Star.
London, England, 1802-01-22 00:00:00

OTHERS.

This fuit excited confiderable intereft. It was
brought to determine whether it was not the boun-
den duty of pariat officers to rate Rock in trade
for the relief of the poor ?
The parifh officers of Great Marlow, in June
rated Rock in trade to the relief of the poor ;
and fcveral appeals were made agairill their rate
at the Michaelmas feflion. According to the
cußom of the Court (and we believe of other
county Courts) the eau t prokat G, in cafes of appeal,
lies ;with the appellants. In this inflance, howe-
ver, the cußom was reverted ; and the parifh offi-
cers were called upon to jollity their rate, by prov-
ing that the Rock in trade of each perfon was fully
equal to the turn at which they had altelfed it.—
It was admitted, on all fides, that Rock in trade
was rateable by law ' • but it was aliened by the
appellants' Counfel, that it was imprasfticable to
carry that law into execution : unlefs tradetmen
themfelves would voluntarily come forward and
give an account of their Rock. The proof re-
quired of the parifh officers proved infufficient to
eftablifh the amount of flock in fevcral cafes,
though effeanal in others ; and the Court ordered
the various charges on Rock in trade to be (truck
out of the rate altogether. By this decifion the
main queftion was left undetermined ; and the
prefent fuit was brought by a parifhioner againft
the officers, to oblige them to !hew caufe, why
they had not inferted in their fubfequent rate filch
Rock in trade as was proved to exifi ?
Mr. BF9T, as Coward for the Plaintiff; Paid, that
flock in trade was rated to the relief of the poor
in London. That it was alto rated at Brißol, Nor-
wich, Exeter, and all the great commercial towns,
for the relief of their retpeftive poor. That the
county of Buckingham poffefted a confiderable in-
land trade and tome important branches of mann-
faaure, particularly in paper and lace ; but that
the trade of this rich and populous county did not
contribute one penny piece to the relief of the
poor. The whole of this very heavy burden fell
upon the land, and had increafed the price of it
to the cultivator fo materially, as to influence, in
no (mall degree, the price of the abloltue need-
faries of life.

It was proved that the land in the parill of
Great Marlow let, twenty years ago, from eight
to twelve shillings an acre. The poors rates were
then, eosin Noah five !killings in the pound,

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that is from 25. to 35. an acre : the land t!.erefore
coil the farmers from los. to gs. an acre, relit
and poor Rtes. At prefent the rents have been
advancett,:by the, landlords to 15s. and 255• an
acre, andi thy pools rates are zos. in the pound
and upwards, on thufe advanced ruts, 16 that the
very lame lands which were hired only twenty
years hack from tos. to ifs. rent and pouts rates,
now colt the cultivators from 3os to 50s an acre.
This was an advance of about 300 per cent. and
was chiefly owing to the increate of poors rates ;
which fell the heavier upon the land, as the trade
of the county did not participate in bearing a kilt
and equitable proportion of the burden.
Mr. BEST argued, that the prefent high price of
provifions, though exorbitant, was not lb MO, in
proportion as the rife which had taken place in the
hire of land; and that if new and improved modes
of culture had not been of late years difeovered,
and much larger capitals employed than ever were
before in the amelioration of lands, yieleilir na.
turally an indifferent produce, there is great t ea-
fon to believe, that the price of provitions would
have been Rill higher. This, however, he was
fearful, might be averred with certainty, that
whilft the land continued fo burdened, (tor the cafe
of Marlow was far from angular) it would
be vain to entertain any hopes of teeing the price
of the neceffaiies of life return to its former flan-
dard. It had been too much the praCtice of lase,
lie laid, for people to let their faces againft tarm-
crs, whilst they thought that trade and manufac.
tures could not be too much favoured ; but the
farmer WAS in reality a manufadturer, and the land
WAS his raw material : nay more, his was the firlt
and molt effential of our manufactures, fince all
the rest depended upon it. If thii primary pro-
cefs is clogged by impolitic burdens, if the article
does not come neat to the confumer, free from all
charge, impuft, intermediate profit, from every
expencel in lhort, not abfolntely =diary, the bad
efted is not confined to the manufacturer, but is
felt and extended to the whole political fyftem.
If any fpecies of manufaCture ought to claim ex.
emption from public burdens, it is that called farm-
ing ; but in this county, a policy direCtly hoftile to
common fenfe prevailed : for here farming alone
was faddled with the whole burdens of the pro-
vince, %chilli every other fpecics of trade and ma-
nufaCture was exonerated. No wonder then, that
the farmer found his raw material had r ifen upon him
to the enormous height of 300 per cent. and that it
was utterly impoffible for him to bring his article
to market on the fame terms he had done formerly.
Mr. Barr obferved, that the county rates were
always paid out of the poors rates. It. was ob-
vious, therefore, that it was not the maintenance
of the poor alone, but the adminiltration of juf-
tice ; in short, all the expences and calanOties that
befel the province, which were charged upon the
farmer. Here, however, he mull explain himfelf;
it was far from his intention to fay that the farmer
paid thole taxes • it was evident that they were
brought to marketi with his produce, and there,
paid by the confumer. This was in reality a tax
upon bread ; and far better would it be for the
public, if the tax was laid upon the bread as it carte
out ofthe baker's oven, than that it [tumid be collated
in the pi efent indireCt and more ruinous way. If
the invention of man was employed for the exprefs
purpofe of doing mifchief, it could not mote ef-
kEtually fulfil that purpofe than by fuch a mode
of taxation. It was a load which preffed like an
incubi,: on the heart and vital circulation of the
body politic, and which, if removed from thence,
and placed equally upon the fhoulders of the peo-
ple, would be borne with cafe and alacrity; for this
country poffeffed a degree of matchlefs Herculean
ftrength that aftoniihed the raft of Europe ; but .
it was the molt wretched policy to burden her,
where the lighteft load mull inevitably prove gall-
ing and oppreftive.
Our correspondent proferes himfelf incapable of
following Mr. Belt through the particulars of a
long fpecch, which, for elocution and argument,
furpalred any that he had ever heard before within
thofe walls. He concludes by obferving, that the
plaintiff was ordered to be paid his coils of fuit.
The parifh officers, who profeffed themfelves
pofed to follow the with of the Court, and Paid
they were willing to tax flock in trade, were or-
dered to refrain from 'fo doing till next feffion,
when tome new objections made by the parties
rated, or liable to be rated, are to be fully heard,
and a final decifton obtained on this important
bufinefs.

W. Hoerr PRINN, Efq. of Sandford, near Clizl-
tenham, Jan 1, atoa, addretred to B. D. PaitkiNS,
of Letcefter-fquare, London, a remarkable Cure,
by his Patent Metallic Traeors, of a very obftinate
Rheumatifm, caught by the Patient when ferving
under the Duke of YORK, in Holland, and who
was fent home to his pari(h (Stave; ton), unable
ever lince to rife from his chair, without the atria-
ance of a flick ; alto the following

CASE.—Violent Sprain, and Latnencfs of a Horfe.—"During
the laft Croft, a young boric of mine, that was at grafs in a field
adjoining my houfe, in leaping a bodge to follow fume other
horfes,fprained himfelf violently in the near foreleg. I immedi-
ately ufed Goulard, Opodeldoc„ bandages, etc. however, the leg
(tin continued as bad as at firft. There was much fweiling be-
tween the back finews and the bone, and inflammation about
the hoof, and he could fcarcdy turn hinifelf in the Ilail. We
then totally difcontinued an other applications, and tried the
Tradors. In four days they had fo rapidly promoted th: cure,
that moft of the fymptoms had difappeared. In three days more
be trotted as found as any horfe in England, and is at this mo-
ment as fit for work as ever.—Of the truth of this there are
many witneffes."
The Tradors, fo necefliry in every Family, and among
Horfes, may be had, genuine, with new and improved direc-
tions for tiling them, for Five Guineas the Set, of B. D. PER-
KIN s, A. M. the Patentee, in the honk of the late John Hun-
ter, Surgeon, Leicefterdituare ; and of Frederic Smith, Che-
min and Druggift, in the Haymarket, London. The portable
nature of the Tradors renders their conveyance by Coach, or
even by Poll, perfectly convenient. Letters inclufing their
amount (poll-paid) duly attended to.
N. B. The purchafers of the Tractors receive gratis, two dif.
ferent Books. which contain, as communicated by the firft li-
terary characters, about three thoufard Cures of (lour, Rhen-
matifm, Scalds, Head-ach, Tooth-ach, Sprains, Inflammations,
&c. &e. and all analogous Difeafes of Horfes.
CAurtow.--The genuine Tractors are limped with the
words - -PERKINS'S PATENT TRACTORS," and at the bottom
of the printed directions is a Receipt for the five guincas.figne4
in the hand writing of the Patentee. 74 diming alio, im-
patiens will often be dicta:teak

.o.ll=o
••PAdI.OOIJE To ALFONSO, KING et CASTILE.

With many a fable old, through many an age,
440 'The Mar triumphant pried the Tragic Stve.
It,,' power forlorn The hangs the head,
Cold all her altars, all her To: tY -s fled.
the views her notalcft effort fail,
And tells to lifticfs ears • De Monfort 's Tale.
And can it he, that Britills Hearts refufe
To feel the (wows pittur'd by the Mae ?
. Can they, to whom no fairer fues in vain,
:To every grief alive, to every pain.
% • Can they be found thus tardy toeonceive
illtimaied woe, which, real, they relieve !
• . Nature's talking impulfe never Rays
To count each chryftal drop Emotion pays;
But wbuifoe'er the Form 44 Grief appears,
With liberal zeal ors wide the fount of tears:
Till fed with full fupplies, without controul,
One matter-gram of virtue (ways the foul,
From Fancy thus Compaffion takes its fame
And Truth from habit boats imparted force.
When :sublets War kb thunders bond around
The laugh might (oath; the Gib, tho' jtft, might wound
For Raise then, whilit maddening Paikons med.
And ion:arab:l'd tumultuous Candid wag'd,
Mourn'd o in the Scenes, Imagination drew,
The grief too probable, the • hate too true.
Then that won aloft, which Judgment =oft difdaited ;
The jeft, that Role us, from the Seale, that palled.
Britoil! a fairer hoar awaits you now :
Lo ! peaceful Olive binds each manly brow.
And as the widowl Bride, whore (molls tow
With chaftee'd emphatis ant medlar woe,
Dwells on the tablet, which Ihe limed before,
• , And lovei the elserilled fenablance mote and more:
So the trac'd grid., that now no longer harm,
Too near to pleafe us once, again &all charm.
Yes, Britons! Peace return% : once more is glen
The leifure to be wife, belt boon of Heckles !
Hat* hail the dawning airs with delight;
Nor cheek the (welling tranfport e'en to-tight.
What the' our Bard no hallow'd flame infpire,
Weak to prevail, ftrong only in Mere;
What the' his bteaft no breathing raptures move,
Like the& that !Lamp with Being f Love!
Still ball your praife the drooping Mufe reitore,
Pledge of funds to theft who merit mete !
• bees Series of Plays on the Paillasse. Rt.
The ixeseinding Lion were added at Mt. Leiries requelt.

' To-night an occultation of Jupiter by the Moon
will take place. The Moon will be Peen approach-
;ng that fine liar for tome minutes previous to the
occultation. which will happen two minutes pill
nine ; and at nine minutes thee ten o'clock Ju-
piter will 'again appear on the contrary fide of the
Moon.

Sodden char of the Ireather.--On Saturday
morning lalt, at two o'clock, the Thermometer, in
bh? open air, was at 13 degrees 19 below freezing,
being then colder than at any time this winter ; at
four o'clock it was 131, and kept from that time'
to rife gradually fill nine o'clock, when it *as at
so ; at ten o'clock at t.s,ht it was at 35 degrees 3
above freezing. fo that in about ao hours it had
rifen a s degrees. On Sunday it was generally at 37.
At a meeting of the CommilEoners of Taxes at
Bradford, on Wednefday fe'nnight, to hear Ap-
kals, .t was determined, that esfery perfon who
eeps a horfe, and does not groom and (addle
him klmfilf, is liable to be charged with the duty
ills a male-fervant, except in cafes of parith ap-
prentices.
Saturday, Dec. 26th, was rung at Tetbury, by
fame young men of Bradford, that noble peal of
Holt's grandfire triples, confining of 5040
changes, which they completed in three hours aad
• quarter of a minute in a very mallerly. manner.
On Wednefday lag a waggon, containing 15co
pieces of India handkerchiefs, together with too
tubs of Holland's gin, was feized by fame Excife
Officers on the Whitechapel Road. It appears
the foods were brought from the Coaß of Wee
on the preceding night, and the fmugglers had
chofen the middle of-the day to arrive in town, as
the molt likely to efcape fufpicion. The lots oe.
eafioned to the fmugglers by this feizure will
amount to upwards of rod.
The following angular lAA occurred at May- I
geld. on Monday fe'nnight :—jnfeph Mann, a
farmer's (errant, being employed in cutting hay
to fodder his maßer's cattle, took his watch from
his fob, (where he thought it might have reteivtd
a blow from the handle of the cutting knife) and
laid it on what is called a cant of hay. The man
having cut a quantity of fodder, took it od his
back, and was carrying it to the cattle, a few
paces only from the hay-rick, when he heard a
tame magpye, belonging to a neighbouring cot-
tager, exclaim, Six o'clock," words it had been
taught to (peak dillinaly, and on looking round,
faw' the roguith bird flying away with the watch
in its bealc'; and notwithdanding he thouted as
loud as pollihle to make mag quit his prize, he
bore it to a neighbouring wood, whence the man, 11
after the moil diligent and frequent relcarches, has
enough to recover it!—The
never yet been lucky
watch was a filver one, and colt the poor man,
Lai lummer, fix guineas.
Monday the tit of March the Englifh State
Lottery begins drawing.—Four prizes of zo,oool.
—.four of t0,0001.*-fnur of gooch—five of zooc.l.
—ten of toocL—twelve of Sool. ; betides prizes
of tool. col; and the lowell prize tt3l. ; amount-
intz in the whole to Half a Million of Money,
which mutt be gained by the purchafers of Tic-
k.:ts and Shares in the prefent Lottery. Similar
Capital Iknefits having been repeatedly obtained
I.v the Cullomers of th.: old ellablilled Fortunate
(Ace, No. 16, oppofite the Bank of
England, it is necellary th inform the,publio, that
very krt-at variety of Numbers, in Tickets,
I tittio, (..11.1rters; Eighths, and Sixteenths, are
;•11 Cale at the loweliprices. Thefe !hares are all
purfuant to AR of Parliament, and are
WILLIAM B. Money for
C.ie Prize.; as form as drawn, and orders from the
vfinutry (poll emit) with proper remittances, pune-
dually rxecutb.

PCCUSIASTICAL 'PROMOTIONS.

The Rev. John Sheeptbanks, A. hl. and Fe!lent Trinity
CnUrge. Cambridge, is prefented to the valuable li.inp of
miry . in Leeds, %scant by the death of the late Rev. Francis
.ps.

Ti:c Rev. Samuel Smith, B. D. Student of Millchurch,
h it been colla ed by his Grace the Archbiihop .4 York, to a
Prehetid:.l Stall in the Cathrdral Church of York.

I he Right Hon. the Countafs of Loudon's has been pleafed
aisp&in the Rev. I.anee:ot Sharpe, A. M. tat, of Pembroke
I Cartl,tiOge, to be one of h, r durneltie t h.iplains.
Ostos.D. Jam. tó.—On Thurfday. the firft day of Lent
Term, the Rev. John I%.:elfon, and William Bowater of Quetn's
College; Mr. Wiliam Holt, of Brafenofe Codere ; and the
Rev. t ;eorge Afountjoy Webfter, of St. John's College, Bathe.
ion of Arts, were admitted Molten of Arts.
Merts. George Wheeler, of St. Edmund Hall ; John Page
of Brafende College, and Rowland Williams, of Jefus College
here admitted Bachelors of Arts.

The Rev. George Wallett h nominated to the perpetu4l
Curacy of &vow, b► the Rev. the Dean and Chapta of Wor-
eefter, on the refignatioa of the Rev. Allan Wheeler.

DIVIL*NDS.

Jar. 3a. Henry Reimer, df Catherine-court, Tower-Hill, Lon-
don, merchant, at tat, at Guildhall.
Feb. 23. William Hinton. late of Welt Harding-11feet, Louden,
and High Holborn, but now of the Ohl Bailey, engraver,
printer, pelet-feller, maticiecorender, dealer and chapman,
at eleven, at Gaildiall. .
Feb. 9. Henry Hoyle, of Patience, AnerfaThire, grocer and
ironmonger, dialer and Airman, at ten, at the Swan lan, in
Ihnintter.

Feb. t. Thomas Almond. late of Donates/lin, London, mer-
ehatt, at ten, at GhildhalL
Feb. a. kiehard Willis, of the Crefeent, Mistories, London,
merchant, at twelve, at Guildhail.
Feb. 6. John Weft, now or late of Bath, entdorainer, dealer and
ehapnian, at twelve, at the Chriltopher Inn, Bath.
Feb. 13. Williamikunett, of Watling-Ltreet, London, dealer
and ehaposan, It eleven, at Guildhall.

BIRTHS.
(n Sunday. Milk Olennie, of Mineing-lane. of a daughter.
On Monday lA, the Lady of Keith lopp, Lk. of a tuns in
Wribri k-ttreet.

On the 18111 inftant, in George-ftreet, liszterrer-frpare,Mis.
CA:craft. of a fen.

I..tety, the Lady of Robert Dennifon, Efq. of a fon, at Kiln-
wick Percy, Yorkeire.

On Sunilay fennlght, the Lady of George Strickland, Efq.
o: a fon, at their hour. at Ripon.
On Weine(day laft, at Wwdftock, the Lady of Bell I.loyd,
Efq. of s fon.
On Saturday knight, at Cottingbam, the Lady of Nicholas
Sykes, Efq. of a fon.
On the t ith init. the Hos. Mrs. Ramf;ly, younger, of Bran-
ton, of a fon.

On the gth Infant. the Lady of Major Craigic }Mint, of a
daughter, at Silver Hill Barracks.
At ha father's, Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd's houfe, nn Ar-
thur's guar, Limerick. the Lady of John Saunders, Lfq. of
Killarney, of a fon and heir.