The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-18 00:00:00

VICC.

AN interesting Paper from Lord Sommvut.tt,
on the relative value of dteerent breeds ot Sheel;,
Wai On Tuesday read at the Meeting of the B:►uh
Agricultural Society, the 'substance.of which is as
follows

" the year tBOO, Lord Slmerville exchanged
his flock, conaititir4 .entirely of •the lang..woolled
sort (as he found then annwilly,degenerating and
becoming less Piofitable), for 150'Ryeland ewes, to
which, in the following year, he added.some S 'uth.
down ewes, and some ewe's,a-ndlamo: of the Marino
breed that he brought from Spain. These rams, in
each subsequent year, have been, and now continue.
•to be; put to ewes of the S9uth-down and Ryeland
breed ; from each of which crosses a valuable spe-
cies of sheep has been obtained, both in fleece and
carcase ; the value of which has' been thui detailed
by his Lordship. • .•
'' The S,lnth.down store ewes at 31b. per'flecce,
and is. sod. per lb. will pay. Ss. 6d,, per; fleece,
which,' at .6.1. per acre in good upland pasture for. 7 -
91 °nibs,' and 5 menthe in turnips .at 14 or 15 per
acre, will py.3 is. or 401. per acre.
" Ryeland store ew..ts 211 b.• per fleece, at 29.. 2.d..
per lb. untrinded, § sheep per acre, and turnips as
above, will pay tofd. per' acre.
• " South.down and .Marino ewes of the half breed,
at 41b. per fleece clean washed, and 3, per lb. wil
amount to 12i. per fleece, which, at 72 per,acre for
7 months, am unt to 41. 10,. per acre fur the pas.
tore land, with turnips as above for winter keep, •
" .Ryeland and• Marino ewes of the half blo.A'at
to per acre for 7 m nths, antt turnips as abo c, at
3fils. per fleece, and js. 2d. per lb. amounts to 6..
cos. sd. per acre.
" The pure Marino fleeces have never sold at
less than one guinea each ; the average Aveiglit of
which has been more than 6:11. each in the yolk
and on the above allowance of pasture for 7 months,
and turnips as above in aid of that pasture,: the re.
turn will am unt to ten guineas per acre. ,
4f The Hnk has been -kept on 188 acres of
land, • besides the run of 33 acres of turnips; but .
it is lo be observed, twit in the same ground
plough oxen nccdsionally, hut tz constantly, were
depastured till the alter.gra-s ; to this is to be add.
ell the run of yearling'calves, and a Jarge. stock .of.
pigs ; and that the green crops of the spring and
summer 1803 were unusually deficient in these dis.
tricts. The sheep stock amAinted to 302 lambs, 783
stoic sheep ; total so-85. The produce is as fol-
lows
Wool, is racks, t score . . 4 A
o
2t6 store sheep solti . - - - 409 3 0
t;x fat sheep ditto and used - - 16 2
Letting of rams - 524 10 0•

',0618 9 2

" N. B. N sheep have been kept fittreilltig.cldet
than. tour teeth. The tat sheep were all sold. alter
being.sheared, and the price 01 mutrun.ftcm the de.
ficiency of ktep was not more than gid. per lb..at
one part of the season." • , . .
• At Fit:head, Somerset.
+ sac) fleeces, at tss. SU. per fleece, amounted to 3021.

CANTU,: 13UP, Y, SEPT of Our RV.
planters have flow begun plcking ; and. a &et sant.
plc never went to market than their early pockets
and bags ibis year will produce. , The estimated
growth, according to resent appearances, , is/ said
by judge'., to be upon the ayetage about ten bun.
drtd.weight an acre.

'CAUTION TOSPOR.T:•MEN......-Some days ago, .on!
the road trom Qinensterty' to Edinburgh, near.
flarnbougle.gate, a Lidy travelling in a post-chaise
with three
.hlys, her son and two nephews, was
'greatly alarmed by a. shot from an , inclosure south
side the road, which seemed to strike the .carriage ;
one of ,the boys immediately c• tophined he was
hurt, and upon examining his neck and face, the
blood appeared from two places, and lead drops
were found, in the chaise. NoViliclilially none of
thershot had penetrated to do seriojs mischief ; but
such a 'narrow escape should read a caution to
Sportsmen, to abate' a little in the, ardour of the
moment, and rather .to decline a shot altogether titan
endanger the lives or even the comfort of travellers,
or which by itt corsequences may oc‘asitin rePug..
want regret to themselves.—ln the case mentioned,.
the driv'er, with becoming zeal, immediately
m6unted; got some person pasting to hold his horses,
and pursued the Sportsman, who, instead of instant-
ly 'discovering himself and offering his services, ran
off', and was not overtaken : but from his dress, his
dug, and other circumstances, he could easily have
been traced, had the event unhappily proved more
disastrous.

Strlcrpe.—On Sunday afternoomat twrtt.o'clock,.
the Rev. Mr. chaplain of the'Tower, shot
himself with a musquetoon strongly charged, at Ilia
house on the Parade in that. Fortress. He had in,
the morning waited on the Governor to request his
permission, of absence from Chapel that day, on ac.
count of indisposition, which was grapted under
circumstances of polite and even of kind considera.:
tion. The body was discovered on the for with
the skull shattered to pieces, and fragments of it
scattered to the extremities of 'the room. No im.
mediate caws seems to have instigated the an. The
cOnduCi of the. Unfortunate Gentleman was ever
marked • by much eccentricity and abstraCtion 'of
mind, .tinetured with a considerable pot thin of -me.
lancholy ;. Gut • latterly it appeared to his friends to
have taken a more, serious and 'apprehensive form.
His inoffensive Tanners and polite acquirements had
gained him 'esteem in a must respettable circle of
relations and acquaintance ; and be was known as
the'author 9( some slight literary compositions, and
recently of a sin licroic..Poem. In the sister Arts
of Music and Painting, he was generally considered
as a successful, amateur.. Mis.; was In Dc.
vpnshirp at the time of this melancholy catatrophe
taking. place, whith4 site had gone for tile purpose
of. Idying_claitt,to,an estate. , •