The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-25 00:00:00

EXTRAORD:NARY CROP.

The article relative to the re-production of a
crop of wheat, from the stubble of last year, hay-‘
iug excited. the attent'on of many agriculturists;
and particularly that of Sir Charles' Merrick Bur-
President ofthe Sussex Western Agricultural
Society, the worthy Baronet, in order to ascer-
tain, beyond the possibility of doubt,'the truth or
fallacy of the account, wrote to Mr. Lewis,. of
Parton, the farmer, to ivhnat• the. extraordinary
crop in question belongs, and'in cobacqucace re-
-ceived from him the following, letter; ,and as it
-authenticates a discovery that may prove of great
importance to the pursuits of rural economy, we
embrace the earliest opportunity
.of giving it pub-
licity :--
_ . . .

," Purton, Aug. IR, 1812.

Sll,—l received your letter, dated West
Grinstead Park, Aug►. 7 concerning the statement
as appeared in the London Papers, of my having a
field of wheat, raised wholly from'the stems of the
old stubble of bearded wheat, without fresh sow-
ing. The account seems to you- singular, and
therefore to be doubted, but I assure you it is ,
teal fact. The Paper mentioned: that the crop
failed last year, but that -was not true, for I bad
a very good fair' crop- which I had cut early, so
that there were not brittings. I intended plant-
ing the same piece this year with potatoes, but
having such a fine appearance of a second crop,
which sprung up from the old, moores, I thought
I would see what it would come to ; there was no-
thing done to it; but I hoed it once over ; now it
has no heard to it this year, but appears a fine
Lammas wheat, as we call it. I intend tct begin•
reaping it next Thursday.

" i am,
" Your obedient hiirmtlt servant,
" LEWIS."

a W. Hale.

The French ColonelM. Who Was taken prisoner
at Salamanca, has accused the Bnglisli of lightinF,
contrary to the Law of Nations, and produced. a
Plan picked up at Ciudad Rodrigo, of a 'Wheel
constructed that even a woman orehilkl may fire
point blank to hit 40 or 50,000 with one shat.'
On inspection it proves to be only an Finglish
Scheme of the Lottery, with the ,figure of the
-Wheel of Fortune, from which a single Blank
may gain 50,0001. on the Bth September,: when
all the .Lottery will be drax4t.
BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 22.—At a meeting of the
inhabitants of this town, held at the Public Office,
on Wednesday last, it was, resolved to fill up the,
proportion of the ensuing vacaneies of the War-
wickshire Local Militia Regiments, by me"; ns cif
a bounty, to be defrayed by a rate for that pur-
pose. This measure will entirely obviate' the
many unpleasant circumstances necessarily atten-
dant Upon a ballot, while, at the same time, it
affords an opportunity of a choice. of recruits, vo-
luntarily engaging, and better .fitted for the Ser.;
vice, than those indiscriminately raised, by ballot.
On Monday evening, Mr. Moseley, ofthis town,,
gratified the public curiosity by.sending of a bal.:.
loon twenty feet high, with a parachute,in which
a cat ascended, from Vauxhall Gardens. The
ascent bad a mat pleasing, appearance, and after
traversing through the aerial regions for about
twenty minutes, the parachute and cat descended
in the Workhouse Field„ and the balloon near.
Aston Road.