The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-02 00:00:00

THE. XING al. JOItN TA LER,

This defendant ,was convicted at the late Sit•
tings in Westminster, of publishing a blasphe-
mous libels contained in the first and tecontl
parts of klin's Age of _Reason, the.prOsecatioa
being conducted by the Society for .the •Suppres-
tion of Vice. _ -

Mr. GunNEY now prayed ihe judgment of the
Court against the defendant, and, aftir athsl4.vits
were read in mitigation and, aggraration -of
punishment, the defeudant was: ordered tote
committed to the custody of the Marshal of
_the
Marshalsea of this Court, anti, to be brought up
again on Wednesday next, to receive sentence. -

•
The Judges met yesterday morning, and chose
their respective Spring Circuits as follows,:—
Norfolk—Lord Chief Justice Abbott, said fir. Baron
Grahaiti .
1%141444—L0rd thief Justice Daltaa, and Mr. Justice fiichr
ardson.
H. 1111,--I.nia thief Baron, and Mr. ,aren '
Nartheru—.4..Mr:Jugtice Bayley, and 'Ale. Ju.tiee'B'est.
Oxford---Mr. Justice nrrt Ihirct),c;al'rcw., '
Wcsteru—Mr. J'asticc T3ciruJd, 71tiA •:,rrough.

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FOR THE SUN.

BRITISH OAK.

MR. EDITOR,--I in common with my
neighbours, much obliged 'to you, for dedicating
'a pant of 'your columns to the communications of
your -country readers ; for though they' are not
qualified to enter into literary Competition with
many of your Correspondents,- yet they are ena-
bled, from their experience, freqtiently to com-
municate much useful infohnation Or! interesting
31a-tronal topics. Your attention to 'the Agricul-
tural and ether great interests of the 'country,
'lllernands our thanks; and .as you probably have
in your power to give us some satisfactory'rea-
sOn, why the litsG'.s Ministers continue to expend
such large sums of money, annually in the par--
chase of Timber froni Dalmatia, Sierra Leone,
St.c. kc!. when the best English Oak Timber of
fifty feet meetings may be purchased at little
more than seven pounds'sterling per load, in situ-
-alions the most convenient for water carriage to
the great naval arsenals, I am induced to trouble
you with this letter. The system appears to be
-the reverse of that Which shotild be pursued, in
the -•present state of the private woods in this
kingdom. It holds out no encouragement to the
Landholders to plant ; and when it is recollected
-that the recent Plantations which have been
made:in'the Royal Forests will, in half a cenr
tury,.. render the public Yards independent•of all
• private supply, it surely cannot "be justifiable,
especially under the Present depression of- the
,Landed Interest,- to be paying for Foreign Oak
aria other Foreign Timber for Ship-building,
when there is such a- redundancy of 'fine, full
grown Oak in Staffordshire and the adjacent
counties, in Sussex and- Ilants, and indeed in
all the other Rood districts within the kingdom.
•,The delusion which prevailed some time since
-has been •satisfactorily dispelled, and the present
want of • a market for English Oak confirms the
-opinions of Mr. HARVEY, Messrs. DRIVERS, Mr.
MARSHALL, Mr. Snooin, and other experienced
persons, that there has notbeen for the last 20 years
any actual deficiency of Oak Timber fit for naval
purposes. • I am led to send you these remarks
fr-Om the injury I am sustaining from the want of
a market for the Oak Timber on my .estate. Be-
tween sixty and seventy years ago my ancestors
expended considerable sums in extensive Oak
Vlantations, in the expectation that they would
Le •the, means - of raising fortunes for younger
rhildfen ;• but unluckily myself, and many others
.sibmilarly circumstanced, cannot now sell our
full grown Timber but at very low prices ; and
in • this situation must we continue, whilst the
-Navy Board are allowed to import Foreign Oak,
and so few MerChants' Ships are built. Nor is
there a prospect of better time's for us, if we are
to believe the Parliamentary Debates and the
Reports on a Free Trade ; for if, whilst the re-
strictive Acts are in force,- so few ships are built
&re, we-cannot expect that our condition Will be
improved when Foreign Ships are let into a free
and full participation in the trade of the' Ern-
pre. If you doubt what I say respecting the
want of a market for our English Oak, I refer
you to your other Correspondents in the Oak
Districts. I really believe that an eminent
liar., who some years since bought a large estate
in Shropshire with an immense quantity of Oak
upon it, has not been able to sell any con-
siderable quantity of it ; and that, whatever
he may have, sold, it was at a very low
price. I am one of the last men in the
world to complain of the acts of the Go

yernment ; but really they should look to this
important subject and afford every relief they
can to the Landed Interest. The small quantity
of. timb 3r now used in the King's yards negatives
any necessity of this preference of foreign timber ;
supposing a little more in price is paid for the
1.:11g1,:sh, surely, it is to be justified in the pre-
sent state of the Kingdom.
Another thing should be done by the Govern-
ment ; they should require the Navy Board to
contract for Oak timber, by open- competition ;
by public tender ; and not as they ha-ve done for
the last quarter of a century. The Ordnance
Board always adopt the former *mode, and have
invariably received the best woad at a fair average
price. These remarks are not invidiously made ;
-they proceed from an individual %vho has the
misfortune to possess large' plantations of full
grown. oak ; for which he cannot obtain an ade-

guate price ; and who, consevently is obliged,
coupled with other circumstances, to submit to
many' privations.

A COUNTRY'OENTLEMAN.
Stral ford Coffer-house,-Febtuarry, I', 1311.

,80UTII AMERICA'.

The two Proclamations subjoined were receiv-
ed yesterday by the M.:a, from Trinidad : the one
gives the important intelligence of the junction of
Guayaquil with the Independents of Colombia;
the other that of the defection of Reyes Vargas,
a descendant of the ancient caciques, and a man
of the first importance in that country (Vene-
zuela), from the royalist cause. By this Pro-
clamation it appears thatMont't.r.o, at the time
of signing the armistice, was completely between
two fires; 801.1 vAtt being at Truxillo, A101111.1.°
utCarachi, and REYEi V.4►tGAs at Carora.

BULLETIN of Me GOVEIINNI ENT of C UNDINANI ARCA

GUAYAQCIIL FREE.

CtLY, Nov. 8, 'M.—lmmediately after the courier was dis-
patched the following intelligence of the delivery of Guaya-
quil Wag received. I send your Excellency a literal transcript
of the dispatch :

" I have the satisfaction of communicating to you an event

of the greatest importance to the cause of the country.
" On the morning of the 9th the troops stationed here, in
conjunction with the inha!)itants, displayed the flag of inde-
pendence with the greatest enthusiasm. Order was so com-
pletely observed that this transaction had more the appear-
ance of a nublic rejoicing than a revolutiop.
" I have. hastened to communicate this intelligence, as it
must influence yourroilitary operations, in concert with which
I, as Commandant-General of this Province, will neglect no
effort by which I may contribute to the freedom of the sit:-'
rounding d;str:scts, which cannot fail to be now in motion, or
at least prepared to follow our example.

" I argil snyscif of this Liro,urable opportunity to express