The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

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For the last three weeks the weather has been as favour-
able for the labours of harvest as has been remembered by
the oldest persons in this county ; in consequence, the far
greater part of the corn grown in Cornwall has been already
secured, in prime order. From every part of the county
the accounts are most gratifying, both as to the quantity and
quality of the gra's that has already bceu
saved•—il id
?triton.
We feel great pleasure in stating that the harvest in this
county is nearly over, and that the produce is excellent
both in quantity and quality.—Deroashil r Freeholder.
A fortnight of more delightful hkrvest weather has never
been known in this country than that which preceded
Thursday last ; but on the evening of that day we were
visited with a thunder-storm, succeeded by several heavy
showery, which continued during the greater.part of the
night. Yesterdarthe sky was overcast throughout the day,
hat as no rain fell, it is confidently expt:cted that the reapers
will soon to be enabled to maim: their important labours,
and that much corn will be secured in the ensuing week.—
By far the greater part of the grain is already cut down in
the immediate neighbourhood'of this city, and a consider-
able quantity led off the ground in the best possible comb-
tien. Inallparts of Great Britain the present harvest pro-
mises to be one of the moat productive that has been known
lei the memory of matt ; the reports from Ireland are equally
febeerable, and upon the Continent the crops are stated to
4:e 110 less abundant. Thus, not only in these kingdoms,
tat throughout Europe, the supply of corn will be unlink,
tai, and must bring with it not only a material fall of
j.H•es, but also a reduction of the disproportioaate rents
eii'l paid by fanners.—Carlisle Jeuriud.
11.te weather still continues favourable to the harvest,
during the last week immense quantities have been cut
Weduesday and Thursday were uncommonly fine
and hot days, and must have materially assisted In =pen-
rag such corn as is yet backward. The thermometer on
the latterday was at so in the shade. In the afternodn the
-.lee towards the west became obscured with heavy murky
:curls, indicative of a thunder storm, which, at lialf-pastl
tive, burst over this town. The stonn raged with fury till
near eight o'clock : the lightning was very vivid and fre-
cut ut, and the peals of thunder loud and awful. From
the sound of thurnier and direction of the lightning the
s.eren appeared to be immediately above the river' and at no
yr. at distance. A very heavy shower of rain fell at the
tornmenvernent of the storm.—Nerreasite Chronicle.
A field of wheat reaped this week at Ileworth, belong-
ing o Mr. Russell, has produced the extraordinary crop of
b t,t sheaves per acre, which are estimated to yield upwards
of JO bolls of corn.
Very little corn now remains unearned in the south of
Devon. Excepting a little that was carried early, before
toe fine weather, It is housed in excellent condition. The
quantity and quality of this year's crop was never exceeded.
Turnips and potatoes in that district are as fine crops as
can be remembered. Cider is three guineas per laogshead.
--Act-17*rue Mercury.
The harvest is now general in this neighbourhood.
Perhaps there never was a prospect of a more luxuriant
crep of all sorts of grain than at present ; indeed the
farmers acknowledge that they never knew a finer season.
To use their own words, " Country is Full of Stuff." This
is literally the case : and the robahility of getting it well
iu ice increased by the continuance of fine anti settled
weather'.— West nturland 1 apex.
The great bulk of the hat vest of this county (Stafford)
safely gathered in fine condition. The oldest man living
.trnie not remember a hay and corn harvest of such unin-
territpted fine weather, and such large crops.—Pullery
Gazette.
The weather not only continues dry, but is beautifully
clear and warm. Thermometer 70. Barometer 20. A
an at deal of corn has been innod in the best possible een-
ditien.—Glesgoiv Chronicle.
A few days more will terminate the labouri of the
16: vest field in this district. We believe that general con-
tent and satisfaction at the abundant produce which has
tres.n gathered in has crowned them, and we hope also as
lenivereel gratitude to that Almighty Being to where: boun-
tiful goodness we arc indebted for it. Several samples of
wheat of this year's growth were exhibited in our market
on Saturday, and fetched 235. per bag. Their quality was
excellent-01 'oree,ter Herald.
The harvest has become very general in this county since
the last fine weather; the crops are every where abundant,
as.l of the best quality.—Carmarthen Journal.
The farm, es in this district are busily employed with
their harvest, and should the weather continue for another
week es favourable as it is at present, the grain will be
housed in the finest condition. The crops (except that of
oats, which is said to be rather thin) are abundant, and of
excellent quality. Two stems of oats have been brought
to out office this week, one of which contained two hundred
and fifty grains, and the other two hundred and seventy.
They woe plucked in a field in the occupation of Jeliu
Lacy, at Ferriby—lllill Advertiser.
The people of this country, it would appear from the
accounts received from the different parts of the kingdom,
are doomed to suffer, fur another year, under, according
to tho theory of my Lord Liverpool, that greatest of
curses, a superabundant harvest. Every statement that
we have seen gives the most flattering intelligence • the
craps are every where exceedingly plentiful, and should the
Lae weather continue, both the agriculturist (for we will
it a have it that it is an evil fur him to have an excess of
produce) and the consumer may anticipate one of the most
successful seasons that has occurred for many years. In
tits country the harvest has become general ; and in a short
tme the harvest will be all got in. The only complaint
that we hear (and as we hear only from the farmers, who
neist complain of something, it is not, pri.rhapi, true to
t. e full extent) is, that there will be a failure in cats,
watch will be scarcely an average crop; but of every other
,teseription of grain the crops are most abundant.—Lar-
nafft
'lle weather if it be not, on some days, almost too hot
for labour, is extremely favourable for the harvest. From
all quarters we receive the strongest assurances of abund-
ance. Within our own observation, the produce is as great,
it Lot greater, than was ever remembered. A field of
wheat in the immediate neighbourhood of Leith has yielded
this year at the rate of 20 bolls per Scotch acre, being three
nines as much as the last year's produce. and 24 bolls per
acre more than that of any former season since it bas
been under the superintendence of its preseut occupier.-
I.diabarei Star.
JEODUaG it, Act;. 31.—The harvest being now general
in this neighbourhood, we had very few farmers in our
market to-day; we have 11:aril only of one sample of new
barley being told, 34 bulls, at 20s. per boll.

SCIIIICITY or 1794.--In the year 1794, when the horror
of impending famine aggravated the miseries of war, the
Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, at the econi-
mendation of his Majesty's 111inisti re, transmitted by ex-
press to Lord Teignmouth, then Governor-General of In-
/La, intelligence of the calamity that threatened Great Bri-
tain, desiring whatever aid the Government of India eclat]
ripely. On receipt of the despatch, the Governor-General,
with that profile:nude and energy which distinguished his
administrmicm, exerted the influence of Government with
such effect, that 16.000 tons of shipping, almost entirely
_lndia-built. were freighted to carry rice to England; and
were loaded and cleared from the port of Calcutta in less'
than five months from the date of the arrival of the letter.
'This supply, with the exception of the casualties of the sea,
strived most opportunely for the relief of the poor of Lon-
don, and reduced the price of that excellent article of food
I r three-halfpence a pound. So extraordinary an exertion
i; neither so widely known, nor so justly appreciated, as it
Inuits. It is a circumstance which reflects the highest credit
on all the parties concerned, and deserves to be recorded, in
,mice to declare to post'erity the vast resources of Great Bri-
tain, witiclrwas enabled to draw seasonable supplies of pro-
soiion for the relief of the metropolis, from colonies situated
at the distance of nearly two-thirds of she equatorial cis-
,aunference of the globe.
Antateast Faassow.—Three men of colour were
lately tried at Richmond, and found guilty of misdemca-
win, and ordered by the Court to be sold as slaves, and
transported beyond the limits of the United States!
As the people were leaving church on Sunday, th;.b inha-
bitants of Chancery-lane were alarmed by a heavy crash,
ticsasioned by the falling of one of the houses adjoining to
where the late disastrous fire took place. The house was
uninhabited, owing to its dangerous situation. The ad-
knifing houses are in a similar state.