The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-28 00:00:00

NEW COUNCIL. •
Philip I. de touiherbourg, fosepii raringtont
Robert Sinirke, George Dance.

Robert Smirke,
Charles Rossi, •
Thomas 13. mks,
Thomas Srothartl,
l'horn4s L 4 vy react!,

VISITOItS, '
John Fiaxnuno
Henry Fuicli, •
Alm tin Archer Shre,
josepil N Jllekeng.

George Dance,

joti':1)1) Farington.

CORN 1.Z.Nr.;11..-INGE, DEC. z 8.4

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The late blowing-weather has rim ton.
arrivals.of Grain that watt expeaed, and to-day btic
little fresh is e(inie. in. The :Yale of Wheat is heavy ;
the Barley and Malt Trade is doll, and .at something
less, as arc White ?ease ; 'Tick I3.:ankare plenty,
and lower ; we have many late arrivals of foreign-
Oats., but they are now prrillibited coming in ncu.:
tral• vessels ; /Nat' as' our last.
Wheat 38s a 45s a ;Ss :At Tick Beam - 3cs 24s oci
ditto, st,s a 57s 6d ,t)ati Oh a ..11$ a 23s eit
Rye - a.Y.; a oft Polaild dittu 24s a 20,
Barley 2A).> n 2ji !",tt i{aVe Seed- - 35) 3gt
Malt 524 a 5.3.$ od Hour • 45s a s)s orb
White Pease 42s a 49%: o'l Sevinds - '404 a 45S 04
Beans 34s a 393 cc=

Yesterday the principals of the ,fakers' Com.
pany..wa.ited upon. - the Lo It D MAYOR pit the
sion.house, relative to the Assize of Bread, when
his Lordship, after investigating the Meal weighers'.
reports of the av,...r.ige prices. of Wheat awl flour at
the Corn Nlarket, ordered the price of bread to
reduced a ..whole assize, or, two.pence in the rek
loaf, to'tilke place to,ituirrow. The. rittartt n LA"
wheaten will, then be sold - for nine-pence tarthivg,
and household seven pence three-farthings.
-The 'einPestious Weather, List ‘lieekovits sorerdy
felt on the Sussex c,.?ast. A bo.it in iiietutt of pilOt.
ing.a'Brig into Little Hampton Ha rbouv,- a 5 upset,
aud two persons out of three, were drowned ; a VCS.
sel t lost orfglmer,. its' tinfoil unl4e ereiv„
who from.the shrouds so:icited that amsi,
the We4the.r forbad thie siTftatdrs to aii:od iktn : a
Vessel was aho 14.1“ Off RUSailgtet), etc w saved ; a.
'Prig- with timber for Cr'4vernmcnt u,e„ was wrecked
off. Rye, crew saved.

Accounts from the towns al,.ing the Sussex coast
state,.that alinr.),t every tiolini,bt:d new huildisng
ken.levelled with the ground, by the great wind art
al:istmo-day ; 'tad ,t,h4r elamnies,,to the- great an-
noyance and danger of the iqliatutdots, have hterl
preciPitateil :ltrOgif the roofs, and man.r of them
have made tv4y to the rounti ti
A very crinsideroble put of the ancient wall whi;2l;
surrounds the gardens of Cdrumbury
ton, ci,tit the embankment thrown hint
firing of die Volunteer Corr, were levelled with
the ground during the violence oldie storm on Sun.
day. Five of..;!te trees in St. 14me4's Park, and one
in the p.reen 1',41k, were torn up by the root:;„
On Sunday afternoon, during rheth:igh wind, the
cas.ement of a window light Wets, dawn from the gar-
ret,stinaow of the Lambeih-strt.et,
Wltiteoa,pe!, on the head (,f.tte,:iild who war poving
at the time, and friCtured its scull, The. infant was
itruriedi.ately taken 'to the hospital, but without
hopes of recovery.

During the .trenvntlum gale on Sunday, a boy,
about eight years ohl, crowing the upper en;t txf
Park-street, was forcibly carried, by a sodden gtlit,
to some:mnsiderable.distance,' and by its conttotted
violence rolled several times over along the ground
before he could betaken up ; in the fall his under.
lip was. 4hoekingly lacerated through to the chin,
and the wholt2of.hls face very much bruised t he
was carried ,loa Surgeon in North Aildley-street,
who.reporr*.hitil yesterday in a fair way.
OoSaturday 13,4, ab, ut ten o'clock in the
.irtig, as 'Mr. \V. o.tines, baker, was returnin4
Gloucester, he was attacked by two fontpack,' at a
place•called Bennetts of the WoOti, its of
Stroud. Before they lirike, one of the vil;atns di4..
charged a pistol:at him, the ball of whidt
through .the crown otitis hat, pmidentially
out doing any injory. They' then, with an w[l,
demanded t4i9 money, or his life; bnt Mr. tt. Ti!“...
at 'alt alartofd, dismounted his horse, and bolit!y
glared them, armed or nor, to approach hitts'.
however they:Aecilheil ; and can off intO the
Owing to the: fog and darktvzss of the night, :Wit'.
Haines Ooold neither pursue the:m, ncr disLcro their
persons with any degree Of ac,.1,-tey, but it is rath:ir
aospeaett they were not straN;cts,

Eirly yesterd,ly morning, dtabop.), Rartms nut
r.viiherm Trichtr (the two convttti who ekcNird from
.N.,.ny South SV,dvs, and con,:caied thenbelvel OEb
b the titha, MusoftAvE, in which they
were brought to England) were sent dr to Port -
rnAtth ueder an escort frinn B,,w.street, to order
t pot on board the li,verimetrt Traulito,rt, now
under sailing ordt:ri for )tany Bay.

Some mischieyous evil.dispasitl'itersons n
the cooise. of the summer, have math.. a ,pratt'Ke
of
taking horses from the ficath at FlAtopstetta .tact
vicinity) during the Atght, tind riding them sever 4
miles distance,. for whArepurpase, has not yet been
aseertaimed---tvhether from wantontiess or for aid
lug in lobberies., Rut, an aEt of still more att,,,
cioui Anti barbarous nature has still be,...n.etnntnitted
one of those, poor anirrials -was di,Tovtred lately,
with it 4 tongue Cut.altnost o of its h. It be..
belonged to a poor man who Ow town witi,
Ivater.

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4,VERIC,I.

HOUSE or REPRtsEN I'ATIVEs7. Nov. 5.

A MEsqm-.E was tcceived Irmo the President-oe.
,
carryalls log. el letter from car. PAL 4Btttrct, of
the Philadelphia Vrigate, stating•,his 'capture. of a
MoiiSco Coesair, and the .Anitrican Brig
which had been.icaptttred by the Cortair, contr2ry
to subsisting 'l..reaties.: the :`..lessage was referred
rl a c.:omtnittee, consisting of Dr. EusTis,
Cr,AY Mr. SANDS, Mr. CiCEERY, and Mt.
Ihe follor% ing are COpies of the. President's ter:
tee,' and Of thry letter froth Capt. BAT NEtitTDCi, to
our Conipl at Gibraltar.

" To the Stuart and thutiof Repiwentatives.

" By' the 'copy, now .communica fed; of a letter
from emit'. BA of the Philadelphia Fri-
gate, to our Consul to Gibraltar, you will learn, that
an ad of,liostilitY- has been committed on a Merchant
Vessel of the. United States, by an armed Ship of the
Emperor of MortOcco. This conduit on the parr
of that Power, is without cause and without expla,
nation. It is fortunate that Capt. +RAINARtuca fell
in with, and took the capturing vessel and her priir;
and I have the satisfaffion to Inform you, that about
the date of this transaaion, such a force would be
arriving in the neighlnurhooti of Gibraltar, both
from the ,East and the West, a leaves less to be fear.
e&i for our commerce, front the suddenness of the
aggression.

'' On the oh of September, the Cemstitillity;
gate, Capt. 111(11121.El with Mr. LVAR on hoard, was
within t days sail .of Gibraltir, where the Phila.
40 [llia would then be arrived with the prize"; and
.iuch mplanation would probably; he instituted the
state of thtpgs rrAnired, and as might, perhaps,,ar-
tesr the progress of hostilities.
" In the mewl while, it is for Congress to consi.
e'er the Provisional Authorities which may he ne.
eessary LtL, restrain the depredations of this Power,
should they be continued.

Tu. Jerveßsort."

it ;A '7; 4, 1803."
United States Frigate, Philadelphia, East of Ma•
luea about ten miles; Aug. 29, zZo3.

" SIR,

11 I wrote. you from Gibraltar, on the 24th inst.
mentioning that we should sail the next morning for

Malta.
4r Hearing, at the Rock, that two Tripolitans
were off' the Cape de tact, made me proceed with
all expedition to examine that part of the Spanish
coast. On the '26th, it blowing very fresh, at
eight P. M. being nearly up with Cape de Gatt, fell
in with a Ship-carrying only her foresail, whichbad
is Brig in Company, under the same sail. It being
,night; and her pill housed, prevented an imme.
diate discovery of her being a Cruizer. After hail.
ing for some time, found she was a Vessel of War
from Barbary ; on which information I caused her
boat, to be Bent on board the Frigate, with her pass.
ports, from which I diseovered that she was a
Creizer belonging to the Emperor of Morocco,
called Mesbbohq, commanded by TaItAHAM
mounting az guns, and manned with Too
men. By not making ourselvesknown to the Officer
who came on board, he confessed that the Brig in
company was an Amorican,aind had been with them
three or four days, was bouna to.soine port in Split',
bad been boarded by them, but not detained. The
low sail the BEig was under induced me to sowed
that they 'had captured her, notwithstanding their
having yoar Passport, which it must appear froM
the sequel was only obtained to prated them against
the American Ships of War. I sent my First Lieu
'tenant on board, to examine it therhad any Ame-
rican prisoners. On his attempting to execute my
orders, he'. was prevented by the Captain of the
Cruizer. This incteased my suspicion, and I sent
a Boat with armed then to inforce my instrudion.
Alter 'they, went on board, they found Captain
BoweN, of the American. Brig Celia, owned by
AMASA Toeyee, of BoSson, and several of
his Crew, who were taken on the rph lost, troth
Barcelona, bound to Malaga, within two or three
leagues of the Sottish shore, and about 3,5 miles .to
the Eastward of Malaga. The 'CAptain:and Ctety
they had confined below deck, which they always
did when apeaking a vessel. After making this
discovery—, 1 instantly ordered all the Moorish. on
hoard the Frigate, for. I made no hesitation in cap,
turing her after Much proceedings on their part, and
violation of the faith of Passports, which ought to
be sacred. Owing to the high wir,al and Sca, it
took eie the greater part of the:night to get,the pri..
owlet's on board,and man the prize, which detention
oecaSirioed lutiitig eight of the Brig. The following
mornieg,diacoieringroany vessels indiversdireaions
tic day was spentby' the Frigate and Prize, in ihas.
ing to find the capttned Brig ; about four P. M.
made Iter:cornii,g round Cape tie Gait from the East.
ward, standing close...in shore for Almeria Bay;
owing to the wind not being.very.frealt, we were
going slow iaapproaching tier ; ,the greatest, eXer.
trot)* were made by l.,ieutenant :Cola; ,in towing
and rowing the prize. Fortunately the 'wind in.
creased in theeyening,.ena we re.captared her at
. Y a ,o'clock at night. The Moors confessed that
they came „a cruizing for the sole purpose of cap.';
, swing Americatisio he atnt to Tangiers. I have
received a paper froM them, written in Morisco,
they say is their authority frOm the GOvernor.
of Tangiers tor so doing. I inclose this, to Jotter
GAV A(0, Esq. with e particular request ,tn, have it
safety conveyed to you, thet you may be informed
of the cireemstancea aed at accordingly. I be,
lieve the Governor of Tangiers is: touch dißpoled
for hostilitie with the United States.; The Moorish
prisoners aCCuSe him as: the sole cause of their pre..
sent situation. 1., sincerely hope that the capture
may be produdive of good effect to the .United
States with.the Emperor, who may be assured, that
if he unjustly goes to tear with 'the United States,
he will loaecvery lerge
.Cruizer he has ;and God
grant that it may not in the least prove a disad.
vantege to you. -,My Oflicersandmyeelt have made
it a' marked enint to treat the prisoners not only
with theleoity that is due from humanity, but with

particular attention and civility,ito impress on theit
minds a fivourabie opinion of the American chirac..
ter. That you :nay receive this information as early
:3 possihle, I dispatch my Boat on shore at Malaga,
ti.) request Wu. KIRKPATRICK, Eq. Consul, to
send it by express to Gibraltar. I shall be extreme.
lye anxious to hear from you, as also for the arrival
of Commodore PREISLt, to receive his instruftioni
retative to the captured ShipS.: lam hound to Gib.
raltar Bay with the prize, but am' fearful we shall
be detained for the want of an Easterly wind.
I am, &c.
(Signed) .‘ w
'' To lames Siestsoy, Esq."

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ISAINBRIDGC"

DUBLiN, DEC. 23.

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Y vet R DAY morning ahout six o'clock, the claim.
ney of a house in Crane-lane, Essex:street, fell
in, precipitating the root and floors of the front
rooms to the bottom—by this dreadful event ,four
persons have been killed, and six or' seven danger.
ously wountieti;—through the exertions of the Of.
facers and Privates of the 36th Regiment,. guar.
tered at the Old Custom. House, 'several persons
were got out of the house, who otherwise must
inevitably Have shared the same fate; the men with
great humanity took Ott their great coats and car.
tied the unfortunate naked suffe.rers, conduCling

them into the.guard.roomi till other relief could be
itilkiided. Among the persons killed were an in.
dustriuus man of the name of Kelly, a bair.dies.
ser, with his wife and apprentice boy, who occu.
pied the shop floor. This-Calamity has reduced a
*libel of poor persons, c4iefly women :old chit.
dren, to the greatest' Misery, and at this' inclement
soason renders them peculiar objeOs of public bene-
volence.

rarUL ATLYN:

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESULTS OF THE,POPIILA.

?lON ACT, 4.1 CEO.

Flom the registers of baptisms, burials, and mar.
tinges, a probable,estitnate of the incrrase or dimi.
nution.of the population of Great liritain through-
out the last century, is to be attempted.
So far as the marriage register of •-England and
Wales extends, there. is no danger of error in depend.
ing on it for this purpose; but from the many al.
ledged causes of deficiency in the registry of burials
and baptisms, it may be urged that no safer &dation
can be made therefrom.

It cannot be denied, that the mortality, and con-
sequently the hunitier of burials, in' any insulated,
year, is an irregular criterion of population, The
rqistered burials in the last successive fwenty-one
years in 'some instances chew a variation of above
y
eighteen thousand in successive ' ears ; and as the
amount of the baptisms appears not to vary above
halt' as much from the circumstances of the times
and seasons, it is certainly the .preferable .criterion
for 'the early part of the century, of which only
every tenth: year appears in the abstrati.
The objeaion that has been urged against the
authority of any collection of the parish registers of
baptisms, is, that registers were in former periods
more dtfettive from negligence than ihey hive been
in the years nearer the present time. • •.

no,particular date can be assigned- when the
improvement. happened., it must be supposed to.he
progressive quite. to the present time : and as the
manner of registering marriages according to the
as which tookplace in 1754, admits of no suwi-
cionofdeficiercy in' that regiseer, it is to
paled that the registered baptiims must 'at present
be in higher prOortion to the inatriages than they
were fifty years. since. If this be not the case,' the
objeetion draWn from the supposed progressive
provement in the registry cannot be applicable to
the last half of the century.

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It is proper therefore to find this proportion at As
many periods as the colledion of registers affords an
opportunity of so doing : and herein it is reasonable
to assume, that the marriages of any current year,
and of the four preceding years, must chiefly
enct. the number of baptisms ill it.

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The medium average of marriages in t 760 and the
four years preceding it, may be taken at. 5t,600 ;
the registered bapt►sms
,of the sari year 2760 ap,
pear to have been r 87,000 ; therefore: the registered
baptisins were at that time as 362 to too marriags.
1n this manner the following Table of proOostwas
has been formed ;
&sp:hms.
060
t 77•
• 5780
578i'
5790
1795
itioo

'4Lsrri7ages.

• 362 - to too
35'6 . to Ice
. 357
.to , , lop
- 35,5 5 to too
- 3bi Jo.)
• 34% .to too
- 347 to too

It appears hence that the :proportiotrof reginered
baptisms to marriages, has continued much the sxme; 1
the extremes of the thatiation differing only aH
twentieth part, and that difference tending to proite,
not that' the registers are Mdre accurate,' but rather
less accurate now ,than formerly. Bur: the Hearths
which aMiaed England in the years r'9s- and r 2ooi
in all' prob,thility lowered the proportion of births
as much as .it pppears to haveloweied the propor.
tion of baptisms in chose yew.' -So' that since.elte
year r 75 c, the 'register of Itiptiiins has not been
mote or 1C53 ticeuratrly kept; and henceit" appears,
that the amount.of tegistereit give. the
same results as that Of, inarriages in any calculating:
of the increase of population in the last half of the
century.

.01 the earlier part 'of the century, the want of
an accurate ritirriage.repistry re' nders it impost.ible
to speak so confidently • .as far as analOgy is of
weight, a. similarity with the latter period may he
supposetl ; and in the abStrati appears a further rea.
son for bizlieving, that the curreetiless of tiie re.
gisters has been riot unequal thrOughuut LIIC last
century.

In the first years which .appear in the abstraEL
the amount of registered baptisms stands thus: in
1700, 152,090; in 1710, Z 39,000 ; in 172 a,
z g,OOO. This flutluation appears very different
from what, must have happened if the deficiencies of
registers were great# the further we goiaack in the
examination.

It is true, Indeed, 'that in the year's 4709 and
co, England was afflided by a dearth, which
must have lowered the proportionof births in t 710,,
as lately happened in 1795 and 1860; but the tledrly
concurrent =bunts of registered baptisms in 4700
And 17zo, and the loown cause of diminution in
1710, must be allowed, presumptive evidence of a
probability, that the defiCiency caused by incur..
redness was not greater than it is at present : nor
is it known that any material alteration in the
number of Dii:enters, or in the other causes of de.
ficiency in the register of bapiistrts, has taken place.
Having premised theSe remarks Onthe authiirity
of the register of baptisms foe forming' an estimate
of the increase or ditninuti-n of the •population, in
the next place it is necessary to determine at what
number to take the existing population.

The enumeration of tar amounts to 11;872c950
persons foi England and Wales ; and to this number
an appropriate share of the .soldiers and mariners is
to he added. These appear to have been 469,188
and if (exclusive ,of them) the total population of
the British isles is 14.6.30,8J1, about a thirtieth
may be added to the iohlliitantsi to ascertain tie
population of any distiod part.

Therefore the existing population ot England and
Wales is taken at 9,168,000, in the following Ta.
late; and the population therein attributed to the
other years, it obtained by the rule of props r.
tion.

Thus : if 255.,4.20 baptisms (tbc average trittilitnt
of the fast five year;r).were prod-uced from' a.pcyai.
tion of 068,000, from wkit population were
i 52,540 (the baptisms ofrt7m)) produced ?.

TABLE OP POPULATIOS TIittOUGHOUT

CENTURY.

In tbe rear.
170-)

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ENGLAND AND WALES. '
Popylatiox:
Sprso",
5040,000
5,:56id00

r7;O
1740
17i0
!Too

5,793
,000,
6,06i,00tt
6,40,':(30
6,736,000

7:4-2800*
iio9sli3;c:)Z,
8,675, kr) .
9p 10;-,c)'40
1. rt is evident that if 'the:existing posialtiPn
180 i is taken too. low in the preceding Talis,e, I,lc
population of the othei years ('.educed trona. it, in"''
be in the satne Proportion below the trtit4; an‘l,tk,
population,' as stated for t'Sot cert.tii.;, is titlceo
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sc,Wiewbar 'too loW; because 'no addition Iris tic*
made to it fur returns wanting,,2nd f4f otnis,ions in
the returns made,, the aniount could nut
be posirively ascertained,
Z. •The,depitli which prevailed in the ears t'ic9
and. 1710, caused the. average Brice ot wheat i 9
those years to rise to sixty:two shilling's p:r guar?
ter; whereas/the aver;tge price of the
,ten preceding
years was ''only thirty shillings per quarter. The
dearth of 1906 caused the average price :of wheat to
rise tot re shillings per quarter : whereas the avc rap
price of the ten preceding years. via's' Own
fitly-Igor ithillings- pet quarter.

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