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FOE TR Y. For the North Wales Gazette. ODLAU DUWWL, GOLTvG A It Y GAN AAN XEF01-. I fyuydd Pisgah, awn, ynghyd, Cavsn wel'd yr hyrryd Ganaan; Yr hoii a i-ooclir in', liel) franv, Y: oehr drawer Iorddonen. We ro'ed i Gristion olwg- well Nil myn'd ymhell i moro!, Cawn weled frwy 'r ysgrythor IAn Ddarluniad Canaan nefol. A brynodd lesu Grisf, ein Brawd, Pan oedd mewncnawd vntrengu; >l'r sawl s>'n ol ei air yn byw, O ddynion i'w meddiannu. o cyd-ddychwelwn at ein Duw; — ,Tra byddom byw gweduiwn Addolwn J'renhin mawry-nef, A'i caw ef inoliannwn. J. PARRI, Llandwrog,

AINSLIE'S OBSERVATIONS ON Til INN ING PLANTATIONS. No man will ever plant to prufit, who does not go through his plantations early, with an axe in his baud, and a coid calculating heart. Nothing can be more unpleasant than to cut down aVlhriving tree, hut it must be done, or you will have ho timber. The plan 1 purslle js to begin to thin in ei:;ht years. I mark the rows of inferior trees, and cut ilietn ail down I cross in every direction, as the smaller trees present themselves, and whenever I find a weak plant, it fall*. takes fiWiy about one in four, in two years more 1 I attack them again. I cut down every row of second raie trees, and when I come to a parcel of equal size, I cui down one in three. Proceeding in this manner, cutting down one uree in four at each thinning, 1 find I give sufficient air, but never too much. M y larcbcs «i'twenty years growth, average from 22 to I 24 'iicht!; in circumference, a.* 6 feet. The Scotch firs, in favorable situations, do the fame in very exposed situations the average is from IT to 20 the heights of the former'"is from 36 to 40 feet, of the latter from 30 to 3*3 feet. 1 purpose to thin these plantations again in three or four years, at which period they will 1:0 twenty-six years old, and every tree will contain 6 feet of square timber, and many upwards of ten. The utmost value of the land I planted was 1.9, and is, 6d. an acre per annum. I have within these last twenty- I one vears planted 378,563 forest trees, about M or 30,000 larches, surrounding, hiy copse- woods; the rest are in clumps, of unequal di- mensions, from 77 acres to half an acre. The whole ex pence of plants, planting, fencing and preserving, with compound interest, does not 11 is no idle speculation to look forward to what may be the valu of 50,000 larches of fify years growth, nor to yr hat tiie thinnings of the plantations may produce in the interim and 1 trust 1 have converted bad land to a good pu pose, at as Jilile expence as any plantations in the king- i i. The great value uf larch trees in par- ticular. has been happily ascertained by Win, Congr; *e, Esq. and Mr, Hen. Couligham: — the mer of whom planted since Jan. 1808, 6B4.G0Q larches, on 190 acres of a poor flinty h "rh. It is ascertained, that the wood of larch comes to perfection atforty years old, that of the piuas'ei at sixty, and that or the Scotch fir at eighty years growth and that the Li- burnum, (which has been cultivated merely as an ornamental shrub) produces timber al- most of a solidity equal to Lignum vitse." 1I'!Ir:

STATE OF RELIGION IN SPAIN. By a Modern Traveller. Seville, October 7, 1809. The feelings of Religion are supported j here by every object that presents itself to view at the corners of th^ streets, Uie shrines j "f various saints obtrude themselves upon the passenger even the fronts of the hotlses hre adorned with their images, to which every stranger uncovers his head, makes the sign of the cross. !a the midst of the gaieties which commence at five o'clock in the even- ing, She public walk is crowded with company dressed iu the most splendid attire, and iudulg lug in tiie most lively conversation, when the sound of the bell announces the hour of sun- set. At this signal, every one, as if by magic, seems fixed in his place; every head is unco- vered, and all repent a mental prayer, when the lively scenes are instantly resumed. But this practice, in private houses, is disregarded in proportion to ihe rank of tiie family, and not at at! observed in the ranks. No one of the various religious observances, with which this city abounds, appears more ludicrous to me, than the procession of the host to the house of the sick at the point of death. A priest seated in a sedan chair, wit Si elements -in a gold case on bis lap, escorted by a guard of soldiers, and preceded liy a I)eil-iiiati, strikes three strokes, in allusion to the Trirti- tv. At this known sound, whatever be the state of tilC weather, or the condition of the streets, every one drops on his knees, and 1; continues-so till the sound is over. Towards the conclusion of supper, the master of the house repeats ten Ave Marias, tiie wife the fa.-criioster, nld her ten Ave Marias, others the same till they have repeated the Ave fda-I ria fifty tunes, and the Lord's Prayer five times, then a Litauy, adding to the name of every saint of a long list ova pro nobis."— The words are uttered with as much 'rapidity as possible. A few days ago the bishop of this city t»,:de ;i tour found his diocese, t- confirm persons, from each of whom he re- ceived a fee. On his return with the money, he was attacked by a bandith,. who rob' c hin: o( b: wea¡¡!t,cJotbes, and ves¡lIIen! The k now (edge of this story excited thejoke?. j and merriment of the people, who wished lha? the ciergy were the only victims of rohbers.- They are reproached by all ehsses for their in dolcnce, voluptuousness, and profligacy The terror of the Inquisition has considerably a- bated of late The education of females in is They are sent to convents at all early age, where they are kept till ti.ev are marriageable. retireinetitthey are suddenly introduced to the circles of gaiety and dissipalioli; and it is not to be wondered at, that from so violent a change, and from the bad example of the married females with "whom they associate, they become victims to the dissolute habits of the country." ¡

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN' KNOWLEDGE. The Anniversary Dinner of the Socicly for promoting Christian Knowledge took place on Tuesday the 7th instant, at the Freemason's flail, Great Qticcti-st. citis. I The Meeting was most respectably attended. Besides many other Members of thai. venerable and truly excellent Institution, there were present the Right Rev. the Lord Bishops of London, Salisbury, Hereford, Carlisle, Ely, Chester, and Pelerborough the Right Hon. and Rev. Earl Nelson the Right Hon. Sir William Scott; Sir Thomas DykeAcklaud, Bart.; Admiral Sir J. Saumarez, Bart. K. B.; the very Rev. the Dean of Canterbury; the Rev. Archdeacons Pott, Cambridge,and Vyse; the Rev. John Dampier, Prebendary of Ely I T. P. Lamb, Esq. M. P.; John Round, Esq. M. P.; &c. &c. &c. The Lord Bishop of London expressed to the Meeting, together with their cordial wishes for the e prosperity of the Society, the regret felt by his Grace the Lord Arch- I bishop of York and the Right Hon. Lord I Sid mouth. at being prevented by indirensihie ( ITIN duties from attending; 5 and that the attendance of his Grace the Duke of Buccleu^h was pre- vented in consequence of a severe domestic affliction. A most interesting report was made by Uic Secretary, I be Rev. D. I). of I ;0. t co j. the exert ions of he society iii the distribution of Bibles, Testaments, rsaiiers, Common ¡ Prayer Books, and Tradll, The number of 1 each distributed, between the 8th of April, J 8 i 3, and the 21st of April, 1314, wewstatcd II as follow — Bibles 25,705 I .New Testaments and Psalters 47,814 Coimiiui Prayer Books 56,628 Other Bound Books 49,810 Small Tracts, half-bound, &c. 483,7 10 Total 666,727 1 A report was likewise made of the receipts I and disbursements of the Society between the same periods, from which it appeared, that I owing the great demands upon the funds, the I disbursements exceeded the receipts by liP, wards of six thousand pounds of the number I of members, amounting at present to rawre i than ten thousand; of the great increase of diocesan and district committees iu connexion with the Society and of the progress of that important work, the Family Bible, with Notes explanatory and practical, arranged under the sanction of the Society, and dedicated, by permission to the Most Rev. tiie Lord Arch- bishop of Canterbury. The Company, who were much gratified at the reports of the Society's exertions, left the Hall at an early hour. I

FRAUD ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. COURT OF KING'S JBEN'CII, Joke 8. THE KINGf. I,ORI) COCHRANE AND OTHERS. This was an indictment against Charles Kan dom de Berrenger, Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, Messrs. Butt, SautJon, M'Cree, Ualloway, and Ly!e, for a conspi racy. The conspiracy charged was with an intent to raise ihe price of the Funds, by rais ing a false rumour that Bonaparte was slain in battle; that the Allies were in possession of Paris and that a Peace was concluded between this Country and France.—From the great length of this trial, and (he numerous witnesses examined, it is impossible to go into a minute detail of-the evidence seriatim as it was given, but an intelligible outline of the fads may be correctly stilted in a moderate .compass Mr. Gurney led the case, and in a very able of spiracy. The brief statement of the facts is as follows: Abfut half-past one on the morning of the 21st of February. John Marsh, Master of the Packet-boat Public-house at Dover, heard a knocking at the door of ihe Ship Inn, at Dover. He went out, and saw » gentleman in a 'military uniform, decked with a star and cross, knocking at the door of the Inn. He brought two candles from his own house, by which lime the stranger had g,lined admittance to the Ship. lie here stated, that he had just been landed from a French hoat fron Caiais; that there had been a general engagement between the Allies and Bonaparte that the latter had been intercepted by a party of Cos. sacks, and had been killed and that the Al- lies had entered Paris, and a peace was con- cluded between thenj and the French. He desired to have a post chaise and four imme- diately, and called for a paper and pen to write a letter to the Port Admiral at Veal. This was brought him, and an express was immediately sent with his letter to 1 Admiral Folev. at Dcd; whence it would have been transmitted to London by the Telegraph, but the weather was, fortunately, too hazy. The post-chaise was procured, and he set off for London. Ke was identified by four persons, as the Baron de Serenger. The several post- chaise drivers and innkeepers who saw him on She road were called, and they all recognized his person, neguto!itoftiiechaissatt!ie Marslijjate, Westminster, and there got into a hackney-coach the driver of which was called, who proved that he drove him direct to Lord Cochrane's house, No. 12, Green- street, Grosveuor square. The news of this Officer's arrival having got í to the Slock. Exchange, it produced all increase in tiie price of Stocks, so 1 hat Omnium cose from 17;j to 20; but no intelligence being re- ceived irosn Goverment, it began Jo flatieu, î when more news, of another chaise,decorated I with laurel, and with foreign Officers wearing 1, die white cockade, suddenly arrived at the Stock Exchange; the Funds immediately rose again. The next head of evidence applied to ¡ his chaise. The evidence as to this was to shew, that on the same Sis! day of February, Saudon, who was a wine merchant at North- fleet, near Gravescnd, and M'Cree and Lyte, arc the parties who came lip in that chaise. The nest head of the evidence related to the accounts of the Stock transactions of Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Bult, by winch it appeared that they held near one million Mock, which was sold al. a prcmi. um soon after the news arrived at the Stock Exchange. Mr. Odell, a fisherman, proved, that in the beginning of April he fished up from the j Thames a uniform coat, richly embroidered, and a star—it was sunk iu a calico cover with j I' a lead weight.—The clothes being "produced, were stated, by S.Solomon, to have been sold by him, on Saturday the 20th of February, to a person resembling Mr. de Berenger, who said he wanted them for a person who was about to perform an Officer's pad in the COUll try. These were the substance of the facts on I the part of the proseculion. I Mr. Gurp.ey, Mr. Boliand, and Mr. Ado! I phus, were Counsel for the prosecution; Mr. Serjeant Best, Mr. Parke, Mr, Topping, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Lawes, were Counsel for the defendanls. Lord Eilenborough, in charging the jerry, said, this was an offence of great malignity, and char- ged eight persons with wickedly conniving to ef- 'ect a "I lect a public injury. The evidence of such an offence, it was not to be expected, could be col- lected from the mouths of the parties; hut must appear from their conduct; and if it appeared fi that they all entered into conspiracy for tiie same purpose, and that their endeavours combined to effect it, a foundation for such a charge as the present was laid. An alibi harl heen set up; but never since his Lordship had been present in a court of justice, had he been so strongly con- vinced of the truth of evidence as of that which this alibi sought to overthrow. If the witnesses, I who proved the identity of De Berenger, (and this one circumstance closely cemented the con- nexion of all the other defendants,) -were not to be believed, then every man who had been hang from the Old Bailey, had been murdered ail from the Old Bailey, had been murdered ail former evidence as to.identity was so much wenker than this, ilis Lordship reprobated the phrase hoax, which, had been applied to this fraud by the defendant's letter: it was robbery, a fraud upon ihe public, and was not to be treated ao a matter of pleasantry. His Lordship then pro- ceeded to read to the jury tiie whole of the evi- dence, which took up near two hoars; afrer which he observed, the whole question was now before them and they must see that it was noc i only a great public, question, but a question of I great interest to the individuals concerned. If I they believed that the persons indicted had been connected in the scheme of raising the price of the funds by the manner which was stated by f many witnesses, and for the purpose charged in the indictmeut, they must find the persons so con- } cerned guilty, discriminating whether they he- i lieved some of them innocent and others guilty. The jury then withdrew for about two hours and a half, and on their return found a verdict of Guilty, against Lord Cochrane, the H011. An- drew Cochrane Johnstone, Charles Random De } Berenger, Butt, Hollaway, JVl'liae, Sandon, and Lyte. —- 'luesdui June 14. After the Bar had been gone through. Lord Cochrane, who had come into Court aboii! half an hour before, with a number of papers in his hand, addressed himself to their I Lordships. Scarcely recovered os he was, from the shock he had oil being informed that a Jury of his country had found Lim guilty, along with ot!)CI'S, of a rfiisdeiiic,,iii, our against the laws, he must claim the utmost indulgence of the Court, while he humbly sub- mitted to them reasons, which he trusted, would induce them to think that a review of thai verdict o-nght to take place. This, he hoped, he should experience, the more parik- cu larly, on this account, because he was not | habituated to matters of this kind, nor was he habituated to matters of this kind, nor was he accustomed lo the forms of proceeding in I Courts of law. He trusted, when he should I have staled a few fads, wish which it was es- sentia! to the ends of public justice thei,r Lord- ships should be acquainted, they would be of opinion that a revision of that verdict ought io fake place, at least so far as he (Lord Coch- io fake place, at least so far as he (Lord Coch- rane) was concerned. it was his misfortune io suffer, iu consequence of an intimacy sub- sisting between him and men over whom, not withstanding, he hnd no coutroul. He was told that he was, through no fault of his own, placed in a that it was not compe- tent for his Cutitisel tc) iyiove for a new trial, so far as he was conccmed, but that he must, however unfit for the t&sk, lake that burden upon himself. Lord Eilenborough observed, that then hi Lordship had been greatly misinformed It was quite competent for his Counsel to move, on his lIehalf, for a new trial, and perhaps it would be more advantageous for himself, that matters should take that, tUcir natural and re- gular course. Lord Cochrane had been told, (hat if all the persons who had been found guilty were not present in Court, that he, though he, as he now did, presented himself, could not be en- titled, by his Counsel, to move for a new trial, so far as ho was concerned. I Lord Elienborongh informed his Lordship I that the rule of Court was equally applicable to a motion for a now trial made by the party himself, as to a motion made on his behalf bv his Counsel. himself, as to a motion made on his behalf bv his Counsel. Lord Cochrane said, it was with the view ftl' of preventing any Counsel from trespassing upon their Lordships" rules, or (hose of [be I Court, that, he presumed now lo intrude, for r. short time, on their Lordships' attention. Lord Eilenborough assured his Lordship, that I bey could not hear him: nor, if they did, could they advert to, or act upon any thing that might fall from him, nor upon any evi- dence to which he might refer. I Lord Cochrane had to complain, that on the trial evidence of great importance to the proving his innocence bad not been brought forward. If their Lordships would allow him io read to l-hem the evidence to which he al- luded, they would be belter able to judge. Lord Eilenborough.— it cannot be, consis- tently with the established forms of ihe Court. I Lord Cochrane said, he should be eslremelv brief: he held in his hand affidavits— Lord Eilenborough assured his Lordship that it gave the Court pain to interrupt him, I but they could u- consistently with the so- lemn and established rule of the Court, suffer him to proceed. Lord Cochrane trusted, that in deviating from their rule, in such a case as the present, ¡ their Lordships would do an act more redound- ing to their owu honour, and snore calculated to promote Use ends of justice, than by inflexi- bly acting up to it. What could their be in- consistent. with justice, in suffering him, who, though he had no Counsel, was ready to as-, seri and prove his own innocence, from do- ing so, merely because those who were guilty were not present, and dared not shew their faces.' Lord Eilenborough said, if they were to vi,,Id ';is r,ile, wll;'),llatl bt,t) soleni'lly de- cided, and since uniformly acted upon, loone, tbey must do So to all. Ili [III,, Court they I could make 110 distinction of persons. Lurd Cochrane begged only to 5tale- Lord Eilenborough.-—-If would be idle in the Court to announce to your Lordship, that there is such a rule as I have mentioned, if we did not intend to act upon it. We did act upon this rule this very day, in the case of an obscure individual, and are we now to act dif- ferently in your Lordship's case ? That would A indeed, be to furnish evil minded persons with a handle for saying that we have one rule t, of law for the poor, and another for the iich. Lord Cochrane said, he had been so consci- ous of his own innocence, that he had never thought it necessary to instruct Counsel, as several Gentlemen in Court knew, nor had he even read a brief on the subject, till after the trial, when he found that a very great error had crept into it, in respect to the evidence of his servants, as to the dress of the si ranger who called at his Lordship's house in his ab- since, They were represented as admitting that lie was dressed in a red coat, whereas, all they had stated was, that he appeared to be a mi litary ofifcer, to which character they, as a matter of course, attached the idea of a red coat, though it might ecpaiiy well have been green. Ifere the matter dropped, and his Lordship, of course, took nothing by his motion. f,elter to Lord Sidmoiilh, signed" J. BrowlI," lias been sent to ilS for insertion, (says the Efcamiller News. paper of last week), but want of room pre- vents its appearance, "he writer says, That if De Bercngerharl been liberated upon bail, he could have completely proved the utter impossibility of his having been at Dover at the time specified, or his having personated the sham ,Colonel ;that hi. confinemcnt deprived him of the means of so doing; — that he (the writer, though altogether unknown to any of the parties or theil- leg-al advisers, and solely actuated by disinterested feeling) is now ready to exhibit proofs that De Berenger was not the person that NtFea, had he not heen indicted, would have proved De Berenger's innocence, as well as that of Lord Cochrane, Mr. C. Johnstone, and Mr. Butt;—that the Jury evidently doubted of the verdict they should give;—and that, for these and other reasons, he (the writer) conjures Lord Sidmouth not to suffer the verdict to be acted upnn, without further inquiry II! Anecdote of ttlncher. — When the General j was at Dover, he was surrounded by a crowd of females, some of whom requested a lock of I the General's hair, He bowed and smiled: but begged to be excused, adding, with an al- I lusion to the baldness of his head, trial if lie gave them a hair a-piece, he should not have one hair left." The honest and unaffected veteran smokes bis pipe, and shakes hands with John Ball, whenever he desires ium to do so 5 and though retired io his own apartment, when the populace under his window called" Out, out came out as good-naturedly as if he was doing himself a favour, and thai they might see him as much as they desired. Murder AND Robbery. On Thursday, between Ihe hours of nine and ten o'clock, Mr. William Fowler, a respectable farmer of I Chew-Magna, was returning" from Bristol market, accompanied by a young woman,-in his market cart, he was stopped by a footpad, near the Maidenhead at Dundry when spring- ing from the cart, as is supposed with a view io protect his properly,< be was shot through the head. The report of the pistol frightened the horse, but the young woman leaped out at the fail of the cart, and proceeded to a car- penter's shop about two hundred yards from the spot, where she procured assistance, and on her return found the deceased rifled of all his property. lie lias-left a wi!o and four children. The robber was dressed in a smock frock. A tremendous storm of thunder and I lightning which was raging at the time, did not defer the hardened villain from Ihe com- mission of so abominable a crime.—{Bristol Paper.) Explanation of Iks terra ffinchesler Bushel of Saxons, who had come asaux iliaries to the Britons, but turned their arms against their employers, had gradually won their way by 1.)ati.ios and sieges, by victories and by conquest, from the eastern coast of Kent, over nearly the whole of Roman Bri- tain. Then they turned their arms against each other, and the seven kingdoms contend- ed together for the supremacy. At length the kingdom of the West Saxons was finally suc- cessful and Wiucbesier becamc metropolis of all England. This sovereignty of Winchester 1-17, to 1 lasted from the days of Egbert, in 8^7, to the Confessor, about 1046. The only memorials of ihis sovereignty remaining, is Ihe Statute of Finch ester, as it is called, made at Westmin- ster, S die Octobris, 13 Edw, 2. an Dom. 1285, now so familiar in every part of the kingdom. This is first noticed as iis mother's name, in 22 Ch. II. 14 as the standard marked in his Majesty's Exchequer, commonly called the Winchester measure, containing eight gallons to the bushel," and is slill existing as the only legal measure for corn throughout the whole kingdom. 0" PiEtr. Melody. When the Romans came to England, and heard the harmony of our Bell towers, they were delighted with its soothing, mellow, melancholy tones, and so it is continued to the present times. I'ugulphus, a Norman Prior of Croyland, says, that a Saxon Prince just before the conquest,caused two great Bells to he made, which he named Bartholomew and Betteline, and two middle bells which he named Turkeiyl and Falioen and two lesser bells, which he entitled Pega and Bega, but Lord Turkeiyl, the abbot, had previously caused one Great Beil to be Illade by tiaiiie, which being united with tile IICIII; aforesaid, ni) formed a wonderful Peal of Harmony, nor was there such a set of tuneable 130113111all England. W, of Worces- ter an author of the 14th century, says, at Westminster Abbey are two Bells, which over all the bells in the world obtain the precedence in wonderful size and sound. Yet Wharton in his Anglia Sacra says, that at the CalbedraJ of Canterbury, the prior, Conrad, fixed in the clock-house five exceeding great Bells, of which one required eight men, two others ten each, the fourth eleven, the fifth and the sixth even twenty-four, to ling them; and a suc- ceeding Prior in the same ISlh century set up a bell in the clock-house, which demanded no less than two and thirty men to ring it. The last stands at fi height of magnificence superior to either that at t. Paul's, or the celebrated Tom at Oxford. The modern Romans, only ring three bells at one time, nor have the French any idea of ringing bells harmoniously in any parts of France. A oaelaudi oly affair occorrtd al Arbroath 0:1 Thursday. A woman having her SOil (a. iiiati of 24 years ofige) dyitig ofa fenr, went out of liis room about day-break, and threw herself into a well in the garden', where ghe was found about an hour afterwards quits dead. Her son died about two hours after her discovery, insensible of had taken place, She had been heard to express great appre- hensions of what would become of her after his death, he being her sole support; and when all hopes of his recovery were at an end, rushed out in a paroxysm of grief and despair, which led to the fatal act. Assize of Bread.The Members of the Committee appointed by the Court of Com- mon Council to inquire into the expediency of abolishing the assize of bread, on Tuesday waited upon the Earl of Liverpool and Lord Sidmouth for the purpose of consulting tticir Lordships upon this important change. Their Lordships expressed their approbation of the measure, but did not consider the present crisis the most favourable for carrying it into effect: however, it was determined that ap. plication should be made to Parliament, dur- ing lite present Session, for leave to bring in a bill for abolishing the assize, with an un- derstanding that it shall be read pro printed, and its progress postponed until next year.