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circumstances, connected with some others, corres-
ponding exactly to the Althea and Elizabeth, leave
little room to doubt of the capture of both of these
valuable ships ; the Getwell, it is hoped, has escaped ;
the loss toCalcuttaof.the Althea, Elizabeth, and Gel-
well, if taken, is estimated at 12 Lacs of rupees.
Information from Ganjam states, that the Canno-
nier and I'Adele privateers are both in the bay.
A privateer has also sailed for the Persian gulph in
quest of British merchantmen in that quarter.
2.—The American ship Traveller, from Sour-
bon, the 4th October, arrived at Kedgeree on Monday.
The following ships were safe at Kedgeree on the 30th
November, viz. Canton, Fanny, True American, brig
Telemachus, Anna Superior, Grab, Suffie, and Ya-
dlecurrum.—The Mercury packet arrived at Calcutta
the 14th November.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZFAVIONEY,
The Thalia, for the capture of le Requin, October 29, 1807'
was paid on board, or at No. 28, High-street, Portsmouth, this
day, and will be there recalled on Mondays and Thursdays.
The Cormorant, for the capture of the Pruyssicke Koopman,
May 31, 1798, will be paid by Mr. John, at Ilfracombe, on the
2d of May, and there recalled.
The Squirrel, for capture of la Cecile, May 29, 1805, will be
paid on the 241 of May, at Mr. Tonkin's, Plymouth, and there
recalled.
The Tamer, for the Sally, captured June s, 1798, will be paid
on the 11th of May, at Mr. Western's, Gray's-Inn-Square ; and
there re-called.
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tO THE FREEHOLDERS OF HAMPSHIRE. ' 1 ome mole ILIA SOW) thrown back from the de:-
' . ---- 1 tilleries ; ants yet, grout:men, the opposers of the in-
.
Mormoo—As one of y
betty to add ourselves, I take the li- tended Bill call themselves the friends of the farmer.
ress you upon the subject of a bill Toren- I There may be some fartners so easily.misled, so
ded to be shortly brought before Parliament, the
is- V pletely blinded, as to believe this, and may carry
jest of which is, to cau Scotland, to be used in the dis-; their folly so far as to be induced to joist in a petition
tilleries of England an instead of the Corn I to Parliament against a bill which they are told will
which is now therein used. I make corn cheap ; but, I trust that the farmers of
For many months past, Gentlemen, there has ex- Hampshire have too much good sense to be so de-
isted a general alarm at the shutting of the foreigo ceived • and that, at any rate, if the petition, Which
\ corn-ports. The argument has been this :we have is talked of, should be seriously proposed, we, the
long been in the habit of importing annually a large freeholders in general, shal
tal not be so shamefully de-
quantity of corn ; this importation was necessary, ficient in the duty we o ourselves, to the poor,
otherwise it would not have been made ; and the and to our country, as to suffer it to be carried, witl s
enemy having succeeded in closing tl.e ports of the out such an opposition on our part as sliall tonsince
Baltic against us, at the same time that the unjust and I the parliansent, that it speaks sot the sense cf the
insolent demands of America leave us no ground I county. I am, Gentlemen,
ble and obedient Servant,
whereon to depend upon a supply of corn from that Your hum
country, it is evident, that, unless we can, in some London, April 23, 180 S. WILLIAM CORIILT.
way or other, add to the quantity of corn produced ........—•---roo
at home, we must, in proportion to the quantity of
corn now imported, experience additional digress, if 1 STIPFNDIARY • CURATES.—=The Bill for making
a year of scarcity should unhappily arrive. The truth I more effectual provision for the maintenance of So.
of this conclusion every man admits, and the nation, pendiary Curates in England, and for their residence
with voice unanimous, exclaim, Let us, as we love our I on their cures, as
The following Eats fquantity of the corn produced at home. I enactments:
Now, Gentlemen, one way of adding, in effect, to ' Where spiritual persons shall be nonresident, the Bishlp to
the quantity ofany thing, is, to obtain some other thing I Bishop
to the Curatelan Curate.
t a urate.
capable of being made use of in its stead. Thus, if a stipend y a
dula
not tli:reed 2501,
man's turnips run short, he gives some cabbages to, Bishop in certain cases may nominate more tkan one Curate 3act
his cattle, and does thereby, in fact, add to his quan- , allow them stiPeuds.
tity of turnips. Upon this plain principle the Kin'us: 'I incumbent to deliver a statemeta of the annual value of his 1x...,
refire, on which the Bishop shall adjudge the stipend.
Mitiisteti have the intention of bonging forward I Where Bishop shall appoint a Curate, or assign a salary,
bill above described ; and, it must, I should think, be ' shall direct the residence of the Curate.
evident to every man, that, if we bring sugar from Where the Incumbent shall occupy the parsonage house, the
our colonies to supply the place of the corn now used Bishop may assign the Curate a sum for residence.
in the distilleries, there will be in the country so much I Bishop may assign to the Curate a portion of the glebe.
more corn to be used in the way of food, which is the : gieCbett,ra&tee: upon revocation, to deliver up possession of both,
very effect that we are all so anxieue to see produced, , Bishop not to assign glebe which shall he actually leased.
and to producewhich effect the situation of ourcolonies ' An appeal to be allowed to the Archbishop.
I If Curate shall apply for an increase of salary, &c• and the ,
and our commerce is, at this moment, acknowledged,
shop shall refuse, such Curate may likewise appeal.
on all hands, to be peculiarly favourable. Curate not residing the whole year, to receive proportional parts
Evident, however, as these truths appear to me, lof stipend or
xt end allowto benefices, exempt as well as riot, and to
ance.
and, as I think they will appear to you, a great cla- Act to e
mour has, by some of the land owners and corn dealers, Peculia".
been raised against the intended bill ; the alarm of 1 Bytop
appointmentinayo, a Curate, augmentation of the Curate's salary
these Gentlemen having, all of a sudden, changed its . ome shall be convicted of any crime liable to suspension,
nature ; from a dread of a scarcity of corn, they have,; Bishop may revoke license, and appoint another Curate.
in the twinklin,„o of an eye, fallen into a dread of too , CatßehL`i
Benefices situattetoinumcorheurthanch t one e diocese, tbe Bisl
ers ozropthof
great aidente of corn ; and some of them assert, that, i Bishops sumnes to
to exercise ctlezprovercilionsPcc:fv.t.he Act. e .
if the intended bill should become a law, the farmers , Powers of Bishop under Act S 6 George 111. to be exercised
will become bankrupts, because, having lost one of the Bishop with respect to benefices.
the markets for their corn, their corn eta/fall in pri:e I Powers of Bishops under this Act to be used with respect
' Curatcs.
and they will not be able to pay their rents. I lucumbent of two or more benefices, residing upon the same
Gentlemen, any thing more groundless than this and employing a Curate on the part where he shall not reside, th
alarm, more unsound than this reasoning, I do not ' stipend to be assigned to the Curate shall not exceeds due propose
remember to have met with in the course of my life. i tion of annual salary.
What I is plenty the farmer's ruin ? Is abundance to beSalliloriwtuedal,Per andtheranapurt ilt,italmueenotf ttohestibeteallirg sum
agreed 9
be a source of
_national danger ? Is cheapness of corn i Agreements and contracts not to be deoogatory to Act
the people's curse ? The farmer has poor-rates to pay , George 111.
as well as rent ; and, you all well know, Gentlemen, I Act not to prejudice power of Bishops touching Coracles.
that he has more to pay in poor-rates when corn is I bating oanlythe roctory
rectory, but also the usuhar homused iesrrY spiritual
ofPerson
dear than when corn is cheap ; you know, in fact, I sip
_iritugal person holding a donative or perpetual cure,
shall '
that the amount of his poor-rates keep an exact pro- I deemed and taken to be a parsonage or vicarage house vithin %-
portion to the price of corn ; you know, also, that Meaning of this Act ; and all the provisions touching residence
what is not given in times of scarcity to the labourer in the rectory and tharisafie-hous!, Contained
uin the said Act r'
in increased poor-rates must be given him in increasedilthbotlsloift
hresidernoce of spiritist." pes rsons ,bsolanntext=esthe
wages ; you know further, that, if the farmer sells his petals cures which belong to the same.
corn cheap, he fats his hogs cheap, he feeds his horses The house of last do '
week in the neighbourhood
and cattle cheap, he keeps his servants cheap ; and, T
snverness was week destroyed by accidental
indeed, you, who are farmers, well know, from bitter fire, and the poor woman perished in the flames - -
experience, that the greatest evil of yew lives were the digging, on the following day, for her remains,
high prices of the year 1800 and 1801, an evil which grand-child, a fine boy, eight years of age, lobo
you tel to this hour, and which you will feel for many supposed to have been absent, was found
having
years yet to come. under a mass of burning ruin, w
But, Gentlemen, I beg you to consider the sweep- mined any injury.
ing tendency of the principle, upon which the in- MaNsion Hoose.--,The City Officers have
tended bill is objected to, which principle applies to
'
particularly vigilant during the week, regularli
all cases wherein an increase in the produce of corn
ing into custody every person of a suspicious
takes place. According to this principle, to improve • .
ante, or resembling idlers or vagrants, whom they
the land already enclosed uan evil, because such inn- in the various public houses near the river, I
provement will certainly add to the produce of the way a number of useful and active hands,
land ; that increased produce will as certainly lower perly protected, have been procured for the na
the price of corn (unless more mouths are found to sept on board the tender.
eat it) ; to lower the price of corn is, according to
the opposers of this bill, to ruin the farmer ; and, Bow-STREET.--On Saturday, Mary Bar)
therefore, if we admit this principle, to improve the brought up for re-eza.nination, on a charge
land already enclosed is an evil. And, gentlemen, ing a 51. note (purporting to be an Ipswich
what shall, then, be said, of new enclosure; ? It is I
fo k Bank-note, signed by Ralph Holden',
the general opinion that new enclosures cause an ad- Thompson, a linen-eraper, of New-street,
dition to the quantity of corn produced; it is the Garden, well knowing the Bank was broke,
opinion of many of those who oppose the bill, that Ralph I-folden was not to •be found. Ant
the way to prevent scarcity in England and Scotlaod tradesmee, who have lately been im
posed
is to bring large tracks of waste lands into cultiva- these notes, attended the examination,
lion, because, they say, that the quantity of corn pro- woman, who had been with the prisoner at the
doted would thereby be made greater than it now is. Bear public.hotise, followed her into the office,
Supposing this to be the case (and that no new mouths she was recognized by a man who keeps a
are created to eat such addition to the produce) the I in St. Martir.'s-lane, and a grocer in the
.price of corn will certainly be lowered .y the new . have passed similar notes to them, in corre
enclosures ; the lowering of the price of corn will ' the prisoner, a few weeks since ; she was acs
here again, according to the opposers of the bill, roils I put to the bar, and they were both committed
the farmer ; and, therefore, upon their principle, I
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further examination next Thursday, when ;s -
3 number of other charges will be
those new enclosures, which they themselves repre- I Pected
sent as being necessary to the salvation of the country, 1 against them,
would be a great national evil. The light, however, Saturday, an elderly man, named Brown,
in which the loconsistency of these. gentlemen's con• charged before the LORD MAYOR, by an
duct appears the most clearly, is this, that, for a 1 longing to Bishopsgate-street, with having
' long aerie of years they' have seen corn brought into I person a great quantity of base money. The
England and Scotland from foreign countries. with, as the prisoner was ?assing along, observed "
out having, in any one instance, complained against several shillings, which, From the sound, he
it, as likely to ruin the farmers. Now there is pp be counterfeit, He remarked the circumstaA.
foreign country that can send us any corn ' • but our prisoner, who immediately gave him a blow.
lands lathe West Indies are able to send us sugar Officer called out fear assistance, whep the prisoner
1
that will supply the place of the corn that we used to secured. On searching him, there were
get from foreign countries ; and, observe, that we pockets forty-threecounterfeitshngs. twenty.
buy this sugar of our own countrymen, and pay them pences, and a variety of other counterfeit .
in flax and duce ofd iron, and tin and copper, all the prisoner represented himself tea be a shoemaker, just ar.
natural produce of our own soil, while the corn which rived from the country ; that in his way through MOOT-
we drew from foreign countries was, for the greater fields he found the counterfeit money hi question,
part, paid for in gold and silver and yet, Itle. wrapped up in a piece of paper. He at first thought
men, strange it is to say, that the persons who op. he had found a treasure, but, on cramming the qua.
pose the intended Bill, who call themselves t 4 lit of the metal, he quickly discovered his mistake.
friends of the farmers, who quietly Suffered eight , He was about to throw the parcel aer, Wisest a per-
due/bud that:put quarters of corn to be brought every ' son passing at the time, and who had obseree4 she
year from foreign countries,would now fain persuade transaction, iemarked, that the metal of itself was of
those same farmers, that they will be ruined by the some value, end that the prisoner night be able, if
bringing in of that which will supply the place of, at he could meet with a Jew, to dispose of the whole
most, three hundred thoeuitnd quarters of corn, that I cargo for a Peony or twolsente each. llPPreseed
being the full amount of what is used yearly in the with Ibis belief, the prisQuer ossaitiod poomi4= of it,
distineri es. Nay, Gentlemen, these same persons and he was merely, for ths revue aripdging who;
have no scruple to express their sorrow that the sup- be sollibt "FA tc4:12117 "In• g°ll3/tiPg ovep the
ply of foreign corn is cut off by the evenly, and their number of faeces, met or dune pieces, as ob.
Wishes that that supply may he again renewe broad. 'erred by tk Officer, dropped front his hand, He
as if 800,000 quarters of earn, brought 73:i was remanded till the Solicitor of the Mint should bc
ivogli sot lower the rice of our coraproduced at inforitle4 91. the CirconutaMC,

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