The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-08 00:00:00

DINE, IN NORTH BRITAIN, FOR SALE. -
HICHILY VALUABLE AND DESIRABLE ESTATE,

With• Delightful Residence on the Banks of the Dee, and Freehold

Qualification in the County of Kincardine.

TO'BE SOLD, BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
In the Reyal Exchange, Coffee-house, Edinburgh, on Tuasnav,
the 20th APRIL, 1827, at Two o'Clocir, if not previously (Es-
. posed of by Private Bargain,
THE LANDS and ESTATE of BLACK-
HALL, including a part of Invery, lying within the
parishes of Strachan and Upper Banchory, and county of Kincar-
dine, and consisting of above 5100 imperial acres ; whereof about
1200 are corn bumf, about 1600 green pasture and moor, highly
susceptible Of improvement, and about 2300 underwood of dif-
ferent ages. The prOperty is bounded by the river Dee or the
north for several miles, and on the south and east by the Water
of Feugh, and on the, west by the estate of Film!).

The Mansion-house is large and commodious, with garden, hot-
houses,.racing course, and a complete suite of new stables and
other offices. It stands on an extensive lawn, beautifully laidout,
well stocked with trees, and adapted to a highly picturesque and,
ronumtic,situts'iion, between woods in all directions, -and skirted
by the river Dee. -The porter's lodge is close to the liridge of
Banchory, from whence there is an approach of nearly two miles,
lately formed with great taste, and commending fine views of the
river. The village and post-town of Banchory, through which a
stage-coach passes, is within 300 yards of the gate. The distance
from Aberdeen is twenty, and from' Stonehaven, the county town,
seventeen miles. The neighbourhood is excellent, and the estate
abounds in game.
The present rental of the property bears no proportion to the
value of it, as a considerable part of the latter were let for gras-
sums under life-rent leases of old standing, at mere quit rents.
The rental payable by the tenants amount to £9ll 0 0
The mains, &c; in the natural possession of the
owner, to a resident proprietor is well worth 2OO 0 0

£l,lll 0 0
At the expiry of the present leases a great rise will be ob-
tained.

Besides the above rental a large sum is produced yearly from
sales of timber, there being 2,314 acres of this estate under
wood, a very considerable part of which is full grown, and ready
for market. The river Dee affords the most ample means of
floating it to Aberdeen at a very trifling expence ; and there are
besides excellent roads leading from this property in all directions.

Independent of the advantages of the Dee for floating wood,
the river, where the estate begins, has just become too rapid for
fishing by net, and it consequently affords most capital rod fish-
ing ; and, from the amenity of the situations on its banks, in a
fine sporting country, it likewise affords excellent situations for
fencing, or letting for villas or cottages. The water of Feugh
also affords good fishing, either with net or rod.

The Lands of Blackball are valued in the cess-books of the
County at 8871. 11s. 4d. Scots, and Invery at 851. 11s. Scots.
Invery is held of a subject superior at a nominal feu-duty; and
the lands of Castlebill, partly at Blackhall, are also held of a sub-
ject superior for payment of 51. sterling per annum, and doubling
the same at the entry of heirs and singular successors. The
superior of the rest of the estate is in the person of the present
proprietor, and affords a freehold qualification.
The Lands are valued and exhausted, and the public burdens
very trifling, amounting to 751. of which a gentleman, who holds
a small part of Invery, has 51. 19s. 6d.
For further particulars application may be made to Claud Rus-
sell and T. Mansfield, accountants, 76, Great King-street, Edin-
burgb,:who are empowered teconclude a sale by private bargain ;
to Thomas Innes, W. S. 3, Thomas-court, Edinburgh ; or to
John Brand, writer in Strathaven.

John Laing, at Bankhead of Invery, by Banchory, will point
out the boundaries of the estate.

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TaArixIDINLGArsATURRCLUE7O7ENs,OwRxTLLHIAI3.I‘:
HOLMES, AND *QBXI4T SHAW.
This Was an indictment against Hughes, the master of a barge
plying between _London and Burton on Trent, Taad,the three
other prisoners, • who were in his employrneot, for haviag felo-
niously abstraded part of the contents of A Tips of !herry,Whie,4,
•was entrusted -to'their charge, on the' sth of August last; to
conveyed from the" stm-es of Messrs. pickford, of tondon, to
those of Messrs. Bass and Co., of Braunston, NorthamOonshire„,
The Jury, almost immediately, returned a verdict of :Guilty
against the four prisoners. -
In consequence of Mr. CLartix, the King's Counsel, who ie
named in the Corraission Ni'ith Mr. Justice }TOL/LOYD, hayiag
sat this day to try prisoners, it is supposed that the Criminal
Calendar, which was unusually heavy, although involving .no
case of peculiar importance, will be gone through :o-morrow.
The civil business will prObably occupy the next day, Thursday,
when it is supposed the assizes will close here,. and the Learned
Judge will proceed on the following day to .open the Commission
at Oakham.

THE CORI*4 LAWS.

We insert the following letter of our correspondent,
who claims at our hands an opportunity to express his sen-
timents, and as such we request our readers will receive
them.