MARKETS. Average Prices of CORN through out ENGLAND, for the week ending Dec. 18. Wheat Rve Per Quarter. S. d. 65 11 | Oats S. .... 24 42 42 8 Beans. Barley 42 5 Peas 48 .... Corn Exchange, Mark Lane. d. 0 7 Beans, and Peas, from Essex and Kent, but there is very little Corn fresh up from other parts. There was an eager demand for fine Wheat this morning, and advances were obtained for such to the extent of 3s. to 4s. per quarter on the terms of last Monday, and all other qualities partake of the improvement. The Barley trade is very lively, and 91s. to 2s. per quarter higher than this day se'nnight. Beans that are dry command an advance of 1s. per quar Quantities and Prices of British ter. Boiling Peas are 2s. per quarter Corn, &c. sold and delivered in dearer. Grey Peas are rather higher: this Market, during the week ended Oats sell more freely than last week, Saturday, Dec. 18. and they are advanced 1s. per quars. d. ter. Flour is 5s. per sack higher. 43 9 Bonded Wheat is 4s. to 5s. per quar.27 7 ter dearer. £. 5. d. Qrs. Beans.. 1,295.... 2,751 10 2,387.... 6,587 1 .38 0 3....... 42 5 5..........55 2 Total Quantity of Corn returned as | Carlow, 100s. to 102s.; Waterford, Sold in the Maritime Districts, for 96s. to 98s.; Dublin, or Limerick, the Week ended Dec. 18. 95s, to 98s.; no Dutch; some inferior Foreign, at 90s. to 100s. COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c. Norwich Castle Meadow, Dec. 24.-Christmas Day falling on our market day this year, we were thinly supplied with Stock of all kinds, and for what appeared there were but few buyers. In the Meat market there was a good show of prime Beef, Mutton, and Fowls :-Beef 61d. to 8d.; Mutton 6d. to 7d.; Pork 6d. to 8d.; Geese 10d. to 12d.; Turkies 12d. to 14d. per lb. Horncastle, Dec. 24.-Beef, 6s. 6d. to 7s. per stone of 14 lbs.; Mutton, 5d. to 6d.; Veal, 6d. to 8d.; and Pork, 6d. to 7d. per lb. At Morpeth Market, on Wednesday, there was a good supply of Cattle and Sheep, and there being many buyers, fat sold readily at last week's prices. -Beef, from 5s. 6d. to 6s. 3d.; Mutton,, 5s. 10d. to 7s. per stone, sinking offal. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET. Tuesday, Dec. 21.-The importations of Grain having increased somewhat considerably since Tuesday last, the demand was very heavy throughout the past week, although Wheats were offered at a decline of 4d. to 5d. per 70lbs.; Flour 9d. to 1s. per 280lb.; Oats 2d. to Sd. per bushel; Oatmeal 1s. per 240lbs.; Barley of each description, 3d. to 6d. per 60lbs. ; Malt 3d. per bushel of nine gallons; and Beans 2s. per quarter from the prices of this day se'nnight. Yesterday, however, some sales were made on fine new Irish Wheat and Oats, on rather improved terms; and at this day's market sales to a limited extent were so much better effected on Wheat and Oats as to reduce the decline upon the former 2d. and on the latter only 1d. per bushel. Imported into Liverpool, from the 15th to the 22d Dec., 1824, inclusive: -Wheat, 8,673; Barley, 2,520; Oats, 18,842; Malt 650; Beans, 515; and Peas, 73 quarters. Flour, 2,627 sacks, per 280 lbs. Oatmeal, 1,459 packs, per 240 lbs. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended Dec. 18, 1824. .64 6. 41 8....21 4 2... 26 1 5....23 4 North Wales South Wales .62 7....38 1....19 9 * The London Average is always that of the Week preceding. VOL. 53.-No. 2.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1825. [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Seven o'clock. TO THE KING. Before I proceed to the subjects of my Letter, as above stated, I deem it right and proper LETTER III. again to remind your Majesty of the fatal consequences of your advice which I had the honour to On the prosecution of Mr. O'Con- Ministers not having followed' the nell; and on the great danger of suffering the Orange-Fac-address to your Majesty upon two tion to continue to trample on former occasions. I am aware of the people; and on the nccesthe old charge of egotism and of which "the Church blished in Ireland. is esta sity of repealing the laws by repetition; but, as to the former, mine is a singular case, and exempt from ordinary rules; and, as to the latter, boys are continually becoming men, and, therefore, they ought to be informed of SIR, Kensington, 6th Jan. 1825. I BEG your Majesty to be as- the past as well as the present. sured, that I do not make use of BURNET wrote " your name upon these occasions in order to show that I dare do it, and in order to put you, as far as letter-writing goes, upon a level with common men. I make use of t in the hope that it will tend to make my readers more attentive, and, at the same time, not without some hope, that, by some means or other, it may tend to cause this Letter to reach the hand of your Majesty. a history of his cun time": what, then, ought I to do! How much more complete, of how much more importance, is the REGISTER than any history, of any similar space of time, that ever was written! The first of the two occasions, to which I have just alluded, was the commencement of the late war with America. The pages of the Register will tell with what zeal I laboured to prove to your Majesty C Printed and Published by C. Clement, No. 183, Fleet-street. 3 |