"But, if there have been "consi- Mr. LEWIS's place. The thing to derable improvement," what, if say, however, is, that here are Mr. CRIPPS' account be true, must laws, which are, at best, most the law (the House's law) have shockingly defective, and that it -been before Mr. Lewis began to does not appear that the House "legislate" upon the subject? If possesses the capacity to make it be now " very difficult to un-them better. Three Sessions of derstand;" if it be such, that it is Parliament have been spent upon "almost impossible for magis-the business. It is acknowledged trates to act" on it; if this be true, by the House itself that the law and if it have been considerably is very defective, and the Minisimproved by Mr. Frankland Lewis, ter recommends to wait for further what pretty laws must have been passed before by that House which Mr. Robinson so praised, and by which he was so cheered!

information; that is to say, for more knowledge, lest they should make the thing worse. This is, almost in so many words, acknowMr. PEEL is for waiting for ledging the incapacity of the additional information. What! House to frame laws even relaDoes he want information too?tive to so simple a thing as the About what? Were not three ses-Turnpike Roads, which laws shall sions long enough to make in- not be productive of mischief. quiries? And inquiries about Now, my real opinion is, that, what, too? What! Sweep away a Reformed House of Commons a whole code, as was the case in would contain one hundred men, 1822, and now say, that you wait each of whom would be capable for information to know what to of drawing up a General Turnpike do! What a mess it is all taken Act, that every man of common together! Here is Mr. CRIPPS capacity would clearly underdeclaring, that the law, as it now stand. I know I could draw up stands, is very difficult to un- such a Bill myself; but, while derstand, and is almost impossible the House remains what it is, we to be acted on; and here is Mr. shall always be hampered and Peel calling on Mr. CRIPPS to teased and pestered in this sort of -wait for some information on way. I know of an old dotard, the subject; and, hereupon, Mr. who brags of the great numCRIPPS agrees to wait: and, thus, ber of years that he has been a we are left with this comforting re-lawgiver, and who skulks into flection, that the law is very diffi- holes and corners to backbite and cult to understand, and almost in- calumniate me. This man has not, possible to be acted on, and that in the course of his whole life, done the House (at present at least) the country a thousandth part so does not know how to alter it! much service as I have done it by correcting abuses relative to these Turnpike Roads. Fine enough it is to talk about Patriotism and Whigism and CHARLES FOXISM; very appropriate glory this for a dull sot like him to whom I allude; but let him show us, in all the acts of his whole life, so much

However, I must say, that, if I had been in Mr. LEWIS's place, I should have told Mr. CRIPPS, that he ought not to conclude that other Magistrates could not understand the law, merely because he could not. I think I should have kicked a little if I had been in

public good as that which has this discovery in your Cottage been effected by me by merely Economy, the present successful skrewing up this one set of Jews. candidates owe their rewards; Let that oaf understand that I hear of his calumnies; and let him understand, also, that, when an opportunity shall offer (and offer it will) I will chastise him for it. say chastise him, mind, and I will do it as sure as he is alive.

I

One word more about the Turnpike Acts. They are, it seems, to remain as they are, sine die.

and the notice of the above subject
in your next Register may stimu-
late others to compete for the prize
in the next Session; and as we
have now a whole season before
us, I doubt not we shall make great
progress towards perfection.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,

But, will nobody move to repeal London, April 1, 1824.

that clause which I have so often mentioned, and which has been the cause of all the extortions, and which will always be the cause of all the extortions? I ask this question, and there I leave the matter for the present.

TO THE

AMERICAN GRAFFS.

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THEY are (Wednesday) on their way from Liverpool, and will arrive by about Monday next. 1 hear, that they are in excellent condition. I cannot, until next Register, make out the whole of the List; but, I can now state, that

EDITOR OF THE REGISTER. there are twenty-one sorts of Ap

SIR,

ples, and one, if not two, sorts of Pears. I shall put fifty graffs

I NOTICED, in your Register of into a packet; shall pack them in the 13th ult. an article on the sub-hay; cover them with canvass; ject of British Leghorn Bonnets. and, in short, do with them as I Perhaps it will be gratifying to did last year. I think that we shall you to know, that the Society of not be able to get any packets Arts have rewarded 17 specimens sent in, out of 21. It is needless to enumerate the successful ones, because the Secretary of the Society will make each claimant acquainted officially with their success; but, Sir, it cannot fail to inspire you with fresh zeal in a cause which you have so laudably and indefatigably taken up, and which, under your able and active pen, promises to add, at no distant day, a new, extensive, and profitable manufacture to British enterprise and industry.

made up before about next Wednesday, the 7th April.-Packets may then be had at No. 183, Fleet-street, or by coach, if written for.-The price of a packet will be a sovereign.-I cannot make any distinction in the contents of different packets. Every packet must contain the same as every other; for, to manage the thing in any other way would lead to endless trouble and endless mistakes. The next Register shall contain a complete Catalogue of the sorts, with an account of the

To your early publication of several fruits.

SPRING WHEAT.

Country, I shall send in linen bags, besides a bag of paper. The linen bags will be sewed up; and I shall charge nothing for the

In consequence of the number bags or for the booking at the

of applications which have been

coach-office.

made for the Seed of Spring-Sugar-loaf Cabbage.

Wheat, to sow for the purpose of

Also, early York Cabbage Seed.

(From America.)-Fine Melon

getting the proper materials to Seed.-Pumpkin Seed.-Early

make bonnets, Mr. Cobbett has Indian Corn.

ordered a further supply. Some of this Wheat will be to be had, in the course of two or three days, in Fleet-street, at the same price at which the first lot was sold ; namely, ten shillings for a single bushel, and eleven shillings a bushel for a sack, or any number of bushels exceeding that quantity.

SEEDS,

Sold at No. 183, Fleet-Street. I HAVE SOME Swedish Turnip Seed, sowed under my own direction, and from plants of my own selecting, in Hampshire. I will pledge myself for its being as good as it can possibly be. I have some Mangel Wurzel Seed, grown by a man on whom I can place perfect reliance; I sell the former at fifteen-pence a pound for any quantity under ten pounds, and at a shilling a pound for any larger quantity. The Mangel Wurzel Seed at eighteen-pence a pound for ten pounds, or any quantity above it; and two shillings a pound for any quantity smaller than ten pounds. If I send to the

SUBSCRIPTION FOR
BYRNE.

Mr. Bell
Homo

£10
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1 0

Lewes Flanigan, Esq. 5 0
Mr. Cobbett
Crispin
Thomas Hardy -.
C. W., Maidstone

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0 10

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Bell's Life in London 2

Mr. Harmer
A Lover of Fair Play 1
George Fordham
H. P.
R. L.
G. H.
E. H.

1

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0 10

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20

2 18 6

Some Friends at Liver-
pool, by the hands of
Thos. Smith
C. Taylor, Esq. M. P.5
E. Heagren Gibbs, Esq.1
Mr. S-
Mr. Hurst
H. no B.

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Wheat.. 6,269 for 21,398 5 7 Average, 68 3
Barley 5,987....11,271 19 0..........37 7
Qats.. 13,656....17,691 13 11..........25 10
Rýe......................8.............. 17 12- 0..........440 Wheat, red, (old).
Beans. 2,603.... 5,051 4-6..........38 9
Peas....1,506.... 3,025 5 10....

Prices on board Ship as under.

were very large. This morning there the 41b. Loaf is stated at 10 d. by

is only a moderate quantity of

Wheat, Barley, Beans, and Peas, the full-priced Bakers.

ACCOUNT OF WHEAT, &c, ARRIVED IN THE PORT OF LONDON, From March 22 to March 27, both inclusive.

Aggregate Quantity of other kinds of Pulse imported during the Week: Rye, Pease, 1050; Tares, 940; Linseed, 428; Rapeseed, 450;

Brank, 2975; Mustard, 205; Flax, —; and Seeds, 438 quarters.