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GElf SRA L MICENZIE.
Major-General John Ronald Itil'Kenzie, who so
gloriously fell in the battle of ralavera, was the re-
presentative of 4 very ancient family, whose patri-
monial estate (nut lar.le) lira iu that part of the
county of Boss, called the Bliu:k Isle. Ile IA in
or about his 47th ye ir, He began his military
career, in the marines, under the i in aediatr. eye of his
uncle, General M'Kenkie, of that most honourable
corps, and for some time previous to 1794, did the
duty of Adjutant to the Chatlrini
Upoo the cleat:i of his uncle, lie suc-
ceeded to some personal fort not., he ielimplisheil
the in:aloes, perhaps from an a:obi:ion to get for-
ward in his pro ession more rapidly thaw that ser-
vice admits of.

Le the spring of 1794 he became Major of the ed
battalion of the 78th foot, or Kiss-shire Buffs,
riised by the present Lord Seaforth. In the latter
end of that year, or early in 1795, both battalions
of the 7tith were consolidated : by which measure
this g,allaut officer become attached to the Ist bat-
talion, and, with the officers and men from the 2d,
jninod the Ist battalion at the Cope, from whence
they proceeded to India, 1,200 strong, where the
regiment served with d.stinction under the present
Lieut.-General (then Colonel *Kenzie Fraser.)
With this corps the gallant Majet-General served
many years in India. owl latterly conousinlivl the
regiment. He returned to Europe in sin-
cerely regretted by his regiment soil elf who knew
him—awl if his service iii toe East was not 4•11111144'
by any brilliant professional event, it was because
the situnti ssss of that country, during hi. stay in it,
did not roll for any active exiwti 0000 .
Promoted to the rank of Colonel soon after he
come Mne, on the tweaking oat ,if the tiresent
in 11803, he was placed on the Northern Staff as a
Brigadier ; lie wits afterwards inaile taiovernor and
Commandant of Alitersiey,atiii soon after rwrilaersl
oil the Northern Starr as Major-General, front which
situation he WRR, on his own solicitation, removed
to the command of a brigade in Portugal, in 1808.
He was in Parli.insent lister years ; tint for the
Sutherland district of horou4lis, and latterly for
the shire of Sutherland, iu the room of Mr. William
Diondas.
In Mt. he superintended the Levy, and in
1905. the discipline of that gallant but ill-fated
sece.:.l Id battalion of the 78th.
Ile might be said to be more a sofid thou a shin-
ing character. both in public and in private life. 'He
was a sealiitis, steady, cool 1.6111111,1.—. R mild MIA at
friendly man. The earner loses in I • o moat ex-
cellent Officer--is friend., an esttin inis and
amiable maw The 78th adored him.,, and will long
lament li.m.

His estate, called Suddie,.ilevolsce to so only air
tr..•, married to a Capt. Putts, of the 42d regilatuts
h% i% horn she has a large family.
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THETFORD WOOL FAFR.
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At the lost Thetford Wool Fair, after the nanal
toaittri and the health of Mr. Coke hail been given
and drunk with the greatest applause, that Grutle-
man addressed the numemits company assembled
at the George Inn, to the following effect
Mr. Cost stated that the necessity of this meet-
ing taking place, originated from the fact of the
whole county being divided by the wool Wpm.
into different districts, each buyer not into:feria.;
with that which he dallied, rad then purchasing by
commi'ssion ; a fixed price wasaleterm:ired by these
individuals, who did not at one time amount to
more than three persons. Ry establishing a gene-
ral mart for the sale of won!, and including the
two counties, its real worth was more likely to
filet its level—the opinions of the growers from
all parts would be known—general information
would he obtained, and great encouragement
would be held oat for the buyers from every part of
the kingdom to att. 11:1, and that competition excited
which is the life and soot of all commercial trans-
actions. It was no wonder that certain individuals,
who were so tritervsted nt no fair being established,
should oppose inch a tocetinK, bat in their plan no
possible benefit could arise to the grower. To
prove how noxious he (Nr. Cu')k had been to en-
courage the buyers to attend at Thetford on the
anniversary of this day, he had always *tiered has
wool et a lower price than he sald it l'nr afterwards.
Fie considered it was his duty, as Chairman of that
Meeting, to giro every information to his power re-
. dative to the woe of wool ; and, having su done, as
he beltae observed, he always held out ever) ea-
couragement to die buyers, asking only it fair price;
suit he was sure they always had received a fair
profit fur the purchases they bud made there, with
the exception of one year, when they bought so in-
discriminately, giving equal prices for inferior mid
better wool, of which they bought a great deal.—
lolling in value, they lost money by the first sort,
but for the heUer sort they got increase of price.—
It was the iiccew.itv of making that necessary ilia-
crimination, which he always wished to impress
on the minds of the buyers. At the very time to
which lie alluded just now, the Gentleman
who purchased his wool, which was very good,
told hits that he got money by that, and lost
only by that of an inferior quality. " My te-
nants used to tell me," said Mr. Coke. " when I
was pointing out the advantages of itnproving the
fleece, that they gut as much money for their
wools, which were not so good. mid that they
obtained more in quantity. ,111.1 thus, you see,
Gentlemen, the ill effect which arose in conse-
quence of that combination srhirh I stilted—
of that division of the county to which I allud-
ed, of that indiscriminste purchase by commis..
sht, which I pointed out as most detrimental.
The wool growers certainly might to expect from
the haters the 1.40/It attention to the hest flivees ;"
soil he (Mr. Coke) hoped they would this duly
,!xert that judgment, and not give as much for
the tool as the good. Relative to the prices which
were to lie expected here, he ,1111% ready to state
every information in his !tower. shall, Gentle-
men." said lie, " first refer you to the aide of wool
in March last. at the London Tavern. It certainly
was sold then at an extrevagent price, and K is ma-
terial to knew what reduction, or if any, has since
taken place; and we 1111 l st ask a few question. on
this sulliect. Is sispertioe cloth much, or at iii
lower thati it was then? What do the Yorkshire
hovers sat ? Ape thane any nreirutt I Ind my chi-
t:lief. ask me as mach money for my cloth, abet

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therefore I consider, if he contioues to demand the
sane advance, that it must lee because theadviniced
price of Ilse wool with which it is ananufactur..ll,
likewise contiimes. The prices then and now *tight
la be At•ited. There should he lei secrets. I wish
to be candid, and I with both parties to °limits a
for inulii. Wool certainly is very cousidershl:c
higher thin it was at thus meeting last year."
--ekt Nit.. Thomosua's slieep-sheariii.t, a very short
time ago, that Gallile/alll wet. offered 9A. a puuott
for his Merino wool ; 64 fsir that of various creole.;
nod 34. for Cie Ityelaml, without any Spinis'i ad-
mixture, bat all which prices he refused. When
formerly speaking of the superiecity of the South-
down wool, h was declared I/ so we persons that
it would not take the dye so well. flowerer, he
'(N. Coke) had sent some of his own wool to Mr.
A tirtee, in Wiltshire, to inanuluetnre and dye,
without stating his reasons. The cloth was returned,
an d lie relocated some of Iris frieods to le.cept a port
of it;"awl at this moment," stud Mr. Coke," 'have
0 n any back Sontlidown non% and Sontlidown wool
mile of that same manufacture. Mr. Motley Icii • '
purchase ] my wool, and he has declared that it was
worth 4S. a i0:1 mare than %Omit was offered to sale
by other graver., ; and as my wool certainly is much
! nunroved since then, awl inner circanns•ances coin-
ciding having °crowed, the value now must he
double. thin the buyers give as mach for Norfblk, '
*ltd inferior Southdown wool, as for that; and it
lis a proper diserimiliation which is wanted. Since
the prices in March, there certainly has beet, but
1 • very little reduction in the value of wool ; but let
me ask, is it of any conse:itiAire to those I see
Inwood me, whether or not they sell their wool '
there this day ? Certainly not : and. they all
know that in every hist:wee they have male snore of
it after the fair day." 'Mr. Coke theu deprecsted the
!WNW principle of those who wished to defeat the
hetiedeial °hied of this *art, which had no other
motive than that of fair and honourialile denim: be-
tween man and mill. He deprecated the jimmies,
of the lawyers purcliasiug what they could before
the fair, saying they would give the g•lic.g price, and
at the fur, comicio; to to deterininaticm, would pur-
chase what they cowl,' afterwanls,^having given fur
their erst purchase* whet they thought proper, end
at the last ilayiag, we hare uutitiven more than what
we oiler you ; this setting their own price. T.sis
mode of clealiug, and for the growers to scud in
their wool on such terms, could nut he too strongly
eommmisted on, wait was so prejudicial to their own
interests, toad that of the general interest. Mr.
Coke said, if they could not obtain a fair price far
their wool this clay. lie certainly should advise his
tenants. null these who teen. present, to keep back
their wools, for it 11164 those may who were counsell-
ed to sell, of whom the buyers could take the unfair
advantage he hal justly reprobated. Mr. Coke
then mentioned Hertlifield fair in Kent, saying,
that the Southdown wool was worth 3s. a pound
that in the county of Norfolk,
there, and observing,
the Southdown was acknowledged to be snitch bet-
ter, wad winch might be attributed partly to the
greater attention paid to the improvement .r that
breed, and partly from a snocriority of soil. that iii
Kea be:4l4 more chalky, and not of an rids a ma-
ture. Mr. Coke then .wad lie had net yet offered his
wool, and fur this reason, heeause, as his was de-
clared to be bett,r titan tae average of what was
exhibited there, 11- w ;raid of pr-venting the
sole of that 0..1..1rer5, as they might exrct as much
for tht.i:r. if .11'. Motley, at any n rearm present
*as come to purchase for him, lie idionlil give him the
refusal of his; if not, he certainly should not keep it
isaek, but fie what he eonsidere I a fair price; for, as
the Chin rmaii or that yrertitr4, he Wished to be open
mull candid, and to promote the interests of that
mart. Lord Sh (field, a. Chairman of the Sussex
Meeting, said, it was the opinion, in the West of
England, that the S:lanish wool in England was
(Mlle equal, or evert superior, to that of tiled% sad
fir this reason, more attention was paid to the
breed of Sp 'MTh, thin even in Spain. The high
prier of this wool hell oast great temptations to
Mike the trial, and he (tAr. Coke) was so dohs; ;
and if the fleece could be obtained without injneng
' me cut day or the quantity of inattem, there coot!
he no doalit of the adevitages to he derived ; but
still he must caution Gendeme.n not to run heed-
lessly into wild imecailations ; fur if. by miforeseen
circumstances, the m inufsetories should become
more depressed than they now are, sod the car-
case was not preserved in its highly-improved state,
the result laa,li ill ill,liortiullte. Mr. Cike though!
that the cross fruit the Saittlitiorrti mid Meriiio was
most likely to preserve a tine fleece, add tat car-
I case. If the prices of the wool were 10.. or 13s.
her ;h. or only hall that soon, clipping 3or 4 lb.
per fleece, the CoM.IIII. would 1.11.001ne hot a secant-
dory consideratiou. Mr. Coke stated saint), that
the preseut prices were certainly much higher than
thesis of last year. The hest Spanish wool was
worth 15s. the next Ids. pd. soil the third sort i 1-..
.3.1.; and the lambs' wool rig. per lb. South low,,
wool hot year was sold al 600. a tod, but had, prepor-
tionalily aid, liner, risep in value, and lie hoped tke
buyers would, at this tweeting, make a previous de-
claration of their seutisnents, sod Own he would
affix a price opal. his own, guided hy the same ono. I
tire of asking less than its real valise, to encourage
them to promote the same object, which lie was
endeavouring to attain ill the establishment of the
fair, and which lie was conviiiced must be benefi-
cial to both parties.
31r. Coke waited 'mile considerable time, but no
oiler of transactiug business was ,vale, and Oast
(leidleman again rose, and comic-suite,' it, !arm.,
terms on the contlact of the woo: buyers: slicisiog
they were determinedly dispri.esitts prevent or to do
uway the olaject of tint ri•Oting; hot lie expressed
his res.dutino to support its continuance so hug as
lie was supported by such men of ermeipience in
the two comities as those by whom lie was then sae-
rounded. •
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A cause of eolewlenthl.• iotir.l,•tdoee romp! no to
hr !word ;it the Ice o..rehr.ter olietvin
Mr. Wm. Cuetuttoo, the Pr-. Merit of lirootit
rimy of SlierbeVrllre WAS Pk.) Aid', mold T. Prutie.v.
dins PRRANY (the elder), was Defendant : the wet itr)
Woe brought to recover Pont the Defetiolitta three
year* poly. 8t 44. per tr-ek, whit he hod Intutiu-
leotly rec.-iced trout the Snciety Yelr,•ince. by
producing 8 ropy of the en: Oster of his baptism.
The Leorned Jiitt:ze directed the Jur/ to return g
sertict for the Plaiotiffe whirl" 6.1 did with de-
useirt-, 3411.

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NORTHZIALIERLA vn 44SIZES, Augtut 2.
Before BARON VVO 30.
David Giksou,./olut Simpson, and George Break:-
Nu, were indicted under the Act of Lord Eldne,
39t:i 'George 111. cap. .4.5. for having entlerzeled
YUriolli Of money, from the :gayer and Bair-
gesses of Newcastle upon 't ne ; and in atantiver
1111 l t, Simpson and llaankiton were chnrceri wilt
Milling end abetting Gibson in the said einhat.
elem. ut.
When the primmer Giberin was arraigned, he
pleaded wtlty. The Judge lannumely adviaed the
prisoner to abide the event of Isis trial, when he
said he was ',relined "before he came into Costa to
plead guilty; but, on the Jiidge'n persuisioe,
was at length induced to plpitt not guilty--
The other prisoners having also pleaded lint guilty,
Mr. Courson cam:tied the pleasaliugs.
Serjeant Ct.atrutr stated the case to the Arty.
observing that the crime with which the presagers
were cher4ed, ti,uonaited to an act of capital fele..
ny, inusattmli as they lead elefraudA their em-
ployers, the ,Mayor and Liurgesoes of Newcastle, of
certain sums of money, nod likewise with harin,;;
defrauded Mr. Ole, tl:c colfector of the ettsto:ns,
he prisiessing at the MCC tiiile au interest iu the
sums collected in hchoui of the eorporar,o3. He
tatted that the corporation are entitled to ce:tain
duties on all ellips delivei intr bellast or receirinr
coals in the river Tyne, whidi tiut;es they had for-
merly coliectel at their own office, hut en coesc-
pieocc of an agreement wrth the calkctor of rise
customs their dues had for aerdar•il rears been re-
ceived at the custom-Moto.. For tine purpose of
ottiototeg those duties,
were appointed lay the corporation !o art under
Rinks, v, the roglis of the corpu:•.ition, re r,gulatt-
Mg ma charging rite duties 4ed
CmlatOnt-alnn sr. amid mho 05
win is the collector's etc
Chow were

s

Mr. riakaey, who keeps
deliver', a ticket tro

City of ballast each IN;
back of this ticket Br:
fens► the at ip to the
feline iit a book kept ft,
ticket is the:, delivered
from it another 60(.1,
and the ballast ticket
Upon the beck of the

domes the Krnas ausqunt
elders only the quautirt n
&led the the ticket-:,0%;‘,
or rwiereiwr, ttn:l tlieu
Cie titter% clerk, who

ship. Simpson oleo kt
mtme* and amount o

ed to the ewporatiodo
The titter's clerk, after

anCe-ticket, takes it
clerk, who recei‘es
back of the c:earance-tiltet,
name to it. Babson enters th
a cash-book, and delivers the amount to the Col-
lector, who ways it to the Corporatioo every Itioa-
day morning. Simpson and Brank-ton were ems
intended to act as checks upon ntaik
the ingenuity with which they appropriated part of
theseduties to drier own purpases. 'Flier did not
embezzle a proportion of the duty paid by each
shili indiscriminately, hut selected those ships
where the duty was considerable. The ships were
selectee! by the l'rimoner Simpson ; and when hit
iateuiled part of the duty to be embezzled, lie
placed lartle commas between the figurers oa the
back of the clearance-ticket, thus. .Sl., ISO.,
IVhen the clearance-ticket, marked in this way, was
taken by the fitter's clerk to Gibson, he knew (by
previews are-vteeinent) that some part of the duty
was intender' to be embezzled ; and he accordingly
entered i i his cash-book less money than he actu-
ally received. He generally retained io h a ham!,
either Ins. or of the duty paid by each ship;
end for a short time before the fraud wad discover.
ed, he boll been accustromed, in egie4 where tile
rlut7 amoorited to 51. ciii wards, to enter 3!. in
1114 cesh.book, instead o; 51. To carry the s,dizs..•ta
of pre ke:tiog I. more effectually tato twaatice, it
was it rule with SiioNnn, hut ling.:, sted by t;lorou,
that the figure 5, id the co!timii of p ,131114, should
be wohnot a top; thereby enabling Gibson to con-
vert it into a 3 without any difficulty. Gibson het t,.
wino a sheet of paper, en aecouid of the ships
mod MITI entered iu his rash-book, taliicit he ...ave
to Simpson ; who was by that means enablial to
niter the &cures in the sheet which tic had to de-
liver to the Corpor Mon... Office, and thin gate it to
Brankstoit, who altered the ballast-ticket, en 114 to
make all agree with Gibson'. casti•book. By this
mewls, all three acconnts ;agreeing, the Corporation
dl:weive.l. This erste n of frciid, so ingenious.
ly coneerted. might have bee. carried on for rrno.,
hail it not been for the tigrepid bune.ty 14 Mr.
laddeP, who ileteeted aad overturned tile evatem.
Ile concluded by stating, tli4t the facts would Ise
established by the evidence which would be brought
horrors them. •
Cherie* t )gle, Esti. Collector of the Cu-toms at
this port, was the first evidence called. fie de-
posed, that the corporation of Newcastle are entitled
to certain Burs upon all holiest delivered frees, and
coals received no boanl, earl) ship, which enters
srrl clears out a the harbour; and that, in ammo,.
ipience of an eit4,xrat..at hwt,...-"en the corpriii• t i
mewl hint-140f. in 1).401, lie undertook to colleet
dues mi thetr Iteccat.a. Kerote that perm
Curporninis the themselves.
'times into regularly rrreived by the witsivss's seemed
*Jerk at the curitom-house, who is eopointed to that
duty by himself. The litter's clerks nstially pay
the dues, as well as other duties, which each ship is
li Mhos. The second clerk pays the waters* the
receipts of the preceding week, eery Mooday
morniiig, and all the corporation does received by
tin, the wittier* pays over to the chemberiein
the COrpflellaine on their necoun% at 1110 same time.
This second clerk keeps an account of all owns*
e•reiv,-(1 horn di-, fitters. a distinct hook, and
prOvittilie the Iritnewwnh tin famersCt of the lecountA.
(lilt &sok ie lefaiek those nrviiints sort kept. sins
hp,* pew/went lilt clllector is I !owl I.) Mr. (hie
tafteneennbed
an nter,sla the
n:.t of rani in bask
oniesrverim.ei,lonii-orl cons
be
tine
fides-in-...that the two fointlident entries
sw, The of o,:tnhoe, 1-•.1, s,e. it si. igs. Cori. Dn
aevoind of the she;. Robert, said by Shigokt, LA

sp-
ritl!its; to be collected at Vie
ten os a check npo Gha
riork. The plan ti,ron Ish:cho
natia;.:eli was then explain'''.
:ceps the ballast-off e
raokbtosi. containing I h- •
~.
chic has di:livered; upon
raukston states dye
e cofporatiems, asel enters the
for that porpdise. The ballast-
to Siinn4on, atio`tiviki!s out
et, calleil the 'ekarotiv ticket.
ct i 4 then 6led in the ofli-e.
Simpson in-
;unt of the toir•i's does. slut
of ballast. &c. iu a book
whirh is kept w x LboOk
u Kiiiea the clearance-ticket to
transacts :he hniiness of the
kelps an account of the
! the duieo, tie liver.
o lee every Mon.lay mart] ing.
Ler having receive dean-
: to f;ihison, the eollectar's-
. the duties 'narked ott the
toce-ticket, and 44011 his
loon enters these duties in