The Sun.
London, England, 1801-02-26 00:00:00

INFERIOR CONVICTS.

Mary flodges, as a; Receiver; was sentenced to
Fourteen 4earsTraysportation.
James'Hanson, Nathaniel harper., Edw. Har-
ris, JoShutt- Bray, James Dahier, Wrd.' Smith,
Joshua Jones, 'Jos. Robins, Elizabeth. Garrett,
J. Whitehead, Sarah Whitehead, James Wright,
Mich. Cassidy, Benj. Cottgrell, Elizabeth Gray,
Pat.' Ctawler, Wtn. Maynard, Rachael Mat-
thews, Sant. Bailey, John Strattock, James Maas,
torn, Jos. Little, Jas. Brown, and Jos.'Dean Feat
were severally •adjudged to Seven }Tars Travis
portatior.
• Three Prisoners were sentenced to Qne pia's
Im)ri4anmfut, seven \to Six months, and the re-,
Convils to lesser punishments, alter
which the Sessions were adjourned to Wednesday
the ,isth of April.

the Kitty, of Sunderland, coal loaded ; the
Sophia, ---, of Burnham, in ballast; and ano-
ther ivaLdrove on shore in a
violent gale, ncai• Yarmouth, .the Toth instant.

The Fair Sex cannot call in a more powerful,
auxiliary to enluence, their petsonar attraCtions;
than \rickety's I'mperial licaclhDress. This ar.
tide gives an it- of majesety to the female coun-
ts:fiance, to tvl,lcl, cicry.) real, admirer of a fine
woman is obliged, by an irresistible impulse, to
pay .a subjea'l.omagc.

Vegerday morning, about ten o'clock, 11 fire
broke,mit. at the house 'of ap Orange-n erconnt;
ne,,r Fievt-markiiK, ‘vhich destroyed pa of the
tn, ide of the premises, together with some of the
owrry, but was 60011 extiniuiblicd by the time.
assistance of tile firemen and engines.
••

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUX.

ON THE SCARCITY OF CORN.

8111,

IN the different Papers published, I find that
the quartern loaf is allowed to be sufficient for
each individual per week, ant that this loaf is
made from albs. offlour. I find also the Bs. 6d.
seamed cloth, or patent cloth, N0..2, i 3 rccom-
mended to be used, which takes away from the
meal only the broad bran, weighing about 6lbs.
and that the bread made from such meal is the
most wholesome. I find also that the last crop of
Wheat was only five million quarters, thotigh the
• taterage crop is stated to be 6400,000. quarters.
I find also, to my great surprize, that the an.
Pual consumption of- grain in Great Britain for
man's use, is nine million quarters ; that is, seven
million quarters of Wheat, and two million quar-
ters of other grain, which I shall call Barley and
Oats. It is from these heads I shall draw my
conclusions; if they are erroneous„ the fault is
not in me, but in the Reports of the Committee.
Asa Master of a family before he goes to mar.
ket reckons the number of persons he has to feed,
so it is my business, in the first instance,• to find
how many I have to feed, or, in other words, to
-find out the population of this Country. GOTH-
A ili his Geography, published in 1795, says
,Great--Britain contains 79,712 square miles, with
z:9 inhabitants to each ; this snakes the popula-
tion to be not quite nine millions and an half.
CARDANUS RYDER. allows to Great Britain the
same number of square miles, with 120
tants to.each ; and this makes the population to
be upwards of nine millions and an half. He also
says England and Wales contain 8, too,ooo, and
' Scotland 1,500,000 inhabitants, making the to.
•tal 9,600,000. As this is the largest number, I
shall form my calculation upon it ; but as the in-
habitants of Scotland live chiefly upon Oats, and
the inhabitants of Wales upon Barley, it will be
.necessary for me to deduff from the total num-
ber., the inhabitants of these two Countries. The
population of Scotland, RYDER says, is 1,500,000,
'allowing 59 persons to each square mile ; and
-England and Wales 8, roo,ooo, allowing 150
.persons to each square mile ; at this rate, Wales
containing 7011 square miles, with 150 inha-
bitants to each, gives 1,05 t,6so, to which add
'Scotland, .1,500,000, makes the total number of
inhabitants in these two Countries 2,551,650,
and consequently leaves to England seven mil-
lions.

- As I am aware it may be said there are a con-
siderable number of the inhabitants .of Scotland
and 'Wales who consume no other grain than
Wheat,, I shall al(oW for it, and say that out, of
the total number, that . is, .9,600,000, there are
8,000,000 that 'live entirely upon Wheat, and
1,690,000 who live solely upon Oats and Barley ;
and this number I.hope will be thought a mode.
rate proportion.
To obtain the necessary quantity of flour, I
must first find out the weight of the difkrent
grains, viz. Wheat,.Batley, and Oats, and I shall
take care to be under, • in. the Wheat particularly,
as that is the essential article,. the harvest of the
others having been allowed to be equal to.an ave-
rage crop ; the Wheat I shall put down at g6lbs.
per bushel, or 4481b5. per quarter ; the Barley
at ;albs. the bushel, or 4461b5. the quarter ; and
the Pats at 3olbs."the bushel, or 2 4olb. the quar-
tet- and I shall allow the same weight of
.bran
to be dedutted from each, that is, 61bs. per
bushel, or 41bl. per.quarter. It .is not easy,
rior is it necessary, to specify what quantity of
Barley and Oats, separately taken, are consumed,;
I shall therefore proceed with stating, that .one
quarter of Wheat, according to the . foregoing
calculation, will weigh 4.481b5. out of which de-
duft for the broad bran, and there remains
.foolbs. of the most wholesome meal. Barley and
Oats I shall put together, and average them a t
18ollas. per quarter, when the bran is &dated.
Having now ascertained, I. hope sufficiently
exadly,• both the population and • the weight of
the different'grains made use of for man's use, I
have to repeat that the quartern loaf (or albs. of
flour, from which it is made), being allowed to
he sufficient for each
,person per week, it. conse-
quently requires 52 times 31hs. of flour for each
person, or t 561bs.' per annum ; but as I wish to
be liberal in my calculation, I shall call this
‘s6lbs. per ann. I Bolbs. thus then the requisite
,quantity for 8 million of people, at ilkolbs.--per
ann. will be 5,6060,000. quarters.. Scotland and
Wales, 1,600,000 persons, upon the same allow-
ance, will require .1,028,571 quarters of Oats and
Barley: The seed-corn (Wheat only), is about
1300,000 quarters, diStilleiles 360,000 quarters,
starch 40,000'quarters, paste, &c. perhaps zo,ooo
qnarters'; all these make t,220,000 quarters;
and forni 'a •
total 'of '4.4820,000 quarters per ann.—
This is less than the last harvest, is reported to
have been 'by 189,600 quarters'. If then the
average Crop .of Wheat has been 6,700,000 guar-
• tees, it can Only be. taid.fo, the account of luxury,
extravakanee,' and waste, that we have for.years
past been obliged to import, when we ought,, and
might with a little frugality, have regularly ex-
ported atleast a small quantity.
Now, if we, may depend. upon the Reports of
the Committee, if we are determined to be saris_
' fled with a sufficiency of the mast wholesome
bread, and if my calculations are true, it will
'appear that instead of 7,000,000 quarters of
Wheat, arid z,a00,000 quarters of. Oats and
Icy, 5,090,000 quarters of Wheat, and 1,000,000
and a cinartcr of Oats and Barley are only neeti...
nary for 'our subsistence.
Permit me to go a little further, and t& suppose
the Population to .be Ith000,000;• suppose also
Wheat only to be, made use of, and allow four
hnshele to each individual -per annum •
will ~iYe zoolisf,..of flour),, this wilt require hut
5,00,000 quarters ; add to this seed corn, dis-
tilleries, starch, &c. etc. 1,z20,000 quArters,

this makes only a total of 6,i20,000 quarters,
and is lens than our average Itarvest by near
half a million of quarters.

Having now, I think, fully proved that there
is no real Scarcity, and that the late harvest is
sufficient for all our wants, provided we pursue
the Plans rtxoninicrided by the Legislature, I shall
conclude with hoping, if you think proper to give
this Letter a place in your Paper, that this plain
Statement of Fads will convince, at least some,
that the War does not affeft the Scarcity, and
will induce many to think how efficacious a stria
Economy will be until the next Harvest, when,
under the Divine Providence, we may hope to be
blessed with plenty and abundance.
I am, Sir,
Your constant Reader, and Well.wisher,
A. L•,

P. S. Rice Bread, or Bread made with, flour
and rice, in the proportion of seven pounds of
flour to twenty ounces of rice, is most excellent,
and is sufficient for three persons for .a week.
This quantity of flour and rice will give full
21hs. of thoroughly baked Bread, which will keep
moist and good four days, so that twobakings in
a week are quite sufficient.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 22.

In' the violent storm of Thursday, His Majes-
ty's Yacht the Dorset, was driven from her
moorings, in Poolbeg into the Bay and over the
Bar, fortunately without any injury to the ship
or crew,

Hip Majesty's Frigate Emerald, Ciptain
O'Bryen, arrived at Cove on Sunday last ; she,
is to convoy the- trade .to- the 'West Indies. Her
sailing, is fixed, we understand, for the 24. th
instant. • • •

We have great satisfaaion in informing the
public, that through the very uncommon exer-
tions.of
,Michael Taiylor, Esq. of the Fifebhire
Regiment, who with a 'party of, that Regiment,
.and a 'party of the Soutb Cork, from Kildare,
apprehended a few 'nights. back, twenty-five no-
torious robbers and murderers, in the bog near
Newbridge. Many of those desperate villains
have had informations lodged against them for
the murder of two Highlanders, a servant of
Captain Steele's, Wand a dragoon soldier, who'
had been all most barbarously murdered upwards
of three years ago in that neighbourhood-. Six of
the gang have been sworn to as concerned in the
recent attack on the Mail Coach, near the Cur-
ragh.
Three of the wretches sentenced to death by
a Court-Martial held at Lcixlip, for the robbery
and murder of Mr. Howard, of Grainge, near
BelgrifOn, were executed on Tuesday at the
turnpike, contiguous to Aimesley-bridge, in the
presence of A greater concourse of speaators
than perhaps has been remembered on any simi-
lar occasion. They_were escorted to the place
of execution by large detachments of the mili-
tary, horse. and foot; and were not brought
through the-City, but along by the Circular-
road. lt was at. the instance of the Gentlemen in
the neighbourhood where their atrocious crime.
had: been perpetrated, that their execution had
been ordered in that particular situation. After
hanging, the usual, time, their bodies-were con-
veyed to, Surgeon's-Hall fbr disseetione,— The
above Convifts were three of the four persons
apprehended, by the SOuth Fingal Yeomen on Kil-
lester-road,, the, very night 'the crime was com-
mittect.

COUNTRY NEWS.

LEEDS, FED. 23.

On Saturday last, James 'Pickard, of Adding_
ham, dealer in corn, was convited before Thos.
Garforth, Esq: in the penalty of five pounds,
on the information 'of James Cunliffe,
,of the
same place, Gent. for mixing and adulterating
oatmeal and other grain of a damaged and un-
sound quality. It, is to be hoped this example
will operate as a caution against the continuance
of such nefarious pradices.
On Friday as a waggon loaded with a ton of
cheese was passing over a temporary bridge of a
canal about two miles from Lyneham, it gave
way, and the waggon, with two of ;he bones,
and a youth about twelve years of age, all fell
into the river, but neither the boy nor horses
were hurt. :the boy was lying on the cheese,
arid the waggon turned entirely over, wheels up-
wards. He found himself on his hands and knees
in the water, which was fortunately ygry,
as they were building a' new bridge. The 'Oro.
vidence of God was most strikingly visible in the
preservation of the boy. The cheese gave, way •
on each side, and looking up he saw a light
through the bottom of the 'waggon ; a board was
broken, Which mule a hole just large enougl► for,
him to be drawn through.
A .person of the name of Benjamin Hilton, but
generally called Big Ben, a • notorious offender,
was last week apprehended at Sheffield, and con-.
veyed to Manchester, where he was committed
by the Magistrates to Lancaster Castle, to take
his trial at the next Assizes, for -croft-breaking
near that, town, and for: !several other offences.
On searching his house :near the new burying-
ground, a very large. quantity of property was
found, which has since been owned, and upwards
of 50 picklock keys were concealed in a hole
near the chimney.

in consequence of an erimination at the Man.
sion:House on Monday, the Porter of the Cross.
Keyi £nn was fined three pounds, for charging
more for a parcel than is :Wowed by MI of Par-
liament: Mr. Bagshaw, his master, appeared
against him, and prodyced a forged ticket which
he had given, and lcept back the real ticket.—
His Lordship• desired he might, be sent to the
Compter till his fine was paid.

LONDON': Printni by Rif }IA N 11.1. A N. la Pow-SI Tett. Covent.' .4roe
At the sv4.orriel, No, LIZ) Sirand ; where Advatiartids, Order:

. .
TilestEiv, i'hoPtibll;!:-011ice;ShatIvrell, Pete(
Grecti was, accused on Me baths °two Ofliceri,
of having 'obstrated. them in the execution of
their duty, iii attempting to apprehend a seamen
suspetied of felony. • It appeared that- the 'Pri-
soner had 'endeaVonred to screen this seaman, bc_
longing to. a Swedish ship lying in the-. River,
from the pursuit of Justice, when attempting to
make his escape from the ship. Qn this ground
ha was fully committed for the .kostult; and the
seaman was delivered up into the •possession of
the Master of; the vessel.

The Duckingficld Hall, Pedder, from London
to Antigua, is towed into Torbay' by the Russel
I,ltt of War, with the loss of her foremast, fore,
ma in, and mizen topmasts, having been run foul
of off' Scilly by a' vessel which is supposed to
have foundered.

The Britannia, Abbot, from London to Jamaica,
is put into Kingroad dismasted, having been run
foul of by three ships.'
The Neptune's, Hempel, from Dantzig to
London, passed the Sound abobt the 4th of
Olober, and has not been heard of since.
The Sea Horse Frigate, with the Fleet under
Convoy for Portugal and the Mediterranean,
were seen on the 3lst January, by the Earl St.
Vincent Armed Brig, abreast of enc. Belem,
and, would round Cape Finisterre 'that night.—
Wind Southerly.

(11" On Monday next the: English Lottery
begins, drawing.—The Tickets, Halves, Quar.
tern, Eighths, and Sixteenth Stampt Shares
are selling in the greatest variety of Num-
b.ers, and lowest terms, at Mr. Nlcriotsores
Office, No. 16, Cornhill, opposite 'the Bank of
England ; where the Schemes at large, contain-
ing the particulars of the extraordinary success
that has attended the purchasers at this Office,
are to be had gratis.—N. B. As Tickets and
Shares rtvii/ not be louter, Merchants and Clubs,
&c. will save money by an immediate pur-
chase.