The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-22 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE, AUG. 2l.The Ijops in this
neighbonrhood continue to improve even upon
the astonishing progress which they havii lately
made, and which exceeds all' former years.
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some Plantations- the Hops exceed three inches
211,i a halt in length, and Bre perfectly clear from
every kind of vermin, and the crop is expected to
he finer .in quality and quantity than has been
known for ten years. Many of the Planters be-
gin nicking on Monday next, but the general at-
tack will be deferred till a few days later, when
tens of thousands of busy bands twill be employed
'in destroying the beauty of the present luxurious
scene in the country, and transferring the same
to the waiting purchasers in the Borough. •That
some ides may he formed of the quantity of hands
employed in picking Hopi in this County, there
are two Planters in this neighbourhood who will
employ, upon their own grounds, between five
and six thousand individuals.—Experienced per-
sons expect tl.e duty will be 150,0001. In this
neighbourhood there are three planters, whine
united produce will be very near five thousand bags.
—Onions sold this day,. in this town, at 55. per
gallon !--'-,405. per bushel !

LIMES, AUG. 17.—The picking will soon com-
mence. The Sussex Plantations, generally, arc
not so proMising as those of: Kent ; but at Beck-
ley, Ewhursr, and Bodiam, the Hops are parti-
cularly fine.—On Wednesday last, the' Annual
Hop Meeting was held at Castle liedingbam,
Essex, at which a number of most respectable
growers' and dealers -attended. About 70 sat down
to tin excellent chimer. After which, the subject
of the Meeting being introduced, bets were taken
in favour of the duty amounting to 90,000/. Se-
'veral' bargains of flops of the present growth
were offered one , only was sold in pockets
at 171. 15s. to be delivered at Brainltve Fair :
other lots were bought in at 19/. The Hop
Plantations in Hedinglaam and its neighbourhood,
never looked afore healthy, or promised 'a
greater
abundance; considerable apprehensions are, how-
ever, entertained for their safety, in consequence
of the continued dryness of the season.

WORCESTER,IAUG. 10.—Onr duty is now laid
at 15,000/, in consequence of the continued im-
provement of the Plantation ; the Sussex Planta-
tion has improved materially ; indeed appearances
have become so favourable that the duty of the
Kingdom has rapidly risen to 130,0001. , The
prices are on the decline. Seventeen pockets of
new Hops were sold in the Borough on Monday,
and averaged 171! to 20/. I The picking ,will com-
mence in this neighbourhood in a few days. •

WARSAW, At:. 3.—On the 23d of July we had
a storm here such as we have not experienced for
some years : it was accompanied with hail the
size of a hazel-nut. In the suburb of Praoa the
lightning killed three soldiers of the Polish Guard,
and wounded five others. A barn and a stable
were set on fire by the lightning, and other build-
ings damaged.,
The harvest has been begun about a week, and
is much ,favoured by the warm weather.
CoPENHAGRN, AUG. B.—The. accounts of the
harvest in Laland are not favourable, and old peo-
ple are ofraid that the crop of summer corn will
be worse than any they have had for these twenty
years. In Zealand, on the contrary, there is on
the whole more reason to be satisfied with the
harvest.

TYrtor., AUG. 6.—ln this country'we remark in
several places an extraordinary increase of the
glaciers. A mass of ice, which advanced from
the Sindner Valley, has increased from the 6th of
May to the 30th of July,. that is, in 75 days, 76
fathoms. In many parts at Switzerland, the same
remark is made. Where, , only one generation
hack; the most fertile Alpine pastures were seen,
there is now eternal ice, and the line of snow
seems, in the, course of time, to descend lowcr.
and lower from the summits of the mountains to-
wards the plains and valleys. •
FRANKFaRT, AUG. B.—Preparations are al-
ready makivg at DresdeO to celebrate the fete of
the 50th Anniversary of the Kitsg's accession.
Several august PersonageS are expected to visit
Dresden at that time, and it is hoped that conser
quences will ensue very advantageous to the
Saxons, and even to all Germans.

HUSSEY'S CONFESSION.-- Considerable doubts
are entertained as to \the correctness of Hussey's
statement. Mr. SmITH, the Magistrate of,Green-
wich, and other gentlemen, are still persevering
in endeavouring to ascertain the most correct in-
formation upon the subject. On Wednesday they
employed some men in clearing nut the pond
near Vansittart's-place, Greenwich, in, search
for the Mallet which Hussey said he threw into

e pond with the hammer, hoth of which instrn-

merits he pretended to have been used by his
companions who entered Mr. Bird's house. The
whole of the mud'and dirt was taken ,out of the
pond in the presence of several Police officers, &c.
but no mallet or any appearance of one was found.
The Bow-street Officers and others, who saw the
mangled bodies of Mr. Bird and his houSekeeper
on their being washed from the stains of . blood,
allege that there was every reason to believe
that all the wounds on both of the bodies had
been inflicted by the same instrument, and the
impression of the wounds resembled that which
would be produced from the likimmer. The con-
fession states, that while one of Hussey's com-
panions was engaged With the housekeeper at the
street-door, the other man broke his way into
the side-door ; Whereas, on Adkins and Lavender,
the Bow-street Officers, arriving, there, hi a very
shim time after the first alarm, with all possible
speed, they were of opinion that there had been
neither breaking in or breaking out of the house.
It is' said, that Hussey assigned as a reason to the
Rev. Mr. Rudge, for his not making a full con-
fession sooner, that he and his associates had
sworn such horrid oaths not to impeach each
other, that he was frightened' even to ' repeat
them, and he enquired of the Rev. Mr. budge if
he thought he should be forgiven hereafter if he
brOke the oath he had taken not to divulge any
thing respecting the transaction. It is still sus-
pected that the murderers gained admittance into
Mr. Bird's house about nine o'clock. At six
o'clock the same evening a man knocked at the
door, and the housekeeper put up the chai❑ before
she answered him.

['he celebrated Mrs. MARY ANN CLARKEi and

her family, who•have been residing in retirement
at Little Hampton for some time, took her de-
parture yesterday from Brighton, on board the
Elizabeth Packet, Captain LiND, for Havre de
Grace.

The King's Arms stables at Lancaster were on
Tuesday night burnt to the ground. Five horses
perished in the flnmes. Two other horses were
much injured. They belonged to gentlemen at-
tending the Assizes.

this interesting subject :
" Statement follows statement, in the Amer-.
can and English Journals, respecting the case of
ARBUTHNOT and AMBRISTIE-and all, or with
very little reservation, come to the same conclu•
sion, as to the wantonness and barbarity of the
act committed. has been eneeavoured to make
out a case exculpatory of the agents in the exe-
cution of those men, on the grounds that, as
America was carrying on a war of extirpation
against the Indians, it was not stepping out of
the regular course of. sanguinary massacre, to
butcher the unfortunate. men in question, as
they formed a part of the Indian forte in the
field.
4, With respect to this argument, there is some•
thing in it, in the first place, which humanity can.
not readily recognize ; it is founded on principles
at variance with the usage of the civilized world—
a better precedent, we should think, for the .
United States to follow, than the barbarous one
which their armies were instructed to emulate.
Nothing in our mind can justify a war of unre-
lenting slaughter, especially after the heat and

fury of the fight is over.. In the field, excesses
and outrages against nature and humanity may be
committed, where savages.form one of the con-
tending parties, without, at least, exciting won.
der ;—bast the cold-hearted cruell that would
butcher prisoners under the mockery of a trial, is
equally
.odious and horrible. If the Americans
laid down the regulation of giving no quarter to
those who may be found fighting in the ranks of
the Indians, why did they proceed to the forma-
lity of a trial. It was a tact that required no seta
otr circumstances—no special accuser ; they were

arms, or they were not—if the affirmative were

the case, , their crime against the terrible law of
reprisal adopted was manifest, and needed neither
explanation nor inquiry. When, however;tbere
•was a pause, and an investigation, purporting at

least to be serious, instituted—where was the
claim of humanity Where the recollection that
two British subjects were the persons under ar-
raignment,' not Indians—not men who would be
the perpetrators of barbarity ? There was an opens
ing for mercy under the most rigid construction
of a sanguinary regulation—but, Mercy and the
American . General had no association. it is a
sad event, in every way, to dwell upon.
" Another argument has been resorted to, that
ARBUTHNOT and A➢IBRISTIti were placed in simi-
lar circumstances with those whom the Spanish

Government had proscribed, if found in the ranks

of thcSoUth American Insurgents. The cases,
however, are by no means parallel. The South

Americans have revolted from their Go.vernmenr,

and taken up arms to assert their independence.
This is an act of treason, fairly construed, and
would justify severe measures, if not violent. ones
—but the Indians do not acknowledge the domi-
nion of the United States, nor indeed have they
ever acknowledged it. They live hi their' own
tprritory, under their• own laws, of whatsoever

nature they are, and are a free race. They vio-
late no obedience, nor contend against any du-

rninant right of the United, States,. in
,the war
they are prosecuting, and they can, consequently,
be only made liable for cruelty or barbarity by

retaliation.

There is no fixed or known late

which exposes them to the cognizance of an Ame-
rican tribunal, for what .they may do, as open,

avowed, and authorised enemies."

OXFORD, AUG. 2L—His Majesty the King of ,
PEussis, has (with the most gracious expressions
of his esteem) presented to the Rev. Dr. JOHN'
COOKE, President of Corpus Christi College, in
this University, a large and splendid Vase of Ber-
lin Pureelaine. It is §haped after one of the most
beautiful. of the Etruscan patterns : it bears 01 ,
one side the Portrait of the King of Prussia, rxe- ,
cuted with the elaborate fidelity of a miniatui e ;
and on the other a view of Berlin, in' tbe mlist
finished style of landscape painting. Two trophies
fill the opposite intervals, one of which presents,
on a shield, the name of Oxford, the other, on a
similar shield, the days of his Majesty's residence
at the lodgings of Corpus Christi College—JUNE
xtv. XV. MDCCCXIV. Whether this piece of por-
celaine be considered in the whiteness df its elay,.,
or the elegance of its form, the lustre of its ena-
mel, or the richness of its giltiings, the beauty of

its designs, or the truth of their colouring, or,
lastly, in the general finish and effect of its exe-
cution, it must be classed with the happiest pro-
ductions of the artists of Sevres and Dresden, and
is an honourable proof of the, present perfection
of Prussian taste and workmanship in this depart-
Ant of the Fine Arts.

The Bishop of - St. As-qR has been pleased to
institute the Rev. RICL,RD liowavn,
Chaplain to his Royal highness the-Duite of Sus•
sex, to the Rectory of Denbih.