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London, England, 1820-11-16 00:00:00

DREJDFIIL CONFL4CSITION
IN NOVA SCOTIA.
EXTINCT 714011 A LITT= RION 1114 JOIN
WITIOSS, TO NIS lON IN colts.
•• ST. JOIN'S. N. I. SIP?. NO.
10 On returning trout Yarmouth, we ran under
'Mir bare poles in Boraces River, hoping the tide
wag up—we in a few moments were in the breakers
end without striking. anchored rafe—fosind the
whole shore in flames eistward, lauded near Par-
ter's. and followed the shore all round Black Point.
the wind blowiser a hurr►cane the lasses out run
us, no immense fire behind Frank Davoen's which
threatened destruction to every thing—we rewired
the land behind this lire, got home safe, took tea,
thinking -ou►3elves safe. went to mow the French
Rho were moving ; young Frank's house in flames.
and others not to be seen for the smoke—we stayed
perhaps twenty minutes—returned, met one of the
children crying. • Clark's house is on fire'—we ran
our best, met women and children flying before the
tempest—the ►null, barn. and home, with twenty
acres of laud, io x blaze ; tree► falling in all direc-
tions ; we got to the boos. throeuls forty rods of
riltinot solid tire; threw trunks, &c. into a well; I
took a bed, t►ed a woollen blanket round it, and
escaped with my He, the fire flying oil me like a
heavy shower of hail; I fell under the bed, got
breath, and ran, fell again nearly melted with heat
end suffocated with smoke; I rose once more and
fell again ; l quit my load; saw my boys a-head
barefoot, could net enter the fire; they met me and
we got the bed safe through ; Mr. Clark came up►
with a honk in his hand, nothing more wived, all
burned in the well; fences and fields of potatoes
swept clean.

My firld% though not mach burned, are all
laid open to the mercy of cattle and hogs; at sun-
set found my boon- and uncle Nathaniel's crowded
with women and childrcse, who left their all and 11.41
before the fiery tempest from the neighbourhood
of B River. Wrdnoday morning, seven
o'clock, a fine rain that deadened the fire; heard
the itettlement at Beaver River was all iss ashes ;
Mr. SIIIIIIit 111, (lark, and myself. went to their
assistance ; found hut six houses *lauding for six
miles in length. Thomas Trask bas lost his house,
new grist and saw-mill, two horns Cull of grain, hay,
&e. a yoke of oxen, one horse, two or three cows,
several hogs, all iheir furniture. and a little boy
four years old, burnt in the house. having crept into
a cradle: and was left itnperceived. together with a
trusty dog which lay by its side. Daniel has lost
all ; a cow, two t.r three hogs, furniture, clothing,
Ecc.: the word at sunset ants to escape for their lives.
Untie) took up his child. and bid his wife follow
him amid my brother Ration ; others cried, which
way shall we fly ? answer, to the Lake. Some
reached it, others were cut off and drove up the
road for a mile or more, before an opening was
found to the sea-shore. Husbands and wives were
parted by the fire and smoke, and did unt inert
again instil the next day. Daniel took his wife
(very sick) on his hack to the edge of the lake, and
waded out some rod. to a hog, which sunk with
them, but he found old stuff soil raised it, so that
his wife sat in the water until morning. Rama
lust them, lie wailed up to ks neck and there stood
twelve hours, the fire awn sired gin his face,
when he was obliged to sink ',leder, then rise and
take breath. I found him on Wednesday, and took
hint home with one; he had eat nothing for twenty
hours.

" It was a melancholy scene to see the fences
swept away. firltlo of grout, potatoes, and turnips,
all burned up—great numbers of rattle, sheep. and
hogs, lying dead by or near the road side. Some
persons we're slotininif rattle, which were not too
much burned, and others looking up their stock.
I save two large hogs Iving together olive, burned
so as not to walk--aoil we are not alone. I have
just heard front Yarmouth. Chehoaue, that much
damage is dont , many I sea, barns, mills, &c.
burned ; and also through the French settlement
shove Montagun, a great many houses, barns,
mills, Sic. are destroyed; the French Chapel, with
the l'riPst's house, are consisined, one Negro
burned ; o much hay lust, it is supposed ha the
stock cannot he wintered.

" People from Ya th hearing our distress,
mine up with pa and !note carts, chairs and horses,
to remove the •nfferers, a d I believe there were not
two cast loads of furniture saved out of sixteen
houses, from John Clark's Corning's, seven
miles : has nothing leftbut • shirt and
trousers which he had on, his wife and child nothing
hot what was oil their becks. and set out for Yar-
mouth on her stocking feet the last I beard of her—
but where they will go or what he will do thi.
winter I know not—he has nothing. to eat or wear.
ss Saturday Mi.—News Isms Just arrived, that
as far as Annapolis, 100 miles above this, is mostly
in ashes. many lives lost, grain and hay mostly
destroyed. How we are to live through the winter
1 know I has not yet come here, per-
lisps, lie has follnw.il his wife to Yarmouth, or 1w
may be truing to save some of his potatoes, &c. I
shall finish this and go its search of bin?. We are
all employed (that is Inc and my two boys) in trying
to **eve what little crop I have left. My buckwheat
is nearly lost."

The Portngoere Government is taking prompt
4:moonlit.* to prevent the depredation* on their coin-
meow by privateers louder the South American flag,
who had been suffered. under the old regime, to
range nearly with impunity. and to cruise even in
the mouth of the Tigris.
A letter faun lishini of the itStit alt. stales, that a
vowel, bearing the colours of A RTIG•S. hitting berm
wen off Cape Rocca. order. were immediately sent
to the Adeniralry to dispatch the Pools frigate in
pursuit of her, which *hip railed on the 24i h. The
order and alacrity of it. exreuliost are convidered a
good omen to the commerce of Portugal. •
On the morning of Wednesday 'Fht, was
launched from the dock-yard of Mr. AS
WALTON, Lime-t.trert, Hull, a liandmiue lime new
hint, called the Mary, the property of Tnow as
Ittcnaansue, Esq. or that town, and intended for
the Lisbon trade. The hand of the gallant 521
regiment was stationed in the yard during 11w time
of launching, and played " Rale Britasittia"
" Hearts of Usk," and several of the most lamas
rite national airs. The yewsl went off in the most
admirable manner, to the great satisfaction of nu-
illitrOni spectators.

A PM PLAIN ',Kr&
[E ?TACT 111011 a pAlersa.s/ RECIINTLY
PUIPLISISSI WITS /sae MLA.]

(9e .L*4froil our. Asper of riOrday

As rvesessily might the stockholder hove asked.
during the war, to have his 9 per rents. turned lute
9 per cents. es the lionl.owners to ask now to hoer
their present rents cootiourd. by prohibiting the
importation of human sustenance from other coon.
tries.

The aisslogy the land-owners endeavour to est*.
blish between the absolute necessaries of life, with-
out which men cannot exist twenty-four hours, and
things of convenience or imagiva►y use, can only
arise front r most selfish and depraved heart, or an
equally weak head.
3. Land-owners should be induced to purchase
the present ►and-tax, by being permitted to do it
at per, and by the assurance it will be doubled at
the end of a fixed term of years, if not previously
redeemed.
By the above operations, which work of them-
selves almost, and with .leering people's relative
situation, or detracting from their power of obtain-
ing the good things of this world, so large a portion
of the public debt would be extinguished, that a
much smaller quantity of gold and silver would
he necessary for common use, and some ratismal
hopes formed that our mischievous and accursed
paper currency might be in part or wholly anni-
hilated.
Let the wealthy (for want of a better word) con..
sitter, that until their lands, and the produce of
laud, and those things on which mulch labour has
been bestowed, are estimated by gold and silver
(which by the I.oll‘ellt of mankind have a real
value), all their wealth and poasessions have only
an imagisiony value, and even that fluctuating at
the pleasure of a set of—twlist shall I call them ?)
selfi.ls roisiers.

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No set of people has suffered by the rise and
fluctuation of prices equal to the labouring cla.ses.
It has been said, that prices to no degree affect
the labourer. The position' is not true. What has
occasioned the present nesery, but the in:W.-gooey
of the price of lehmor to the price of every article
of life ? In time, the just proportion may be Ma.
bliehed in countries where prices are settled Ky gold
and silver ; but such misery nosy previously arise,
OP to occasion a helium set rile.
Has, let me ask of the 14101-owners, the pay of
the agricultural labourer been raised equally to the
rise in rents ? I-14s it risen equal to the rise iu the
pay of the army ? Prior to the war, the posy of a
dragoon was eight-pence a day ; it is now fifteen
pence, and a penny more for beer-mno,cy.and which
pay is still further increased by length of service.—
The extra price of bread per pound, above three.
halfpence, and meat above six-pence a pound. is
now repaid the dragoon ; and his Chelsea pensiou
has been greatly increased, awl is assigiled according
to circumstances. Let the laud-owner recollect
that the dragoon has his clothing. lodging. firing,
and medical attendance free of expense, and is
generally unmerpied ; whilst these things, greatly
increased in price, most he bought by the la.
bunter, who is moreover generally married and h. a
family.
If public indignation could he properly directed,
it should be against the laud-owners, for egregious
selfishness. hypocrisy, and insolence or folly.
Situation makes us, and the inclination follows
the power: the power is fortunately wanting to
other classes. of acting as the laud-owners Filive
meted.
In regard to the revenue of the Church, notwith-
standing the snppaeed danger of lay hands touch-
ing this Ark of the Lord, the cry 'het the Clergy
could now raise would he as feeble as the bleating
of sheep. were Government to will it.
But the Church has nothing to fear from without.
It is from within the danger springs. Revolutions
in Governments slid in relig grtirrally arise from
misrule and neglect. The wit of man could not
suggests more of scheme to pre good
order, than by the establishment of a resident Priest
in.. each parish ; but how shamefully and Meth-
tient!). is residence practise', and enforced!
If the Bishops hare not sufficient power, more
should be given to them ; if' they do not chose to
exert their power, they should be forced to it, or be
dismissed. •
I know little of the Canons; but I know their
legal force depends on an Act of Henry VIII. con-
firming them till such time as Parliament could
take them into consideration; and it would be well
that Parliament should give them this consideration,
and limit perhaps their force to the clergy,
The Chord, should out be the asylum of those
who wish to 'preserve or acquire a currency as gentle-
men, and the good things of this world. without
exertion. The neglect of the clergy to their seve-
ral duties, pluralities, non-residence, and the tie.
eessary worldly-mindedness of dreg% men, now celi-
bacy is no longer enjoined, are the real enemies
which Christianity (or rather the Established
Church) has to fear.
As the labourer is worthy or his hire, and us we
are enjoined out to muzzle the ox that treads out
the corn—!et the property now belonging to the
Church undergo a strict examination, and let all its
efficieut members he properly paid; let strict real-
deuce, froin the Archbishops downwards, be eitlorc-
cud. unless age and infirmities force them to retire
from the active 'holes of their stations. To sluut-
ber in the stalls of a cathedral, is the proper froward
for pest strvives.
I believe the income of the Church will, on exa-
mination, be found most ample, without the late
annual 100.0001. to the poor clergy.
To the donation of a million to build chorcher,
I will only say, Alas! poor human nature! let a
sense of religion be revived. and churches will be
built, and kept in repair : let us look to the vece-
ders front the established

Mr. Boum', t's hum. Bluth& is matched sguinst
Mr. PAYNE'S Little Aar 416. ruck) et the next
first Newmarket Swing Meeting. for 200 gs. h. ft.
The Duke of GRAreon's brother to Brains
is witched against Mi. neutralities Belvoirinis
(80. 41b. each), lit the Craven MeetitoK. 1822. for
3000.--400 g s. ft. At the mime time, Mr. THORN-
HILL'S feriae: is anstelsetl 'ageing the Doke of
(limos''s brother to Bross (est. 71b. each) for
gOogis. b. a.


REPORT 9P THR CORIMMOoffIRS
POl5 HENNING FISHEign
We have received Mr. filigreed and Mr. Ilerriseses lette►e
sof Ilse BA and 7th treesnallting fee oar L. 00047,1106
and ebeervatinus a espy of the Act 61/13ew. 111. e. lei, s‘ Pee►
the farther encusersgeissest mid hiltprevement .4 the Irises
Fisheries," together with mentstrials frees the carers es the
coast of Csithores, and the freeholders and ethers in the
county of flutherlanil, selling teeth the 'misery they will is...
tails from the said Act, and praying relief; end hawing tie ober-
elienee to your Lordships communed*, taken the fillll4. into
roosideration, tingethet with • Resort es she ashlers thereof.
which we ilionght it areessory to call fur from the Geoeral
Inspeetors in this service, we stow present the following ob.
nervations, which we shall COPIfiDe psis cipally to such with,
provisions in the Irish Art as interfere must materially with
those of the Acts node► which we are esostiteted.
By the Act 59 Geo. 111. r. 10A, shave quoted, • hammy
of boa. per tom is given for vessel* of net leas than lb or
above 60 sons harden, which alma be Acted wet from Ireland
fur tlw herring fishery, of which sum 20s. per tow is to lie
paid without ref to the cargo, and the remainder to
be given me the cargo brought home, at the rate of Is. per
barrel for heeringa, gutted with a knife, aed es per barrel
for het rime., pilchards and mackerel sot so gelled (or, in
other wont., for ongetted fish), but se si ot. the whole
bounty. hush for Oda and cargo, shall Not exceed per
ton. The vessel. are required to have on bused staters
bushels of salt for every twelve barrels of fish they are capable
of containing; they must remain three months at the fishing,
unless they shall have obtained a full cargo b►fore that time ;
and liberty is given to the adventurers to fish, or to pur-
chase fresh fish MI any part of the cello of Great Britain,
Ireland, or the I.le of Man; hat there is no provision i• the
Art requiring the vessels to be furnished with boats, nets,
fishing materials, or any given member of crew; and the
presumption therefore is, that the adventurers will pro-
ceed to the coast of Scotism!, where the fishing is must
abundant, and make up their cargoes, so they have been
accustomed to do for some year■ back, by purchasing fresh
herrings from the Scotch fishermen, and afterwards curiag
them. From this description, it is creek:sit that the fish-
ing contemplated in the Irish Act is the same with the
British loch and come fishery, for which nu other homily
is riven than 4s. per barrel for herrings gutted with a knife,
or 3s nil. per barrel if they shall have been gutted with the
linger and thumb; and although there is no restriction in
this eon eery solo the quantity of salt that vessels engaged in
the coast fishery shall have on board, or as to the time they
shall continue on the fishing ground, yet this in reality
makes no difference, as it would be useless for a vessel
to proceed to the fishery without having salt on board,
and as the vessels of this country remain longer out
than three months, because their bowaty depends entirely
on the quantity of lierrieis cored, and became if they get
no fish they get no honesty at all. In tether respects she
voyages is' both countries air precisely the same ; but
the remuneration given to the adveaterms is widely diffe-
rent. Fur example: if a vessel of sixty tons burden be
fitted nut from Ireland, and bring home a cargo of 'line
bemired barrels of gritted herrings, being nt the ►ate of
five barrels per ton, the adventurer would receive sixty
pounds of tonnage bounty, •and ninety pounds of bared
bounty, being one hundred and fifty pounds in all, or
10s. per barrel ; while, for a vessel of the same size, ailed
out from this country, at ass equal expense (or at a much
greater if she is to fish for her cargo, %bile the Irish is only
to purchase), proceeding to the SAW fishing ground, and
briocing home the same quantity of gutted herrings, the
adventurer would only receive a bounty of 4.. per barrel,
or 601. leaving a difference of 901. it f f the
Irish adventure►, or 150/. per real. Of premolar, more
than what is allowed to the British. Bit although this
is the effect in • good SWOON when both vessels are
@apposed to have obtained full cargoes, the di/restore be-
comes still greater in favour of the Irish, when the goon-
thy obtained by both does nut ■mount to a full cargo.
For example: if the quantity obtained be at the rate of four
barrels per lost, or 240 barrels in all, the Irish adventurer
would receive 1321. of bounty, or Ils. per barrel; if it be at
the rate of 3 barrels per toe, or 180 barrels in all, be would re-
reigns 114/. or 12s. BJ. per barrel ; if at the rate of two bar.
rels per Inn, or 120 barrels in all, be would 'receive 9411. or
16s. per barrel; and if at the rate of one barrel per WU, or
60 barrels in all, he would receive 781. or 20s. per barrel;
while in all these eases the bounty given to the British carer
would be nothing more than es. per barrel. And if it should
happen that both voyages were totally unsuccessful, the
Irish adventurer would receive 001 of tonuare bounty,
which would go far to rover the die ouse:enema au.l expense
of the voyage, while the British •dventurer would get no-
thing at all, bat be left to struggle with his misfortunes as
he best may, or be compelled to abandon a boxiest.** in whir b
he rusild no longer compete with any rational hope of success.

The statement •hove given is made on she supposition
that the vessels of both countries bring home their herrings
glittrel with a knife; bat your Lordships will phrase to nt.
eeeee that if the Irish adventurer thinks proper to bristle
then, home nnentied, he is entitled to the same bounty of
20s. per lon for his vessel, and 4s. per barrel to the extent of
live barrels per ton on the fish (including Not only herrings,
but also pilchards and mackerel), thus makinsg the bounty
he would be entitled to, on a full cargo, at the rate of Os. per
barrel, and increasing in the proportion before mentioned,
acrorilinx as the quantity of fish brought home is diminish.
et! ; while the British curer receives no bounty whatever, by
the Arts under our management, for either ungutted her.
rings, pilehards, or mackerel.
From this account of the difference of the bounties given
in each country for the encouragement of the coast fishery,
it is evident to us, that on ingenuity of the British curer
can enable him to compete with the Irish, who will be
enabled to outbid him in the price given fur (reek fish, and
at the same time undersell him in the market fur cared her-
rings; and it is our decided opinion that if the beauties i■
the two countries are allowed to continue as they now stand,
the destrisetion of the British curers must be the inevitable
consequence. We are aware, that it has been attempted
to defend the Irish bounty of Ns. per ton, wpm the ground
that a bounty of 3/. per ton is giveu Britian fur the carom-
ragetnent of the deep sea fishery ; but we can assure your
Lordships that there is no foundation whatever fur drawing
a comparison between these two modes of &kin, which, in
their nature, and the legal provisions for carrying thesis on,
are ■ltugethwr dissimilar ; and we trust your Lordships will
be satisfied of this when we mention that the avermie MOM.
ber of vessels fitted out for the deep gm fishery fillter our
establishment dues not amount to seven in the year, while
the average number fitted out for the coast fisbety (or that
mode of fishing which is contemplated be the Irish Act) in-
cluding their repeated voyages, and without reekoning
their busts, cannot be taken at less than one tk d.
It has also hero said, that a superiority is given to the Bri•
tish curers, in the bounty granted for herrings cured un
shore, stitch in this country amounts to 4s. per barrel;
while fur herrings so eared in Ireland, the bounty allowed is
only U. pie barrel. But it is proper to observe, that the
Irish bounty is given for herrings, pilchards, and mackerel,
whether gutted or ungutteil, while the BriU►h bounty is re-
stricted to gutted herrings, and that the expense of gutting
(whirls it is not likely that shore curers in Ireland will at-
tempt) with the price .of the additional number of herring.,
thereby required to fill up the barrel, will more than eunntitt-
balance the apparent difference in the bounty.

lu addition to this statement of the difference of She homi-
lies given in the two COUUISIfiI. in so far as herrings are Con.
cerned,we beg leave further to observe to your Lordships, that
the difference becomes still greater in favour of the Irish, by
of certain resirortioua in their All, which the
British curers are subjected ; for, by the British Am., the
quantity of herrings r.•gsired to be in a Wog-packed barrel
is 435165. ; while by the Irish Art, sloe Tumid, required it
only 2241111; being u difl'eresce in favour of Ireland of 111110.
or tarsi lir five per crag. on the value of the Ash. Mod while
loy the Fishery Arts of this country ►erring imeaded fur
boom, are required to be gutted and wicked within 21 hours
after they are taught, thus rendering it imperative es oho
curer to have those operations performed within the pm.
scribed time, at whatever 'optima it may emit; by the Iriob
Act there is no hmitatiosi of the time of isittiog or poetise,
so that the adventurer need put kilned( to gm ratio rapines
ea that aceemit, being well aware shat this bawdy does not
derma 041 nay such necessary exert i4l/10. It may also further
be remarked, that by Irish Act the aria of 5,004.