The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-16 00:00:00

HOP INTEI,LIGENCE.

SOUTIIIVARN, JuLY A\
but our prices are nominally
140,0001.:
.£ s. Cs. As. .1: s.
New Kent 1322 Pockets . 510 to 10
Pockets 610t07 10 , Bap. -410 to 5 10
Do. Sussex Do. 6 6 to 7 0 1821 Pockets - 3 10 to 4 4
New Kent Bags 6 oto ti 6 Bags - 2 'lO to 3 3
Maxi:yrax F„ JULY 12.—We 'have arain endeavoured to
obtain a correct statement of the Hop l'lantations,and have
been favoured with various communications on this important
sub4iect, phich we submit to our readers as follows
LAST PECKIIAIN, YALDINO, &C.—The backward Hops
are not improved, and they suffer from weak bine, of which
there is a considerable quantity In this district. The-good bine
is much, improved, but the quantity of this kind is small ; yet
there are a few grounde promising a full crop, whilst others will
not probably produce a bag per acre. The plant on the wet
lands is turning yellow.
LINTON AND VICINITY.—The plantations, under time hill,
very indifferent; but on the high grounds, the appearance is
promising and fair.
Blatturrortz AND VlClNlTY.—Exceedingly diversified;
some grounds very slack, other,' appearing fair and clean. The
stoney grounds arc likely to average 3 or 4 bags per acre.
DITTON, MAW No, and neighbouthood of Towoninar,
bare some appearance of fire-blast, but no vermin.
111zazwouTit.—Here the plantations are superior, in their
general appearance and prospect to most other districts.
EWILURST, BODIAM, NOIITHIAM, BECKLEY, PEAS.
3tAnsu, PLAYDEN, IDEN, and Ityr, arc extremely, uneven.
Upon -the clay soils they are very slack of bine, and yellow ;
upon the light and good _soil somewhat better. This observe.
lion will hold good throughout the lVcalds of Kent and Sus.
sex, in almost every instance.
Ronzitvsnaknox.—The Hops, on stiff wet lands, are very
had in Sussex, being yellow and short of bine, owing to the
late wet weather ; there is a great proportion of this kind._
On dry soils the plant is thriving ; but even on these, they
are patchy, and where there is any wet to stand, they are weak.
IttTronn, (Noprs.)—The- present fine weather has con-
siderably improved the Hop Plantations in the North Clays ;
even during the late cold rain, they grew much faster than
could hare been supposed ; still, however, the scarcity of bine
and the number of dead hills; precludes the possibility of a full
crop even in the best plantations.
VVonettrEn.—The Duty on this Plantation is laid at 15 or
16,0001. Bine exceedingly weak.
A very intelligent, and tolerably correct calculator, sets the
Duty at 16,000/. forth° whole of the Sussex Plantation.—
(Maidstone journal, July 13.)

'ire have not an trade for Hops
as under. The Duty is at

On Tuesday last, about twelve o'clock at
= noon, a man speaking the Spanish language, was found on
111 r. Aines' ground at Bayswater, suspended by a cord
1
from an old tree, near the Uxbridge,rostl, -with every
appearance of struggling for life ; he was soon unloosened,
Air. Innen the surgeon was sent for, and every atten.
tiers paid him. lie Isleaded poverty as an excuse for
40 rash an attempt. Several small sums of money were
.
gioovern._ him, after which he
siV was carefully conveyed
washed,amveyed to the
and and after
lii
nt'lakinh_ouitsehaet lyadratztottwfarerdlsl clothedduskin the evening, he de-
eampeft through the Poor-house window. Being a man in
aound health, and the same circumstance occurring a few clays
41 lieo it Chelisea, it is suspected he makes a living by hanging
1- !inns& l

Selectionsiront the .Asiatic Newspapers.)
DUNS.--A SUPPLEMENT TO LINN/BUS.
"Sir, remember my biII."—ARBUTIENOT.
A Dux has ever been to me an object of the most intense
interest. From my earliest youth, ab ineuszte adolesrentia,
metaphorical " hot water" has been my habitual element, in
which all the world knows that duns are as plentiful as whales
in the Arctic seas, or herrings in the Bay of Chesapeake. As
have enjoyed thegreatest facilities of observation and experi-
ment on these animals, I may, without vanity, pretend to some
acquaintance with their natural history, and think myself well
qualified to write a dissertation on. them. Dun ? undo derive.
Cur? Johnson says from dunan, (Saxon) to clamour. In this -
etymology I can by no means coincide. All duns are not voci-
ferous, as I trust I shall be able to demonstrate in the sequel.
This Johnson ought to hare known from his own experience;
but probably be had been assailed by a rattle-dun a little before
he came to this world in his dictionary, and so was induced to
this suspicious derivation. I reect it, however, from its want
of general applicability, and humbly' propose two ingenious
etymologies of my own.: Dun from possum, bemuse tt dun
does his best, Pit tont son poszi6le, to get his money; or from
the adjective expressive of the colours so called. I confess I
am strongly prepossessed in favour of the latter conjecture, by
what Newton says On this subject : his words are,—" We are
not to expect a strong and full white, such as is that of paper,
but some dusky, obscure one, such as might arise front a
mixture of light and darkness, or from white and black; that
is, a dun." Now this I take to be a complete description of
the animal and his habits, as well as of the colour.—" %Ve are
not to expect a strong and full white," &c.: This applies to
that part of a dun which, in zoological science, is usually
termed the bill. Now this, as Sir Isaac well observeal'is never
Completely white, but always marked with dark characters, and
it often assumes a dusky hue—the result of neglect or too fre-
quent pecking. What the unquhile Master of the Mint says
of the mixture of white and black, expresses the dun to the very
life; who always gives us every thing in black and white. In
fact, the whole description completely tallies with all welnow
of the habits and character of duns in general. The terms—
" dusky," and " obscure," express the gloomy looks and tene-
brose demeanour of the dun, and the mixture of light and
darkness marks the wavering, undecided character; the in-
firmity of purpose we often observe in those beings,—a sort of
insipid medium between saint and devil—a composition neither
fish, flesh, nor good red herring. So much for etymology.
The dun, or flagitator,' is a genus of the division Adlite-
rentia, class Dammalia, order Boreana. This animal bears
some resemblance to the human form, and possesses the fa-
culty of speech, but not that of reason. The generic charac-
ters are :—Bill, length more or less ; incisors, remarkably
sharp; claws, perfectly retractile, as in the true carnivora, and
'capable of the most wonderful tenacity ; face, of great longi-
tudinal extension ; sight, very acute. Many of the individuals
of the different species are furnished with long tails.
The first species I shall notice is the ltattledun, or Flagita-
tor Clamitans. This is a most pestiferous animal, but more
• noisy and troublesome than really dangerous. It is an inhabi-
tant of all climates ; but I think it abounds more in France
and Ireland than in this country. The mode of this animal's
attack is by the voice. Its clamours are dreadful, and some-
times produce the most violent effect on weak nerves. The
best way, when attacked by it, is to remain quiet, and offer •
it no opposition. It will soon exhaust itself by its own, vocife-
ration. If irritated by resistance, it will continue screaming
for hours together in the most horrible manner. The females
of this species are far more numerous than the males, and in-
finitely more formidable.
The next species is the Flagitator Prolixus, or long-winded •
dun., This differs from the last specific variety in being much
less loud and noisy, but infinitely more tedious and persever-
i.ng in its gabble. This animal deals in prosing narratives, of
immeasurablelength and dulness. When it once begias, it is
next to impossible to stop or even interrupt it : it literally
•drowns its victims in &shower of talk, as the pole-eitriontlThers
its pursuers in a shower of another kind. For my own part, I
cannot reconnuend any more effectual defence against a dun of
this kind, than patience, and cotton for the ears. The evil
gives way only to this remedy, as gout is said to yield only to
patience and flannel. Interruption only prolongs the nut.'
sauce. N. B. This animal sports a prodigiously long tail.
The Flagitator Mutus, or silent dun, unlike the two last
species, vary little. But lie Makes up from this, by the most
struculent and ominous scowl that can be well imagined. Ter-
ror seems seated on his brow, and dark unutterable ponderings.
He is not, however, so dangerous as at first sight might be
'supposed. This gloomy and fearful aspect is more generally
indicative of constitotional surliness, and a sort of phlegmatic
discontent at insolvency, than any settled ill-design or deep-
rooted malevolence. Irlie appearance of a dun of this kind
causes, at first, some very uncomfortable sensations, but custom
soon teaches us to regard him without uneasiness. Like King
Log, lie causes at first a terrible fright, but after a while is apt
to grow contemptible. The only danger to be apprehended is,
that we should become too careless about him, and neglect all
salutary precaution. For, in spite of Lis usual quietism, his
latent ferocity will at times break out, and incite him to peck
most fatally' with his hill. -England is the native country of
this species, though it is often found elsewhere.
The Flagitator Subridens, or smiling dun, is quite opposite
to the last in external characters. 'I countenance is 111”-
Viably dressed in smiles, and melting compliments flow from
the tongue like manna. An acute observer can, however,
easily discover the smile of this dun to be nothing but the rises
Sardonicus, which Johnson somewhere admirably defines to be
" a distortion of the risible muscles, without anycorresponding
hilarity of the heart." This animal is by far the most dan-
gerous of the whole tribe, and ought to be shunned like a pesti-
lence. He' smiles amiably at the very moment he is 'about to
play the most scurvy tricks. A dun of this species entered my
room one morning while I was sick in bed, and after condoling
with me on the state of my health, and expressing the most
ardent wishes for my recovery, dragged me out of bed, with the
assistance of two other animals of the genus bailiff, and hurried
me away to a loathsome den at some distance, to the manifest
peril of my life. From this hole I did not escape for many
days, nor without very considerable loss of blood, from the bite
of a sanguivorous animal, which bears a very strong analogy
to the Vampyre-bat of the West Indies.
Another species is, the Flagitator Tenax, or adhesive dim.
This dun fastens on his unlucky victim, and sticks to him so
closely as to require the utmost violence to effect a separation.
When you meet a dun of this kind abroad, he seizes you by
the skirt of the coat, or some other part of your dress, and
generally accompanies you Wherever you are going, uttering
a low inarticulate sort of growl, in which you may occasionally
distinguish the words, long due," " hard times," " much
credit," &c. &c. If you receive a visit from hint at your own
house, you may think yourself fortunate if he leaves you within
four hours. There are many ways, however,, by which you
may shake off these troublesome animals. You may some-
times leave them in the channel with good effect, when they
attack you in the street. This may be done apparently
without intention, while you seem to evade a justling pas-
senger on your other side. A friend, more good-natured
than Fuscus Aristius may sometimes preserve you, by
carrying you of by main force. Au excellent method is,
to rush with your appendage into a thick crowd, or cross
the street in an impetuous torrent of carts and coaches. You
are sure to lose him by this means, and it is 'ten to one that
he does not break his neck in attempting to follow you. if you
see him before he fastens on you, you may drive headlong
against him, and push him down, without stopping to make an
apology. This you-will find a most effective application of the
medical maxim,' Venienti occurite niorbo.' When he has
actually seized you, yon may. feign sickness, run into a shop
and call for cold 'water, or begin to foam at the month'like a
mad dog. Your persecutor will be off immediately. A mode,
near kin to this, is to pretend that you are just recovered from a
typhus, or other contagious disease; just landed from the %Vest
Indies, where you left the yellow fever at its height; or that
you have brought over the, plague in your breeches-pockets
from Malta or Constantinople. If a dun of this tribe should
enter your house, there are various modes by which lie may be
dislodged. You may smoke him out, as they debugs, by heap-
ing your fire with green wood. it be winter, you ma starve
him with cold, by keeping in a room without a fire; or,
(as Dean Swift once served a shoemaker) you May lock him up
for some hours in your garden ; or else, you may place lihn in
a strong draught of air, so that he shall Infallibly catch the
acute rheumatism, or some worse disorder. Menou, the French
General, of Egyptian celebrity, once flung an animal of this
kind out of a window at Naples; but I can scarcely venture to
recommend the adoption of this plan in England. It might be
dangerous. Besides, the result of such an-experinient could
never be calculated with sufficient precisiou ; and whileyosi
intended only a simple sprain, or slight dislocation, you might,