The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-02 00:00:00

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istOtittiL'r niroiT '
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The Wheats never bloomed better for a general
crop than they are found to du throughout theprin,
cipal Corn distria the :dry.
,Warin has
greatly improved them, even on inferior soils. )Fth---
ward Ryes have beep ctit upon hot finds SUrrey
and Kent.. Oats are gone off, fit some, pails, for
want of rain ; but the general, app.-a:ince is PrOtni.sl
ing: The Fen Counties never had a finer prilspea
of a'n abundant crop; the newly taken,in Lev et. Of
Wildmore haS had some thousand acres sowed With
Oats., which are expected to yield a jarge prodace.---;•-
In SuSSelt this'crop, it is•thought, will be a Flhnft
one, from the plants having generally bottled on !he
setting in of the hot weather. Barleys fook well 4
particularly the winter ones, 10f .IA, hid) a great bre,idt
this year has been Sown. Flie Hay harvest has prey,
ed the most abundant in product, and been the best
got up, in all parts, that has been known for' Many
years vast. Rape and Mustard are cutting gonera!ly
in the Eastern' District, but du not prohlise to aver=age mere than two-thirds of a croP. The forward
Turnips have missed plant liom the fly 'in many
parts" f Norfolk and Sutfoik ; :but rhe Sccond.sd‘v-.
ings are likely to do I')otatoes have .fully
stocked the ground for a general lar-:_se H-oduce. •The
Hop Plantations of Kent, _Suss( x, he Shires, are
full of fine spew, at piesenr,
.I,r a fultcrop. The
Meat Markets expittericed an cy.tre.ordinary rise
early in the month ; prime beef htg,h
7s. pet- stone :—a c:iniiderable reddelion t;)ok pl 3 'e
in Smithfield 'on the W/o last market days.. Lt'ari
stock of most kinds hove eiperienced an advance,
particularly of the milch kind. Hone; Of most
kinds are cheaper. The Wool- markets are dull; at
last month's prices. . ,

The Emperor of Russia is "aboUt to, tindvrtakg a
journey to Finland, in order to survey his n:-.l4vly-
acquired -Province, and rejoice his new esubjc6ts. by
Ins presence.

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Two evenings ago a man was attacked in Cut-
throat-lane; near-Lanibeth Palace, ,and ;robbed of a
few shillings, by. two: thievish-looking rascals. In
the..stiuggle be 'received some sevt'.:.e blows ! the
villains made their cseape. • It i 'astonishing, that,
notwithstanding the • favourabless of this lane for
the commission of atrocities of this dc.scei[itivn, there.
is no watchmen placed. within the loudest call.
At the Thames Police Oilice, yesterday, two Merit
were charged., before JOHN HArt a o'r-r, •Estl. With
piratically, deserting the
in the Downs, outWardi-bound,'snine time ago-.
appeared- tbat-they fastened the Captain, o.•rcerS,
and part of the crew, under the hatches, in order,
that none should oppose theit: escape, (hen launder.
the boat,- and made to shore, leaving the veSsel.,.inA
the most perilous- situatinn, for want of liapds to,
work her.. The retnainc!er of the crew .extricaied:
thernielves with much L'itfie-Ulty from their conhne-,;
:neat.—Tbe Prisoners •Nvere committed for further'
examination. •

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A baker- in St. Mari-le-bone. was fined in the mi-7
tigated penalty of half:a-crown an ounce fur a defit.i-
ency of seventy-fuur ouncei, quartern at)d 26.
haft-cluartern loaves, which (7.poseci to sale in.
his shop: The defence was,.that the bread had ii:en -
overWited.

' PUBLIC-OFFICE, SHADWELL.—White, the car
'penter, who gave a man, named Smith, au unfor-
tunate blow a few .days since, in a pitched battle,
at Poplar, • of which he died, surrendered, himself
yesterday. The• Coroner's Inquest having returned
a verdid .71tanslaughter, White was admitted to
bail., . .

Yesterday an information was beard at the Police-
bffice, Marlborough-street, against Mr. Walker, pro...
prietor of a Brentford stage-coach, for suffering more-
than the 'limited number of passengers.to be carried, .
in his' coach. 00,e John Richards was' the informer,
and a man,who descr:bed himself as Samuel Strachan,
resident in Wells-street, Goodman's-fields, swore to
the fal informed against. Mr. -Walker was ad-
judged to pay a fine of 40s. •
HiTTON-GARDEN.-Thursday a .cape of consider-
able importance to the manufaauring- interest was
heard at this Office : Thimas4rundalo was charged
by his master, Mr. A. Galloway; an tngineer and
Contractor to the Ordnance Department of Govern-
ment, with having left his Work': previous -to
completion of his contrgt. His master stated that
he had `engaged to make 700, gads, a sort of instrti- •
Ment4that is used in mining ; that there ‘lere three,
different sizes, which were'all.)6 be manufa6ured
at the same price. .The Prisoner worked up the
proportion of the two smaller sizes; and then re.
fused to perform the other part of 'his 'work. The
Prisoner, in his defence, stated that he bad. engaged
to work up- two 300's, which work be.bad per-
formed. This was contradiELd by the'overseer Pf,.
the Works, and the Prisoner was committed to pri-
son for six. weeks.

Thomas Preston and difrin Hamilton, on suspiCion
of forgery, ',vere ordered to be recommitted.

Thursday se'nnight, the ivife of a corporal in the
Guards, at Chatham; went out to her.daily occu-
pation, and left her child in the care of another
woman, who lived in tlie ;same house; having before
placed the same confidence iri the woman, she was
not apprehensive that any harm could result from
it;. but in this she was woefully (Medved, for, on
returning about ten o'clock at night, she,discovered
that the wretch she had left at home had robbed
her of all the property that ,was portable, and had
also taken her child. In a state of mind little short_
of distraction, she made inimediate search after the
savage who had robbed, he'r, but without effe6l;
and, we Ore' sorry to say, that no traces have y( t
been found by which this worst. of thieves is likely
to be dete6ted.

Thirty Thousand Pounds sold in Shares last Lot-
tery, et J. \VA RNER'S truly Fortunate Office, No. 16,
Cornhill, where Tickets and Shares are on sale for
the Six Great Prizes of 20,0001. Lottery draws again
on Tuesday next.

SHIP .IVEIPS.

CRAVISEND, JUN6'3O.

Passed by—the Nottingham, Campbell, from China ;
Charivon West, from the South Seas;` Myrtle, Nightin.
gale, and,lkleva, Sedgworth, from goltenburgh.
Sailed - the Thoirnes, Greiye, for Parhaducs ; Yams, Saggs,
Hoer, the ;lie Friendship, Haddon., for Gotten.-
burgh:

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The contest between the AlinAterial 4nd Opposi-
tion Parties in England has nee er been carried to so
, rr.
a length as in The debates relatite to the Or,
ders of Council. To that measure they attribute the
o which ha,: been laid in the United States.—

Each party entertains a different opinion of the sub-
Jed, and their contention; have been attended with
n asperity hitherto. unequalled. They certainly,
however, cannot entertain the idea that our Govern-
which. has been administered with the greatest
caution, would have adopted a measure fraught with
consequences of so serious a nature,. upon the mere
*intelligence of an individual meichatel who believed
that he was possessed of official information relative
to the Orders of Council. they; however, perceiv-
ed, that by attributing a measure, -which atids so
deeply the majority of their nation, to decrees which
can be so easily revoked, that the nation. will in some
degree be. satisfied with their proceedings, and a
temporary calm be produded, which illusion
must ere now have been dissipated. But at this
period, unfortunately, the repeal of those Orders
ould not be satisladory. to our -Government, and,
in fad, would, be _of no advantage fo us, unless
France also would ad in a similar manner, and would
co:;fine herself within the bounds of moderation and
juslice.• The situation of those two Powers is of so
.- delicate a .nature, and their arrangement of this im-
portant objed would be attended with so many in-
trinsic ditfi. Wiles, that although the interdidion of
our.dired trade is an ad of the highest injustice, yet
we cannot hope that a speedy termination will be
put to the grievances imposed by those Billigerents.—
(L'Orade cod New York Daily Advertiser) •
The foiloWing is an Extract from the Answer*
made *by Mr. JgiFEIiSON, the American President,
to an Address, approving of. the late.einbargo :
" Bat the ocean, which, -like the air, is the
c::minon birth-right of mankind, is arbitrarily wrest-
ed from us, and maxims, consecrated, by time, by
usage, and an'unusual sense of 'right, are trampled
on by superior force." Again—" There can be no
cnestion_ in a mind truly American, whether it is
best to send Citizens and property into certain cap-
tivity; and then wage war for their recovery, or to
keep them at home, and to turn seriously to that
. policy which plants the manuladurer and husband-
man side by side, and establishes at the doorof every
one that exchange of mutual labours and comforts
which we have. hitherto sought in distant regions,
and under perpetual risk of broil with. them."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED FROM AN INTEL••
LIGENT GENTLEMAN IN AMERICA; DATED MAY 6.

My fears are every day realizing in all I have
hitherto written you; the
.embargo is a scourge be-;.
yond example in thr history of a commercial country.
The Yate Supplementary A.Cts of the same title, press
56 deeply and
_so severely on• the people,. that they
mot soot produce lnipertant consequences, both
public and individual, as there does not appear any
disposition'in the Government to relax their opera-;
tion, and the people.in the States bordering on..the
.British Provinces have openly refused to obey its
precepts; in others they haVe refused to adMit the
operation of the law in civil aCtions, and .the Sheriffs
bate repeavdty had horses killed under them,
and themselves badly wounded.
" The Revenue Officers in the Slate of Vermont
have explicitly stated to Government the impossi-
bility of carrying the Embargo Aet into fhll force,
and it is in contemplation to arm the Militia to en-
force it, which will be equally inefficacious. The
towns are . becoming every day more and more
gloomy, the .streets aiipear to-have so little .businesS
passing, that I could fancy myself walking through
them an hour before sun-rise; but it is impossible
things can remain lOng 2.0 without a change in the
GOVertiment, or the people. •
" I can only. advise you not to make any:ship-
ments here on credit, till things or measures here
art changed-; however disposed„there is not means
eicisting to make remittance except in British Go-
verttient Bills, and those liable to- forgery; what
-may be called good private bills are at Id percent.
premium, and rising..
. " As to war against Great Britain, it is out of the,
irestion. We are no way prepared; even for de-
fensive, much less for offensive measures of war, nor
have 'we means that could be resorted to for that
purpose, without an absolute change in the Govern-
ment. 'Yours will do every thing you wish by doing
nothing against us. Time, and the feelings of the
country, will speak more emphatically to the reason
of men, than awaking them by atis of irritation,
which I beiieve the British Government are not at
present disposed to adopt. At present the federate'
and republican parties are so nearly balanced, that
little is to be apprehended from violence of collisions.
The Utopian ideas of our Ruler-of bringing the coun-
trY to a renunciation of commerce and substitution
•of agriculture, may end with him as it did with the
projector of that fancied form of perfe& Govern-
ment.

I have received' private inforMation' from Ca,.
nada, that very large supplies of flour and provision'
ere shipping at "Montreal and Quebec, to.be sent to
the West lnd;es, as soon as the St. Laurence is na-
vigable."'

Since the harvest began, a.crowd of idle fellows
have been in the praalice daily, bit particularly. .on
Sundays, of annoying all people passing through the
fields above Nary-le-bone, by' throwing hay on
them, and, under this appearance of play, to rob
them. Last Sunday this was carried to a most scan-
dalous excess. Females we:.e the chief objeas of
their wanton attack ; and when their, friends at-
teinpted to rescue them, they were themselves at-
taCked and robbed. The Police Officers attended,
yesterday a man of the of Pritchard was
examined at the Marlbotough-street Office, charged
by Mr. Poland, a respectable tradesman, with a vio-
lent assault, when he interfered to save a. female
from the fury 'of the mob. The prisoner was corn,
nutted, and warrants issued against others of the of 4
fenders.

On themight of yesterday se'nnight two shots were
fi ed at die centinal stationed at the Gunpowder-
;.d.igdzine at Glasgow, by some villain, for whoSe
a vehension the Lord Provost has offered a reward
) tit) guineas.

D tik'Eth CLU 01,-. noxp WIG IL

Yilittt never, has been.a Peerage, the claims to

which invoh4ed in greater doubts and clitliculiies

than that of .the arious Pretenders to the Dukedom
r and estates of R;o-xburgh. At the decease of John,
Duke of Roxbur-I.:h, a very few years ago, the male
line ceased. e. was_ great grandson of that unfor-
tunate Earl of Roxburgh who perished under the
I reign of char! es U. when James,' Duke of York,
afterwards Kitt' James 11. was shipwrecked in one
of the Royal .1 :achts,-op the Lemou and 03r-Sand,
not far from Kl .2rwick. The Duke was'accused, pfo7
'bably without, reason, of leaving the Earl of Rox,
lrargh, and mid iy other persons of rank, to the mercy
of the waves,• \Tilde he saved his priests and his dogs
in the boat. ''.lt is certain that the Earl went down
in the Yacht.. •

Lord Belle.i.lden,a Scotch Peer,distantly related to

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John, Dike of Roxburgh, on his death assumed
the itle ; apt id his assumption or claim was tacitly
acknowledge •d, not having been called in question.
Yet it is cen :ain that John, Dukesof Roxburgh; in-
clined to bet ieve, that with himself the right to 'the
Ducal dignity either expired, or devolved, according
to the term 3 of the original patent of creation by
Queen Ati lie, 1707,, to his twu sisters in succession,
the Ladies Essex and Mary Ker. They are still
living ; and it was the "opinion of the late Earl of
Rosslyn, hat Lady Essex Ker, the eldest of them,
had the best pretensions to the Peerage, on her
brother's 'decease. But, whether-to the Dukedom,
'or to the Earldom of Roxburgh, may .form another
legal question. She, neither, however, assumed
either of those titles, nor contested LOrd Belleaden's.
Dukedoyn. But it is possible that the House of
Lords may determine her Ladyship to be.the'rignt-
fill claimant. There are two- others, General Ker,
and Si!: James lnnes Ker, who assert a right, to it.—
Amote complicated case has not, during many
years, 'come before the House of Peers.