The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-01 00:00:00

Tim STATESMAN.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR MARCH

The dry 'weather through nearly the whole of last
month has been favourable to the seasonable pursuits
in apiculture. The frosty mornings have shattered
the clods upon tenacious soils, and prepared them to
receive the seed more kindly than was reasonably to'
by C ted after such a mild Winter. They have also
tended to keep back the young sprouts of the bras.
.sica tribe, which were running fast to flower. The
young wheats retain a healthful colour, and have
not run so much to flag ak the open weather would
lend us to expect. Large breadths of land, that
were originally intended for barley, are preparing
for spring wheat. Many pastures are breaking up for
spring seed. The high price of corn has excited an
extraordinary activity in every department in agri-
culture. Many commons are inclosing. The in-
creasing population, and the growing impediments
to our procuring corn 'from foreign countries, both
clearly prove the immediate necessity of a general
inclosure act.

EXTRACT FROM GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.—" The
EMPER.OR lays on the table four line blue silken
threads, of six inches long, proposed as prizes for
those persons who are to be distinguished by pecu-
liar marks of his favour—the ceremoity is performed
in his MArEsTv's chamber of state, where the candi-
dates are to undergo a trial of dexterity.—The Ess-
rEttoa holdsa stick in his hands, both ends parallel
to the horizon, while the candidates advancing one
by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes
creep under it backwards and forwards, according as
the stick is advanced or depressed—sometimes the
Esteettoa holds one end of the stick, and the first
Minister the other—sometimes the Minister has it
entirely to himself—Whoever performs his part with
most agility, and holds out the longest in leaphg
and cretping, obtains the blue-coloured silk, which
they wear girt twice round about the middle, and
you see feis great persons cthout the Court who are
not adorned with one of these girdles."
At Greenwich Fair on Monday, two young
women of decent appearance, had their legs broken ;
one of them was immediately recognized by her
friends, bat the other remains to be claimed at the
Park Keeper's house, as her friends, from her own
account, were ignorant of her trip to the Holiday
hill.

Yesterday morning, as some soldiers were con-
ducting a deserter along the Old Bailey, the prisoner
attempted to escape, and ran toward Newgate-street.
One of the soldiers levelled his musket and tired, but
fortunately the ball hit a cart passing by at the time,
and did no mischief. The deserter was stopped, and
after considerable resistance, was lodged in Newgate
for temiorary safe custody.
Escaes: molt CLERKENWELL NEW PRISON.—On
Sunday evening, George Smith and Flannagan, two
persons who• were in confinement, charged with ut-
' tering forged Bank. notes, made a temporary escape
from tile above prison by means of forcing their way
i through the ceiling of what is termed the guinea.
room, where they were confined. They by that
means got on the top of tits, prison, and Smith jump-
eta from thence on •a tree, with his irons on. The
turnkeys were on the , alert, and secured the two
Prisoners, and lodged then in safe custody.
During the tremendous gale on Saturday last, an
impressed seaman leaped into the sea from on board
the impress tender, lying in the roads, at Greenock,
with the intention of swimming on shore. The
tender's boat, however, being put out before it was
possible for him to accomplish his 'purpose, he was
retaken, conducted on shore, and lodged in Bride-.
well, us it was absolutely impossible to regain the
vessel. llis good fortune did not forsake him in his
next attempt to obtain his liberty, for, while a party
of soldiers were conductirs him to the boat upon
Sunday, he darted away from the guard, and got
clear oil, to the tko small joy of the crowd, whom
sympathy in his untoward fate, and admiration of
his daring intrepidity, had attracted to the spot.
A t eti.iou, signed by nearly four thousand frame
ork-knitters, of Nottingham and neighbourhood,
has been sent to the PRINCE fleeter, praying for
mitigation of punishment to the men convicted of
frame-breaking, who are every day expected to be
sent off, for fear of a rescue being attempted : a
seljeatit's guard does duty over them : the soldiers
still go to church with their arms.
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Niw CosTeste.—We understand that the altera-
tion in dress is not to be confined to the Army and
Navy, but that the new eta it to be marked by a
change in the costume Of the other" professions.
It is now reported that a material change is to
take place in the habiliments of the Clergy, we
have not heard of what the alteration consists, ex
cept that the now drest for the Bishops is very mg-
niticent, and is adorned with a profusion of gold
lure and suzar-loof buttons.
Yesterday the boys 'of Christ's and Bridewell
1 Hospitals again walked to the Royal Exchange, and
' afterwards, according to annual custom, to view the
decorations of the Egyptian Hall, from which they
I passed one by one with their nurses and beadles
' through the ;rand saloon, whore sat the Lord Mayor,
Lady Mayoress, ke.-order, Sheriffs, &c. Foch of
them received from his Lordship's hand, a sixpence
• or a shilling, according to their merit, with a bun and
a glass of wine ; the former custom of giving them
new-coined limey was revived, all the sixpences
and shillings being new money. The Lord Mayor
i and Sheriffs, accompanied by the Recorder and City
Officers, again went in state to Christ's Church and
heard a Sermon, preached by the Rev. Dr. BorroN,
from the '9th clialt. of Corinthiens, after which they
went and dined at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
What may be reckoned a curious and extraordi-
nary occurrence in natural history happeued a few
days ago iu Leith. A parrot, of the grey species,
,which had been in the possession of its est :ier for up-
wards of twelve years, laid an egg. It had previously
' appeared very tll4l, and, as it • were, overcome with
sickness, but immediately on laying the egg it be-
came as lively as ever I .
• During the meeting of the second list of bankrupts,
,in the New ttoetn, Guildhall, on Saturday last, Mr.
• Williams, a re.specta?ile grazier, and three other per-
.sons, were robbed of their watches. '
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The 'wort Of Mr. RA YKOND havirigbowappnjat-
ed to the management of the New Drary444.,' The-
, atre, in conjunction with Mt. At.xoLat. kviivily i
without fotiodatloa.
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A large seal was found enclosed in the stake nets
at Westwater, Dundee, the beginning of last week,
which, after a severe struggle, was killed, and found
to weigh 18 Stone. It is supposed it will produce
forty pints of oil. Four very fine salmon were
found in them at the same time.
A Ihroitet was veterday held in sureties to keep
the }.Vasco for sending a challenge to a Gnitlenaan of
the tame of Griffin, to fight a duel.
Mr. Villart, a merchant of Berlin, after an illness of some
days. belt* given over by the faculty, died on the £th Frani:try;
hewas laid out, his coffin made' his friends invited to assist in
the funeral rites; they assembled for that purpose on the third day
after hisdleath, and went in a body to take a parting look Wore
the coffin was closed. While they were performing titis melan-
choly ceremony, what was their astonishment to pereei.e the
linen at his feet agitated. Those whose nerves were not quite
overcome by terror, removed it, and in a few minutes had t :e
satisfeetian to perceive symptoms of returning life: the window
was thrown open, the bead reared, and proper things ap lied to
the nostrils. In about half an hour Mr. Villart opened his eyes,
recognised those about hint, but complained of drought and ex-
cessive weakness ; for some days he remained in a doubtful
State, but at length expired.
!fat v.—About tiir end of last week, an itinerant, calling him-
self a clergyman, notified that, on Sunday, he would deliver a
sermon In Altana) Kirk, Scotland, which is in a couipletely
ruinous state. Accordingly, on Sunday morning, a respectable
congregation adetabled, amid, notwithstanding the inclemency of
the wewher, waited for a considerable time in anitious.expectit-
tinn df again hearing the ancient walls res,:und with the voice
of truth. Bat the preacher forgot his promise, and the event
proved the intimation to have been a cruel and impious hoax.
Some of the disappointed audience were of opinion, that the pre-
tended divine was no less a personage than the gentleman in
block, who, about half a century ago, entertained Tam O'Shan-
ter with his skilful performance on the Bag-pipe.
David Thompson Myers, late of Stamford, linen-draper, has
been committed to Peterborongh gaol, charged with hay. tig corn-
mined an unnatural crime in Burghley Park, and wsll take his
trial for the same at the ecsoing Peterborough Sessions.
We feel lunch apprehension of a deal of damage being done
along our ewttern coast, from the dreadful gale a high has, with
dude intermission of violence, been blotting dead on our shore
duce Tharsduy. Already we have to lament, that the I lenry
talliot, Captain Williams, from Liverpool, is supposed to have
gone down, and all hands lost, in standing in for the harbour on
Tuesday noon, as she disappeared from the sight ofa ship about
a leagse a-bend of her, mote suddenly, the sea then rennii,g
mountains high, and she deep coal laden. There is also a ship
front Bat Northward, ashore at Sutton, and an American and
odors tore in the harbour. It is supposed there never was
a more dreadful swell in the Channel than this gale has occasion-
ed, and most heartily do we wish we may not have to record in
a few days the mischiefs of its effects. We understand the pier of
Ilowth bas also suffered consitlerably.—( Dublin Pnper.l

MARRIEI).
On S.iturday last. .T. S. Gregory, Esq. of Coram-street, to
Miss Berrough, of t3ower•street.

DIED.

Yesterday, at his father's house, in Portland-place, John,
the eldest son of T. Murdoch, Lsq.
On the '29th Sept. 1611, at the house of George Arbuthnot,
P.sq. Madras, Captain Wallalll Dawson, of his Majesty's ship
Piedmontaise, aged .2.9.

Finsbury Repository. F.tionury-squitre.
By Mr. HULL.
On THURSDAY. April 9, without reserve, by order of the
Friends of the Purchaser, tut not having completed his Per•

chase,
VVIIITLE JACKET, a Bay Horse, by Kite,
dam hv Valeatine, &c. fur his performances see !tir-
ing Calendar; he swirls 15 hand,. t inehe4, is perfeetl; bound,
n I,ery tuod hunter, quiet to ride with troops, and likely to get
tvaid sio(k.--Nitty be viewed.

Pursuant to an Order of tile High Cowl of Chancery, hearing
date the 9th of March, 1&14, wide in a Cause wherein Jatnes
• Simpson and others are Plaintiffs, and Joseph Gutteridge and
others are Defendants,
FitEEIIOLI) ESTATE, situate in the Grange-
Tkan-rilviZsesn'e dih.ideCcrirttlitir lo,tfavS, u
comPtrirogd as tßetTidvewith
several Food Dwelling-houses and Out-buildings, together with
nearly WM Tan and Lime Pits. Also, a cousiderahle extent of
valuable Building-ground, fronting the Spa-road, and ihe Neek-'
inger ; the wh01..; late iu the possession of Mr. John Uitiersheit,
and beieg part of the Estates of Mr. James Warm., deceit-ed.
Thisaid Evtitte will behold, with the approbation of Samuel
Compton Cox, li.rq, one of the Masters of the said Cumin, at Me
Public Sale Room, in Southamptowbuildings'
I..vudnn, on W YESI/A Y, thelt9th tiny of April, 1814, be-
tween the boors of One and Two u'Llock in the Afteruourt, id
Five Lots.
- Printed Partictlart, with a Plan annexed, may he had (gratis)
at the said Master's Chrimbens.in Southampton-bsildings afore-
said; of Me-en. Crowder, Lure and Garth, Solicitors Fre-
deriv-plate, .Old Jewry; of Me-srs. Westin' awl 10Teesdale,
Fenchnrch-street ; and of Mews. I)river, Surveys's,
Kent-road; or at the Anrtion Mart, Landon.

Important Freehold and Copyist,ld Farms, with pouwattom, at
Ingatestone. Parkith, and Woolen Hills, litisex, and con-
taioing33t) Acres of excellent Meadow, Pastore, ad Arable
Land.
By Messrs. ROBINS, •
At the Auction Mart, on THURSDAY, April 16, at Twelve
ti*Clock, in Five Lots.
'WIVE Valuable and highly improveable FARMS,;
two of a hit It are pleaseutly Dittiale a ithist half a mile of
lagate.tone, and un the Tnrepite2ricatt to Anger, and enialstr
two good FARM-HOUSES, a ith all necessary buildings,
and One Hunched and Twenty-three Acres of remarkable
good Laud. lying extremely compiiet, and within a ring-fence.
Also, tottadmirable FARMS. very plea-mitly situate tit Pursi
leigli, containing 150 Acres of excellent Land, a ith ,uitable
tatm.hoases ar.l buildings; and one very eligible FREEHOLD
FARM, nt Lititigthm Hills, containing new 6) Acres, with
fipm-house and goad buildings; the whole containing about 330
Acres of remarkably rich 'Meadow, Pa,ture, and Amble Land,
Bath (state. being entirely within a ring-truce, and surroatitleti
by excellent Mat ket Towns and goad Turnpike-rauds, and of I
the annual value of tiC7OO.
Thieve Penults have been let•for a term of 42 years ; the least*,
of three are now etpired, and the teinainitig two tat Michael-
may. 1813.
Particulars may he had, twenty-eight days prior to the Sale,
at the Spread Eagle, lngatestaite; Black Boy, Chelmsford;
King's Head, Malden; White liar', Brentwood; White Hart,-
Rumford; the principal lints at Billericay nod Grays; and of
bles,rs. Itobias, Euvect-gardett; where Place of each Estate
way be seen.

I Household Furniture,
I
Patent Organ. by Cleusenti undCri. Gold
Watch, Plate, Paintings, Books. China, Wass, &e.
By Mr. BLAKE. _. •
I TO-1.10!t go w, April Y. and follini ing Day. at Eieveas at his
Ware-rooms, Lombok-street. lireetow id,.
AN Assortmint of 11011SEIIOLD EFFECTS,
ifichidii:x copiial four post and teat bedsteads, patent cbait.
1 bedstead tout toruipue, gorse 'collier bed, and bedding, Brussels
and Kidderminster carpets, pier glasses, mirrors, japanned
sonde-end condi, japonned chant:, double wituled library bunk•
roe. of superior workmanship, stsrethires and bookcases. set
of patent universal -di;iitig talcr,"sidetmar.ls, eight day Obeli,
lamend
patent organ, b% elerueuri and Co. sr ith it complete bond, sonic
j inti"!ib49% by Vanßerkheyden, Murilla, A. Sr ' bbastiui J.
Oritfier, Wootton,
Satoriouso, Itathimmte, W n ilso, &e. a few
1 books, amig which are Lavatrei %rot lo„ Gibbon's ammo
Eriiiiite, Glover's Leonidas,
Cite. also is.qualuity of useful plutef 1
dotal, and gt ss!;. a shower bath, and a variety of coppers% to
ware, and culinary artirlet, and about :LIU dozens of trine
j
bottles. 1
To be viewed tiLl the Sale. and Caskiteils tad at Ike a4llOl. '
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