The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-01 00:00:00

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The mild and gentle manner in which the severe
frosts of the beginning of last month have disap-
,
peared, has completely dissipated the - apprehen.
sions of the Farmer, in respeEt to the Clanger of
the young wheat crops. In the Midland and all
the mare southern DistriEtS, the injuries that
have been sustained, even in the later sown
crops,
.have in .general been but trifling. And
in the northem parts of the Island • they have
in ,very few instances been of a serious nature.
On the whole it may now be stated, that for a great
number of yeats past, there has .scarcely been a season
so .highly favourable for the various purposes of the
Farmer as the present, especially when taken from
the beginning of August in the preceding year, to the
conclusion of this month. The prices of-grain still
continue somewhat on the decline; and from the large
quantities on hand, it may be reasonably presumed
that they must be still more reduced before the con.
elusion of next month. Wheat averages, through.
our England and Wales, 565.-Bd. barley 2+3 I id. and
oats, 18s. r id.. In must of the northern parts of the
kingdom, the markets continue to be fully:supplied,
and the aales of grain have been mostly made at . re.
heed rates. "Though the frosts during the more
early parts of the month, have considerably retarded
the operations of the plough, many of the other pro.
cesses of husbandry have been performed with great
convenience. Much manure, in different places, has
been carried out upon the arable, as well as the grass
lands. The fences, have likewise been well made
and repaired in many, situations. Notwithstanding
the abundance of wieter.lc.tep fore cattle, the prices
of fat stock continues to keep up. In Smithfield,
beef fetches from .41. totl. to 6s. 4.3. and mutton
from ss. Si. to 6s. Bd. per stone. The severity or
the fate season has had the effeEt :of advancing the,
prices of hay in some degree. Kentish hops--bags
fell from 51. to 71. and pockets from rah to 121.

PRI2E.CATFLE.

LORD SOMERVILLit'S Cattle Show,• at LANG.
LIORN'S Repository, Barbican, commenced yester-
day, and was very well attended. It consisted of
about thirty head of cattle, and near forty sheep.
The oxen were generally of the superior and la-
bouring breeds. Devonsb:—,.l., Hereford, Sussex,,
Kentish, and Glamorgan ; and the sheep of the fine
Or ClOthillg..Wool species. The Dvions, this year,
seem to make the first figure, both as to form and,
Resh. A pair of oxen, bred in Kcnt, one of them
skewing much Sussex, the other a mixture of Here-
ford blood, were much adinired ; and, for size and
form, seem equal to any thing lately exhibited. A
Devon heifer, of the Duke of BgaFOßn's, at trafted
much attention, for her small size, fatness, and
beauty ; but no objet in the sho* was more re-
markable than the figure of the two Kentish Bulls,
perhaps the thickest and most short-legged animals
of the kind ever seen.

The Sheep were Ryeland (Herefordshire), the
same crossed with the Spanish Ram, South Downs,
and Wiltshire. Some South Downs were killed,
and produced large carcasses of mutton, particularly
well tatlowed within, although only two years old
Sheep. The wool of Lord SOMERVILLE'S Sheep
(tom the Spanish Ram, gave much satisfadlion to
connoisseurs in that orticle,, and the Butchers ad-
mired the form of one of the Wedders of that breed.
Lord EGRESAONT, Sir WM. CLAYTON, and a
ntimber of Amateurs, were present.

The Filefloral Prince MAXIMILIAN of BaVaria
died at Munich on the i 201
•
The Palace of Grimaldi is preparing at Genoa for
the apprOaching arrival of LOUIS BONAPARTE, and
Madamelouts Butt etiARTF.
The. Porte is said to he disposed to ,grant to
Austria the free navigation of the Black Sea.
A forgery, apparently done . with a pen, has
been discovered on the Twenty Pound Notes of
the Paisley Banking Company. A reward of tool.
has been offered for discovering the ofrender.
The following lamentable mortality lately hap.
pened in the family of NI Williamsob, of Gringley,
near Gainsborough :--i-On'Monthy/ sennight one of
his children died ; on the succeeding Wednesday
another, and the following• day„' from grief, 'his
who was in ,a. state of pregnancy. They
were all buried in,9ne coffin. • .
Cbaristte'Bl.iir, a 'young woman only eighteen
years old, one of the Cyprian corps'. who livid in
Porter.streeti Leicester.ftelds, .on _Friday last. put
an end to her-existence by taking laudanum. The
general beliet.ts that her predominant passion for
drinking, had produced- a variety of misfortunes,
which had so forcibly affeeled her feelings, that her
intellects became , deranged, in which situation she
had unhappily deprived herself of life.
Saturday a youth named Briton, only r 4 years..
old, was examined' before the Loan MAYOR,
-;chfirgtd with stealing a silk handkerebief from the
pocket of Mr. Woo), chemist, of Falcon-square.
•Being an old offender, he was committed for
.trial.
It appeared from the etidence of some of the officers
.present, that he had-been under sentence of death
three years ago, for stealing, but had received His
MAJESTY' '5 pardon.
On Friday a felloW, who has long infested .the.
neighbourhood of Cheapside, by • extorting alms,
Under pretence of being depraved of
.the use of his
limbs, and affeding the most severe paroxistns of
an ague, was brought befare the Lord Mayor as
in impostor. He was, in hii Usual way, claiming
the charity, of each passenger, when the. tdissisonsc
touch of Mr. Nattier, one of the City -Marshals, at
once restmed him to the use of his limbs, and drove
away the shiverings from his apparently palsied
frame ; and so determined was hr to convince his,
operator of his perfeet,eure, that he absolutely made
a blbw at him with as much vigour and' science as
any of Mr. Belcher's pupils could have done, The
Lord Mayor, however, conceiving it. probable that
a return of hi; distemper might occur; in order to
complete his cure, ditedeil lain to receive.. ail the
salutary discipline which could be adminhtered by
skilful hands, during orte month's eimfinement in

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCIt' Fin. 26.

AtIORZ LORD ELLENBOROV%H, IN GUILD.

Il# LL, LoziAON

GUTRIDGE AND OTHERS'S/. READ.
Mr.G133113 said, that this was an'Aaion brought
against George Deveral and Robert Read. George
Deveral was outlawed, and the Aftioo now pro.•
seeded against Mr. Robert Read,' as the Drawer
of several Bills of Exchange, eight* in numberi an I
to the amount .of about 001. and the Case. was
shortly .this : Deveral and Mr. Robert Read car.
tied on business* together in partnership, but under
the ' name of George Deveral only. AIL these
Bills were drawn by Deveral, payable to himself or
order, and which, after they were accepted, he got
discounted by the Plaintiffs, who were Bankers
-near Dunstable, who :thereby became holders of
them for a valuablelconsideration. Although 'they
were thus drawn by Deveral payable to himself,
the legal effea of them would be, that Mr. Read
would be. now bound to pay them, becaese he was
a partner with Deveral, although it Tight, per.
haps, be attempted to be denied. Deveral was a
manufaaurer of straw hats and bonnets at Dunstable.
Mr. Robert Read was a partner in Town in the #
firm of Read and Co.- wholesale Haberdashers, and
who had occasion for the manufadure of Deveral at
Dunstable. Mr.• Robert Read considering this
manufaaory a good traffic, entered into partnership
with Deveral the Manufaaurer, and therefore be.
came a partner in atwo Trades, .that of manufac-
turing the straw, and selling the goods to Iris part-
nets in London, and also with them,: selling !bete
again as ars Haberdasher here. In . Oat situation,
Deveral drew these, and many more -Bills, and
abused the truit reposed in him by his partner, be.
came bankrupt, and fled under a charge of forgtry,
and these Bills were, some 9f them, dishon.orad by
the Acceptors, others paid, some five, and QthCN
ten shillings in the pound, and this Action was
brought against Mr. Road, the partner of Deveral,
for the money remaining unpaid upon these Bills.
It appeared clearly in evidence, that Mr. Read,
the Defendant, was in partnership with Deveral,
as well in the manufafture as in two farms, Sic.
The partnership being thus proved, it was con.
tended on the part of the -Defendant) tiatt !'aere
was not due notice given to the Drawer of the bills
of their dishonour by the Acceptors. To which it
teas answered, that the Defendant's Attorney had
waved this objeaion, by arlanawiedg-ing that no.
thing should be contested it, this .cau.e upon trial,
but the question " Whether Mr: lead was a part-
ner with Deveral ?" and this the Piaintiffs' slat.
tomcat' positively swore which tire Defendant's
Attorney denied upon oath also ; but this point ibe_
came, at last, *holly immaterial, for that in the
instances of the bills which remained unpaid, they-
.were accommodation bills tit Deveral ; and as he,
'being the Drawer, knew there were no etlo!ls in
the Acceptors'_hands, no notice of dishonotur to the
Drawer was necessary. It appeared also ihat one
of the bills, for about 2501. had ben Paid; so that
the sum now remaining unsatisfied was 4391. 25.,
,for which the Jury gave the Plaintiffs a verdid.

CARTER V. BOND.

The Plaintiff was the Treasurer of a Society
established at a Public house at Woodbridge, in the
County of Suffolk, by a number of Sailors, who
deposited each certain sums of money, 'to make op
a fund for their mutual benefit. The Defendant
was the Landlord of the. Public-house where the
Society held their meetings as a Call). ,Upon this
Occasion the Landlord kept the but wherein was
deposited the treasure- of the Club ; and by way
of security 'to the Club, the Landlord entered into
a bond to the Treasurer, on behalf of ,the Clttb•
'that he would return the box to them in the same
state, order and condition, as it was- delivered 'to
him. uri:hoot fraud qui tic%;,;t. Qry Om. sth of
August the box was delivered, with two sums
of money in it, the one 111. ros., the. othet
821. 105. ad. On the 9th of September, ,the So.
ciety held another meting, when the box was
brought down, and opened, and when it appeared
the.B2l. sos. was Niter) out 'of it, and the ill. was
rei6aining in it ; upon which the lolndlord protested
that he .knew nothing of the matter, and insisted
upon it that he delivered the hox according to his
bond, 'in' the same state as he had!found it • and
some suspicion fell- on One of the Treasurers Of the
Society, of the name of Davereaux, he was taken
before a' Magistrate, by 'whom he was committed
to
.Pristm, where he 'remained for a considerable
time, but was not tried, because the Grand Jury
threwoat .the bill of indiament Preferred against
him ; .and he was therefore discharged, and was now
.'brought forward as a Witness in this cause; which
was an' action against the Publican for the money
lost out of the box.

After several Witnesses were examined, the Jury
withdrew, and in ahonr a quarter of an hour brought
in a verdia fur the Plaintiff, datnages 621. ros.
&dating zol. which 'the Defendant had already
paid upun his undertaking.