The National Register.
London, England, 1812-04-05 00:00:00

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to be presented to Parliament, praying for pecuniary assistance along
with a renewal of their Charter, was at present in his possession, and
whickhe desired permission to read for their approval.
The Petition was accordingly read, and consulted to by a show of
hands; after which the Chairman returned thanks to.the comp:my for
the arprobation which they had shown towards the measures proposed
to be adopted, End adjourned the Court. a
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PROVINCIALS.

MON lIILY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The Wetness and changableness of the weather have occasioned a
catching and difficult seed season, which will probably be two or three
weeks later, in most parts this spring, than usual. The late drought '
was too quickly followed by wet and otherwise unfavourable weather.
Nothing yet sown but beaus, peas, and a few black or early oats, of
Which little is said, front their not being forward in growth. Wheat,
in general, looks well, excepting where it is too forward in the grass,
and upon cold wet soils, where much of the plant has perished, from
the too great moisture of the winter season. Accounts from various
quarters, of a disapprobation of spring wheat; in some few, of a
breadth of wheat unusually large. Broad-cast wheat extremely foul
and weedy, where the land has been at all neglected. The spring cattle
crops continue to improve.
Turnips, upon the whole, have 11.-Id out well. and bay has been in
great plenty; straw short in quantity. It las been an unthri-,ty sea-
son for all out-door stock, and the rot in sheep havit prevailed, more
or less, throughout ; the lambing, in coin se, has not li•eti attended
with the usual success. tore cattle rather ,carce and clearer, prefer-
ence generally given to the Scotch. Fat stock' dearer. Stor:.• pis de-
clining in price, from the advancing price in cont. Cows bz.yond
all
former price. From the vast prices demanded fur good cart horses, the
custom of substituting bullocks is gaining gio:ind iii many parts. The
wool trade continues as More, execepting some 4thlitiordl briskness in
the demand for fir.. flee,es.

A gardener at Glasgow practices a mode of destroying caterpillars,
which he discovered by accident. A piece of woollen- rag had been
blown by the wind into a currant bush; at,d when taken out was found
covered by the leaf-devouring insects. He immediately placed pieces
of woollen cloth in every bush in his garden, and found next day that
the cattet pillars had unistersally taken to them for shelter. In this way
he destroyed many thousands every mining.
Monday week last, at midnight, about :oily men, numbers of them
armed .with pistols and other weapons, entered the shearing mill a
William Thomson and Brothers, at Rawden,' about seven miles from
Leeds. Six or seven of the men, principally armed, seized the watch-
man, and held him on the Boor. The commander ordered those who
were not enzagt:d in this service, to " go to work," and they proceeded
to destroy the shear' of which they bn-Ae from thirty...to torty pairs,
and materially injured the machinery. 'l-11-v then assembled on an ad-
joining
eminence, and after answeting to tlior nun:bets, dispersed in-
stantly.
The proceeding was perfo; II:A in about twenty
.minutes ; in
the course of which the depredators ,IrittryeLl thirty-six windows, and
injured three pieces of line woollen cloth. ::.od on Wednesday niOn the
finishing shop.; of Mo.srs. Dickens, Carr, and ,liattn, were entered,
and eighteen pieces of fine cloth, dre,sed by machinery, torn and cut
into shreds.
Lately, Corporal Lennie, of the Ilifeshire militia, was found. on the
road between Stonehaven and Bervie, nearly covered with slow, and
with life almost expended. He had been left in Aberdeen, in charge
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of the barracks, to deliver them over to the 21st regiment, and set
out, with some of his comrades,' in the afternoon, for Stonehaven,
which he reached about eight at night. He soon after left that place
dote, and as he had only got to the distance of three miles from it,
he must have remained among the snow fur upwards cif nine hours,
daring a very intense frost. ' Under an unremitting application of ' the
means for restoring suspended animation, hg was with difficulty reco-
vered. When OM discovered be was taken to Uras. He bad no re-
collection of any thipg after having lift Aberdeen, when, he said, he
was extremely fktiOcd: It is probable, that the covering of snow
protected him eonilft•
rably from the effecti of the frost, otherwise he
must have fatten a victim to the cold.

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Trial, Wear, or Damage.
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Trusses; *About any Strap whatever, superior in ease and effect to
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a trial to 41 those who pro, r perfect ease and security to the galling
application of the coinmot Tru,s.—Sold by appolntment, by Maw and
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