The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

their present respectable establishment, and a considerable num-
ber of your subjects will be definitively released from the con-
scription. Your Majesty a ill also have at your disposal, the
2.5,0 W) men afforded by the class of 1811, upon whom 1 shall not
propose to your Majesty to snake any call, unless events should
disappoint your hopes and pacific intentions.
" Your Majesty's armies are equally formidable from their
numbers as from their courage. But who could advise France
not to proportion efforts to those of her enemies ? In giving
such advice, the result of the most imprudent security, it would
be necessary to forget that Austria, very lately, had on foot
700,000 men; and that to create this gigantic force, that Power
did not hesitate to expose her population to almost total destruc-
tion, and to attack the very basis of her prosperity. We must
equally forget, that England has taken part in the Continental
war, by landing at the same moment, three different armies, on
the coasts of Naples, Holland, and Portugal.
" The agitation of those who are jealous of France has been
redoubled, 'because they are conscious that the present crisis has
for ever fixed her greatness. Their efforts will he impotent, be-
cause France has been enabled to reach the highest pinnacle of
success and of glory, without making any of those ruinous sa-
crifices which destroy her enemies. In fact, notwithstanding
the successive calls, up to the present moment, made upon the
different classes-of conscripts, Eex rce y have one-fourth of those
who composed them taken the field.
" in considering the situation of your Majesty's armies, and
the results of the English Expedition, can we, without a de-
gree of satisfaction, behold England, in imitation of Austria,
making efforts disproportionate to her means, and the wants of
her navy ? What can she expect from this contest upon land,
and man to man, with France, that shall not redound to her
•wn injury and disgrace?
" Sire, the French people will have to thank your Majesty
for the iuexinessible advantage and glory of a peace, conquered
without maritime expeditions, from an enemy, who, by. his
situation, thought himself free from all attack. Every serious
attempt upon the Continent, on the van of the English, is a
step towards a general peace.
" Tne English Ministers who preceded the Members of the
present Covernment, a more able set of. men than the latter,
were well convinced of this truth, and took good care not to
commit themselves in an unequal contest. It did not escape their
observation, that to carry on a long war, it was necessary that
it should press lightly upon the people who had to support it.
" Within the last •twelve months the war has cost England
more blood than she had previously shed from the period when
she broke the peace of Amiens. Committed in the battles of
Spain and Portugal. whence her duty and her interest forbid
her to recede, she will see those countries become the tomb of
her bravest warriors. Sorrow for their loss will at length pre-
duce in the minds of the English people a well founded abhor-
rence of those cruel men, whose ambition and frantic hatred
dared to pronounce the expression of derma war. It will ex-,
cite in that people the wish for a general peace, which every
man of good sense may predict to be near at hand, if the Eng-
lisa persist in a continental contest.
" I am with respect, itc.
" The Minister at War. Count Da Hu NN IiBrAG/1."

Ora tsar Rau, OCT. 19,—We yesterday received the happy
Wings of ttir treaty of Peace having been signed, and the fol-
lowing letter wit% puhli,hed :
LGrIER FOOn HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR TO THE GE-

NEti&t. OF DIVIsIoN DII3IIVREAUX.

" General Desbureaux—Bring it to the knowledge of the
Empress, by means of the teleeraph, that Peace wa4 signed en
the 14th inst. at nine &clerk, by M. de Champigny and Priori
Lichtenstein; ma.ke the snow known to your tlivision, and to
the inhabitants of my good city at Strasburg. I pray to Got;
that he may take you into his holy keeping.
• (Sioe4l) " NAPOLEON."
44 This it; a true copy, ,L
(Signed)

" DESBUKEAUX."

Two young girls at Katishon, the one 14, the other 15
years of age, having quarrelled about the affections of a
lover, provided themselves with a brace of pistols, b• -
longing to the brottier,of OtIQ of them, and in. the ra-e
of their jealously fired at each other, with ;nuzzles almost
touching ; of thew on ttw spOt, -avid. the
other dangerously wouuded.

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ILONTIILY AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER.

The new sown Wheats have had a kindly season. and ;diluted
earlier than usual; the Clover leys, hi particular, have worked
remarkably well for the seed.—The Potatoe crops in the ground
have gererally suffered from the continued wetness of the soil.—
The Turnip countries have a larger produce of seed than was
expected, and from the mildness of the weather it is still in-
creasing.—Mark-lane has had a considerable supply of new
Wheats, from the high prices they command hut most of the
samples hitherto seen in the market being cold, and requiring a
portion of the last year's grain to he crushed w ith them, have
considerable enhanced the price of the latter.—(tape. Mustard,
and must other small seed,, are lower in price, and dull 4e f sale.
—Barley and Oats rise well from the flail, and both turn -ail a
good average crop.—Beans, both horse and tick, come freely
to market, hut the growth of the jpreseut ) ear being soft, the
dry ones of the last are much in request.-11ops, though little
more than half a crop, are dull of sale, from the large quantity-
of old pocliets and bags on hand. T! e !la v -market has varirtl
but little from last month': prices.—ti.uithri-ld has been amp y
• opvlied ith all kinds of meat, :It re. nred prices. partici, Party-
M u tton.---The latter fairs in the Home (7 ,tiotries have had
''tows of beasts, which have gone off freely at a further ad.
valve.— Stock sheep at d Lambs are in considerable taa:A.
and worth more money :—liorses of inferior sorts are cltoa -r,
not those of shape and action continue scarce and dear.—The
%Vont market is brisk for all sorts, particularly for the tiller
tierces of the Merino and South-down kind.

A custom' prevails through this kingdom at certain periods,
of the parishioners going in procession to ascertain the bounda-
ries of their respective parishes, nt which time tie said pro-
cession is generally composed of young people, and many of
the respectable inhabitants, who are mostly convivially inclin.
ed ; and it has been a received opinion (eta alittit A v.
tioaal one) that they possess a right to stop all persons except.
in his Majesty, a Mail Coach, or a Funeral, at which•time the •
said party exercise a pleasant and
spittle mode by way of re.- •
inetabrance, called !lumping, and not till of late was its ()right
9r authority disputed; but to shew how far this custom is by
law established, is the intention of this address. The inha-
bitants of a parish in Bedfordshire, in their procession, after
exercising their Trescriptise right on a number of persists, met
on their way with an auctioneer of Luton. 'roof accosted him,
toldhim their intention, and explained their custom. The auc-
tioneer violently resisted, and forewarned t hem of the conse-
quences of stopping a man nu the King's high ss ay. However,
the humourous and goort-natured folks, ;main. s .:id determined
to support a charter so gratifying to John fin 1, seized him nod
performed on him the ceremony of humping. The aurti.meer
brought an actidn for an assault agaiust the parties, and at the
last spring Assizes at Bedford, obtained a verdict o:'51. damages
and costs.
ruc rut* BlT!—fit an tun In Shrewshurs.„ one evening
(luring the late races, a gentleman from CheAtite was looming
of the superior acuteness of the inhabit:tots of his naive coon-
irv, which be thought, no doubt, was exemplified in lonself
for he remarked that he had been successfol in every bet on e .
rack ;;round that day.• In the course of convivial 1.11 the
trice of potatoes because the subject of discuss;no, :toll tin k
Irian offered tostipply the Nalopian with a million of ;infatttes,
of a given size, and to deliver them at Weia n harf, for
of It. 10s. 'Pie bargain was struck, and the •agret. ito•at is n
out, which, we understand, is now gone to London IA he
stamped. It has, however, hen e ince calculated, sopn,in ts-
about 150 potatoes go to a peck, mat one million oill tin b 6.
huihels; and that the value of such a quasi:Hy. at the soar;, et ; •
price, will amount to 2421. 4s. The p:,:atoe-liserchotit is ..f
roof e I kely to be well roasted when he goes to Sulop here-
after. •
On the night of the Zed instant; Tholiiits Braaagian, a 54.•
flier,. at Bexhil. Barracks, sassel, swag awoke by no- (inst.*.
',notion in his bed; to discover the cauze is( which hr twilled on
!ail right side, and cau4,-ht vs ith his lef mind -s very rat !
setting himself upright. he felt another oa ttis, lett site si.lc,
iiid caught that wills his ri,ot hot not until the hitter
11110241 had bitten him through the thumb? In this sitontioes •
With a large rat ,;truggling in each band,' he railed to his rem- •
rodeo, and with theit.ossistanamotri,ted to destroy them.

NOV. 5. •
THE NATIONAL
uninimmemanammimummorma.aommumaaamoaaximee. ismor-mm
their present respectable establishment, and a considerable num.
her of your subjects will be definitively released from the con-
scription. Your Majesty a ill also have at your disposal, the
23,000 men afforded by the class of 1811, upon whom 1 shall not
propose to your Majesty to snake any call, unless events should
disappoint your hopes and pacific intentions.
" Your Majesty's armies are equally formidable from their
numbers as from their courage. But who could advise France 1.
not to proportion efforts to those of her etsemies ? In giving
such advice, the result of the most imprudent security, it would e
be necessary to forget that Austria, very lately, had on fool c
'lOO,OOO men; and that to create this gigantic force, that Pow et
did not hesitate to expose her population to almost total destruc- s
tion, and to attack the very basis of her prosperity. We must „
equally forget, that England has taken part in the Continental ','
war, by landing at the same moment, three different armies, on `II
the coasts of Naples, Holland, and Portugal.
" The agitation of those who are jealous of France has been ;-
redoubled, 'because they are conscious that the present crisis has
for ever fixed her greatness. Their efforts will he impotent, he- ,
cause France has been enabled to reach the highest pinnacle of IT
success and of glory, without making any of those ruinous sa- „
erifices which destroy her enemies. In fact, notwithstanding Ia
the successive calls, up to the present moment, made upon the
.1
different classes-of conscripts, Frarcely have one-fourth of those
who composed them taken the field.
" in considering the situation of your Majesty's armies, and
the results of the English Expedition, can we, a ithouta de- iv
gree of satisfaction, behold England, in imitation of Austria, 1)
making efforts disproportionate to her means, and the wants of tt
her navy ? What can she expect from this contest upon land, a
and man to man, with France, that shall not redound to her
•wn injury and disgrace?
" Sire, the French people will have to thank your Majesty
for the inex pi essible advantage and glory of a peace, conquered ,11
without maritime expeditions, from an enemy, w ho, ri
situation, thought himself free from all attack. Every serious ce
attempt upon the Continent, on the part of the English, is a tt
step towards a general peace. et
" Tne English Ministers who preceded the Members of the ti
present Covernment, a more able set of. men than the latter,
were well convinced of this troth, and took good care not to sa
commit themselves in an unequal contest. It did not escape their an
observation, that to carry on a long war, it was necessary that 91
it should press lightly upon the people who had to support it. la
" Within the last •twelve months the war has cost England hi
more blood than she had previously shed from the period when e:
she broke the peace of Amiens. Committed in the battles of of
Spain and Portugal. whence her duty and her interest forbid tat
her to recede, she will see those countries become the tomb of
her bravest warriors. Sorrow for their loss will at length pre- qi
duce in the minds of the English people a well founded abhor- it
renee of those cruel men, whose ambition and frantic hatred to
dared to pronounce the expression of eternat war. It will ex- pi
cite in that people the wish for a general peace, "C hich every h,
man of good sense may predict to be near at hand, if the Eng- h
lisa persist in a continental contest. at
" I am with respect, &c.
" The Minister at War. Count Da HUNNEBrAGH."
tit
of
Sra tsar Rau, OCT. 19,—We yesterday received the happy
tidings of the treaty of Peace having been signed, and the fol-
lowing letter was puhlished : ra
LerTER FOOn HIS MAJESTY THE Esternon TO THE GE- 1.1
NEII4I. OF DIVIsIoN DE3BiIREAUX. fr
" General Desbureaux—Bring it to the knowledge of the .d
Empress, by means of the telee,raph, that Peace was signed en of
the 14th inst. at nine &deck, by M. de Champagny and Privet 01
Lichtenstein ; make the same known to your division, and to st
the inhabitants of my good city at Strasburg. I pray to God at
•
that he may take you into his holy keeping. ht
• (Sipte4l) " NAPOLEON." Pt
44 This is a true copy, et
(signed) " DESBUHEAUX."
Two young girls at Katishon, the one 14, the other 15 fly
years of age, having quarrelled about the afflictions of a sin
lover, provided themselves with it brace of pistols, b•
lowriliu- to the hrother,of °lig of them, and in. the raTe
ri•
of their jealously fired at each other, with Inuzzles almost el
touching ; of thew was.killed on taw spot, -awl. the m
other dangerously wouuded. rt
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