The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-18 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

PORTSMOUTH. SEPT. 16.--7 Owing to the late unfavourable
state of the weather, the price of wheat has experienced a most
scandalous rise. Till lately the average price was 121. and
121. 10s. a load ; sales effected at 141. were considered high ;
and 151. it was supposed, would have been the maximum. But
at Wilton and at Chichester, old wheats, on the last market
days, were advanced to the enormous price of 241. and 251. per
load. By the provisions of the Corn Bill, when the price should
amount to 201. a load, in five maritime counties, the importa-
tion of foreign grain was to be permitted. The expedience and
policy of such a measure may now, probably, be felt and un-
derstood. The people are seldom the best judges of that which
most conduces to their own welfare.
The unfavourable state of the weather for the harvest is now,
from its long continuance, become truly alarming ; complaints
are universal among. the farmers, to whom it will undoubtedly
prove doubly injurious : they will have wheat and other grain
less in quantity, and worse in quality, independent of which,
there is every probability that a price by no means commen-
surate to the scantiness of the crops will be obtained.—(Bath
Journal.)
Our Launceston Correspondent writes, that the Wheat Crop
in the higher part of the country is, in general, more than an
average one, and that the greater part has been saved without
injury.—(West :Ariton.)
LEED s.—Th e harvest weather is very precarious in Yorkshire,
but we have had two tolerably favourable days during the pre-
sent week. The injury done to the corn in this neighbourhood
is not yet irreparable. A great portion of it remains to be
cut, and though it is in some places much laid by the rains, this
is by no means the general state of the crops. We have already
commented upon the too common practice of raising delusive
expectations, by flatteriog pictures on the eve of harvest, but we
see no adequate cause for that despondent feeling which had, in
one week, added 10s. a quarter to the price of W heat. We hear
that the harvest weather in Scotland has been remarkably fine ;
from Ireland and Wales the accounts are less favourable.

DON CASTER.—IIe harvest in this neighiyourhood has be-
come general, and a great quantity of corn has been housed dur-
ing last week, in good coatlition.
The weather 'of late has been rather unfavourable for the
harvest ; but Wheat has not taken so much harm in this neigh-
bourhood as we hear it has in the southern counties; in con-
sequence of which the prices are advancing in those counties.
Oats, although short in the straw, are well filled. The first
new Oats shown in our market were on the 24th of August,
and proved well, weighing 23 stone per load, and were admired
as a tine sample.—(ltendal Chronicle.)
A large portion of the wheat harvest in this neighbourhood
has been secured, but a great quantity of barley, oats, and
beans, still remain on the grottnd. In the Eastern and Southern
parts of this County, the appearance of the crops of grain of
every description, is distressing, the whole having been expos-
ed to the late bad weather, so that not a twentieth part of the
harvest has been got in : theyroduce is consequently deteriorat-
ing in a rapid and alarming degree. Experienced farmers
assure us that so troublesome, expensive, and unfavourable a
harvest has not been witnessed for the last forty years.—(Taun-
ton Courier.)
'We are sorry to state that the letters of our Correspondents,
in different parts of Sussex, represent it as most painful and
distressing to witness the corn standing. in the fields, with
scarcely any prospect of the weather permitting it to be removed
in a proffer state to the barns. Not more than one-third, in
many districts, has been housed. This unfavourable turn to
the harvest has caused all the markets to rise—and the quartern
loaf to advance already .10. !-:-(Brighton Herald.)
We have a good deal of correspondence this week, and many
serious complaints on the great rise in the price of flour in this
town, to all which, we can only say at present, that, in our opi.
nion, there is no necessity for it, and that it will come down
again. We are inclined to think, that great damage is more in
anticipation than fact, and that it will eventually turn out that
the produce of ,Urain is both abundant and well got in.--(Hull
Paper.)
There has been,• we are sorry to say, a very unfavourable
break in our harvest weather, and we are now getting our turn
of those rains which have done so much harm in England and
Ireland. Fortunately a considerable quantity of wheat was
stacked in good condition while the weather was favourable,
and it is not supposed that as yet much injury has been done to
the stocked or standing victual.—(Glasgow Herald.)
In this district wheat has the appearance of a most abundant
crop,.although much is laid, and some discoloured. Barley
an average crop, but oats below it. Beans and turnips very su-
perior crops. It is not expected that the quantity of fat cattle
will be great, the land having been sparingly stocked, from more
causes than one. Store cattle have declined very greatly in
price, and are expected to do still more. Sheep are considered
to be very abundant in number, partly owing to the great
scarcity of both summer and winter Weeping last year, also to
the late favourable lambing season, and partly from the quan-
tity kept back by the ruinous prices of the spring markets. The
supply of Mutton this autumn will be very great, as well as
stores.—(Falkingham, Lincolnshire.)

Yesterday at two o'clock his MAJESTY held a
Privy Council at his Palace in Pall-mall, at which
were present—The Lord Chancellor, the Earl
of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmoreland, the
Earl of Harrell-)y, Viscount Sidmouth, the Mar-
quis of Londonderry, Earl Bathurst, the Right
lion. N. Vansittart, Viscount Melville, the Duke
of Wellington, Lord Maryborough, and Lord
Stewart.—Parliament was further prorogued from
the 2Gth of September, to a future period.—Lord
Graves and Col. Watley were the Lord and
Groom in Waiting.—The RECORDER of London
made his Report to his Majesty in Council, of
the convicts capitally convicted at the. ld Bailey
Sessions.—After the Council, R. Birnie, Esq.
was introduced to his Majesty by Viscount Sid-
mouth, as Chief Magistrate of Police ; upon
which occasion his Majesty was graciously
pleased to confer on him the honour of Knighthood.
Accounts were yesterday received in Glasgow
of a destructive fire which had taken place in
Montreal. Several stores anti other property to
the amount of 45,000/. were consumed. Only
oneitalf the latter was covered by insurance.—
(Glasgow Courier, Sept. 15.)

MIDDr:gEt SESSIONS.

Yesterday' jAmEs Thoitnsom, who was convicted iii• the
last week of Perjury, in the evidence he gave on a prosecution
against a person of the name of Bernell (who had been tried
during a former Sessions for obtaining money under false pre=
tences, by pretending that Mr. Thompson had employed him
to collect a debt of one Elizabeth Harrington, when in fact he
had never so employed hiiii, and for bringing an action against
the said Harrington at the suit of the said Thompson, when in
truth he had never authorized hitn to bring any such action),
Was this day brought up for judgment, when just as the Chair-
' man was about to proceed, the Jury stated by their Foreman
that they earnestly recommended 111111 to the Court, on account
of the extraordinary goOd charactei he had always borne. The
Chairman, therefore, (Icferred passing the sentence, saying he
' expected sonic of the Bench who were present at the trial would
come into Court ; but none appearing for a length of time, he
addressed theprisoner, saying, it was always an uncomfortable
duty to pronounce a judgment on the perpetration of Such a
crime as that of which he was accused, in any point of view ;
but in the case of a man, whose whole life had been passed in
the society of hil neighbours, not only witholit reproach, but
with such observances of all social duties as induced not only a
great number of them to bear testimony to his character, and
those witnesses supported by the unusual number of others
' who state they would willingly depose upon oath what their
Petition testifies ; and again, in addition to these, the recom-
mendation Of the Jury who tried him, the task becomes still
more arduous, for the conflicting circumstance of a Verdict of
Guilty on oue side, with these applications on the other, must
create a dilemma in a case where discretion is to be exercised ;
for first, it makes it necessary to advert to the former case which
procured the conviction of Bernell, who most naturally look
with the utmost anxiety to the result of your sentence, as the
evidence against you now was the evidence against him at his
trial, with the addition of your testimony ; he was convicted
of having (without being employed by you) brought an action
in your name, and you swore you had never employed him, nor
authorized him so to do--;anti that you had never stated to any
body that you had do so.--liow, 'Mr.. Perkins swore at your
trial, that you had in his presence demanded the money he had
recovered from Harrington, and that Bernal refused to pay you,
which he particularly remembered, as lie would have paid you
for him; it is true, he did not so swear at Bernall's trial, but
that I pointed out to the Jury for their consideration—again,
Jr. Stead swore you inquired of him after Bernal, and stated he
was employed by you—and John Alderson stated, that when
the action was brought, you mentioned to him it was
brought by a man employed by you* and he was corroborated
by two other persons—it is true, that you never gave him (Ber-
nell) authority to bring the action, and certainly he was not
justified in doing so without your special warranty, any more
than in retaining the money after he had received it for you ;
but, although that was the case, and lie was amenable to Jus-
tice under an Act of Parliament, yet, that made no difference
in the case in which you were the promoter. There was no way,
therefore, of acquitting you of swearing falsely, except by sup-
posing, that by employing, you meant giving him legal autho-
rity—this circumstance, I also submitted to the Jury; but, as
you swore you never had employed :him, and yet evidently
wished to take the money he had received ; the Jury were
limited to this alternative, that you either spoke falsely to all
these persons—and only spoke the truth when called to your
oath—or, that you Han employed him and falsely denied it
upon oath when you wished to convict him—the Jury adopted
the latter conclusion. Uncle; all the circumstances of the case,
therefore, the Judgment is, " That von be imprisoned in the
House of Correction for the space of six months."
THE KING v. WHITE AND OTHERS.—This way an indict-
ment at the suit of the parish of Paddington against the de-
fendants, for keeping a house for the exhibition of unlawful
games, such as dog fighting, monkey fighting, badger baiting,
&c. in Harper's fields, Edgeware-road, to the great annoyance
of the neighbourhood. At the suggestion of counsel, they
pleaded guilty,`upon condition of being only required to enter
into recognizances to appear befbre the Court to receive judg-
ment when called upon, in case they should be again guilty of
such offences.