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London, England, 1831-08-15 00:00:00

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LITERATURE.
United Service Joisrval—Asiguee.
The number of dill joepnal for the

month is, as usual, very rich in curious and

resting information. We particularly reeol
to the attention of oar readers the paper on

trees—the visit to Warsaw—the account of a visit
to some of the Polynesian islands—and a sketch of
the voyage of the Chanticleer, in which that spirited
and enlightened navigator, Captain Forster, termi-
nated hie meritorious career.

In Wilkins's Leges Saxon, as quoted by Doctor
Henry, we have prices of various articles in Eng-
land in the reign of Ethelred, about the year 997,
which the learned Doctor has calculated with great
correctness in money of the present time. Price
of a man or slave, 21. 16e. 3d. sterling ; a horse,
11. 15s. 2d ; a mare or colt, 11.35. 5d ; an au or
mule, 14e. Id ; an ox, 7s. Od ; a cow, 6s. 2d ; a
swine, Is. 10d; a sheep, Is. 2d; a goat, 4d.
The march of the French army is a puzzler.
Lord Palmerston's explanation is anything but
satisfactory to those who want a war, new bales
of paper money, another thousand millions of debt,
and aft the sweets of plunder. To me it is per-
fectly satisfactory. The Ministers have done their
best (and fools they were for their pains) to keep
the French out of Belgium, and to secure Holland,
Prussia, and Hanover, from French attack; and'
the French have gone into Belgium ; and there, if
the Ministry be wise, they will let the French
quietly remain, in spite of all that can be said by
the enemies of parliamentary reform.—Cobbett's
Register.
The funeral of Mr. Monroe, at New York, the
result of popular affection, invited the whole popu-
lation ; and was such a solemnity as none but a
free country would display as a tribute to mere
public virtue. Mr. Cobbett, in his Register oft
Saturday, has printed the entire ceremony; and
it appears, that without the pomp of heraldry, no
Sovereign was ever followed to the grave by more
attendants, nor with a hundredth part of the same
number of real mourners. It is Mr. Monroe's

highest praise, as it was that of Jefferson, that be
died poor, after filling for years the highest em-
ployments which his country could bestow. He
could have acquired wealth without peculation,
and his forbearance to abuse his opportunities,
will render him more wealthy in character( and
more dear to fame, than any accumulators, who,
living only for themselves, rot, and are forgotten,
or if ever remembered, it is only to be despised.
A hushel of malt, says a writer on this subject,
contains 101bs. of saccharine matter, hence 101 be.
of molasses will probably produce as mach spiritas
a bushel of malt. If such is the fact, barley must
be at 10e. per coomb to keep it out of usd.
SPIRITS OP BREAD.—In a recent number we
noticed the curious discovery, that bread in the
process of baking emits a vapour which, being con-
densed, proves to be a spirit of great strength.
The experiments are still going on, and the re-
sults are most satisfactory. A quartern loaf af-
fords several dranis of pure spirit, with something
of the flavour of noyau, (it is thence proposed to
call it doughyou), and from the general quantity
of baking, it is estimated that 800,000 gallons
per annum may thus be produced from what has
hitherto been utterly wasted. But we are not
now going into the -scientific history of the dis-
covery, and we only mention it, during the pro-
gress of its tests, to record the humerons ingenuity
of a baker, near the place where the experiments
are carrying on, who has placed in his sbopwindow
the following placard : " Bread sold here with gin
in it !"

A memorial has been received from the Cape, I
against raising the duty on Cape wines. It states, ,
that the capital embarked in the wine trade exceeds i
26 millions of rix dollars, and gives full employ-
ment
to one-third of the population. All this may
be, and still a very plain tale may put the memo-
rialists down 1 They tell us that the price of Cape
wine in the English market is 101. per pipe, from
which, if we deduct freight, insurance, and im-
porters' profit, the value at the Cape may be about
71. 110 it. Now, the whole importation of these
wines into the three kingdoms is rather under
600,000 gallons per annum, or 6,500 pipes, the va-
lue or cost of which at the Cape must, of course, be
about 49,0001. Assuming one-third of this to be
prat to the vine grower and merchant, all that the ,
rape lose, supposing the export of wine toy
Britain were annihilated, will be only 17,0001. It
follows, then, that if one-third of the population
of the Cape subsist by the wine trade, nine-tenths
of the demand must be found within the colony, or
in foreign countries, and the closing of the Bridled
market,
market, which absorbs only one-tenth, must be a
perfect bagatelle ! Cape wine is usually used in
Britain for adulterating Sherry and Madeira ; and
the 600,000 gallons so employed, which put only
50,0001. into the pockets of the Africans, take, in
all probability, 300,0001. from John Bull! Surely
there is neither equity nor reciprocity here. Grant-
ing that the black and yellow men at the Cape are
all our brethren, does it follow that we should pay
300,0001. to create a trade of 50,0001. per annum
to them ? In point of fact, the high duty, which
is only to take effect in 1834, will not annihilate
the trade ; it will merely confine the impartation
to the Cape wines of the first quality, and exclude
the rubb.sh.

Au investigation has been going on before the
magistrates,of the Head Police-office, respecting
a charge of forgery preferred against the Rev. Mr.
Henry and Lord Netterville. The particular charge
is fur having uttered divers bank post bills to a
large amount, di awn in favour of the late Viscount
Netterville, and purporting to have been indorsed by
him. It appears the late nobleman was very eccen-
tric in his habits, and for some time prior to his
death, did not, as he was accustomed, fund his

property, but having lodged it in the Bank of Ire-
land, got bank post bills drawn in his favour, which
he never indorsed. Henry was his lordship's do-
mestic chaplain, and was left 1,0001. with other
property, as a residuary legatee. The other person
charged is claimant for the extinct title, and who
has his claim, we understand, lodged before the
House of Lords. The late viscount was accus-
tomed to hide the post bills about the house, in
different boles and corners, sometimes in his poc-
kets, and tied up in his shirts. After his death
securities of this kind to the amount of 2,0001. or
3,0001. were found in this manner concealed. Some
of them have been traced to the poseessiort of 'Henry
and the claimant for the title. The prodecntion* has
been instituted at the instance of the heir-at-law,
E. J. Blake, Esq.—Dublin Evening Packet.

M•o•-•' • .7 '7l'' 7 '77

EMPIRE.

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• PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH

coicriEsrglionarrig, Aligl"f
seems that Wegstao'sAil at laihiataf Jill
..) at Colchester; but Mr, Ham"isthe umber of
4111, and he kaftilly eensideln 11 his daq to arm*
daii:Uate this paper Ms. Berrpaints a Wiwi 111
to some controversy, and states the foflowifß extriot.'
• hats relative toe Waal charity at Colchester. We
reprint It, because we inspect there are too many under
similar eireenastances, and the infeefoadon may 6_41 Wslly
useful:_" The Letters !star of King Jame da. that
the Hospital shall noels. of" One 1111Wft' and Ivo poor;"
that the Master shall have the ewe of the sot* of the
parishioners of St. Mary Magdalen, sad that he shill then
celebrate Divine Sevviee, and shall faithfully preach the
word sod administer the sacrament in due manses, and that
there should and shall be five pier potions who shill be
supported, relieved, and maintained In the said Whigs or
Hospital ; that the said master and poor, and their succes-
sors for ever, should be a body corporate, and that they
and shall be palms able, It, and capable In law to
purchase, receive bold, and possess goods, and chattels,
manors, lands, 'tenements, meadows, glebes, pislatara,
rents, reversions, and all hseedltsmenes whitooseer, for
them and their successors, for the support, relief, sad ill"'
tenanee of the said College or Haggis', and the master and
poor hoar time to dens existing In the seats; and that the
said master and par should have a common seal, and be
empowered to sue and W be wed."
Such are the words of the incerporadon by which equality
of power and rights la conferred upon the master and poor;
and looking at the van* •of the property with which the
hospital Ls endowed, and from inquiries which have been
made, it would appear that the Sfty•two shillings a year
awarded to each a the poor hospitallen was at that time
equal to a moiety of the entire revenue; sad thus establish.,
log the fact, that equal parddpadoet of the revenue was de.
signed between the master sad the poor.
But it has pleased she disinterested wisdom of the
ten in all succeeding times, and fo spite of the change in
the Circumstances of the Institution and in the value of mo-
ney, to interpret the weals w rapport and maintain'' to
mean that one Atining'a week Is enough for a boepitader,
and that the remainder, whether 'dukes from fines Or rear,
belongs In Christian ealeity to• the master ! •
Nitwitbstanding, however, the greatly improved value of
the Magdalen hospital property, espedauy la Modena thews,
no advance in the weekly pittance has ever bees made to
the forlorn and treble tenants of this ancient asylum ; until
at length a spirit of inquiry has been aroused.
• An information was Sled by his Majesty's Attorney-
General io February saw at the Instance of several re-
spectable Whabitaote of Colchester, against the Rev. Jobb
Robert Smythies, charging the defendant, smogs other
things, with the receipt of the sum of 60001. and upwards,
under an agreneest made by the comptroller of the hareack•
department, being a moiety of the produce of the sale of
the barracks, which had been erected upon a part of die;
Magdalen hospital estate, and which were taken 'down
in 1818.

I Now, Sir, I call upon your readers to mad the answer
to the charge of his having received 50001.
" Defendant saith, that the said materials were sold, and'
nth of the proceeds he received the sums of money in sad
stipulated to be paid to him, viz. 001. 101. and
yule. and that the remainder of the said moiety of the
Mit for which such buildings and materials should be sold
was to be paid to defendant, to enable him to fill up the
Wee, and level the land, itfid to plough the same." '1 Aod
dirk save as aforesaid, the defendant denies that he, at the
doe of the said information mentioned, or at any other time,
received from the crown as in said information is mentioned,
etherwlse, five thousand pounds, or any other sum of
=see
!be ambigultief this answer was too palpable, and the
rwas:stonsequendy amended. Subsequent dis-
arms. enabled the rasters to press with steadier thrusts,
111.1henlytheolPeadailorth the following amended answer
"Deilmilant admits that under and by virtue of the
agrees.* he the said amended information mentioned, he,
' this defthibille did, in or about the month of September,
1818, rood* dm um of five thousand and one pounds, and
six shallnes."
The whirl oak hey net, as Mr. S. says, been before the
Lord C have all the documents been examined
by hies, lin the that an application was made to the
'Court, by an ordlamy motion, that the sum of 50011. Is.
admitted to hive hem received by the defendant, should be
,paid Into Court and there abide the event of the information,
which motion was refused, apes the grounds that there was
no reason to affeshoo_dpite money was in danger;—that
was net dew the Dellfilant was not in law sodded to the
swingy, er at least a pardon of k ; and that it would be a
men timing time to deal with the money when the whole
Silts of the case should be before the Court.
• I was in Court on lbs occasion, end the Chaomnse
era :17d. tha
admitn;at Charityand ought long since
time
it
ttos hult
bp. " Looking," said his Lordship, "at the evasive an.
ewer of the defendant, and calling to mind the painful fact
list the defendant is a clergyman, I shall dismiss the appli.
India, but without costs."
,__Te the charge of alloying the Ave poor Hospitalles only
Ms. a year and of pocketing the remainder of the *fly
renal—being, io fad, several hundreds •of pounds—after
paying a paltry pittance of 27L a year for the cure of souls,
the defendant, in his answer, " admits that such allowance
of tits Is inadequate for the support and maintenance of the
said five poor persons, and that he bath in addition thereto
provided such poor persons with'fuel," but submits that the
(Joust has no authority to increase such allowance. The
Court has such authority (says Mr. Harvey), and will ex.
anise it.

At a meeting of the owners and occupiers of land, ink-
rested in the growth of barley, in the county of Fasex, held
this day, August 12, at the Shire 110, Chelmsford, it was
resolved.—That this meeting have heard, with considerable
alarm and surprise, that a Committee is now sitting, deputed
by the House of Commons, to report " whether it would not
L be proper to allow the substitution of molasses in the dis-
tilleries and breweries, when barley reached a certain fixed
price." Secondly, That should such a measure be recom-
mended by the Committee and adopted by the House of
Commons, it moth necessarily reduce the value of barley
many shillings the quartet; and that it would prove most,
ruinous and injurious to the growers of that article in parti-
cular, and consequently to the farming interest in general.
And thirdly, ths6 the fuming interest is already, from a
succession of unfavourable seasons and various other causes,
in such a declining autos to require the continued protec-
i don and support which she Gegernment can give, to prevent
Its entire ruin and destruction.
Irscrunt•ansa. —We regret to find in the country
, papers accounts of several fins, and apparentl by keen-
' diaries ; one took place at Bitughton, rent, on Sunday ;1
forty quarters of beans were burned. A threshing.mathine
yea destroyed near Bridge, in the same county, on Seem
day. On Saturday, the barn of Mr. COwdery, at Steventon,'
Beskshite, was quite consumed. The property destroyed
consisted of about fifteen quarters of oats, two quarters of.
barley, a beannio a nek, a quantity of haulm and a ant
A s ed person named Weodly, bas been ap-
prehended and committed foe further examination.
Cotcrizersit.--Attg. I, 1031.—We had scarcely any
thing doing in our anmetet toldby ; ever, son of grain was
very dull sale. White wheat, We Kid ditto, 02s a
Mk. Oats, No a 34x; Tick Beene, 34. a Xs. Home
beans, 38s a 425; White peas, 40s a 411 s; Grey ditto, 38 a
40.

MA RR ED.-401sitii: Weald, Chauvin' Sharp. Esa
of Great Winchester.Hawa, to Ann Elisabeth, daughterot J.
H. Hill, Egg.
Dl/11)...—Ralph tiq, oY Braintree, 36.
COENUNIAN GAZETTE.
Actinnin.—As Mr. Rickard, architect and builder, of
Devonport, was returning to his home on the 4th inst. from
Lhkeard, where he had been superintending the erection of
a mansion for W. Glencross, Le+ about three miles hoot
the latter place his horse threw him and so fracturedhis skull
and otherwise injured him that after extreme suffseingshe ex-
pired on Sunday last. He has left a wife and seven Snug
children to lament his untimely death.
AlatancuoLv Occuaasuca.—The family of Mr.
Pym, paper manufacturer, Ivy-bridge, was thrown into the
greatest distress on Sunday morning sennight, by the dis-
covery that ho had put as end to his oiciatimise by banging
himself in ble bedeeeht.
A coroner's ingueetlemjseldat Collet= Mills, in the pa-
rish of Ch o,_ rienidayA
at beffg• Thom"
I=l
Seq. coroner of am die bodies tires
nate young' moo) Join libeitned, aged IS, Wil.
Ham Winsley, IS, :and Jobs Pincembe, SO, sweanet of Mc
'Jones, miller, at Census; who were drewaed in the river
Taw, on. Sunday, while bathing. Ay the SVltlbuseForn to
tho h.
jury,
appears 'that Jibe BroidinedoMot t. 12
°Week milutiday to the riviiiidiatiO, eatairetr Sitio*
the evening M. J hintitdmig eindoei erk!
tenting to his dinner, wait t worth Mille river, sok