P, i A« TO r. f' PROVINCIALS. ,r • Mr. rdr o , nod ether Gentlemen, on the subject of the effect of the Merlin Decree, and relative to American ships having car ried:,eargoes from Liverpool to ports on the Continent. His Wltiwygs.inlere generally corroboratory of such things having kahrta place. Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Sheldo?, and Mr. Inplis, the East India Director, were next examined on the same subject.—The further hParing of evidence was postponed till next Tuesday as.stek. • . Mr. S. Bernard presented the Report of the Committee for Enquiring i n to the Abuses atte•nling on Lotteries, %Inch was ordered to be laid upon the tahle.—Adjourned. TIMRSDA Y, APR 11. The Speaker having taken the Chair, a Message from the 'Ards hs the Deputy Black Rod required the attendance of the ilodie in the Nonce of Lords, to hear his lk jeot y's Commission read fur declaring the Assent to certain Bills. The Speaker, with several Members, went up forthwith, and after some time, returned and acquainted the House that the Royal Assent had been declared to the Exchequer Bills' Funding Lill, the 'Excise Laws Bill, the Bark Export Pro hibition Hill ; the Nish Bark and Cotton Export Prohibition the Iri*ll East India Trade Restriction Bill, the Inn keepers' Military Sob , i4enee Bill, and other Bills. A new writ was ordered to he issued for the Election of a bur gest.- for St. NL a MCF, in tae room of Scrope Barnard, Esq. who has accepted the ('hiller.) I lundreds ; and another for Wareham, io the room of Sir G. T. Calcraft, who has accepted the Sten - - ardship of East Hundred. Mr. Graham presented a Petition from the South London Water-Works Company, against the Bill for erecting a Bridge at Vauxhall.—Beferred to the Committee on the Bill. Mr. Estrottrt moved for a Return of the effective strength of each Of the Regiments of British Militia on the Ist of July. join; , and the Ist of . April, ISNS, di,tingni.hing the number of Volunteer- w filch had entered into the Regular' , from each Re ; imenf, and the number neeess . ary to complete each.—Ordered. The House then adjourned until Tuesday s'ennight. Ox eon n, Arn 1 6.-- The number of degrees in Michael rims term was--Tuo D. I). nne I). C. L. four B. 1). file B. C. L. forty-six M. A. tiventv-seven B. A. In Lent Term— -Four 1) D. twelve B. D. thirty-four M. A. our B. C. 1.. our I). Mos. fogy-five B. A. one B. Mus. new method of curing, cattle n hose stomachs are swollen from having fed upon net forage, was some time since an nounced in the French Journals. It consist ,, in administering to Ova:limnl the t emit th part of a pound of gunpon der, inked in a pint of milk,. ashen first i• eizeit with the colic, from eating grass or clover highl% charged nit', dew. Flower of brimstone, sprinkled by a purr, dredging-box, or nitterw6e ; on the lea%es of vegetales, will effectually destro% worms and in:cos. and liken ise promote the gri n s th of the plant; peach-trees are particularly improved by the applica- • r , rt *' `. • ' - ‘1 :_ts TIT L R GST . Lion. The l,•tte invention for preventing carriages upsetting by ine qualities in the road, consists of the axle• being formed with hinges or joints, which allow the wheels to move up or dowc, without effecting the equilibrium of the bort, n hich is further secured by an upright In It from the carriage, that leaves room for the motion of the body up and down, and springs bearing on the hinges. A butterfly, of the kind called tile Painted Butterfly, is now in full wing and vigour, in a house in NV hitehaven, after enduring All the severity of the past winter. all the severity Two lambs belonging . to Mr. Gurney, of Earlham, Norfolk, were last week killed by a wild mule cat. The lambs were found wounded in the neck, and the eye of one of them oas torn out. The cat ufterwards killed two kittens by sucking. their blood from the side of the neck in the same tuanner, and bring seen in the act led to the discovery of his having de.troye,l the lambs. At Taunton a•sizes considerable interest was excited at the trial of James Richards, a farmer, for the seduction of a young. woman to whom he had, for the too preceding years, paid his apparently honourable. addresses. The jury returned a verdict of 'stX)l*. against the defendant ; but as the damages weer laid only at 3001. the Judge informed the jur their s•erdict could not eacced ('tat sum. _ L... TT --, 111, as, Edward Ball, the oung man who, at the last Summer As sizes, at Lewes, was capitally convicted of a forger% on th e Batik of England, was, on Saturday last, executed at Horsham, pursuant to his sentence, in the presence of some hundrtlis of spectators. His behaviour, during the six months horrid sus pense vw hich he suffered under, before the Judges' opinion of the case was /glade known to him, and after his condemnation, was every way becoming one in his unhappy situation. A t o w fatal tree he supported himself with ntanK fortitude. Ile sa id but little, and all that could be distinctly heard vt as, " that he 11;0 sinned, and had repented;" after which, he was lautolird into eternit3, and died without a struggle. COUNTRY MIRK ET'S, RRCKII"GD RV MONIMC S reykr. I,lNr 57'r:ft.-IV heat, 50s. per load of Witte:tr,t er ; Beans, 41s. per load of 2401b5. ; t 275. 9d. ; meal, 41s. 5Yd. ; Butter, b. 3d. per lb. of 18 ounces. ParsvoN.-Wheat, ./24. I9s. 10d. per quarter. Winehrster wasure; Oatmeal, ,C 2. ss. per load of 2401b5. ; Butter, Fol. to I 6J. per lb. of IS ounces. Dank Twist, N 0.:10,25. 9d. to 3s. Od. ; Ditto, No. `l6 to 3.. 6d. ; Cop Twist. No. 40, 3s. Vd. to 3s. sd. ; Ditto, No. 50, 3s. M. to Is. 10d. ; Cop Weft. No. 30, 2s. 401. to 2s. ; Ditto, No. 40, 2s. Bd. to 2s. Ild.; Ditto, No. 30. to 3.. 1,;. ; No. 60, 3s. 3d. to 3s. dd. BLACK HUH N•--CoTTon. WEFT, &c. rho ; Twist. N to. YA), 2s. to 2s. I ; Ditto, No. 30, 2s. 9d. to 2 , . Ditto, No. 36. Id. to :Is. 6d.: Cop Weft. No. 18. Is. !td. to Is. I Id. ; Ditto, No. 30, 2s. 4d. to 2s. sd. ; Ditto, No. 40, '2s. sd. to 2s. 9d. Wo accsrrn.-Wheat Bs. 4d. to 9s. 10d. Bar)ey, ls. 104. to ss. (Id. Beans 6, Bd. to is. Sd. Oats, 4s. id. tot, , l t s,. Wo isv A M r - ro .--W heat. la.. Id. to I Bd. to 6s. 2d. Oats, 4s. Id. to 5 . Od. Beans, fss. Al to 9s. cll. Grey Peas, Ss. 4d. to 9s. II u t N W heat. 9s. sid. to 10-. Sd. Barley. . to li,. 3d. Oat-. , 4s. Od. to ss. Od. Old Beans, is. Od. tot.. Od. White Peas, I . ls. Od. to I3s. Gd. Grey Peas, is. 0.1. to ;-. 13.1 'CHUB v.-Wheat, Its. 6d. to 9s. 6d. Barlev , 395. Od. to 411. Od. Old Beans, ,G,. to GOs Od. Old Oats, 55-. to 40s. Od. COVE NTH Y.-Whz . at, Bs. Od. to 9s. 6d. Barley, , s. 9d. Its ss. 6d. Old Oats, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d. New Oats, 3c. 6d. to 94. Old Beans, is. (hi. to is. 6d. New Beaus, G.. 63. to Oil. White Peas 15s. Od. to lis. Gd. Croy ditto 6s. 64. to is. fid. C t 1111 f DGE, APR! 9:--W hen t, 4(1.. to 435. Ga. per lotid ; Rye, 445. to 48s. per quarter; Barley, .10s. to 455. Od.; Cats, 28s. to 365.; Peas, 525. to 565. ; Beaus, 50s. to Sts. IRovsToN,.Aram 13.--Wheat,42s. to 445. per Id.: I.ce, 485. to SW. per quarter; Barley, 12s. to Ths. ; Oat., SO, to Sr,tsteonn, APR IL S. -\V heat 665. tolls. p. quarter; Bar ey, 425. to 4is.; Oats, 271.. to 31s. TUESDAY'S LON DON GAZETTE. Arum• 12. 1 -08. The Gazette contains two dispatches from Illaior-Crneril Sherbrooke, commanding his 11ajo-1. - - troops in Sicils.. The 14,4, dated the nth February, •::tte, the surrender of It egjo to the French on the 3d, and that four Sicilian gun-boats ba , l fallen into the enentv's possession ; and also confvms the 10— in , the Delight sloop of war, w hich, iu endea% miring to rernser the gun boats, got on shore on the Calabrian coa.t. on the :ioth January, and it being found iirtpossiblo to get her a she was burnt. () 11 this occasion Capt. Handheld, with severi:l of los ship's company, was killed, and Capt. Seccombe, of the (dation, who was on board the Delight, was dangerousl: wounwounded,and died on the :;c1 Februar%. The becond dispatch is dated the 9.3 d February. and incl ose: the following report front Li*ut.-Col. obertson, the Comm:m il:int of Scylla Castle, stating the evar woion of th:,t General S. adds his highest approbation of the conduct id that Officer, and the'ollicers and Men serving under hint in the CA-tle, and of the Naval Officers and Seamen employed to bring away the garrison. Mes)ina, Frb. JS, !SOS: Sin—ln obedience to Your orders, I have the hostour to re port the particular, of what occurred since the first ap pear:lnce of the ene►ny before Scylla. After being invested b ' • General - Itegnicr's arni;• during seven -....•