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lae of at!ot ding adelinate protection to the trade of the memorialists,
and although a considerable force Is been, and is now cm cloyed
Ott
the stations to which the memorialists particularly advert, their
Liedships tint only do not cotton. in the pr :position that a number
of cinizers eao Haim' complete protection against the occasional at-
tempts of privateers, hot they are sati,tied, on the contrary, from
lit experience ot all former periods of war, and particularly in the
instance of the coasting trade in the English Channel, that nothing
bill a sy•teiii of CM) VII Will iiffOrd the desired
heir 1.4,111%11.r have cemmamled me tiuther to state, that though
th4.y hive 1,0 Lows r by law to compel the adoption of convoys for
the tra,lc bet yen oNc port Hod another of the United Kingdom, they
sire !levet theless desirous of making such arrangement. for that
purpose, as, upon e•olimmlieation with the mei( limits of Bristol, or •
of any other port, may he deeined• proper anfi hey( ssary.
Loithhips tali. thi, opportunity of stating to you, for the
iuti/rnr.itins. of the memo, ialist -; that from the accoonts whit li their
Lord-hips have received of the (lest.' iption of vessels which have
l'ormed the largest propoi lion of the 1-4 relit vaptiires in the Irish and
1.1ri•tol Cl.annels, it appeal,,, that if their iii s It rs I,a,t availed them-
selves of tree convoys appointed for their proteeto.ii trim loteigui
ports, or had not, in other instance,, deserted from the convoys
coder whose protection they had sailed, before the fused eolielosion
of the voyage, Molly (if the capture. weakd not have beets made.
It i. their I.or!iships' dttei initiation, as far as they Way be enabled,
to bring to punishment the parties who may have been guilt"; of
such iilegal acts, and which are attended with COlJSC-
qhrtices to the trade of the country.
To the observation made in the Alemorial as to the course of conn
minication which the merchants of Bristol have adopted, my Lords
command me to it ply, that they are .dways happy to pay to the te-
pee:irritations of so respectable a body as the inei chants of Bristol,
t'Vcry attention in their power.
With regard to the observation in your letter, relatine to the fit-
ting out of privateris in the French poets, 1 am to state that this
loa:ref 11:IS 'Weil pride the subject of a conuntinication,
through the 84410;11-y of State tip- Foieigti /Affairs, to the French
(;over !um iii. '.%ilWl,has bren'answeted by that (joy& rinuent Ohl bil•
tist4erary ptinciples. I am, Sir,
Your iitthst Itu.obit Sei yant,

J. Fowler, Esq. M or Bristol.

PROt INCLILS.

J. W. CROKER.

As a contrast to the gaudy and disgraceful scenes which have re-
ccntic exhibited 01 the metropolis, in commemoration or the
glorious return peace,' we have to notice a scen of a very dif-
ferent description, which a correspondent was au eye•witness to, a
few weeks since, at Ramsbury, iu Wiltsline.—A few spiritcd
niers, actuated by motive* of true. loyalty alai benevolence, entered
into a subscript on to re ale the neighbouring peasants on the ine•
morable occasion, awl seemly tV% thousand pt rsons of all ages sat
dowb 10 an excellent dinner in the open town, with plenty of strong
ale. The tables reached a 101 l quarter of a nide in length : the
buret front one side to the other was festooned with linnets and va-
ions devices in honour of the immortal Wellington and the return
4f peace, and loyalty, with the utmost good Inamour, gratitude, and
teicpelaoce, pervaded the whole a,sembly. After au excellent
(finny', herse racing, to prevent intemperance, was had recourse to,
Sir F. linrelett's Park, and the day concluded with many a heart
in tog male IIAT)- by the judicious genet osity of a few
Snell conduct is indeed worthy of intilation, and we are glad to find
it has been adopt( d ht many other instauees.
A respectable farmer in the North of Cot 'mall wrote last week
to his friends to Swausea, steiting that he Ic.t,i fiuished his harvest
on the preceding Monday ; that during his forty years practice he
had never reaped site+ piehtitul crops as those of the present seasen ;
and that all the larineis in tl,at pot of the comitry have experi-
enced the sanue alitni4iance.—Si4mlse accounts have been received
from the 'milli of Devon. .14

Mr. Artlint young, in the Coil.-Ar• of itig examination before the
Corn Committee of the tionse of toraons, gave the following as
hip ectitalate of the rotiqiniptien I t the t.Tnited Kingdom ;
Ltland and Wale', 32 291,697 (i:triers; S«)!!and. 5,401,Mi
quartets; and Ireland, :3,31:),030 eplartei-s; making a grand total
fur the Umtett hingdoin, of 41,067,980tplarters. •-
Last v‘eek; Ann Sheppard, servant to Farmer Waterman, of Mil—
. y, SoiliPV4o, was cominittcd to Wilton gaol, fur adding water t 3 the
mill; sits was carrying into Taunton Itu sale,