The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-17 00:00:00

TPOEURN SHEEP-SHEAR INC,

Ql4 Monday the grand annual Sheaving
menced in the Park Farm Yard, agreeably to the
appointment of the late lamented Duke. The
present Duke, for reasons which may very easily
be conceived, was not present, and Lord SOMER.
VILLE undertook the management.
Many of the first Agriculturists in the kingdom
came to the Abbey, and tilled the Inns in the town
on Sunday evening and Monday morning ; but the
falling off in point of numbers, as might be expea-
ed, was very considerable.
About ten o'clock Lord SOMERVILLE and the
rest of the company left the Abbey, and proceeded
to the Park Farm-yard and inspeded the Shearers,
who were at work in a very convenient place ap-
pointed for that purpose.
Mr. SA LMAN, the resident surveyor, has invented
a very capital thrashing mill, which is so portable,
that it can be all taken in a waggon, and completely
fixed up in a barn in the course of a few hours.
There was an exhibition of very fine Leicester
rams, and Hereford cattle, which was followed by a
sale of Leicester ewes.

About three o'clock the Company retired to the
Abbey to dinner; as soon as they had taken their
seats, a gloom was cast on the countenances of all
present, for the chair where the late much lamented
Duke used to sit, was by design left vacant, and a
plate set before it, turned up. Lord SOMERVILLE
presided as Chairman on the right of this chair.
About five o'clock the company left the Abbey
for the Park Farm, when most of the Leicestershire
rams shewn in the morning were let at good prices.
Ten Herefordshire cows, and two bulls, were sold at
a high rate.

SECOND DAY-JUNE 15.

This morning at ten o'clock, the company left
the Abbey, and proceeded to the Park lam Yard,
and inspeCted the Sheep Shearers.
Five three-shear tups were shewn in the Exhibi-
tion room, and ten two-shears. Two hund'red and
forty breeding South Down Ewes and Theaves were
then exhibited in pens in the Park, and sold by auc-
tion by the Bailiff; they were sold in lots of ten and
twenty each ; and such an opinion had the company
of the breed, that some of them aaually fetched
41. cos. per head. The principal bidders were
Gentlemen of rank; some of them sold only at
i Ss. a head, but, upon the whole, they fetched
very high prices.
Two Patent Ploughs of Lord SOMERVILLE'S
were exhibited ; one for making a furrow narrow
or wide, by only the application of a screw, as it
may be wanted, or according to the soil it is plough-
ing in : the other was for snaking two furrows
with the same advantage.
Mr. CARTwRIGHT exhibited a Plough calculated
to make one, two, or three furrows, or all of them
at the same time.
Mr.- Sat,maN, the resident Surveyor, exhibited a
very. ingenious Machine for weighing Sheep. It
works on a steel centre, and will weigh from an
ounce to 3001 b.. to the greatest accuracy.
Mr. Pi CKFORD., the great waggon-master, of Mar.
ket.street, exhibited a Sow Pig, not two years old,
which weighed about 7o stone, which had been
principally fed upon pease. Ile likewise exhibited
a Boar for the prize, not nine months old.
At three o'clock the principal part of the com-
pany adjourned to the Abbey to dinner, where a
most elegant dinner was provided for about zoo, in
the ancient hall. The chair formerly filled by the
late Duke, was again left vacant—Lord SoMER.
VILLE sat on the right of it, and Mr. Coxr, of
Norfolk, on the left, as managers. An adjoining
room was likewise filled with company. After
dinner Lord SOMERVILLE gave—The KEIc.—To
the Memory of the late Duke of BEDFORD.
After which Mr. YOUNG, Secretary to the Board
of Agriculture, addressed the company, by calling
their attention to a Letter he had that day received
from the Duke of BEDFORD, in London, which His
Grace direaed him to read to the company.
The Letter stated, that it was His Grace's inten-
tion to carry into died
the designs of his late Brd-
tiler to the fullest extent, and to continue this meet-
ing ; and as he knew it was his Brother's intention to
discontinue offering premiums for the encouragement
of the breeds of South Downs and Leicestershire
sheep, as he was persuaded his °Ned had been an-
swered by the extension of these breeds, particularly
in the South Downs, which had made considerable
progress in the County, he should, therefore, dis-
continue offering any premiums on this head, but
should offer premiums for all distinct breeds of sheep,
for the purpose of trying experiments ; he therefore
proposed to purchase twenty of every breed of sheep
throughout the country, and to pay ail travelling ex-
pences of any breeder from any part of the country,
whO chose to send them, to be delivered at Woburn
between the xsth of September and the isth of
01ober, and the effects of the different experiments
to be 'made known at the Sheep-shearing 1803. It
was stated to be His'Grace's intention to continue
the Premiums to Shearers, being convinced of neat
and close clipping being a considerable saving, and of
national utility.
The Letter was received with very great ap-
plause, and His Grace's health was immediately
drank, which was followed 'by—Success to Hus-
bandry—The Farming Societies in all parts of the
world—The Plough—The Fleece—The Landed and
Commercial Interests of the. United Kingdom, and
long may they be inseparable—Earl EGRE MONT—
Sir HARRY FEATHERSTONE—Lord PRESTON---TO
the Memory-of the late Duke of BEDFORD, was
repeated, after which the Company returned to bu-
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siness.
The Meeting was much more numerously attend-
ed than yesterday.

The Medal about to be struck by the Board of
AgricUlture, in honour of the late Duke 01 BED-
FORD, on one side represents a profile bust of the
Duke, surmounted with a Ducal Coronet, and en-
circled with this appropriate inscription :—Francis
C. Dux Bedford e, As-ricolar Fa- ciie Princess : the
reverse represents Ceres, with emblematical decora-
tions, reclining over an urn, and round it Boui Lu-
gent—Pfremtaure Ademtum ; and at the base of the
urn, Agricolarum Cectus Consulto.

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On Wednesday morning the gth instant, at eight
o'clock, the Earl of LONsDAL E was interred in the
Family Vault at Lowther, in Westmoreland. He
was attended by his own servants, having given
dire Lions that his funeral should be private, and
that they only should attend ; and although it was
not known to any persons except the family, when
the ceremony was to be performed, yet a very great
crowd of people from the neighbourhood were as-
sembled, and behaved with the greatest respeta,
decency, and decorum. We have been favoured
with the particulars of his Lordship's Will and
Codicils, and which we insert, as the public
curiosity has been much excited respecting the dis-
position of his property. it appears that he has
provided liberally for all his familyconnedions,
and for his servants : his sisters will have above
60,0001. besides the Barbadoes Estate of 40001. a
year. The Estate in Yorkshire, left Mr. John
Lowther, is joool. a year ; and the Estates in Cum-
berland and 'Westmoreland, left to the present
Viscount Lowther, are supposed to be 40,0001. a
year, including the Whitehaven Estate, which was
before intailed on him; besides, he will have ,near
too,oool. in personals, as 50,0001. in gold has
already been found in his houses ; and the Viscount
is well known to he deserving of it all, as a more
amiable, liberal, and benevolent man, never existed.
Lord Lo NsD A L E's Will, and the distribution of his
property, have given universal satisfaction : his
own sisters, and other near relatives, are well
satisfied; and even his enemies bestow the greatest
praise on him, for the justice and liberality of this
last at of his life.

HEADS OF THE WILL ANE CODICILS OF THE LATE I
EARL OF LONSDALE, DATED THE 13TH JAN.
1798.
He gave all his Manors and • Estates in the Counties of
Westmoreland and Cumberland, except Burgages, unto Dr.
Lowther, and George Wood, Esq. To the use of Sir Wil-
liam Lowther for lite, with remainder to his first, and other
Sons, in tail male ; remainder to John Lowther, Esq. fur
life, and to his first and other Sons in tail male, with re-
mainder
To the Countess Dowager of Darlington for life ; remain-
der to the Dutchess Dowager of .Bolton for life; remainder
to Barbara Lowther for life, with remainder to his own right
Heirs.
And gave all his Manors and Estates in the County of
York, to John Lowther, Esq. for life, with remainder to
his first and other Sons, in tail male, •with.reniaincler to Sir
William Lowther, for life,
,and to his first and othe'r Sons in
tail male ; with the like remainders in favour. of his three
Sisters for their lives, and then to his own right Heirs.
Gave all his Burgage and other houses and lands in the
Borough of Appleby, and in the Borough of Cockermou.th,
to Sir William Lowther and his Heirs.
And direded all his'Estates in Middlesex and Surrey to be
sold as soon afrer his decease as convenient, and the money
arising thereby to be applied in part of his personal Estate.
And gave to Sir William Lowther, for ever, all his Lease-
hold Estates, goods, chattels, and other personal property
not otherwise disposed of, chargeable with the payment of
his funeral expenses, legacies and debts.
And directed the person who succeeded him in his Cum-
berland Estates, to demand no heriot on his death, in respect
of any Estates he had purchased in Cumberland., is the fol-
lowing wordS, viz.
" It is my will and mind, that if the person who shall
succeed me in my Cumberland Estates, or any part thereof,
shall demand any Heriot or Heriots on my death, for or in
respect of any Estate or Estates which 1 have purchased in
the said County of Cumberland, that the person making
such demand shall forfeit and pay to the person on whom
such demand shall be made, the sum of Twenty Thousand
Pounds, to be paid out of my Cumberland and Westmorland
Estates within six Months atter such Heriot or Heriots shall
have been so demanded amad required to be paid. And Ido
hereby charge my said Cumberland and Westmoreland
Estates with the payment thereof."
And directed that all his Plate, Furniture, Pidlures and
ct Books, not otherwise disposeof, should be deposited at his
dieelling-house at Lowther, to go as heir lOoms, with the
intail of his Estate.
And directed all the Debts of the Countess of Lonsdalc to
be paid out of his real and personal property.
Gave to his Wife all such jewels and trinkets which she
usually wore and was possessed of.
And gave to her and her Heirs, the House and Garden occu-
pied by her at Fulham, togther with the goods and furniture
therein, and all the furniture in her Bed- roornin his dwelling-
house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.
And gave the following Legacies, viz. to his said Wife
soool. To his three Sisters 70001. each.
To the Earl of Darlington anti his Wife 5001. each.
To his said Sisters, all Miniature Pidures of his Family.
To Sir Michael Le Fleming, Baronet, such sum of money
as lie was indebted to him, and also. toed'.
To Mrs. Gowland, such sum as she was indebted to him,
and zoo!. ; and to Richard Penn, Esq. such sum as he was
indebted to him, and tool.
To Mrs. Bucknall, an Annuity of ztl. To Hannah Francis
tool. and an Annuity of tool. To Mrs. Dunn, the House
and Garden she occupied, for.life, and zoo]. and an Annuity
of !sal. for her life; and if her Daughter survived her, the
Same for her life.
And gave all his property in the Island of Barbaclors to his
three Sisters.
Gave Lydia Tabberer, Widow, cool. a year for her• life,
and also zoool.
And gave Mourning to all his Servant;, and two years.
wages to each, over and above what was owing to ; and
recommended to Sir William Lowther to continue them in
his service, at the same wages.
And gave tojames Lowther, Esq. 20001. to his Wife the
like sum, and to his Children foool. each.
And appointed Sir William Lowther sole residuary Legatee
of all his Goods, Chattels, and Personal Estate.

Yesterday the Lotto MAYOR went in procession,
attended by the Sheriffs, Aldermen BOYDELL and
PRITCHARD, the Town Clerk, and Gentlemen of the
Household, &c. &c. to St. Margaret's Hill, South-
wark, when he held a Court, and swore in a Jury
for the Court of Conservancy on the River Thames.
After which they went across St. George's-fields,
over Westminster-bridge, to the Crown and Ar.choi
Tavern, in the Strand, when his Lordship held a
Court of Conservancy for Middlesex. After which
they were entertained with an elegant dinner.
The new Street, which is in great forwardness on
the East Side of the Gardens of the British Museum,
is to be called Montague Street. The houses, it is
said, are already taken. They will be a great or-
nament to that part, of the- town, and not a little
profitable to the ground-landlord:
The Cambridge University Prizes, are adjudged-
to Mr. JACKSON, A.B. of Queen's College, for an
Essay on the " Genius and Charafier of SoCRaTES;"
and, to Mr. LIPSCOMBE, of New College, for a
Copy of Latin Verses, " Fodino—the Mines."
Mr. Cook E is engaged for a certain number of per-
'formances at Manchester. A curious circumstance
happened in the Theatre, on Thursday evening ;
A man in the Gallery had thrown something On the
stage, a common and dangerous practice of that
place, and was in consequence taken into •custody,
and brought behind the scenes. He got from the
person who took him, and, running to the front of
the Stage, stepped nn the latups'over the Orchestra
.on to the spikes, and sprung ii-om thence into the
pit, to the astOnishment of the audience. He was
then again taken into custody by Mr. NAPIN, the
CAstahle, and secured. •