612 • lae of at!ot ding adelinate protection to the trade of the memorialists, and although a considerable force Is been, and is now cm cloyed Ott the stations to which the memorialists particularly advert, their Liedships tint only do not cotton . in the pr :position that a number of cinizers eao Haim' complete protection against the occasional at tempts of privateers, hot they are sati,tied, on the contrary, from lit experience ot all former periods of war, and particularly in the instance of the coasting trade in the English Channel, that nothing bill a sy•teiii of CM) VII Will i i ffOrd the desired heir 1.4 , 111%11.r have cemmamled me tiuther to state, that though th4.y hive 1,0 Lows r by law to compel the adoption of convoys for the tra , lc bet yen oNc port Hod another of the United Kingdom, they sire !levet theless desirous of maki n g such arrangement. for that purpose, as, upon e•olimmlieation with the mei( limits of Bristol, or • of any other port, may he deeined• proper anfi hey( ssary. Loithhips tali. thi , opportunity of stating to you, for the iuti/rnr.itins. of the memo , ialist -; that from the accoonts whit li their Lord-hips have received of the (lest.' iption of vessels which have l'ormed the largest propoi lion of the 1 - 4 relit vaptiires in the Irish and 1.1ri•tol Cl.annels, it appeal,,, that i f th e i r iii s It rs I, a ,t availed them selves of tree convoys appointed for their proteeto.ii trim loteigui ports, or had not, in other instance,, deserted from the convoys coder whose protection they had sailed, before the fused eolielosion of the voyage, Molly (if the capture. weakd not have beets made. It i. their I.or!iships' dttei initiation, as far as they Way be enabled, to bring to punishment the parties who may have been guilt"; of such iilegal acts, and which are attended with COlJSC qhrtices to the trade of the country. To the observation made in the Alemorial as to the course of conn minication which the merchants of Bristol have adopted, my Lords command me to it ply, that they are .dways happy to pay to the te pee:irritations of so respectable a body as the inei chants of Bristol, t'Vcry attention in their power. With regard to the observation in your letter, relatine to the fit ting out of privateris in the French poets, 1 am to state that this loa:ref 11:IS 'Weil p r ide the subject of a conuntinication, through the 84410;11 - y of State tip - Foieigti /Affairs, to the French (;over !um iii. '.%ilWl,has bren'answeted by that (joy& rinuent Ohl bil• tist4erary ptinciples. I am, Sir, Your iitthst Itu.obit Sei yant, J. Fowler, Esq. M or Bristol. PROt INCLILS. J. W. CROKER. As a contrast to the gaudy and disgraceful scenes which have re ccntic exhibited 01 the metropolis, in commemoration or the glorious return peace,' we have to notice a scen of a very dif ferent description, which a correspondent was au eye•witness to, a few weeks since, at Ramsbury, iu Wiltsline.—A few spiritcd niers, actuated by motive* of true. loyalty alai benevolence, entered into a subscript on to re ale the neighbouring peasants on the ine• morable occasion, awl seemly tV% thousand pt rsons of all ages sat dowb 10 an excellent dinner in the open town, with plenty of strong ale. The tables reached a 101 l quarter of a nide in length : the buret front one side to the other was festooned with linnets and va ions devices in honour of the immortal Wellington and the return 4f peace, and loyalty, with the utmost good Inamour, gratitude, and teicpelaoce, pervaded the whole a , sembly. After au excellent (finny', herse racing, to prevent intemperance, was had recourse to, Sir F. linrelett's Park, and the day concluded with many a heart in tog male IIAT) - by the judicious genet osity of a few Snell conduct is indeed worthy of intilation, and we are glad to find it has been adopt( d ht many other instauees. A respectable farmer in the North of Cot 'mall wrote last week to his friends to Swausea, steiting that he Ic.t,i fiuished his harvest on the preceding Monday ; that during his forty years practice he had never reaped site+ piehtitul crops as those of the present seasen ; and that all the larineis in tl , at pot of the comitry have experi enced the sanue alitni4iance.—Si4mlse accounts have been received from the 'milli of Devon. .14 Mr. Artlint youn g , in the Coil. - Ar• of itig examination before the Corn Committee of the tionse of toraons, gave the following as hip ectitalate of the rotiqiniptien I t the t.Tnited Kingdom ; Ltland and Wale' , 32 291,697 (i:triers; S«)!!and. 5,401,Mi quartets; and Ireland, :3,31:),030 eplartei - s; making a grand total fur the Umtett hingdoin, of 41,067,980tplarters. •- Last v‘eek; Ann Sheppard, servant to Farmer Waterman, of Mil— . y, SoiliPV4o, was cominittcd to Wilton gaol, fur adding water t 3 the mill; sits was carrying into Taunton Itu sale, THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SEPT. 25. FATAL DUEL. —flu Saturday week, an unfortunate duel took place at Newcastle Fin Carmarthenshire. It appears that, a Mr. Hislop, a gentleman of respectable family, went to Newcastle to view an estate which was about to be sold, and was invited by Mr. B—, of that place. to dinner on Thursday. The former, however, behaved in au unbecoming manner, and used improper fan. guage, for which he was reprimanded ; he then quitted the house, and challenged Mr. B. to meet him in the morning. Mr. B. hoping that passion would subside, replied, that he was engaged on the Friday, but if he demanded it, would meet Mr. H. on the Saturday. Accordingly on Saturday the parties met, accompanied by their Secoilds; and on the wovd " present" being given, Mr. H. requested My. B. to " stop." Mr. B. accordingly dropped the point of his pistol, and :,Jr. H. then said, " Now, make ready." This was done, a nd the ball from Nu. IL's pistol shot Mr. H. thorough the body, and he died almost immediately. Mr. H.'s pistol did not go off, in consequence, it is supposed, of the flint being too long ; had this ,tot been the case, it is ptobable that both the combatants would have fallen. A Coroner's Jury u eturned a verdict of Wilful :Murder aglinst some person or peisans unknown. • An inquest was held last week. at Sionehonse;Devon, on the body of Thomas COWaIIS, a seaman uu board the Salvador, ss ho had made a h e r hr would tto tip and stand on the tiock at the main-top-royal. mast head, which he had effected about half-past seven o'clock in die evennie, but no ;wen pting if/ come down, by holding only with his hands on a rope called the top-gallant back-stay, he came down so swift that he could nut keep his hold ; and till from just under the main-top on the larboard side of the deck, on his tree, quite in sensible ; the blood wished out from his mouth and ears, and one of his thighs was fractured; he languished till about one o'clock in the mccoieg, when he died.—Verdict, Accidental Death. Friday stonnight, as H. Screeder was going from Northbourn to ‘‘'hitfii Id, Kent, lie was attacked by three ruffians, who demanded his .3 atch ; he told themshe h d tome, and proceeding to act on the defenske. drew out a knife, mitt which he stabbed one of the vil lains in the breast ; the other two succeeded in getting Screeder down, when they wounded him in--the arm, beat him most tinnier. cifolly, and after rifling his pockets of twenty-seven pounds, drageed him into an adjacent wood, supposing him to be dead—one of the ruffians, however, retorned afterwards, and jumped on the body t;iree times. The unfortunate sufferer remained in that deplorable situation until nearly noon the next day, when he was discoveied and conveyed to Whitfield. lii a shOrt time he was sufficiently re covered to give a very particular description of the villain lie wounded, who he states had lost his left arm above the elbow, and was dressed in a blue jacket and trowsers. The villain fell from the wound inflicted by Screeder, which must consequently have been a severe one, and we hope may lead to Isis detection A roost melancholy occident occurred on Saturday selmight, on the turnpike road between Faringdon aid Wintage, Berks. Mr. Spicer, a farmer residing at Goosey, had loaded a waggon with cheese for %Vantage, and his wifti embraced the opportunity afforded her thereby (.1 ridi , g ono the waggon to that place: having arrived opposite the farm, calk(' Garland:, they . wete overtaken by some men, with a number of loose colts, returning froM Leachlade fair ; these, in pass ing, divided on each side of the waggon, and thereby frightened the horses which were drawing it : the result was truly fatal, fur in endea vouring to .stop them, the driver, John Combly, was beaten down, and both wheels p as sed over his loins—he expired in a le .v minutes after.; ards. The horses hting thus left without a driver, set off at a full gallop ; the wagg , n was in consequence overturned, and the cheese tailing on Mrs. Spit., r, she Has killed on the spot: The boy Mho led the foie horse had a narrow escape, haying been knot ked down by it, but he fortunately succeeded in rolling out of the way of the wheels, before they passed.--An inquest was held on the bodies by Mr. Slade, of %Vantage, M hen the Jury returned a verdict of 9ecidental Death, A remarkable instance of recovery from the effects of cutting the large blood vessels in the neck has recently occurred in Portsea, on an unfOrtimate person who had made this attempt at suicide ;.—Mr. Wdli.ims, the surgeon, instantly grasped . the bleeding orifice to pre vent Nether loss of blood, and adopted an operation which alone presented the least hope of saving life, which was to interrupt the ci cohabit) of blood through these vessels, by tying them and the mass of substance leurrounding them (both above and below the • wound) so that they might be made impassable for the blood. This was candidly effected, although the patient was nearly expiring from the great effusion of blood, but is now, however, completely restored to health. This case affords the fourth very gratifying proof, that the disuse of one half of the organs which convey blood. to the head may be sustained without injury, when the cure of wounds or diseases of these parts renders it necessary; which fact s until lately, was not conceived pOssible. ~.