North Wales Gazette

For the North IVeles Gazette. Eughin yn goffdd am ycÛfyddgar ddysgedig Fardd Leteis Morys Yswain, a elvcid Lewis Slcn. Cymwysyn Fedd-argraph iddo Daearwyd Lewis diriou—ab Morys Yn M-arian yr eigion tlwniawdd Ef gynt ganeuon Clau eumaau teg. clyramaa ida. S. LLEYW.

LIN ES To the Memory of Mrs. V/iliiams, «f Fron, Flint- shire, lately deceased. JTow deep, how painful is the mourner's sigh, It is cheek how pale, how sadly fixM his eye Yet grieve we must, the price of life to pay, As crosses thicken, or as friends decay; As link by link the social ties depart, And Heav'o aloue has int'rest in the heart. Then all to -rief are born? 0 lot severe! jpvn no-w the mmecortfirms it with a tear, Weep* -( ')'er tbt' hallow'd verse to friendship due. And (must it ?)'to brightest merit too. A las! it must; for in the silent grave She sl< ens, whom uot the truest worth could save, Ani! ah the day,* that »ave her bridal charms In hloom of beauty to a lover's arms, In fatal sound returning seard her doom, .And gave her ripe in virtue to the tomb. And is she pone, whom nothing can redeem, A husband's fondness,-cor the world's esteem ? Kor all a husband's pangs ? but eease my strain, Thy plaint forbear:—her virtues shall remain By inein'ry long caress'd, and here shall shiae, ■"Where friendship pours the tributary line thou whose tenrs are chiefly due, refuse To mix with thhie, the mournings of the muse: Long has' thou lnv'(i and gladly would I tell, 1f words could shew, how tenderly, how well! London, Sept. VOlft, ISlf. J. H. P. She was buried on the 57th anniversary of 'her ■•wedding-day. .<t-

On Lord Pehrhijn's Slate Quarries. -WitITTEN IN THE YEAR 1806. It has truly been id, as we 415 must deplore, That Grenvilte and Pitt made Peert by the score, riir oow 'tis asserted, unless I have blumler'd, There is a mavi here makes Peeresses by the hundred, j .He regards neither Portland, or Grmville, or liit, 1ut creates them at oncewt.thont patent or writ; By the stroke of a hammer without the Kiug's aid, A tady-«Coufttus-orDuclleu* is rna.ôe, YI,I 11 >^h is their station from which they arc seat, A a'! their great titles are got by descent. It lid where ever they 're seen in a Itatace or shop Their ranks they preserve, and are si -all at the topi Yet uo merit they claim from their birth or ,con,neciion JJi-t derive their ioltief wort' i from their-native complexion; A™! all tt-.c ttestjudges, prefer, it is said, A Countess iti blue, tOta Duchess in red; This Countess, or Lady—tho' crowds may be present, Submits to be di-essd by the 1umds, of a peasant. Ami you'li see when her grace is but once in life clutches, "With how lotle respect he will handlea Duchess,; Close united they seem, aad yet all who have <ricVPem, .Soon discover how easy it is to divide 'em. No spirit have they—they're as thin as a lat, Tire Count ess -v.-iiirs life, and the Duchess is flat; tKo passion or warnth to the Countess is known, And-her Cr;;ce#s as colrl, and as hard as a stone; Yel I fear you will if you walcllthcru a litile, That the Countess is frail, and the Duchess is brittle: Too high for a trad", yet without any jolce, Though 'hey c'tver are bankrupts, they often are broke; And though not a soul ever pilfers or pozens, They arc daily ship'd off, and transported by dozens t la Fiance—jacobinical France, we have seen How nobles have bled, by the fierce guillotine lS.¡t what's the French engine of death to com- pare, To ilic engine which Greenfield aud Branah pre- pare ? That democrat engine by which we all know, Ten thousand great Duchesses fell at a blow Awl long may may his engine it-s wonders display, 1.nn level with case, all the rocks in its way, TiU the Vale of Nanfrancon of states is bereft, Nor a Lady or Couiittss, or HuchtssVe {eft. SAXATILIS. The names of the different sized slates.

To the Editor of the jSorth Waim Gametic. Sin, Through the course of last summer I had beeivrepeatedly informed- thai essays and let- ters of mine, had found their way into jour paper, all of them treating of the newly dis- covered Florin Grata, its culture, habits, and extreme value. < Many respectable personagel from your principality have written to me for informa- tion on its subject; stating, they were induc- ed till do so from the high opinion they had acquired of it through your paper. The first of your Gazette's that reached toe was that of 6th, sent by some oblig- ug correspondent in this Mr. PvGu,* clearly

As several of our readers may not have the North Wales Gazette of Sept. 6th, in their loop- session to refer to. fortheir gratification, we here fe-insert the ingenious !etter above alluded to. I- I have felt myself particularly interested, by ycading the several communications made to you vjji >n Fiorin Grass; and 'he. important discovery, m-V'ch they contain, being diffused throughout the P ioci palit y, by the medium of your valuable pa- pt- the most beneficial results may be expected. Whilst the public attin: ioi) is drawn to this suh- jec I conceive that any thing connected ihere- wi h may nor be unworthy of insert ion. I there- for take the liberry of submitting to your reatl- trs. the curious fact of the Fiorin being ancient- h "koo^wn in Wales, by the name of GWYRA V, which is the same word, with only the cbarac- JeriitiC difference of the two sister languages, the J the cultivation and luxuriance of Florin Grass in WALEJ/t some centuries ago. Since the great importance of my discovery has been pretty generally admitted, 1 have been toiuewhat irritable ouits subject, treat ing with little mercy, the ignorant Book-makers -and Nurserymen, who were so ready in ob. truding their reprobations on this grass, the Agroslis atalomfera of LINNJECS. These gentry having occupied the ear of the public, thirsty for information on agricul- tural subjects, and having no other object but to sell their books, their plants, and their seeds, perpetuated errors, not troubling themselves to study nature, nor to inquire mto the lia bits, properties, and uses, of the vegetables they were making money by; assumed their own kuowledge of th vegetable kingdom to be ajready compleat, and that nature had no thing left in her store to reward the sagacity, or industry, of her amateurs an acknowledg- ment of a discovery would of course be an admission of superiority to which coute qui coute, they were determined not to submit. I have 1)een engaged in other discoveries, and in my jealousy have contended for priori- ty of discovery with others not occupied ilt these-gainful irides and, perhaps, Rhoukl have contested Mr. Fran's proofs of the an- tiquity of Fiorin, was 1 not aware that on the ground h" h is chosen, 1 should make a sorry figure before a W FLSEE tiribkitial, when support iug doubts of any species of merit ascribed to I heir favorite OWAIN GIYNDWRDWT. I shall therefore be content with the hum- bled credit of revival, and instead of looking on this venerated personage as a rival, shaii avail myself of him as an associate, shall quoit: nis authority, and recommend his example. Admitting (as I persuade myself) that MN sole object is to promote public utility, bv i the introduction of a grass, decided y auperioi to all others it must necessarily be a hi,, 1, gratilication to me to find such an eulogiuns pronounced upon it, as that uttered by Ow fllendower's bard, IOLO Goca, in the very name of the Fiorin, which signifies (-.Is t.dis us) teeming icith life, vigour, andverdun- and (his happily a most appropriate dt- tiomiualiou. Mr. PUG" (perhaps not conveuanl in tHIIs so much out of his fine) called in his diction ary Fiorin, Hush, and assigns his reasons, but now, since your "paper has laid open to lin. I he true nature of Fioriu, he candidly retracts lus error. I strongly recommend Mr. Push's example to those instructors of the world in agricnflu- ral mailers, who persist in denominating Fi- "rill, Sqvitch Grata thus (so far &3 they an -C)bte) depi-ivit)-- their pupils (that is the pub- lic) of the inestimable benefits to be derived from thi^-discovery. The question is not? compleatly at issue, and every land-holder in Eug-iand must soon pronounce his own decision distinctly, &i;d se- parately. I

Irish and the Welsh. Those who arc a little versed in philological researches, know that iiii- moi-ous wirds iu these two languages are exactly the same in sound and sense, except as to certain initials, or prefixes and thus many words, hav- ingffof their initial in the Irish, begin with g in 1 the Welsh. The uioru appropriate Irish ortho- graphy of Fiorin would be f utrcar,, which like our GffVRiS, abstractedly means what teems with life, vigour, or ve-rdancy; ;A more lit term than which conld not have been adopted for a grass so tenacious of life as the sortuiitler:colisi- deration. tf it should appear that I have satisfactorily proved the identity of the Fiorin and F?\F YRIS, the most curious circumstance still remains to be mentioned, which is, that the Fiorin was also cul- tivated in TVales ninny ages back, as a distinct pro- duce from other grasses and hay. in a- pocin composed towards the close of the fourteenth century, in praise of the vale of (Jlamorgan, by Ion) Gocit, the venerable bard of Owaill Glyn- dwrtiwy, the followiug remarkable passage oc- cult Yno mae ? Dolydd glSn Gwyran a Gwair, Ydati niewn caeau cywair. which literally translated, runs thus— Therein are- Pore dales of the ever-living grass and hay, With corn of various sorts in neat inclosures. At the time when I was compiling the Welsh Dictionary, I recollect havingbeen much puzzled as to what kind of herb or grass could be under- stood by the term of GWYRAN, and, being ah- sent from the country, 1 had no opportunity for a proper enquiry. It was evident, from the ab- stract meaning of the word, that it must denote some plant abounding with life, vigor, or verdan- ey-, ari, in this difficulty, by a kind of guess. work, i rendered it by the term of Ruth Grass, merely from the idea of the ever-green quality of rushes. But now 1 see the absurdity of so nam- ing the Gwyran; because the poet would hardly have cclehrateri the fair dales of Glamorgan for producing rushes of any kind and therefore the Irish names of Fiorin, or Fuirean, being the same as our G w v E A,,v, the same grass must be implied by both appellations. It is al very remarkable, that the bard should have made a distinction be- tween the Fiorin and common hay, which he has; manifestly done in it manner so marked as to leave no room for us to doubt it. The quotation as above given, was sent to me ,by Mr. O. Jores,, on account of its being not so I futl iu the Dictionary; and he accompanied i' with the following retnarl(: It) the poem to Owain Glyndwrdwy,.Jhe description given of his edifices, parks, orchards, fish-ponds, &c. is really curious, and worthy of publicnotice.—Atui it may be mentioned that lot.o was an agriculturist, and refjer to his poem addressed to the husbandman." —With tlieseremarks I ftilly agree; and, that, much valuable information might be collected from the work* of our ancient poets, in respect to this particular topic, as well as to otiicr n'at- ters of great historical importance. Having shewn the identity of the Ficrin and the Qwyran, t shall conclude with remarking that the herb Fhenugreek is in the Welsh called K Gn g- teyran, or the Pendant Fiorin. Any one, Mr Editor, who is acquainted with thin plant, will at once judge of the propriety of so naming it, by I knowing that in its growth, its leaves have a tendency to hang or bend downwards but it will be some difficulty to adduce a rational explana- tion for its being called Fcenugreek, or 44 Greek hay." Therefore I infer, that greek is a corrup- tion of the British work Grog, hanging, or pend- ant, as appled in this name; and, for that reason, that the appellation of Crog-ttyran, or Pendant Fiorin, is the true origin of Fa> vug reck, and uot Fosuum <?/ ircu?n,ascommouIy supposed." I remain Sir, Your constant reader, W. OWEN PCGHE.* August 9thy 1810. Speiiiiea's are transmitted t,6 tne daily from j all parts of that country, and I am requested to tell whether the strings inclosed (long and green at this season) be the Fiorin Grass I go strongly recoinmend, or not; for that my correspondents have hitherto been told that these strings (so abundant with them every where) are quitch Grass, and they always weed them out, though at considerable ex- pence. I reply, that I make myself responsible for the identity of the specimens sent to me, with my own Fioriu an option must therefore generally be made, whether they will persist in their habits of extermination;—or whether theyill change their measures; cultivate and foster their old enemy taking care to distinguish hisdelicate verdant strings, creep- ing.along the surface, from the long roots of the friiicum repens (real squitch grass) run- ning below the surface, and parallel to it. When ( thanks to Mr. Pugh) we discover that Fiorin was successfully cultivated by your ancient WELSH Princes;—and when we find its value well known every where among the native IRISH it is amusing to perceive the aboriginal CELTS, reviving (after a lapse of centuries) the culture of a favorite indigenous veg«table and communicating the kuowledgt of it to their SAXON invaders, who by their 'xtermination of the British in Euglaud, had been precluded from forming an acquaintance hrongh them with the valuable natural pro- dllcliolÍs of the country they had acquired, every part of which (its now appears) teems with Fiofih Grass, like IRELAND and WALES. The attention paid in your principality lo ■very tiling written on the subject of Fiorin Grass, which willuot be abated by Mr. Pugh's Iiscov; ry, that this grass was a favorite with )WEN GLKNDOWER, and an ornament to his irks, and inclosures, makes ma very de- sirous to contribute every thing in my power ¡hat will encourage its culture among so do- cile neighbours { this 1 think will be best done by-encountering some of the objections that have been made to it. even in your country. These are very different from the impedi mints thrown in the way of Fioriu by the En- glish agricultural writers, and nurserymen, who seem determined to make the bounds of agricultural knowledge and practice, exactly commensurate to their own acquirements, and l'o confine them within these narrow limits hence discovery is rejected, and Use introduc tion of any thing new reprobated. My Cambrian friends are checked by ditIi, dence anxious to receive instruction, and willing to make trial, they start at the mag- nitude of inj' promises, and doubt the extent of the value to which I boast this speculation will lead therii. A most intelligent correspondent from your country laments that all seem doubtful of the quantity of the produce you have stated in all your papers." And again, the stated magnitude of the crops, is what they cannot comprehend, and how to discredit this statement, say they, is difficult., when the testimony of so many cre- dible witnesses, from their rank and situa- tiun injife, is brought to support it." Positive evidence on one side, and some- thing like absolute impossibility on the other, embarrass amateurs. 1 have often wished that had not alarmed them so much at first, and that instead of six, seven, and eigiit tons, of superlative hay, to the English acre. I had in my zeal for the dizqcminatton u- Fiorin cul- ture suppressed half. It is now too late, I cannot retract, and mv friends must be relieved from their doubts, wit upon them a greater weight of evidence < they must judge for themselves, this is the season, the distance not great, and the object (at least as held out by me) well worlhy of attention. Fiorin crops begin to be presentable in Oc- tober, and continue in vigour and use, for at least six months, I have now standing thirteen acres of Fi- orin meadow in full crop, and on a great di versify of grounds; a sufficient quantity of these'shall be left, and always ready for iu. spection until March SOth. I shall in the first week in October, mow whatever parts of my crops are subject to adulteration from falling leaves. Towards October 20th, I shall mow such parts of my meadow as are in the reach of winter irrigation, that I may get on the water early. The maiu body of my hny crop shall be cut through November, but in the time of mow- ing eight acres laid down late in November, 1S09, formerly cold spritly meadows little worth and distant: I shall be governed by the probability of protecting it from depra- dation, for my wish is to let the. first crop stand as long as possible; its vegetation, and of course its increase, continuing until Christ- mas. So far I refer to my hay prepared for winter consumption in the usual way, but to satisfy the curious, I shall reserve as much of my meadows uncut, as will enable me to mow regularly on the first and fifteenth of every month, from October to March, as I have done for the two last years, under public notice. I thus lay myself under the necessity of being found every aay in the winter, with some of my hay open in the field, in the pro- cess of m iking, and I shall bealways ready to mow when any Gentleman calls, to enable him la jtJde of quontity. The advantage of an excellent and abtin- dant green-food through the winter, has made ail impression upon many who coulduot re concile themselves, either to the quantities of hay I stated, « r to the season in which I thought fit to make it up. Upou this point ample satisfaction shaH be given my milch cows will be found feeding on this provender, which they prefer to all other, through the whole winter and its effect on my milk and butter, may be tried. I cannot retract this general notice, now repeated a third time; nor do I see how I could mislead, or deceive the world, were I so disposed; my distance from YUllrcountrv is not great; I live 67 miles nortli of DUBLIN, and 5 miles from ARMAGH. To those who cannot inspect, I propose a. composition I shall not insist (while doubts remain) upon any Gentleman's breaking i p his valuable ground on this new speculation I shall be content with any thing refuse, such as cold sour spritly gruuud-cut out mU:iS- j spouiy bill—or miry bottom, atiy of these y will suit me well; and as for your peaty mountains, I care not how high up you carry me, while the peat lasts, and when that fails, we shall devise some means of doing without it. W. RICHAftObON, D. D. Moy, Ireland, Septetnber 27, 18 10. -1

To the Editor of the ./V'orth Wales Gazette. SIR, I so all be obliged by your inserting the fol- lowing extract from Lord Keuyon's opinion on Bank Notes, delivered in the Court of King's Bench, in 1801.

BANK NOTES. The Public cannot be too much on their guard against bad paper, representing credit, a» if does in various shapes. There is a fright- ful mass of this paper out. I, know there is the whole fabric will fall by and by, and turn ble about mirears. I have seen country Bank Notes, payable at places where there has not been a shilling of property to answer the demand. Signed by God knows who—as good as John Nokes and Thos. Styles, lrot no better; and poor deluded ignorant people, seeing a fiue piece of pailer, and a good en, graving on it, the appearance of a Bank secu- rity about it, take it most readily. Such a situation of things is dreadful. I do not speak at random but that of which I am certain I say that if ninety-nine, out of every hundred Bank Nutcs were destroyed, it would be a beitefit- to the community."—KENYON. Such, Sir, was the opinion of My Lord Kenyon, in 1801, since when, the issue of provincial paper, t,.as indeed increased to an I alarming degree. It is almost needless to remark, how founded was the opinion above quoted; the event has proved it: there needs but a reference to the Gazettes, for a few months back, to convince the most scep- tical but wereit necessary, [ am sorry to add, that thousands of proofs the most heart rend jog. could be produced in various parts of the country; industrious families, (from a stale of imagined independence, created by the possession of this hard earned ideal wealth), precipitated into the deepest abyss of misery, hy the bursting of the bubble. Portsmouth, Plymouth, Salisbury, &e. have atforded me lancholy instances of the truth of the above statement, though indeed, it is not requisite to seek them, so far from home. At length, it appears, that the eyes of the public are opening to their danger, by the numerous meetings of Tradesmen, &c. for the purpose of entering into resolutions, not to take in future any, but Bank of EnglandNotes, and it is much to be hoped, that by such means, the various provincial Bank Note manufactories, will at length be suppressed. VERAX. II.

To the Editor oj the orth IYales Gazette. SIR, The truly loyal and patriotic intention of the counties of Denbigh and Flint, to erect a memorial to the virtues of our beloved Sove- reign, mustinspire every Briton with ihe high- est respect and gratitude for this tribute of love and ioyatty to the best of Kiiigrg. The-proposed site is on the summit-of the highest mountain on the boundary of these counties, about six miles from Rtitliiii & Mold, and ten from St. Asaph. The horizon is bound- ed by a most extended and striking variety. From the north east to the north west, with the hills of Beeston Castkv-Peckforfon, Ilels- hy, Frodsham, Yorkshire, Cumberland, the rivers Dee and Mersey, the ports of Chester and Liverpool* and the Irish Sea. From the north west to the south cast. with the sub- lime range of mountains.of Ormshead, Pen- maen mawr, Carnedd Llewellyn, Carnedd David, Arrennig Arran, l'entilyn, Snowdon, Cader Idi is, Berriew, &e. with the intermedi- ate view of almost the whole of the Vale of Clwyd, the towns of Ruthin, Denbigh, St Asaph, and Rhuddlan. From the south east to the north east, with part of Flintshire, Den- bighshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, and Staf- fordshire, "bounded by the Clee Hills, near Cleobury: the Wrekin, near Wellington; rhet- wyn, beyond, Newport; Ashley Heath, near Drayton, &c.with a most beautiful variety of views of the adjacent country. Upon this trilly sublime mountain let there be-raised a permanent monument, not in the form of a pillar, which, perhaps, in more confined situations, such as Blenheim, Stow, Wynnstay, Hawkstone, &c. might be deemed eligible to commemorate the heroic acts and virtues of subjects, but to our King, supreme and beloved Sovereign let the hill itself af- ford the materials for a monument, elevated above the apex by steps, denoting the number of Children. on a base at least fifty feet square, expressing the year of his reign, and a pyra mid of seveuty-two feet in height for his age, forming an object upwards 01 one hundred feet hlh. Let it be surrounded, at a respect- ful distance, by a grove of trees, so as to leave the summit free. This, so formed, would be a grand object to the mariner on the track less ocean, and to the grateful subject over an extent of the kingdom hardly lo he equalled in any other part of the empire. The lime rocks of Ruthin will produce a most excellent mar- ble for the tablets of inscriptions, to he cut in indelible characters, expressive of the virtues of the Sovereign and the loyalty of hie sub jekti. As a further inducement, it is conceived that the rubble stone work from the mountain will be much more durable than free stone, and that a pyramid may be built for less than a column of equal height. Specific gravity of Stone. Near summit of Moel Fainma 2461 Ditto 2569 i Ditto 2575 I Omnes Stone wall four miles from Ku-\9finn f per thin, mar Loggerheads cubefoot. Ruthin marble and limestone. 2688 J Common free stone 2144 BRITANNICUS.

r0 the Editor of the North Wales Gazette. --8Il81o-- i\rperimenls made last spring with Kohl-rabi, or purple turnip-cabbage, drum-headed cab- bage, and Swedish turnips. The Kohl rahi is a prolific and nutritious plaut for the iced of sheep and neat cattle; and greefi food may be produced 1> y this means from October until May. To ensure a succession of keep, seed should be sown itit March, April, and May. The plant bulbil above the ground the leaf is much like that of beet, it will stand in detiance (if tlieseverest frost; and as a proof thereof, several plant. have been cut with a knife through the crown" two inches deep, and they have stood three mouths afterwards in a-sound state. The plants may be transplanted like those of cab- bage—at eighteen inches apart, they have been found to weigh ten and eleven poutids, a-piece. The drum-headed cabbage should be trans- planted early in June, upon ridges thirty-sis inches apart, the land being dunged at the rate of twelve load per acre Some of tho cabbage will weigh thirty-pounds—the ave- rage, about twelve pounds each, or twenty. five ton per acre. The caterpillar will be found destructive to this plant. The Swedish turnips should be sown .about the middle of June. There is not that waste of the Kohl-rabi in being eat upon the ground, as it bulbs above, aud the Swedish turnip in. the ground. When the sheep have eaten the turnips level with the ground, and scooped out the inside, the reminder serves as a resei* voir for the dirt and filth. ZENC7,

^Miscellaneous. The British Minister to whom Lucien Buo- naparte has lurrendered, is the Hon. W. Hill, M. P. for Shrewsbury. The Royal Cockpit, St. James's Park, sa long the receptacle of the most cruel recrea- tion, so long the resort of the cheat and of the pickpocket, is now no more. The go- vernors and Trustees of Christ's, Hospital, to, whom the ground belongs, met on the spot the very day the lease expired, and gave di- reel ions for the immediate crascmeut of the building. Some years back the late Duke of Rich- mond received a large sum by way of compen- sation for duties received on Coals imported nito London. Lord Ormond, it seems, gets now 200,0001. in a simiar way for his claims of Hullerage on wine imported into the sister Island. Some Members of the Corinthian; capiial of polished society II are thus not a little indebted for their ornaments and dignity to Englis!i kftz-itehs and Irish cellars! (timate.—The medium temperature of each year, calculated from actual observation, for a series of years, will he found f»> continue nearly a constant, quantity. It may be re- marked that some summers are holler thall others, hut in general an equilibrium is re- stored by a cold winter. In Europe, there certainly are evident marks of amelioration of climate for the line or curve of congela- tion, iu thecentral Alps, desceiidedmuch lower at former periods than it docs at present. It is observed by different travellers that the glacier of Grindlcwald shews evident marks of this gradual contraction, in order to trace this progressive warmth it will requ re the result of many years (her mo metrical ohserva- tion. Those who are in the practice of tak- ing thennometrical observations, generally observe the height of the thermometer at the hours of 7 a m. 3 p. m. and 10 p. m. but the times of observation ought to depend upon the seasons of the vear. The reason why three periods of the day are taken is, to as- certain the nip a 11 temperature and if the po- sition of Ihe thermometer be fixed it should be in the shade, and exposed Lo every current of arc then three columns of ob- servation, viz. the morning, noon, and night. By dividing the sum of three by three you obtain the mean heat of the day; by di- viding tjie sum of the three columns, by three times the number ofdays in the mouth, you have the mean heat of the month; and, last- ly, hy dividing the sum of the middle column, (or noon heal) by the number of days, you obtain the mean greatest heat. British Commerce.Ou this subject Mr. Rose and Mr. Huskisson, who are acknow- ledged to have complete information, exact- iy contradict each other in their late comma, nications. The one insisting that our com- mercetsaugmented, and appealing to Custom- House documenls, such as tonnage, duties, &c- and the other denying this augmentation, and appealing to common sense. Now the documents certaiuly speak in favour of Mr. Hose's assertions, but common sense, that is to say, common feeling and daily observati- on, give it a point blank denial. Whence is this? The following seems to be the rea- son -Itnmetise sums ofmollcy have been ne- cessarity sent out for foreign subsidies, and for payment of the ami) these sums, accord- ing to custom, have been sent out iu mercan- tile conitilodiiies.riiat is, thousands have been paid to the bullion merchants, wh,. have remitted them in commodities. These exports have necessarily been entered at the Custom- House, and thence Lite amount. The greater part, therefore, of Mr. Rose's aug- mented exports, has been the exported subsi- dies, pay, &c. of our own and other armies. In other words, our oun money sent abroad. With respect to the internal trade of the country, we arc compelled to say, that the prospect was never more melancholy, and that on whatever side we look, we see no. thing but actual distress, with very little hope for a long time to come. The bankruptcies were never in greater number, and their kind is as alarming as their multitude. Some of the most considerable, and hitherto esteemed the hlfst established houses have gone and their connections are so numerous, that it is doubt- ful where the ruin will end. There is a very general alarm but it is but justice to HY, that the Country Baukshave held their ground much better th-in was expected. Something however, must be done for the paper sys- tem cannot continue in its present extent. 7c cure the boot rot in Sheep in the best and most effectual manner, -In sheep thus effected, pare their hoofs, leaving no hollow to holct dirt if there be matter formed, be particu- larly careful to let it out after which, take some stale uiine and wash their feet cieaa from dirt, and wipe them with a spuge then put the sheep into a house or shed, the Uaur of which has beell previously spread about two inches thick with quick lime, reduced to. powder by a sniali quantity of water. The- fresher tix* iime is from the kiln the better Let the sheep stand upon it for six or sevw hours, aud the cure will be effected.