The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-14 00:00:00

REJOICIAGS. IN TIM CtifINTRY.

The following is an extract from a report in The
ed, Exeter Paper, of the ie.:to:clogs at Tiverton,
in Devonshire, in celebration of the failure of the
Bill exiiiim the Queen:—
" At-about owe o'clenit the procession, which ecomisted of
the Friendly Summits, dx. moved he the fallowing order :
A ass on a white hor4w, dressed in while trimmed with blue,
and • cocked hat—an elegant ly.dremed female ow horseback,
earryling the cep of liberty, as tended by a yenta g 111.1111 on horse.
bark, armed eap.a•pee, with swued and shield—Brilaunia on
horseback, supported use each side by two young men, with
drawn serurda--sisty females, dressed in white, and all, with
three or rum otcrptiosa,witaring !ace caps—the Friendly Si..
Meters, with their flip, and a band of music playing ap.
propriate lanes; is the Cumber's' Society was seen Bishop
Mare in • gig, ailb two little boys neatly sl 1, tlieshep.
herd and shepherd's., sad wilier emblem. of their hark•—
tl/ere were between 20 and 30 buniserr, with suitable Mimi!).
tows; end a tart, is which writ placed the three tilsewit.
messes, Majocchi,Sacchionsl Demurs', with the gallows erect.
ml over them, and ropes romael their necks; ass old man in
front, whe acted as parson, was urging them to repentance,
and the slier:idiom" behind closed the procession, which con-
sisted of nearly twelve hundred persons. The sir was sent
with the acclamations of the joyouisnints Haile, and the streets
crowded with speriatoss who joined in the general shoat of
" Caroline for erer P"rhe bells raise merrily throughont
the day. At five o'clock they dispersed is the greatest miler,
when the Societies retired to their respective sittrng.rouni.,
to spend the renting iw celebrating the triumph of their iii.
notelet sad much injured (lures.. The cart containing the
Malian witnesses, accompanied by the hand playing the
Paid Murcia is Saul, was drawn through the town, to the
lilac' of ea. cot ion, its • field at • little distance, where a large
'motile welt made, and they, together with the greets bag
filled with combostilds a. and se-spews trawling out of it,
were committed to the flamer, amidst the hisses snit groans
vf the multitude. to the evenings. illumination look place.

By an arrival from liomb:►y. papers have been
received to the 13th of August. They are
extremely barren of iiitellig.oce. The ceremony
of proclaiming the accession of his present NIA.
JESTY took place at Bomoscy on the 7th of Jour,
amidst a large aa•rmb'sge of the natives, togetlizr
with the principal officer• and European inhobit-
stilts of Bombay. Towards the close, however. of
these demonstrations of loyalty and dutiful affec-
tion, a considerable degree of alarm and agitation
was treated by the explosion of a powder-chest on
one of the batteries, by which accident tie Euro-
pean artillerymen and two Lisears were killed, and
one Matr.•as desperately wounded. Large bag-
went, of the guit-carria.t4t.s were buried to a dim
tans frown the spot, and almost every house in the
vicinity of the battery suffered from the coucwoicio.
His ►Msjuty's ship Carron, Captain FURN EA UX,
was totally lust ass the 6th of July, cm the coast of
Juggernaut: Lieutenant scomcs, of the Royal
Artillery. the Master. and nineteen of the crew,
were drowned ; the rest only prearrved their lives,
Uniform I...m(01114 appeal,* to reign throughout

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the interior of flindootoo.
Letters have been receired from Pernambuco.
4!..ted October 25, stating, that the news of the
Portuguese Revolution lead beets biought there by
the Clesierfild packet, which had iirrived Oil the
• gill, having left Falmouth ou the .10ils September,
the very day on which the first advice* ut the Oporto
affairs had reached England. The packet lauded
her mail, awl the next day proceeded un to Rio
Jrnei,o. '1 his unexpected occurrence had created
the mint lively iiiterept among the ibrople of
.Pen.
liambucn, though the members of the Gnversoment
compelled the Captains of vessel, • • 'ding for Lisbon
to g.ve bond not to cuter that par::., case a Wyo.
!titian should Have 1111•0 takes, place there.
Thursday se'nnight the church of Carbrooke, in
Norfolk, was broken into, and all the plate, sur-
plice, communion cloth, iSsc. stolen. And on Mon.
slay st'imight, or early next morning, the church at
Eaton was broken into, and • surplice, the greets
cloth (row is. the communiow-tablr, I pewter baton,
mid several prayer-bogs from the pews stolen.

ro THE EDITOR OP THE•BRITISH PRESS.

'YORK; DUMMER 11.
Stlt—Haring observed in some tote Agrieulmi al Reports
an apprehen■ion. which I fear is too just, of the misery
which may take place in the ensuing winter, from the ono-
employment of labourers, I beg to of r, as concisely a. I
ease, a few remark. mo a species of employment by which the
farmer might probably he g.• ratty benefited, and the I itss herr
comfortably maintained; and it is to you, as the Editor or
a Paper esteemed for its impartiality, that I prefer to ad-
dress mys-lf,

A co,mmunication of this description small appear
more appropriately in any public:oMo expressly appointed
for rural alfoirs; but the moat natural conveyance, the
Former's Journal, after halms( for some lime endeavoured
to throw cold water on the subject, has bow declared its
intention ul excluding front its pages any moonymoons matter
on spade-boob ondry. This measure appears moat wine-
coontalate, a. ihreelooirths of its curresponolomee is, and
has always been anonain.aus. toe I sicimrlgemeggi givros
in the Farmers' Journal to the voluminous, and as it once
appeared al t interminable controversy, • between Mr.
Webb Hall and Mr. Aitautal, oat protecting duties and the
currency, and by the F.lotor's present prohibitory exclusion,
one nimbi imagine, with great proola,b'e reason of coo.jec.
turiog rightly, tlrit he W.'S ileteamiueol that if the farmer or
Labourer **roe to be benefited, :I should absolutely be by the
prescriptions of one of these Gentlemen, ur nut at all, and
silt he did nut choose that the spade, at least, should be al.
lowed the chance of ass sting. Now the questions me totally
distinct.

It is of MI importance to the practice I wish to suggest,
whether of those two plans he the beat or moat feasible, or
whether either be likely to be ur not to be adopted ; what.
ever will enable the former to increase his produce with a
suffiriently 'enumerating profit, and at the same time to
procure maintenance to the pour tabourer, mast be sub-
ma•tially recominelitlable sad unfil. Under that imp,* a-
pion, and with the hope it may meet your approbation, I
submit my mitr ors the subject i—lts the first place, it is of
the most importance to stair, which I do from experieuee,
the actual expense of digging an ade 'Aland ; fir without a
knowledge of that, foie farmers could he expected to make
a begiiming. A good labourer will at this lime of year, its
digging stubble land of a utroug description, tarn at 1.'30
2s. per d ty, at sd. per ignore rood of seven yard', vlz. forty.
nine square yards. The expellee per acre will thus he, as
near as may he, two !aimless. Light land might lae'dune fur
; woe% et ly for fiJ. per rood, 'staking the expense vary
from I/. 13a. to 21. Ilia. per acre.
I wall not intrude upon yon here to recapitulate all the
evidences that have come to my knowledge, or have been
made public (for they air many), of the impel ior effect of
the •patleover the pliiiesh, for I believe every farmer as
as gardener will admit th it the spade, ar far or if will go,
le the better tool. There is but oar crop upon which doubt
might arise as to its mierese immediately after the spade.
Wheat, when moist kWy luxuriant, is thought by many to
be the more liable to mildew; but this objection 'night be
obviated by ploughing the land shallow once or twice after
the meridiem dig4eilfor crop, and Ulna re•eonaolidatiiig the
bottom as mire% as could be wished. Ti.. re are very
respectable testiumnies of the eligibility of the spade
husbandry on tolerably light land, but of this I
myself have nu field axperience—ou strung land, how-
ever, I know that the increase of all produce by
digging is to so •mourt abundantly excetiling the appa.
rent incense of expense in the cultivation. This latter,
however, is its reality mulch dinsinialseil by a saving of
clearings, ploughings, &e. 1 need scarcely slate that in
thus reconsinendint tbe amide, I sin ntsertheless far from
entertaining a wain to aspersed') the general sue of the
plough, or an idea that it is passible, in its stead, to sub-
*Witte the general use of the spade, even were oar unem-
ployed .umbers greater than they are; but I wish to eu-
courage the trial of a inprrior implement as far as we have
hands at our doors ready to wield it; and alien we liars
(mind the profit of the practice, we may then be induced
even to desire additional amistance, if it ran be procured.
At all events, the trial may easily be made at little expense
or risk by any use. At this moment Iwo !wavy burdens,
among to:hera, opprees the firmer in general, he pays emir.
mous poor rale., and be is Itcsidcs saddled with inure la•
Noires' (caller, roundsmeit, ••hu gib from bottle to house
round the parish) than he knows how to employ profitably.
These sort of I ihourera sic itt paid, lazy, and hungry;
they have nu incentive to exertion, knowing they mold be
supported, and the fainter often had almost as sanii pay
them to stay away as to attend. Every ranger can nearly
calculate how many of these men he will have to maintain,
and fur how long a time in each year. Was he to atter.-
priate a suitable por of hi; arable land for them to be
employed on, he would regard their arrival with satisfaction
instead of dingoes, knowing he would derive an ample anal
quick remunerating profit from their labour, and they ou
their part would appear with alacrity, knots Mg that aceard-
ing to their industry their wages would increase; suit if
any thing could in:•ke the lazy work, this wuuld. The infirm
might be allotted by themselves, and allowed for according to
their ability to earn. The poor rat*a would be lowered, be-
cause more hands would he employed, mod better wages
earned, conseeptently higher means of supporting fanlike,.
There would be little difficulty no agreeing on the terms un
which the digging should he done, for it would be the interest
of both farmer and lahuneer that it should be done by the piece,
and most labourers prefer that musk of Motkillo. IBM not
speaking hypothetically, but to tarts, for I have done Ibis
myself, and am the better for it, and the labourers also. A
corresponded of the kiirracr's Journal nut long ago repro-
bated spade culture, from au idea that it made men do the
work of horses; but the gentleman might, by parity of era.
suoitig, hare lecommemied that horses ought to be taught
in plash hedge% and cut .trains, and other such degrading
hub. I will nut now occupy entire of yuur attention, but if
any benefit should arise fuou what I bare suggested, I
should last truly happy.
am, Sir, your obi dieut *event,

A DIGGER.