The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-06 00:00:00

BY ►DWASD LVIM

(Cowie and Co.)

In en acconntof a Colony so interesting in every point
of view as that of vas Mem es's I.; xi), it is of the fir .t
importance that the materials of its history should be col-
h eted uu the spot, and that it should nut be the result, as
is too often the case, of communiestions made frequently
by those who have an interest in inii:Paalling, or finale up
by those who eke out niatfer of fact *Ial: invention, aml
produce a book, teat one lialfof which can descry:, to be at
ell relied un. The writer of the present stork is manifestly
a 'Tian of goo.l sense, drawing up aid digesting the mass of
information that lies before him, with a sincere wish to be.
useful to those whale inclinations tnil+ lead them to cosi-,
grate to this settlement ; and in so steins: he has not only
performed a most accepzable senior to this dams of indivi-.
duals, but has produced a very interesting and valuable-
little volume, that well deserves the attention of the Mer-
chant and the :Rates:nen, to both of a horn this important
Colony presents a source as well of profitable inquiry as of
enlichtmed speculation.
We will gave the writer's account of himself in his own
words, from whiela the reader will be able fully to appre-
ciate his fitness for the task he has undertaken, and his
means of executing it with judgment and fidelity :
" In juin:dm:Mg myself to the public, I think it proper
to state, that I sailed from England iu the mouth of Oc-
tober, 1919, in the ship Claudine, CapAin John Welch ;
and after touching at Madeira, the Cape tie Vert! Islands,
and the Cape of Good Hope, I arrived at Hobart Town un
the l'ala of February, 1529.
" During that winter I paid a short visit to Port Jackson,
and returning to Hobart Town in th'r month of July the
same year, I took up my rreitlence there until the sill of
June, IS. M. when I sailed its !•.;ngland in the brig Deveron,
Captain IVilliain Wilson.
" To divert the leisure of a long voyage, and the dreari-
ness of a winter's passage round Cape Horn, I engaged in
the composition of the present work, which I sineere!y
hope will be fur the benefit and information of those who
are to conic after nu?.

" ^ he nature of my business in the colony not being
agricultural, my fixed residency was in Hobart Town; but
frequent excursions through most parts of the country
afforded me shuoilant opportunity of observing the Isebits,
modes of life, acid general occupations, of that class of per-
sons usually called " settlers;" while from a close con.
nexion With most clastos of the inhabitants, I acquired a
competent knowledge of the general interests of the
colony.
" It is not the purpose of this work to recommend emi-
gration ; its object would rather be to turn some part of
the tide Which sets In such a :spiel stream to the western
continent, Into a channel which I believe to be more bene-
ficial both to the mother country and to the emigrant. I
would moot 1111 l end none to emigrate ; but if emigration be
felly, determined on, I would point oat Van Diemen's
fAnd as a place which possesses many peculiar advantages.
I purpose, therefire, to explain those points on which per-
sons Intending to emigrate to Van Diemen's Land usually
require information, to give them an account of the colony
end its inhabitants, and the prospects held out to emi-
grants ; to shew them how to turn their means, often very
'united, to the best advanbtoe ; and to give them such ad-
vice as mar he useful in the commencement, at least, of
their very arduous undertaking. The work of the settler
well begun, is half completed. Too many persons un-
fortunttely, with small metni, in an expensive country,
take auch erroneous, or Such extravagant steps at the first
outset, as prove, if not totally ruinous, at least a bar to
their exertions for many subsequent years.
" In a country where small capitals can be so advents-
grout'', invested, it is to the surprise of all who have had any
experience in the colony, how few comparfttively have sue-
cetded, iind how many, after a twelvemonth 'a residence,
have lost both their money and their credit ; when with a•
little more knowledge, and, I may chi, more industry,
they might hive acquired a monpetenco, and probably, an
independence.
" Too many persons, youn; men particularly, are In-
duced to quit their hums a, mete from a desire of change.
and to see the world, than for the purpose of improving
their contlitiou by the steady efforts of honest industry.
To such I can offer nu hopes, and scarcely any advice. 1
can only assure them, that poverty will Sec their portion the
inument they set foot on Veil Diemen 's Land. Novelty
soon ceases—the bush, the gum trees, and the solitudes of
this remote region, which, when contemplated at a distance,
are enlivened by the unsubstantial forms and pleasures
which a fertile imagination coujoui up, soon cease to Ise
pleasing to their unsettled minds. Comparing these their
waking dreams with the stern realities of hard labour by
day, watclifbiness by night, seditious, unruly. unwilling
servants, and the thousand trials of patience which even
the most prudent must encounter in such a country, no
wonder if they turn with disgust twin an undertaking its
which they anticipated nothing but pleasure, aid, for a
long time at least, find nothing but toil and perple..ity.
" Of the account which I here give of Van Ilietnen's
Land, I can only my, that it is an impartial one. Having
no system to uphold at the expense of truth. I neither
over-rate its aelvanuena. nor colour too strongly the reverse
aide of the picture. The main r' I believe. mostly new,
though Vats Lunt has been treated of before ;
and, should it be found to differ essentially irons what has
been said by others, I am confident that its accuracy will
be admitted by those who, like myself, have passed some
years in the colony."
The vdumc is written throughout ih that unaffected
tone, and with that entire :livelier of all pretension, that
the reader rests with full confidence on its statements, and
relies without hesitation on the truth of the partimilars
which it details. To any futureentig-rants the intelligence
it contains is of moat ease:aid utility. The calculation of
profits from sheep; the exportation of wool; the goods
proper to he taken out ; the choice of land ; the farm-
ing expenses ;—ell these are topics of Tll2l interest
to this dosaintion of persons; and the information
which is here offered on these, and other subj.-eta of equal
importance, are such as obviously do Lot arise from the Qtr.
hand remarks of a hasty and carders observer, but are the
result of sound and mature consideration. The account of
the Colorial Fund, diesource from which the expenditure
of the Colony is supplied, is given, we have occasion to
know, with great accuracy.
We extract, for they well deserve to be extracted, the
following juslicioue remarks ors the staving etreetrel in the
asvernment expenditure, and on these measures of
cco-
nc:ny which the writer condones as if.juslieisa anal ice-

" 'luring the time of Governor Macquarie. the Spanish
which is the circulating medium of the Colony,
was paid by the l'efmnissariat Officer for supplies at Sr.
sterling, and was by him consolidattd at par by bills en ;
the l'reasurv, though its intrinsic value latterly was only
about four -shillings sterling. Sir Thomas Brisbane eon_
tinues the practice of making all payments in dollars at
five shillings, but purchases those dollars again from the
cilenist with Treasury Lill4 at the lowest possible rase;
and Treasury bills ha.Yine, risen to a premium of "27 ptr
cent. hefere the au:dor left the colony. the dollar was of
course purchased by Government at ahem three ahilliugs
and tenpence sterling. Now supposing the wheat and pro.
vision purehasid by the C'orninisaariat to remain at their
old standard inacitnum prices, of ten shillings per bullai
for wheat, and rivepenee per pound for meat. this we
can.: a saying to the amonnt oPprerrium, namely 27 p:r
cent.. or rather were than one-fourth of the whole amount.
" Bat to effect a further saving, the practice of giving a
rr.artimurn price fur wheat was abolished, aril supplies of
that article were purchased by tender, at the beginning of
Iti23, at 7s. per bushel, in lieu of lets. as formerly. Meat
being more scarce anti in fewer hands, and the market
value consiilerably abuse the Government nisainnun price.
the probable eft•et ti; throwing it optu to tender woutd be
to enhance the prier; it is therefore still riceive.l at the
conunhitairia: titOrtil at the oLI maximum rat: of a. per
pound.

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" B.it at the same time that this double economy of
prim has been hroa?ht into operation, another and pet*i.
welter saving ha+ beet viLetesi in the di:::inati.n► of the
.;+•.• i,

colony ; where, to effect re:e'er:l:mem, some of the pub:,
works io poetess tinder the adminOoratieo of Govermr
Madigan° have been abandoned, and the convicts em-
ploye*, upon them :mired to the service of sealers.
" be these and abet methods, that pettier» of the
expeliilitute Which is borne by the Treaeury of the robes.
coun4y has been dierinished to about me-third of court it
was Mathe latter years of Cove:mot: ItlacquaOe, a
peen
inovemeat has en meele, on tae
the amount of internal revenue by the increased denier:
levied by the Act. of Parliament ahead,- referred to. And,
drat a greeter pi:MO= of this fund may be made applicable
to defray tl:e earrouliture hitherto borne by the mother
country, every poseible ILIViVg is Effected in the espeodi-
, tura of the Colonial Fund. The duties levied end. r the
I Act, and *Melt iniecipally constitute that fund. are ail
payable in defiers, at about ss. 0:c.14, while all Hears'
have demends uprou it. are inveriebly ;nid io dollar; at 5:.
cacti ; except indeed the seleii, s of rims in eifite,
are converted into itellars a: the rate of live loth e pours I
MAIN& ceo that thee am not oers by the exchenge. Bet
the merchant oho has a
.demand vn the fund far good:
sold, is treated in a different muter. We will eiippose
that the treasurer stands iedebteil to hint in the :use of
/Pa, and at the it2lEt• time he has to pay the naval otheer
Owl the naval officer who collo:es the dotiee, and the
• treasurer of the fund, are ono and the same person e. a suet
of lout. ; it would he net.und to suppose that the one
amount v.ould balance Om other, and !hat there wisild he
nothing to pay or receive on either side. Bait tti'c
not the case. The rtecovori ore c.nvul.:d into ihiltar:„
and the asumpish.4 tuerclaut it t,.!d, ' As !YU:WSW of 11.1.!
Police Fund, I Lay eeu four hundred dollars for your el -
mond of one innelreit oeunds ; as naval otheer, I ore- t
ceiec five litinhed tiodsrs for my ore leendrei reei
the merchant hal te pay the It may be proem.:;!
that, ree this is well uoidersteied :n the exile:: y, those who
sell goods to Government val put a liielor toonii ci pre
upon them, in proportion as the payment the) are to
receive is deteriorated ; and that us the dollses these
receive are worth less than these Coq pay, they
male their bargain itecorelingiy.--If this he correct, it coder
he difficult to aotieti a reason why both amounts a-e net
payable in dollars at the same rate. Tins, however, thotrh
' not strictly correct, is nearly applicable to present trans.
actions; but a; respects de o, that are past, where the
'debt wee owing by Govern:nein. previous to the iiniovaCen
in questien, it. will hardly appear keel that the creditor
should he compelled to reeeive peymeat .n a detcaioiatcd
currency, for whirA had he ltirzained when he strode het
Edo to siovertiment, he would have pieportionehly
'lanced the nominal priis of laic fools. Sophistry may
waive the question, or attempt to put it in a more fey-amebic
point of view; yet it mist eventually arrive at this Colo-
elusion. that the Govermnent creel:tor has bent compellci
in malty eases to tale &iea value los. instead of ens
pound! sterling.
" I have known this time tom-cut in the ease of adr et
from the Commissariat other.? in Hobart Town, upon the
officer of the saute department ill Sydney. The di aft lies
for sterling money, and was paid in Sydney iu dollar:
at the rate of fotir to the Teflon!, at a time when four doi-
lens were in no way equivalent to a pound. And to show
the difference between theconduct of merchants among:::
themselves, and the conduct of Government towards the
merchant, the same dollars were on the same day, under
circumstances similar in every. eespeet, transferre;d hy the
receiver to 'nether free.taut at Irate kas then es. each,
that cite being re oilateri by tile premium of the day.
In Svelnev 0 am not aware that the poverty of t:-e.
fund in Van theineres Land has Cempelled the 'nine prac-
tice to he reeerteil to there), a considerable balance has loco
paid by the treasurer of the Police Futel to the Ceturo;ssa-
riat office, and that sum has been applied to the porter-et
of those ace:aunts which had always previously been dr-
frayvd by the Trcatury; so that the cellmist Ills lice:near,-
wiled to maintain, po t•snto, the ti ausported teloes el
float Britain. Now, if this use eau be rot& of:, oentien
of the fitted collected in the colony, that fund, by the came
right anti rule. if it should betowe sufficiently ;Lit, may
he applied to defray the whole expenditure, until the cola.
nists are co:noelkd to-maintain the felons when. Greet de-
tain traosperts from her sterna. The infribitaiit of. Loge
land may inquire, where the impropriety of this uaeaeu.e
lies?. lie will say, •We are burdieued with taxes to sup-
port persons who, labours arc devoted to the sin icv ef the
inliabitanta of your colony ; if you ree.-ive the benefit of
their labour, it is but just diet ycu should mairito i them?

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" The colonist reprice., that if he be bound to maintain
those who labour for him. the option of truplosieg then
shall remain with him ; that the einployment shalt kc
gulatcd by the colonist who pars for it, and tot by the
number of idle bands fur *limn cloccramerit may wish
find employment. It, will n't sub.nit to ls• •
a-stit a church ; I will build yoa a cis:web. 1 }Javelins:lies
belonging to you to pay for at, and 1 Km men vrltem I
must maintain at my cull expense, if 1 canner errFlzy
them at yours: I will therefore take your money, and wit:s
it employ these men while they bmitl your church • r.a.
shall have • church, and that, too, if vett des:re it, or no::
This is virtually the languare of that Cho's-Time who trculd
apply the Colonial Fond to the maintenance of the p::soners
of the Crown employed by the t;overniticut in th sec: lanir,.
For it must be tt tires:red, that t C overemr, hoh.l:. the entire
management and ilispikal of the fund. is appointed by ths
Crown, and that those who contribute to it trice in no way.
tither by themselves or their repretentatives, ai.y ceutrol
over it. The colonist will also refer the inquitinr t:s.
payer, to the consideration of the object for which felons
are t7ansporteil to the colonic:a. 'fbeseett;ectr. are to punish
and reform them, to rht (:rest Britain of a 1.1tI!!31';:e, a•-•,1
to people a colony, as an eiWitional orarkrt fur hei
factures. From these c,,lects it will itiTear that, :e' .:
for tbe convenience end bacilt of the norther mm.o v tr•at
felons are removed to her colont• s, all cvpcusts
thou there should 1w chargeable to her; unles< indeed
can engage the colonists to maintain them, witkit appeals
to be the only lerjtimate means of removing the Ler:len
from her own shoulders. And in this n•anntr. the e:ea:er
pact of the convicni, being crit7.:;rl to a:elle:dual e• :t:e- .
are mail:taint:a by their inavetes, ceaec ire be
to Grr at Fiita.n.

" but the colonist. forth, r craw :air tht• t-Fporisal
rerretlis of an Eighth t•:x-los:r, says, that reqv.li,z 7ict
having the vp:ion of eu•ldol:hg. tl.e c0...1et that i
tains, they are actually eieployiil at oily. e fee
bene:lt of the mother country. These eelvitiry 31". ;o t'i
considered, solar as one por Con of the irthalutarl:s are e;;:?
eettleil. as an exterrive rug, in iv hioli Cruat }{:eta:r.
her ewn ocnvonienco, and becauee it is piviiirbly a I.ls es-
pensive one than any utle r. coninis 1 l.Utt bC7 of v:knerrs.
New, is it reasvrable, be wiii alit, wain these I•eeple ere
sett cut fur 0:e v.w.seuieree Gicat ltritain, that the
inhahitatts of the colony should be ehargiil with the ex-
poise of erecting buildinrs for the'ir, se:ority, or of
y i impreCtrg this great gaol?
" if I admit. for the wilco of argumett. that ttierc are
some few works cat ars' on in the culeny. wtreh, tut tae:;.;
connected v:.th the safe it:study or auu•limatfon of tl'ie
rranspotl•d Won, may be tat►ly ehatgralde to the
fur whose b.ne:it they are. such as wharfs end rvads; ar..a
if we c.•u!d ware las claim to be cuuf•thad befiare publ:c
works are carriiil en et his expense; 1 .:tae- -.tilt he a:
liberty to express a doubt if these measures A evuticr.ly
which vevulii lender threolur.ist rubject to tire tn...ii:enari,:e
of the prisevers ertploved t.en trl•un such wo ;.s as tin•vo,
will ultitrate:y be to the Ntictit of Great It:itn••t "

The Appo.lot cvnt:Ltut several do:einem, tau it
pet tisk J wish con6idt.abte intort- t.

0%1 Foreq!cue sNys, in as orb
liAtiuun 1... it t.V r:011t tO :email in wag .t
atiutinor but w. uLI Like it t 4.1.4.%• ; al4:
1::..!.. h there c..-3-4n!ly, and that tr.nr.• w. :e te!‘
film os hanc...l fur tuur.:.-r And rutibol iu L'lt-1::1
itlati in Fra;l:V.

Tho whole of the Qundrart to P:enddly stis
on Montla., pra•paratory to to). -.l:g up the r,tantte yake-
ment lately down., and Ma:3 Lint .ins the etre t. A
narrow way for c.:ritagcs it stitl L•ft en ore but
owing to negle,:t in nut attaela:ng lanthorits to the
several accidents to horsts and entr;a:;es cceurred C 3 Stv.:.
day rai6ht ; this W 35 p trica!atty the cue oFiv:ite t! e
County Fire thi:ee, whore the reds were brokt:i dawn in
two plates by herscs tneihrrn; aver them. An tne:cs....re
i 4 also in pet: crest 1. and :otre of the leaving yon••: are
taken u? and
of M!,-4.1.rn

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THIRD MEETING OF MARSH AND CO.'S
CREDITORS.

At this mtetinr yesterday--••••• there• IPS%•••--
if possible. mote confix:on
than on the former, rising out of the anxiety evinced by pertin
to peeve, so as to enable them to vole for assignees. the choice of
whoa w.l fixed for that day. At the opposite end of the room to
shut at v. ho:h the l'ommisstorers raided, was a table upon which '
two tilts a parties. to act in the capacity of assignees, were placed,
for the sigr.tovre it the creditors as soon as they had proved.
from the nvegularite which reigned throughout the niorning, in
consiquelice of the number of Fentons collected in the room, we
Were unable to gather wore of the proceedings than the few vises
tullowing
A print was taken from Dlarterman and Co. for 20.3121. 151. Id.
upon an assignment to the firm, for an lathy/dual, as a balance of
hatilusig account.
The Secretary to the Stratford Club applied to prove upon ISOM
to laths BMWS, a nl .111011 i 41M. the balance of cash in the house at
the tune of the hanl.rtiptcy. The firm had neva raeired authority
to itispeee of the bonds.
ale. Iran (to Mr. Hare, who is the provisional assignee)--Are
you aware of the bonds haring been in existence ?
Mr. Ilank.— I hate no doubt of the existence of the bonds,
bii: they ale rut tarlicoinieg.
Mr. LAW (to the Scetetary)—Are you a member of the Club,
Sir
No Sir, I am rot.

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Sir, you cannot prove.
A lientleitian, the dnwer of a bill, applied under the following
tiro:no:sat:v.—He stated that he had lodged in the bankrupts'
tistils a bill of exchange. Olsten by himself, previous to the issuing I
of the cunimissnon; the bill had become due since the bankruptcy,
and laud been dlebououesd. His application was to know whsi tier
114 west rove fin the balance at the time of bankruptcy (viz. 13.Sfy
or 'sheik'. he must deduct the amount of time bill, SW.
The Conimissioners decided that the 50!. must biwo naidered as a
set-teif by t`..e Min, an the amount to be proved 111414 be the be.
licee rhen the 40/. is deducted.
A, gentleman had sent a bill of clef:Repr to the bankers to re-
ceive the =dim m ageuts when dtte; the hill W3s due on the
Alonday after the parties avowed in the Gazette, and the money
was received by them. Hi now applied to know sy'in.her he vino
no: entitltd to the full amount of the procevie of that bill.
Mr. Lsw said be certainly was entAled to the whole under those
c‘teutnetances.
Upon a speetion,being put to the provistcmal assignee (Mr. H.l
he said. that since the last meeting there bad been en iacrease of
chum of abent SILIOOI., but, notwithstanding that, there was still
an escvss of meets.
The two Bats foe the choice of the creditor* were—one. Messrs.
Bolland. Hate, and Knight; the other. Messrs. Thailand, Bare.
Leant. Bushnell, end Botching. The choice, we understood, fell
on the first lift, but, in conwepasace er some opposition haying betm
made by Mr. thorn, of the firm of Conn art. Mice, solicitors, in
01%.har.1-street, Portman-square, who atteLded not only for several
of ;be e:edimrs, but for hintself„ upon the grotiucts of undue intlu-
en.l baying been used rot the purpose of insuring the election of
the list, eobsisting of three gentlemen ; the Commissioners proced.
ed to a semtirty.

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1.:-.• following notice Las been posted at Lloyd's :
MAT ipi. 111124.--The Diligence, French ship
of war. with her prize. the Royalist Spanish privateer, the Quen.
tan' s snate,scljiest new, bet no particulars have transpired."
Caring the het contest for Westmorland between Mr.
Broughcm and Lord Lonsdale's interest, some one n.•-
twirled upon the strenuous canvass that had been tootle
among the Sons of the Church, and that no less than
acad. *iced und tight (krgynten had voted for tbeLowthers.
A Inc-tisan of ilr. Brougham upon this gravely said—
•• ":'he Lord gat., the word, and great was the company
fereac4e7
1. ma RULING PASSILON.—At Margate, Mrs. 8., a very
lovely women. tainted in the Ball-toom, on the Master of
the Certmonies' nieht. When her attendants were rubbing
her temples with Hungary water, she begged them to de-
in% as a veceld make her hair grey.
Cvgvrastow.—At Ballinitalog, a gentleman closely
a:l:rd to the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Trench, distinguished
bcretufore as Ulna-Orange, and to whom the Catholic •
re:tgion and ila protestors were, it is said, peculiarly ob-
noxious, his, within the present month, publicly become
s cornier as religion, in the chapel of that town. fm-
gardiatsirafur prayers the Rev. Mr. Dillon, the Catholic
Citrommt, announced the circumstance to a full congre-
wither. The ceroniony lasted half an hour, the conformist
h.:eel:nit, with a candle in his hand ; he read the
use: a' torms in an audible and firm voice.—Dublin Morning

P-e
O' Monday last, a man calling himself Richard Sutton,
etarted in the Marsh to unwind 100 yards of line from a
stake six inches in cireuinfereuee, and which he was to act-
merles!, with the end of the line attached to his body,
eeetinualiy running round the stake, and progressively
• ceartrig Ids circle until,tbe whole was unwound, in IV
hoerb. He commenced Lis arduous undertaking at eight
iietoak in the morning, and continued his exertions till
past six eidetic in the evening, when a set of blackguards
obtrudisfi themeelves within the circle, and interrupting
the passage of the line, he was compelled to relinquish his
task. The distance he would haverun had he unwound
the whole of the line, bas been calculated to be 64 miles
498 yards; and there is ti.ason to believe he would have
accomplished it but for the interruption.—Sollherepten
Herald.
DARADFUL ACCIDENT.—We yesterday gave the ac-
count of an accident which occurred in Belvidere-road, the
Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, by the falling of part of
a wall formerly belonging to an extensive soap-enanufec-
eery, which is now being cleared away to make room for
the intended improvements in that neighbourhood. In ad-
dition to what was then mentioned, we bear another of the
uefortunate individuals, named Brown, died soon after
being taken to the hospital, and the boy died yesterday
riorcing. The other two sufferers are still in the bolded,
*NI continue in a very dangerous state. The unfortunate
maw, Brown, was a Chelsi a pensioner, and was to have
runs_ yesterday to receive his pension ; but the fatal event
haereening on the it ty previews its becoming due, deprives
*vet his relatives from receiving it. He has left a wife!
and Ismily.
Need ereitney t/ertireseree.--On Wednesday, a young
boy, awned Patrick Walket, apprentice to Blatethorn, the
et:enmity-sweeper, was unfortunately suffocated when
sweeping a chimney in Mr. Whaley* house, Skplieu're
erns, in oansequence of a quantity of rubbish itaviegl,
:alien down upon him.—Dieblie paper.
gSLA NCSIOLY eetDeNT.--On Wednesday, as the
caath from Wakefield to Boothferry was passing along the',
reed from Pontefract, a respectable, fresh-looking man,
about thirty-live or forty years of age, stopped the coach,
sod Legged for a place, stating that be was the master of a
yeeeel lying at Hull, and was anxious to get forwent to
.Bootifferry in time to gain a steam-packet down from Selby.
Pie request was refused, die coach being full, and several'
persons, who had minded nt the preceding stage, having
been eterip4kd to relinquish their seats on that account. j
lee, however. persisted iu his request, and the pateetigersl
eerie:pried to gyve tint a place. lie accordingly mounted
seen a boseen the top of a coach, and in a very short time,'
stnewarde, whet' shout seven miles (tom Boothferry, by a
sudden jolt, wet: precipitated into the road, and falling on
the back of bir hind, the blood gushed out from his nose,
ease, &c. and, atter uttering a groan, he shortly expired.
li'he body 5.144 tel..tn to Hootbferry.—flu/1 Advertiser.
A Seaffichl paper se) s, that Prober,' passed through that
note OD Saturday eninng, on Iii;; way to London.
• Wooneoct: e.—'rheite hirdo have not been so plentiful
in Eogland of laic, which is accounted fur in two ways.
The universal draining which took place durieg the high
prices of agricultural produce has been one tense of their
ecartety. Another, in the northern parts of Europe, and
partioulasly Fwedettoebere these birds are bred, are making
a gradivil-propee.n intim arta of luxury, among which the
indulgence of the pelate fills no undistinguished place.
The eggs of wild fork therefore, hezottle a treat delicacy
"mane the inhabiting:: of thyme parts, who encourage the
'boots to find out their nests. The eggs of the woodecek
tier prefer to all others; and in coesequence of their high
price they are anxiously sought after by the country reep!..,
and offereil for :iulA in large quantities in the markets of
'Stockholm and other places.—Sporrinir Morwsirre.
Yesterday was the drawing of the !Pate Lottery, when
Bide as usual, was pm-eminently successful, the follow-
ing Capitals having beet, shared and sold by hum :-
16606 3 Prize ot .4;:10,0511
N 0.136 , • 90,e5tt
19866 2,951
180 Late
Afla Thirteen tither Capitals of ,Ooh. Mout. and VOW.
Binh is Contractor liar the present Lettety, the new
;'theme of which contain?. Two iraett Prizes of SiLOOOL,
and Thirty other l'eritalr, all Sterling Money„; all to be
decided in One Hay, :el November, and every Ticket a
Prise. !Schemes, with Particulate, and Tickets and
Shares, at Beth'. (Mete, 4, Combat, tel 9, Charing-
cross, where the Holders of the slew,- Capitals, drawn
yesterday, may receive their Money ou demand.