The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-23 00:00:00

I'H t: LION ESS.

PAIeTICULAiti.—We understand that
It was by no means ascertained when the mail-
coach drove oil from lirinterslow-hat, after the
terrible attack upon one of the horses, mentioned
In our raper of yesterday, that the, ferocious 4111-
Mal wbiCII made it was actuaJlY set:nit:lL She
Iteemett, lit-Meyer, not to. he in any immediate
hurry move ; for as she had earr;etl off
with her tut prey the dog she hind killed, or from
Some !Aber cause, she coritit,tied growling and
howling in s, loud a tone, that they could hear
her for nearly half a mile. Notiiing could exceed
the anxiety of all preNeut to have t towintal
and they called out loudly to the gourd to diS-
patCh %%kit his blooderbovs, whieli, he appeared
disposed to do, but the owner cried out to hint,
" For Cluj's sok,: do not kill her—she cost Inc
500 t. and she be as quiet as al:1(111)1i not irri-
tated." Thl4 arrested his hand, and be did nut
lire. notwithstanding many entreaties from du:
pass'engers. The extreme.' dangcr which might
occur to the inhabitants of that neiglihourpOod if'
she was tuft SMVI securt d, and the negligente'ot
the Iseeper in letting:her get loose, low) such au
effect on title ok the tientiehten who was an

itas*eager in the mad, Ilint he felt it his linty,
alter his Own narrn‘v seapeslo do all in hi, power
to prevent others from bring subjeetcd to the
same risk. Finding that the caravan from which
this savage animal issued was going to. the fair at
Salisbury, oriermined, on his arrival at An-

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/foyer, to list his efforts. to prevent any further
mischance, and occOrdingly, white the horses
were putting to, be Wrote short note to the
Mayor of Salisbury, informing him of the occur-
relive that had ;chatty tetken pluee, owing, in his
opirtion, so the wont of- proper care and caution
iu rhe.custody of. such 4 ferocious creature; and
regnested tbut he woofil give lids officers spechil
orders to .examine the earev,4o, and have it clearly
uhtt:rositiO Onst;every animal contained in it wai
propedy secured, . •

An applieniinn is to he made to Parliament' the
enNuilig Session, to establish a Fish-min-Let in
%Vest an the pion of 131llingsgate, tht.
seite vt thingettordniarket,, where there is Ample
space. This. will be a peat Heentnitintlatitm ti,
the trest end of the tntrii, and will, we trust,
,he
the means of reducing the price of fist,.
Vit Tuesnay, John Mitchell, A very old man,
fell into tile link beck between rartiley and Vtlyrt-
itte:vo,wialtvt,tll:
thheoitzi:ihi:wsatsatetunkt;:ihntt:pnciin7tallficnt;
Clio.
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- mtvresAG kr 'ffi MANstoN4torsr.
e'sterday it Meetini; took place at the .I.l:ttiSion •
bott.e, for the purpose of 1..kt41..,,
lion a Hiatt, sutzgest; ti to fits itoyll Hi .lote,s the
Duke of Sass, x and :the Rtg,:o 11. in the Lord
Alr.Salisbury, for bettefitiog the in-
dust! ions of t ire F hip:do ,r
Tie Duke of SossEx a-as io the Chair.
Mr. YrTilottrry ea the plan, which began
tvitll erp.se,eitting, that artonsa the generality of
the p”orer,elasscs of society there was tin ;1111105E
t0t.41 neglect ta. the. many
„advantages that re-
sewed them:elves to persons ettioed in pursuits
coimected with Ihe ruralalfairs of this country;
that various materials Of sp:oltaticons growth,
were to he foamd hi hedges, road-sides, and waste
lands, which were convertible into useful articles; '
that great rowier* of. dornetic., articles, manu-
factured abroad, or matte up of materials imported
at considerable expence, might
.be substituted by
rodocriooi calcolated to give'\ coositterable be-
oefit both to the poor and the community at large.
hopplyi4 sources of labour. ,and profit to the
country people at different periods of the year,
and capable of being worked by children coot
others who are unfit to execute more laborious
employments,
'The following, illustrations were then Mule
The rushes used for candle-wicks were to be found'
in waste and bogey lands, iimt if collected and
prepared would a tri lyl labour atol profit (hiring the
wittter season. The rush, a weed of the most
noxious kind, was, when prepared, worth 2s. Rtl.
per lb. applicable to a variety of porposes, easily
collected, and worverted into articles of great use
witlinittch facility. foe 611(17-rushes, of which floor
matting, chair-hottoms, baskets, &c. were made,
were found in this cottony in small tluailtitlCS, and.
the deficiencY was supplied front Holland. -The
quantity imported in the year 1815 wa5,149,229:,
bundles; the price per.bundle no importatiou
31(1. ittllOntiting It') the stint of 9,501/. 111.
1810 the importation'price was 4s. 9d. per bun-.
tile. That expence was to he avoided by the sub-
stitution of the plant called typha com-
monly growing in ponds and stagitatir,avater its
many parts of the country, and which was con-
vertible into mats and baskets in every respect
equal -to those Worked with Dutch 111010. At
Ilammet smith there were great quantities of this
species of plant, the use of which waa almost
wholly unknown.
, .
•The importation Of baskets into hos coontry
front France was next 'alluded to. 'Those baskets
were stated to have been 1114 e of wood split into
swan pieces, which wood was not better -adapted
to the purpose than the thsterial3 of this country's
141-o,eth. The willow-tree afforded antterials for
malting excellent baskets.. .Nut-galls were, nu-
ported into this emettry in great tptantities fur the
user of dyers, butt they.toight I,e colleeted front 4,411-
ow„ oaks, nun) nut. wools afforded them p‘ofti-
Niott. it was atr extraordinary fact that more
thatt two vegetable,: of th;s country's growth were
used by dyers., and it was ascertained that curious
articles were growing on our waste lands ealeti-
lilted to answer the pot poses to the • IntleJ
extent, Wsrcelwich satol-pits, 14114 the ehOlk•piti
at tioildford, yielded some of them itr great
qoantities. Thu poor, people of Wales and Scot,
laud found in the hedges plants, the stalks or
lelves of which atfor.led prominent Alta V4itrihie
colotiri for their homespun ymii, yet those ;mi.
des were 410 t weed to any account as a matter
of cornmerce. 'rite plan.--also recommeoded the

instroction of the poor itt the arse of the medicinal
plants in the places where they abound ; the wild,
clufittontila particularly, which Ity some medical.
characters was preferred to that which had beet%
cultivated. The article of hemp was principally
istiptntkli from Russia ; bat during the late war,
when the corumercial intet course' with that
country %VAS in al grcat measure snspended,
a new source of: supply became of course
necessary, and our chiet dependence was upon our
colonies of North. America. As the same cull for
the article thight again exist, it would be a great
object to have a facility either of supplying the
(pie hemp, or Jut article of such texture as wutild
answer the purposes to, Whielt it was apidied,
IliliStittite for the produce of Rossi* presented it-
self'in our common weds, which produced a vc-•
getable fibre fit for all the purposes of cordage,
and capable of being made sufficiently fine tor
weaving, The common mallow, nettles, beat,-
stalks, horbinds, Ste, yielded hemp in consider-
able quantities, the first partieohrly itiexaVery*
to w;lich the country was indebted to the re.
searches of Mr. Salisbury. There existed a great
demand lot seeds of the best Meailow;„ grasses, and
plauts.for laying.down and improving pasturevnti
meadow-land. tVoodS, Mid r Veil the

Wedges which are teuees to itietitiuw-litml, 1)10.•
thtred latge tuitioritivs of those 'seettsi which wtle
sold tt high pricc3, and fur ‘viiich Wti& n te
great &wand.

The lost , cireumihinees tc) which the attention,
of the meeting was coned Mere the improvement
of cottage-gardens, the growing of applef., and
'the keeping of bets, which were recommended to
the poor as profitable modes of employment.,
SAusautty EpteilOCUS of the in-
digetwits articles enumerated above, which occa.
stoned some surprise, and gave witch latisfoetion,
It was stated in the r'oont that Mr. Salisbury
had scot a loan 11110 bust September,
who earned, by collecting seeds of meatlow-grass„
the shut of 3s. bd: ire tin bunts.
After some conversation„ it was resolved, that
the Meeting, having, token into consideration the
propriety of cstasitliptriang Nn 111$!itotioll lon thrs
permanent vaaployinvot of the ifoltiVtiOoS Poor to
all parts orthe kingdom, should lesolvo into ti

Committee to suggest anti dot such tuensure*.
us shotati spilent' hest esientsted to vary the *Sulu
into effcct. The Commitice ctinlisuo 0t the Maio
SliA3tl, the 1.10111 Moyuc, Al.tertucit Atkins
sod .11t,dges, Sir T. Ora, lion. 6141 qt anti
13 milers.

F37'4t, il.ccir)pwr„--A Itorse ittid cart, forkittslp
atol ttegligtotty tit kVQ4I, posavtl tivvr
the sun Ogrti fitro yettis) 4 Ail% VVILboN„ printcr
4)1 the nircitsjield Con!ier, injureU his foot*,
to ptoduct: lochriiititvb, ttfiltl ul;intitLety tivt4ll4 at
Clivadita 414 (tic Na l hat.

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Ikcitt t/4—LONDON GAZ1417.14, Oct. 22, 1816

Lard Cha2nberlain'.l Of Oct. fn.
Notice is herby given, that her 'Majesty's birth-
(l,4r, which falls on the 18th of January, will be
celebrated by a drawing-room at the Queen's
Palace, ott ,the fith of February; and that the
birth-flay of his Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent will also be czlehrated by a drawing-roam
Ht her Majesty's Palace, on St. Geut-ge's-clay, the
23d of April.

It it most earnestly recommended and desired,
tlhit tile nobility and gentry, and all persons at-
npon Owe occasions, will appear in
clresset entirely of

Carlton-flow, Ott. 41, 181 G.

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TTis lja7al TVl:hoess the Prince Regent has been. pleased,
in the note and on the behalf of his i 1 lajesty, to nominate
leis Excellency the Right Hon. itohert Liston, his 'Majesty's
m1,4544,10r E tro ordinary and Pleni potent iary at t blime
Ottoman Porte, to be a Knight (.rot(1 Cross of the Most Ho-
wa,,,rititir Order of tlto 114th, vacant by the death of the late
Robert Gunning.

Fartign•(.),jficr, ,Uct. es, ISIS:

Hit Royal Ifighnesc the, Prince :Argent has been pleanci,
in thr nmme and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve; ut
Mr Wiiiimt; I)a.y, as Consul at Kittptou-upon-liull, rot the
Unitenl States of America.

B.INKft!TTCY ENLARGED.
F. Carling, Uuitm-strect, Rood-street, tailor, front Oct. 16 to
0,-c. 14.

DANKitupTs.

E. Barher, Yarmouth, Norfolk, dealer in perfumery. to sur-
. router Ott. vg, N0v..5 , Dee. 3, at Guildhall. Attorney,
Mr. lliuiirn trait, Crescent, Jewili-street
A. P.itchie, Liverpool, no-reliant, Nov. la, 19, Dec. 3, at the
.tilng's Arms, Liverpool. Atturnirs, Messrs. At:61434)u
awl 61.4.t.t0ry, Bedford-1.4)w.
GoApto; slopstller, Nor. 7. 8. Dec. 3. at the
Gospoit. Alturnies, NlebSrS. Ale)ritldCr and
;dew Inn.
Id • lloihrit. nolory, Sussex, shopkeeper, Nov. 19, 4ti, Dec A.
at It'e'Whitu Attoritie4,
-f.reg,4ins and Funtiereau, Angel-court, The dpourtoli-
to lee.

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