AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended May 1, 1824. Total Quantity of Corn returned as Sold in the Maritime Districts, for the Week ended May 1. Wheat..44,292 qrs. | Barley.. 19,971 qrs. | Beans. .... ..4,549 qrs. .643 qrs. COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c. Norwich Castle Meadow, May 8.-There was a very good show of fat Beasts and Sheep to-day; but fat Beef was not saleable at more than 6s. per stone of 14 lbs.; good Hoggetts fetched 35s. per head; fat Mutton, 6s. 3d. to 6s, 6d. per stone. Horncastle, May 8.-Beef, 6s. to 6s. 6d. per stone of 14 lbs. ; Mutton, 5d. to Ed.; Pork, 5d. to 6d.; Lamb, 9d. to 10d.; and Veal, 6d. to 8d. per lb. Bristol, May 6.-Beef, 5d. to 6d.; Mutton, 5d. to 64d.; and Pork, 44d. to 5d. per lb. sinking offal. Malton, May 8.-Meat in the shambles :-Beef, 5d. to 64d.; Mutton, 4 d. to 5d.; Pork, 4d. to 44d.; and Veal, 5d. to 6d. per lb. Fresh Butter, 12d. to 134. per lb. Bacon Sides, 6s, 3d, to 6s. 6d.; Hams, 7s. 6d. to 9s. per stone. At Morpeth market, on Wednesday, there was a good supply of Cattle and Sheep, and although there were many buyers, the former met with dull sale: prices much the same.-Beef, from 5s. to 5s. 6d. ; and Mutton, 5s. 10d. to 6s. 6d. per stone, sinking offals. Boston Fair, held on the 4th and 5th of May, was extremely well attended. On Tuesday the Show of Sheep was never known to be so large, and some prime lots sold as high as 43s. per head, and in general sold briskly at good prices, the market being cleared at an early hour in the day. The Beast Fair, held on the 5th, was largely attended. Meated Beasts, sold well at advanced prices, and Store Beasts sold briskly. At Northallerton Fair, the number of Horses for sale was not so great as at the last Fair. The dealers from various parts of the kingdom were numerous; some Foreign buyers also attended. Real good Horses fetched high prices, particularly Greys to match; all other kinds sold well. The Show of Cattle on Wednesday was great, and in general they sold well at an improvement in price, particularly good in-calvers for the south. The Show of Sheep on Thursday was great, and the sale dull, at reduced prices. Price of HOPS, per Cwt. in the BOROUGH. Monday, May 10.-The bincs have grown considerably during the last week, though in many places they are weak and uneven. The market remains the same; but doing little. 1819's, 70s. to 105s.; 1820's, 70s. to 100s.; 1821's, 60s. to 100s.; 1822's, 140s. to 170s. Fine 1822's are scarce, and much inquired after. From our plantation, we learn that the plant continues to improve. COTTON MARKET. Friday, May 7.-The purchases of Cotton which have transpired this week are inconsiderable; it is reported several parcels have been taken privately, but no particulars have yet transpired; no alteration whatever in the currency can be Maidstone, May 6. The fine weather this week has made great progress in the Hop plantations, the bines are much improved, and if they keep growing for another week as they have done lately, will be out of all danger as to the flea, which is considered a good begin-stated. ning. No trade in the Old Hops at present. COAL MARKET, May 7. Worcester, May 1-25 pockets of Old Hops were this day weighed Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. in our market. The average prices 584 Newcastle..49 ..29s. 6d. to 39s. 6d. are as follow: 1818's, 40s. to 80s.;57 Sunderland 462..30s. Od.—40s. 6d. This day is Published, Price 3s. A LETTER TO THE REVEREND C. D. BRERETON, In Reply to his Observations on the Administration of the Poor Laws in Agricultural Districts; containing also, some Remarks upon his attack on the Magistracy of the County of Norfolk; and tracing the great increase of Pauperism to its real source. By W. COPLAND, SHARRINGTON HALL, NOrfolk. Sold by C, CLEMENT, 183, Fleet-street, London. VOL. 50.-No. 8.] LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1824. [Price 6d. Published every Saturday Morning, at Seven o'clock. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST vestigation of the affairs of this road. Those extortions might be deemed not very unnatural in the SAMUEL E. SKETCHLEY. renters of the tolls; but, when I Chairman and Treasurer of the found that the Chairman of the Trustees, who was also the Treasurer of the road; when I found that he, whom I had summoned as a witness against the extortioners, voluntarily took upon himself to answer for the honest intentions of those extortioners; and when I could get from the toll-renters no promise to refund the money which had been extorted, I resolved on proceedings of some sort, against this head man of the Trustees. In short, I employed Counsel (Mr. BROUGHAM) to move, in the last term, for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against this Chairman. The rule was granted, and the following are the Affidavits upon which the application was founded. These affidavits will speak for them Kensington, 18th May, 1824. I SHOULD be afraid of wearying my readers with this subject, were I not satisfied that every man of sense will see that it is a subject of the greatest importance to us all. I am convinced that the matter will not rest, now, until it be well sifted; and I am convinced, that that sifting will prove to the public, amongst other things, that the gates at Pimlico and at Hyde Park Corner have, for several years past, been wholly unnecessary for any purposes use ful to the public. This discovery will be a very useful one; and, it might not have been made for years yet to come, had not the extortions of last summer and selves. They contain a pretty autumn led, by degrees, to an in-good history of the transaction. P Printed and Published by C. CLEMENT, No. 183, Fleet-street. After the affidavits, I shall insert | the Acts of that year, intituled, an account of what took place in" An Act for enlarging the term the Court of King's Bench on the" and powers of an Act of His 17th instant, when the question" present Majesty, for repairing was argued before the Judges of the road from Hyde Park Corthat court. When the public have" ner to Counter's Bridge, and all this matter before them, they" certain other roads in the county will see the situation in which His" of Middlesex."-That, accordMajesty's subjects are placed with ing to the third section of the said regard to the trustees of roads. Local Act,three-pence was the sum They will see, also, what is-ne- to be taken, as toll, at the gates cessary to be done, in order to of the said turnpike road, for a give the public protection against one-horse cart, that is, a cart powers such as trustees possess. drawn by one horse :-That, by I have numbered the paragraphs the New General Turnpike Act, of my affidavit, lest I should have chapter 126, of the third year of to refer the reader to particular the reign of King George the parts of it. AFFIDAVITS. WILLIAM COBBETT, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, maketh oath, and saithe ri Fourth, intituled, "An Act to "amend the General Laws now "in being for regulating turnpike roads in that. part of Great: Britain called England," it was enacted, That from and after ther first day of January 1823, the (1. That Samuel Everingham said toll of three-pence should be Sketchley, Esquire, is, and for a raised, with regard to common considerable time has been, the stage one-horse carts, to fourChairman of the Trustees of a cer-pence halfpenny-That (one or tain turnpike road, lying between about the said first day of Ja❤ Hyde Park Corner and Counter's Bridge, and parts adjacent, in the parishes of Chelsea and Kensing ton, in the county of Middlesex, under a Local Act of Parliament, passed in the fifty-first year of fourth year of the reign of the the reign of King George the present King) was passed, intiThird, being chapter thirteen of tuled, "An Act to explain and nuary), the said toll was raised, and was demanded and received by the toll-collectors accordingly: That, in the month of July 1823, an Act (chap. 95, of the "amend an Act passed in the believes, that, on the said turn "third year of the reign of His pike road alone, a sum greater " present Majesty, to amend the than thirty pounds sterling a-week "General Laws now in being for was thus overcharged, demanded regulating turnpike roads in and received, by the toll-collectors that part of Great Britain called aforesaid, from the owners, or the “England;” in which Act it was drivers, of the said common oneenacted, That the said toll for every horse carts, in open violation of one-horse cart should, for the fu- the aforesaid Act of Parliament, ture, be three-pence, as it had been before the aforesaid first of January 1828: That, instead of reducing the said toll from fourpence halfpenny to three-pence, in obedience to the said Act of July 1823, the toll-collectors at the gates on the aforesaid turnpike road, continued to demand and receive the toll of four-pence halfpenny, until the 16th day of the month of October 1823, when they desisted in consequence of complaint made against several of them, by this deponent, before the Magistrates at Bow-street. ६ passed in July 1823-That this deponent believes, that upwards of three hundred and sixty pounds sterling were, at the gates of the aforesaid turnpike road, unjustly extorted, in manner aforesaid, from the owners, or drivers, of one-horse carts. * 3. And this deponent further saith:-That, in order to put a stop to such extortion, he, this de ponent, went, on the 28th day of September 1823, to the toll-cel lectors at two of the toll-gates on the said turnpike road, and warned them, that, unless they desisted from their extortions aforesaid, he, this deponent, would complain against them to the magistrates— That, on the 18th day of October 1823, he, this deponent, made complaint to the Magistrates of Bow-street against several of the 2. And this deponent further saith:-That a large part of the hay, straw, bricks, stones, lime, and wood, carried upon the said road, and that a still larger part of the garden-stuff carried into Westminster and London along the said road, are carried in one-toll-collectors on the said turnpike horse carts:-That this deponent road:-That, on the 16th day of lives in the High-street of Kensington, and that, from the observations which he has made, he October aforesaid, he, this depo nent, in order to make good his aforesaid complaint, appeared be |