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rottrssim.Tu, JAN. C 9.
This artern,:‘on arrived the Alonzo sloop, Capt.
Watson, with a convoy from the Downs ; and the
Tick'er 7tin-I;rig, Irony a cruise.
It hfew strong this morni,lg, and the wind was
rather inclined to the Southward, or the Weymouth,
and the seven East lndiamen, would }Live sailed.
The Ambuscade frigate, Rear Admiral Louis,
C ipt Durban, with a convoy for the Mediterranean,
is appointed to sail on the 4th of Feb.
Capt. George Lusack has taken the command of
the Presser George, of 9d guns, vice Capt. Yorke,
who is going to attend his Parliamentary duty. She
- is ordered into the harbour.
Arrived the Clinier, gun-vessel, from a cruise..
Sailed the Monarch man of war for the Downs,
but brought to at St. Helen's; also several trans-
ports for Southanpton.—Wiud, Easterly.
DIAL, JAN. 29.
Arrived the .4:aelone frigate, from Dungeness,

and remains in the r/owns, with the ships as per
last ; and the Th.; Shaw, for Jamaica.
Tnis morning a uoat belongini; to the Paragon
armed ship. it: coming on slime, overset near San-
down Castle. One man was drowned, the rest of
the crew were saved by the assistance of the soldiers
from the Castle....-Wid Easterly, blows hard.
HULL. JAN. 28.
Early in the nvoming of Sunday se'nnight. during
the storm which prevailed at that time, a brig was
perceived from the Holderness coast its distress, have
big lost her bewsprit, and also her fore-topsail,
which was blowing in shivers from the yard.
Owing to the dire Lion and else violence of the wind,
she was at intervals driven among the breakers, se-
veral of which struck her, and appeared to do her
considerable damage. Her name is not known, but,
from the cninse she was steering, and her being first
discovered in the diredion of Flansborough Head,
it is premised that she was from some of the
Northern ports ;--and, on Monday, about dusk in
the evening, a large ship was observed to be running
for the Member, with apparent damage, which.
from circumstances, is supposed to have been the
American ship Brittrant, Captain Adia-. Waterman,
bound from Shields to New York (since arrived at
thi. port, with the loss of anchors and cables). No
wrecks have, as yet, come on shore, on any part of
the coast of Holderness, which induces us to hope
that the Areas of the late storms have not been so
very destructive as was at first apprehended.
' On Sunday, the 20th instant, the Swift, of North
Shields, Capt. Alex. Monro, struck on a new shoal
S. W. from Dudgeon's Lights, at two a. rn.—The
Master is supposed to be drowned ; the test of the
crew were picked up in their boats by the Wig, of
South Shields, and landed at Grimsby.
On Monday last. the Suppi4. Ling, Master, from
Little Hampton, with oak prank, appeared off Whit-
by harbour, which she was unable to enter, owing
to the sea being too high ; standing to the North-
ward, she was forced on shore by a violent gale of
wind from the East, upon Marsh Sand, where it is
supposed she will be totally wrecked.
About four o'clock in the morning of Wednesday,
the Yoh?, arroed ship, lying in Hull Roads, owing
to the violence of the g.tle, was driven from her
acchers upon Skitter Send; guns were fired and
li,ghss put out as signals of distress About nine
o'clock on the flowing of the tide, she got off, with-
out any material thtmage, and is now undergoing
repairs.
On Wednesday, at day break, the brig laditstrv,
of Whitby, Capt. Richardson, a light collier, bound
from London to Belton, was discovered stranded
among the rocks, a few yards from the shore, near
the first gully-hole, almost close in with the walls of
Berwick-upon-Tweed. Being left quite dry at low
water, her stores have been taken out and seemed;
but the ship herself would, it was supposed, be a
complete wreck in a tide or two. The master, one
man, and two boys saved; two men, said to be fa-
ther and son, were washed overboard during the
night, and lost.

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FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
G* ttttt no, Jan In.—Passed by the Choice, Clark; and
Morro, Coency, front Carla ,• G ,odmeht, airoborg Van
S autt ; and the Young WITLI. Sint+, from
Serilkr. Satleil the tin.an and Polly, Shaw. furLcibars ; and
the City of Cork. Bickerton, fur Cork.

mummy.
At Fl-mumar4)—.The Jason, Palmer, from New Orleans.
At J'arnpleto.n—The Gorge, Mwe., from New► Yolk, both
b..eisd to Loieris.ol

EXTRACT
TRIM THE E;GHTH teroirr or THE CONEHISCONIIIS
Or

SALE OF OLD STORES
'A% c proceedings at the brewery, in rc,peO to the
sale of old stores, appear to have been very improper
for some years past. The stores sold there consist
of staves, hoops, and headings of casks, returned
after having been issued to ships, and used for some
time; tee casks, when so returned, are generally
examined by the foreman of the coopers, and the
serviceable separated from the unserviceable; the
serviceable casks which require repair, are delivered
t a cooper for that purpose, who sets apart such of
them as he may judge nut worth repairing, and
lays aside.any staves, hoops, or headings, which ap-
pear to him unfit for use; the unserviceable casks
are also delivered to a cooper to be taken to pieces,
and he, or a labourer experienced in this business,
separates the serviceable staves, hoops, and head-
ings, from the unserviceable. Saks of these articles
so deemed unserviceable are very frequent ; about
pnce every quarter or half year; and they are ad-
vertised about a fortnight or three weeks before-
hand. The articles are sblci in lots, and the cata-
logues 01 sale give notice that the goods are to be
taken with all their faults.
'rite following abuses and irregularities are said
to have attended these sales :
Übe sales are usually advertised before the lots
are completed, and frequently more lots are sold
than are even begun to be made up at the time of
sale. The buyers arc permitted to tele& such ar-
ticles as are broken or decayed (though the goods,
according to the conditions of sale, are to be taken
with all their faults), and they often receive articles
. which are serviceable in exchange for those which
they rejea. The lots are sometimes taken away at
impr.,per seasons, very early in the morning, very
late in the evening, or ►n the night; and the buyers

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(by collusion with persons whose duty h is to pre-
vent so Is (rands) have. in some instances, received
quantities of serviceable staves, hoops, and headings,
in addition to the lots set sally parthased, or instead
of such parts of them as they have chosen to leave.
It may be thought. upon referring to the exami-
nations on this subject contained in the appendix,
that the evidence does not incontrovertibly prove the
existence of all these evils to the extent above stated;
but we apprehend the existence of several of them is
clearly established; and, as to the rest, there is at
least so much reason to believe they have existed,
that precautions for preventing them in future will
be deemed h ighly necessary.
It is manifest that the sale of lots not begun to be
made up, or made up in part only, and to be com-
pleted after the sale, cannot be advantageous to the
seller. Few will venture to bid for articles which
they have no opportunity of inspe&ing and valu-
ing, and it is hardly credible that buyers of lots, so
circumstanced, should have been found from time to
time for several years, unless they had had some se-
cret understanding with the persons who were after-
wards to make up or complete the lots for them. A
reason was alleged for this practice, namely, that
between the times of advertising and selling, the old
stores accumulated, and it was convenient to get rid
of them; but the frequent recurrence of these sales
destroys that excuse.
We think the praelice should be entirely done
away, and we recommend that, for the future, all
the lots of such stores be completed, and a report of
them made to the board before the intended sale is
advertised t and that no articles, which have not
been so lotted, be sold. or allowed to be taken away
by the buyers, upon any pretence whatever.
The permitting of the Ibuvers to change some of
the defeftive articles in their lots for others, is an in-
dulgence open to abuse, which should therefore be
abolished. The conditions of sale should be stria-
ly enforced in this respeft, instead of being varied
by declarations of the agent at the time of sale ;
which (as we were told) has.been usual, though ne-
ver authorised by the board.
The removal of lots at unseasonable hours should
also be prevented, and a time of day should he
fixed tor that purpose, which might be the common
working hours at the brewery, when the general at-
tendance of persons employed there would be a check
to collusion and embezzlement; and the master-
cooper or his foreman, as well as a clerk in the
checque department, should constantly attend the
delivery.
According to the present praltice, the lots are ad-
vertised and sold as containing specific quantities ;
which gives the buyer power to rejeft a part, or re-
vire an addition, according as the lot bought hap-
pens to exceed or fall short of the amount stated in
the particulars of sale. We think it advisable that
the lots (which might still be made up as nearly as
may be to certain convenient quantities) should be
advertised and sold as containing such quantities, be
they more or less, and that the buyers should be
obliged to take the whole of the lots at the rate of
price by weight or number bid fur them.
We conceive it might have a good Oka for the
preventing and detesting or frauds and abuses in
sales of this sort, if an account of every sale, cot,.
tailing the names and places of abode of the seve-
ral buyers. and the description, quantities, and
prices of the lots bought by them, were put up in
some conspictlow part of the brewery, within a few
days after the sale, and kept there till the rv.Y.t
side.

Nor preventing embezzlement of King's stores,
it would be advantageous it no stores having the
King's mark were sold. This precaution might ea-
sily be adopted with respea to two of the articles
before mentioned, namely, the staves and headings,
for they are necessai ily examined for the purpose of
ascertaining whether they are .or are not serviceable.
and the mat ks are only put on a few of them, com-
pared with the whole, ..which few might either he ap-
plied to the purpose of fuel, or the roosts Lis them
might be of without much trouble or expence.
Stich a precaution might have the good effed of fa-
cilitating the proof ofembezzlement against persons
in whose custody goods of this description should be
found, having the King's mark. It is a lad pretty
well ascertained, that embezzlement of King's
casks has been carried to a great extent in this
neigh ourhond ; and surely every proper regulation
for preventing such a mischief should he adopted.
There are sales a 1.., at the Victualling Office at
Plymouth, which are not merely of hoops, staves,
and headings, as at South. Down, but also include
p•avisious decayed, or likely to be spoiled by keep-
iag. We do not find that the same abuses have
prevailed there as at Sondi-Down. But we should
recommend in all sales of this sort, that the condua
of the persons having the direaion and manage-
ment of them be particularly attended to by due
Hoard.
Cut. MOSICI POLS. (L. s.)
Ew•N Law. (c. s.)
JOHN POND. L. S.)
HENRI( NICHOLLS. L. S.)
WM. MAC:MI-MTH PRAED. L. S.)

The new huts ereaing for the accommodation of
troops at Bex-hill, now inhabited, are found to con-
tain every advantage of health and convenience, the
number on the sick list being comparatively smaller
than on any exhibiting the same number of men
stationed elsewhere; and when we heard last, nit
one was confined to his bcd. The buildings are
finishing very expeditiously, and when the mess-
rooms, guard.houses, &c. are completed, will form
a very handsome town ; the parade, or officer's
street, is nearly 200 feet wide, and 1000 in length.

CORN EXCIIANGR, WIDNIODAV, JAM. 30, 180).
We hare to day Wheat in tolerable supply, anal many
Dantzic samples ; that of too,a quality has a full de-
niand, and readily obtains places last quoted; the Bar-
ley trade is not in much sale, but it maintains its
price. Malt is full ss. per quarter higher than List week, and
in more request. White Peas rather dearer. Good old Baas
fetch better prices. Oats are in middling supply, and, as Sur
last, go off slowly, if any thing, other cheaper..—Flotir in
good supply and keeps its price. Nominal galas at 51. per sack.

CURRF.NT PRICE OF GRAIN.
Wheat ..... SR.. 00. 112.. Beans 30s. 575. OA.
Flee do ....1 ISO 120 s. Od I Tick Ream 44s 1.0. 01.
o)e.. SR-. SO. 0.1. 05(4 .2ss. 31s. 344.
Harley
Malt .04. 90s. OJ. Rape 5eed.......441. 40' 01.
White Yeas .!s. SR.. 04. Foie Poet 04..915. Od.
Grey Yeas 4Ss. 40. 01. Socunds 906. 945. CAL

Cut!HSI OF ILICHAP
Ncister4ain SS 6 t U.
at Sight 37 10
Kotler. c. f 12 2 2 U.
tiambutgl: l5 6 till
*limn 35 6 21,11.
Pam ts 10 Liv.
o.ttii 2 Us 25 1S

liktitrdeLx . 25.111

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Dot. Sal effed.
HO 'an . Pi
Leghorn 49
Sanles s9i
lhablin on London (Jan. 2