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with all of them into the house atail work Goy Noes
there;--but if her landkird would twatineelter ie the
farm, (as she called it,) Are would wartlike to bring
up the whole fourteen without any help from the parkk
She was a strong woman, about 45 years old, and d •
noble spirit ; happily too she had to deal with a beams.
lent man. He told her she should continue the Imago
and hold the land for the first year rent,froe ; and a the
same time, unknown to her, he directed his receiver est
Wall upon her afterwards, thinking that even with tit
iedsalgetwe it wank he b great thing if she (sing =ger
tain so lne a family. But this further liberality war
not needed. She brongtl'her rent regularly eves, yaw
after the first ; held the land till she had placed twat"
of the fourteen children in iservice, end this) rengsea -
to take the employment of a nurse, which would enable
her to provide for the remaining two, for the little ohne
longer that they needed support. and which was mote
suited to her declining years. Had the seven claim
been sent to the House of Industry, they waall hails
cost the pa;ish scarcely less than seventy pounds a jeer*
and the widow and the other children also, had she
deprived of the land, would in all likelihood have soon
required parochial support.
" Twenty years ago there stood a small cottage by
the road side; near Tadcasier, which 6or its singukar
beauty, and the neatness of its little garden, attmetail
the notice of every traVeller. The remarkable proemial,
which appeared in every part of this tenement, made
Sir Thomas .Bernard'eurious to learn the history of die
owner, and he obtafiled it from his own mouth. Britten
Abbot (such was the owner's name) was a day-labourite:
beginning to work with a farmer at nine years old,
and being careful and industrious, be had ainrd.twarlyt,
401.. by the time he was tab-and-tweet Witk tin*
matey he nauried.ant took *it farm at PM. *, kips:
the -firm was too much for*ltli rieas4 • akd before Oa
tied-or-the seteed year he trued it issewittry to give it
up, having exhausted ahaost all his little .property....
He then removed to a cottage, where with two wave
of land and his right of common, he kept two cows, and
lived in comfort for nine years • at the expiration of
that time the common MU inclosed, and he had to reek
a new habitation with six children, and his wife ready
to lie-in again. In this state he applied to Mr. Fairfax,
and told him that if he would let him have a little bit
of ground by the road side he would chew him the
fashions on The slip of land for which he arked was
exactly a rood ' • Mr. Fairfax, after inquiring into hie
character, suffered him to have it; the neighbours lent
him some little assistance in the carriage of his materi.
ale : he built his house, inclosed the ground with a sin.
Fie row of quickset, which he cut down six times, when
it was young, and planted the garden, The meaner is
which be set to work, and the way in which thework was
performed, pleased Me Fairfax so much, t 110 told him
he should berent free. Hie answer, as Sir Ber-
nard justly says, deserves to be remembered. Now, in,
you have a plemere in seeing my cottage and garden
neat : and why should nut other squires have the same
pleasure in seeing the katages and gardens as nice about •
them?—The poor woua then he happy, and would love
them, and the place whoa .chey lived ; but now every
nook of land is to be let to the great, fitrmers, and
thing left for the pour but to go to the pariah.'
" ' Though my visit,' says Sir Thomas, was unex-
pected, and he et the latter end of his. Saturday', work,
his deaths were neat and sufficiently daub • litiarceriar-
tenance was healthy and open ; he was a little butte l
one leg, the consequence of exposure to wet and wea-
ther. He said he had always worked hard and well ;
but kin would not deny but that he had loved a mug of
rod ale when he could get it. When I told him my object
in inquiring alter him, and that it was in order that
other poor persons might have cottages and gardens am
neat as his, and that he must tell me all his secret, how it
was to be done, lie scented extremely pleased. and
very much affected : He said, " nothing would make
per folks more happy than finding that great Alhe
thought of them that he wished every poor man had a.
comtor4ble a 'home as his own,—not but that he be.
lieved there might be a few thoughtless fellows who •
would not do g.esl in it."
" Britton Abbot was at this time sixty,seven, and
had lived happily with his wife for five and flurty years.
He e:•.-ned from twelve to eighteen shillings a week by
teak NV( rk, • but to be sure, he said, I have a tread
character in all this country.' rhe of his children were
living, and having been well brought up, were thriving
in the world. Upon his rood of ground he had fifteen .
apple trees, one green gage, three %sane sour plum weal.

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two apricot trees, currants, gooseberries, and three bee-
hives; he reared also from this garden abundance of
sonunon vegetables, and about forty bushels of potatoes
annually. When this man was turned adrift upon the
world by the inelosure of the common, if he had been
without hope, or if the rood of land for which hc asked
had been denied, he and his six children, and his prc,,-
sant wife, might have gone to the workhouse, and Ce-
come a burthen to the public, instead of setting it an
etarnple, and reaching n most important lesson to their
superiors. We will transcribe Sir Thomas Bernard's
words, and print them, as he has done, in a manner
which may tend to excite the attention they deserve.—
' FIVE UNSIGHTLY, UNPROFITABLI ACRES, OF WASTE
AROUND WOULD AFFORD HABITATION AND COMFORT
TWSNTY SUCH FAMILIES AS BRITTON ABBOT'S:—
The quarter of an acre which was granted him was not
worth a shilling a year before it came into his hands.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PROCLAMATION OF THI'. NEW KING OF WURTEM-

BERG ON HIS ACCESSION.
STUTTGARD, NOV. Y.
6' William, by the Gram of God. King of Wurtemberg:
" DRARI.V BELOVED—It has pleased Divine Providence
tb call from this life his Majesty, the most august King, Fre-
) deriek, our beloved Father, this morning, at about two

" Now as, in conformity with the right of prinsogenitnre
established in our Royal House, the succession to the Govern-
ment has devolved upon as, and we have actually entered
upon it, we hereby give you notice of the same, and depend
en all our Royal Officers, Ecclesiastical and Civil Servants
,and Subjects, for the fulfilment and performance of their due

serviee, fidelity, and obedience.
" The welfare and happiness of the subjects confided to 'es,
*lll be the solo object of our efforts; and it will be our that
siieleatrister to enanre the attainraent of these great objects by
a Caustitation suited to the spirit of the times, and to the
saints of the people, and enchaining their prosperity.
" At the same time that we take upon ourselves this sacred
Obligation, we assure you and all our subjects of our royal
/lima anti regard. " WILLIAM.
" Given at Stuttgard, the 30th of October, 11116."

The bulletin of yesterday gives the most favourable acemmt
of the health of her hlvesty the Queen, and of the new born
Priucess.

aelatimir•

MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY WITH
TILE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF BAVARIA.
'MUNICH, Ocr. 4g.—This evenir, at half-past six
'Mock, the marriage of her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Charlotte with his Imperial Majesty Francis I.
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia,
ate. Ose. was solemnized in the Chapel of the Royal
Palate, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic
Church.
The procession to the church was extremely splendid.
The King and Queen, and all the members of the Royal
Family, with their numerous suites, attended the ce-
stony. After it was over, re Deum was chaunted. A
salute of 300 cannon, the ringing of all the bells and
three vollies tired by the garribon and landwehr of this
capital, drawn up in the squares, of Maximilian, an-
nounced the happy event Which binds in the most in-
timate union the sovereigns of the People of Austria
•Buratitu•

Th.! Bishop afterwards gave to all present the Bene-
diction ; and the procession returned from the church
to the Saloon of Hercules, where her Majesty the Em-
press Queen, their Royal Majesties, the Princes and
Princesses, were pleased to receive the congratulations
of the Court. In the evening, the whole city was
splendidly illuminated, and their Majesties, with the
Princesses, &c. and a numerous suite in a long train of
state carriages drove through the principal streets, and
were every where welcomed by the most enthusiastic
aetimnations of the people.
Fhc finest sight wis afOn-ded by the Grand Colons.,le
St Ott- Mair-Neseph-square, in the middle of which was
the Temple of Hymen, and over it the symbol ofHap-
pincss and Peace—the rainbow beaming in its seven.co-
k was. ^Aormati with staters and inabt4ptitma ;
ami the whole illumination of this square htul a magical
'Etta
Here their Majesties last stopped, welcomed by vocal
and instrumental music, and their magnificent train re-
turnettto the Bond Palace.
;;I:—Those who had the good fintune to see
the proeessiien Of their Majesties, &e. through the sa-
loons and apartmenta °film Palace to the Chmip.d, want
swords tksl Ni,s.:{l(l,nt!, the richness, and the ete-
. • gene 01;4E0 #onses,
,eirkelally.those of" the Queen, of
the young Bride, of the Electreas Dowager, of Prisiess
A .gwita, Consort,nf L'ritle. Engine, and •of therr
lari icesses, Id- well. as the of the Whole' ern-
Tile Austrian Ambassador and hi Cavaliers appeared
in the *heat an' in, s. Jegant d: sees, and the ct-n,!uct
d the whole sr.icoinil was suitable to the occasion.
I:Anediately slier the ceremony his Majesty's Aiju-
tan' General, Lira. Gen. Count Wurtemberi.,,, set o t
ler Vienna, to carry the wedding-ling to his Majesty
An Eat a. , . •

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

11121'FISII kMERICAN PAPERS.

HALL AX, (N. a.) OCT. 14.—A most dreadful confla-
gration broke out in the town of flalifitx on the night of
the 9th instant, by which several buildings were in a
short time totally destroyed. The loss is calculated at
40,0001. which has ruined Several worthy individuals,
but little of the property having been insured. Fortu-
nately there was scarcely a breath of wind at the time,
or the greater part of the town would have been de-
stmyed. The military composing the garrison, and the
' crews of the ships of war, were most actively employed
on this distressing occasion, and have been highly and
justly applauded for their exertions.
Arrived lately the brig Almwell, from Thurso, in
Scotland, with one hundred and thirty-nine passengers,
consisting chiefly of farmers and merchants. The emi-
grations to all parts of America appear to be carrying
on to an immense and ruinous extent ; notwithstanding
that in the United States hundreds are actually starv-
ing, and have no employment, and British vessels car-
rying away numbers of their deluded countrymen back
to Great Britain; and at this moment there has actually
been a British frigate in one of the American ports en-
tering men to complete her crew. Numbers of letters
have of late kin received in America from deserters of
the army and navy, imploring permission to be allowed
to return upon any terms ; and the English seamen who
have entered into the United States' navy complain most
bitterly of their treatment and the extreme severity of
their discipliqe ; and say, that although their wage-s,
are seemingly greater, they are badly fed, and have to
purchase every article at an exorbitant rate. Seamen
consequently enter for the American ships of war with
great reluctance, and only when distress compels them.
About the first week in September, three hundred and
sixty-eight settlers or emigrants arrived at Quebec from
Great Britain, and .six other vessels were then reported
going up the river St. Lnwrence, with passengers!
It is in contemplation to send a steam-vessel from the
United States to Russia, where it is said the Emperor
has promised an exclusive privilege for the term of
twenty years.