The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-27 00:00:00

DUBLIN, AUG :22.

The late affair bet Ween the King's CoUrt and Bail •
lieborough Yeomanry,, in the County of Cavan,
having been much misrepresented, and greatly ex-
=aggerated, I send you the following account, which
may be relied upon : ' .
At the afthir of Muff, in the County of Cavan,
on the 1:;:th inst. a quarrel took place between two
Privates .of these Corps,' in consequence of an old
grudge bet Ween them. In the contest the Baillie-
borough man stabbed the King's Court man, but not
dangerously. Many of the Members of the two
.corps being at the time in the fair, they assembled,
and ranging themselves in opposite parties, a serious
conflial ensued, in which many were severely in-
tUred, though no lives were lost. The result was
in favour of the King's Court party, the other being
the weaker, was obliged to retreat.
It had been fixed some time before by the Brigade-'
Major, that these two Corps should be inspeeted'tO-
' get her with the She,rcock Yeomanry ; but dreading
the revival of their animosities, he met the King's
Court Corps a few miles from Baillieberough,' in- ,
speoted, and then very prudently , ordered them to
return home,. while he wen( back to inspect the •
other COrps. - Sonic of the Baillieborough Corps,
'
who, it is.said„.had obtained a 'Promise of assistance
from the Shercock men, diSappointed in their, hopes
of revenge, 'behaved very turbulently during the
course of the inipedion, particularly a person who
had been a principal rioter at Muff.; he said he was
-an Orangeinan, and would do as he liked. An Of-
ficer reproved him for the insolence of his condua;
and •attempted to strip him of his Orange insignia,
with which he vas prOlusely decorated, when he
instantly .laid down his •arinS, 'and was, I airs sorry
to say, imitated in this by several other individuals
of the Corps. They have: howeer, I since under-
, stand, ,condesCanded to resume them.
Wednesday about three o'clock, one of the Ma-
sons who was at Work at the new College of Sur-
geons, now ere&ing in St. Stephen's-green, tell
from the scaffold, by which he had his arm broke,
and was otherwise: desperately bruised; he was car-
tied to Mercer'S Hospital. . • .
Wednesday' annight John Milan alias Bawn,
convicted at Tralee Assizes (under Lord ELLEpII3O,-
• ROUGH'S ilia) of firing a loaded pistol on the Bth of
May last, atThomas Cannotty,-withan intent to kill
him, the contents of which hit him in the face and
deprived hill)" of one of his eyes, was conveyed to the
Causeway, under a strong guard of the eist regiment
of foot, where they were met by a detachment of
the Feale Cavalry, commanded by the-Knight of
p
Kerry, and there executed pursuant to his sentence,
in presence of several thousand spedators. • • • .
Atrived at Waterford, on Friday last, the William
and Mary Packet, from the Downs,. with a detach-
ment Of the With Regiment, under the command of
Capt. Mills. She encountered a very -severe gale,
in which the Samuel, of Milford Haven, was nearly
lost, having shipped a heavy sea, which threw her
on her beam ends ; another vessel was also in the
4 same gale nearly loSt upon the Welch coast.

Yesterday afternoon the St. Clement Danes, Or
Duke of Gloucester's Light Regiment, • met at Lip-
cola's-Inn Gardens, where, atter haying been ex-
amined and told. Off by their own Officers, they were
very minutely inspe6ted by Col. Jet,:kftisoti, the In-
p-Cting Field Officer. After going through the usual
.01.itieruvres, they passed itt quick and ordinary time,
`and returning to the regular ground, made a grand:
salute.
The Loyal Sonthwarl, the Ist Surrey, the Cam-
berwell, Clapham, lArandswOrth, Greenwich, Dept.
' ford, and' Lewisham Corps of Volunteers, are mak-
. in; great exertions to fill up their vacant ranks, and
perfect theinelvei m military taaies.
• :Etfettive Strength of the British Army on the Ist
of July of -July last :
CAN ati,RY-13ritish 23,195,-laareign 16,1 ts
1 man fiTay.=-liritatit i29,:53 Formai 27,298—Total ts6,itat
M L.IT ihiSto—lash 34, ibo —Total 77.993

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it_t Ipswich Lamb Fair,, which begin on Saturday,
la,t, the number of hurdles set was much the smile
as last year, but a considerdiale quantity of the
lambs being kept back by many of tilt growers, wlig
did not attend till the second day, the chew of
lambs was ,on the fart day,
,sinallet than we have
remembered for many, years;,' and the buyel.s, ex-
petiing,a much larger quantity on Monday, were
notiVely anxious in making their purchases. FrOm
two, o'clock 'in the afternoon Until six; however,,
much btisiness waslone, but the priCes obtained
for the lambs were considered from Is. to ps. in the
pound less than last yeaiL; at which redudion :1144
many pens were_ cleared.
On. the Monday, as was eipeeled, seVeral large
parcels of larn-bs were introduced, which had not
made their appearance on Saturday; but so many
lanitui had been sold off on Saturday, that the fair
could by ho. means be considered at any, time a full
fair. The wetness of the day made is late before
Mulch busine'ss was done, but clearing up about
three O'clock, a considerable brisknesS prevailed dur-
ing
.the remainder of the afternoon, upon terms
much the iarhe as SiturCiy, at which rate nearly
all the lambs were sold.

. _
Bitasos.--:-Very feW lambs were to be
se of the halt bred Leicester, and that stock may
now be consideied as nearly extirliated. By far the
greater quantity of lambs were of the half bred
South-down, but even to this ,sort of gtock:it could
not be said that such a decided preference was given
as we have for several year 'been witness to. The
avidity, indeed, with wiiith hall-bred iambs of the
South-down or Leicester breeds have been so wuch
sought atier, appeared very evidently to be consi-
derably abated, and the real true bred i•lortalk
heath lambs found quite as ready a sale as iatnb4 of
any other description, without being subjea to such
a dedUttion in price as has of late years been the
case.

. .•
OF THE PRICES.—The Earl of Bristol's; Mr.
Brooks's, Mr. Webb's, of Ingham, and several
other parcels of lambs, so high, in condition as to be
fit for the butcher's immediate use, were sold at
Vora 245. to 275. each; (the Earl's half-bred Lei-
cester wethers 'obtained 275. and his ewesl4ss.).
Mr. 'Walton, of TimWOrtli, bad some capital South-
down lambs, which were sold at tiOm 235. Gd. to
245. lid:
Mr. Palmer, of Herrihgswell, averaged about
225. for his half-bred South-down lambs (ewe
mid wether), and about one guinea for his Norfolk
wailers. Mr: Archer, of Barton Mills, sold his
half-bred South-down lambs (ewe and wether) at
21A, lid. and his Norfolk wether laMbs, which were
considered very handsome, at the same price. Mr.
Payne, of Tudclenham; and many others, sold their
'half-breds at from 201. to 21s. each. The Duke of
qrafton's, 'Mr. Godfrey's, of Kennett, and many
more real Norfolks, were sold at 20s. each but the
general run of.prices for lambs .of eithr description,
was, from' •17s. to los. each, at which rates the
Elden, `Baroirmn, icklincrnam, and other heath
lambs, were-sold.

A large pen of ram lambs was shewh, said te' be
of the true SOuth-doWn breed, for which from 4 to
7 guineas per lamb was asked. Being considered,
however, by the Gentlemen in the fair most conver-
sant in the breed of sheep, to have more oftheßerk-
sbire than the South-down blood in their veins, the
sale of them was very heavy. •

AGatctlcruita.—Among the modern improve-
rnJuts in farming, tfiedairy has, of late years, been
very much neglected. So much of the profit of
breeders depending upon the facility with, which the
milk of the cow may be reserved during the suck-
ling time of. the calf, the following substitute, used
in Germany, for the natyral food of
,the young pro-
geny, may he acceptable to our country readers.—
Let as much water be heated on the tire as the calf
would be disposed to drink, and, when it boils,
throw one or two handfuls of oatmeal into it, and
after continuing itl that.state for one minute, take it
off, and let it. be cooled into the temperature of new
milk, when one or_two pints of skimmed milk are
to. beAdded to it. With this beverage the young
animal will fatten and thrive prodigiously, the milk
of the. parent will be applied to the dairy, and the
intelligent farmer will immediately discever the great
advantage to be derived, in the produce of the dairy,
from sued an expedient. 1/4

We are much surprised to find, that a general
Inoculation tor the Small Pox has very recently taken
place in Aylsham and its neighbourhood; and our
Readers, we doubt not, will pariicipate in our con-
cern, when we add, that, four individuals have already,
fallen vi&ims to a pra&ice which has long been ilk,
countenanced by the good sense and' humanity of the
Country ; for it is a lamentable fat% that four children
died there within the last *Week; under inticulation for
the Small t'ox ; and hoW many More may btrsacrifitted
in consequence of its malignant poison being thus,
wantonly diffused, time alone can ascertain.

Cow-Nos.---The inhabitants of Osset ; near Wake-
have inoculated :all the children in.the
who had not had the small pox, with the cow-pox,..
to the number of above a thousand. The'incision
was made with a, ueedle, and the matter, transferred
by meaty; of a penknife point, which was successful.
, On Thursday evening, about half past nitte•o'clock,
a -violent thunder storm was experienced in the
nei4hbots' rhood of Dymchurch ; it continued only a
Short time, but in its progress did considerable damage.
A barn on the road to Bonnington, in the' occupation
Of JOHN SUTTON., of Dymchurch, was tiet on rise by
the lightning, and entirely consymed, with ten acres
and a half of wheat, the whole produce of the farm;
one acre of oats, together,with the greater: part of
the farming utensils. The loss is estimated at about
20a and 'no part of the property insured, We re-
gret to say, that the whole earnings of a life of
honourable industry were thus destroyed .in a, mo-
ment, : • , ,

• During the storm on Thursdiy evening, a fishing
boat belonging to Ramsgate was struck by. the light-
ning at sea, which passed through her bottom ; the
Lord Hatvkabury Packet being near her, took the
tiew on board and towed the boat into Rainsgate
Ittrbour.

HATs.—A manufaatrxr in Denmark has invented
a species of hat of an el.t.oint and durable kind, re-
pt eci from the skin 'of the Sea ,dog (Chien de Met):
His Danish :Mtoesty, in consequence of the
co very, Las given an • xclus ve privilege, in the
Datum gtour patents, fortlirce years, to the lANtiliA.

..•. . . • ,
Tuesday last; !brie/
bourhood; whi4re it will soon tie enernt and...abun-
dad. We are; happy to say; favourafile -
.c both or the, comniencenn.nt ('T
and appek'itucC of ilte 6-op, Ir. vt: reaclic4
diffeteut,parta of the 'Country and, if.novea3dii:th'e
rain dues net set we have great:reason to believe;
that the, barley and oat harvest will, in general, Le
earlier than was otpeete'd. • During this week, liuv
ever, we have.hatl at,oo,d, deal,of raid, especially r,n,
Tuesday evening last; when thee was 'a very lice y
fall for some time, after a storm of uncommon y
loud. thunder, 'and .the inOst vivid flashes of ligl,
:ling, which continued. with great violcke for sec,
ral houlks; fertunately unattended with any .Atbieti t
in this quarter.
Saturday last, 'impress warrants for the Navy were
issued here, under the orders of Caritain NAsn, the
'Regulating Officer in.4.eith. The militia in gairi-
snit and recruiting parties Were called out in aid 'of
this service .btit •notwithstandini the great atlivitY
shewn on the occasion, very little auccesi attendeti
their endeavours, the seamen In general having fled
and Secreted
.theinselVes, in consequence of early
notice being received of the circumstance: A com-
pany of the militia marched the same day, for Peter-
head, in execution.of this ditty ; and having reached"
that place in the evening,, without any :.lann, suc-
cee a ded.in securing considerable number of-people;
the greaser part of whom were
.afterwards dismissed;
anda few useful hands only detained.

AvvEartsnmENT Ex:ri.ti.ouraNAttY4---Frorn tl e 3
Ulster Gazette Wants a plitce--;-11$ Buller, in
the faiinly of any Nobleman or Gentleman of tor-
tune', a &tilting young fellow, ;tged tv.enty-tivJ
years, six sect high, and otherwise 'well proportion-
ed. Ha must have tree access to the wine-cellar,
and he, must never be reprehended or found shift
with. He is of a pleasant jovial, convivial ditipw,it ion ;
and so fond of riding and all other genteel exerciies,
that the groom must be particularly dire .fed' to fur-
nish him, when requiredl one of the hest horses in
the stud.—NO person will b treated with who doe 4
not, pledge his hanour in--humour him, at all times,
in all his propensities ; and, moreover, it is .requi's.ite
,that whoever wishes to engage hint should. procal't: Li
certificate of his good temper and othdraniiable
lilies, from his last butler. The Advertiser cau be
well -recouitnended by halt a dozen 'of butkrg' of
the first direAed for 1.4.,W. N. 0.
(post paid,) at the Primer's, will be duly ftttenL..-
ed

„ .
FRUNCH CONSCRIPTS,--,A, late traVener on the
Rhine observes, that he Often saw the Conscripts oir
the parade at Cologne, on thti German Froutier.--
I.'hey andel:Went a very short and simple course of
drilling. They were taught to wheel, form close c -
Plum:load, fire, arid charge with the bayonet ; is five
days
,they were cotosidered qualified to • march Ni
veteran troops :_very little attention was paid in hal •
ing a More slovenly.one, ha says, *he er
witaeiged.. Little attennon was paid •try the dress
of the men, who were uniform only in wearing
a short jacket, and 'in every other -article seemed
to consult their taste or their pockets. Thls Might
afford some useful !inns to those Counties wheres
drilling is a process so laborious and 'troublesome,
-both• to Officers and men, and, where there are
so many ',Wound consulationS ahout the shape
of a cap or a jacket. How beautifully clo4th•
ed and elegantly drilled
,were the Prussian isol-
diers, in comparison of this. Even if W.e look ntarer
home, we shall find tdo much of thole fantastic
dresses, which if any thing could render valour rich.
celous, would certainly have that erre& He men-
tions a fitit, which strougly stir.:Ws the deCided
litary spirit of the French. He travelled s-evirral
days in company:With it conscript, an elegant young
man the son of a Gentleman of fratune, and nePheW.
of a General in that part of the army where be was
going to serve. He bad no hopes, he said, of rais-
ing himself from the ranks, but by good con.lua
and good fortune. He neither blamed his father
rot not paying the price of a substitute, nor repined
at the conscriptiou.—” Tout ee
tenant, be observed, elest,,devemir uut9n-saldat?..,,
The rapidity of the progress of the armies of Bo-
NAPALM has been greatly facilitated by the portable
form of the nourishment by which they subskt.
piscuit, and a small cruse of brandy, is said to be
the principal rood of the itinerant hosts of France.
A more convenient sort of nourishment for such pur-
poses is used by the natives of South America. They
burn the grain :of Indian wheat in .thesaMe way
that Europeans prepare coffee; they then macerate
them, and every Indian, when ho ridlows the Chace,
carries with hitava, little bag of this powder, of
which a handinl,_ thrown, into.. a ve,sel of water.
suplilies a enrupetetit,• palatable, and sfilobrious
meal.

'l.'he 'East India Brigade are kept in a strict State'
of discipline, each of the three regiments :ha% Mg one
field,:day, and one drill day a week. Toe general
brigade movements have not yet .begun.—Most ui
the Westminster corps are in training.
The ruins discovered by the workmen on Dover-
Heights, some days bark, are generally thought to
be the remains of one chapel built many year;
since. It certainly: cannot Wive been any fortitiea-
tion,. as it is not setiktently extensive tor that' pu -
pose. The men have been busily employed since
clearing away the rutibish ; and in digging farther
they discovered sAg.tr:al 'human bones, some pit.'ves
of painted glass, and an ancient spur. the circutn—
stance of the and bones being found, t)gtb.
ens the opinion of its having beet, some place of de-
votion. Some of the stones which have been taken
by are very curiously carved; and the foundation c 4
the same materials built with small stones about doe-
ble the size of the modern brick.

CONN-EXCHANGS„AUti: V7.---To day's snpply of
Wheat is rather short, httt the trade .is heavy in
sales, and does norsopport lAA Fri Vie.;—go Ame-
rican anout 68s. per qvarter'; Bar e; and,lVlrilt re-
main with little variation ; White lets (tit: are cheaper;
but 'fow Beans of each kincl,,whielt are at rather bet-
ter price; Oats are in good.stipply, Rnii those of bea
quality are dearer;. Flour is lover—American is
cheaper, fine ass. to 38s. pec ba,rio;.
' 1
Wheat 41i. a s6s a 64s od lions (Obi) Sts.pi 1 s el.
Fine ditto . Otrk 470 S ag: Tick. ditto (d 0.,) .14i :1 491 i cad
Rye • ',. 405 a 44 act Oita - .22i zr,q a '.O 4ad
BA ,o, . . 31/ a• 391 od i Poland ditto -3 is 325 15(t malt . . 645 a 71,S od i /tape Seed - 24( a 23:1 os
White Pease 9,35 a t(vs od I tine Flour • SSA a sgs r,d
Gay Otto . - i4s ‘ s3s Ott 5i:4911%1i . • $44 A SS} oil

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REPORt

tr,Z6M Tit,KCO'NVAITT)-.:2 ON THE, Cti'lMY.llC2iairr-ATE

OF TIIL I.."DIA,OOLONIES.

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE.

Tlionmy Hagan, Esq. culled in, and Examined.

State tl, the Committee your connexions • with' the
twitish West India Colonies, •and • the means you
have had of acqUainting yourself with the West
India Trade ?—I am a West India Merchant, con-
nected particularly with the Island °l.:Jamaica,. and
ha)ie been acquainted with its trade-for 'the last
twenty years and upwards; I resided in the Island
of Jamaica twelve years Of that tune, and the last
ten years in. London, and I have had ample occasion
to 'be well acquainted with' West India commerce.
Have you had, either as proprietor, trustee, exe-
cutor, or factor, the accounts of various sugar plait ta-
tiravi annually passing through your, hands, so as
• accurately to, jO tge of the whole. of the ex:pew:es
'and returns of those plantations ?—The accounts (pf
various sugar plantation, in the West Indies have
passed through my hands, as an agent or Maar, not
as a proprietor, or in the capacity 'of 'executor or
trustee, so that I am enabled to judge of the whole
of those expences and 'returns.
'Have you observed of late years, that the average
returns of sugar plantations to the proprietors have
.6een• adequate, or otherwise, to the capital embark-
ed thereon, and to the necessary expences of culii-
vation and management ?—The average returns of
fare yeari, fi.orn sugar estates, have beep very inade-
- Tote to make any suitable returns for the capital
embarked and the expences incurred in the manage-
ment of plantations. .
what causes principally do you attribute such
inadequacy of the returns ? —To low prices, enhanced
charges, and high duties in this country.
What are the principal- articles of 'supply from
Great Britain and Ireland which are furnished to,
the sugar Plantations ?---Various" articles for • the
'clothing and fond of negroes, for the, erealou and
maintenance of.works and buildings. ,
Yon have stated generally, that the returns made
by' sugar plantations bare, during late years, been
inadequate ; 'what hal been the•case during the 'last
and present year in particular, 'as applying to the
sugar crop of 1806 ?---During the last and present
year, the prices have been uncommonly low, so;
much so, that in many instances within my own
knowledge, whole crops 'of sugar from particular
estates have not prolluced nett in this country, to
the planter, more than one.half they did • to the
planter twenty years ago, when the charges of culti-
vation and other expences were comparatively ex-.
ceedingly small.

Tt is the }repent state of the market, the prot-
peet of importation of sugar from the colonies, arid
the probable of disposing thereol:—Under
present circumstances, the prospea is.porhaps more
diScouraging than it hitherto has been ; I speak of
the circumstances-- of the present day : we have a
very cothiderable qualytity of, sugar upon hand, a
large imilurt shortly expected, and the access to fu-
xeign markets apparently more difficult than it ever
has-been during the last year. :-
What importation has taken place since the, ISt
April last ?,--Only.one of the annual 4ts of this
season, namely, one from the Wiudwed
has yet arrived.

• What other importation is expealed in the course
of th;i year ?-I.calculate that the import this year
will be pretty much the same as lasi ; perhaps a
small rectue.tion,

Are -there not :many estates' in,Jimaica, which
from tNeir' soil, exposure, and situation, must wake
stivr of a quality always below the Gazette average
prke, and which. therefore must, by the 'present'
circiunstaticei of the tode, be under peculiar de.:
premien ?.—=Undoubtedly there tare roany'Such
tatei, the proprietors of which, of 'course,. must
stitfyr !pore froth the present depressed prices than
the proprietors of plantations which make better
sugar

"'What has been, in tour memory, the difference
between the extreme prices of: the, best and, of the
worst Muscovado' sugar at the London market, and
what is that difference now cannot speak for.
any considerable length of time back, but the differ-
ence:of price between the worst quality and the best
is about thirty, or from
.thirty to thirty-five shillings
per hundred weight.

Do not the eZtremes become more distant when
the home consumption is atone, or chiefly in the,
market, and approach much nearer when there is a
competition of foreign demand do so.
Does not the quantity of ordinary and inferior.
sugar made in 7atnaira far exceed the quantity of
tine sugar produced there ?—Undoiffiledly it dues;'
the quantity of fine sugar forms but a small '4ropor-,
ton of the total quantity manufaetured . in JamaiCa.
Are there not many situations in Jamaica, where,
front the uaturb of the.soil, it is not praaicable to,
improve by cultivation the quality (if the sugar
There are many plantations in Jamaica on which,
from the' nature of the soil, the quality of the iugar.
cannot be ameliorated in any considerable degree.
Have not the proprietors of the sugar colonies,
and others dependent thereon-, in general, suffered
great diStress in the course at the tDist year, in con,
sequence of the depression have known some
instances of considerable distress,, and I believe it
must be general,

What;re the measures, in your opinion, Caton-
fated to relieve.the distress of the sugar planters ?—•
Any thing that would tend so to increase the con-
-.stimptioil as to advance the price,,would undoubtedly
tend to relieve the planters.
What measures do you consider best calculated to
prodtke that (Area ?—With ruspe& to the home-con-
sumption of sugar, a rednaion of. the duty would
undoubtedly be some relief to the,planters, but that
,alone, in the present cirennistanees of the sugar co-
lonies, would not be sufficient ; the produthon of
sugar in the British colonies now so much exceeds
the comumption in tbis.country,
.that we must ne-
cessarily be to a conside.rable extent dependent opon
the foreign, demand ; that tOreign demand is in a
great measure•'supplied by the means of neutrals,
who carry the .pioduco of the French and Spanish
settlenients at much lower rates than we can the
produce'of the Briti h colonies through thu modititn
of this country ; any therefore, thatweuld
tend to impede that neutral ecinuntirce, would ter-