The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-14 00:00:00

LMORNINO HERALD.]

Our agricultural readers, will see by our Mark.
lane Corn Market account, in yesterday's Herald, that wheat
is again on the start in price. Whether it be Mr. Cobbett's
friends, the Quakers, that are again speculating and getting up
the price, we know not ; but certain it is, that this May, it is
not likely that the very best wheat will be so low as four shill-
ings the bushel, or thirty-two shillings the quarter, as Mr. Cob-
bett prognosticated it would be, except " Peel's Bill were re-
pealed.' And yet " Peel's Bill" is not repealed ; but on the
contrary, is in full operation, and there is no want of gold in
England, as is proved by the high rate of exchange in favour
of this country. But then Mr. Cobbett says, the backward sea-
son is all against the fulfilment of his prognostications. If,
says Mr. Cobbett, the season had not been so backward my pm.
pheeies would have come to pass; but as the season is so back-
ward, as all the turnips have been comparatively destroyed, and
as all the grass has been put so backward in consequence of the
snow, wet, &c. why then, we cannot this year expect the same
sort of over-production that there was the last year, or that
there was for the three or four years preceding the last year.
Well, we will, for argument sake, admit,, that in this case Mr.
Cobbett may back out from his assertion with an if—but then
if he be let off with an if, what becomes of all his attempts
to ridicule Lord Liverpool, who repeatedly said, that the
late low prices might in a great respect be accounted for
from an over-production? arising from the increased quantity
of land in a state of cultivation, together with the four or five
years of such seasons as England had not seen for twenty or
thirty years preceding. Did not Mr. Cobbett endeavour to fix
on Lord Liverpool and his proselytes the nick-name of " over-
productionists ?" And yet now, when Mr. Cobbett finds that
neither his prophecy with regard to Wheat, nor his prophecy
respecting Mr. Peel's Bill is fulfilled, or likely to be fulfilled
this year; he gets out of the scrape by adopting the very
same principle as it respects a non sufficient production, or an
over-production, that he attempted to ridicule in Lord Liver-
pool and others. " If," says AIL Cobbett, " the season this
year is not propitious, and there should bean under-production,
Wheat must rise, but if the season should be favourable, and
we have -as excellent crops as we have had for this last four
or five years, then Wheat will tumble, and I shall have brave
laughing at those who doubted of the infallibility of my writ-
ings." We remember the celebrated Richard Brothers for
twhaast not
thet fulfilled.t
was
se-
veral years prognosticated that his rod would, when he cast it
ime
down on a certain day in may, be turned into a serpent,
which was to precede all the Jews to Jerusalem, but one May
after another May arrived, and still Mr. Brothers' prophecy
lot aAwnayd
as
arowme tmheenbtiuosniendestsh,
eboythseraydalnyg, pitoffg
Johanna Southcott said for many years that her Shilo was to
come in May ; but .Johanna died, and her Shilo never appear-
ed. So also 111 r. Cobbett has put off the price of four shillings
the bushel, or thirty-two shillings the quarter for the tip-top
NVlteat, till May 1024, except there should be an over-produc-
tive season, when if that should be the case, then he is to have
same fine laughing, but it cannot be at Lord Liverpool, for, by
his own admission, he has evidently come round to Lord Liver-
pool's principle of over-production. Mr. Cobbett, therefore,
may now be safely called of Lord Liverpool's party of " over-
productionists." If (to use Mr. Cobbett's favourite word) corn
and meat, &c. should continue to rise in price, or even remain
at their present prices, what will such landlords and farmers
think ofhaving been frightened out of their corn and hay-ricks,
their cattle, butter, cheese, bacon, &c. in consequence of im-
plicitly believing in the Registers of Mr. Cobbett? Will any
of them imagine that there should be such a trade as writing,
printing, and publishing, in order to amuse, and therefore to
sell ? But it is almost as hard to turn from their opinions those
whom Mr. Cobbett has got hold of, as it is to make Johanna
Southcott's disciples believe that her Shilo is not even now in
existence, and that in due time, and on one of the days in
r May, he will, as Johanna said in some of ,her sublime poetry,
" In May appear, and make all things clear."

From the LONDON GAZETTE, May .3.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
T. Charleswortb, Clare-street, Clare-market, grocer.

BANKRUPTS.
T. Hewitt, Whitchurch, Shropshire, furrier, to surrender
May 28, 29, and June 24, at eleven, at the Lord Hill Inn,
Whitchurch. Attornies, Messrs. Procter and Slaney, Gray's
Inn-place, London ; and Mr. Cooper, Shrewsbury.
P. R. mman, Arundel, Sussex, tanner, May, 23, at three,
24, and June 24, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Arundel. At-
tornies, Mr. B. Freeman, Arundel; Messrs. Freeman and
Heathcote, Coleman-street, London.
T. Gilbert, jurf. Long-acre, coach-maker, May 20, 31, and
June 24, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney,
Mr. C. Kaye, Dyer's-buiklings, Holborn.
T. Buckle, Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant, May 19, 20, and
June. 24, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Attornies,
Mr. F. 'l'. Maxon, Little Friday-street, London ; and Mr. T.
E. Upton, Leeds.
J. -Nichols, Finchingileld, Essex, tanner, May 26, at six,
27, and June 24, at eleven, at the Court. of Commissioners,
London. Attorney, Mr. Nicholls, Great Winchester-street,
Old Broad-street, London.
J. Thomas, Kent-street, Southwark, carpenter, May 16, 31,
and June 24 at one, at the Court of, Commissioners. Attor-
nies, Mr. J. Newbon, Great Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons ;
and Mr. Howell, Hatton-garden.
C. Lucas, Kennington, Surrey, dealer, May 17, 24, and June
24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs.
Perkins and Frampton, Holborn-court, Gray's Inn.
G. Burn, Maidstone, Kent, pastry-cook, May 24, 31, and
June 24, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies,
Mr. Wildes Chancery-lane ; and Messrs. T. and 11. A.
Wrildes, Maidstone.
G. Lambert, Sloane-street, Chelsea, schoolmaster, May 20,
27, and June 24, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Attor-
ney, Alr. Stafford, Buckingham-peet, Strand.
DIVIDgNDS.

June 6, T. Hops, Sandwich, • Kent, boyman—June 9, J.
Dawson, Bury, Lancashire, wooUendraper—May 17, S. Ben-
nett, 'Worship-street, Shoreditch, coachmanufacturer—June 3,
.1. Power and R. Warwick, Finsbury-square, merchants—May
27, T., otherwise T. G., and D., Asquith, Bermondsey, and
T. Mellish, New Kent-road, shipownets—May 24;C. L. Spitta,
F.'and G. Mulling and I. A. Spitta, Laurence-Pountney-
lane, merchants-11lay 24, W. Urquhart, Sion College-gardens,
merchant—June 7, T. White, Regent-street, St. James's,
whitesmith—May 24, S. P. Seeger, 'Maidstone, dealer.—June
5, 14. Claude, Liverpool, merchant—June 6, E. Body, Morris.
town, Devonshire, merchant—June 4. T. Small, Alnwick,
Northumberland, common brewer—June 3, J. Beadey, Wot-
ton-underedge, Gloucestershire, clothier—June 6, W. Toll, St.
German's Cornwall, miller. • .
CERTIFICATES, Joss 3.
J. Smith, Bath, grocer—J. Smith, Liverpool, leather-cutter
—W. G. Jackson, Great Surrey:street, linendraper—C. Clarke,
Bristol, baker—A. J. Cumming, High-street. Southwark,
cheesemonger—M. Pile, jun. Sidmouth, Devonshire, Cabinet-
maker—T. Griffith, Liverpool, merchant—D. Reeves, War-
dour.street, Soho, grocer—T. Sweet, Frith-street, Soho, carver
and gilder.