The National Register.
London, England, 1812-05-31 00:00:00

PROVINCIALS.

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
Sowing is at length finished, and the seed season may be geseralis
reckoned three weeks later thn usual. All the crops uponaps, the earlier
the ground
have a healthy and promising a
appearance, excepting, perh
siavn beans, which, receiving a check at first front the dretigft, have
not }et recovered. The wheats, a breadth extensive beyond all former
c.ample in this country, look well enough to produce a most atundAt
crop, under the fortunate supposition of a genial blooming season ami
good harveSt. •
The immediate business in the country at present, carrying out ma-
nitre and planting potatoo, the tar:Words in most parts, on the late re-
commendation of the Board of Agriculture, allowing their tenants to
plant potatoes as a fallow crop. The hap-bine has a heavy appearance,
and that culture is as forward as could be expected. The late high
winds and heavy rains have not done any material damage to the fruit-
blossdom,
dalfthoutghtvege.tation has certainly been checked by the easterly
\
Grass promises to be a large crop, and, as the stock of hay upon
band is considerable well article may- he expected at a reasonable priLe.
All cattle are d.Ung abroad, and from the quantity of keep, stors
beasts and sheep have advanced to an excessive price ; the same of milch
cows, and good borses of every description. Far pigs in demand and
dearer. From the high price of grain the markets have been of late
filled with sows and pigs, and young stores. Wool remains stationary.
With the aid of the foreign corn lately arrived, and of more in ep!:.
tation, there now reinains no doubt of a supply adequate to the public
demand; but it is the general opinion, that, by the time the new wheat'
are fit for use, very little old, of British growth, will remain in the
country.

Sunday sennight, Mr. James Pond, of "Wichhambrook, Suffolk, had
a fine cow, struck dead by the lightning ; and olt Tuesday se'rmight ths
it ev..Geurge Barlow, of Abingdon, near Bournbridge, had a fine lamb
deprived of the use of its hinder quarter by the same elumentOu the
latter day, a barn, upon the farm of Mr. Sharpe, of Tunsteati, Norfolb,
was destroyed, with thirty coombs of wheat in sacks.
Letters from Nottingham state the following alarming fact,
no sooner has a person taken the oatk of traitorous union in that Comlti
than he receives that constant pecuniary supply which enables hint is
support his wife without work.
Tuesday se'nnight, a person suspected to belong to the fraternity of
Luddites, was pursued by the peace-officers near Staley-brid:e. N..(!rk"
viz. that
shire. Being a collier, he naturally retreated to his under- ground hidlv
' place, sliding for that purpose down the rope, hanging in the shaft of_
i the pit.—A guard of upwards of forty of the patrole, were mounted ..t
the mouth of the pit, which was kept up by necessary changes nil tbe
1 following Friday, determined to starve the besieged to surrener, er
confine him till death. On the night of Friday, however, a dt-tachmt:t
post, gave a whistle, when the besieged ascended the rope, and escaped.
LoNGEVITY.—There is now living at Taddington, Derbyshire, 1 Pte'
of more than forty Luddites, appeared, drove the besiegers from thrl,r
1 son of the name of Alice Buckley, in the tOtith year of Ins age. her ele,
sight being so,good, that she is able to thread a commo owiti,g,tecc.,
i 1 without the use of spectacles ; her hearing is rather imperfect. 1.13 i'',:
son had never any particular illnese in the whole course of her
i ;married at the age of 25 year:: ; her eldest daughter is in her bOth yt.....1
it and her youngest son (with whom she now lives) is in his 63th year.
ti 'rile above person's mother lived to the age of 108 years. life ; ~.,t

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