The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-29 00:00:00

REGISFER OF FASHION.

ARRICAL4.—The Earl and Countess of Plymouth, at their
seat, [Jewel! Brooinsgrove, Worcestershire, Irvin Leicester-
shire ; Joseph Cole, Esq. at the Pultency Hotel, from Bath ;

Mrs. Tisdell, at ditto, from Brighton.
DEPARTURES.—Lord and Lady Colchester, from Warren's
New Hotel, New-street, for their seat, Whitbrook, Sussex;
Lord and Lady Nugent, from their seat; Lilleys, Berks, for
Stowe; Major and Mrs. Malcolm, from the Prince Saxe-Co-'
bourg Hotel, Charles-street, Berkeley-square, to Bath.

SPOlti IN G INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, DEC. es.
DERBY.
Taken-10 to 1 agst Duke of Portland's Pledge.
Taken—it to 1 agst Lord Rous's Euphrates.
Takeo—ls to I agst Mr. LI Chorlton's
Taken-17 to 1 agst Wildfire.

OAKS.
Taken-10 to 1 agst I). of Grafton's Vanity,
Taken—lC) to I apt Gen. Grosvenor's Blue Stockings.
'A guinea for a hundred in favour of Vanity.—No betting
on the Doncaster St. Leger.

HUNTING.

The East Essex Fox Hounds meet Thursday next, at Gen.
Elwes's. Park Gate, at ten.—The Haftiehi Hounds meet
Thursday, at Bramin;:ham ; awl Saturday next, at Kennel,
at halt past ten..---1,11111 Sondes's 'Hounds meet this day, at
'Teton Mill; Thursday, at Toddington; and Saturday, at
Sibbertoft, each day at half past ten.—The Duke of Grafton's
Hounds meet to-morrow, if weather permit, at Ashton. at
half past ten.—The Oakley Hounds meet this day, at Milton
Mill ; Thursday, nit Kempston Wood; Saturday, at Bletsoe
Falcon, at half past ten each day.

A Civil Grand Cross and Red Ribbon,, of the
Order of the Bath, becomes vacant by the death
of Sir PHILIP FRANCIS. Doctor FRANCIS, father
of the late Sir PHILIP, was not only one of the
English' Versifiers of HORACE, but one of the
translators of DEmosTHRNRs ; he also produced
a very short-lived Tragedy, called " Eugenia."--
The Doctor was for several years Domestic Chap-
lain to the Right Hon. HENRY Fox, the first Lord
HOLLAND. •

HATFIELD.---This ancient seat of hospitality
was thrown open at the commencement of the
holidays, by the Marquis and Marchioness of
SaustwaY,for the reception of their distinguished
feiends. Never was a greater •display of munifi-
cence manifested by the noble owners, than on the
present occasion. All the poor in Hatfield and its
environs participated in the distribution of their
bounty in food and raiment. Among the distin-
guished personages invited on the' occasion was
the Duke of WELLINGTON. His Grace left town
on.Friday.last for Hatfield, and returned yester-
day afternoon.

THE FEMALE PREACHER,—The Female that vi-
sited the late unfortunate men in Newgate, while
under sentence of death for uttering forged notes,
is in the 'constant habit of preaching in chapels
and meetings. She ascends the pulpit, attended
by a tall man of a dark complexion, with a long
beard, very much resembling a Jewish Priest. He
first begins singing an account of something
about himself, but it is neither a psalm or hymn
tune; after which he holds forth for near an
hour. The female then rises and finishes the dis-
course, he remaining all the time in the pulpit.—
They have travelled together through most parts
of America. They preached a few days past at a
chapel in the borough, and at other places. He
has lately published an account of his travels dur-
ing his The woman is dressed in the cos--
wine of a Quaker, and appears to be upwards of
60 years old. They are very shortly going back
to America. A few nights past, they visited an
obscure place .of worship in Blue Anchor-yard,
Rosemary-lane. During •his discourse, he took
occasion to use a similitude, by taking out of the
socket one of the candles, declaring to the Con-.
gregation, while one spark of sin remained, they
could not enter Heaven; and various other equally
singular allusions.

HOAX.—One of those most contemptible at-
tempts at wit, generally called a hoax, the author
of which, if discovered, would be well rewarded
for his ingenuity by public flagellation, was on
Christmas-day played off on the family of Mr.
S--, a respectable inhabitant of Walcot-I,lace,
Lambeth. At an early hour in the morning, the
house was alarmed by the cries and knocking of 3
different chimney-sweepers., all of whom had re-
ceived orders to attend at the same time. These
were scarcely dismissed, ,when two post-chaises,
provided no doubt by the same kind friend, came
to take Mr. 8-- and family out of town. The
post-boys more in dudgeon than th• animals they
drove, reluctantly turned from the door, the knocker
of which, for some hours after, scarcely rested a
minute, for the. numerous applications ol tradesmen
applying for orders and delivering goods. And at
one time Mr. S--, by a singular coincidence, had
in his house a surgeon, •a butcher, an advertising
genuine wine-merchant, and an undertaker, all
attending in the way of their profession. At one
period of the day, Mr. S-- received by an er-
rand cart a hamper, out of the top of which 'pro-
truded the legs and feet of a few turkeys, but;
upon unpacking it, the contents were found to be
nothing but rubbish and straw. The quarter of
the suburbs from which this came, however, has
served as a guide to Mr. S—'s suspicion.
The Earl of BRADFORD was lately in imminent
peril of his life by a bull belonging to the Duke of
BEDFORD. His Lordship was viewing the ani-
mal in its stall, when it attacked him with its
horns, and trampled upon him. His Lordship
happily escaped by getting under the manger.

FIELD-GARDENING HUSBANDRY.

INTERESTING COMMUNICATION.
The following is a Copy of a Letter from Sir
HENRY VAVASOUR to Lord CARRINGiON, COll-
- an account of a Cottager 'keeping a cow,
by the produce of arable land only

•
Lodon, May 20, .
MY LORD,---I have had then 1801
of 'men-
tioning, in conversation to your: Lordship, the ad-
vantages that appeared to, me, in cultivating
land in the Flemish manner, or, what is now
.called,-.about Fillham and that neighbourhood;
the Field-gardeniv husbandry. I have for some
years tencouraged my cottagers in Yorkshire, in
this mode of managing their small.girrths ror gar-
dens, which are in general. from one to three
acres; and I. have now an opportunity_of stating
the husbandry of a - poor industrious cottager's
Barth. As the mail can neither read nor write,
these patticulars have been transmitted to me
from his own month ; and as I saw his land al-
most every day during the last harvest, I can
vouch that this account is not far from the truth.
PRODUCE.
VALUE. A. R. P.
240 Bushels of potatoes
60 Ditto of carrots
5 Quarters of oats, at 445. perquarter 11 0 0 '0 320
4 Leads of clover, part in hay, part
cut green l2 0 0 1 010
Turnips
1 0 0 0 0 20
In garden-stuffs for the family, viz.
beans, peas, cabbages, leeks, &c 0 0 0 0 030

Deduct
,C. 54 0 0* 3 0 0
Rent, includikg house 9O 0
Seeds, &c.
Value of labour lO 10 0

22 10 0
Profit, 311. 10s. at market, exclusive of butter, if sold.
Ills stock was two cows and two pigs; one of
his cows bad a summer's gait for twenty weeks
with his landlord. The land was partly ploughed,
and partly dug with the spade, cultivated (the
ploughing excepted), by the man, his wife, and a
girl about twelve years of age, in their spare hours
from their daily hired work, seldom a whole day
01f, except in harvest—made the rent in butter,
besides a little used in the family. The man
lates, that be thinks he clears, one year with an-
other, about 30/, The daily wages his family
earns about keep them. It is very evident this
man clears more from his three acres than a far-
mer can possibly lay by from more than eighty
acres of land, in the common husbandry of the
country, paying for horses, servants, &c. and it
must be obvious to every one how great the ad-
vantage must be to society, by cultivating in this.
manner. It would have taken mare than half the
quantity of his three acres in. pasture, for one cow
at grass during half the year ; whereas (except-
ing the summer's gait for one of•his cows, as
mentioned before), his stock of two cows and
two pigs is kept and carried on the whole year.
The family lives well, and a handsome sum has
been yearly saved to place out two sons, and to
supply them with clothes, washing, &c.
I am, &c.
HENRY., VAVASOUR.
These sums are conformable to the prices of this year:
but it is evident that, in other seasons, they JD USt in general
be lower. The cottager's name is Thomas Rook.

MELANCHOLY SUJCIDE.—Oti Sunday evening
a most lamentable 'occurren:e took, place at the,
house of Mr. Stackwood, in Red Lion-street :
A young Gentleman, of the name of Richard Hal-
lard, in a fit of despondency, cut his throat in a
most dreadful manner in four or five places. We
understand he was not twenty years of age. A
love affair is supposed to be, the cause. Mr.
HaHard is still living, but no hopes are entertained
of his recovery ; and the situation of the young
Lady, the object of his attachment, is beyond de-
scription.

Another fatal accident occurred on Tuesday
night, in consequence of the very unsafe state in
which the Leeds and Liverpool Canal basin, near
to Water-lane, in this town, is suffered still to
remain. On the above night, about I I o'clock,
Mr. John Lobley, a mill-owner, at F'arnley, and
Mr. John Whitfield, a cloth-searcher, at Pod-
sey, left the Queen's Head, at Mill-hill,
both on one horse, and proceeded over Leeds
Bridge towards Farnley. Soon after they had
pissed the small bridge, leading out of Water-
lane towards the canal, one of them observed it
was a dismal dark night, and it was well they
were so perfectly acquainted with their way. This
conversation was scarcely finished, before the
horse, owing to the fog, quitted the road, and fell
with its riders into the old Canal basin. Some time
after, Mr. West, master of a stone-vessel lying in
the basin, being alarmed by the cries of some
person in distress, hastened from his cabin,
and, with the assistance of Mr. Andrew Coal-
man, and his mate, and some of the workmen
employed by the Union Company, rescued Mr.
Lobley and his horse. front their perilous situation.
Whitfield had sunk to rise no more, and though
diligent search was made for his remains the body
was not found till Friday, having floated from
the place where they had plunged into the wa-
ter, on' the south side of the 01d basin, to the
northeast corner of the new basin, 'at the point
• nearest to the Waterloo Ford. Oti Thursday
night, a respectable tradesman in this town
missed his road, and walked into the new basin :
be would have perished had he not been an expert
swimmer. Blame certainly attaches somewhere
for the dangerous state in which both the canal
basins are left. We will not now longer dwell
on what. has Onfortnnately occurred—but we most
S;ncerely trust that the possibility of future acci-
dents will he guarded against without delay, and
as effectually as possible.—(Leeds Intelligencer,
Dec: 28.) • •

ExCusslVE DRINKING.—An Inquisition was
taken last night, before TuomAs HIGGs, Esq.
Coroner, at the Lemon Tree, Bedfordbury, on the
body of Constantine Molloy, aged 32 years, late
of Tullat»ore, Ireland, whose. death was caused
by continued intoxication, from drinking neat
gin, and other spirits. He drank a quart of gin
within six hours prior to his death. Verdict—
" Died in a fit of apoplexy, caused by excessive
drinking."

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On Christmas Eve,
the wife of Mr. Saunders, shoemaker, No. 1,
Bull's Head-court, was delivered of
twins ; she is in the 59th year of her age, and
had no children for 35 years before.

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PROVINCEAL JOiIItNALS; . - . ' - indii
crease the-Anilden; (though mit the a nt) of
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taxes, by dividing:thent-,over a larger field of in-
As the CORN QUasTiost is one of essential inf..; dimity. It becomes, therefore-, iparamount. con-
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• it be
;portance to the Community, we conceive to
,sideration with the State to take care that a pro-
vision of subsistence be surely made for the gthli-
'our duty to submit to the Public at large whatever -
tional citizens rising into life and activity, and
',pay tend
. to its illustration, and therefore have this can be done so as to meet the occasion only
through the vehicle of a foreign supply, In con- ,
extracted the fcdlowing observations from The
nectiiin with this means We have advocated the
Norwich ilkivury of the 26th inst., a well-con- endetivour to augment domestic production by new
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of the unem or redundant poor
duced Joarnal of long established. reputation.
,settlenients - played
lent
After adverting. to the letter of a Correspont npon the waste soil, aird it is an expedient highly
desirable.- But tet it tierce be forgotten that in
I ' upon the subject of the much talked 01' Atri-
cultural Petition for a new Corn Bill, or in other the situ/111°1'i 'England stands' with respect to ca-
pital and coal;, tO s:.eiendYc PoWer, to navigation
words,: for such a modification of the present
and commercial knowledge, it is impossible to
Corti Laws as shall impose new restrictions upon
contioe or re;train her grOWing Manufactures to
importation," it proceeds. to say,-.-We beg to
this island. She must, from all the circumstances
assure our Correspondent and the Public, that we
her natural and acquired ad van
with
have neither been idle nor inattentive spectators connected
taxes, as well as her natural and acquired want 3,
of the progress of this petition, neither has time
she must enjoy, a vast intercourse with the exter-
made atty other alteration in the principles which
nal world or she must sink entirely. It appears
we have assooled as those which must ultimately
to he a matter 01 imperious necessity, that an ins-
the agricultural interests of this kingdom, . .
grok% ink it pollution at least eqoivalent to the ' i
de-
}hap to co:ofitin them. If wehat c been silent,
wands of a gttiwiini' manufactoring population
tvus. rat hrr because we considered the matter as
ShOuld he met by. external prOduce, and this lie-
' teost r'pe for discussion. and becatise in truth we
ceSsity must always tenth to regulate the English
Fn'6lai" not the apprehension of
at'Y bY tlie foreign price. Excliide foreign corn, and
change in the existing system until a heavy fall
such exclusion. will infallibly he followed by the
(which must eventually come) shall take place.
erni,ratioll of commercial and iiiall;tracturiog ca.
Then and 1)01.611 then, slid we think it worth
pita!, knowledge, and iiitliistiy. Tliere are few
ivh‘le, to recapitulate old arguments or to state i
persons at all acquainted with the subject, who
new facts.
\\'e believe that the landed interest tas a body will not allow that Efiglanil owes her individual
.
.1).1,m, wealth, and her power as a State, to the colttva.-
ace divided in their intentions upon this
don of these arts, if the statistical computations
and. _the majority we incline to think is not fa-
of Dr. Col( Iloilo be near the truth, commerce has
'notable to such a petition. Mr. Coke is en au-
l
led and now leads, and agriculture foltowi in the li
dimity of great weight in such a matter, and, lie
has been told two years ago, in the address of the road to opulence and strength. We wish rather
Norfolk Agricultural Society, delivered by Wm. IT
WllO is to stay the progress ot mind?? see them go I'gethei linked hand in ha".
, DUI
Jarv, Esq. at Holkliam Sheep Shearing, that the
general principle he holds is, that it would he , .
better for the Farmer, for this Country, and for IIAMBIJRGfI MAIL.
ill Nations, that there should be no Corn Laws at .
all. Mr. Coke admitted this to be true by his re- HANOVER, DEC. 18.—The assembly of the
ception of the Address, and indeed his conduct in States, of lie kingdom has decided in one of its
Parliament at the time of passing the last Bill hist sittings, that the torture shall be abolished,
was stick as to warrant the assertion in the Ad- and it has been also proposed that exculpatory
dress of the Society, which we have no doubt was oaths in criminal examinations. shall
.be abolished
drawn by one thoroughly acquainted with Mr. as wholly useless ; the introduction of the Trial
Coke's sentiments. Every body knows how much by Jury has also been spoken of.
. his opinions are looked up to upon any point con- STrice.notiit, Dgc. I I.—Sweden's iron mines
sleeted ts ith agriculture—how much he corres- are inexhaustible, and according to the researches
ponds, and how universally he is consulted ; these ordered by the Government last year, they in-
circumstances alone would lead us to conclude, crease in number and productiveness the nearer
that a large proportion of the landed interest is we approach the Polar regions : but a mine has
untiiendly to the proposed petition, now been discovered in the Government cif Stock-
But there is one fact so strong against the pe- holm, on the estate of Westerlisa, belonging to
titioners, that we are quite satisfied their prayer the family of Rudeck, which, according to the
could not stand a moment against it. In the analysis made by the Board of Mines, contains
cow-Se-of the last twelve months more than one 28 per cent. of iron.; proposals to work it are
million four hundred thousand quarters of corn, circulated. The clefts of the mountains skew the
the produce of foreign countries, have been increasing richness and excellence of the vein,
brought into the port of London alone. Such an TANGIERS, Dec. 12.—T„e plague proceeds
importation has been added to our own growth daily increasing in its fatal career, and will soon
during a plentiful year, without producing any , have attained its greatest height here and in the
very serious or sudden effect upon the market.— neighbourhood. The ninsiber of deaths amounted
Nearly one hundred thousand quarters have been here in these latter days,to above 30, in the worst
introduced week after week without creating any times it never amounted to above 40 per diem.
depreciation of price. In the mean time the In the city there (lied in August 160, in Sept. 267,
supply of English growth, during a year of plenty in Oct. 479. In some villages the whole point-
be it observed, has not exceeded., if it have lation is swept away; the cows and other cattle
equalled, the amount brought into Mark-lane roam about without an owner, till the Governor
during the year of comparative scarcity. These thinks fit to collect them for the use of the Sultan.
combined facts prove—lst, the inadequacy of the In the northern cdies of the kingdom, 'Tetuan,
home supply-2d, the power which the farmers Mequinez, and Fez, the disorder rages unifier the
as a body possess, either in their own or an ac- name of a fever, for.nobody dares publicly to call
9'iiired strength of purse, to withhold such it the plague. One of the Consuls, who was
supply at their pleasure—an(43(lly, that not even lately sent to Fez to obtain certain intelligence,
.the enormous influx of the present year has • received through his agent, a Jew, a certificate of
been yet sufficient to reduce the price scarcely
,'the perfect hralthiness of the city ; tho Ugh the
below the rare at which the ports are. opeoetl.-7 'messenger verbally affirmed that he had himself
The inference to be drawn from these facts is 'seen several persons brought out who had died or
clear ;—if the foreign supply be further impedeti, the plague.
by any restriction, the price would immediately ConsTAN.TtNorLs, Nov-c 16 . —The Persian lion-
rise to the amount such restriction nominates as bassador, Mtrza Abtlial Wassail Chan, had an an.
the maximum ; but further, it is. IP:Ob4?le an dience of the,Sultan last week, and delivered the
eitreine fluctuation would eventually be occasion- presents, consisting of horses, shawls, and rich
•
ed, inasmuch 'its a . high price here would, affOrd stuffs. He takes similar presents to the Etur ror
such a cimaim`Ce of enormous profit to the foreign of Austria, the King of France, and the hince
grower or the importing merchant, that '411°17 Regent of England. His stay here is drawing to
ever the ports were open (and
'that they most be ' a close ; after which he will proceed to Vienna,
open at some time the impor,tation proves) 'die Paris, and London.
indite Would 'be prOdigions and immediate. Sixty-four iron cannon have latelibeen proved
These Arguments arie:Ont of the simple - cons'
tit Tophana, which the Porte Las purchased
'aeration's of supply and derpand. But other and 'abroad. His agents are commissioned to purchase
very itnportant truths are to be drawn froni the, more cannon and ammunition.
Way in which the manufacturing interests are af- kl
....ECKLIINBL/RG, DEC. IB.—ln the night of the
acted by the price of subsistence. An exports- Ist instant, Mr. Von Plessen, land-owner, at
Lion of manufacture to nothing short of the value. Nepersdorf, was murdered in his bed in a cruel
of eight Millions sterling* (probably considerably 'manner. He was found at day-break weltering
snore) has been added to the employment of the in his 'blood, the skull fractured, the brains scat.:
nianidactUring districts this year, by the importa-. tered oft time floor, one eye out, the breast and
tion of grain and flour. Combine the excision of 'arms pierced with many wounds, apparently in-
all the branches of commerce connected with flitted with knives and pitchforks. Notwithstand-
these purchases of our goods (and it.isnow idle ing these dreadful wounds he did not die till the
to talk of barter, in any other shape than that of third day. As there was no appearance of any
labour for labour,) and what would he the imme- robbery having been committed, it is supposed
diate effects uncut poor's rate and revenue ? ' Belt that hatred and revenge, excited by the harsh treat-
add to the evil 'of short employment the next meat exercised by the deceased- to his vassals, were
most grievous of all distresses—a high price the motives of the crime. One of the domestics
of subsistence, and Wbii will compute time ter- has been arrested. This crime has excited the
Initiation of national suffering and national cons-, greater, sensation, as it is, happily, almost un-
plaint ? , heard of among us in Mecklenburgh, and we are
These are time reasons which induce us to give very impatient to have mare particulars. Our
TVO credence 'whatever to the 'supposition that. any. peasants must he thriven to the last extremity if
change to effeCt a 'rise in the price of cprn is they proceed to execute vengeance themselves.—
likely to he Made in thelawsfor the regulation of It is hoped the criminals will not escape their
the .1 rade• in grain. We hold as firilllyas ever that., due punishment. May this event serve as a warn-
., the average'price of foreign corn, with the addi- ing to those who think they have a right to tor-
, ', riot., of the cost of importation, most ultimately
'ti J ent tile peasants in all possibleways.
govern the value of land and its prinliice in this ' .
country. Why we thiokit.must Ire so, we have A CORRECT METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.
I,ifeWit at tati4e so often that 'rePetithin is untie-,.. •'.. , . .
t es'Saiy—but the fact which follows is new. The
I Th,;,'nuonieter. I 'Weather.
manufacturing population was, during the war,
..,,
at least equal to the 'agricultural. Since the , .
re'aCe it has greatly increased,. and it most con- ' ...
~.; ~ • , 171 .--1,„ •,...'.: -4.. i:
time to increase in inisugraented ratio, provided, r ~
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, • a'
~.. ' , a . ,I 74.-
ii liigh price of 'subsistencedoes not shirt us out Of ...4 ;:,
.y. z .1% , ....4 S.. .1 '2
tlie. Continental and American Markets, . The,
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COurtand the Cdontry must alike led the benefit. `Dec. ,L, ,0, ° ,-. . Inches
of this increase, because an enlarged production is , .33, :35 37 3,5 30.29 Fair Cloudy
.. _ . 20 ' 41' "46 47 .m .16' 'Cloudy 1)o.
* The total amount of time ' manufactores (ottieialvaltme) : 21' 47' 49 47 30 .1C • Fair Fair
r*portol in the year 1816, teas no more than ;.;6,114,5341.- 2_32 ' Vt
);
...3:3:43 .32.50 , •.54,21 foggY*, `Fogg}*
Do.* Do.*
'qt.,- total of exports, including foreign and commercial timer- I Do. •Po.
cliall4ar, 51,260,4671. This abiloat one sixth of the whole `2•l : 342', .f:3,i '2,.....6,
-lc . Dc. Do,
f"teizo trade of this cautitrituust -be eitiplujii ill the liriy-' 25 31 /5 ''" "
cant fur foreign grain. • Very Dim.