The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, &c.

Private accounts from Ireland present a very unfavourable picture
of the state of the harvest in that coantry. The great and confirmed
humidity of the aunostphere has caused the grain of wilt:a: in many
places to shoot out. even while en the stalk, so that the grain is quite
destroyed, having actually undergone a pro cu of rrmlting. The
printers are however, in the greatest ph:ay and pertiction.
Therontract for supplying th:: Royal Naval College with the hest
bread for one year, has been taken to Mr. W. Tilley cf l'ortsca,
Is. fl,d. per gallon.
IfOßSEs.—lionecnxtle great fair has been extremely well attended
for tin days past, and horses in general have gone off at better. prices
than had been exported. Numbels have been bought as lubli ac
2301. and 279 a piece. Black horses in particular, have sold
well.—.%t the
_great horse fair of Newcastle-upon-Tyne a week ago,
so renntrkarkuble fur the excellence as well as the liumber of horres
in toner years, scarcely any good ones were to be found at any price
1,41 much has the breeding of them been discontinued by the farmer,
of late. _ _

There WM a good supply of lambs at Thetford fair, on Saturday,
which obtained rather higher prim than those of last year.
Portsmouth, August :AL—The fine weather of Thursday. Friday,
and Saturday last, enablyl the active farniets in this neighbourbcxxl
to house a vvry considerable quantity of wheat in most excellent con-
dition. The heavy ruins since aunt procrastinate further operations
come days.

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The hay harvest has been generally protracted by the con-
stant rain, bitt at last finished ; both the natural and sown
grasses more fortunately than conld have beau expected,
leaving the prospect of an abundant aftermath. Scat erlyany
stock of old buy on timid. 'flue long succession of coot and
rainy weather will occasion a much later corn harvest than
was expected, in which, however, there will be the air Hid age
of great fulness and substance, in the ear from gradual vegeta
tion. The waist of sun has beets generally felt since the great
heats in June, atul in the northern parts of I lio•von wry, ninety
corn of all kinds is yet in an immature state. In the forward
districts, and ii; the beat soils, great breadths of corn have
been cut within the last fortnight, and as much carried as the
wet state of the weather would permit. On soda Boils the crops
of wheat, barley oats, pease, and rye are great ; and the few
samples yet Ahem' at market are of fine quality. Liars will,
perhaps, turn out beyond expectation, but the lieliguland
beans have not succeeded so well as the native. On the least
promising soils, corn of all kind seems likely to prove all ay er-
age crop, granting a favourable layer harvest. Considerable

,17tmage irier been done 1:, exposed situations both in England
and Scotland, from the crops being beaten down by w hid and
Turnips on gno:l soils are a wonderful crop, and pm
tames generally so. Hops somewhat impriived.by the rain.,
but greatly damned and deficient crop. fruit, in the cy-
der counties, a short crop. Wool enjoys a brisk trade; and to
the unspeakable satisfactiPn of du: Illantiracturers, some good
orders have arrived from the new South American leVliblie.
Seeds will scarcely (meet an average crop. Lean stock con-
tinues to advance ; and while some countries are content with
the price received for their fat stock, others complain of a ge-
neral combination of the butchers! Swine are cheaper. Good
horses still maintain a very high price. Live stock iced well,
and the sheep have becu little troubled with the fly.

EXTRAORDINARY BRAVERY AND HORRIBLE
ASSASSINATION.

A Clewiston Paper contains the following nareive. We are
not aware that it has been published in this country. It will
be perused with interest.
"The death of Capt. Manuel de los Rios seems to have ex-
cited considerable surprise, both as to the time and manner
of his assassination. But a brief account of the facts winch
led to it, will spew that it was the natural coneequence of his
honourable courage.
•' A great number of Spanish merchantmen had been for
some weeks blockaded in the port of Havannah, by a petty
Buena: Ayren privateer ; and although there were -.wo vessels
of war belonging to his Catholic Majesty in port, their brave
commanders had not the courage, with their united force, to
attack the little insu►gent privateer. Thus situated. the
Spanish merchantmen, though ready laden and with a favour
able breeze, might have been blockaded until doomsday, had
not a meeting been held to devise private means for the libe-
ration of their embargoed freights. A vessel was armed and
ttttt nitioned, and the brave Manuel de los Rios was appointed
Captain. His Catholic Majesty's Viceroy at Havatisiali con-
sented that the attempt should he made to heat off the impii
dent privateer, and Manuel sailed birth ith a promiscuous
crew, to the scene of combat, while the two Government vet.
sels of war, with their officers, lay snug in petto. Captain de
los Rios, after a bloody contest, was victorious; lie stink the
privateer, and returned to Havanna h 4141libi the acelamations
of the inhabitants. The Spanish officers, though they had no
sense of honour or of courage, had 4 feeling alive to envy and
revenge; the brave Manuel was found the nest day after his
victory assassinated on the Alameda, a public walk of the
city ! A deed so atrocities amid so cowardly, that it seems to
have excited the horror of all the inhabitants of Havaiinali.—
The murder is unreservedly laid to the charge of his Majesty's
oliicers; and the motive by which it was perpetrated evinces
the character oldie Government and its agents, against whose
bigot►y and despotism the Smith Americans are giadually
muting to secure their independimve.

RATON TUE PEDESTRIAN..—EatOO arri%otl at half past ten
o'clock on Thursday night, at the Nag's Head, Whitechapel, having
left Colelicster at five that morning. He set out on his return to
Cokhester a little before five yesterday morning; being recovered
from his indisposition, he appeared as fresh as ke was at his first
rartiiik It is supposed that Oak is more money pending on this
match amongst the gentlemen of the county of E.acx, than has ever
bun en any fonncricdcsulan fes.