The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-01 00:00:00

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Nor. 27.

A singular accident occurred at Lochend. near tliig
4y, on Wednesday morning last. IVhille a young mu,
.1 enterily dressed, and riding a valuable young horse,
aus passing by the side of tile-Loch, the animal became
etsrtleil at the water. and on being pushed forward by
the rider, sushi a plunge where the footing was insecure,
when both ware precipitated into the Loch, at its deep-
est p'trt. la this perilous situation. the gentleman
promptly disengaged himself from the stirrups, and,
reaching the bank, succeeded, after a great struggle, in
getting out= the horse.—Although thrown down under
the animal, the rider, we are happy to learn, did not sus-
tain the least injury. Lochend haring been formerly a
quarry, its banks, in many places, are extremely preci7
pitons, where it is least suspected, and the liability to
each aecikihrls consequently great.
On TaiTahey, while a countryman was Wagon' a boll
of meal from his (tart, at a cottage which stands in a park
directll opposite Salisbury Crags, his horse bed
lo,wed s nadvertirottrt• gram, wont over the decKvieflie
the perk, which is very steep, and slid down to the imet-
tom, a distance of 30 yards, without either it or the cart
receiving the slighest damage.
.DUNDIM—In digging up a plot of potatoes in the
garden of Remedies, on the 9th ult. the labourers found,
at a /tingle plant of the white kidney species, no fewer.
than one hundred and thirteen,—an increase which is
very extraordinary, as no mnagement more than
ninth was employed to produce it. So closely wera '
they set about the common root, that the whole were
tamed over at once. They weighed ip all 101 b. 4es.
Fifty-six of the largest gave 91b. doz. ; and the weight
of these singly varied from one to seven ounces.
A turnip was lately pulled on the farm of Lochnta-
loofa, which weighed 471bs. English, and was 43
Inches in circumference. In the same Geld are a number
uf Whips weighing from 30 to 40Ibs.
There is at present is the possession of a gentleman
in the neighbourhood of Perth, a carrot, two feetand a
ha,if in length, sad lei inches in circumference at the
middle.
An uncommonly flit heifer. of the Wes* Highland
breed belonging to Mr. Small, desher, and which had
been fed by him. was killed here last week. The fat
on its breast was 9 inches in thickness, and on the
thinest part of the ribs q. The gross-weight of the
animal was 841 stone. the four quarters weighed 586
stone, and the tallow 3 stone 91b. The trade 'affirm,
e'it beef of a finer quality was never seen in Scotland ;
and, as a proof of its excellence, it met with immediate
sale at is. per lb.
A fire broke out, on Monday week. in' a manufac-
turer's house at earnoustie Pus, parish of Barrie ;
which burnt it to the ground. The accident was oc-
casioned by a girl going into the weaving-shop with
a candle early in the morning, when some. of the oom-
bustible materials curd the dame. The sufferer is
sapposed to have lost nearly 1001. by the accident f but
the inhabisants.of the parish have giaprzueli.colleged
a conederabli sum fop his relief.

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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL nor-vs:..
Our information from the country at present affords
little of novelty. Thedisheartening conclusion ofa sea-
son, most unfchtunate and calamitous to the cultivators
of the soil, is at hand, without the slightest present pros-
pect of relief to the sufferers, or the solace of any cheer_
ful anticipations for the future. The report of the day,
however, goes the length of asserting that actual forma-
tion of a new and powerful opposition party of the landed
interest in Parliament, which it is supposed o'l%ll sup-
position perhaps) will occasion more disquiet,and actual
dodger to Ministers, than all the Whig or Radical bear
eriug of the past times. It has been likewise said, that
the late general temporary abatement of rents has ori-
ginated in an erzoteous policy, which can never answer
one of its obvious purposes; and that a fair permanent
reduction venial, in the end, have better subserved the
interest of both parties. The comparatively small roan-
_ tity-of Wheat which has been well harvested, is said to
he fully equal, in quantity and measure, to the famous
crop of last year. And so extensive was the breadth
sown last season, that the markets will be amply sup-
plied during the ensuing', however ordinary the quality
of the greater part may be. The grand substitute, po-
tatoes, is put down as lialf a crop, of which a great part
will be of a blighted and inferior quality ; and now our
sage, and learned eurb,cet'umrs, in imitation of the ex-
ample of thelr irandsires, they have a new and tine op-
portunity to task their wits for a discovery of the cause
of that disease. Wheat sowing has been well performed
on all forward and good lands ; on those of
,a less fortu-
nate description, from the interruption of too much wet,
it has been an irksome and troublesome operation : in
trutb, farming on such soils more particularly,las been
from early spring to the present month a most irksome,
liarrassing, sod expensive labour; a melancholy addition
to a desperately loosing game. • The early sown Wheats
are very forward end ItixtAisit, and if no frosts come to
check them, will be iiiiiter-prond. Should the moisture
of the atmosphere continue, sheep io the lowlands will
be iw danger of the rot.' Turnips, but with More--foliage
than bulb, and grass in plenty ; but where they have ca-
pital to purchase stock, they cannot entertain any san-
guine hopes of remuneration for their outlay. Machete,
both for the live and dead pommodity, have lbw. pro-
gressively sinking every week since our last' Report.
Thus the farmer and grazier's sheet anchor seem to fail
him. - The remedy of long-continued fendamental errors,
is unbliVpily etpully falai with the disease.
Middlesex, Nov. 2-1,4821.

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4111oe remains Of 'of unfortunate Major Andre, it has
been already stated, were lately removed from the spot
wbere. they were originally interred in the year 1780,
at Ftppan, New York. and brought to England in the
Phaitop frigate, by order of his Royal Highness the
Duke of York. On .T.burstlay the sarcophagus con-
taini4 Major Andros's remains was deposited in front
of rile cenotaph in'. Westritiaster Abbey, which Was
erected by his late Majesty to the memory of this gal-
lant eificor, the re-internova took plate its the most
private manner, the Dean of Westossioster:superhitiond-
ing in person, Major4lempral Bit flerhert
attending on the part of his Rnyatilliithiese the Com-
mitider-im-4.3kiet and Mt. LockieVihe Secretary, to
Greenwich Hospital, ea bawl(
"Wars of the decsasmda , ma 41s,awanItii ;