Jeffery the seaman, in whose fate the public have taken so lively an interest is arrived in this country, and was in London on Monday last, when the lords of the admiralty gave him his free discharge from the service; and the friends of Capt. Lake made him a liberal compensation for the hardships he had sustained. He is a good looking young fellow, and confesses he made the for his name, (as appeared in a late affidavit) though he can write; but he says that it is common among sailors to use the cross for shortness. He says he was eight days on the island of Sombrero, during all which time he had nothing but rain water to subsist on, which he drank out of the crevices of the rocks-that scveral vessels passed within sight, but he was too weak to hail them; and that he was in the very last stage of starvation when the American vessel touched at the island. He left town on Tuesday in high spirits, with his money, to see his mother. Some people were after him, to make him exhibit himself for money; but he got his discharge from the service expressly on the condition that he should immediate ly quit London.

Freedom of Election. In an action lately brought in Ireland by Maguire against West, the returning officer of the borough of Downpatrick, for corruptly refusing the plaintiff's vote at the election in May 1807, it appeared that West was the creature of Mr. Croker, the lawyer, and secretary to the admiralty; and that his zeal for this member of his Majesty's government occasioned him to transgress the law of the land. The Seneschals of the borough had ever before been persons of respectability, but, through some influence or other, the defendant, an illiterate common working slater, was ap pointed a few days before the election. Judge Fox, in charging the jury, forcibly observed on this cir

cumstance; and said the defendant had conducted himself as "a low, tricky, wretched instrument, placed in a situation to disgrace the justice of the country, and to execute the plans of his confederates.-Gentle men, the elective franchise is of the highest nature; it should be secured

it should be cherished. If ever suffered to be trifled with, there is an end to our liberties. Should these our dearest rights be infringed, it strikes at the prop, the foundation of our glorious constitution, which, thus sapped and mined must tumble to the ground."-The jury retired a short time, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff, 2501. damages, and 6d. costs.

The justly celebrated Mr. Lancaster is now on a tour to the North, to assist in the establishment of schools. He lately visited Alnwick, by invitation of Ralph Annet Esq. In the evening he delivered a lecture to a respectable company, a committee of whom had been previously formed to establish a school according to Mr. Lancaster's plan. Next morning Mr. L. was invited to Alnwick Castle, by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, by whom he was received with that noble condescension and affability for which his grace is distinguished. The duke's heart, which is ever open to the wants of the poor, was never more benevolently expanded than on this occasion. His grace said, he had been some time anxious to see Mr. Lancaster, and was glad that he bad now the opportunity of forwarding his plans for the education of the poor in Alnwick. The duke expressed himself a warm friend to the liberal principle upon which the Newcastle Lancastrian school was founded, and felt indignant at the insiduous attempt that had been made to bias his mind against its establishment. "No pen nor language," says Mr. Lancaster in a letter from Alnwick to one of his

friends in Newcastle, can express the heartfelt satisfaction this interview has produced. How glorious is it to see the nobles of the land, like the king himself, become the patrons of education and friends of the poor. A school will be established here worthy the house of Percy, the virtues and sentiments of whose duke are more noble than his dukedom."

Vast quantities of Spanish sheep have lately been imported into America, where much attention is now devoted to an improved growth of wool. A farmer at Welmington, in Delaware, has 600 Merinos.

It is a remarkable fact that the whole of the public expenditure of this country during the reign of King William was several millions below our actual expenditure for one year, at the present time. The latter is set down at little short of ninety millions.

Some years back the late Duke of Richmond received a large sum by way of compensation for duties received on coals imported into Londov.-Lord Ormond, it seems, gets now 200,000l. in a similar way for his butlerage on wine imported into the sister island. Some members of "the Corinthian capital of polished society" are thus not a little indebted for their ornaments and dignity to English kitchens and Irish cellars. -One of these "nothing-to-do gentlemen," in a late examination, talked of his sinecure as of a freehold for life; but from the price obtained for relinquishing such estates to the public, whose property they are, it seems as if they were purchased at the full price of freeholds in perpetuity!

At the last Spalding sessions an Irishman was found guilty of stealing from a shop, at Crowland, a pair of small-clothes; for which he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. This imprisonment was a thing which Pat didn't like at all; and with a

very long face he told the justices on the bench, that if they persisted in detaining him in prison, "the devil of a potatoe would his poor old mother get for the winter, for she depended on him to dig her crop, and would be starved if he didn't go!" The poor fellow begged, therefore, that their worships would "do some civil thing to him," and let him be off. The magistrates were amused with the whimsical style of the petitioner, and changed his sentence to a public whipping: whereupon Pat, in a grateful exstacy, thanked them kindly; and he underwent the flogging through the market on the next Tuesday with high good will!

The perfection to which farming. stock is brought in this country has, in no instance, been so eminently conspicuous as at the recent sale (Oct. 11) at Ketton, near Darlington, Durham. The judgment of Mr. Charles Colling in the selection and management of cattle of every description, is generally admitted to be unrivalled. That such is the opinion of the agriculturalists of the North of England, the following list. of part of the first day's sale of cattle, bred by Mr. Colling, furnishes a most decisive proof :

L

299

SCALE OF DISCOUNTS.

Anno 1797

Cathalene, 8 do.

1798

Daisy, 6 do.

Johanna,

1810

241

200

251

688

Beauty,

"I presume this must be the account

Mr. George Barber's sale at Stanninghall, near Norwich, was a few * days since attended by the first graziers and agriculturists in the county of Norfolk, and there was displayed a more than common degree of avidity in purchasing the live stock. Mr. Barber, although occupying only 30 acres of meadow land, for many years past has kept 32 cows, which on an average, have paid 121. per head per annum, and they sold for nearly three times their original cost. The advantages derived from keeping cows rather than bullocks, are too obvious to require any comment. Seven cart horses, 20 years old, fetched, even at that advanced age, 140 guincas-a great proof of the estimation in which they were held.

committee, for the purpose of shewing the rate of increase on their discounts since they bave ceased paying in cash; and from this statement it appears that their discounts have increased since 1797, in the enormous proportion of 688 to 241, that is, that it has nearly trebled its amount! Why this statement was not printed with the other documents I am at a loss to conjecture. If the bank directors were anxious for its being withheld from the public, it proves that they are conscious that under this head of issue at least, they have made profits which they are desirous should not be publicly disclosed.

read what follows in my friend's hand "In another part of the same page I writing.

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on successfully, in the midst of this tremendons war, with a spirit hitherto unparalleled? Is not our revenue productive beyond the expectation of the most sanguine? And are not our public loans procurable on the most advantageous terms to the nation? What cause then have we to laiment over public misery? The ABUNDANCE OF CIRCULATION, which is the great source of opulence and strength, may be attended with some disadvantages; but inforcing any material diminution of that mine of national prosperity, would be a species of political suicide altogether unpardonable." -Vide Sir John Sinclair's pamphlet on the report of the Bullion Commitee.

Sir John Sinclair's opinion in 1797. "Having nothing but paper money in circulation, is attended with disadvantages of a very different nature. In the first place, it is extremely difficult to limit the quantity of paper to be issued and to keep it within due bounds. The coinage of paper money is too great a power to be entrusted either to individuals or those who govern a nation. It is also liable to forgery.

"In Sweden, and in several of the states of America, where paper money has been tried on a great scale, they have found it absolutely necessary to confine it within narrow bounds, or totally to prohibit it; and the consequence of issuing assignats in France ought to be a warning to us to avoid splitting upon that rock on which the other nations have suffered.

"The true plan, therefore, is that under which this country has so long prospered, namely, that of having a due proportion of coin and paper, the one convertible into the other at a moment's notice, according to the pleasure of the holder and this leads me to state the plan of arranging measures for opening without a moment's delay, the Bank of England, which, besides other advantages, will prevent our being inundated with paper, (which must be the necessary consequence of the Bank being shut for the circulation of specie and open for that of paper), and we shall thus be enabled to look our enemies in the face, re-establish our weight and credit on the continent.

"The great object, however, is to open the Bank of England, and to ena ble it to carry on its pecuniary transac➡ tions to the extent which its resources will admit of, on the solid principle of giving either cash or paper at the option of the applicant.-Until that is done, neither public or private credit, nor agriculture, nor commerce, nor manufactures, nor the income of the nation can go on prosperously.

"The Bank was the pivot on which depended the commercial prosperity, not only of this country, but of every other. The failure of any great mercantile house in any part of the contineat, it is well known, has always been feltby the whole commercial world wherever they were situated; and it is only by restoring the credit of the bank, that centre of universal commerce, by increasing its capital and enabling it to confine its circulation within due bounds

and above all, by separating for ever the government and the bank, so that the latter shall not be a MERE POLITICAL ENGINE for the coining and circulation of paper, under the controul and direction of the other, that we can ever expect to see this country restored to its former enviable situation.

"Whilst a fatal suspension hings over the payments of the bank, it will not be in our power to carry on the war, if it must continue, with that vigour and energy which becomes so powerful & country whereas the re-opening of the bank of England, from the effect it must have on the councils of the enemy, would be the harbinger of peace."-Vide Sir John Sinclair's Letters to the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England, with Additional Remarks; published by Cadell and Davies, 1797.

PRICE OF STOCKS. Oct. 35.

Bank Stock, 252 3 per Cent 65

3 per Cent Cons. 665 4 per Cent 824

5 per Cent Navy, 100
Long Ann. 1717
India Stock, 185
India Bonds 23s. p.
Exche. Bills 7s. p.
Omnium 54dis.