The Sun. — London, England, 1817-08-23 00:00:00

PA RLI AMI NTARY PAPER'S. I'I;PERS RELATING to the SALT DI/TIES, &c. (Continued from gestertlay's Sus.) (Nfl. 1 r. PlOl tie.) Tn ntidition to what I sithmitted yesterday respectinX the - use of Set in agricul!nte, I have to sti.e. that I am acqnaint , ed with a person wliovares several th,nisad hams annually. in which he consenter two-pounds of Salt to fifteen pounds of pork; being near tees per cent. on its value. In one year, he pais) about 4001.10 r Salt. I also know, that it is a general practice in Cheshire, to steep seed wheat in brine ; and not many days gime, a Gnn- Oman in the ne4,411) ,uthood of Not;thwich was gneel 4UI. tot baring in his possession twenty pounds of Rock Salt (on which . the duty had not seen paid), for the pirri.ose of pteparing Intinc to steep seed wheat. • (ti;). 18....-Sir T. Thrnard ) The Waste and foul Salt which hai been applied in Corn- , wall for curing fish, is sold by the fish-curers to the farmers for,tnanure. at thirty shilliogs a load, Irein twiee the origi., nal price of the Salt. Some of thiS Salt has heeo twine iisete t sonre may once; hut what has been only once applied is uni versally preferred as the strongest and hest manure. This is c onfirmed by Mr. Davies Gilbert, in the 27th volume of tho Annals of Agriculture. CNo. T. Bernard.) Mrintiotacy with Count Rumford led me to introduce Lis imprOrements in the use f ftfel into the Foundling Llospital and-ether public establishments, and to attend personally to the applications of Omni. What I saw In my visini to North leith.cOnvinCed tos - tbat, it thete was no interference , with the *works, the Salt taigla made . much cheaper and of a fat bet ter triality. In September last, when I visited the winks, there were no roofs orcoeers tannin) , of their boilers to keep off rain ; no checks or dampers to prevent the waste or escape of heat, or to regulate the application of it in crystalizing the Salt; the doors of the grates were large ; and left wide open, and the supply of coals was unlimited, so that the draft was that of A. (111114 CC. No use was made of steam, not even to supply heat froth one boiler to crystalize the contents of an ot'ler. I have no doubt Wit that, with an improved arpara tus, the be.+l large grained Fisher;' Salt might be producelat half the expeuce of the present mode of making the Cornatoa white Salt.. (N o . so —Sir T. nemaral In the neighbourhood of the Salt Works, the labourers are istale thieves by thy- exeessof the temptation held out - brthe Salt Dtitier,-and are led from one !crime to - anoi'ter tili-thry come to bv banged or transported. I. im informed by w Irtier from Henry Meas.., Esq.'a Magistrate at Ptitiafice, th:it - thr; saute effects are also produced by the ditties there. • TUN is enotirtned•hy another tornish-Magistrate;-George-frrhn,'Esq: who I hope will be in town in time to.offer his evidence. In the mean•tin - or I beg to give in Mr; I3oese's Letter, ant that an exttact may be entered on tht•Alitnite - extract of a Letter to Sir Thomas-Bernard; Bart. from Henry' Boats, Esq. dated Penzaitee, 25th January, 1811. , ":I rotur,ed.to spgs;est that a tax ,on tialt was fundamen, • - tally wroor, arr principle—becanie it presses mot on the class ' 'east At , le to bear the weight—because of its immoral ten..., deury—ind because it deprivei the nation of benefits, be yond measure greater than the pilule produce of the . int. . . _ . . . . port. . - . " To M.:stride these positions, I supposed the Salt'L)uts to produce about one million and a half a year, and the litilish population about ten millions and . , a half, so that the la* • "%sinild lie..ahout Ss per head per alintint, if equa,4 diffused, over he is h , ,le et.niminuty. Hut .as the up:ier and middle classestonsitme liitie of salted provisions, and as the lime: have httle e sr than salt, in one 17irin or another, in addition to their bread and potatoes, the tax must press . very dispio portlonahly on then); so much so indeed, that the cottager; lostead of paying less, paid ten times more ,a head fur his - fip mity than the nobleman. Of its demoralizing Jrnilency 1 was already deeply coritinc.d tram emonion olist , rvation I. loot since Ihave been acting as a i‘Ligistrate of this'. towni 1 6 r',o the ei ii lamentably greatcrlhan I suspected. Starch liar - rants:, lieu convictions, are matters of constant recur-, rci4. the benevolent boon, so creditable to (1 believe)-Mr. Varistitartof ei:;;wing the use of free Salt to cure fisb-for home consutuption, is rendered almost nugatory to the Cut. sager by the compli.x nt.tchinery and excessive sigaiur of the Excise Laws. The poor ma.. c;iitiot procure jhe Salt, and as seccostothed)cure the fish hims• If ; i , must he done hi pi of . i.ssed fish-ceirers, in places entered for the purpose, and inspected by the Excise Officers. Accidents, often unavoidable, and the carelessness or dishonesty of se'rvants, would expose the proprietor to penalties so enormous, that few, exceptpeople of no property, will venture the risk. To these, getter:sly ne cessituus persons, the temptation of sniuggling an a:tick (1 he tax on which is tentislel the cost) so easily concealed, and su universally in request, is commonly too great for them to re sist, although at the ex; once of perjury ur detection. ''his is an evil of no ordinary magnitude. • But'the benefits of which the nation is deprived by the Salt Duties, are not easily appreciated,- or eta-it numbered. Ju agriculture and rural economy alone, the less in feeding cattle, sheep and hogs--in restoring damaged provelider---in manure, and in the effect on wages, may, without extrava gance, be supposed to exceed the whole value of the tax.— Equal, perhaps, would he the gaiu to our manufacturers of "paint n, linen, glass, eartheuware, soap, &c. &c. by the un restrained use of the, muriate and carbonate of anda and mu riatic acid, of which our Salt mines and ocean afford supplies absolutely inexhaustible; nor is it unworthy of consideration to notice the advantage of foregoing the pernicieusatubstiarte lead, in our floe glass and common carthenwares. On our Fisheries, however, on that most productive mine of national Smaltlt, national security, and national subsistence, Vie ad- Tantages would be most conspicuous. At present, even in the-ett'ses where free Salt is allowed, delays, and costly forma lities, anal perilous risks, form so serious a drawback as in a great measure to defend the end. " By reference to a variety of returns treats different parts • of &gland, I ant convinced that the Salt Duties press much more heavily on cottagers and little householders, an.: are least felt by the occupiers of the better houses in the Metro polis, who have no country mansions. In the case of three families in Portland-place, with houses of about 3001. a year, the tax costs them each something less than four pounds a year ; and in my own case, with a house of 2201. a year, it costs me annually about three guineas. In lesser houses the expellee, compared with their rent, is much higher, and in country seats it is increased in proportion to the number of sows and hogs kept. I find by the returns of the Stewards of -Lord KetiYon,, hie John fires , Egerton, and some others, that their Salt costs in the country from. 121. to 141. a year. In 'Lima (by a variety of returns) the expence of the tax appears -to he at present from three per cent, to ten or twelve per . 'Vat. on their rental. On dairy farms it depends, chiefly- on the number of cows kept, half .a bushel of Salt, and some times more, being allowed for each cow, anti even more than 'that in pails of North Wiltshire, where the cheese is richer 'and more salted : though it is more in dairy farms; and yet it, appears to . be clear that farms for fatting cattle .could benefit'_ soost hr the commutation. But the comparative weight of the tax lies on cnttagers, and occupiers of houses at small. rents, who* paY far more in proportion than the rich, con 'stoning according to their numbers in family, and purchasing a ver y little salt at a time,. and atan , enhancedpri e c r e i ,g ls e ki n v q . al i l n `y 'at six shillings a stone or twenty - four shillings p the returns I have examined, I found only a very fetweotta.- -gerswho used less than three stone of Salta year. The Kt: 7 . neral average of cottagers not keeping a cow or pig was four stone, or a bushel a year, with au.increaseolSaltwheztilreoy ]veep cows or hogs, ampunting,in some casealas high ati bushels a year. At the same time the cottager sufferi-consi 7 . derablv in - his means'of life by theexistefice of the Salt Pus ties. in the neighboUrhood of Penzance ..the cottagers make, their rents by 'fatting pigs , which they .41 . from Nichadnitts. , - to C.ltristinas; they bring the pork flesh toi Penzance market;: rsoilseirtg ab TM u_ afford Salt to preserve it and wherti- as Irequently happetai tliEre it a glut of pork'in tbe.doarkett,, they are obliged to sell 'it at any price, sometimes at:a penny. halftiennv ‘ThiS information I have personally from Ceorize :lipn, Esq. an Icting,Nlagiatrateat Penzaoce: In Wittahist. th'e'poorare ,flibjcct to a 'similar ineunveriienee W • m 0 ,4444 42 b4on rifik Satt,is so ,seaittily used, on account of I)!lrtilgt&laricO, thiWwiten .brosight to market the pork frc , quO'PrikUrees-13)0 afiinl u n fit to eat. East autsunn sere ralWriteirlAWorllits "spoilt p. tk wat offered.for sale at .kielksoam market, and the excuse was, tisk they bia used in ft as Lunch Suit as they could afford to buy." _ LTQ In eoritiaucd.l LAW •INTELLIGENCZ. COURT. OF CHANCERY, AUG. 2t. This morning the Loin CHANCELLOR came into Court, and seeing only one Counsel (Sir Arthur Piggott) and two Solicitors, he observed, " It is well seen 'that we have no Opeua-house case here as ire should otiverwise have had plenty of company." JUDGMENT: The Lonntn,Ncet...i.Oß.—l have, ?kir. Monti gue, mint - thly amille(l the papers in the case of ex-parte , Brown in the matter of Chambers, a bankrupt, which Was on some time ago before me.-4 observe .you apply for: the removal of Mr: Brown, the assignee, bn. the .ground of his having allowed . some debts to ti! lost by , his negligence or indolence: No. evi dence whatever of the slightest satisfactory na ture has been shewn me, of Any indolence or negligence on tlie part of Mi.-Brown, for on the cool rary, I think he has acted as an honest up right man-should always do. It you choose you may take another assignee to act along with him, nut you must not on any account remove him from his trust, because he is as good a man as von pfsihly can li.ve in _that place. As to costs, 1 think you had better. pay each.of you your own costs. The creditors 1 see have divided among heniSelves , therefore let them pay their, cost, but let Mr. Broi‘n be exempted trout pitying. one far thing. - You haNe forced Llin here, therefore you mu.r pay tor' The . i;t her business of the day was totally un important: POLICE IN I ELLIUENCE. El ATTON-Giltalq,ll. , kAVELTY TO ANIMA LS.— yester day Jahn Hod den; a Smithfield drover, appeared to a Flilllllloll, tin answer a complaint made against him by Mart n, a constable, for using excessive cruelty towards a flock of sheep, which he was driving to.Smitl)- field maikrt. The complainant slated, that au Monday last, as he was standing at his own door in Peter-street, Cow cross, he saw the prisuner, wlyo was driving a flock of sheep to Sittifitleki l , marliet„use.srveral of -them with great clueliy, by, OFilii,ng many of.them. in: a most barbarous satnge manner with a lienvy bliidgeon•actoss, itieeagi, legs, and earhins:other rats., Witness.: called to 114 n to desist fratn-leas cruelty, but .to 4).4 purpose, as he acted- : with. the . more Having then selected a sheep trots the ,flock, he, beat .the poor.. animal about the .hrt+d• a-nd legs: until : it :was -unable to move. Witness toOk his itainher, and afterward“ininnoned hint to answer.' to the charge.—Upon-qie-prisoner -eipressing4tis contrition for what:7he had done, contessing :tke had acted wring, and.promising .not 'to besguilq of the like offence in future, - he reerived a severe- 1 reprimand, ...and was cisnvicted mitigated penalty of ten shillings and-costs: , LAMBETH-STREET. ,Cltas; of AluanEa. , --A man, .who gave his-, Address No. 4,-Union-place, Deptford; statcd.tinit: he camp for information how to proceed, against. a Captain of a ship, now lying in 'Blackmail, tore the courtier of a seaman on board his ship ; the roan had been cruelly "tried in his voyage horne t and hekten so much abant the :bead rritit an iron bar, that lie became aftifiii4i - di deran4e44, ansl„con tinued:in that state titl the ship came to ilieDowtit ; hilt since, he is missing, and it is repotted on hoard that he either fell or was thrown overboard, but the latter opinion ,was the most' ,prevalent. Witness has the iron bar, and can produce a man -01 tine Dame tif George Thompson, who knew the whole particulars. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.--A yoang men of genteel appearance, of the "Hanle of Thomas Long, charged a woman with robbing him of a silk hand kerchief, on Thursday, and upon his testimony she was fully committed for trial. In :thou, two hours after, Long was charger! with stealingplate, linen, and apparel, the property of Sir Thomas Webb, at the Stratford Hotel, Stream-place. The prisoner, it appeared, had sneaked nilacbse— erv- ed up stairs, and he was detected in the act of packing up the property stated by the waitee, when he endeavoured to escape out at the wit-. dow. He was fully committed for, trial, and on bring taken below, he was hailed with accusations of perktry, and other terms rather energetic than elegant, by the woman he had before acctised, BOW-STREET. Yesterday, John Ratctiff and Edward Dixon were brought before the Sitting Magistrate, .by Hull, the constable of Kensington, and charged by Sarah Wood, servant to Mr. Sawer, of Ken sington, with stealing a wateb, and a purse con taining a 1/. note, and 11. 6s. ed. in silver, her property. The-prisoners were committed to New gate for trial. SHOCitINO SUICIDE —Thursday last. CHARLES Ravin., Esq. a Gentlernan.of . the highelit te9ec. tability, put a period to his existence,'at his seat near Enfield, in the following extraordinary ruan ner unfortunate Gentleman, it appears, had been for sometime past subject to occasional fits , of insanity, on which account hislriends pro• cured a keeper to take care of him at home,. to prevent any unpleasant occurrence taking place.; and'at times hii derangement was'at.such a height., .that it Was "fOiid necessary_to c onfine him ina strait ,waistcoat, • On Thursday morning:appear ing to be more sane than usual, he entreated his keeper, to loosen the . strings of his waistcoat a little, that he plight sleep with the greaser ease ; the keeper seeing him More cool and collected than he had beenfor'some ' tune, inca.utiouslycom pliea with his request, and loosened thelbraces alit 41e, so as to allow hip, to lie with the greaterease; ReVelthanked hies ?or 'his kind indulgence, and then lAy dowriand pretended to go to sleep, in which =situation' his keeper left himtO take Tome repo'Se, and.. WithdreW for about an hour. On 'his-return he was horror-struck at finding Mr. - Revell lyi n g on his back ors:the bed quite dead,. having stran g l e d , hi mse lf w ith the braces o f' his ,waistcoat; "which lie . cuntriv'ed" to :tie; round his neck, and,. pull theni quite tight tvith, bot h his hands, w he by iolne inearik freer{ 'find) . theiy bondage. Mr. Revel was a Gentleman of the . greatest respectability, and is very much regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaiutauce. MURDER AND FELO-DE-SE. • CORONERS' INQUESTS. —An Inquisition was taken yesterday before THOS: STIRLING and J. W. UNWIN, Esqrs .. Coroners, at the' Slnice-house, Ilornsey, and at the Red Lion, Stoke Newington, it having be en adjourned from the Sluice-house to the Red Lion, for the purpose of 'investigating the cause of .the deaths ..of Sarah Eliza Crofts, aged 24 (whose body lay at _the. Sluice-house), and Maria Ayling, aged 20, and an illegitimate Child, the son of Crofts . (whose bodies lay at the Red Lion), who were found drowned in the New River, uudet - the extraordinary circumstances we stated yesterday. ,The evidence : was taken be fore both the Coroners. The place where the In quest was held was immensely crowded. r . Win. Hornsby sworn—" I. am walk stnan of the New River Company ; on iVednesday, about eleven o'clock in the morning, I found something against my scythe, as I was dragging Inc River near Red Lion-lane ; I drew up the body of Maria Ayling—a . silk . handkerchief was tied over her eves; her clothes were not discomposed. I car ried the body to the .Red Lion.---The child,•l and my partner found about 40,yards from Maria Ayl ing ;• there were no marks of violence upon it. I took it.to the Red Lion." .. Robert Flight sworn—" I am a walksmen• of the New River at HornserSluice.. - On Saturday last I found . a bonnet near the weed-grate. On Thursday last, about 12 o'clock,, I saw the bbdy partly out oldie water, close to the grate. 'I got assistance, and took her out ; she proved to he named Sarah Elizabeth Crofts ; she had 'a hand kerchief, or lyere , of-silk, tied Over her mouth in oue korit ; he carried the body to the 'Sluice huse. This body was thine than half a mile from wilt re Maria ,A Ong and the.child were found by the abase wo ness " .I,llbes Sme.tley sworn—"- I am a painter and r glaiiet :i'l. .rettle at No. 14, tronmouger , roW, 1 Old street, St. Luke's ' I h;tve • known the ; de ceased about a •ortOight 5 My acquaintance coot. ineneed 'kith them by being'at wink next door to wnerethey livid. They •were setvants to a gen ! denim' named Guise, whose house was No. 13, r Paimei:s- 1 tyraee, II olio wiiv,. i 4, the palish of Is lington. They bad cookta_sonte meat for me and my, tellow4s( evaot , Morris; ..and . .then asked us .inio the honse,.4and.seemed. to court our company.- -I breakta-tcd with them ,st Nir t . Guise's on Sam-, slay i lk / t ruing, and slept .witb. 'both .of them the pi - ecellital niglit." . ,-. . ... . . _ . JurynratlL-13!jth of Ahem I.•,Witne's, laagbed....; • Mr. t.'"TiaLIN.O, ii;oroner- 7 -I)Ate r t laugh bere,.Sir; you - onght - th 2 he flogged foryour. Vile profli gac y ; : ebnii'dere youYiriiiiinct, and you.rill find you have no -6ettiQe - It; letigii.•••• - • - • • • • :• 7 SteNtleyi t - Mil rutted-After they Bail breakfasted :together on Saturday Morning I went to %rink at "Mr. Harding's, No. 6, lii:th'eTerrace, and - returned itt ; atioacliil(;rt ti, hotir, it .tyttilliert• near half-past n•iletreJoek e l. : i was talking tts Crofts at berthas. , ter",s.t.loor, ,sl4; told me that Maria wdi•gone to, Al.! . . l ..c.Otinvi cflEpenict-i while they:were,spealo•- inollyilgammwiping_in . likc.a.rnad•woinan,.and said,. g. 0ix.,9:0d,.”.e, al•_ undone,, .we Fhall be, iii , nrisonThelore night Jenkins threatens :to write to ouf„master and expos!, its ;7 :she would,. not. barme speak •at epitstiep Me toot of d00r5,..,- I : went to work again at the windows of No: 6, and alit.* brt:ore co .o'cioc.h I. saLgrats,.walk- by with her child her arm,.and look _ sip as if she:- , ~. wisnen to s i .enk: to .me ; 1 I,iett ruled : - no-t to ,see:. • • - . . . her, and she passed on tnwor.ds the New River, 1 went in half . an hour aftervVaras to give some !policy to Nlitria Ayling, and knocked at the door, Ina after kuucking repeatedly I came away,. rand could' not get admission: — 1 have never_ seen or heard of either - of :hem until 1 was informed they were ttilind" droivntd. •'•• - Cron-examined 'by Mr. STIRLINQ.--I went to the house of Mr. Guise , - several :titpc3 on S A r t ir- . tlay,• but con1(1.00t get iii.' I looked thrutigh the wiude)vv:anli saw the tea. things -mutt cloths ss I saw them at • breakfasu time: I went ,ttgaituon Sunday, Monday . , Tuesday, and,Wedmsday, and found things in ,the . s;l»e•-situation., Was•-ofKaid to make known the eiremustanFe ;in fact, did not.know. who to inform of it. h knew the home was in danger of being but did not knoW what to 110, I believe, the, deceased drowned themselves in consequence of what Mr. Jenkins faicf . to them, being afraid of discloStire of their conduct. • . . . William Morris sworn.—l. fon:a painter and ilazier,.and have cohabited with the deceased for about fortnight ; 1 have not seen either of, them. since Friday night, the . 15th instant . ; I suppeo with7them and last. witness,. and left, him when .1" went to town.—[This witness corroborated the evidence of last witness; ye, has a wife and family'.] . Mr. Jenkins sworn- 7 4 am a carpenter,and live at Palmer's Terrace. About it fortnight ago "saw „ , the two last witnesses and the deceased females . talking together, and_ frequenting Mr. Guise's house . ; I 'found they cohabited together, and re monstrated with, the girls on Saturday last on the "impropriety of their conduct. 1 told Maria I should write to her master, who was at a water ing-place with his family. • . , Mr. Thomas Yisc.aris, surgeon, Stoke Newing ton—On Wednesday last, about three o'clock the a f ternoon , I was-called to see Maria Ayling, who was found drowned, anti taken, Ao the ged Lion; I found her in such a state that it }vas aw l less to open the body. 1 ordered the body to _be, cleansed, and wentto see it, agtsin on ,the following morning ; • I found no fracttires on the head, but on ~ ,the left.side of the breast andTheek I ob served a more than .ordinary degree.of decompo-, .Which might be the effect,of blows or vio-. : lent treatment. I. cannot give . any positive evi deace on that point ; and whether she was m drowned,, or whether she died from the . . violence of any . person or, persons, lic•co.uld not say.--[This wa r t- ness - Werit i tosie a the other botlies _ .‘: ) !Re-examined-7I have the bodies of Sarish•Crofts and,of her child ; : i can give no .other opinion with . regard.to them .than. what I have with, regard to Ayling. The..appearances. of all or them do not negative the probabillt y, that their deatip were caused by drowning; c„rofts has., had, two illegitimate children ; was delivered of them in 'Newington Workhouse; onediid soon it; birth. Nrs. Herne . s worit--I know all the deceased per- sons. r nursed the child till last TuesdayWoekt when the mother took it borne, having the leave of her mistress, as she said, to nurse it during her absence. She (Crofts) was a tender mother, and very affectionate to her child. On Saturday last Crofts and Ayling were seen walking near the New River, with the - child, about noon. The Jury viewed the bodies ; there appeared marks of violence about the head of Ayling ; there was no appearance of violence on the child ; but on the body of C ro f ts t h ere were t h e appearance of violent bruises. The Coroner (Jr. ST•fitul , lo addressed the J,ttry. lie said thlit the i‘itnesses Morris and Smedley had given the plainest evidence, and . there was no ground for supposing that they drowned.the.de ceased. It appeared to be their own deliberate and horrible act: They not only murdered the child', but themselves. The evidence proved theta most abandoned creatures ; and it being proved from circumstances that they had committed mur der, be conceived such characters were fit objects to stiffer thC extent of the law, to deter Others from the commission of the act of suicide. There were two 'separate Juries, though they received the evidence conjointly. They severally returned the•following verdict" Wilful Mulder against some person or persons nnknown with rem gar(' to the (la!, supposed_Ltolts and Ayling mud " Frio-de-se against Crofts and Ayling." • • rue Loruners issued their - warrants to bury them in the cross rOads,Ayling at Stoke New,ing. too, ;:nd Crofis at klurusey. The child was or?, tiered to be buried in ,Newingtorr Church-yard. MORE INQUESTS. . , Tlthrsatty night an Inquisition was taken at tbe Marquis of Granhy, Lithe Altnonry, Dean's . -yard, , Wk—tntinster, by HUG!! Lewt4, till. on the body of Hose ageq.l "%bout 50, who put an en4.l to .11er-exiStence, by banging hetselt with a rivo un • Tnesday." The deceased. was • the . wife 'of I‘,lr. Phillipi, coach-painter, Coal-yard, and was the mother of seven children. About :twelve ,o'clock, last 'Tuesday, the children Were heard screaming out that-.their mother bad Manned herself. The neighbours - , on going to thes-h0 , 48. tound her in the loft, which is nstii tin a %volt:- shop, suspended by. a'rope from a beem eight feet from the floor. • She was immediately cut•troion, and a stirgeon sent fir, who used every eff , rt.tia , restore anituatiqn, but without effect, and he gave it- as his opinion that she had been dead at least half an hour kefore his arrival. Several of he Jury, who were neighbours, and - who'were intimately acquainted With the deceased, declared they knew her to be in a deranged state of mind for sorne time back, and mentionedlnaoy •instanccs - of li'Lr incoherent conduct. 'Her niter banged herself on the same day twelve.montlis„ :and-they considered it a fanOrcomplaint. Ver+ diet--". Hanged her Self in a State of Insanity." On Friday, the 15th inst. at Wiveliscomhe, -ots the body of-Mr. J. North, who (on the 13th)'p ut a Pcriod.to his exist ence by tbrowing . himsylf into a pond, in a field near the house where he lodged. The deceased was a few years since engag ed in an. extensive clothing concern, at Wiveiit...o cup.be : aforesaid; but behig.unfortumite, his iniati tlcaftwinjuied, which had-limn more partict.hirly observed within a few months past. lie rose be lween three and four o'clock in the morning of the 13th, and was found drowned about, seven, with nothing on but his night-cap, .shirt, and shoes. Verdict—Lunacy. • . _ _ .. SUDDEN DEATti.-'Tie following awful event happened at - King Ilresti . tin Inn,' ttear Sornettnn, on Monday, the 11 th inst. A. mai) panted %V r: NA'll,ll;,.(ine of the people Called Quakers, in titi eruploy'of Messrs. Tuom.PsoN, of Net her Comp ton, having - business' at the above:lntr,:caine there about noon pn the above dap; . gave his horse to the 6sthr, with some directiOns about tteding it, • and entered into conversation with him rela• tive to the sudden death of a 'Mr. RAWES (al r 7 a Quaker), who lately died at Marnhitl - ;'•then in -toiling the rime of the day, he turned- rthind ei if •to goont of the stable, but tell down rind inscaiitly , • expked„ . The Cotoner, Mr. CAINES,I4 bii - A;11041', held atringliest. on Tuesday morning. Verdict -- i Died 4 a fit of apoplexy i 'or some , Other visitatiO7i' of God. . : • • . - - - COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FRItiAY, AUGUST 2-2. ' . Aassterdarri' 38 0 B. 2 us,, , Ditto, at Sight 37 6 '". Amsteidam !Tato, ;,ii Biglit . Antwerp ll 14 Fx. Alonel . Hamburgh ~ 35 '0 ' 21 Us. . Altona • • • .: , •• • • • 33 / 2 Paris, 3 Day's date Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto .24 50 , ' Frankfort on the Main* ' ' .. . 146 Ex2Moory Madrid . . •.„ 37 Etketire Cadiz . 361 Eilediso Serilly ' ' . . •Ililboa. - ' ' ' . 37 Gibraltar Leghorn . , . .; .. ...... 49 Genoa... ' t . 464----Veiiiee ........ , s 7. - : MAII.a.. •.. .." . .°... 47 --Naples ' 41 .. Palermo' • Lisbon 56 Oporto 11.i.0 Janeifo Dfiblin ... 11..... Cork__ 11i Tier Cent. Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 • PJrtugal Gold, in Coin L.4..>0 '6 per on . . NdW Donloons •••• 4 0 6, Nev.! Dollars 0 5 2 _ COAL MAILICET, Auousw 22. Ships at Market. Shi ps sold. Price. • . 81 Newcastle—. ..... ~... 731 365. ed. to 445. 9d. 16 Sunderland l6 3Bs. ed. to u Is. Ode 1 Cindur5.................0 ,.t . —s od. to —s. Odt BIRTHS. •Ye stenlay, the Lady of James Hamilton, Esq. ITunttr.! 'Street, Brunswick-square, of a daughter. OnThursday last, the Lady of Fred. W.,Clspbell, Esq: st. Barbreck, N.U. of a daughter. • • MARRIED. At Glasgow, on Tuesday last, John Green-hields, E-q. late of Quebec, to Miss Mat'gaist InglisUale, e,(le.t'daugliter..4 James Dale,ESq nierchant there. ' • Lately, at St.-Michael's church, Bristol, Mr: William Edlif . .". Christmas, of Fleet-street, to Mrs. Elizabeth Wrightovnicily of the late Captain Wright. - DIED, On Thursday last, at his house, itichmond,§turry, in. flak R6th year of his EsZt. .• _ -1. 7 • ' • tANDON :.Printed by J. b. cAßkAitti, of Ni). - 2i....reat Qrtuoilit-itreet, • Queen•square; and published by %Me . SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at TUE SUM Office, No. 112, Strand; where Adveitisementri Orders, Letters, &e, (post-paid) must be addressed, 1