calves and porkers but limited. Mutton and veal experienced a steady sale, at an advance of about 2d. per stone; but with beef and pork, trade was very dull, at barely Friday's

market; but of Suffolk the arrivals were limited altogether, however, the supplies since Friday have been rather large, although the show of samples to-day were only moderate, as some of the parcels have been re-quotations. ceived on millers' account, and some for the About a fourth of the beasts were shortfulfilment of the Government contract. The horns, chiefly oxen and steers, with some cows -damp unfavourable state of the weather has and heifers, for the most part from Lincolnhad a corresponding effect on the qualities of shire, Leices-tershire, and Northamptonshire; the wheat, and, generally speaking, the sam- the remaining three-fourths about equal numples were rough, and out of condition. The bers of Herefordshire, Devonshire, and Irish millers took freely off hand the better de-beasts, Welch runts, horned and polled Scots scriptions at fully as good prices as last week, and Norfolk homebreds, from the aboveand for selected parcels 1s. more money was mentioned, the midland, and western_disin some instances obtained; secondary and tricts, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Caminferior sorts were quite neglected. Old wheat bridgeshire; with about 200 Town's end cows, was also held on higher terms than this day a few Sussex beasts, Staffords, &c. se'nuight.

Malting and distilling barley of good quality experienced no alteration in value, but all stained and secondary descriptions were the turn cheaper, with a heavy sale.

Malt continued very dull.

The supply of oats has been large, particularly Irish. The trade ruled languid, and last week's prices were barely supported.

Beans were in good supply, and were purchased on rather lower terms.

Peas steady, and prices unaltered.

Ship four moved heavily off hand, at 44s..to

47s. per sack.

Wheat

Full three-fifths of the sheep appeared to be new Leicesters, of the South Down and different white-faced crosses, in the proportion of about two of the former to five of the latter; the remainder about equal numbers of South Downs, Kents, or Kentish half-breds, with a few pens of old Leicesters, horned aud polled Norfolks, horned and polled Scotch and Welch sheep, horned Dorsets, &c,

Beasts, 2,896; sheep, 19,240; calves, 92; pigs, 150.

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PENNSYLVANIA say, I have no fancy for this lady; this miss; and whenever I hear people complaining of misfortune bringing them to poverty, I am not content with the bare allegation: I like to have the particulars stated; and, in numerous cases, men are brought to poverty without any fault of their own; and, in some cases, their poverty is produced by their virtues. So that each case has its own particular facts and circumstances, and these always ought In another part of the Register, the to be considered; and I myself have reader will find a report of a proceeding always considered them, and never in in the Court of King's Bench on the my life reproached a man on account of 18. instant. He will find a rule to his poverty or his bankruptcy. If a show cause, granted, upon my affidavit, man honestly surrender his ALL, withagainst BAINES of LEEDS, and his son. out any consideration for future existNow that the affair is in the hands of ence, or for wife or children, God knows the law, there I shall leave it, and let the process is quite severe enough, the law with her leaden feet go on in without the addition of reflections and an uninterrupted course, having given reproaches, and without the still more positive and written instructions to my cruel addition of the coldness of those attorney, Mr. EDWARD FAITHFUL, to who have before called themselves make no compromise, to come to no friends; coldness which, I thank God, sort of arrangement, and not even to my heart was never cursed with. i enter into any parley with any of the was so completely stripped by the deeds numerous parties. It will be perceived, of the Parliament of 1817, that, after that the report states my affidavit to the bankruptcy took place, I was in a have alleged, that, through misfortune, hired lodging, without one single arI became a bankrupt in 1820. It is ticle of furniture of my own; and, the usual form made use of in such when we all got together in that lodgcases; and it is very true, that I did ing, at BROMPTON, after having been, become a bankrupt through misfortune; for three years, dispersed, like a covey for a very great misfortune it was, to be of partridges when they have been shot compelled to flee to a foreign country, amongst by a double-barrelled-gun, all or to be compelled to hold my tongue, that we could muster out of all our or to go into a dungeon, and to be de- pockets, early in January, 1821, were prived of the use of pen, ink, and paper, three shillings and a few half-pence! and to be deprived of the sight of my No man to let me have paper to print wife and my friends; and this, too, for the next Register upon, without having no offence other than that of struggling the money first; no man to print that to obtain a reform in the Commons' Register, unless he had the money down House of Parliament. This was a very before he began to print, or unless he great misfortune; but I knew no misfor- had guarantee for that money from tune of any other sort. I possessed ample somebody besides me! A friend lent means for all purposes required by me, me twenty pounds to purchase the paper had it not been for this peculiar misfor-with, and the printing was done by tune. Misfortunes of any other sort some arrangement which I have now I have never known in my life, to any forgotten, and I have forgotten by serious amount. As the Quakers of whom. This was a season to try what

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a man and his family were made of. | said this, I shall not again make these Here, indeed, was fortitude required, libels a subject of observation in the not only on my part, but on the part of Register, but shall leave my calumevery one of this family old enough to niators to be dealt with by law. think. Let any one go and ask Mrs. WILLIAMS, of BROMPTON, whether she ever lodged a more happy or cheerful family. Look at my prodigious labours (and, indeed, the labours of us all) since that time. Let him look at my fourteen copy-right books, written since Bolt-court, Fleet-street, Jan. 21, 1833. that day, and, amongst the rest, MY LORD,-At the conclusion of my my "French Grammar,' my "Pro- former letter (published in the last Retestant Reformation," my "Wood-gister), I observed, that I would, " lands," my English Gardener." my "spectfully offer your Lordship a few "Advice to Young Men," either of "observations on my formerly delivered which would be sufficient to render any opinions on American manufactures, man famous for industry, at any rate." and on the American navy;" because, Let him look, too, at the travels and I was aware, that I expressed my pleathe books of my sons; let him look at sure at the passing of the heavy tariffmy own travels about my own country; law, and that I repeatedly called upon and at my proceedings during those the Americans to build ships and cast travels; let him look at the pains and cannons; and because I was aware also, time and expense that I have bestowed, that, here, the old, and ten thousand in introducing, with the assistance of times refuted charge of inconsistency” one son, the manufacture of the straw might be again conjured up. plat with such success, and of introducing, at the instance of another son, that prodigious benefit to the country, Cobbett's corn, which is already sold at Mark-lane for from forty to fifty shillings a quarter, while the American corn, in the same market, sells at from twenty-seven shillings to thirty-two shillings a quarter; let the reader look back to the year 1821, and the three shillings and a few copper pennies; let him think of all these prodigious labours, exclusively of twenty four half-mankind. Not, however, putting foryearly volumes of the Register; let him look at all this, the work of twelve years, and, then, let him say, whether the people of OLDHAM are to be called fools for having intrusted the guardianship of their liberty, their honour, and their interests, to me, and whether I ought, especially when I am become the guardian of that liberty, that honour, and those interests, to be held forth to the world, as a base, an insolvent, and even a fraudulent debtor. Justice to myself and my virtuous family; and especially justice to the people of OLDHAM, demanded that I should say this much upon the occasion; and, having

Now, my Lord, with regard to the inconsistency, there would be none even if I were to confess, that I gave this advice, and expressed the pleasure with no feeling other than that of a desire to promote the good of the United States; for, there may have arisen circumstances to make me change my opinion as to these matters; and I know of no rule, divine, moral, or legal, that makes it faulty in me to change my opinions more than any of the rest of

ward this defence at all, I might, in the first place, call upon your Lordship to recollect, that the giver of the advice is an Englishman, and not an American, and that I, who was that giver, was by no means bound to give the rivals of my own country good advice; and that it is quite enough for me to show, that the advice had rationally for its object, to produce good to my own country. And, what have I more to do than to state the plain truth, which is this: namely, that I wished the Americans to cramp the import of English manufactures; that I wished them to build ships, cast cannons, and make a formi

dable navy; that I wished them to do tion of the House of Commons. I inanything,and to do everything,calculated variably told those with whom I conto induce the people of England to de- versed, that if the boroughmonger sway mand a reform of the Parliament, by were put an end to in England, their making them see and feel the conse- boasted naval power must soon hide its quences of being governed by a Parlia- head; and that, for ny part, whenment consisting of nominees. ever a reform of the Parliament should Aye! but some one will say, "Where take place, I, as far as any particle of was your sincerity then? And had power that might be lodged in my 66 you a moral right to give this advice hands might go, would compel them to "to the Americans from such a motive put a stop to that navy, which was ma→ 66 as this? And did you act the part of nifestly intended to join France and a friend to mankind, and especially of Russia, and any other powers, in order a friend to the Americans, whose cha- to wrest from England her ancient, her "racter you have so much praised, and rightful, her just, her reasonable, and "whose hospitality and friendship to- (for the rest of the world, as well as for "wards yourself you have so much ex- herself) her necessary and salutary do"tolled?" My Lord, I am not so en- minion of the seas. To hundreds of larged of soul as to be able to extend men, and in scores of public companies, either my personal or political affec- I have made this declaration, and in tions to all the nations of the earth. It every city and town of America in which was my lot to be born in this clump of I happened to be.

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little islands; and I never have been So that, my Lord, my views as to able, rationally speaking, to extend my this matter are by no means new, nor affections one inch beyond their con- have they ever been disguised in one fines. So that I look upon myself as single instance. Foreseeing the possiunder no sort of obligation to do any- bility that I might be so placed, one thing, or to say anything, in behalf of day or another, as to make me a real any other country or people, unless I actor in the great affairs of my own can do it, or say it, without the smallest country, I beg your Lordship to obrisk of diminishing either the happiness, serve, how scrupulously I avoided doing the power, or the renown of my own anything that might, in such poscountry; and this, as your Lordship sible case, operate as a tie upon me not well knows, has always been my pro- to pursue the exclusive interests of my fession of faith, as far as this matter own country. I was in the United goes. States, the first time, eight years, I And, as to my sincerity with regard saw thousands of loyal Englishmen, to the United States, I have a hundred amongst whom, I believe, were two times over declared, in print, that I gentlemen of the name of BARING; I would, if I had the power, prevent them saw thousands of these persons become from having any maritime force beyond what they call "citizens" of the United what was barely necessary to protect States, and making and causing to be their own coasts against pirates or pi- recorded a solemn declaration to that ratical enterprises; and I have never effect. There was no crime in this, done any one act, in the whole course of either legal or moral; it was done by my life, to prevent me from having a numerous persons, as worthy as ever moral as well as a legal right to cause lived in the world; it did not invalidate such prevention. When I was in that any of their rights at home as English country last, I, upon all occasions, subjects; while, at the same time, the openly declared that their navy had Americans received them with a greater been created, was creating, and was degree of cordiality; and while it resuffered to exist, only by imbecility of moved many little obstacles to the dealmind and of action, which had arisen ing in lands, and the carrying on transout of the misgovernment of England, actions in commerce and trade; and it and particularly out of the ill-constitu- also gave certain political and civil