don't you think we may just as well leave honour " out of the question ? " The Right Honourable Gentleman was, immediately after his election, to proceed, it.was said, to the South of Ireland, where he would conduct the prosecution of the insurgents under the Special Commission at Cork. The Catholics have had what they are in the habit of calling an Aggregate Meeting, where a small degree of contradiction in their measures seems to us to have been introduced by a more than usual quantity of unmeaning violence, and misshapen eloquence in their orators. Letters, dated the 29th of December last, have been received from Port-au-Prince, which state that President BOYER had issued a decree, pro hibiting, under severe penalties, the exportation of gold or silver. This measure was likely to produce much inconvenience to commercial ope rations. The decree is dated on the 15th of December. According to advices from Havannah, received at Charleston, it appears that Vera Cruz finally surrendered to the Independents, or Imperial ['ones, on the night of the 26th of October. Ge neral DAVILA being left without all support in the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, had been com pelled to make an unconditional surrender, and his opponents had agreed to bury all past offences and differences in oblivion. An address to the people had been published by the Intendant of Vera Cruz, calling on them to submit cheerfully to the new order of things. Thus the revo lution orMexico is completed ; for the rest of the country, it will be recollected, had long be fore embraced the cause of independence. _ . SLAVE TRADE.—By a recent decree of the Spanish Cortes, all Spanish vessels - employed in the Slave Trade are to be forfeited, and the owners, fitters out, masters, and officers, con demned to ten years' labour on the public works. All foreigners entering Spanish ports with Slaves on board shall be liable to the same penalties, and all slaves found on board shall be set free. REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—The High She riff for Berkshire for the current year is the Hon. FREDERICK West; the Gentleman appointed to that office for the year ensuing is Sir GILBERT Eaa, Bart. SIIOCKING CATASTROPHE.—On Friday morn ing a young man, named John Gales, ser- Vant to John White, farmer, of Branking near Darlington, met an untimely death, through the insanity of his master. White has at dif ferent times of late exhibited strong symptoms of mental derangement, and on the evening preced ing the melancholy event which we are about to describe; was strongly impressed with the idea that his house was infested by robbers. Under thiS impression he would not retire to rest, but he waudered about the house with a loaded gun in his hand the whole night, to shoot (he said) the robbers as they came in, fancying he heard and saw them at the windows. A young man from Darlington, named Bowser, who was with him all night, endeavoured, but without effect, to divert and drssuade him from his wild idea. Early in the morning, White left Bow ser alone ,in the kitchen and again traversed the house with his gun. The unfortunate de ceased came down stairs about six o'clock, and proceeded to go out to his work, but finding the outer door fastened so as to prevent him, he re turned and went into the kitchen, where Bowser was standing by the fireside. White at that time being in the passage, suddenly approached and fired, lodging the contents of his gun in the body of the unfortunate Gales, near the hip bone. He fell at the feet of Bowser, and in about two hours expired. A Coroner's Jury, after a care ful inquiry into the circumstances, returned the following verdict :—" That John Gales came to his death by John White firing a gun, loaded with gunpowder and shot, whilst the said John White was in a fit of mental derangement."— White has been committed to our County ,Gaol, :to take his trial for murder at the ensuing As: sizes .---(Durhani Advertiser, Feb. 16.) QUADRAGESENIA, Or, The FIRST SUNDAY in LENT. The name of the first Sunday in Lent having been distinguished by the appellation of Quadra gesitna, and the three weeks preceding having been appropriated to the gradual introduction of the Lent fast, it was consistent with propriety to call the three Sundays of these weeks by names significant of their situation, and reckoning by Decades, or Tens. The Sunday preceding Qua dragesima received its present title of Quinqua gesima, the second Sesagesima, and the third Septuagesima. The great and solemn fast of Lent received the title of Quadragesima, because our Saviour was under the dominion of death about forty hours, and when it was settled to keep the fast as many days as at first hours were appropriated, the name was considered as still ap plicable. The preceding Sunday of Septuage sima Sunday is dependent upon Lent as that sea son is upon Easter, as was instituted as the com mencement or preparation for the serious fast of Lent : its observation was instituted by Pope GREGORY the Great to withdraw the minds of Christians from the festivities of Christmas, and to qualify them for the fasting and humiliation en joined during Lent. Ash-Wednesday is actually the beginning of Lent, but the Sunday imme diately following is called Quadragesima Sun day, or the first Sunday in Lent, not that it is exactly, but about the fortieth day before Easter, and thereby expressive of the number of fasting days of w hick Lent consists. Quinquagesima Sunday has been called also Shrove Sunday, as introductory to the season of which the following Tuesday is the commencement. The term " Shrove" signifies to Confess : hence the Tues day governing the title of this Sunday, having been the most solemn period of confession, was called also CONFESSION TUESDAY, or SHROVE TIDE, Confession time. Tide or Tid was the Saxon word for Time, and is yet applied to par ticular periods, such as Whitsuntide. This season was formerly called also FASGUNTIDE or FA ST INGTI DE, and also FASTENS and FASTMAS, by all ofwhich titles it is still denominated in different parts of the North. In the reformed church, the ancient practice of Shrieving or Confes sing at this season is only known by name ; but in the Romish Church, CONFESSION, with its accustomed formalities, is continued to the present time, as a preparation for the more religious Observance of Lent, which, as before stated, commences on the following day. Prior to the glorious Reformation, every communicant throughout the kingdom was obliged individually to confess to his parish priest ; the great bell which summoned the parishioners early in the morning .to this duty is yet rung in some parishes on this day, to give notice of the commencement of the service of our Reformed Church, and re tains in some parts of the country the name of the Pan-cake bell, a title evidently dnrived from the custom, which, though declining, continues to exist, of eating pan-cakes and fritters at this season ; the custom of eating these things at Shrovetide, which has given the Tuesday the common appellation of Pan=cake Tuesday, was that the people after confession, which the discipline of the Ancient Church required, were permitted by their priests to indulge in festive amusements, although not allowed to partake of any repasts beyond the usual sub stitutes for flesh : and the Monday preced ing this Tuesday was called Collop-Monday, from a custom originating in the same cause. — On these days of authorised indulgence the most wanton recreations were tolerated, provided a due regard was paid to the abstinence commanded by the Antient Church: and from this origin sprang the POPISH CARNIVAL, and all its attendant profli gacy,appropriately derived fiom"CARNIVALE,i.e. farewell to flesh," in allusion to the Lenten season, which was to commence on the succeeding morning : from the loose pastimes of the age in which the-Car nival originated, are also to be traced the nearly exploded diversions of Cocx-FrawriNo,and COCIa- THROWING, as well as the discontinued custom of WHIPPING TOPS, ROASTING OF HERRINGS, JACK OF LENT, &c. &c., which three last named sports were evidently meant as types of the rigour of the discipline of the Romish Church. The Cock-fighting and Cock-throwing in England, which, much to the credit of the present genera tion, have been of late sinking into disuse, were formerly general throughout the kingdom. For many years our public diaries and monthly publications took infinite pains to impress upon the minds of the populace a just abhorrence of such barbarities ; and by way of strengthen ing their arguments, they failed not to detail in most pathetic terms the following fact, which is selected from the Gentleman's Magazine, of April, 1799:—" Died, April 4, at Tottenham, JOHN Esq. a young man of laTge fortune, and in the splendour of his carriages and his horses ri valled by few country gentlemen. His table was that of hospitality, where it may be said he sacrificed too much to conviviality. Mr. A—v was very fond of cock fighting, and had a fa vourite cock upon which he had won many pro fitable matches. The last bet he laid • upon this cock was lost, which so' enraged him that he had the bird tied to a spit and roasted alive before a large fire. The screams of the miserable animal were so affecting, that some gentlemen who were present attempted to interfere, which so enraged Mr. that he seized a poker, and with the most furious vehemence declared that he would kill the first man who interfered : but—in the midst of his passionate asseverations—he fell down dead up6n the spot !" The above customs have been attributed to the Athenians, from them to the Romans, who introduced it here. WIL. malt FITZ STEPHEN, who wrote the Life of BECKET, in HENRY the Second's time, is the first of our writers who mentions the custom.— CRANE3TEIN, an old German author, gives the origin of these customs here to the Danes, when they were in England ; and other authorities say, these customs bore allusion to the indignities offered to our Saviour, previous to his death. W. F. D. *.* We are sorry that we could not comply with our Cor respondent's desire of having this article inserted on Satur day. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 18, LIBEL ON MAJOR CAItTWRIGHT. MAJOR CARTWRIGHT V. WRIGHT. Mr. HILL opened the declaration in this case. It was an action for a libel, published by the Defendant, of and con cerning the Plaintiff, and the damages were laid at 10001.— The Defendant had pleaded the general issue. Mr. DENMAN addressed the Jury on the present occasion.— He said he had the honour to be the advocate of one of the most respectable men in his Majesty's dominions, who fei i t it his duty to lay before aJury of his country his just complaint against the Defendant, for having in the most injurious manner brought him to the notice of the public. In order to understand the nature of the libel, it was proper to state that the present Defendant appeared to have been engaged in a quarrel with a person who was pretty well known, he meant Mr. William Cobbett; and with a view to conduct the controversy with as much personality as possible, he had thought proper to publish a work entitled " The Book of Wonders." This work contained a great variety of extracts and passages highly reflecting on the character of Mr. Cobbett, and which were alleged to have been drawn from the productions of his fruitful pen. If these were real extracts, and if they did authentically state the sentiments of Mr. Cobbett, he could only say that they exhibited a degree of unprincipled audacity, and of profligate and unfeeling depravity, such as no man had ever betrayed before. The question, however, between Mr. Wright and Mr. Cobbett, should have been conducted without dragging into the controversy one of the most honourable, and one of the most zealous men wbo had ever manifested an interest in the public welfare. The book in question was dedicated to her late Majesty, and consisted principally of extracts from the writings of Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Cobbett was there stated to have avowed himself, on one oc casion, to be a swindler, who would not pay his just debts, under the false and contemptible pretext that his creditors had upheld that Government of which he (Cobbett) had per sonally a right to complain. Mr. Cobbett was here also re presented to hare told the people of England that the assassi nation of Mr. Perceval was a subject of universal joy, and to have spoken with something like exultation of the death of Sir Samuel Romilly, and then proceeded to detail other traits of his political sentiments, which were to he found in his publications. Having been forced to abandon his country, according to this book, and to have taken refuge in time wilds of America, he is there stated to have made a project of de stroying the Bank of England, by inducing persons to com mit the crime of forgery, and to have had the meanness to enter into the details of the manner in which these forgeries wet eto be carried into effect. He was represented also to have spoken with exultation of the destruction which he was thus to effect, and of the delight which lie should feel when an American sixpence would be worth more than a 101. Bank of England note, and when the ruin and desolation of his country should be universal. He (Mr. D.) would read the extract in which he pointed out the mode of committing the Capital crime of forgery. it was this :—" Suppose me to be capable of forging notes—why need I expose myself, or any body else, in the uttering of them. What have I to do, but to forge a parcel, place them in the street; tell my brother where they will be; he finds them, and takes care to have sonic one with him wirer' he finds them: hethen passes them; and if traced back to him, proves that he found them. The making of large quantities of notes, and throwing thew in the streets by night, is, however, the most efficient of all the modes of attack." He only stated these things for the purpose of showing to the Jury the character of the man with whom Mr. Wright had thought proper to associate the name of Major Cartwright,— a Gentleman whose char‘acter and principles were above all panegyric. In the course of this book Mr. Cobbett was stated to have described " Major Cal twright's creed as the criterion of excellence." It would seem that Mr. Cobbett had had a strong desire to be introduced to the Parliament of England, and with that view had proposed that 5,0001. should be raised, by subscriptions of two-.pence each, among the artizans of his country. On another occasion, he proposed that Sir Francis Burdett, whom he had previously vilified, should advance the sum in question to purchase a seat for him in what, in a diffe rent part of the work, he was represented to have-called "a den of corruption ;" and it was itk the passage containing this proposition, that Mr. Wright had thought proper to fasten the name of Major Cartwright, than whom there could not be a more decided enemy to the traffic for seats in the House of Commons, as the whole tenor of his long an d honourable life had forcibly evinced. The note in which the libel against the plaintiff was contained, was placed after the following extract, stated to be taken front Mr. Cob- hetes Register of December, 1819 Dec. 4, 1819. I f am ready to tender my hand to Sir F. Burdett, and to tender my whole heart and mind, to be exerted, in co-operation with him, for the purpose of endeavouring to rescue our country from the fangs of its oppressors; I am ready to bury all private considerations in oblivion. I have seen, all through the coun try, proofs of a most at dent desire that an union should take place ; and lam resolved that no private feelings of mine shall obstruct that union.—Wm. Coobett. I told the gentle man, that I would have nothing to do in the shape of co-opera tion with the Baronet, except as one of a public meeting, per haps, unless he would immediately, and out of his own purse, furnish the means of facilitating the entrance of Mr. Hunt and myself into the House of Commons! On the 9th, I re ceived the following note from the gentleman From a conversation I have just had with Sir F. Burdett, I am per suaded tie inclosed cannot he rendered available. This causes me regret ; but I have thought it best to return it you, with my assurance that it has not been used or seen.' 'lbis was the whole that took place."' v. 35, p. 496, (December, 1819.) [tt• Many well-intentioned persons have expressed their surprise that the "Enlightener" should have been willing to accept of a seat in Corruption's den, purchased with the bank notes of a man whose " incapacity and baseness" he had so powerfully exposed. To convince such persons, that this lime of conduct was strictly patriotic, we have only to assure them, that in so doing, he was walking in the footsteps of that " Venerable Veteran" whose " Creed is the Criterion of Excellence" (see Nv. 195.), and who, in an article of that Creed, has laid it down as a maxim, that " we must, in fight. ing the enemy, not reject the use of the arms of even despi cable and detestable men."—Cobbett, v. 32, p. 82.] , Mr. Desmao, in continuation, proceeded to state that his client had never laid down any such doctrine, and put it to the Jury to say, whether they could do otherwise than feel that he bad every reason to complain of being thus held up to the abhorrence of all tuantriod, and of being dragged from his fire-side to vindicate hischaracter from aspersions utterly at variance with every act of his life. His object, on time pre sent occasion, was not vindictive damages, but ;le thought he had a right to obtain such a verdict against Mr. Wright as would tend to prevent the recurrence of similar unfounded and gross attacks in future. Captain Robert Williamson was then called, and proved his having waited on Mr. Wright, and that Gentleman hav ing acknowledged himself to be the sole author of " The Book of WOnders.'! The libel was then put in, and with it the passage in which it was referred to. These were both read. Mr. SCARLETT then submitted, that he had ' right to have the whole of the passages preceding the libel also read. The CHIEF JUSTICE agreed to this suggestion, and several extracts were then read from an article headed "Sir Francis Burdel," in which the opinions of Mr. Cobbett, respecting that Hun. Baronet, given at different periods, were set forth ; the favourable opinions being placed under the title of " hot," and those of a contrary character under the title of " These opinions, it is hardly necessary to observe, were as op posite as light from darkness. The CHIEF JusncE now suggested his avish that there should be an accommodation between the parties. Mr. SCA KLETT said, that after what bad passed, and Mr. Wright having distinctly shown Major Cartwright that the libel imputed to him were the preuse words of Mr. Cobbett, he could not consent. Mr. SCARLETT then addressed thy Jury for the Defendant, in an ingenions speech, and submitted that. Major Cartwright had entirely misconceived, the object of Mr. Wright in this publication, which was not to reflect on the character of the worthy Major, contrasting the opinions given by Mr. Cohbett at different.pericAs of his life, to spew how little re liance could be placed on his consistency, his honour, or his morality. To chew, in fact, that there was nothihg, how ever base, or however virtuous, that at one period or other of his singular life he had not applauded or condemned, and thus to disabuselhose classes of society upon which his name, and not his character, seemed to have had such influence.— The Learned Counsel was then proceeding to contend that words Set out in the declaration were not libellous, when The CureF JUSTIdE, Uri . reference to the'declaration, found that although the words of the alleged libel were set forth, yet that the references to the places from whence they had been quoted were not—and on this valiance the Plaintiff was Nonsuited. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD THIS WEEK. The highest price of the best IVheaten Bread throtigiloirt the Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be tO-Fl. the Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sell the Quarter!' Leaf, from one penny to two pence lower. 1 - b. oz. lb.or. Peck Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 I Quartern Loaf to weigh 4 .s.f Half ditto.. ditto .... 811 Half C2i , arterti ditto .. 22f IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Irish. Foreign. Wheat . Barley Malt Oats Rye lO Beans Peas Tares Rapeseed Mustard Seeds.. 506 Flour Brank Linseed. 75 , 40 PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Feb. 16. Pockets. 1 Bags. Kent— 21 16s a4l Os a5l Os Kent .. 21 lOs a3l 10s a4l Nis' Sussex.. 2i lOs a3l2s a 31 lOs Sussex 21 6s a2l 14s a3l 84 , Essex ..2I 16s a3l 15s a4l 10s Essex.. 21 14s a3l lOs a4l 4!r Farnham, fine, 71 to 101 us—Seconds, 41 !Os to 71 7s SEED:i, Feb. 16. Red Clover (Foreign) 26s 42s—fine, 54s 68s per cwt.,- Ditto English 2Bs 40s—fine new,s6s 75s White ditto 34s 50s—fine, 63s 68s Rye-Grass ... l4s to 24s per qr. Turnip Seeds. —s Od 32s to 46 s p r . b us h . White Mustard. Seed Bs to lOs 6d Brown ditto lOs to 15s Od Red and Green ... —s Od to ---s Od Carraway Seeds s6s to 65s—fine, 67s Coriander do ....lOs 14s 15s Cinque Foin 3Bs to 39s—fine —s per qr. Trefoil Ribgrass ... 2Bs 37s—fine, 45s 46s Canary per qr —s 38s to 44s Od per qr. Linseed 4ss 48s—fine, 52s 54s per qr. Rape Seed Winter Tares 26s to 30s Od ner qr. SAIIII - I.t. JELL Mil 18. (To sink the Offal—tier Stone of Sibs.) Beef 2s Sd to is Od I Veal . 3s 8d to 3s Sd Mutton Lamb Os Od to Os Od HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. Beasts 2,455 Calves I Sheep 17,830 Pigs • 220 NESVGATE AND LEADENHALL AllitthETS. By the Carcase. Beef 2s Od to 3s 4d 1 Veal 3s Od td 5s 4d Nlutton .......2s 4d to Ss 4d I Pork 25 4d to 4s 4d. Lamb, Os Od to Os Od. ST. J.-01b.5'S HAI MARKET, Feb. 16. Hay.... 31 6s Od to 41 4s Od Clover, .... 31 lOs to 41 8s !thaw.. 11 5s 6d to II 17s 6d SMITHFIELD. Hay Straw Clover. a --Average, 41 Os ul WHITECHAPEL. Flay 3l lOs Od to 41 Os Od - -Average, 41 6s Od New ditto... 01 Os Od to 01 Os Od---.Average, 01 Os Od Straw Clover 4l Os Od to 5! 5s Od--Average, 41 lOs Od. RAW HIDES. Bast Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordinary .... i's Od toes 4,1 2s lUd to as Oil Market Calf .. each.. lOs Od Middlings 2s Gil to -2s Sci Eng. Horse Os Od to . 03-od. SHEEP SKINS. Polled - Od Od to Od Od. Downs PIUCE OF LEATHER. . Butts, 50 to 561bs cacti per lb 21d to 22d Ditto, 56 to 66Ibs each - 5,2 d to 24d Dressing Hides lid to 18d . Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting .l7id to 181 d. Ditto .... 45 to solbs Calf Skins..oo to 4Uibs . . 22d to 270 Ditto 50 to 701bs 284 to 34d Ditto 7O to SOlbs Small Seals (Greenland) . Large ditto - • ..15d to tsd Tanned Horse Hides l6d to :Sid', Spanish Horse Hides PRICES OF TALLOW Town Tallow 56s Cd —s Od Yellow Russia 59s Od —s Od White ditto .. 5-2 s Od —s Soap ;lino.— 49s Od —s Od Melting Stuff 40s od —s od Ditto Rough,. 305 Od —s Od _PRICE OF CANDLES, FROM TALLOW CHANDLEWSHALL. Price of Candles, per dozen, 9s 6d—Moulds, lis 04. 6d per dozen allowed fur ready money. SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap B4 s -. 111ottled v4s. Curd Graves Good Dregs • PRICE OF HAW FAT, per Stone of 616.—Feb. 16. Price of Tallow - (as stated by the Tallow Meiters), Ss 2J I , OREItiA k 1 Span. Sheep. s. d. s. d. I s. d. s. d..: Leonesa 3 6 a 4 6 Saxony, Ist.. 5 6 a 7 3 Segovia 3 0 a 3 9 2d .. 4 0 a 5 3 Soria 2 9 a 3 3 Bohm. Ist .. 4 9 a 7 0 I Seville UOLS, pvr SUi.J2itt. RAW. Jamaica, Brown 53s a 59s Middling Good Antigua, Brown s2s a 57s Middling Good REFINED. Single Loaves , a 80s Double du lo6s a 108 s Hambro' ' Bis a 83s lidsi arils Molasses Candy, Brown COAL MARKET, Feb. 15. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 36 Newcastle 13 Sunderland COUNTRY ; GUILDFORD MA MARKET. RKET, Feb. 16. Wheat per 1. 01 Os to of Os Barley, new, 01 16s bo 113 s New Wheat.. 81 tos to 171 Os Beans, per qr.ll 2s to 1110 s Oats, per qr... 01 14s to 11 4s Pease, per qr. 11 4 s to 1 1 8s New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Os Rye, per qr. 11 Is to II 5s 81RT11,5, On Sunday, the 17th instant, the Lady of the Hon. Jamey Stewart, of a son. On Sitndity last, the Lady of T. t. Ellis, Esq. jun. 15, Bed* ford-place, of a son. On the 16th inst. at Lindley-hall, the Lady of Edward. Applowhaite, Esq; of a son and heir. " MARRIED. At Madras, on the 18th of October, 1821, at St. George's church, by the Rev. William Roy, ames Minchin, Esq. of the Supreme Court at Madras, to Susan; eldest daughter of Peter Cherry, Esq. First Judge of the Provincial Court at Chittoor, and Acting Judge in the Sudder Adawlut, at that Presidency. On Tuesday last, at Benton, W. C. King, Esq. B.A. of Be net College, Cvnibridge, only son of. Captain King, R.N. o$ Lowestoft; Suffolk, to 51ary Elizabeth, second daughter of Wm. Clark, Esq.. of Beliton House, and Belford, in the county of Northumberland. . On Thursday last, at Bishopivearmouth Church, by the Rev. Dr. Gray, the Rev. Robert Gray, A.M. Rector of Sunderland, to Miss Webster, daughter of Rowland Webster, Esq. of Bi shopwearmou th Tuesday last, Ms. FOthergill,.ofßishopwearmouth, Surgeon. to Miss Hogd, eldest daughter of the late Mr. James Hogg, of High-street, Sunderhaul, builder. DIED.. Yesterday, Sophia, the wif: of Mr. George Jones, auctioneer, Leicester -street; Leicester-square, aged 31. " • Mr. Storey, , the 7 Magistratt., wind presided at" the late SW well Office, at `his residence. at a very advanced age. The.3lst ult. at lhableton, Northumberland, the Rev Jam* , Boulter, M. A., Vicar of that parish, and formerly Fellow,o Merton College; theuid. - Lately, at 6tockton, aged , 67, Mrs. Hartley, wife of the Bev W. Hartley, much respected; • At Orleans, on the 7th instant, Julia, the widow of ; ',Col onel Were, formerly of Alarsvell, Hants, and. tale of Walcot:placey Lambeth.. . : . Printed and Published, for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sulf- OFrIcE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS. • Ytill lr U