The Sun.
London, England, 1804-11-02 00:00:00

MONTIILY AORICULTURdL REPO T.

I r has been a remarkable fine sowing time, and most of the
W heat is gut into the ground what is up looks very promis-
ing. The turnips have come on very rapidly with'the
ant will produce much more keep than was at first expeded.
From the Corn that has been thrashed, we may calculate
pretty certainly on the quantity produced. Wheat is in many
places much injured by mildew, and will produce less than
the mildewed wheat of last year; and in the whole a very
considerable deficiency will be found. Barley is of good qua-
lity, but short in quantity ; owing both to the little land
sowed, and the little yield per acre. Oats will be found an
average crop.--Wheat averaged at Mark-lane, on the 6th ult.
715. ;
tra. and on the tlth, 745. sd. The present average
of all E'riglarid is, Wheat, 675. zd. ;—Rye, 395. 4d. ;—Barley,
345. 9d. ; —and Pats, 22. ad.
Clover, when in full bloom, promised an amazing Crop ;
the result will he, that much will not pay for thrashing out
the seed: the quality will be good.—ln Whitechapel Mar-
ket, Hay fetches from 31. to 41. tos.—Clover, 41. to 51. tos.
mut, Straw, 11. tos to tl 16s.
tore Stock of all kinds is nearly the same as last month.
In Smithfield Market, Beef fetches from 4s. to ss.—Mutton,
3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d.—Veal, 3s. Bd. to 45.--Polk, 3s. to 4s. 4d.
'and Lamb, 45. to S. Lid.
Beans and Pease are a good crop, and the quality fine.
Corn has risen very rapidly. Perhaps when sowing is
finished, Wheat may be a little lower ; but it must be from
extensive importation that any material reduCtion can be ex-
petted. But little Barley, as yet, conies to market ; nor can
much be expeCted till the stock comes to straw.

On Tuesday se'nnight the Perthshire County
Meeting was held, which had been adjourned from
the zd ult. for the purpose of taking into can.
sideration a proposal for erecting certain public
buildings for the use of the County of Perth.

The Duke of ATHOL was in the Chair, and the
attendance was uncommonly full. •
After a conversation of some length, in which the
Duke of Muni., Lord KINNAIRD, Sir WILLIAM
RAMSAY, Mr. KINNAIRD, Colqnel MACKENZIE.
Mr. HAGART, &C. took part, certain resolutions
moved by Mr. KINNAIRD were adopted. The
purport of these was, that a new Prison, with
Court, Record, and County Rooms, were necessary ;
and that the building of a Bridewell was now inex.
pedient. A Committee was avpointed to determine
by whom the expences of the former buildings must
be defrayed ; and the Report of this Committee is
to be received in August, 1805.
At a meeting of Noblemen and Gentlemen, held
in Glasgow, on Wednesday se'imight, subscription
papers were opened, and nearly zobocols, sub.
scribed, for making the proposed- Canal between
Glasgow and the West Cnast of Ayrshire.,

Two beautiful marble monuments have been
opened-at the Cathedral. Church, Winchester, exe.
cured by Mr. FLAXMAN the one of the Rev. Dr.
WARTON, !-lead Master of Winchester College
the other of Mrs. NORTH, Lady of the present
Bishop of-that Diocese.
The discovery said to have been lately made by
Earl Si-motor e, of a particular mechanism by which
the keys of musical instruments are nvde to print the
notes when they are touched, has been claimed, as is
usual in cases of this kind, by certain continental
mechanics. A Berlin Journal affirms that a similar
invention was produced at Berlin, by HOHPIELD,
fifty or sixty years ago. PFEIFEHR, an Organ.
builder at Stutgardr, has also given out, that he is ar
present con trudting a machine by which whatever
is played on the keys of an instrument will be
printed by the movement. This mechanic professes
to have had the idea from BRECAL.
clan, of Biberack. We state these claims, but, at
the same time, inform the several claimants, that
the method was known and described in one of the
early volumes of the Philosophical TransaCtions of;
the Royal Society .of London,
Several new Editions of the Classics have lately'
made their appearance in Germany, where-polite
literature is very much cultivated. SCHMIEDER
has just published Quintius Curtius, with notes and
elaborate commentaties.

A few years since this artist was recognised in
his constant summer excursion to the Isle of Wight,,
at a place called Freshwater Gate, in a low public.
house, known by the name of " The Cabin." A
number of fishermen, a few sailors, and three or
four rustics, formed the homely group: he was in
the midst of them, contributing his joke, ars(l par.
taking of their noisy merriment, when his friend
called him aside, and intreated an hour of his com.
pany. Mour.Arto, with some relutance, with.'
drew from the Cabin, and on his friend's remon.
strating with him the next day for keeping such
company, he drew from Isis pocket a sketch-book,
and asked where he was to find so true a piaure of
humble life, unless it was in such a place as that
from whence his friend had withdrawn him ? The
sketch was a correa delineation of every thing in
the Cabin tap.room, even to a countenance, a stool,
a settle, or the position of a figure. This repre-
sentation his remembrance had supplied after leaving
the house ; and one of his best pictures is that very
scene he then sketched ; a proof that his mind was
still intent on its favourite pursuit, that of nature
in her homeliest attire, though his manners at the
moment betrayed nothing further than an eagerness
to participate in the vulgar sensualities of his sur-
rounding companions.
We are in possession of several scarce anecdote;
of this great genius, kVhich we shall lay before our
,k,atlers, as derived from the most authentic source.
The funeral is fixed for to-morrow or Sunda),
when his remains are proposed to be interred in St.
Pancras churchyard, where his father and an only
child lie at present.

From the circumstance of this curious character
breathing his last in a house kept by a Sheriff's
Officer, where he was lodged under an arrest, it be.
came necessary that an Inquisition should be held
to inquire into the cause of his death ; which was
beta before the Coroner of Middlesex, GEORGE
HOD° :)Ni Esq. at Eyre.sireet.hill, near Coldbath.
silo ire, on Wednesday at one o'clock.
It appeared, that a short time since, Mr. Molt.
LAND was arrested for a debt of a small amount,
and in default of bail, lodged at Mr. ATW EL'S, a
respedable Officer under the Sheriff, on Eyre.strcet.
hill ; there he lived in comfortable apartments, where
he was attended, as had long been usual, by a man
called jemmy Gibbs, who received a weekly salary
for so doing. His health was in no more dangerous
a state than it had long been, until a little before his
death,, when he was seized with violent Spaims,
which in the event caused his death; even to the
last his unfortunate propensity held him ; and a
bottle of his favourite beverage, gin, was among
his last requests. His brother, who is in the Tavern
business, and has long been his most intimate friend,
did not see him during his' illness, being prejudiced
against the visitation of a Spunging.houae ; but now
takes an active pat tin affording the last sad tribute
of resped to a deceased Brother.—The Jury, on
these circumstances being proved, found a Verdid"..".
66 Died itscustody, by the Visitation of God !"
" His body is laid in a very handsome coffin, with
the simple inscription—" Mr. GEORGE MORLAND,
died 291 b October, 1804, aged 41 years."
Titus died a man whose works will live while
ta.te for correct, yet spirited, delineations of Nature
in the, humble walks of life, bear any value, and
when his imperfections and eccentricities as a man
I are forgotten.

Last week, owing to above two days violent in.
cessant rain, the rivers ,Eden and Caldew overflow-
ed their banks, and inundated the low grounds in
the neighbourhood of .Carlisle.. The Caldew is a
violent and impetuous mountain , streatn,, which
rises about the base of Skiddow, and flows through
a country equally beautiful and romantic, till it be.
Comes lost to the superior river Eden, a, little below
the city ts(Carlisle, the walls of which are Washed
by the chrystal waters of the Caldew. The Eden,
different in charader
,from the liver before.men.
tinned, takes its rise among the mountains of the
North of Yorkshire, and after passing Appleby Cal-
ale, in Westtnotland,' and receiving the, Egmont
from the Lake of Elleswater, it visits a delightful
vale in a northern diration, running through the
greater part_of the County of Cumberland. This
vale abounds with piCturesque situations (partica.
*tarty Corhy and Nunnery), where a variety of the
richest scenery contributes to please the lover of
Nature. After sweeping in increased majesty
round a fine champaigne country in the neigh:.
:bourhOod of Carlisle, the Eden becomes an estuary,
and forms the firth of Solway, which divides the
two branches of this kingdom, and
_the variegated
shores of Scotland are visible from the coast of Coma
,berland, spotted with its harbours, and distinguish.
.ed with the rude features of the Caledonian land.
scape. Both these tivers,.frona their proximity to
a mountainous country, are subjea to violent and
sudden risings ; but, we, believe, one resembling
.that we are at present registering, has not occurred.
since the year t77z—a year made memorable by
the destrudion of the bridge over the T.YII, at
Newcastle, and the phenomenon of the overflow of
Solway Moss. Sunday and Monday last being
remarkably wet, not the least interval of fair wear.
ther appearing during the two entire days, a rise
of the rivers was expected by the inhabitants of two
of the suburbs of Carlisle, many of whom live within
the vvater.mark: On Monday. night the Caldew
swelled to an amazing height, and burst- every ob.
stack that could be opposed to its fury, continuing
the whole of the night to waste the surrounding
country 'bordering iipan its banks. On Wednesday
morning the Eden grew an immense body of water,
covering the whole. of the fine balms near Carlisle,
and presenting to the eye of the speetator a vast
and magnificent surface, resembling a large lake,
situated in the bosom of a fine cultivated country.

SHIP !YEWS,

GRAVESEND, OCT. 3t.