Star.
London, England, 1801-09-08 00:00:00

Average Price

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ft. James's. Wldtcchapcl.
O. Hayootoool3 So oto 6 0 014 00to 6 0 0
N. do. 3t. to o
Straw zsto 2 13 s so to 114 0 2 00 tO 113 0
Clovix 311 to 6 o 6 o 0 to 6 18 0
N. do. 0 o too

Bais-roi.. sr PTEMBAR 3.
Bk fidcs Crain and flour brulutht into this port from the 28th
Auguft to the 4th Sqtembcr, as follow :
From Foreign Posts... Wheat, 971 baflada-.Airheattour,
689 blrrels.—..lndian Meal, 812 hatreds.
Coaltvrays,—Wheat, toa qrs. 6 buracla—Wheat-flour, 85
qrs. c bufliclt—Malt, so qrs.—Beaus, so cra.—.oatme do t qra.
the Imports of Grain, Flour, &e. into Liverpool iu the ck fc
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of tail wed , were as follows:

From America..—.Whent-flour taco brb,—ltyc-Bour 1714
bris—lndian meal zoo brts.—Rice 134 bit.
From Gernisny and Ruffia:—Wheat i 6411 bags, 540 qrs..—:
Barley isit bags—Rye to? bass.
At OW Fair, Leather experienced a ready tale at t►e follow-
ing advanced prices :
crop Hides, 45 co solh. per hide, tBd. to ssid.
Crop Hien. 35 to 4db. per hide, t7d. to ad,
Horfe Hides, 14d. to rid. per lb.

At Cambridge, Royflon, Lincoln, and Upping•
ham, a trivial advance, induced by the rife of the
London market, has taken place; and at Hunting-
don, the quartern loaf, which fold at ic4d. now
coils is. At Bath, Cambridge, and tome tiller
places, the quatern loaf has fallen in price.
A perfon well informed as to the Rate of the
dairies in Chefhire, Flintlhire, &c. declares that
they at prefent contain more than an ordinary
Rock of cheefe and butter, referred with a view to
raife the price, by limiting the Ripply. Butter in
the metropolis has lately rifen ad. per lb. namely
to 18d.
In cnnfequence of a refolntion of the opulent
inhabitants at Uttoxeter, not to ufe hotter while it
bears an exorbitant price, that article fell from ts.
to Bd. per pound in their market on Wednefday.
The inhabitants at Shrewfbirry having let their
faces againft the exorbitant prices demanded for
butter, in that feafon of univerfal plenty ; large
bafkets of this article were on Saturday fe'nnight
taken home unfold.
A few years fince when butchers'-nteat was
really fcarce, and comparatively dear, the Bath
Agriculture Society flrongly recommended atten-
tion to the breed of hogs ; the advice was rciter•
:tied in other papers, and happily adopted, for the
i.ountry was conlequently, in lefs than ten months,
fo Rocked with flefh of that ufeful quadruped, that
the price of :neat in general fell from 55. 4.d. to
3s. 6d. per !lone ! Were the fame means again
retorted to, we fhould Ihortly fee both beef and
mutton at prices a little more moderate than they
at indent bear.
1 dr We hear from Newbury, with great pleafure,
CHESTERFIELD RACES-.WEDNESDAY, SEPT. a. that Flour of very good quality is to be fold at
Fifty Pounds given by his Grace the Duke of De- fourteen-pence per gallon. The Gentleman to
vonfhire, for Maiden Horfes of all ages. Three whom this redullion is principally, if not folely,
yrs old, 6ft. alb. Four yrs old, 711.71 h. Five ars to be attributed, we learn was naremitting in his
old, Bft. lb. Six yts old, and aged horfes, 4ft. endeavours during the lag high prices of food, by
"lb. The bell of three fonr•mile heats. providing conilant fupplies to lower the neceffaries
Me. Denbam's c. I. by Overton, 4 yrs old - i i of life, and ameliorate the condition of the poor;
Mr. Clißon's b. h. 4 yrs old - - - 3 s and, however difcouraged from perfevering in at-
Mr. Dawfon's b. c. Twiner. 4 yrs old - • dr tempts lb laudable by the calumny and nufrepre-
Mr. Sitwell's b. e. Lamplighter, 3 yrs old - dr
fentations of the mall want and interefled, will not,
Same day, a Gold Cup by Subfcribers of Five
we hope, relax in his benevolent plans, but conti•
Guineas each. Three; yrs old, 611 31b. Four
nue his exertions to befriend die community-per-
yrs old, 711. 71b. Five yrs old, 811. 31b. Six yrs
loaded that his endeavours will now be as efreflual
old, Bft. i 21b. and aged 911.-One four-mile keat.
Mr. Silverly. In. g. Cockhont. by Overto, c yrs old I as his means are ample.
Lord G. H. C.svendifit's b. c. Twafter,by Coriander, 5 On the 25th and 26th tilt. Mr. C. James, hair-
yrs old - - a dreffer, of Maidenhead, employed a horfe and cart
Mr. E. Parker's b. h. Pepfus, 5 yn old -
Pd folely for the purpofe of fetching bread from Bea.
Duke of Devonfhlre's b. f. Canary, by Coriander, 4 yrs'
old - - - - - Pd constield to Maidenhead, and felling the fame
Lord G. H. Cavendith's ch. C. Jack-a-Lantern, by Me- amongll the inhabitants there at 3d. per quartern
tour, 4 yrs old - . - - pd loaf under the ufual price; for which bread he
Mr. Sitwell's ch. It Hyale, by Phenomenon, dam had a quick tale, and not only well paid himfelf
Rally, 4 yrs old - - . ld for his trouble, but gained the elleem of the pea
Mr. Thornitill's ch. g. by Fortitude, dam by Garnet,
out of Columbus's dam, 6 yrs old - - pa plc in general (except the bakers) at Maidenhead,
Mr. Jeanine:ch. la. Fogelman, by Soteii,-r, y yr, eild pd as the laid bread colt him only told. per quartern
Mr. Hurt'. be. cr. Blooditick, by Alexander, out of the loaf, at Beacainidleld, fold by him at Maidenhead
Maid of Fly, by Tandem, 3 yrs old - - pd for is. and at the rime time the price of the guar-
Mr. Deabam's cit. e. Balayton, by Alexander, out of
Dick Andrews's Jam, 3 yrs old - ~ pd tern loaf at Maidenhead was is. 3d. On the fol.
Sir H. Every, Bart. Mr. Eyre, Mr. Mundy, and i lowing day, to the great joy of the inhabitants,
Mr. Rodes, are faferibers, but did not name.- : the bakers of Maidenhead reduced the price of
Six to 4on Cockboat. !bread from It. 3d. to Is. per gum-tern loaf. 1
THUICSDAY• SCARCITY 111 ZFIL.V.D-Lord DUNDAI, with'
Fifty Pounds for Horfes, &c. that never won more . that humanity :old benevolence which di:lingua
thn:: pl. a: ~ri time, Matches and Sweepftaber, I ha.ciiaraßL r, on lie iring of the dittrels the eeople
excepted, fmr-mile heats.-Three yrs old, 6it. i i f :hat comm..: were lately threatened with, ornme-
glb. Four yrS old, 7R. 911). Five yrs rid, •t:l. idi .t.. 1:: otelcied a cargo if Bear Meal to be fent br
416. Six yrs old, 811. tab. and aged, 9111. 21b. I.t ctif ter from Oa klicy to Zerland, and which, we
Mr. Sitwell's hr. g. Cockboat, by Ovenon. 5 y.. 1 ae . I. y:iy ti, hear, a;11 he ihtEetent to relieve them
oil 1 I , 1 VII ": it own hal veil and potatoes are got in.-
Mr. Wheales'... b. IL 11/4ildnildn• cr* °:‘l - 2 2 a T5i,:;.y.:,-..,,,,, g tnerotit y and benevolence to.
Mr. I.s..nham's c. f. hy Ovsnon. OW of W.Mdcr'S 1 3
4r
,Vai.:. t!.,:` 11,:r11.!? in Orkney, tlkil, in point of libel..
n ~,. .• yrs old .
Mr. Clif:on'r 'O. b. 4 yr. old - - Jr .:!:•‘ :,-si e.i:n:, has nca, it is believed, been
Midnight th' favourite. ~ . .. 1 i... •, tawny nt grain payable to his
Same day, the Scarfdale Stakes, le:t all a!:,-, !“-o- . 1.,, . . ..) ill. .',...;;,11,1,1,:i0n6cc0 to7ooobnils,
milelic.As.--Tbe tainn:r to be fold f n .--, ...t.ii• 1 a.: i .: 1 ;;.. , f.. a: ka:l fn. is parts of it as the vat:
=as, demanded. .;:e.•-'lliree yrs old, 71. 1 . lir !lai. :i..1 1..11:as delivered in kW, he agreed to
pm old, RR. tolb. Fir, yrs old, 911. ;:ix )rs old, I gi,z to :lo indigent and indlifirions poor of the
94. ell,. and vc.l. oft. 71b. 1 ti,vit. / ; part to the timer gr./tit, and the re.
Mr. Sine!,'. I. . I tn., •,... T. :. "ft 04 - x 1 1.....: t!..r t.. the Law- at au per cent. below the
',tape itaii..funl. ...b. la. lehr:sa Rattler, S: n ulsi adr mark:t price.

The celebrated Racer Diamond, which was en-
raged to run at the Cumgh September Meeting,
btolce down in his exetcife at • that place, on the
etening of the a3th ult.
MACHithiLLrEH RACES.—MONDAY, AUGUST 3t•
The Silver Cup.—Mr. Jones's g. in. Mary Lars 3
.2
Cr. Apperiey's b. h. - • - z 1 3
r. Mathews's bl. in. • - - - 1 3 1
On Tuerday, September t, the Met Cup.
Mr. Stephen's b. m. Little-thought-on -
Mr. Apperley's br. g. s
WARWICK RACES.—THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.
A Maiden Plate of fifty Pounds, given by the
Members of the Borough.
Mr. Snell's b. h. St. 'Vincent, 4 Trz old, 7it 71b• I I
Sir W. Wynne's b. b. Tityrus, 3yn old, 611.41 b. z
Mr. FatikileT.3 h. g. aged, 811. olb. - 3 3
Mr. Swlnfen's br. e. 3 yes old 6ft. 41b. - - 4 4
A Sweepitakcs of Ten Guineas each, eight Sub.
fcribers.
Mr. Jones's b. h. Collatior, raft. - .i s z
Mr. Sadler's bg. Chance, itft. 12lb. • •• 4 4 1
Mr. Prices g. Magog, rift. tatb. - - 3 s 3
Lord Brooke's br. h. Caterer, t 2ft. broke down s 3 dr
Caterer broke down near the end, when apfa-
ready winning with cafe.
A Subfcription Purfe of Fifty Pounds.
Atr. W. Roblnron'i b. h. Arnho, 4 yes old, 811. slb.
winner of two Plates
Mr. Collrell br. h. Citizen, 4 yrs old, Sit. sib. win-
ner of two Plates - - - 3 1
Mr. C. Days c. f. Gan, 4 yes old, 1111. winner of
one Plate

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WHITEHArEIt, SEPT. t..--Yefterday feennight,
two boys ( John Smith, aged fa years, and John
Stoup, aged t; ), were unfortunately drowned,
yAila bathing near the Nrnth Wall. The means
recommended by the Humane Society were em-
ployed, but without eireet.
All or moll of tht articles llolen from the Blue.
Bell Inn, at Egremont, have been recovered. The
gentleman with the white wallet had difpofed of
them to tome perfons in the neighbourhood of
Braithwaite ; who, after returning them' to the
lawful owner, purfoed the thief, and found him
drunk upon Whinlatter ; where, it is laid, they
allb recovered the principal part of the Money
which they had paid—but he efcaped.

A few days fince die body of a tailor tVasictt by
the tide on the fhorc in the parilh of South Shoe-
bury, in Elfex.—A Coroner's Jury were film-
moned, hut no evidence appeared to the Jurors
how the deceafed came by his death. The colours
of his Majetly's navy were bound round the body
of thedeceafed, but there were no papers in the
pockets of the deceated, nor any thing by which
ft could he ditcovered to what 114 he Foeloncred.—
Nu marks of violence appearing on the body, it is
prefumed he might have fallen overboard, when
in the a& of getting up to hat the colours. The
body was decently interred in South Shoebury
Churchyard.

On Tuciday laa a boy having inadvertently
made afire to mail potatoes in a field near Lowe.
(loft Church, the grail, from the long drought,
immediately caught the flames, and communicat-
ed to a hay (lick in a diatant nart of the field,
which was entirely confirmed t born its blowing
very hard at N. W. great fears were entertained
for the lafcty oft ,he 1 ower, as the fire ran fttriouf-
ly along the hedges and ground, and nothing but
the greatcfl exertions of the inhabitants prevented
its fpreading, as the water was very dillant and
difficult to be got at.
On Thurfday the 27th ult. as Mr. DANIEL RA-
, EN, late cf Hatfield Pevcrel, furgeen, aged 82
years, was returning from Witham to Hatfield,
where he had walked, in pei re& health, he fell
down in the toad, and immediately expired. A
Coroner's Jury were fummoncd, who returned a
verdict--Died by the vifitation of Goo.
The body of a woman was lel week found in a
field near Deacon Hill, Kent ; her death is fup.
poled to have been necalioned byerceffive drinking.
An infant daughter of W. Vickers, of Saxby,
near Lincoln, was choakcd a few days ago. by a
crab-apple flicking in her throat, which occafioned
her death in a fe* minutes.

As a Gentleman and Lady were travelling on the
road adjoining the river Mcrfey, between Dicls.
bury and the northern ford, fi)me boys diaurbed a
wafp's r.,211, and the horfc was Co feverely flung,
that he inaantly ran back into the river, which is
five or fix yards deep. The Lady and Gentle-
man fortunately leaped out as the chaife was fall-
ing over the hank, ar..l eicaped being hurt. The
horfe was drowned, :Ind-when taken out of the ri-
ver many wafps were found flicking on his head.
It is fuppofed that from the dreadful manner the
animal was (lung he mull have died, had he not
been drowned.

On Saturday fennight a melancholy accident
happened at Northam: As a young man named
John Culverfon, aged 21 years, belonging to the
wharf at Wineheiler, was affifiing in loading the
barge with coals, Lis foot flipped off the hoard lead-
ing from the land fide to the barge, when he fell
in the water, and was drowned. His body re.
mained undifeovered till Wednefday evening, when
it was taken out near the fpot where the accident
happened, and was conveyed in a barge for in-
terment.,

The following melancholy circumilance took
place at the parilh of Belchamp Walter, in Eller,
on the =6th ult.—A poor woman of the name of
Martin, on going into the fields to glean, left an
infant child in the cradle in her houfc.—On her
return home, the found that the brother and filler
of the infant (two children of the ages of three and
four years) were alleep in the cradle, lying upon
the infant, who was iliffocated. A Coroner's Jury
fat, and returned a verdia of—Accident:ll Death.

Two iitquefis have IA week been taken by J.
GRIGG, EC+ one of the Coroners for the county of
Hants :—One on a foltlier belonging to Ow ad
Somerfet Militia, encamped on South Sea Com-
mon, who was killed in fighting with his comrade:
The other on a convia, lhot in attempting to ef-
cape from Longtime Harbour. The verdiCt, in
both carts, was-7:Oak liwnica-. Seven others
attempted to efcape at the fame time with the con-
yid killed, but they were all fecured the fame
On Sunday fe'nnight as a clerk in the banking-
houfe of Mart. Gurneys and Turner, at Yar-
mouth, was going by the coach to Acle, Norfolk,
he unfortunately 101 l his great coat, containing
bank notes and drafts to a very large amount.—
The coat was dropped foon after the coach left
Burgh, and although it was miffed almoft intro.
taneoufly, a poor man had paired the fpot, taken
it up, and left the road in his way to his own cot-
tage, which ftond at a fmall diflanee from the
Turnpike. He is a labourer, with a large family,
and it is to he hoped that the reward of so guineas
offered by the houfe, will be a means of making
himfelf and family comfortable.
In a late Paper, we inferted a curious forged
charatEter given by Thomas Anderfon of himfelf ;
to deter others from following fuch an examplc,
we find that the (aid Anderfon was fentenced by
the Ma,,.riftrates sifting in the Batliforum Divifton
to one month's imprifot•ment in Baehr gaol,
not being able to pay the penalty of aol. incurred
by the late Aft of Parliament for fetch offences.
A man was, Come days fincc, committed to Can-
ttrhnry gaol, charged with having no the night of
the a9th nit. -ntered the chamber of Margaret
Cooper, wherein the flept, and robbed her of four
thillmgs--the profecutrts obfervingon the oceafina
that the Ifs of the money was not half fia provok-
ing as the fellow's want of polite site:Wm

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one of the daily matte,. t iin.l e
In ing oblervation under the ft,,,,,-uattir: or A.

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je.eior
" if Governtnent could device the plan or 3
Lottery in which the Crown LaridA could he giroe.
in prli;TS inflead of mency, a national t'encst utiat
be obtained I Since many thourands of acres, vu‘.
lying wade, might be brought into cultivatkr.
and added to the dock of annual ptoduaioh,t,

This propolition, .I take it, is founded otx
idea that the want of cultivation, and not that .1
p•t.d nee, fiflice, and irecrsomy, is the radical caufe r
th^ prcgretrively increaling price of proviliun,
but if you will. give the following fans a place in
your relpeetable paper, they will enable him
haps to impute the effea to another caufe.
The Rev. Dr. CLERK, in his " Survey of the
power and opulence of Grcat Britain," gives, ~,,
the :Imhof ity of Parli iment, the acres of .hind in
the itland at 73,178,627, of which 51,173,658 aic
in cultivation. (.4 this number 2,837,030 have
been cultivated fince the- Revolution, of which
2,804,030 have been LA:en into cultivation &aria;
the prefent reign, yet prices have advanced coirs
this reign more than they have done for two cen-
turies before. The Dolor ftippoies the averat,e
produce of an acre at three quarters of wheat ; and
a quarter fufficient to furply one perfon with bread
fir one year.
Thcfe fuppofitions are unqueltionably founded
in truth ; for if there arc acres which produce lefr;
there are. at 'call, an equal number which yield
nvire ; and admitting that t quarter of wheat Nielti
only (ix birthels and a half of flour, theft, alloying
So quartcrns to the lack, will give 104 quartran
loaves; or tivo a week for the annual confumption
or an individual, which I take to be a fullichn.t al-
lowance of the article. He then gives the yearly
average produce of wheat for the fall eight years
at B,oco,cco (porters, and by taking the population
at 12,000,000, infers a deficiency of fupply of one
third, and therefore propales the cultivation of
1,333,0c0 acres to anfwer the demand. So far
the Rrver.fnd and indrkle charoaer agrees in his
projeds with the &herein of your Correlpondent.
But when we confider that (the towns and opulent
families excepted) all Scotland, Wales, the Wellern,
Northern and inland Counties of England, con-
fume, in common, only oats, rye, and barley, and
taking the eonfumers of thefe at only one-third it
the population, a reafonable fimpolition, I this
may be inferred, from the Dolor's own averN;cr
of wheat and account of the population, that there
has been nn fcarcity of grain, and of courfe that
increafed cultivation is not the remedy to the evil
of dearnefs. Could he then draw a more unlucky,
than die contrary conclufion ? Unlefs it be that a
charadter once contaminated with Holy Orders, is
never again fit for a Statefman ?
But there is a principle or two more on which
to put the argument, lo as to prove the Do&or's
bad luck perhaps in every thing except a living.
I lay it down as a truth which none but fceptics
will doubt, that two pound weight of food per day
form the average confumption of the population,
including the malt confumed in necelfary drink.
Females, infants, awl old people, who unquellion-
ably form two-ttirds of the population, confume,
I take it, but a pound and a half per day, which
leaves three pounds per day to the other third, and
I believe few men, even in the bell sate of health,
confume more on an average.
At two pounds weight per day per individual,
the annual conftimption of 12,0c0p00 of people
amounts to 7,56c,,000,000 pounds w-ight, which
divided by the cultivated acres, gives 147 pounds
weight each—rather better than the weight of two
bulliels and a peck of wheat, at 64, the (tandard
weight to a bulhcl. An ordinary pig fed upon the
acre which is not allotted Co the gre.wth of grain,
would produce this number of pounds. It is evi-
dent, therefore, on this principle 1:11o, that there
has been no fcarcity, fur foray a cultivated acre
cannot be luppofed to yield lets.
But the common opinion is, and Purely no hypo-
thells can be better founded in reafon, that every
cultivated acre produces fond and raiment for an
individual ; in that cafe it is evident that there is
already provifion made for as many individuals ai
there are acres in cultivation, confequently that en-
creafed cultivation a not the remedy to the evil.
The Mellor has not (hewn how, on the Ifrongeft
grourd of probability, with provilions for above
5 t,000,0c0 of people, the majority of 12,000,000
are denote of the common comforts of life; but if
there ohfcrvations are worth their room in your pa-
triotic Paper, I than endeavour to fupply his dcti-
ciency at a future period. COMMON SENSF._

B'R fli.
At her hook in (tut cn-ltrect, k.direb2rgh, on the 24th of .
Mrs. Dirom of 1• r-mnt Annan. of a fin.

AA.Altitu u.

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On the Id loft. at Newnharn Paddock, Warwickfhire, Lord
Tara, of Bellinter, In the county of Meath, to Mift Powys,
[mond daughter of .1 harms Jell Powys, Lig . of Berwick-houk,
in the county of Salop.
O. the had ult. at Wlnchefter, Mr. Grigg, of Newbury, to
Mii. Enna. of Wincheltrr.