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Entered Inwards, December 29.—Trusty, Weller, Hon-
duras ; Earl of Clancarty, Gibbs, Rotterdam ; Sylph, Milne,
Xavia ; Ann Maria, —, Messin.. ; Hope, Ferris, Cork;
Henry, Fox, Marsala; Duke of Kent, Pound, Rotterdam;
Eliza, Hoare, Waterford; Juno, Thurow, Pillaw; Neptune,
Hogg, Belfast ; Camillus, Dye, Quebec ; Egtcn,
'vine ; Ann Packet, —, Antwerp; Nantilus, Andrews, St.
; Marshal Blocher, —, Rotterdam ; Nautilus,
Pewtess, St. John's; Estafattee, Wilson, Dantzie; Henry,
Le Beau, Dunkirk ; Elizabeth, Godfrey, Cadiz ; Elizabeth,
Rogers, Xtitwerp.; Heram, Watt? Alicant.
Entered Outwards, December 29.—Hero, Mullen, Cork
Duke of Mlrlborough, —, Cape of Good Hope ; Two Sia
tees, Dyer, Leghorn ; Alexander, Davis, Jamaica; Mary,
Gray, Jamaica; Nieminie, —, Rouen ; Louisa, Fowler,
Leghorn.
()feared Outwards, Decemser 29.—Dispatch, Buifield,
Gijon. - •

WINDSOR, DEC. 28.—0 n Friday the puke of
YORK arrived at the Castle, from London : in the
afternoon of that day his Royal Highness went to
Oatlands to dinner. The Princesses Augusta.
Sophia take daily 'airings, riding or walking. Oa
Sunday Prince Leopold arrived.at the Castle, frol%
Claremont, on a visit to the Princesses his Royal
Highness remained till Monday.
SINGULAR ROBBERY.-Yesterday morning a,
Jew went down the arca of the hone of icir.
Garthshore, in Gloucester-place; on going into
the ball, and not perceiving any of the ser,
vants about, he took the opportunity of putting
several articles of livery doodling belonging tothe
footman into hiS bag, and was making his way up
the steps again, when he was, met by the cold).
man, who seeing the lireries through a hole in
the bag, inquired what he was going to do with
them. Moses replied, " I am going to have dent
cleaned." " Hare you no orders to get mine
cleaned too? " said the coachman. " No," re-
joined the Jew, " hut I 011 take dem If you likes.".
He P ccordingl y accompanied Jehu to the stables,
where he received a coat, waistoat, and siirtoto,
'at,d baying promised they should be " nivey
done," went p way. The liveries thus stolen were
worth between twenty and thirty pounds.

I'4L VlSll:\'AitY.

BY W. SCOT!".

[letter in the Edinburg/177"Ni:lq Journal.]

tad occasion, after leaving my uncle's,
to make a short tour into the west of Scotland
and return by tire town of V'hile my
horse was taking his bait, 1 stepped into the park
both to admiie the natural beauties of that fine
seal, or palace, as it is vulgarly called, and to
itoess the pleasing spectacle of several scores
tit di,tiessed weavers whom the noble proprietor
had generously supplied with wotk at this press
ing crisis., For this purpose some alterations
were to.,kieg iii the grounds, which had been un•
dr rralsrm for no other object, as I was told, than
to find food and employment for those poor peo•
plc." This is trtily noble," stid I to my isrlor-
tner, a decent-lookkoig man ; " this is Wqriby of
high descent and lofty title, anti now for once in
these evil times shall I hear a grateful body of
peasantry. blessing . their generous benefactor,
thong!' he be both prince and rer."
" You will be lucky if you hear any such
thing," said he. " Yon have heard, I suppose,
bow the labnurers employed by public and pri-
vate charity in the parish of C-- have treated
their employers. 'I hey displayed the three-co-
loured flag, and treated every attempt made to su-
duce them to strike so decided an ettohlem of me-
ditated rebtillion with contempt or defiance. Their
language was as open as their conduct; they de-
clared their purpose teas to divide the parks and
grounds of the eently into lots of tru acres each,
to be appropriated to iiietmelvts."
If this is known to the noble proprietor,
thought 1, his is either the pertectioo of christian
charity, which does good to those who revile and
menace us, or it is akin to the generosity of the
t el brated Uil Bias, when he dropt a rid into the
bar of the beggar, who, While craving alms for
rise lore of God, held out something through the
hedge t. hid) looked very like a musket.
Having iso mind to go near the labohring
party, lest I shooll find diem ill the same 11111110111'
wish the radical sturdy beggars of the parish of
C----, I sat me down by one of those map,niti-
cent oaks which had witness7d the revolutions of
a thousand years. Thought after thought rolled
on mind, like a troubled sea, until I fell
asleep, and fa:led not, as usual, to dream.
Methought that I started up from slumber,' and
that the whole landscape was changed armor(' are.
The steeple of the church—the towers of the pa-
lace, the chimneys of the neighbouring town—all
had disappeared. Not a tree remained standing
on the domain, which exhibited 0 sterile anti pal-
try succession of little. patches Of ground, some
half cultivated, sonic lying quite barren. The
rocks, the sky, the rivers of AVM) and Clyde,
were the satire, but every vestige of beatify and of
plenty, once the distinctive marks of the land-
scape, were vanished and gone. " Cart this be
Scat land ?'' said 1, gazing around me.
" Scotland ?" answered a rough voice behind
me ; '' nn, it is tie land of Radicals."
tutted and looked ttith wonder and fear on
the half-naked ruffian, who approached the with
a huge club in his hand. lie was unshaved and
uncombed ; the matted locks of Isis hair and his
beard ohscnring a physiognomy which, from the

unbridled indulgence of every passion as it awake

in its turn, was ra►her brutal than human. In
&earns "e do not always obey ►he dictates of pru-
dence, " Can this be a man ?" said I.

" A man ? a man !" answered the ogre, " ay,
a man of men, such as all men were before priests
and kings had the modelling of men."
He was, indeed, in Lane's phrase, altogether
unsophisticated, unless that lie was indebted to
art fur the remnants of a tattered embroidered
coat, and of a pair of black velvet shoes, which
had formerly called some unfortnnate bean their
owner. After gazing in astonishment for a mi-
nute or two, I took the freedom to ask the savage
his name.

" My name is Tom Ten-acres," said he, " not
at your service, nor at any one's service, but toy
own. If you will come with me to my den,"
said he, wi►l► a savage, and at the same time a
sly look, "i ►vill satisfy your curiosity about all
this change."
None is so bold as a dreamer, and I accom-
panied my strange gOide.
" I conclude, sir," said I, " that the radical
change has been etiectcd in this country, which
was agitated by the worthy individuals of C--,
and that each individual has his own portion of
ten acres of arable ground.-1 could not have
thought, that, exclusive of its immense tracts of
barren heaths and mountains, Scotland could
have afforded any thing like tun productive acres
to each of its inhabitants."

" No more it world,"-said the ogre, grinning,
" hut all the aristocrats., and three-fifths of the
radicals, have been killed in the great revolu-
tionary war,.so that, Walk God, (that is to say,
thanks to no one) we have something like elbow
room."

" But sir," said 1, respectfully, " the land, to
be so closely inhabited, seems to me to be very
imperfectly cultivated. I presume it is owing to
want of capital, for 1 remember there was an air
of t °wort and careless plenty about the farm-
servants of yore, which I do not remark among
these half-starved care-worn ten-acres gentle-
men."

We do not care so much for the want of ca-
pital," said the native, " for it is our n►ttxim that
a man had better starve as a master titan live in
plenty as a domestic ; but we are now troubled

by souther want-1 mean the deficiency of tools;
the old implements of agriculture ate worn out,
and (suppose we shall shortly have to scratch up
the earth with our nails.''

" Then you have no smiths or carpenters ?"
" how the devil should we," answered the sa-
vage ; " each man has his own ten acres to

mind, and has no time to make tools for any one
the."

Yon might import them from abroad."
" Aye, it we had ships, or sea-port towns, or
money to pay, or commodities to exchange for
them. But it is needless to tell you that if we
base no ploughs, we have as few ships, having no
commerce, and no commodities to export in lieu
of ihuse which we may want, But what of that ?

we ;we an equal, and eac!► man bas Ids ten acres
cullivate.thcm how he can."

" But it appears to cue, that this egoality,
which yon think so desirable, cannot last long—
one man cultivates his land more skillful y, and
with more industry than another, and will
have some produce to dispose of to an indolent
or ignorant neighbour—indusoy will acquire

" We were aware of that, my friend," said the
savage, " 1 and most of my neighbours were of
a dionthy constitution, fond of ease,.you tinder-
stand toe, and whisky : and there are half a dozen
slaving cautions drudges that were likely to get
exclusive right to the whole lands belonging to the
tribe, till we tell on the plan of having a new di-
vision once H quarter, otherwise we should have
got hick to the old story ot rich and poor."
" And yon pittfer," said 1, " being all poor
together ? Why what will yon do in case of a
keareity, which seems not a very distant prospect.
When none has'more than barely what is neces-
sary be can have of reliev-
ing others. There must he an end tat' Christian
Charity." " And why not," sail he, " since
there is an end ot Christianity itself ? To he sore a
scarcity must be a famine, but then we shall not
be insulted with public soup-kitchens, distribu-
tions of meal or eleemosynary legs of mutton, as
"ere distributed by her they called the duchess.
We sh tIl all starve

" ID," T 4 id " you cannot be equal even
in your miseiy—the thing is impossible. One man
will have heavier b,irthens to maintain, and more
mouths to feet! than another; he may have su-
perannuated parents, or helphss infants."
" Ile may fling them into the Clyde then,"
said tli,e savage, " and put himself on a level with
big neiAbours—l kilow neimher law nor reason

agAirist ii."

" But even yet," said I, " there is a difference
of greater strength, it you not allow that of
superior wisdom. John cannot work, his land so
well,as James i"

" Then John may go to bed snpperless ; and
what do I or James care ?" replied my friend.
" No more, perhaps, than the ci deuant rich
cared shout your welfare or misery. It is the very
state of affairs, though on a different scale, of
‘vhich you formerly complained."
" Itly friend," said he, " you grow trouble-
some.. I would just hint to you that our oil fool
of a Minister used to preach such stuff as you are
now talking, and we knocked his brains ant for
his pains."

This w,is verbum sapienti, and so I said no more,
but followed my wild guile in silence through
scenes of barbarous licence and squalid misery, to
what he very appropriately called his den.
It was a little vault which bad once been the
subterranean storey of one of the towers of the
old mansion, but was now the only vestige of it
which remained. Two or (hi ee remnants of what
had once been furniture served to accommodve
the wretched inmate, and a part of the famous-
Daniel Of RUBRNS Serred !O stop the aperture that
admitted the light. My ft iend took a draught of
whi,ky, and recommended the same to me, ob-
serving, " it served him and ail his tribe instead of
fire, for since the wood had all been cut down and
burned, fuel was hard to come by."
" Your distiller, at least, must get rich, said
I ?"

" So he would, for he has a fine trade in bar-
tering whisky for barley. But once a week we
meet and driiik out his stock gratis, to bring hint
to a level with his neighbours."
" But you said fuel was scarce, and yet this is
in Lanarkshire, famous for its coal mines ?"
" And who the devil is to work them !" said
my host ? " no ten-acre man will go tinder ground,
I promise • you, and neglect his own mailing.
Besides, if there were a million times a million
hundred-weight of coal lying on the coal-hill,
how should we be the better, who have neither
carts nor horses to send for them, nor roads on
which to draw them i"

" Then you have no funds from which to de-
fray the expenses of the public," said I.
" The public !" said he, " we know no such
word, we are every one for ourselves, and GOD
(that is to say nobody) for us all."
" What ! no national legislation—what be-
comes of your universal rights of representation 10"
" Why, Bottom and a few false friends made
a clamour about that matter in the first year of
the republic, but we have long rid ourselves of
them. It 'was all blarney ; what signifies repre-
sen, ation to us. If we send any of our compa-
nions to form a Legislature, we must pay their ex-
penseß ; and a people that can hardly get bread
to their own teeth, care very little for other folks'
tonguet."

"'Then you have no laws whatsoever ?"
" No, toy friend, none ; they are the most
ready engines by which the rich subjected the
poor !"

" And of course," said 1, " you have no exe-
cution of justice ?"
" Pardon toe there," said Tom Ten-acres, " 1
brought you hither to make you practically ac-
quainted with that matter.". With that he lion-
riAed kis club over toy head, and added, " you
are well cloathed, and I am naked, or nearly so—
down this instant with yo'ur surtour, waistcoat,
shirt, hoots, and stockings, and thank toy mercy
if 1 leave you your pantaloons !—I want ; you
have—l am strong, and can take ; you are, weak;
and cannot detelid. This is the essence of all.
radical justice—so down with your duds, or
knock your brains out."
- I started back in terror—opened my eyes—and
was delighted to see that the stout sapling which
in very truth was brandished over me, still grew
on the huge oak under which 1 had fallen asleep.
SOMNAMBULUS.

Fins.---An alarming fire broke out on Monday
morning at Violet Farm, occupied by Mr. Hea-
ther, which destroyed four ricks of barley.
and the spacious fern►-house. It Was occa-
sioned by the wadding of a gun lodgin.g in one
of the ticks adjoining the house in shoo►ing
at rats. here was plenty of assistance at hand,
and a good supply of water, but the house
being chiefly built with wood, assistance was of
no avail,, as the whole was in less than an hour a
heap of ruins. The horses were with difficulty
saved.

BOARD OF EXCISE, DEC. 29.

IMPORTANT DECISION To WINE•ME;LCHA\TS AND

OTHEIO,.

The firm of Messrs. "Thompson and Coates,
wine and spit it-merchants, at Holborn-hill, were
charged under the 54th of Geo. 111. chap. 8,
commonly called the Cape Act, with having mixed
a quinthy of Port Wine with a quantity of Cape
Vine, against the statute. There is a penalty of
3001. attached to the offence, if it is with a frau-
dulent intention, but this being admitted not to
he the case, the penalty was not proceeded for.
This case excited an extraordinary degree of
interest amongst the %Vine-trade in general, as the
question nt issue was as to the.legality of a com-
mon practice of mixing wines to improve their
fl.ivour. The Court was et owded by persons in
the trade, who were anxious to hear the deci-
sio►n.

Mr. Fisher, a surveyor in the Excise, proved,
that in taking the stock of Messrs. Thompson anti
Coates, on the 19th of October, he found an ex-
cess of eight gallons in a pipe of Cape wine of 98
gallons, vi hie') was not acconated for by the per-
mits. On asking Mr. Coates to account for the
increase, he staled it to have been caused by the
addition of eight gallons of Port wine, in older to
improve the Cape wine. The whole of the pipe,
100 gallons, was consequently seized. he
stocking officer corroborated this statement.
Mr. COATES appeared in behalf of the firm, and
said he stood there to answer the charge made
against the firm--*he first in their lives. It was
a ques'ion to which their character, witch
had hitherto stood pre-eininent, was cneern-
ed ; and HS it was but natoral to slip-
pose that their prosperity wool(' piocnre them
many enemies, the account of the. seizure had
now the foil progress of a lit• throughout the
trade, and from the mete seizure nf a pipe of
wine, it had iocteased to the' discovety of a con-
traband coonexiao, and an ilumeasa s,jaare, to.
which 4 penAlty of 20,0001, was attached, which
had afrarded consolation .o those envious of their
prosperity. should first contend, that the offi-
cer acted illegally in seizing more than the excess
of eight gallons ; secondly, that to lola port wine
widi Cape red wine was not contrary either to
the letter or the intention of the it of Parlia-
ment ; and thirdly, that they had done nothing
inconsistent witle Ibe revenue, which was neither
in tact nor intention injured. On the contrary, he
should show that the revenue teas in reality be-
nefitted. There were only two laws in force
against the snixiure at wines, patnely, the 12th of
Charles ii, c. 25, and the 5-1:11 Geo. 111. as to
the seizure of the whole of ihe pipe. 1-le referred
to the 27th clause of the last-mentioned Act, to
prove that the Officer had no iiatit to seize more
titan eight gallons, the words of the Act being,
" that the (111(110h), seized should be equal to the
vantity found in excess and he contended,
that there were not the slightest grounds for sup-
posing that the Act authorized the svh /le to be
seized. lie had, when asked by the (),Peer to
account for the excess, openly 41:(1 candidly given
him the truth, which if he haul had any. imp oper
motives he would have withheld, and which it
would have been impossible to have discovered, had
be not have told it. Lie complained that the admis-
sion which had been made inhonoar anti good spirit
to the officer, should be converted to their disod- ,

vantage. To prove that the act,for which they
%vete charged was no! contrary to the letter and
spirit of the Act of Parliament, he contended, that
at the time the Act was made .for the comintra-
lion of the duties on Cape wine, from 7s. 6(1. per
. gallon to 2s. 6d., the Legisl,ture had in contetn-
plation the frauds which taught he committed, by
mixing the Cape wine, which paid the duty of
2s. 6d. per gallon, with those which reaiiied ihe
standard duty of 7s 6.1., and thereby detratiOing
the rev.enue. The Legislature had never in
contemplation that any. one would mix that
which paid the greater duty with that which
paid the less, as in the present instance, or
it would have been - mentioned. The Act
merely said, that " if any person should mix or
:illoic Cape wine with Port or other foreign
wines." Now had the converse been intended, it
would have been stated, as it was in the Act of
Charles IL, for those who made Acts of Parlia-
ment were never sparing of words. The illega-
lity was in mixing Cape wine with Port, or any.
other, which was not the case iu the present in-
stance, for the Port wine was mixed with the
Cape. 'Phis was not a mere play upon terms, but
a solid objection; as, for instance, in a domestic
recipe it was said, " Mix a tea-spoonful of sill-
plunk acid, with a pint of water," but it would
be absurd to say "Mix a pint of water with a
tea-spoonful of acid;" or to say " Mix a tea-
spoonful of milk with a cup of tea," was proper,
but to say, " Alix or mingle a cup of tea with a
spoonfu! of milk," was manifestly contrary to
common sense. As to the practice not being inju-
rious to the revenue, but on the contrary, he
would not waste the time of the Court, as it was
self-evident. He might have been mktaken in the
construction of the acts. If he had erred, it was
not from intention. If the Court should pro-
nounce-the practice illy gal, lie for one was ready
to abandon it. It seas :he daily practice of the
most respectable wine-merchants in the trade lo
mix Port wine with Cape, in order to improve
the barren flavour of the Cape, and to make it
keep longer. The question as to the legality of
the practice was therefore of the highest import-,
ance to the trade, with whom, 'if he eerie guilty,
he shared the guilt in common.
The Court asked Mr. Fisher, the surveyor,
whether he believed it to be a common practice ;
to which be replied in the affirmative, and said,
that one had been convicted, and another trial
was pending for the same offence..
Mr. COATES continued, and said he felt, as every
.other practical man felt, the utter impossibility of
adhering to the letter of the Excise Laws, which
the Legislature seemed to have contemplated, iu
giving such extensive powers of mitigation to the
Court.

Mr. MAYO said, the Legislatnre had nnly con-
templated a departure from the Excise Laws, by
enacting excessive penalties.
The Court said, Mr. Coates ought not to have
made such a declaration there ; he might, it he
pleased, with others, have reserved it for his

close. 'Die Court could only be governed by thd
le'irr of the Excise Laws.

Mr. Coates asked the Surveyor, whether there
was not a corresponding decrease in a pipe of Port
wire at the time of the increase in the Cape which
was seized. The fact was admitted.

Air. ildAvcr, the Solicitor to the Excise, con.
tended, that the Court could only be governed
by the letter of the Act, which was, be said,
stpit;st the defendant. Lie answered at sonut
length the arguments of the defendant to prove
that the practice was not injurious to the revenue.
It might appear so at fitst sight, but would be
[mind to be injurious in the long run : if wine
merchants %vete permitted to mix foreign wines
with the Cape wine, which paid less duty, they
might improve it so much as to increase its con+
sumption as a substitute for Port, and thereby
injure the revenue.

Tl:e Court, in giving judgment, said, there was
imporat!on whatever upon the character of the
.firm,: of which the Office's of the Excise had al,.
VelVi made an lionottrabie report ; and those who
frmii presumed falsely to impeach ifs reSnectAility
deserved- punishment. The itiforma:itin did not
charge ►hem %vith any thing ciiminal or corrupt,
and the question merely tinned on a point of
On ti i 4 head the Court were clearly of opinion,
that ,here had been a mixio„,, within tl►e meaning
of the Act, and adjudged the whole of the wine
so mixed to be forfeited.

A few days ago, a man ‘ralking along the hanki
of the Tay, nisciavered in the river, near the mouth
of the Aoiotul, a lame cask, which appoAred to
contain somett of V3llle. Pared with his good
fortune, anti not doubting that the cask was filled
t, ith acot,irte'rnowitairt dew, he proceeded to ex-
amine i s quality, when, to bis utter astonishment,
he found the contents to consist of R moving mass
of living frov, nearly as closely packed together.
as a ba,rd or ben ino. I low these amphibious
creattirt:s (-ante to he enclosed in such numbers,
we leave to naturalists to determine. It is no un-
cumin •11 thing, we are aware, to discover toads
in the hearts of trees, and even in the internal
parts of the hardest rocks, but it mast be admit_
tell to be a very rare occurrence to find a vs hole
colony or kindred rely iles pent up in that man-
ner.—( Perth Courier,)

0,11 itniay week a person applied, at the Q teens
Head, in Durham, for a post chaise and tour, to
carry hitt) to N thy Castle, whither he staid he 'Va..:
proceeding with iinvort ant dispatches for the Bill
of Da; liogton. As soon as the chaise was reaey
he set out, accompanied by a female, decently at-
ti,el but not of vet y gewec!appearonce. 0;1 reach-
ing Nahy, the stranger tv.l4 iHortned that the Lord
Lieutenant was at Newton LlAuse, whither he fol.
lowed. At Staindt op he represented himself-as the
Doke of Lancaster, and his amiable consort, ti,e
Duchess, regaled herself with a glass of rent and
water in the kitchen of the Inn. His Grace made
an unsuccessful application to one of 11:e Earl of
D.'s agents for a loan to 41( fray his expellees Ott
the road. He also requested permission to re-
main at the Castle till the return of is noble-
owner, which was of course refused. On his
arrival at Newton House, he fo .nd th,t his
assumed title LINA to obtain him an audience.—
In this dilernsul post :boys beizart to despair of
receiriog p ,yinent or the'r services;and deemed-it
prudent to bring the Duke and Duchess bat k to
Durham, where they arrived in the contse of
Sa-
turday, His Grace having no mon,..y, let his
acid rings,- and the Duchess her midi ac.ll
tippet, as security to Mr. Esket, t•-ix !he expences
ot, a joorncy which could only have been iii;der.
taken thiough folly or insanity.—(Tyree Mercury,
Dec. 28 )
Un Christmas•day, between the boors of two
and three in the afternoon, ,he tiwelling-hon;e t f
Chaioey, in
.the paikb of 8.-nenden, was
broken open, (no person bring therein, it being
(hiring Ditine service), and robbed of not, s, and
gold in sovereigns and is. pieces,. to the amount
of upwards of 201., several shirts walked with rite
initials of his name, ti red waistcoat, a velveteen
jacket quite. new, several silk handkerchiefs, and
a variety of wearing apparel. Tile ioh•ter alit"
carried i•ff a double barrtl pistol, with lite name
ofMilsted engraved on it, and a sin de barrel ditto,
with a steel rainnoil fixed in a swivel, and attach-
ed to the stock. The rol)her pot ked up most oldie
articles in a fiag-ba,kel, will the remainder' were
concealed about him He was seen by a little boy,
getting over the garden hedge of the said*Win.
Chainey. He appeared a youngish man, rather
tall, wore a short round frock, and long trowsers,
and had a large stick, on which lie carried the
flag-basket, and he appeared to have a quantity of
things stuffed into his bosom. Between 3 and 4
o'clock of the same day, he was sect) passing
tilt ()ugh Cranhrook, anti is supposed to have taken
the direction of Gondlnirst nr Marden, but most
likely teas making his way for Maidstone and
Chatham. The little boy describes him as bei;i4:
like a millwright in appearance.

110 P INTELIAGENCE.

SOUTIMABK, DEC. 27.—Our Hun Market con-
'limes very doll, The Doty. it aiyeArs, orris laid
on the Trl bi e at the liotte of Conlinins on Friday
last, and seems to be 242,076 i. 25.3 d.

COAL AIARKET, I)Ec. 29.
Ships at Marl:ct. Ships sold. Prices.
1,141 Neweastlo 2S Tii Od. to 43,. Gd.
i 7 tilloderlan''. II

IHRTH.
o,) the -2;111 inst., at Clapham Connnun, Mrs. John Shewell,
of a daughter.