The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

W,ITRRFORD AGRICULTURAL IMPORT

ESTE/MIRO THROUGH THR enta•Tivit ON WATERFORD,
it , ituctisiNT, AND W , •
DECESIBP.R. •
.
In this coaelorling mouth of the year, fLfratin
branches of agrienlture seemed • little sis ele ii,,,,..
firer, in other respects, it was • busy mo ' verbipftss,
abundance of Corn thrashed, moil disposte f dltethrtri.
also mark Butler sold, and • large quatiTifbe sac d'iltsiftki
Black Cattle slaughtered for home and fureigotonamispit„,,.,
rarm•rs, NO, were much employed in sowing soini ie.
Wheat, and early Oats, ikbabog Mark Carle, 'ill siaig„„.
Horses, in ploughing la, nil stubble grounds, ill I
litre, in gathering mono and in ill.chher prepay r
Nm eissuint crop. lode(', it has been Misr, t ell a ' ' ,
see Yore busily empl.yed than is 11•111,41 at this vo.
Wheat, Rye, OAill, and Rape sown early in this ses.„.
shliongh their progress OMNI a little retarded, owing ?silk
differnit late frosts, appear healthy and thriving. At.r.
Brass has suffered also, note ithranding frost sod 'musk,
runvidered to be a great introvement to ground, anl s
Cheek to the too speedy growth of the different kite, si
plants and blades. II is ri.i.reived that frost and ours,
la rhei king vegetation slave zrowinf, arise the Waal ass
lake mot olownwaribi, and thu. enables it in proiturelin
better; fur if the plaid was out tho• retarded, the net
might nut be Ode to support the blade to maturity, sorra
the blade should perish, if too powerful for the 11.10 i. Coa.
sequenilv, s winter with a rrasiniable share of frost s,
110111 W, should be considered a oralOo must useful to the ge.
neral improvement of agrictaltare.

We shall jail ohs', vr that these comities remair is s im y
Irssequil Mile, will the except 1111 l of km petty rwbb►rws.
An is November report wr the law and mammy
price of grain and of be r produce, we have lunch sln• mem in
saw of theme/Pr ; but we err Mb nem-salty of ruirrirs ml,
11w same particulars. Alifmneh weekly rhasuze.t ore situ.,
gram, flour, and usimiral, urn'', mainsails the same rmt
uuw as at the rommrocrestmt of slut samuth.
Detemeher 31, 1819.

The work entitled Borionn, in relating the tut
battle between Big Bess and Johnson for the cintd,
piouship, says—
'• Johnson, au/sutler' by Joe Ward fur bison:cow',
and his bottle-holder Mewit:l4, mutinied the sus:•
at one o'clock, with firm and rl.cciii compn•nr. ;
and, almost at the same mate .1, Br's followed,
a cheerful countenance, accompanied by Bill Wnll
and lisscaphries, as his second and
The set-to was more furious than must tsposi tis..r
°codos's; and Johnson, from a de.-rate Min"
the face, fell ti pun his glove, which r pleiely
Pied him. The rtfects appeared evident in rile wc. I
round, w Iwn Bell put in another lire/ter, Join-
-5051 plucked up, and in Ilse next set•tu tarot It
upon his back. Well as these ki•e's • e
science, they new appeared to lay is milk, mill fir•,.
city was the order onhe day. The blows were
ful In the extreme, and given awl taken recipe..
rally. At length J0hn..0., iis messing Isis miss nn;
Bess, 'muck he stage with his hand, and lirs4.?
his middle finge►. Toni sons afietware6 beran
despe►ate, and, with the agosiizing idea that i.n.
proud fame was ram expiring, ciatsplorly loss btu:-
sell; anti caught hold of the hair of Ben's bead ;
several times shifted ; and had rtrourse to ah••e
maiatuvres, so unlike his former confine, that
approbation was pulolscly expressed by the spec*
tors. Bess, after willing away for twenty minim's,
decided the battle, by putting ill a must trritieindos s
hit upon Julansoll'a ribs, and by another canting inn
Isis nearly in half. Thus Kau the valiant and tr.
°awned Toni Johnson deprived_ of the clistaissicti.
ship, which he so nobly maintained fur several yennss
unsullied."