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tr.d looking again as ths convenience of all parts of tbi 'e kingdom, on which: principle the prefent hour tyas 'fixed, I am fatisfied it is the heft, calculated for general, accommodation lhat it gives to the metropolis ample acid that the -J JBioft. beft, and, propsreft for the difpatch of bujfiriefs the arrival its-mails, leaving to their correfpoDdents in the greateft number of mercantile and rnanufacforing fownsi fuf- time to apfwer by the fame, day's poll, letters of foch imporumce as may require a fyfttrm which I as the bioft perfect for a General and I really believe the inhabitants of Ltondon 'would be of the fame if, before a later hour for the departure of the mails place, they would firfl; try the conve- of an early delivery of thtir letters, i at ten in the morning from the in the. fhmmeir, and eleven in the yintir, with the prefect hour. I hope with you, Sir, that the fpirited (hewn by the gentlemen of the prin- of Wales, in improyh: ir mads, will be folldwed with equal j'r ivhereWr its exertions are it is itiuioft the only obftatle to- the completion of the Pofts; but is even now fo iriuch difregarded in fome parts of. the iingdom, as greatly to retard, that progrefs fo eflential to its I beg leave to fincereft thanks for your obliging exprefiions, and the very varm and cbnftant fupport you have given the plan and to allure you, that I have every reafon to expecf; as foon as it is compleated in all its parts, rny friends will hot be difgraced in the patronage they have honoured it with, nor the public confider ine an unworthy fervant.

I have the honour to be, with the" greateft tfcigeft and efteem, Sir, Your fincere and obliged Humble fervant, fi WAT KIN LEWES J. PALMF-R. The Belmont, Stewart, from is arrived in the River. Capt, Foftsr, of the Duckenfield Hall, from Jamaica, arrived at fpoke tttt Weft Indian, Raffles, from Jamaica to clear of the Windward Paflage. ExtraS of a letter from Bqfton, England, June 22.

It is too true that all trade is at a ftand 'here. Xmuft refer you for particulars to Mr. Willis's letter. We live, however, ia 1 hope of a change. What wonderful things does not time produce elements fight agajnft each -other; the the days vary.

-Hope has never yet, nor ever-fhall forfake me. 'I have quitted the French Iflands, after 15 months there, but without any fuoBsifcin bufinefs. I muft however fpeak veil people; they that ge- nerous hofpitality towards frrangers, of which hiftory only furnifhes fome ancient 'traditions in the fir ft ages of mankind; They are jealous of the point of foaour with regard to perfbnal valour; and the vomens hearts are formed for love I Apropos I'm on the fubject of love, let me inform you that Mrs. Hay ley has again entered the matrimonial ftate. She difpofed of her hand, and I fume her heart, to n.

Mr', jeffery, a. young gentleman of great merit and accomplifh- ments. Cliaplets of fweet-marjoram and of rofes. ciowDs 'd '-the happy couple on their wed-j in a beautiful- Vvanty, were itre wed before was at at an Affembly that the God Cupid did th- lady left behind be finrtrument, which, occafionally exerciies the. office of the the glowing keeps off; the rude beans of the fun The fan was picked, up and given tor the the next day, who accordingly took it to the obliging how polite homme I The heart is formed for affection, and there are no pka ures more lively than thnfe in tikes part.

Thus love, well regulated, is one of the emotions which can affedbit but. when merely exe 'tel by thofe fcnfatiqns which beauty produces, it is no more than one of thofe ridiculous amours where only the Taptnre of the fenfes is dered moment of the foul! delirium or malady of the nsfindl Mrs. mean Mrs. is not a beauty. A forward French cprcomb, on hearing of the match, cried, Ab I FragiUteifi le now de la femme was however very (martly rebuked for his infolence.

The new-married couple live in a very. slegant ftiUvand fee a great deal of com' pany. May I not fay, in allufion to lady," Bleft as th' immortal Gods is he, The youth who fondly fits by ihee Who hears and fees thee all the while Softly fpeak and fweetly fmile The gentleman, poffeffes agood.difpo.U- 1 a large lhare of very good-ferife, 'and a liberal his heart feems wholly fixed on his beloved brides When fix'd to one, JLore fafe at anchor rides 1" Extras of a letter from Aug. 1 7. Friday laft, at a little paft two o'clock in the morning, a flight ihock.

of an earth- lunke was felt ia different parts okthis towa by fcverjl iperfons who to be 1 awake at tlpt hour, and who mentioned it, and deferibed. it fome days prevfous to the arrival of correfpondtng accounts- from the 'i "About twenty minutes pad. two, a gentleman of College Court, found his, attention excited by a low rumbling noife, feemlngly very diftahr, which lafted about three fecends, and-was repeated twice, at tervals. This was followed oy Another very uncommon and mtyrh louder noife, which feerhed to come from: the wainfcotof the North.fide of the room, if occafioned by feme great, heavy, foft body, rubbing violently againft the pannpls in a crofs direclion. A fimilar noife heard at the fame timeby another.gentlemkn Qn.the firft floor, thoughtin neither cafe-was there felt any concuffion.

In a hotife, however, hear the helid of the town, and in another a little above the Crofs, a tremulous motion, accompanied the (hock, which a good: deal alarmed thofe who felt it. In the houfe at as well as at another houfe at Oreenhead, fome tame birds in cages were thrOwh into great confternation, or juft at the time the other fymptoms of the fhock were m'pft remarkable. The weather at this tjme was very ftill and inild, with an uniform cloudinefs all around. A gentleman at Granffemouth obferv- ing, on Sunday laft) that the partitions of his houfe were much fhattered or.fhaken, could hot think how they came to be. fp.

After reading, however, the various accounts of the ihock of an earthqnake, which was fo uhiveriUiy felt yefterday fe'nnight, he has no doubt but thefe appearances muft have been occasioned by the earthquake. The above was diftjniftly felt by feveral perfpns at Inverefk, MufTelburgh, -and 3n0 places in the neighbourhood." ExtraS of a letter from IVofceflcr, Aug. 22 The Hop Officers came downtm Satur-' day, when they received their ftatians, and the picking began in many places yefterday. By the end of the week it will be general here, in and in Salop; and as the flowers are in the beft condition, there is the greateft likelihood that the bufmefs will foon be completed. It is impoEfible to guefs at the quantity." By letters from Marfeilles, dated July -20, We learn, that the plague continues its ravages at Bone on theli.frican coaft, in the territory of Algiers, where about 1 GO per- fons a day have peri(hed.

Hitherto it has not appeared at Algiers, although they have conveyed thither thofe of the garrifons of Bone. It is fuppofed that abovd 244,000 perfons have perifhed at Tunis; of houfes, which have been cleared of their inhabitants by this dreadful fcourge, have been givea to the The which feeiued nearly estimft at Tripoli, has appeared again with new- virulence and this horrid coatagion lays, wafte all- the Levant, A new and bufinefs is coming forward Tefpedling fugars. The Sugar-bakers and Merchants are faid, by a -combination together; to. have advanced the price of fugars about 5 for uiftance, brown fugar that was lately thirty-fix; they now 'demand forty-fix (htlHhgs; for, and all other fagars in proportiori. This! combination Is going great lengths.

MiBifter, fays our correfpooderft, has got' intelligence of it, and is aware of the whole fcheme. He. is preparing to take effeclu'al One ftepthaf he has refolved upon, to the draiaf- i back-upon fr6ni twenty-fix 1 to fourteen fhilKngs: And another ftep Wi be to -open our-ports for- the importation of French fugars, paying only the Epglifh duties, in-order to hreak the combination. The improvement of the fifheries 'is'a. matter of the utmoft confequence to this i nation.

It not. only increafes-our power, but it prevents emigration, promotes induftry, and -the fale of our manufactures, and adds greatly to the revenue, which has been hitherto fwallowed up in the Northern parts of the kingdom; by the expence of the various duties. Anecdote the celebrated Painter, of Sea fieSes artift, eager in the ftudy of nature, made feveral long-yeyages in his. younger years, in; order: to bbferve.the?Ta- rious fcehes which the changeful element exhibits. In one of thefe taken merely for the love oi his araoft violent gale of-wind arbfej' when Verhbt, aUending ii to the' 7 he was furrbunded, defired thcfailors tolaQx-him faft tofome 6f the figging.

Soon after this requeft was granted, the ftorm in- creafed, attended with ning, and with every circumftance that could add to the horror of the fcene, a con- fternation terror-fet on but in every tibn wa'l'Jpff "Tn thatoTadmiration, which fo wholly engrofied his attention, hei every -now and ihen. exclaimed, in enthnfiaftic terms, Good Heavenstf a noble fcene!" A few days ago Dr. Auftin, Profeffo'r o-f Chemiftry in the Untyerfityof Oxford, was- unahinieufly elecled onejof St. "Barthblbmew's tlie rooih of Dr. Caulet, latelydeceafed.

"The Duke of place the intended betteV than irt the for from thence an exaS strait-vlihe Ae grand opening will terminate between 131oomft )ury and this property will xjaproye tweiity years pur- caafe. ExtrdcT tya of the JneftimaUe aV The followtok. of the late proceed-; their i'thai it ippew that every part-of our of the than coaft is teeming yith wtat has already on of the moftvaluabltf fort, an4 we io, uhjuftlyby aft Richard our ifland ourfelves when fupppfe thcfifli- Efo. was riding i eries confined to the any ym hundred peopH 'i part of as whole fwarm with, which he rode up to 'fiffi, and aU-that ip wanting ts geheral They ittfbrmed him, that theV'wereUfwornto merit and affiftAe come there, and Could not taint or violating take and to cure them. Lift feafon three.wherriea their upon which he warnedthieiri directly to difperfei and'that if he iafor'tnatiort of their aliembling in he had the of the edly call them outi.

aiid hended'atid committed to gaol 'y fome -difperfed, and iyere by this time Iwofn 4 qn Ra- in jthe foHowingvWt 4x. they did, to the'ampnnt of. iociq 'and. upwards and Mr. Cox having the'intended meeUng applied' Barti cotamandirig ofitcer at fo the- troops Ihere ready at j' on mOfnirig Mr.

Cok at theharrack at the appointed hour, all olBcers and pri- tatea frorh wliciioe th parched off fo the mountain of about'four roiles-from Csrrick, where-they found above .2000 of thnfe people (ituated 'tpp Cox coming up to. theni, he. exhorted them to- depart peaceably, refoluteiy but did acl riotpuiiyf-and re (army and Whkeboys) 'about a-h hour, when, on a fu abpUri on hdrfeback, rode off to of in the county of dif-1 taht from the mountain, and nbtwithfrandiog -being on hor-feback, and making all expedition theirpdwer, the alihoft'! as foon when they carrid -ttey took. thiitwq' principal them, books in their hands, fmiring all the of jjtbat 0 "nefof them, one Wallh, of hill, a -man iii good both of whom were commuted-' to the gaol Kilkenny. Tdo much praife cannot be 'given-(to this Magiftrate'j and the by jlones' which were thforWd at them) never fifed a finot, or-gave the Aab of a bayonet." Bv the county ofTiyperary we are informed, that on Monday laft a'duel took platie between Mr.

and a Wt, in confequenice of a difpute which arofe at a billiard table fn had the firft miffed his ahtagbhjfl Mr. M'C. fifed, and mortally wounded Mr. K. -(the ball entering hear the groin) notwithftanding which he fired his feebnd piftol, immediately after which he dropjiedj andf fliiortly exculpating with his dying breath, who had fired his fecodd piftol in the Extracl of "a later from: Auguft Yefterday the following exhortation was read from the altars of: the different chapels in this city, after each nuft: rt Dearbrelhrenr We think it incitinbeht qi) us at this particular time, when the cohtiigion of a moft lou's'ahd unprtCedentsa '6o has fpread ra- pidfy from diftant paVts of the kingdom to this county, and diocefe, to declare, as, we do hereby, in the name of God, and the Gathblick church, that'the oath admifiiftered by the wrong -hea4ed anUmifgliided 'wretches, themfelyes Right- boys, is contrary -to the of Al- canons 5f our holy and laws of' the land, afld' of coiirf.

is noj only illegal, but have repeatedly explained this of the church cpneerning combination oaths in and declared'they cannot be jufttfied on anypretext If they think themfelyes aggrieved, they bught to remonftrate to theif fupeiiors, 'whofo inclination as well as duty is, to Hear them patiently, and relieve thetn in cafe their complaints are grounffedit But if, inftead of applying to the' Jultfce' of their -they fliall in th 'etr voura to tbem, b'y by anjuft OathXiand othsr unlawful pro- ffooi being forced foto Black Lod Harbour, by'ftreis of weather, in two nights made up cargoes of fine herrings there, poor natives' had hot a fufpidon there being fim. tidn of heaven, the and'i the extreme rigour of violated deluded or as fhe ei £ci $hle combinati.q^ have fi or doctrine' of the has peen coa- ftant prevailed vpr any duly aittehded to, wUt ty general, arid the pl jpteyftry one are the conffant ODjefts of our teryent. wiih.ea apd prayers. '1 £xira8 if tetter from. Dublin, Several wherries, who! went from Biijhriggen we; raurned with more cargoeB.

of the finllt. ling," to 1 Th.e;ac<:csj»ts eyerV where 1 founiTthqfe fifti fo but off Beerhavtn they difedvefed a bank, which, for pknty-and variety ot difepwred on then-' cargoes were as foil as moft that have aily where, eut had thef arrmd amonth (pOoer oa that "ground, tbey might have doubly loaded- their tcflVli. Th -y ousid' the people of ths coal! Abdiit i month, fince, boy near Ballyr bough-bridge, a fovpurife vdpg, received a Trite from the antoiat, after which, out.examining whether any, fymptoms ox" i-madhefif jhe was About ten days ago tlie hdy foewfcdftt oog fynwitomi fym violence it was found requifite tenoinate bl3 bo Society Ia(l by a. claimantjfor the ptemium for. faving doverifeed, St Jewt.

on fa quantity feedfinan be produced of its being at of We favedi clean for this preminm for eachlof tfiret fotceed- injt years. 3. feimer, Of" a field of ten ajeres and a mfafore, a ftiff day got a good, and ifl May 1784 Srer, at to each acre. AilguiEl the whfca't was reaped, and proved a.good crppv i In tbe beginning "of September folfowingi puton it up until the. when 300 36 hdrfes.were turned into it, be- Stag iute.oded for feeding meep through fon 5- but the fences not befng fit for the purpofe, they frequently t'refpafftd, and were therefore obliged at the end of weeks tqhetaken offi but upwards of fifty horfes were continued on it, until they ate.it barej.which was' at the latter end of May; It was theti picked clean of and "and kept Oa the 17th Auguft it was mowedj put into grars cpeks, and at.

the end of week drawn hoine to the haggard, madeup into' three fmall ftacks well thatchedi which is verynecef- iary. February ij8'6 it Was removed; the threftiing arid what did not now pafsthe. riddle, was a fecond time threlhed and and fent in packs to inill. The mill ftone is fet light, hole of tlie top; ftone is ftopped, that the feed may go between the; kieve'and the. ftone.

Thus flielled, it was Ijrought home and wiiii nowed and fuch of the hulls as were not were fent back to the mill; add on return were winnowed. It was nowjjaflfed thrpugh a fieve ai oatmailfieve, andanjhnus whichwoulil hot pals, were kept for the farrtier's own afc, ai they anfwered well for fowing. The ftrawnot fife eattlei partly ufed to Utter horks, and partly ftacifcd be occafidnaUy ufed firing, being fothid to potatoes iii a much tinie tbari jprr other Fuel; it makes a mnch warmer fire tbap The clean feed tbus fovedi weighedJbrty three hundred weight." m31er, by agrcte) ment, received five fiiQItngs for each, cwti nett- the feed produced eiclufive of the premttUo, five guineas per cwtj being of a vetjy iSrie Quality, and, dearer this year than ufual, This claimant had better greater produce per abrej than any otheri. and declared he beheyed.it would have produced ftill been originally defigned to be kept up for feed. A Tew days ago, the brig Sally; SniaaV ton, arrived at Waterford, full laden from the Gfeat-bank of Newfoundland.

She is the firft veflel this feafon that has arrived in ariy port froui the fifttery." Extras of a Utter (fck. dug.ifc a hupiber to the number of 6CS0; auenibled at the church, of Kilmichael, -armed with gunsi fwords, pikes, iron crows, itad fledges, and after many outrages, came t6 the houfe'of Mr. James Good, of ArnaneeiH indhftrious' whh; a very large family, and after deftroying riioft Qf bis effecksj eu- tirely pulled down his-houfe. fortunately was not at hoaife, o.t he would have heen'mftrSefed. turned put with feven fihall wtiere they Friday two were 5 by party- of comirfandtfit tended 'the for fix 1 'imaer fome ftppteherifioa of a attempt wji.

mlde, $he i the -1 rj led rat and fir privates of tag to oVr iuftSa itttacked bf aficive WhitSbotihea viotently bjr tbe 'J and ohttged fo foreoathem tKeyv ftot dead, wouiided tedfafely the EvstraStf from DabUtty tj. hay Hera-iffoca by -QoVetitmeaty our girnfon, to march tewardt io order to put a the tumialtiMiMM of the fofttrgeftU ka bv theimutxi three troops of the 4th det the Captain Purdcn, fet o(F for.