The Sun. — London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

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'ACT for EXCAVATING a quantity of GROUND, 4 "` the h li rurPose AL ~,,,t ‘ of forming an Additi on to the ORNAMEN iktvoWl'it ht MARYBONE PARK, are hereby in teiv •-u, that T enders for Executing the Works will be re * eti at the Office of the Commissioners of his Majesty's of b ef ' Forests, and Land R e v enues , i n Whit e h a ll-place, on 4ectio ore tiirday, the sth of October next, and that a Plan, 4 e o 2:_ and . Specific at i on o f t h e Work s to be performed, and tili) , Ot the Condition s o f t h e C ont ract, may be seen . upon p otir ca ttail at the said O ffi ce, between the hours of Ten and Alt, b ...-...„............ _ , 131 2.„ C ED FARES, TO DOVER , DEAL. RANS r 1. , -.“-E. MARGATE AND CANTERBURY. ° 3-- INSID E COACHES, AND KEEP GOOD TIME, . k1kA r ,,,,,, 13 Y S. 2‘... MOUNTAIN . NN, SKINNER-ST and Co. w.- SNO -- 'S HEAD IREET, HILL, LONDON. P r li t following POST-COACHES, &c. set out from the above Inn:— Tile 4, ~, 'ant„l,...elegraph," DOVER, Deal, Ranasgate, Margate, Inn:— et i,"10411.. Feversham, and Sandwich new PoA-Coach— , th e 4. .ning at a quarter past 7 0 4 u - it:cll.—ln consequence l'riet ur 'Ned preference given to the ahove Coach the Pro it th e ersere determined DO expense shall be spareZto render' _.llll ol :; ,. ._Onreyaric e on the Kent road. Gravesend, Stroud,. 40 tin bt, ' . _ rON, Chatham, Roches N t i er 'kt Ited'urcie'e.,,.!tidßiiinhant, every oCning at a quarter past u Fares. 'lire o Ito • 11 1:44 0 ti o )'9 Eclipse," PIymouth,FALMOUTH .. , „.. reth i e ste ° °' , h, Pen ryn, Ashburton, I t n ess, Weymouth, F..xet er Exeter, Sr ; .i.e, Dartmouth, and Salisbury,.. every morning at litgLbr.rilliaagli lioniton, Axminster,. 13n . dort Blandford, 'tsh4 . ge, Ba singstoke, Hartford Bridge, Blackwater, and byli 4, . wit' e Un ion, " SOUTHAMPTON, Lymington, Lyndhurst, thes •‘• Oho,, asingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, a d I,‘ !ea ; L'; ! ,. v Four Inside Coach, every Morning at .half , past iv e. , rives at the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by b o y f )•, •rills • h ' gat,, T , , s a most delightful Conveyance d t G o ra b ee, t 1 Cher °tiro (- : sev, .Guertisey, St. Maloes, Havre e ke' t • ' 4-u•-•-rhe P D • tors of the abov e Co . ach hope to t4pellZ!e:htinuance o r' Nh i a e t sup' I i c h has hitherto beenNo li t /,..1;.„,, Kith since ea the c c i n i e m s in en ce en m e r i t ) t w o ) f the' ' Union."--No i 0 o ." . ill'har,," and BRISTOL Flying Post-roaches, through Chip tt,ti-I' Calhe, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every 11, 4 . 111 , ° a ° ,, a ,, a t °he arrive at Mr. Thomas the Grey! i.'''t.cd " 4 the London Tavern, -street, ' and Swan, Ils B idge. ..4ttr 'l,earlY next Pornin...—Coaches to We ' r - „, Th:,-':,'"on, and ' PI Plymouth. : l e N',; "Vre " ad e ) w LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only . ' 4 0, 1 °4 0 en the ' R, carrying 'Four Inside, sets out Daily . IY,,c i arc • 1 1 .414, ' , es at Liverpool next afternoon at Five, through ni ql ' lathliury Northampton, Welford, Lutterworth, ts 14, 1, ‘ke,Yai: At hersto ' ne, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, Knit (~. tilt,p‘l„6,gton, and Prescot. Nth '' 'NI -WRY, Wellington, and Shitfnal, Light Post , 'lli '4 ere rY Afte r , on —Guarded. 'l.„,Y,'‘`',U,.in"in,"WEl)n"Mi)U'l'H,Dorchester,Blandford,Salis , 't t , s ,i'', er iOvereon, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, 81ac . ..k . - t t 'l Co ' i t a r .i," nagsliot new Post Coach, every Aftertimo u t, u s i v .r it u tr . :,, Jel-"ueb erily. ) —The Packets from Weynioutlt w t e n dnesday '! Slsrel, herbourg, St ; Maine 's, &c, every I,4lt..AltNs',l7Y, tifternoon,- at Two o'Clock. ..,rni,„,,,,4IPLF. and Southinolton New Light Post Coach, ;I.' 4e 4 - "OS', Wed d and Friday Mornings at 7 o'clock.. ',ll' 4li te i r - 4 ,4ckin gha n l e f," " L ' EEDS light Post Coa ß c a l l i d , oe szs ß c i , g it - t %t' W,,, le " 4) ,1 at Four • and passes through 01 'rurti' 1,4("1,, Stilton' Greetbami • ster and Grantham, Bawtry, C ri. Yri,f,, l aT khan) Moor, ' Newark, Retfoid, Doncaster, o A n t. c t a errie. , ,,...... ilß'll-;e and t p ' j t he Golden Li:,.., Leeds, x —N ?w e ithstanding the ;'(,'''c,!•('t I . l' , 4 i. , , " : e o e.. E,x , l a i t i ;,• a t t l s i " o i t i it3'hids Coach, it •t L i is allowed 4112 R0a,1 4 2 ) 1, ~ dhd complete I Winc e ' Conveyance on the Af44titowc,',l,z; unequalled by anyi ttilt host Coach, every q:nee li , t ;,r I I E and I .. tipon . neer L hr,, w , s 4 ,SCio w, ° f ur, and Eight in the Morning. :rem, Annan, Dumfries, ii ,4 l a iliV I , I , i , 0 r i , ,l o ll o l f l t ci s n a m n , , Gretna-green, ca n mot, . , , e Kings d w! i ll, 1 , 1 , 11 e d tc ts °I Setitla'n.d, a l light four inside Post . Coach daily. l 's4 k ,!latia -P _ Z'" , " to YORK, Scarborough, i 4„ ~acii, .ewcast le, & Edinburgh, a New W hg b l l i t t . lo , u ' r-inside l' e '' r a t Ei,i,' w :4l a Guard throughout ; ye,. morn !ti r Yhtii'„," ~ Clock, hy way of Newark, Bettor , sets nut_t. y d Doncaster, n 4I P , tit 6; Tadeast • D• •I'ngton Northallerton, Durham, i t i at i' a"( 1 Berwi - t it' d cl ' 1 . arrives' at York the next Moro -1.11t,‘,." fi:t4.,lf;l44st Ts v (.4 • l‘ e a o n 'Clo a ck. Passen _ u se, ~,,4 1e d ou the journey, may rest . what _t a u r n e s, gers finding .thtehiney thAttiti4ollien p r oceerl.without any addrtiona . F . l'ewsu!l, A ldi l i t o t i ,9 6l4 and Swindo b n, r o • n inside .1 C , I) Coach , : k NI , o 7 '. Wo w . °, Reading, Lam on n rn ew , P f l o tr u t 4 4'. ' 4, (1e.,4 "on Basset, Itamsbury, Hungerford, Is4ewbwry he'Kll)cik,",ead, 8 ,1,N ,e,A , 1.(?ItTII, WalSal, Shrewsbury, .Salop, terdo a o n d d . Holy ail,i " 4 ,,N) , , N g°t Four Inside Coach, every Afternoon. 4„ l : l l.lr itin , It orneastle, Spalding, Peterborough, Stilton, tt„"' Nlki...„°°Da7Coaeli' to Spilshy, ,:fi a , c arti e r : l "g, at Six. The only Day L C n o t lc il ti t' t G o t ß ij o " s s t b o Y n ' a a n n d 4 ,: • 1 , 1 , e .1 b .. .. I.I%rk%LiNLIII:ri,SS,". a New Light Four-inside post with i ac t l o - u to r y ,bpi ts, alit, eolith, and Whitehaven, goes ...._,,h, 'llYt h 4 Y r;,, 4 , %aid all the way, passes through tsi 0. e 4'll;v 'e`a-hrid ge,R• I solid, Catterick, Borouglibridg 2 illt44'l‹! Aberlofd F ic er m r bridge, Newark, Doncaster, ,lt•it.tatiltle,'c,eBtt:iotiliftord; Bass ar Y y, Greir , ahain, Stilton, and Big- , 41)' h e e gre atest f " i e ! 'Y ' t at % ~r i ess „ 1 , _, . ac lity. M° l l ,l l s i s n e g „ , g d e n r d s .d p e e te. rfi i i• n r , na d s d t t l l i e t j h o e i l ir to n a e d y k.' en', oicasiire, have the peculiar advantage of their t h, .t.l\,b4, secured in th next Coach. 44 -4.l ey, o'", aster,Ean e P •• .stun, m Kirby-Lonsdale, Bolton, •N 4, 'osiiirk, aiitiGaL e ian t g ' Light Pest Coaches, every t o l i , he ' „ ) 1 1' '441114.1t;11Y41 Express," New Light Four Inside Post Coach, 1)1°44 - " I tel - -"I., Wavrir , -to Kr utsford, Stone, Stafford, at. ‘'d, ;only I" Night n' ' Road), every After -4lt , 'li r , , One on the . ~. ‘l4,„?,`.reet ili; arrives at the SaracLo's Head Inn, 'IN, ; E F;Er 4lve rl , ool, next Evening. 14 , 1 er ) Hour it Post-Coach, called " the Ex l'itl 4: l:E rr i Y. Alt n'hitig and Afternoon. Alt:' N,,,ti`t, Newport, Whitechurch, Tarporley, Nantr ;rialto,' “vi2ll , and Middiewich Light Post-Coach, every et, Abyi, . . 1 ‘) i " , LA% . Ilia' In• n i ' I), Stockton, and Yarn] Light Post Coach, t er, 4, it nst, to the George.liin Sunderland. . ItitiVetoti 1,,,iY41 press, to - t MANCHESTER, ' Winslow, t htZ l'o47.et:4,•eastle, ‘ l. 'a ' tsal, n ri;dlVolverliamptoii,n4tw Four Ur,, , 1. tleb, every Afternoon.—Orify One Night on tses,e4l,l„ It ot i• e ir, l4,, ri e: i L li ? and Rotherham New Four : inside Post-Coach ~:•I`htlhatt, ~e ' r tiled '' The Express, and also " Tl' .P I ' at Feur • t 0 de ' ..i.,, 3 , u1 F. lie the Afternoon• ,thl se es at e,.x. p . ess, ' New BIRMINGHAM Light Post Otl , b 4: .'e t s thr,,u2,,e4 Afternoon, .carr g Four Inside only ; 'all, heatv ~t ,y, t„ g i t t l i i % e a s rs a v r i ck,.La H roing i tr y , B i l i n 'S iith am, We edo ii , I%ll n -street, Binning. ii k il E :‘ : () ,, i ' t ai ng at h :l e f! 'n a s st•S e e n v i ei; o'Clock. .!lisl e h - "ill . 1- "" a New Light P .. ost Coach, to HULL ? Lin ii,,, ,t ti'cl,,'eeire, Howderi, Mad Don Caster, . liiilbe C it,,,..° the Cross Keys Market , plaee, Hull ' and every Morning at ‘i'l'y-Z,.(ll‘o.lteljt,l),,tzli.ell:"._i_la the - kternoon at Four o'Clock. t i kli le "erm ig 114 ! - O lia i h ed i' ll oldesdon,.and Chesbunt Coach, . t ii , : t r eid l oo b v: ,3: . shzittaioies4bi r ,)‘ rii , a ; t e e l r l: . ; gill , b , s, b y tE: 411. i The ll C 1 1 3,41 n h i Li o r n s , only, N esv throughlight gstoke, Whitchurch, Overton, i.(- si,, 'of ti„ 1,41)4, Wood) eats and Blandtord. I iillr ', ! 4l hi , a44iee Coach are ' determinedno expence shall -41,‘11,ExT1t,rnier it the Gist conveyance on the Western Road. .tt.',,1ia5t..y.,1%.,,t.4,.ai1d Edmonton Coaches - daily, at Eleven, i 411,.Lug:axei_iive, and Eight. 10 , 4 .( 2,1 p v , "d Packages to Leeds, York, and Doncaster, khleads a•4l(4ltllNTiruitlldit ,I:Da -'''' tbe p`Co. respectfully acquaiut their ,4,11Z1(11,,,,. passueli)ilici,that they will not : be accountable for 14 eh t riv e p 01 s Luggage, Writings, Plate, &c. of t s 4t , i as (Hids Value,if lost, stolen,or damaged, un- , 4 eete, t .:' . _':h, and the Insurance paid accordingly, at . - l'e 41 Inn, S kinner -street, s no w-hill, London. THE GRAVEL AND STONE, LUMBAGO, &c. HICKMAN'S PILLS are allowed to be the most successful Preparation for effectually removing and preventing the future recurrence of those Disorders which arise from an imperfect action of the Urinary Organs, as Gravel and Stone, Lumbago, Pains in the Back and Loins, Suppression of Urine, &c. Composed of the most innocent, ingredients, this truly valuable Medicine relieves the suffer ing patient from the excruciating tortures of those diseases without any violence or injury to the Constitution, and re quires no confinement or restraint of diet during its use. It is one of the oldest Public Medicines extant.; and its pecu liar virtues and effiCacy have uniformly maintained the highest reputation: Sold in Boxes, at 2s. 9d. and its. 'by Butler's, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's; and 220, Regent-street (near the argyle Rooms), London ; 20, Waterloo place, Edinburgh ; and 34, Sackville-street, Dublin ; and by the Principal Medi cine Venders throughout the - United Kingdom. BETHLEM HOSPITAL The annual entertainment of the Governors of Bethlem Hospital took place on ~the 4th of July, on which occasion Lord ROBERT SEYMOUR; one of the Governors (upon his health being drank) expressed himself to the following effect : " I have always set great value upon public dinners of this sort, as being useful in exciting a spirit of good-will to our fellow creatures ; we are interested in the same objects ; we sympathise in the same sentiments, and thus our general stock of benevolence is increased. I have always thought it an important part of my duty,• as a Governor of Bethlem Hospital, to go through the wards of it, and to see every patient in them, whenever the oppor tunity has occurred. The visitation of a lunatic is always highly agreeable to him, as proving that he is not forgotten, and abandoned by society. It, is also a strong incentive to .the person who has the care of him, in the discharge of his duty. Humanity has lately made great advances in the care of insanity ; we live in times which are much more favour able than those which have past, to persons afflicted with insanity. A man now talks to his friends without repug nance, or his near relation being disturbed in mind, and lie thinks it his duty to see such relative frequently in ,his con. finenient ; whereas, till within the last few years, when a person was sent to a mad-house, his family made as much a point of putting him out of their minds, as if he had been consigned to the grave. I have been all my life in the prac tice of visiting the asylums of lunatics, as well upon the Continent as at home ; formerly, perhaps, from motives of cu riosity only ; but, I trust, latterly from some desire to serve my fellow.creatures, and I am sure, that I have not, on ten occa sions, witnessed a lunatic visited by either a relative or a friend, till within the last few years. " Whenever I have of late years gone through the wards ofour Hospital, I have been much pleased with every thing I have ob served in them. Very little personal restraint is now imposed upon the patients, and when it has been unavoidably applied, it has been only for a short time : no unfortunate sufferers are now • chained without clothes to our walls, as formerly ; no wretched patient is encaged in iron ; and the strait waistcoat is now so much out of use in our Hospital, that there was this day no one of the two hundred and twenty-three patients in the house so confined. I think it my duty upon every occasion to deprecate this horrible Instrument of restraint, as being highly unfavour able to respiration and health, indenting the chest, and there fore especially injurious in the case of females, and equally hurtful by its pressure on the stomach ; to, say nothing of its being a very heating dress. I have also a further and most substantial objection to the use of the waistcoat, being quite sure that, where it is used as an instrument of personal re straint, it will sometimes be brought into action as an instru. ment of punishment ; a harmless patient, when under great excitement, will sometimes give a slap to the face of his keeper ; the keeper angrily applies the strait-waistcoat to him, and is naturally governed in the tightness with which he ap plies it, by the degree of resentment which he bears to the offending lunatic. " I must here mention a circumstance which I am sure will prove agreeable to you,' which is, that, much as I have con versed with the more rational of our patients, as well as with persons who have been discharged from the Hospital, I have never heard one word of complaint offered against either of the physicians or surgeons, those patients having always on the contrary spoken to me, with respect, of the skill of those offi cers, and with gratitude of their tenderness and attention ; a fact which has always surprised me, as every patient knows that his physician is the only person who stands in the way of his enlargement. I never passed through the female galleries of the Hospital without being struck with marked calmness, tranquillity, and cheerfulness, which prevail among the patients, and which are greatly attributable to the needle-work which is put into their hands by our humane and valuable Matron. " To employ the hands, is to relieve the mind of a lunatic, and it certainly is, to increase the chance of recovery. Hence it must be matter of deep regret, that means have not yet been de vised of giving with safety work to our male patients, as is the practice of several well regulated country asylums. Bodily labour engages and consumes that power which gives activity to the mind, and experience has proved that it is a powerful mean of checking and abating that unnatural activity of mind, which is the usual characteristic of insanity. This principle is strongly illustrated in the case of a very interesting young woman, now in the Hospital, whom I saw some months ago quite unem ployed, talking rapidly and incessantly, and much confused in her ideas, when I naturally asked the Matron why she had not given to her needle-work, who told me that she never attempt ed to force any work on a patient—and, that this woman had repeatedly objected to all work when offered to her. Soon after this, the young woman, complaining much of het con finement, earnestly requested that I would obtain her en largement, which I undertook to endeavour to do, on two conditions :—the first was, that she should talk less, and the second, 'that she should work more t --to these she im mediately agreed, and some coarse linen was put into her hands, which was done, by her with manifest indiffer ence and carelessness ; but it did not abate her incessant talking, or produce the slightest difference in her manner.—. It was then judged expedient by the Matron, that some more nice and difficult work should be given to her, which was done, and this employed her for some weeks, at the end of which tiine I again saw her, and was much struck by her composure and reserve. I then asked her whether she was net much better ? She answered that she did not know ho•,-. it, was, but the difficillt work she had lately done had cer tainly done good to her head. This passed last week, and 1 was much pleased to see her this day brought up by the phy sician, who recommended her going out on trial for a month ; and I have no doubt that the improvement of her mind was pro duced by the co-exertion of the hands and eyes, required by the more difficult work she last performed. " Mental disease, I believe, is very seldom traceable to merely physical causes; if this be so, we must have re course to a moral agency for its correction and cure, and I know none that is so likely -to succeed as the constant em ployment of the hands in such work as will somewhat occupy the mind. I well recollect that, in answer to the Circu lar Letter which your Committee wrote some years ago to all the country asylums, to learn their practice and success, several of them told us that they had effected many cures among those of their patients, who were of the labouring clAs, and who were therefore prone to work. Now, the greater part of our patients are of this description, and I should recommend their being em ployed in our garden if it were inclosed with walls : our funds, however, do not now enable us to wall in the garden to prevent the escape of the patients ; and I fear that there would be some difficulty in finding such garden tools as might be safely placed in their hands. We might, however, easily contrive to employ them in the house in platting straw, in making matting, pa-, per bags for the shops, list shoes and carpets, and various other articles. Work is now done by only two male patients, eof I whom makes shoes, and the other straw baskets ; b se patients are very properly allowed to sell their work, a n not see.why others should not be encouraged to work the same way." • His Lordship again congratulated the Governors on the • remarkable improvement which had been of late effected, both in the moral and medical management of the insane (laying particular stress'upon the former.) He adverted to the nu merous testimonies of approbation which were constantly offered in the visiting-book by persons of every rank and profession, and by natives of every country ; and he concluded by urging upon all the Governors the duty of more frequent personal in spection and attention to the important Institution over which they presided, CITY, FRIDAY liVENiNG. Consols for Cash`opened this morning, at 811, and those for the October settlement at 81i. The sales of some eminent brokers, however, during the day, reduced the former to 81, and the latter to 81i sellers. Before the close of the market they in some degree recovered themselves, and concluded at nearly their opening value. Bank Stock for the account is some where about 251 a 251 A, but there is a general opinion that at the present moment the Bunk'pnyits are not equal to a divi dend of 10 per cent. on their principal stock. It is, however, supposed, that there is a saving from their former profits which may now amount to somewhere about five millions, for the public can know nothing which is cerokiis of the affairs of the Bank, so long as the Directors are not compelled to render annual accounts to the Proprietors. Out of this saving the present dividends may for a year or two be paid, but the great anxiety which was shewn at the last Meeting by the Proprietors to return to a small note circulation, for the benefit vett* community, no doubt, speaks volumes in its way, as this is probably a surer source from which 10 per cent. divi-, dend may be expected in future, than any saving fund which the Bank at present possesses. In some of the French Funds a great deal of business continues to be effected. A report that Louis the Desired had almost been poisoned by feeding on ducks' livers, depressed however the value of the French funds, their fate being supposed to be intimately connected with the life of this legitimate Sovereign. Spanish Bonds still conti. nue to attract the general attention of Capitalists. They yield better interest at present than any other description of Euro pean stock. The new Russian Loan is a shade dearer. Letters have this day been received from Maracaibo, dated on the 20th of June, at which time that interesting state remained in the enjoyment of great tranquillity. There is no inimical force now in the entire Continent of South America, capa ble of offering the slightest opposition to the perfect freedom of the different independent States, and their wants must in future form a most important vent for British productive labour. —A few years of peace, after the splendid and unassisted efforts which they have made in the cause of civilization, will produce to_them riches as well as independence; and much will it be for the interest of England,, by patronizing their infant efforts, to gain the friendship of their matured pros perity. Individual loss may, in some instances, attend over stocked markets; but a more perfect knowledge of the means of reimbursement, and the actual amount of con sumption, must soon render profitable returns certain. Colum bian and Chilian Stock this day are much inquired for, and the acknowledgment of the independence of Hayti and the South American States, is only necessary on the part of the British Government, to cause a great advance in their value.— The new Prussian Loan has this day recovered a slight deßres sion which occurred in its value yesterday—The prices of Fo reign Stock are is follow : French * Five per Cent. Dividend from 22d Sept., 92 50. Spanish * Five per Cents. of 1820, Dividend from -Ist - May, 69 1. i i i i• Ditto 1 ive per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from Ist May, 65k. Russian * Six per Cents. Dividend from IstJuly. 82. Ditto * Five per Cents. (metall.) Diva from Ist Sept., ff. Ditto New Five per Cent. (metal].) Dividend from Ist Sept. J37E i. Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1018 (sterling) Dividend from Ist April, 91. Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 88i 1. Austrian * Five per Cents. (metall.) Div. from Ist Feb. 81. N eapolitan * Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from lstJ u ly, i7} D anish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Div. from Ist July, 89. * Ditto Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July, 86k. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist May, 86g. Chilien Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from lst April, 84i 5. Marked * are subject to the rate of Exchange. —( Morning Chronicle.) CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. [Extract of a Letter fronz Albany District, dated March 29.1 " We have had a general failure of wheat the last two seasons, and that in the coin districts—all was destroyed by what is called here the rust, which begins at the surface of the ground, and runs up the stem and blades to the ear, when the whole dies : it is like the rust in iron, and even attacks the wood when cut down. We hope, however, that the next season will not be like the two last, as the. Dutch farmers say that the wheat had not been attacked by the rust for 25 years before we arrived ; and they also say,- that it now came in consequence of the Govern ment allowing the English to settle among them. We know they do not like us, and look upon us in the light of intruders. " Vegetables are very dear and scarce, all the-English garden seeds which the settlers brought out having failed, and the po tatoes got rotten on shipboard ; vegetable are, therefore, full as dear as at Covent-garden market in the dearest times ; in deed to grow vegetables requires a person's whole time; for it is impossible to get them to any perfection without continual watering,, and a great quantity of manure. " Leather here is very bad and dear, although there is no duty on it, nor on any colonial . produce. " Shoes are here 12s. per pair, which will neither keep out the dew nor rain ; they become like sponge, therefore we are obliged to go without in wet weather or dew, otherwise they would not last a week. As a substitute for leather shoes, we make a sort from raw hides, and sew them together with tanned sheep skin ; these are very unpleasant wearing. Raw hides, when we came here, were only 6s. each ; indeed you might have picked them up in every direction ; they are now 12s. each ; in fact they are not to be bought, as the tanners now contract with Government for all they slaughter. We there fore often kill a bullock for the, sake of the hide for other pur poses, as well as shoes, particularly for making traces for the oxen; indeed raw hides are used for all purposes in lieu of rope lines or leather • and all packages are secured with it, cut into stripes • even the thatch on houses is put on with it ; in fact it is used for general purposes. " A great many of the settlers have abandoned their land, and either gone to their trades or as labourers, but they cannot leave this district, nor even the neighbourhood of their relations, without a pass from the Landrost. If a settler is found in any other district without a colonial pass, he is immediately taken up and sent heel under an escort and confined in the tronk. —Many settlerS have, and many are now obtaining penniseion to return to England. Some are gone, and many are on the eve of, going, indeed on e an d a ll are d i sgusted by being de ce i ve d in the prospects held out, particularly so by the land not yield ing wheat to their industry, though labour and expence ar e bestowed upon it. _ _ " The climate is certainly very fine and healthy, yet we want flour to keep up the Englishman's constitution. Rice con tinually is a bad substitute for it. The English poorhouse fare is much more preferable. It is true sheep are plentiful, but it itioossible to live always on meat. to bread, I have not it for the last three months, and when it is to be bought at Graham's Town, it is sold at 2s. per 31b. What would the people of England say to this ? Starvation stares us in the face; all have expended their little means in bringing the land into the present state of cultivation without realizing a single shil ling. It is an old saying, and it is verified here, that English, men are fond of law and litigation, and it has been the univer sal case with the settlers, there having been every court day from twenty to thirty most frivolous cases among them. Should the next season not prove more productive, it is the intention of the settlers in this district to petition Government to be sent • home gratis as paupers." THE COLONIES. CA NA D A. We yesterday received Quebec Papers to the `?9th July, from which the followi►►g are ex tracts:— Office of Me Adjutant General of Quebec, June 18, 1822. MILITIA GENERAL ORDER.—It having appeared to his Excellency the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, that it was necessary for the benefit of the service to add to the Division of Argenteuil, under the command of Colonel Patrick Murray, a company of Artillery, it has pleased his Excellency to appoint to the command of the said Company Captain Tibe rius Wright, and James Taylor, Lieutenant : and his Excel lency has commanded me to issue the present general order for the information of those . who may now or hereafter command the Company. L This Company to be , formed as the Militia Act directs ; and Militia Men enrolling themselves shall receive, when.the Company is filletl•ant amounts to the number of seventy men rank and file, sword and accoutrements complete, as this will be issued from the King's Stores, for which the officer in com m .nd of the said Company will furnish. his receipt, be re sponsible for them, and see that they are kept with proper care. 2. The Captain or Officer commanding the Company, as soon as it shall be complete, as before stated, will make a return for the information of the Commander-in-Chief to the Adjutant- General of Militia, specifying the names of the men, the num ber of serjeants, corporals, fifers, and drummers. 3. No Militiaman will be obliged by this order to provide. himself with any uniform, but his Excellency will be gratified to find that the Militiamen have provided themselves; in such case the colour, &c. will be determined by the Commander of the Battalion. 4. The Captain or Officer commanding the said Company, in making annually a return of the men and transmitting it to the Colonel, will also give a statement of the arms and accoutre ments, mentioning if there are any lost or broken, and bow that has happened. By Order of his Excellency the Governor-General and Corn mander,in-Chief, F. VASSAL DE MONVIEL, Adjutant -General Militia Forces. Died, on Sunday morning, aged 26, the Rev. Mr. Gauvreau, Curate of Ste. Anne la Perade. His death was occasioned by a fall in Church from the height of 14 feet, while arranging something about the altar; he is rery generally regretted.—: At Lorette yesterday evening, after a severe illness, ,Ensign Bruns, half-pay 60th Regiment. QuEnEc, JUNE 27.—We can state with certainty that Mr Marryat has declined to act upon the nomination made by the House of Assembly during last Session. Mr. Marryat has been highly gratified by this mark of perfect confidence which the House of Assembly have had in his• integrity and talents, but he at the same time remarks that without the concurrence of the three branches of our Legislature he could not commu nicate with the Colonial Department and his Majesty's Mini sters as an accredited agent; and would be unable to act with that efficiency which the , situation demands. The number of wild pigeons which have made their appear. ance in this neighbourhood now exceeds any ether for many years past. They are sold as low as 2d., and 4d. per dozen is commonly asked for. The pigeons pass in numero us fl oc k s early in the morning, and afford great amusement to the sports. men. Upwards of 100 persons, with guns, place themselves on the heights outside of St. John's and St. Lewis Gates, and during a few hours the whole air redounds with a close succes sion of discharges. FinE.—The extensive building over the ire walk, the pro perty of Mr. Dalkin, together with apparatus and materials at tached to it, were entirely consumed by fire this afternoon. As it was situated on the other side of the little river at Pointe aux Prares, no useful assistance could be given. The chimney of the walk was seen on fire some time before, and it is thought the fire originated in that quarter. This was the only mannfac, tory of the kind in the neighbourhood; it had been undertaken at considerable expense and met with encouragement. Died, at St. John's, in the District of Montreal, on Monday last, William Lindsay, Esq., aged 82, many years Collector of his Majesty's Customs at that Lindsay was a native of Edinburgh, North Britain. lie followed the profession of a Merchant in the City of London some years previous to his arrival in this Country in 1773. During the blockade of Quebec in 1775-6 by the American Forces, he here arms in the garrison as a Militia Officer. He has been upwards of 40 . years in the Commission of the Peace, in the execution -of which his cha racter was distinguished as an upright and impartial Magis trate. In private life he was an affectionate husband and a kind parent. A widow and four sops (three of whom are under age) remain to lament his loss. qUEBEC, ,JULY 4.—lt is the intention of the 'Colonial Go vernment to take a Census of the people in Lower Canada with out delay: this is to be carried into execution through the medium of the Protestant and Catholic Clergy, to whom circu, lars for that purpose will be addressed. It is understood that returns were made by the latter to Monseigneur the Catholic Bishop during last autumn, and that it will now only be neces sary to add those from the Protestant Clergy. The Census thus taken will approximate very near p er f ect accuracy, and it is supposed to one 1.50 th of the whole. JuLY 8.,--Detachments of recruits for the 37th, 68th, 70th, 76th, regiments were marched up this day to the Jesuits Bar. racks from on hoard the transport Brunswick. The small-pox of a virulent nature is now prevalent in St. John's Suburbs.—The child of an liish emigrant died of it last week. Dr. Tainchand informs us that he at present has some good vaccinating matter, and kindly offers to vaccinate gratis all poor children brought to him during Wednesday forenoon. The Car of COmmerce remained on shore more than 36 hours opposite La Valtrie on her last trip to this port. Provincial Secretary's Office, Quebec, 15t4 July, 1822. His Excellency the 'Governor "in . Chief has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz. William Hamilton, Eiquire, to be Collector of his Majes, ty's Customs at the Port of. the Village of Sherbrooke, in the District of Three Rivers, in this Province. Francois Pierre Bruneau, Esq., to practice the Law in all his Majesty's Courts of Justice in this Province. . And Joseph Carmel., Inspector of Flour and Meal in the City of Montreal, in ditto. Provincial Secretary's Ojyce, Quebec, 25111 July, 1822. His Excellency the Governor in Chief has been pleased to make the following appointments, viz : Pierre Bureau, Gent. a Surveyor of lands for the Province of Lower Canada. • Samuel Neilson, ,Gent. to be his Majesty's Printer for do. do, William Ritchie, (Gent. a Public Notary.for do. do. Laurent Viger, Esq. to practise the Law in all his Majesty's Cpurts of Justice in do. do. Christopher Wilson, ('uller and Measurer of Deals, Planks, Boards, Oars, and Lathwood at the Port of Quebec. ox REM., JUNE 22.—An -ingenious machine attached to a wheel carriage for measuring the distance passed over, was exhibited here during the last week. The inventor is Mr. C. Pelaurier dit Cotineau ; he intends to apply for a patent during the next Session. It is regulated by one whole revolution of the wheel, the length of which is exactly known, and by some other machinery makes it visible to the traveller in the front of the carriage. Ju;,y 3.—Much damage was done at Pomte aux Trembles, and'in that vicinity, by the storm of Sunday last: many barns and fences were demolished, and trees torn up by the violence of the wind. Baron Maltitz, Secretary of Legation to the Im -1)041 Russian Embassy at Washington, arrived at the Man sion House on Monday night, and will leave town for Quebec this evening. JULY 10.—On Monday, the rain throughput the upper parts of the District was extremely heavy, and did considerable damage on the flats; it was particularly injurious, we are told, . ~ to the natural grass, beating it down and rendering it neeetort that it should be cut betbre it is ripe. According to our information the grasshoppers hayt done im mense mischief in Richmond and tfie.surrounding settlmeals. We learn through th e medium ota f r iend, that' puted question relative to the Boundary Line in theAtiCiottyof Lake Champlain has beer; et length decided, and that litAtsett Point will come within the British Limits. We are further informed theta decision has been Conte to, by the Commissioners of both countries, relative to the flue from Saint Regis to th e h ea d o f L a k e Huron ; and that the surveyory have Lett Utica, fbr the'prirpose9f prosecuting their labours on Lake Superior.—V Montreal erald.) Dicd, on the 11 th inst. at Cotean du Lk, Alexander Wilson, Esti. He had been many years an inhabitant of that place, and held several places under government with much credit. He was much esteemed by all who knew him ; and his death is deeply and generally lamented.—On the morning of the 10th instant, Elizabeth, daughter of Major Loring, 76th Regiment. —On the 24th Ap r il l as t, at L ema d s , in the Department of La Sarthe, France, Captain Wm. Alexander Grant, ilst High landers, son of the Baronas of Liongueuil, who served with reputation through a great part of the SPanisb Peninsula War, and in 'the great and final Battle 19f Waterloo, wherein he was • wounded. Jut,} 20.—The Ist Battalion of the Militia of this city hay been paraded on the eening and morning of each day during the present week, in Conformity to dig act ataithOrislng its organization. • i)ied at William Henry, on the Bth inst. after a Itngerine illness, which he supported with Christian firtnnetp and resig., nation, aged 29 ye a rs, Lie u t. henry Hall, on the half-Pay O' the late 99± Regjrnent. NINOSTON (U. C.), JULY 2.—We are sorry to learn that a further reduction is about to take place in the Naval ECa blishment in Canada; JULY .5.L-We regret to hear from various parts of this and, the adjoining distri c t s , th a t th e Wh e a t, w hi c h l ate l y promised mil. well, has been attacked by a species of fly, and suffered to such. a degree that it is thought it will not average half a crop. The Indian corn also looks ill in many parts, having been injured by the late frosts in May. dur.Y I2.—A very rapid emigation is pouring into Michigan and Alabama, which two territories, it is thought, will soon claim the right of admission into the Udon soveleign States. It seems that the inhabitants of the western part of the State of New York are anxious to avail themselves of the earliest period of the expected opening of our West Indian ports to their commerce, and that they are accordingly hurrying their produce down the Erie Canal; towards New York. Little, if indeed any part of the flour, which fbrmerly came from the Genessce Country, has this season, descended the St. Lawrence, and twelve of the boats belonging to Ogdensburgh, which were usually employed on the river, have consequently gone in search • of freight to the Canal, which they have reached by ascending the falls of Oswego River. A New York Paper estimates the , quantity of flour now lying along the banks of the Canal, 'at 100,000 barrels, and we hear it reported that; at Utica alor.e; there are lying 30,000 barrels, which cannot be forwarded, as . well on account of the want of boats, as of water in the Mohawk,' [To be continued:l ANTIQUITY, &c. OF GUILDS. (WITH NOTICES OF THAT OF PRESTON.) The term Guild, which, in the present ago, ie little known, signifies a fraternity or brotherhood. The original of them is said to he from the Saxon law, by which neighbours' entered into an association, and became bound for each other to bring forth him who conlinitted 'any crime, or Make sa tisfaction to the party injured ; for which ••littrpose they raised a sum of money amongst themselves, and put it into a common stock, .whereout a pecuniary compens;ltiOn Wag made, according to the quality o f the offence committed. In after times, the name was used to designate any company combined 'together, subject to regulations and laws of their own making, under the Soyereign's license. In this sense of the word, there were in England, anciently ; almost in numerable fraternities or guilds, every trade or profission forming itself into one of these sort of communities, a n d either having a C ommon H a ll or fleeting; to transact,' their business in the parish church. Stowe (numerator many such in his history of London, and mention of num' rous others is to be found in different topographical works They had, in most instances, a common seal, were governed by a warden or officer, and possessed all the other usuil functions of corporate bodies, of which they may, in fact, be styled the on gin. The fraternities of this nature, amongst merchants, were called " Guilda Mercatoria ' " or Merchant Guilds, and ap pear to have been first introduced here by the Easterlings; or Germans, who, in very early times, had their hall or place of meeting by Cold Harbour-stairs, in Thames,street. —These foreigners were our masters in commerce, and re sorted to England before the year 979, at least in the time of King. Ethelred, at which period the Emperor's men corn.: ing with their ships were accounted worthy of good They were not to forestal the markets from the bOrghers of London, and were to pay toll at Christmas,—two grey cloths, and one brown one, w i t h t en p oun d s o f pepper, 'five pair f gloves, and two vessels of vinegar, and as many at Easter. Henry the Third, by charter, dated 1235, exempted these strangers, who were then called the " Guilda Teutonico rum," or Merchants of Cologne, •from an annual payment, or quit rent to. the Crown, of two shillings, due for the hall al luded to in Thames-street, in these words—" Know ye that we have quitted claim for us and our heirs, our beloved cid, zens of Colen, and th e i r merchandize,_ of those two shillings which they were wont to g i ve from their Build-hall in Lon don." And this exemption was cpnfirmed, anno 129% by Edward I. PItESTON GUILD may be reckoned amongst the earliest of I these Guilda 'Wm - Morin, and is the only one in the kingdom, we belieye, that keeps up such a commemoration of its esta blishment as to attract the notice 'of modern times. The first charter to the burgesses of Preston was given in 1172 ' • it granted amongst other things, th a t th e b urgesses of thatbo rough should have a Guild of Merchant 4 within the said borough, pith all the liberties and free customs to such Guild of Merchants appertaining !amongst which Camden, reckons the privilege of holding, in certain cases, pleas of land, &c„ within their own precinct.) In consequence of this grant, the ancient and free burgeisos of the borough of Pres ton have held and kept, within this borough, a Guild Merchant at the end of every twenty years, for now nearly five centu ries, as appears by the records and Guild-hooks of the Cor poration ; the first commemoration having taken place in the year 1328 (2d Edward III.), and the last in 1802 (42a George III.) During this long period the Mayors of Preston who happened to govern at each return of the qo years, amount to eighteen in number, the names of whom, with most of their coats of arms, and other particulars, are given in a lately-pub listed work of Collections for Lancaster, the county in which Preston is situate. The name of the first of these Mayors (1328) was Aubcrt, the son of Robert ; of the last (I 802) Nicholas Grimshaw, Esq. For ages past, the return of the Guild Year at Preston has been celebrated as a gay and festive season ; and, in addition to a characteristic procession of the Guild itself, musical enter. tainments, balls, plays, races, and other amusements, are con tinued for several weeks. The present is the nineteenth of these commemorations, and is being kept with the usual ceremonies and mernment, but which, having been before described, need not be noticed here. Preston, or " Priests-town," as it is said to have been an.: ciently called, on account of the great number of religious there, is sapposed to have risen out of the rains of Itibbk ceder, now a village, but anciently a very considerable city in the neighbourhood, and may, for its beauty and bigness, be itself termed a city. It stands on a delightful eminence, on the banks of the Ribble, at the distance of 211 miles from London, over which river there is a handsome stone bridge. Here are also two charity schools for boys' and girls, and various other establishments of different descriptions ; and being the place of residence of the officers belonging to the Chancery of the County Palastine, and reckoned one of the prettiest retirements in England, it has at all times a gaiety and liveliness about it not usual in country places. The town was incorpora•ed by Henry IL, and is governed by a Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council. It had early a grant of three weekly markets, and as many yearly fairs, all of which are welLfrequented, the market being reckoned the moat considerable north of Trent, for corn, fish, fowl, and all sorts of provisions. Preston gave the,title of Baron, in the ri•ign of Charles IL, to Sir Richard Grimes, or Graham, a distin guished statesman of the time, and who, in the reign of James 11., was raised to the dignity of Viscount Preston, of Amman. derness.