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     To the Editor of the British flmerican 
     
    
   
   
    
     MR. Eorron, 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is highly gratifying to sse that our pre- 
     
     dictions as to the success of your intended 
     
     Paper before it was published, are each 
     
     day rapidly verified,l sent an humble con- 
     
     tribution to your first number under my 
     
     present signature, it was headed with part 
     
     of Jack Cade’s address to the mob in Hen- 
     
     ry VI. I took that signature in opposition 
     
     to some false teachers, and expressed my 
     
     fears that a mania had been encouraged if 
     
     not promoted, among the ignorant, by such 
     
     persons; the event has shewn that those 
     
     fears were too well founded,—some weeks 
     
     ago Mr. John Collings, a sheriff’s oflicer 
     
     went to Lot 1, with a view of executing 
     
     processes for rent, against some of the 
     
     tenants of that Township, they resisted him 
     
     in a large armed body at Tignish Bridge 
     
     and obliged him to return. Several of Lord 
     
     James Townsend’s reforming tenants being 
     
     indebted for their rents, the same sheriff’s 
     
     officer was sent with processes against 
     
     them, and on his return with his assistant 
     
     they hired a boat to ferry them over a 
     
     river, the boatman rowed about half way 
     
     over, and then tried to upset the boat in 
     
     deep water, using the most abUSive lan- 
     
     guage towards them ; his name is 
     
     Aitkin, and he lamented that he had not 
     
     taken out an axe and scuttled or chopped 
     
     the boat, * * * 
     
    
   
   
    
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     s ‘ Iunderstand that a tenant 
     
     of that estate, Lot 56, told some of the 
     
     tenants that ifthey killed two or three 
     
     sheriffs they would not be troubled with 
     
     any more such visits. It may possibly be 
     
     in my power to publish this persons name. 
     
     though ifmy intelligence is correct it will 
     
     be published elsewhere.—Such Mr. Editor 
     
     is the “march ofintellect” among us, and 
     
     the escheating committees are raisiug sub- 
     
     scriptions to send agents to England on 
     
     the subject, and bonds or agreements to 
     
     resist the payment ofrents have been en- 
     
     tered into in different plaCes ; there can be 
     
     no doubt but such conspiracies is not only 
     
     actionable but indictable, of which I sup- 
     
     pose we shall soon have ample testimony. 
     
     Setjeant Hawkins has no doubt as to the 
     
     common law. and the Statute 33, Edward 
     
     I. is explicit. Conspirators are among 
     
     other descriptions, “ those who falsely 
     
     move or maintain pleas.” And now as to 
     
     riots or combinations to interrupt a sheriff’s 
     
     officer, they are combinations in direct 
     
    
   
   
    
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     xv defiance ofthe common law, and are punish- 
     
    
   
   
    
     able by heavy fine and imprisonment, and 
     
     at this time it may not be amiss to describe 
     
     some features of a riot—The show of ar- 
     
     mour, threatening speeches, or turbulent 
     
     gestures,—if any riot assembly or root of 
     
     people against the law be made, the 
     
     Justices, rec, or two of them at the least, 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN. 
     
    
   
   
    
     and the Sheriff or Under-sheriff shall come 
     
     with the power of the county, if need be, 
     
     and the King’s liege people, being sufficient 
     
     to travel, shall be assistant on pain of im- 
     
     prisonment, and to make fine and ransom 
     
     to the King. Any Justice, or the Sheriff 
     
     may take of the power of the county, any 
     
     number that he shall think meet to pursue, 
     
     arrest, or imprison, such as do break, or go 
     
     about to break, or disturb the King’s peace, 
     
     and every man being required, ought to 
     
     assist and aid them, on pain of fine and im- 
     
     prisonment, and the Sheriff having this 
     
     power, cannot to an exeCUtion against the 
     
     person, return that he was rescued, and if 
     
     he does he is liable to an action for an 
     
     escape. The sheriff’s oflicer should have 
     
     called on some of the rioters at Lot 1, 
     
     (whose names he knew) to assist him, 
     
     and if they refused the Supreme Court 
     
     would take care of them. 
     
    

    
     The mischiefs which have been already 
     
     done among the landfanciers, by their false 
     
     teachers has been already great I fear, and 
     
     may soon become incalculable.—Go to the 
     
     English, we say, for they are feels, and 
     
     what will the English say? “Go back 
     
     again, for you are rogues. The moans of 
     
     the families of those victims, seduced by 
     
     such false teachers already assail our feel- 
     
     ings, and what will be the ruin which a 
     
     few weeks will produce ? False teachers 
     
     is entirely too mild a name forthem, the 
     
     horrid character of incendiary is branded on 
     
     their brow -—the murderer concludes his 
     
     business, and it is soon over, but the task 
     
     ofthe incendiary is endless and unlimited, 
     
     the different languages from whence the 
     
     name is derived, vie with each other for an 
     
     appropriate explanation, incendium in the 
     
     Latinlanguage, means a fire, as when an 
     
     house or a town is On fire, a vehemence of 
     
     any passion, but I think the French come 
     
     nearer to it,—boute-feu, a make bate, 
     
     quarrel, dispute. The first sentence ofthe 
     
     learned and eloquent Hooker’s Ecclesias- 
     
     tical Polity, contains a trite and valuable 
     
     remark, “ He that goeth about to persuade 
     
     a multitude that they are not so well go- 
     
     verned as they ought to be, shallnever 
     
     want attentive and favourable hearers.” 
     
     Ishall be much surprised if we fail to get 
     
     a hold of more than one of those pests, and 
     
     then pull, honest men pull ! 
     
    

    
     Your’s 8w. 
     
     .QLITER. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Funeral of the Rev. Dr Adam Clarke—This vene- 
     
     rable and eminent Divine was on Wednesday commit- 
     
     ted to the tomb. A few minutes before one. the body. 
     
     accompanied by the two sons of the deceased. and se- 
     
     veral friends, as mourners. arrived at the City-road 
     
     Chapel, at the door of which it was received by the 
     
     Rev. Mr. Entwistle. and all the other ministers of the 
     
     metropolis belonging to the Methodist. denomination. 
     
     The former Rev Gentleman read the funeral service. 
     
     and delivered an appropriate address in an impressive 
     
     manner ; after which the coffin was taken to the grave 
     
     prepared for it in the yard. followed by the mourners 
     
     and ministers. It was intended to have buried him in 
     
     the vault of the Rev. John Wesley; but this was ob- 
     
     jected to by the Board of Health.in consequence of the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     deceased having died of the Cholera. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     iii. 13. 
     
     ENGMND. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Slate of Trade.-With much pleasure we no. 
     
     two that the demand for the fall trade is begin. 
     
     oing to increase the sales both in our cloth. 
     
     halls and warehouses, and to revive the droo 
     
     ing spirits of our merchants. The protracted 
     
     period of stagnation is, we would fain lmpe, a: 
     
     an end.For two or three weeks past the sales“ 
     
     the Leeds and Huddersfiel markets have been 
     
     large, and at Bradford and Halilax the market; 
     
     are also improved. The manufacturer has 
     
     still to struggle with an adVanced price of 
     
     foreign wool, and an advanced rate of wage.; 
     
     and as he finds himself unable to obtain a pro. 
     
     portionate advance in the price of his goods, he 
     
     is compelled to diminish the quantity made, 
     
     and to supply himself as it were from hand to 
     
     mouth. ’I he commencement of the fall demand 
     
     will, however, inevitably increase the quantity 
     
     manufactured, and call again into employment 
     
     some ofthe many hands which are now reluc. 
     
     antlyzidle. It is universally agreed thatstock. 
     
     are low, both in the hands ofthe merchant and 
     
     the ratail dealer; and this, combined with the 
     
     prospect of an abundant harvest and a low 
     
     price 01 food, is an encouraging symptom to 
     
     those who have to supply the nation with 
     
     clothing. There is no immediate prospect of 
     
     animprovement in the foreign trade, whichI 
     
     from a great variety ofcauses, is decidedly bad; 
     
     but an amelioration of the internal state of the 
     
     country may, we think, he confidently looked 
     
     for.-—Leed: .Mcrcury. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Reh’ring .Members of Parliament. A consi. 
     
     derable number. including Sun“: of the oldest 
     
     Members of Parliament, will retire from their 
     
     duties into private life at the ensuing election 
     
     We may instance Mr. Coke, the father of the 
     
     house, Mr. Pearse. of Devizes, the venerable 
     
     Sir John Newport, the Marquis of Tavistoclt, 
     
     Lord Stanley, Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Lamber, 
     
     Galway, Sir Chas. Wethcrell, Sir John Nichol' 
     
     and others. 
     
    

    
     Recruiting for Don Pedro‘s Army in Portu- 
     
     gal. Since Monday the agents for Don Pedr 
     
     in this country have been most actively em. 
     
     ployed in obtaining recruits for his army 
     
     Some hundreds have already enrolled them 
     
     selves; each man when he enrolls his name 
     
     eceivcs 18d. which is paid to him daily until 
     
     he can be sent off to Oporto : and as soon as he 
     
     is embarked, he is to receive 21. 10:. per month 
     
     besides provisions. Yesterday hundreds o 
     
    

    
     ersnns were at the house oer. Hcttinger. 
     
     the old Star and Crown, in the Broadway. 
     
     Westminster, applying to be enrolled, and 
     
     each man receiving his 18d. There appeared 
     
     to be no want of money, and the recruits are 
     
     to embark in a day or two, in steamboats pr 
     
     vided for the oceasion. The recruits willg 
     
     out under the command ofan officer of great 
     
     bravery and experience, who ha.- sold his com 
     
     mission in the British army for the purposeo 
     
     aiding the cause of Don Pedro in Portug 
     
     a number of other houses in the metropolis 
     
     Don Pedro’s agents are recruiting with gm 
     
     success, and arms and equipments for the men 
     
     are already provided—Morning Herald. 
     
    

    
     Profits of the Bank of England. The Baal 
     
     was first established in It)“ on a capital of 1,200,000 
     
     increased from time to time. from that date to I? ' 
     
     to ll.686.800l.. at which amount it stood up to 18! 
     
     From 1746 to 1780. a dividend of five per cent per» 
     
     num was paid on this amount: in the seven years. 17l- 
     
     six per cent.; in the nineteen years. 1788—1806. 
     
     ven per cent; and. in addition thereto. from Jun! 
     
     1799. to October, 1806. 3,783,780 was divided 
     
     men; the shareholders in the way of bonus. ln 
     
    
   
   
    
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