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labour might be directed, both with present and permanent advantage; and it can scarcely be necessary to declare, that in cases of this nature, it will afford peculiar satisfaction to the Committee, not only by their funds, so far as their resources will allow, but also, by their established connections and correspondencies, to forward the accomplishment of such useful undertakings. On the whole, the Committee are persuaded, that the liberality of the Public, judiciously applied, in aid of such plans as shall be locally adopted, may produce extensive and beneficial effects, in multiplying the occupations, supplying the wants, and diminishing the sufferings of their fellow-subjects during the present severe pressure.

On these grounds the Committee now confidently appeal to the known benevolence of the Public, and venture to request that the desired assistance may be granted with that distinguished liberality which has often relieved the sufferers of other nations, and with that promptitude which the present exigency so urgently requires. At the General Meeting, at the City of London Tavern, His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Chair:

RESOLVED,

THAT there do at this moment exist a stagnation of employment, and a revulsion of trade, deeply affecting the situation of many parts of the community, and producing many instances of great local dis

tress.

THAT from the experienced Generosity of the British Nation, it may be confidently expected that those, who are able to afford the means of relief to their fellowsubjects, will contribute their utmost endeavours to remedy, or alleviate, the sufferings of those who are particularly distressed.

THAT subscribers of one hundred pounds of the Association for the Relief of the and upwards be added to the Committee Manufacturing and Labouring Poor; that the said Committee have full power to add mittees for correspondence or other pur-to its number; and to form Sub-Composes.

Westminster be requested to receive SubTHAT all the Bankers of London and scriptions for the Fund.

YORK be humbly requested to accept the THAT His Royal Highness the DUKE OF grateful thanks of this Assembly for taking the chair on the present occasion.

W. G. CARTER,

Temple Chambers, London.

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"Windsor Castle, Aug. 9.

health, and has in general been very tranquil "His Majesty has enjoyed good bodily during the last month; but there is no change in his Majesty's disorder."

(Signed as usual.)

The following Official Circular is now issuing from the War-Office:

have declined paying to the Representa"It appearing that Regimental Agents tives of deceased Officers the balance due to the Officers at the time of their death, taken out within the See of Canterbury, I except upon Letters of Administration, remitted to you from abroad, may be paid am to apprize you, that such balances, if under Administration taken out in any part of the United Kingdom.

(Signed)

"PALMERSTON."

Addressed" To Agents."

to be issued, sanctioning the new coinage: Ata late Council an order was agreed upon also orders for new seals for the Colonies, in consequence of the late addition to the Hanoverian arms.

THAT although it be obviously impossible for any association of individuals to attempt the general relief of difficulties affecting so large a proportion of the public, yet that it has been proved by the experience of this Association that most im- June 31, at Woolwich, for 836 pieces of An order was received on Wednesday, portant and extensive Benefits may be de- ordnance to be shipped for Canada. ¿Conrived from the co-operation and correspondence of a Society in the Metropo- has been advertised for, in the following veyance for these, and some other stores, hs, encouraging the efforts of those bene-Notice issued from the Transport Board: volent individuals who may be disposed to associate themselves in different districts for the relief of their several neighbourhoods.

THAT a subscription be immediately opened, and contributions generally solicited for carrying into effect the objects of this Association.

"Transport Office, July 31, 1816.---Wanted 5,200 tons of ordnance stores to Canada. conveyance of the under-mentioned stores, viz.

"Tenders to be received on Saturday, the 3d
of August next.”

able sensation in the city, in which it was
This intelligence excited a consider-
considered as bearing an hostile aspect.

PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON TYTHES. 1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that it is expedient to enable ecclesiastical proprietors of tithes to grant leases thereof, so as to bind their successors under due regulations.

2. That it is the opinion of this Committe that the term of such leases should not exceed fourteen years.

3. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that such leases should only be granted with previous consent of the patron and the Bishop of the diocese.

4. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the consent of the Bishop should not be given until he has been furnished with a certificate upon oath, by a competent surveyor to be named by such Bishop, and to be paid by the contracting parties, that the tithe rent or composition proposed, is a fair and just equivalent for the tithes so to be leased during the term to be granted.

5. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that such leases should only be granted to the proprietors of the land.

6. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that in any new law to be enacted for this purpose, it would be expedient to define who should be considered the proprietors of the land for the purpose of taking such leases.

7. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the leases to such proprietors of lands should be appurtenant to, and run with the land in the nature of a real covenant, and that the occupier under leases now existing shall have the option and the right, on a notice within a year after the date of the lease of the tithes, of retaining the tithes during the continuance of his lease in the land, on payment to the lessee of the tithe rent, or a just portion

thereof.

the rent not paid, nor sufficient distress found upon the premises.

11. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the tithe proprietor should not be restricted from recovering the tithe rent or composition by due course of law, in the same manner as he may now recover the value of or composition for tithes, where substracted.

12. That it is the opinion of this Commit tee, that a general form of a lease or grant should be framed; and that no stamp duty should be payable on such lease or grant, unless the tithe rent or composition exceed pounds a year.

13. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the lay owners of impropriate tithes, being tenants for life and for years, determinable or a life or lives, or tenants in tail or tenants in fee, 'subject to be determined by executory devise or shifting use, have the like power of leasing such tithes for any term not exceeding 14 years.

14. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that a like power be given to all corporate bodies, whether lay or spiritual, being owners of impropriate tithes.

15. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that no lease shall be valid to bind the successor, reversioner, or remainder man, where any other cousideration is given than the annual tithe rent or composition declared in such lease.

16. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the power of leasing tithes, as it at present by law exists, should not be taken away or diminished. June 18, 181

FINANCES.

The permanent Taxes for the week ending August 2, 1816, exceeded those in the corresponding week of 1815 by £1,074; but the amount in the whole quarter 8. That it is the opinion of this Commit-ending August 2, 1816, was less than that tee, that in case of a voidance of the living, by death or otherwise, a proportion of the rent should be paid to the incumbent, or his representative, up to the time

of such voidance.

9. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the said tithe rent or composition should be recoverable by distress, as if the same were a rent charge upon the lands; and that the lessee of the tithes shall have a remedy by distress, against the occupier agreeing to retain the tithe.

10. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the tithe proprietor should have the option of avoiding the lease, in case the tithe rent be in arrear for three calendar months, after notice in writing demanding the same from the lessee, and

of the corresponding quarter, in 1815, by £184,451,: the decrease in the War Taxes in the period ending Aug. 2, last, has been nearly £1,200,000, which arises from the abolition of the Income Tar and of the War Malt Tax.

By an Act of the last Session of Parliament chap. 58, a penalty of 2001. is imposed on any brewer using sugar, or any ingredient whatever, but malt and hops, in the process of brewing. A penalty of 5001. is also imposed upon druggists, or any person whatever, selling to a brewer any ingredient of any kind, to be used in the process of brewing.

Erratum. p. 864. line 15, for every bushel of malt, read quarter.

The Weather.

His Royal Highness the Duke de Berri | get go'd, and fearful of keeping the bankhas subscribed 2001. to the fund for the er's notes, have got all their little savings relief of the distressed poor in England, in silver. with an intimation that he will give a monthly contribution of 501. till the spring. ents of a Bath Paper gives from the Me-One of the CorrespondThis is a very noble and princely donation, morandum Book of an ancestor, the foland has justly claimed general approba-lowing record of a harvest, the earliest, tion, and shows a generosity of disposition perhaps, ever known in this country:— which may counterbalance a multitude of those foibles which, perhaps falsely, have been ascribed to his Royal Highness.

Enormous French Mortar.

It must be in the recollection of most of our readers, that the French generals used, at the siege of Cadiz, mortars of a larger size than were ever before seen; being unfit for the purpose of throwing shells, the shot were filled with lead; when it was found they carried a distance of three miles over the bay into Fort St. Mary. One of these mortars, which weighs 1300 cwt. was brought to England, and lodged in the arsenal at Woolwich, where a model of it was made and sent to the Prince Regent. The exhibition of this extraordinary instrument of war has been delayed till a suitable bed of brass was made for it to be placed in this has recently been completed, with appropriate military and national devices. After due consideration it has been resolved to place this extraordinary instrument of war on the parade in St. James's-park, near the iron railing, exactly opposite the centre arch or carriage way of the Horse Guards.

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It was opened to public view during the salute fired in honour of the Prince Regent's birth-day, on the twelfth of August; and has since that time been visited by great numbers of people.

Hoarders of Silver.

The wife of one of the Church-wardens of Monmouth was lately thrown into consternation, on being informed that the silver in general circulation was mostly of a spurious nature, and would not be taken at the Mint in exchange for the new coin: the fear of a great loss induced her to communicate a secret she had long kept, that by saving and hoarding of shillings she had accumulated the amount of £500.

A shopkeeper and neighbour of hers found also, upon the like report, upwards of £100 in silver, although both had frequently been unwilling to accommodate their customers with change, expressing, in loud terms, their wonder what was gone with all the silver, and their apprehensions that, like the gold, it would never return again. There are instances of servants, also, who, unable to

King George, it so came to pass by the sea"In the year 1718, being the 4th year of sonableness of the weather that wheat was reapt at Saltford, near Bath, on the 10th day of July, and much more about Bath, knew in all my life, who am now in the S or 4 day after, which was what I never 75th year of my age.

ANTHONY ELKINGTON.”

STEAM BOATS.-An excellent idea has been suggested, to make the powers of steam safer and more available-namely, to construct a compact vessel to contain nothing else but the steam engine and apparatus, and accommodation for two men to work it-this vessel, to be called a steam dragger, acting like a team of horses on the water, to be hired out and employed in dragging vessels of any size up and down rivers, out of harbours and bays, when land-locked.

CLOTH.It is a circumstance deserving remark, that although the price of wool has fallen to what it was nearly twenty years ago, and the manufacturers are not able to give employment to their workmen, yet the sellers of cloth and the tailors in general, keep up their prices as if the article remained at the prices it brought six years ago.

Lord Mayor's Excursion.

The Lord Mayor of London arrived at South End, on his route for Rochester. Four hundred tickets had been issued; and about 200 gentlemen and ladies sat down to an excellent dinner at the Royal Hotel; and in the evening there was a most splendid bail, and the dancing was kept up until six o'clock the following morning. Ou coming ashore, the Lord Mayor's trunk, with all his apparel, was missing, but it was shortly afterwards picked up at sea; a lady, in his Lordship's suite, was less fortunate; a box, with elegant dresses, jewels, &c. was washed overboard, and lost.

A Society is forming at Deal, to be called "The Fisherman's Friends," for the purpose of curing herrings, according to the Dutch method, for home and foreign consumption.

As much salmon arrived, in one or twe days of last week, at Billingsgate, from Leith and other places, as, at only 4d. per

lb, would sell for 10,0001.-Salmon was sold in Thames street at 24d per lb. to carry round the country.

we may hope to see that lately dreary tract clothed in the green livery of the woods, and luxuriant fields of corn growing where once appeared the Log and mire. The roads are greatly improved.

Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

PILCHARD FISHERY. Many shoals of fish have appeared along the Cornish coast, but hitherto with only partial success to the fishermen. In the present dearth of employment, it is most desirable that these the 17th July, in the consecration of á A very interesting scene took place on fisheries should be prosecuted to the ut: chapel built in the Forest of Dean, Cloumost extent, not only from the healthfulcestershire through the exertions of thê food they afford to the lower classes, but the advantages given to various tradesmen in providing the necessary articles for carrying them on.

In the night of Monday week, the Flora of London, which had just taken in her cargo from Nesham and Co.'s staith, at Sunderland, blew up with a terrible explosion. The deck-beams were broken, and the decks completely torn up, with considerable other damage. This accident is supposed to have been occasioned by a boy going between decks with a lighted candle, by which some carburetted hydrogen gas, arising from the inflammable state of the coal, was ignited.

A party of Gentlemen, consisting of the principal inhabitants of Burslem, and its vicinity, dined together on the 26 ult. in commemoration of cutting the first clod of the Grand Trunk Canal, by the late Josiah Wedgwood, Esq. being the 50th or jubilee year of that event. Enoch Wood, Esq. was called to the Chair, and in the course of the evening addressed the company in a very eloquent speech, containing much curious and interesting information on the subject of earthen-ware; he exhibited several specimens, the production of different periods within the last 150 years, which he bad selected from his Cabinet of Antiquities, and which afforded much gratification to the company.

Sporting-The wet season is said to have been very destructive to the broods of partridges; but those of moor game have flourished, and are in great abundance. The pheasants, rabbits, and hares, have all bred well, and the different rabbit warrens were never known to shew a more abun

dant stock.

The operations of the Inclosure Act are making rapid progress on the Forest of Delamere, in Cheshire; immense numbers of oak, and other forest trees, are already planted-farm houses are erecting-and the walls of the new parish church are rising some feet from the foundation. considerable quantity of the inclosed land is laid down in wheat, oats, barley, turnips, clover, &c. and thus, in a few years, VOL. IV. No. 24. Lit. Pan. N. S. Sept. 1.

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Rev. J. M. Procter, who, after labouring amongst the poor miners and colliers for 12 years, has the satisfaction of seeing his unwearied assiduity blessed in an established Church-the first place of worship ever knowu in that large tract of extra-parochial land. The sacrifices which have been made for the attainment of this national object, though many, were borne with the utmost cheerfulness.

Chepstow Bridge was opened on the 24th ult, amidst the acclamations of thousands of spectators. The foundation stone was laid on the 13th of April, 1815; and the work has been completed in a period of less than fifteen mouths and a half.

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SCOTLAND.
Earthquake,

About 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, Aug. 13, a violent shock was felt in Scotland, extending from Inverness, through Forres to Aberdeen, and thence to Perth, slightly at Glasgow, and more slightly at Edinburgh and Leith. The accounts vary as to the duration: one from Aberdeen says, it lasted six seconds; from Forres, 20 seconds; at Inverness, the concussion lasted a minute, and there it was most violent.

The walls of houses could be observed to shake, and alarmed the people very much. The streets were crowded to excess; every out, a glow of heat was very seusibly felt, person hurrying to the fields. On going 20

resembling that ou approaching a baker's oven. The appearance of the atmosphere was calm and serene, and nothing could be noticed that indicated a convulsion of this nature. No serious accident happened here; several chimnies have been thrown down, but fortunately no lives were lost.

skins are slways sleek and silky-they are fat and beautiful. The moment they be. come dry they are sold to the butcher, for whom they are highly fit. The owner has a man or two travelling about the country purchasing new ones, coming into milk; the owner, too, keeps a farm, which the Perth, Aug. 15.-The effects of the cows' manure enables him to dress well. shocks were in some places so violent, as In this way the business goes on like clockto shake the windows, and cause a rattling work, it being but secondary to his weavnoise among the slates. Persons in bed felting trade, and has gone on for eight years a sensible agitation, or rather concussion in -no bustle, no confusion; and he sells his an upward direction; and if the bed hap-grass milk for half the price the Londoners pened to be in contact with the wall, a sell their nauseous mixture, though land lateral shock was also felt. In some is dearer around Glasgow than around houses, the chairs and tables were moved London. backwards and forwards, and even the bells began to ring.-Birds in cages were thrown down from the sticks on which they were perched, and exhibited evident signs of fear. A hollow rumbling noise was heard by different individuals, which seemed to die away in the west. The air at the time was clear and serene. Similar effects were perceived, about the same time, at Dunkeld, in the Carse of Gowrie, and Strathearn.

Dornoch, Aug. 14." The arches of the mouud fell yesterday about three o'clock by the shock of an earthquake, whieh never happened in this country before. The mound above alluded to was lately tbrown across the Little Ferry, the boundary betwixt the parishes of Dornoch and Golspie, in the county of Sutherland, about three miles from the mouth of the Frith. This mound consisted of three arches at the north end, and was rather more than half a mile in length."

Cowhouse: exemplury.

IRELAND.

Religious Institution. "The Hibernian Bible Society has upwards of sixty branches in different parts of Ireland, and circulates bibles and testaments only. The Primate (the Archbishop of Armagh) is Patron of the Society; he has been a most steady friend and a liberal contributor to it. The Sunday School Society for Ireland affords assistance to 350 schools, containing 38,598 children; and is patronised by the Lady Lieutenant (the Duchess of Dorset), and by the most respectahle characters in Ireland. The Hibernian Society has established a great number of schools, chiefly in the counties where Roman Catholics abound, and affords daily instruction to near 19,000 children.-The association for discountenancing vice, and promoting the knowledge and practice of the Christian Religion, distributes bibles, testaments, religious tracts, and prayer-books; affords aid to parochial schools, and grants premiums to children, for good answering in the truths of religion and scripture history. This association is supported by the whole body of the Clergy, and has had a very extensive and beneficial operation in Ireland."

PARLIAMENTARY

Chap. V.

HISTORY.

Military Interference; Army Estmates; Buonaparte's Detension, &c.

House of Lords.

In Glasgow, one of the curiosities shown to strangers, and one of the greatest curiosities in Britain, is a cow-house, set up on his own plan by a Mr. Buchannan, an old but a very skilful and successful master weaver. In this cow-house are kept constantly about 300 cows in the neatest, most cleanly, and healthy order. The house (one room) is a square building, the roof supported in the centre by iron pillars. The floor is boarded, washed clean and sanded. April 5. Conversation on the subject Small long stages, about a foot above the of impediments to the public passing in floor, are erected, each containing perhaps the streets, occasioned by the military about twenty cows. These stages are just placed to secure the streets along which as wide as the cow is long, and behind the company was proceeding to Court. The cow is a trough to carry away what falls Earl of Essex and Lord Milton had been from it. They are kept two and two to- stopped in Pall-mall by one of the Life gether, are fed regularly with grass of some Guards, who refused to give his name, or kind, and watered; women attend upon that of his officers: no CIVIL officer was at them and groom them as men do horses, hand. After much discussion, in both but during the nine months they are in Houses, the affair ended by a promise of milk they change their situation. They the Home Secretary of State, that, in fulive upon six square feet each, yet their Iture, whenever the military were employed

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