Star.
London, England, 1821-03-08 00:00:00

Wheelwright's

1619
Collarmaker's Bill S 1791 2.
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1 1819. — 7. 4 0
In 1791, the total expenses, exclusive of interest,
were £23‘.? tis. 100. In 1819, £358.75. 3d. At the
two periods there was very little difference in the
price of Corn. It was impossible, under such circum-
stances, the farmer could go on long without relief.
Mr. H. G. UENNETT began by stating, that every
person who spoke on the question admitted the uni-
versal distress which prevailed. but every one cau-
tiously avoided to mention the sources whence arose
that distress. If a Committee were appointed, and
that Committee did not go into the whole of the dis-
trews, not only of the agriculturists, but of every
other class of his Majesty's subjects—if they did not
inquire into the taxation, the appointment of a Com-
mittee would be a mere delusion ; it could give no
relief to the people at large ; it would only keep up
rents, and raise the price of Bread. He hoped the re-
port which would emanate from that Committee,
would not be got up as other reports had been, by
the influence of Ministers, and afterwards thrown in
their face as the report of the House ; whereas, in
fact, it might have been the report of Ministers them-
selves. 1 he whole question of taxation, generally,
as it bone oa all classes, should be diligently inves-
tigated. The currency of the country should also be
considered. He contended that this question should.
not be looked at as affecting the agricultural in-
Iterests only, but all other .interests, as settlements of
all kinds, rents, bonds, debts, marriage settlements,
&c. should be all examined. It was impossible for

the country to pay off the diferent -btledenrimposed
omit with deteriorated means. They should nor go
into that Committee without an express determina-
tion to inquire into all the distresses under which all
classes laboured. If augmentation of prices of agri-
cultural productions were the object for the appoint-
ment of the Committee, it would be attended with
the greatest injury to the lower classes of the com-
munity. He would sound the alarm to the country
if such were the object. Honourable Members might
despise numbers and public opinion ; the Noble Lord
(Castlereagh) might talk insultingly of the peoples
right to petition that House; but he would tell the
Noble Lord and the Honourable Members, that if
the country were to be told that a Committee were
appointed by that House to raise the price of bread
(Hear, hear), the Noble Lord, with all his blandish-
ments, could not allay the ferment such information
would necessarily produce. He should take care,
and all his friends should take care, that no motion
for a Supply should be carried in that House with-
out the strictest inquiry and examination—(Hear,
hear). They would take their stand on the establish
ment of 1792; and to that they would endeavour to
reduce the present. When Honourable Members
confess that Agriculture is ruined, that Trade is de-
stroyed: when every one is endeavouting to shift
for himself, it became the duty of some one to
stand up for the community at large. There was
but one line of conduct to pursue. The country
was not able to support the_present establishments.
' When, therefore, it should be told them that the Co-
lonies should be maintained, that armies should be
kept up-to support i;eace and tz anquillity, that all the.
other establishments were to he kept up—it then be,
came the duty of the House to reply, that the country
needed them not,,and could not support them. That
was the line of conduct for them to pursue. When
on that night the blessings of plenty and abundance
had been represented as a curse—(Bear, hear)—when
Honourable Gentlemen stand up and lament the
ruined state of Agriculture—on those Honourable
Gentlemen he would call to come downto that House,
and watch the time when next a Grant was to be voted,
or the keeping up of an enormous Army Establish-
ment !—(Hear, hear, hear.)—The People might then
judge of the sincerity of their motives—(Hear, hear). I
If they did not come down and oppose such enor-
mous expenditure, he should conclude, from that con-
duct, that they felt not for the distresses of their te-
nants, but that it was the payment of their rents they
wanted—(Hear, hear)—and that if those had been
paid, the House would not have heard of a Committee
of Inquiry intuAgricultui al Ditties es—a-lear, hchr).
Mr..OOOCH roar to order, and said the Honourable Member
had no right to impute such motives.
Lord NUGF.NT said, his Honourable Friend did not mean
to Impute any personal motives to the Honourable Members, but I
was contending that the object of the motion was to support the
Landholders (Cries f Chair, Chair!)
The SPEAKER said, he did not conceive the Honourable
Member to impute motives :when he aid, if certain results fol-
lowed; but if he undentooci him to say, if rents were paid there
should be no Committee, that certainly would be disorderly:
Mr. BENNETT said, he submitted to the correc-
tion of the Chair.--The Honourable Member conti-
nued his observations :—The Estimates were one
thing, and the Expenditure another. The expenditure
always exceeded the Estimates. .The only question
for their consideration was, the reduction of the ex-
penditure, and consequent diminution of the taxes.—
Nothing but the reduction Of the expenditure, by
proper retrenchment in every establishment, could
save the country—(Hear, hear).-:-He should be the
last man in the country who would recommend any
attack on the public creditor. But he would tell the
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer; that he
would be driven out of his quackery, step by step—
(Hear, hear)—and would , at length come down to
that House to make such a proposition as at ansither
time he would startle at. He would be obliged to
come down and propose to invade the public creditor
—(Hear, hear).—He (Mr. Bennett) would wish to
avoid so ignominious a condition, and would first
reduce their expenditure. He begged.pardon of the
House for having trespassed so long on their indul-
gence ; but he could not hear of a Committee being
appointed to raise, unnaturally and forcibly, the
prices cif the necessaries of life, without entering his
protest against it—(Cheers).
Mr. WESTERN denied that the object of- any of
these Committees was to enhance unduly the price of
bread. Their objects were to protect the Agricultural
Interest, and, consequently, every other interest in
the country. From the cultivation of the soil of the
land we derived all our security ; and he hoped we
would never give up this security for any of the
visionary notions of the day. He had no wish to
increase the price of bread without increasing the
means of purchasing it to the patient and industrious
peasantry of England. They were much better able
to pay for bread' when the price of it was what his
Hon. Friend (Mr. Bennett) would call excessively
dear. It was therefore the price of his labour that
the peasant could get, and not so much,the price of
bread, that should be looked to. In the present con-
dition of the burdens of the State, the higher the
price of labour, the less would those burdens be felt
by the lower classes. The price of labour had de-
creased in his part of the country from 16s. per week
to 9s. He agreed that the only remedy was to re•
duce the public expenditure; aad therefore the duty
of the House was to withhold all extravagant grants,
such as that of three millions of new taxes. The
Hon. Member, adverting to the Ad passed in 1819
to facilitate the resumption of cash payments, de-
clared his conviction that the present distressed state
of agriculture originated in that measure. He con-
tended that it was indispensably necessary to protect
the agriculturist. If this protection was extended,
he was pet suaded that all our supplies of agricultural
produce now drawn from foreign parts, would in
future be taken from Ireland, and life and spirit be
thus given to that country.
Mr. BENNETT explained, and declared •his ob-
jection to any measure which had for its object to
raise the price of grain.
Mr. D. BROWNE was of opinion, that the distress
of the agriculturist arose from want of adequate pro-
tection against the foreign grower. He entertained
no hopes of advantage from the new mode proposed
of taking the average the o.ily step to be taken
which could operate effectually, would be to prohibit
the importation of foreign grain. He contended that
' the ports had-often been• opened by fraud-on the part
of certain capitalists, by which they had been bene-
fitted, and the country ruined. He was of opinion there
should be an absolute prohibition of foreign corn. •

BARHAM wirished bread to remain as cheap
as possible ; but still he thought the Imptittation Laws
should.not remain as they now were. Corn might
get too cheap, so cheap that the farmer would cease
to grow it, and we should then he reduced to depend
on supplies of foreign corn at any price.
Mr. RICARDO could not agree that the interests
of landlords, of tenants. of manufacturers, and agri-
culturists, were united in tl:i question. The contrary
was the fact. The landlord in this qbestion must
have a distinct interest Operating against the rest.
Ile had been aecused of speaking as a mercantile
man, but he denied that he was sr", or that he was a
fund holder. Ile vas a land-owner, and spoke his
sentiments as a Member of Parliament anxious for
the general interest. The Ilonourable Gentleman
then proceeded to state hi view of the subject. st hich
was, that weshoul .1 endeavour to make our corn bear
the sane price as the corn of other countries did.
This he was ready to allow could not be done az once,
but it might be done gradually. The land-owners
had attempted to keep corn up, but they had done
unskilfully. The Corn Laws were not calculated to
do it. We had repeatedly seen, when corn got above
eighty shillings, a glut of foreign corn sent into the
country, from the effect of which we had not, in
some instances, recovered for years. He did not con-
sider the present low 3.aeice of corn to be caused by
taxation, but by there being too abundant a supply.
The Warehousing System had been alluded to in de-
bate; and ir was said,' who would speculate in corn,
whilst such immense magazines were liable to be
opened upon him ? Ile would say confidently that
he would, for he knew he should be safe unless corn
got above 795. It had also been asked, could we
grow corn as cheap as foreigners ?, He would reply,
certainly not ; and that was the reason why he de-
sired to import it ; for, until we could grow it as,
cheap, the capital employed in growing it was M.
employed. The Honourable Member then proceeded
to defend the use of machinery, as operating to give
the consumer the comniodity cheaper. He then ad-
verted to what had been said on the subject of the
Nationa) Debt : in his opinion, faith with the Public
Creditor should be kept sacred. It was a most dis-
honourable idea—one which, he was convinced no
Gentleman would entertain for a moment—that hav-
ing, during the war., in times at necessity, i doced
our fellow-citizens to le.,d their money, we should
now, when we had no further occasion for ti r as-
sistance, turn round on them and say, we carrot, or
we will not pay you ! With iespect to our difficulties,
he could not but flatter himself, they were neat y at
an end. This depressed state of Agiiculture„his
depressed state of trade, could not last : it was occa-
sioned by the war, and must expire, now the war was
at an end. He was in favour of a permanent, but
moderate duty, which lie considered would be at-
tended with great advantages to the Public.
Mr. DAVENPORT said a few words in support
of the motion.

Mr. CALCRAFT wished to ail the Agriculturist
as much as possible; but he could not agree to the
proposition for higher protecting duties; he was wil-
ling the Corn Laws should remain as they were, for
the sake of protecting Ireland, but he would agree tp
no measure which would raise the price.
General GASCOYNE was glad to hear the diffe-
rent opinions now given by Gentlemen, because he
was persuaded, with so many opinions, the Com-
mittee would do nothing. He opposed the motion.
Mr. THOMAS-WILSON, though a commercial
man, was in favour of the appointment of a Com-
' mittee, and even hoped that some advance would he
made in the price of grain, as by it he thought the
farmer would be enabled to pay his labonier better
wages—the manufacturer would have more trade
the Government would proceed better—and the
whole would be an advantage to the Public.
The motion for a Commiitee was then agreed to,
and the following were amongst the individuals named
to serve upon it :
Lord Castlereagh Sir T. Lethbridge Mr. Huskision
Lord Alt horp Mr. F. Lewis Mr. Western
Mr. I). Browne Sir 11. Parnell Mr. S. Bourne
Mr. Brougham Mr. Rubinson • Mr. N. Calvert
Mr. Wodehouse Mr. Gooch Mr. Dickenson
Mr. H. Sumner Mr. W. Smith Mr. eurWen

Mr. S. RICE then brought forward his motion for
leave to bring in a Bill for repealing certain Acts of
Parliament, imposing capital punishment for ottences
in Ireland; especially for stealing to the amount of
five shillings in shops and warehouses.
Mr. MARTIN suggested the propriety of including
sheep-stealing in'the provisions of this Bill.
Mr. S. RICE would promote this proposition if
brought forward hereafter, but he did not,now wish
to embarrass his Bill with any doubtful point.—
Leave was then given to bring in a Bill.

OrniALUIC

Air. BEN NETT said, he hid a motion :Xi the Paper respecting
the Opthalmic Institution; but as he understood the Secretary
at War intended to bring forward this subject, he should not
press his motion.

ILLICILLAICIES.

Colonel BAGWELL presented a Petition from the Noble-
men, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Tippe-
rary, against the repeal of the Union Duties.—Laid on the table,
and ordered m be printed.
Colonel BAGWELL presented another Petition, from T.
Prendergast, Esq. Cursitor of the Court of Chancery in Ireland,
against the Bill now in progress, su far as it respects the office
of Cur,itor.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. 11. SUAINEIt postponed his Motion relative to the OM
phan Fund to this day fortnight.
I%lr. W. COURTENAY put a his motion relative to the
American Loyalists to ibis day fortnight.
The other orders were then disposed of, and at One o'Clock
the House adjourned.

Seorrixo.—The Houston Quarterly Sports took placeln How
ton Meadoeii, Buck,, on Monday. The first Prlie, for a Sub-
scription Silver Cup and Cover, at I. birds, eleven Subscribers,
ar three guineas each, excited much spit as follows:—Mt,
llnrne killed 14, Captain Smith 13, Mr. Soane 13, Mr. L.
fevre 12, Mr. Gillingham 11, Mr. Broadhurst 11, Mr. Gilchrist
10, Mr. Holiday nine, Mr. Giles, jun. nine, Mr. Hathway eight,
and Mr. Jones only four, when the ('up was given to Mr. Horne.
—Six Wrestlers were next pitted for two Prizes, viz. the first
,C 2, and the second a hat. Young Beichambers, from Wilt-
shire, won the cash, and Harrington, from Berkshire, who was
thrown by Belchambers in wrestling off the tic, won the hat.
skilful single-stick match followed, for two, the same prizes
as the last. The first prize was won by Watson, and the second
by (ice.
SING 176 R Roastay.—Yesterday, Mr. Hort, the Deputy Cle. k
bf the Peace for the County of Surrey, while attending to the
duties of Ms office in the Court at the Surrey Sessions, was rubbed
of a pozket-book, containins two cheques for £l5O each, and of
other property. It appears that Mr. Hort was standing near
some people who came to give. a prisoner a good chatacter, at
the time he was robbed, and he strongly suspected the good people
of having relieved him of his property. Upon the circumstance
being communicat.tl to the Bench, strict nrdris were given to the
Police-PiScera to prevent, fur the future, the admission a all
pirious characters into the body of the Court.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1821.
THE FUND&

Plilol Of STOCKS Tills DAY AT OHM &CLOCK.:
3 per Cant. Cons. 72A 1/4
.5 per Cent. Navy 106% Yi
India Bonds 455. pr.—Esche. Bills ss. Ss. pr.
Bank for Acct. 227%—India for Acct.23o4
Consols for Acct. 73 72A.

Mr. Gooch moved last night, in the House of Com- 1
mons, the appointment of a Select Committee, to in-
qUite into, and report on, the Agricultural distress of
the Country. The Motion, after much ,debate, was
agreed to. There was nothing, however, in the tone
of the discussion to give ate least alarm to the work-'
;Ng classes with respect to the scale of Duties which
•segtdates the impartation of Foreign Grain.
The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forsnoon.
The Gazette de Frawx gives the following Extract of.l
a Letter just received from Naples:
64 NArLES, FEBRUARY ts.'

" To-day, at the end of a long Sitting, in which
the Report of the Commission was heard, which was
appointed the day before to examine the ultimatum
of the Powers, the Prince Regent issued from the
Hall, at the head of the Methbers of Parliament, and
pronounced before the People a formal Declaration
of War against Austria and the Allied Powers. Ge-
neral Carascosa has taken the supreme command.--
Begani has shut himself up in Gaeta. The Neapoli-
un troops appear to have an intention of marching
upon Rome."
It was before stated that the Parliament had pre-
vailed upon the PaINcE Vicna-Gassanr. to remain
Naples, but the present accounts state that his
Royal Highness will command in chief in the field.

The report of a change in the policy of Naples to-,
wards Sicily is repeated, but not confirmed by any
thing more authentic than the accounts we published
two days ago. The adoption of this measure will
supersede what is now understood to have been the
object of Sir T. MAITLAND'S visit to the Continent,
namely, to consult with the Allied Sovereigns aad
the British Ambassador, as to the propriety of com-
plying with an invitation made to him, as the Itepre-
-sentative of Great Britain, by some distinguished
Sicilians, to take that Island under British protection,
by sending troops from Malta to put down anarchy,
and restore the Constitution introduced by Lc•rd
LIAM BM: MINDS, under which they were so prospe-
rous and happy, and which was taken from them
by the present Euro of NAPLES.

An article from Turin, of the 26th of February,
says, that according to the last news from Florence,
nearly 40,000 Austrian troops had passed through
that city between the 12th and 19th, and thatlosti-
lities were expected to commence on the 25th.

The Grand Duke of TUSCANY is said to be seri-
onsly ill, and this circumstance, it is added, probably
prevented the demand being insisted on for an
auxiliary Tuscan force to act against Naples."
There are accounts in these P.tpers from Lisbon of
the 17th of Feat nary, which mention the arrival there
in forty-eight days Imm Permatubuco, of the Portu-
guise ship Alexander first, which reports, that two
days before' its departure, intelligence was received
from ltio Janeiro of the equipment of the Jean Sixth 11
being almost finished, and of its being the ICING'S in-
maim to proceed to Portugal on board that vessel.

The cause of Neapolitan Independence might be
greatly forwarded by calling Public Meetings for
opening subscriptions to raise funds for sending arms
and anutianitiox immediately to the Neapolitans ;
which, doubtless, many British and Foreign Mer-
chants in England would embark without delay, on
the faith of being repaid by the Public, if any dispo-
sition were shewn to raise funds for that purpose.—
Another most powerful auxiliary to the cause of
freedom, would be the immediate distribution through
all the Kingdoms of Europe, of part of the Prelimi-
naries, and. part of the ld, 3d, 4th, and sth Chapters
of Vattei ors the Lou of Nations, which might be
done at a comparatively trifling expense, as the trans-
lations in the respective languages would make only
a small pamphlet.

Letters have been this morning received in town
irom Surinam,.by a vessel which has arrived off Dart-
mouth, on its way to Amsterdam, of as late a date
as the 3Cds of January. We regret to state, that they
contain accounts of the destruction, by fire, of great
part of the town (meaning, we presume, the capital
of the colony, Paramaribo,) and an immense quan-
tity of produce. No less than 392 houses were de-
stroyed, and the town of Paramaribo did not contain
more than about 800. The loss must have been im-
mense, and the accounts do not state whether any
part of it is'insui ed.
Since waiting the preceding, we have received the
following extract of a letter from Captain A !FLECK,
of the ship 'The Sirivcr,"which has arrived off Dart-
mouth I am extremely sdrry to inform you of the
almost total destruction of the town of Paramaribo,
by a 6re which happened on the 21st of January.—
Three hundred and ninety-two houses, and including
=Fes and back buildings amounting to a thousand,

e~ .r

were Teduced to ashes. The loss is estimated -st
twenty millions of guilders (Surivam curreocy)."

The AMITY is arrived from America in Carcligita
Bay. She sailed oa the ltoth February, but the pal
pers, the dates of 4vhich will be twenty-six days later
those last received, have not yet arrived in town.

A packet from the Leeward Islands has arrived
with advices from St. Thomas's to the 19th Jan.

" ST. 711011.keS, lAN. 18.

" Until the beginning of the present month there has been
moth activity en ear markets, caused by the shipments medi-
tated for Terra Firma, which was considered a favourable omen
(or trade in general, but, contrary to expectation, the move-
ments were then suspended. According to the best accounts
from the Main, we learn that the arrival of• the Spaniels squad-
ron of three frigates, with some smaller vessels of war, having
the Commissioners from the Certes on board, has destroyed the
confidence of the two parties to so great a degree, as to render
doubtful the continuance of the armistice, and the opinion here
is, that it will be broken before the expiration of the term.
This opinion has been strengthened by the verbal report of the
Captain of a vessel which arrived yesterday from Porto Cabello,
with a cargo a mules, who says that all parties—the Spaniards,
the Creoles, and the Patriots--we in estate of disunion, and
I regard each other with temente jealousy."

The New Tariff has beets received from Russia
and we are sorry to say that it is more unfavourable
even than was apprehended. The duty on the import,
of manufactured Sugar is adiranced to a rate that
will operate as a prohibition. This is the consequence
of our. exe.lusion of Russian coarse Linens from the
United Kingdom: Ifaxaccon, FraarAar .
News from St. Petcrsburgh, containing the folloirlog extract
'front the New Tariff, has been received, by express:

" hamar Durv.—Rum, and alt kinds of Brandy, 20, 50, and
40 R. according to tie strength, from 10 deg. and under la 15
deg. and above; Silk goods, -4
R.S. per lb. Wines, in kW:. 50
R.S. per Mid. ditto, in bottles, 40 copecsper bottle; refined Su-
gars, 4k R.S. per pond; raw Sugars, 1 11.8. per pond."

Yesterday morning, Mr. MASH, of the LORD
PHAMBERLAIN's Office, left town for Windsor, to
make arrangements at St. George's Chapel for the
opening of the Royal Mausoleum, for the reception
of the remains of the late Princess ELIZABETH, the
daughter of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCP.
The interment is expected to take place on Saturday,
in the most private mahuer. The Royal Family take
the most feeling interest in the affliction and loss of
the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE. The Duchess
of KENT, accompanied by the Princess FEODORE, ar-
rived at Kensington Palace yesterday morning, at
eleven o'clock, from Claremont. Soon after the Du-
chess proceeded, in her town carriage, to pay a visit
of condolence to the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE,
at their'residence in the King's Palace, St. James's.
The Duchess of Karr was there met by the Duchess
of GLOUCESTER and the Princess SOPHIA, who re-
mained with the afflicted Duke and Duchess a con-
siderable time. The Duchess of KENT returned In
the evening to Claremont. The inquiries after the
state of the Royal Duke and Duchess .‘ ere very nu-
merous. The answers to them were, their Royal
Highnesses were as well as 'could be expected.
Lady Horns went into waiting on her MAJarry
yesterday, for three months. •
The Quazu, in order to evince her high sense of
Lady ANNE HAMILTON'S attachment to her NIAJZs-
TY.S person, has appointed her Mistress of the Robes,
being the highest honour which her MAJESTY can
confer upon her.
The Morning Post contains the following para-
graph. The friendship which this Paper has uni-
formly shewn to the cause of her MAJESTY, makes
its authority not the very best we could wish for so
important a communication, the style of it is at all
events manifestly overcharged :
4' The Qin= has sent a ktter to the Earl of Lwcaroot. in
which we understand she expresses high satisfretion at the annuity
of £50,000 per annum having been granted to her without too
party spirit. She is also glad that the liING'S Speech untied her
in such agrecab'e terns! and hves that her name sill yet he re-
stored to the Liturgy, as she finds that the omission would be
very prejudicial to her abroad."

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East-Inclia House, when the following ships were
thus timed, viz.

Albion, Captain C. WCILEIL. for Madras and Bengal, to be
afloat the 17th Aprll, and to LIB on ha voyage on the 17th May ;
Kingston, Captain W. A. Bowss ; Barovsa, Capt. 11. 'lemma-
sos; and Florentia, Captain S. lisattacrow, for Bengal; to be
atom 17th May, and to sail on their voyage Ithit June.

A match was made on the 26th of February, for 100 guloeas
a-side. between Mr. Theobald'i Mat.•'-th'-Mint, carrying
6st. 71b. and Mangle Weasel, carrying 6s. over the two-milel
Course at Epsom, on the day the Oak Stakes are run for. 'fhe
best of three two-mile heats. Five to four on Mangle Wea:eL
Wanes AT Dsrerozn.—During this week the inhabitants,
of Deptford have been in a very great state of alarm, in conse-
quence of a most diabolical murder which has been committed
on the Lower Deptford-road, it is supposed, during the last
week, but which had not been discovered until last Sunday
morning,when a Gentleman was going along the hank of the canal,
near the Commercial Dock, and he discovered the body of a
man in the water; he gave information to the toll-taker at the
Halfpenny-hatch, and they procured a boat and brought the
body on shore. The skull was found cleaved in two, and the,
brain protruding, as if from a blow of an axe, or a sabre. The
unfortunate man appeared to be about thirty years of age; was
dressed in a blue coat, buff-coloured waiacoat, trowsers, and
boots; but was without a hat; his pockets were turned inside
out, and he wore a bow of white riband on his breast, and bad,
in every respect, the appearance of a Gentleman. Batik, the
Police-officer, has been sent for, and information has been given
to Mr. CASTES, the Coroner, who Was in the country.
Frans—About six o'clock on Sunday morning, a eow.lodge, on
the King's Lines near Brompton, belonging to Mr. FREELAND,
caught fire, and in a very short time was burnt to the ground ;
and, distressing to relate, ten cows and three horses were burnt
to 4eath—four cows were extricated ftpna the flames, but dread-
fully scorched.—Mr. FREELAND was in the lodge, and conjec-
tures that the candle accidentally caught sane loose straw, but
so rapid were the lames, that he had not time to save the ani-
mals; fortunately the stock and premises were insured.
An alarming fire broke out at Mottle), Lodge,
near Colnbrook, on Monday evening, the seat of C.
HoLLas Moxcx, Esq. which consumed the premises
aad a valuable library. It was first discovered at
twelve o'clock in the lower rooms, but how it origi-
nated is not known. The place was destroyed before
assistance could be procured. A youth of the name
of Greenshade had his thigh broken in escaping from
the upper story to a contiguous

Mearaottotrott-srarzr.—A case of a new completion came on
to be beard at this Office yesterday, by an information laid by
stocu,ALl, of Patt-Mall, against Mr. Srenatxti, a respectable
stationer and newspaper-vender in Whitcomb-street, for refusing
to sign a receipt for £l4 and upwards, and paying sixpence for
the said receipt, as required by the sSth of George 11 f. The de-
fendant was fined MO, sad Is. cosi:46lokb be inatuediarly paid-

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