The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-02 00:00:00

LORD SOI4EkFILLE's 'CATTLE SIiOTV.

We yesterday inspeetea the }preparations which
:ire• making for this Exhibition'. in ,Mr.'brxou's
stable-yard, in. Barbican*, late stile repository of Mr.
LANOHORN, WhO died about:nine months ago.
The .arrangements•.thade by .I,nril SAIEUVILLIt
are equ,dly' judicious and liberal with those of 'any
former year for the accommodationof the agricul7
turists, breeders, and, ainateurs,, Who may visit the
yardoo M ,nday SIM Tuesday next, to view the
cattle and 'implements will be then exhihited
as candidates for the prizes so munificently given by
his L';rtklup fur the encouragement of the best
breeds of cattle, and the introdtiffinn of the most:
useful agrieulttiral- impleritents. •Here it may be
prlier to point out the distialion -in the' objects
and views of his Lordship, in this exhibition, and
those of the Smithfield Cattle Society ; the latter be.
ing associated fur tfic simple object of encouraging
the owners of the best and 111USt profitable fed
Cattle, Which are brought tat for sale at Smithfield
market. His Lerdship, views'are wortt particularly
• lauded to an . earlier stage • of the growth of
cattle, and .the introdu6tion of those breeds which
are bait" adapted to profitable working in the
plough or team previous to. their • being fatted-;
and accordingly premiums are offered. for oxen, in
their store or working .state .• a and others for fat
oxen, which have been so Worked.. Some interest
has been excited by a bet betweetiSirTHOWAS CAR ft,
a great breeder of South-Down sheep, • la, Sussex,
and tVlowttY HILL, Es,q. a large 'farmer, in Nor.
folk, to prodUce five shcepat this exhibition.

Str THOlrAs CARR was allowed to 'idea out of a
flock, which he sold last year to GRoRGRGRIM‘II4O,
'Esq. of Kent; five of whose sleep are now.accord.
info, on tirtir way to the yard, fore hil~ition.

Tiit, .Grace die Duke of BOD/OilD has. signified
his intentiun 'of sending two oxen, ten sheep, and
a tat pig.
Rawav-Elvoit HOARE, Esq. a cnw and, a sheep;

JOHN HIGOTNI. &rt. two oxen M. PicKvo go, a
rt• pig ; jAMJo HATCH' Esq. two oxen ; Sir JAMES
%%tot a pig' &Ca and a great number of new im..
!dements, samples oilseeds, and other .iirtjcles, in-
teresting to the Agriculturist, arc expeeted to be
-shown. •

On ,the evening of the t Bth ult. a fire broke
out in the stove at RutherglenPrintfield, which con.'
iumed the rhule huiltlingo, machinery, and stock of
gonds,' which was very great. 'flick were but par-
tially insured.

The followingPrnelamation,lay Lord LAvING.
Governor-of the Leewar►l Taiands,lis from an
Aritigua Paper of the zBth December.

ANTIGUA. '
By His Excellency the Right Hon. RALPH Lcrd
LAvltroToN,•Baron ril Lavirigton, one of His
Mjesty's Most Honourable Privy Council,
Knight Companion of the Most Honourable Or.
der of the Bath, Captain-General and. Governor
in Chief in and over all M iiesty's Leeward
Charibbee Islands in America, Cnancellur, Vice-
Admiral, and Ordinary of the same, &c.
*A PROCLAMATION.

The Earl CAMDEN, His Majesty's Principal Se-
cretary of State for the Colonial- Department, hay.
ing, in cori,equence of a Report
.of the Committee
of His,Mitjesty's Privy Council for Trade.and Fo-
reign Plantations,. communicated to me the Royal
pleasure, that I should not open any of the Pairs of
any of the Islands over which I presid.:, for the
admission of articles from the American States,
which are not al!oWed:to,bc,importedby law, ex.
cept, incases of real and very great,.necessity
• I issue this my Proclamati.,n, notifying and de_
glaring, that under the. regulation and authority of
an Mt. passed in the twenty,eighth year of His Ma.
sesty's reign, and intitled, " ftir Regular.
ang the Trade het.ween:the
,Sollje.cts of Ills Majes.
ty'sColonics and PLinlations in Nr:trth,Atnerica, and
in the West India Islands„; and the countries be.
longing to the United States. of America ; and be.
tween His'Majesty's said Subjeas and the Foreign
Islands in the .Weat Indies ;". •

I admit in the different - Ports of the several
:Islands tinder my command, the irnpottation of the
following articles, viz. tobacco, pitch, far,. torpen.
tine, hemp, flax, in:tits, yards, bowsprits, staves,
heading, boards, titbet„ shingles, and lumber of
any sort ; horses, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry,
and live stock of any sort ; bread, biscuit,- fl .ur,
pease, beans, potatoes, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and
grain of anY Sort ; faith Commodities repettively
being' growth
the or production of any of the Ter.
ritories of the Said United States of AilieriCp.
But whereas, in the first Settion of the Act of
the'General Council and AsseMbly of the -Leeward
Islands, passed in April 1798, and intitled, " An
At more effectually to prov ide for the support,
and exteafil Certain Regulations for the Protettion, of
Slaves, co.-promote and encourage their increase, and
generally to ameli`Orate their doililition"—lt is enact.
ed and ordained, that every Owner' or Direttor of
•irty Slave or Shit'-es within the Leeward Islands,
weekly ao,i every week, under the penalry,oi
ten 'shillings Per head, • far 'each and every, Slave
under his oa tier direction, for ev.•ty omission, pur. ,
chase or ptovide for every said SlaVe or Slaves,
among ;flyers Other kinds'of one pouud
and one quarter of herrings, shads or maekarel,,br
Odle ,cbstitutes for herrings,sh :..Ist or mackarel, the
provision of 'which substif•:,.. •: is altogether twat:.
tainable in any-of the,Let • Jr.'. Islands.
Anti whereas, from various causes in time of
\t'ar, -the' expedation of the smallest degree ut sup_
ply of herrings,' shads, or mackarel, (roar the Brittsh
Colonies iii North Anierica, is a perfectly hopeless
speculation, and the roost favourable Supply of them,
which, from long and uniform experience, C n be
annually expefted • from any of the. Pvrts of the
United Kingdom of' Great Britain tied Ireland, is
found to -be dwell' too precatOns,_and infinitely
too. irregular do every rcspett, but Particularly in
the' periods of their arrival, to answer the constant
and unremitting dernarlds of the plantations in the
Leeward Islands ; and Whereas, the • iudden priva:l
Lion of these last mentioned articles, nor otsiy may
create the greatest inconvenience, and produce the
r►►'r pernicious consequences in the said Colon:es,
but must inevitably disable every Owner or Di_
tenor of Slave or Shrives 'in them fruit- fulfilling
the dtity imposed on ;hint or her by the first Sec.,
tion of the befOre.mentioned Ad for- meliorating
tile condition of theSiaves Leeward-Islands ;
NOw conceiving' the immediate case to be one
Of those r.l ,s real and very great 'necessity " which
s
demands my exercise of the discretionary power
`lodged in me on such occasions, I hereby notify,
that over and 'above .the articles specified in the
before mentioned Aft passed in the zEth year of
,His Majesty's reign, .and already described in this
Proclaotation, I likewise permit the importation
from the AMerican States into the ports of the
Islands in my Government„ of herrings,' shade, mac.
karel, and all sorts of-pickled andoralted fish, for
the space of six calendar months to be 'computed
from the date of this Proclamation ; by the expire.
tion of which period.sinne fileatlS may be devised
by which 1-lis Majesty's Leewardolslands May be
supplied with the said articles from ports of His,
Majesty's own Doininions, or 1 may receive His,
Majesty's further commands on this stihjed. •
ProVided- that no importations• of any kind be
made from the States of America on more favour.
ohle terrns, its to dories on entry, than on similar
importations froM the British 'Colonies in North
America,. where such duties are doe and payable :
Whereof all persons concerned— are to take notiCe,
and govern themselves accordingly. -
Given under my hand and Sian at, Artll9, at the
Government.house at Antigua, this aoth..day
of November, in the year of our Lord '864,
and in the 45th year of His Majesty's reign.
• God Save the Kin., •
LAVINGTON.