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DC.VDE.E. Aucusz 23.

The annual feast of the Lunan and Vinney Wa-
ter Farming Society was held on the 12th insr. at the
Dunilichen lan, and was attended by a great many
respectable real and honorary members. Several
important laming topics were very ably discussed ;
among others, the hest method of itnproving their
breed of working cattle and horses. On this last
stibje,!l, Mr. Scott, of Reswallie gave in s very sen-
sible memorial ; and the Secretary, the Rev. Mr.
Roger, Minister of Denino, read a very pleasant
Essay, to (rove, that the hest animal that could be
brought up on a farm, was a Go 9g/ !rife.
Colonel [hunter of Burnside, and the Preses,
unaertoli.sc, awa
horse, by next season, for improving the breed of
the Society's work horses ; but the members were
divides! in their opinion as to the quarter from which
sur h a horse should be brought. Some approved
of the Norfolk punch horse ; some of the West
Country breed ; and others of a dash of blood and
bone from Yorkshire.

The position su strongly espoused by Mr. Arthur
Yoiing, was very ably discussed, viz. that green
crops superseded entirely the use of a dead fallow.
Nom ithsfanding so great an authority, the Society
delivered it as their unanimous opinion, that, few
farms would he properly kept clean without a dead
fallow every eighth or tenth year.
On the question, as to the preference due to horses
or oxen, the Society thought there might be cases
in which part of the work might be performed ad-
♦antageously enough by oxen, but that the horse, by
the universality or his powers, was, in general, to
be preferred : And they all agreed, that oxen, when
wrought, ought to be lied in ais expensive a manner
as hroiSCS.

The Society propose to devote the whole of the
day of their next annual meeting to agricultural
purposes, and to meet by eleven o'clock, a. ,n. to
look at such farm animals as any of the members
might iodine to spew ; whether horses, •xeo, cows,
sheep, or pigs ; and that the owners of the most
approved specimens should have their names honour-
ably meationed in the Moines of the Society.
The Society resolved to redouble their exertions
to extirpate the noxious weeds which infest their
pasture fields and the sides of the highways ; the
rag.seced, thistles, nettles, an! docks ; which, from
their prevalence, were believed to consume a sixth or
sevenths part of all the nourishment for vegetables
in the distria.

the Sojety adhered to their resolution to require
certificates from their last places, with their new-
hired farm servants.
The good humour and jollity with which the
feast emended, did honour to a homely dinner, ac-
companied with the liquors of our own country
produce, strong beer, porter, and whisky punch.
But what rondered the feast the most pleasing, was
the seal and unanimity with which most of the
members had contributed their mite towards the
defence of their King, Constitution, and Country,
in case of its being invaded by a foreign enemy.
Many of the members having taken an aftive share,
in forming in the centre of the distria, either by
their own services in person, or by their sons, bro-
thers, aad servants, the corp.i of Dunnichen Loyal

NATAL INiELLIGENCi.

FORTSMOUTiii AUC.
Anived the Trioun,r, cartel, 1-lenry I laskett,
master, which sailed from hence with Spanish pri-
soners, which ;he landed at Coirunna, and left that
port on the 20th inst. the Captain issforms, that
there was not any ship of the line there when lie left,
and that, on the 21st, he fell in with Iha Majesty's
ship Wane: ((me of Sir Robert Calder's fleet) about
seven leagues from Carunna, to whom he g.Lve the
above information. Wind Westerly.
FALMOUTH AVG. 26.
. . .

Arrived the fiforga,ef, Flardy, from Leith, to join
convoy for Oporto ; Milford, Biggs, from Liver-
pool ; Arid, Lean, from Clwes ; His Majesty's
ship Hamber, of l guns, !fill, from a cruise, brought
in the smuggling lugger Ver.)let, of Lone, having on
board about 600 casks of spirits, some tobacco, tea
and salt.

The Prigress Anzarstn packet, made sitmal far
sailing, with Mails for the Leeward Islands, but the
wind getting to die Westward, prevented her getting
Out.

Sailed the Part sloop. of war, Brodrick, for the
West Indies, to join the outward bound fleet. ;thorn
(so sail, under convoy of His Nlajsty's ship Alalibar;
:Vaasa, Res, for Weymark ; Un:ed Brothers, Jones,
for Anse4.
►LVNUUTN, AUG. C 7.
Sailed the Audarioas, Trityv,•,4, an.l FY arrtur men
of war; Insolent, Vesuvius, Plsver, and Nell loggers;
Wooleerinr, Milrook, Cheaply, Stautach, and Cacho-
trice gun-brigs.
The San for fwent into Cawsand Bay this after-
noon, and the Judicious will sail this evening.

DSAL. AVG. 3S.
Sailed the Cygnet sloop of war, fur the French
coast.

Came down from Sheerness the Carter frigate, and
remains in the Downs with the rest of the ships as
per lair.
Arrived in the Dowse yesterday evening, the brig
Marv, from Caernarvon, bound to London, laden
with slate; she was captured off Beschy Head by a
French privateer, and retaken by the Vaucitm
bomb.

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FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
G o, Auc. hr the Vicissitude, Brown;
and the Doris Hart, fru o A'r,•!.aog .1; Yro. \Yreuaptini,
from Stettin; Castaliste, Middlemas; and the
Snmerland, Harris, front Norway. Sailed the Three Rrotherr.,
Patrick, fur Oporto; fiimbetli, Rogers, for Dublin ; Pax,
Harney; Ocean, Nnta/c ; 11,4siter, ll..niaq John, Nikcdson
(;oo lot, tit, Create.; and tit!: Tee Gehroders, Leytes, fur
onningen.