North Wales Gazette

LONDON. FlilDAY, JULY 16. Paris Journals to the 9111 iiist. were last re- ceived. No mention is made of tlie expected Congress, nor anv notice taken of any prepa- rations for negoriatiou, except thai Count Mi'tternilcli, I lie head of the Austrian Cabinet, lias frequent conferences with the French Se- cretar) of Stale, Maret. The Emperor Alex- ander and the Krg of Prussia had returned to Silesia, and the Fmperor of Austria to Gils- chen It does not appear that any interview had lakell place between the allied Sovereigns and the (■ mperor Francis. Stroitz reinforce- ments are represented as marching to join the French Army, Eugene beauiiarnois had set out from Milan for the army oti the Adile- and AlIereall was actively employed in com. pleting the Bavarian Army of Reserv-e. Bo- naparte is si raining every nerve to brin rein- forcements into the field, and to renew the campaign, it the Armistice be not prolonged The following is a statement of the forces of the combined army, under the orders of Lord British Infantry 41,000 Cavalry 6,000 Poi Mi^uese Cavalry and Infantry 32'000 The whole of the Spaniards in co-operation ■with the above force is computed at 80,000 they are well armed and equipped, but indif- ferenll y otliiered. Castanos is with Lord Wel- lington. Excellent field and battering trains accompany the army. Four thousand infantry, and twelve hnn. •dred cavaliy, are ordered to join Lord Wel- ill Ili(. Peiii(t,tila, to rei)l-tcetlic killed and wounded in the battle of Viltoria. 'They vviii be landed at Sant iiuler Among .the regiments destined for this service is the 7i li Hussars, and detachments of the 131 h and 14th dragoons: the latter are now on board ■of transports at Portsmouth. A few days ago, a serious accident happen- ..ed 10 Mr. TRrkle. of Rainham, in .seqnence of an attack from a dog winch belonged to him. The animal h id always been accustom- ed to follow his master, bill was of so savage a nature, that he frequently snarled and flew at maiiy pel sons without provocation. To I)i-evt-iwi lilq iiiis(,Iilef', Mr. raciiie caused liim to be fastened in bis stable, where fit- ni;>de so much noise, that Mr. Tackle went .ollt 10 heal him. whèll the dtl s"riln UPUII Inm, and in a moment tore him to the ground, -seized him by the throat, and shook him with •extreme violence; flie cries of Mr. Tackle brought several persons to his assistance, but the savage animal would not relinquish his hold, nor could Mr. T. be extricated till the <lo^ was killed. Mr. T. was nearly ten mi- nutes IInder the power of the dog, had one of his fingers hit off, and would undoubtedly li:t-vi- been killed before any person could have assi.git-(f Iiiiii, iiiid if not been for histieckcloth. Fitloria Fele III Vaitxhall. -Several meet- ings have ilready been held ot the Committee, which has been appointed to prepare and con- duct the Grand Festival which is to be given at Vauxhall Gardens, in celebration of the late glorious victory achieved ny the Marquis of Wellington. The different propositions which ■wereofferedatthe.se meetings, for raising a fund to defray the expeuces of the Festival, were not so eagerly enbraced as to he assent- ed to villi universal approbation on the con- trary, the first suggestion, that every Steward -olloiliti lake 50 dinner tickets, each two gui- neas and a half, wiis very generally discoun- tenanced, and abandoned ol course. The next proposal, that Ihe Stewards shon'd subscribe 50 guineas each, and have in return as many tickets to the Ball though far more moderate, <did no! i* iss without some objections; which however, were *«»n got over. The most se- rious difficulty, thai threatened to defeat the undertaking, was a demand made by Mr. Bar- rell, .he proprietor of the Gardens, for an :advance of 25001 or security for a slim lulhal amount, to enable him to commence the pre •para!ions of everv soil which so splendid an exhibit ion would require. The subscription did not then amount to that sum; but. a Noble Eari who iiq i,iiiiativiit to remove every (ili- 8t acitvinstantly illitiselt to itiIKV up every deiiciiilr.il mighl occur, even were il to run as high as 10.000/. This very generous offer put the Committee at their ease and all the artists to he employed on the occasion vei-e immediately itisirticiedtoliroceed iii (heir respective departments. Mr. Wyatt, the ar- chitect, has made a survey of the place, and given a sketch of the temporary buildings -will(.I) will I)c rt!(Ititred for the dining rooms. They are to be added to the rotunda, and of a similar form and dimensions and they are calculated to afford room for 800 persons to sit down at table Ihe dinner is c iefiy to consist of turtle and venison, and these only are to be hot. The remainder of the repast is 10 be cold The turtle and venison are to be furnished hy the Loudon averu, and the less substantial delicacies hy Mr. Waltier, ol Piccadilly. Some discussion took place re- specting the nature and arrangement of the toasts but it was soon unanimously agreed that IIIC Drst hould hc lite health of lhe Marquis of Wellington, and that the moment it was given, a royal salute should be fired, followed by a feu de jnie. All the Prince Re- gent's Ministers have sent each their subscrip lion of titty guineas4 but etiquette, it seems, ,does not allow them to olbcia e as Stewards It was tiere shrewdly remarked by a Niohle Earl, that this, perhaps, was the only measure in the adoption of which the Cabinet was kiiowii to bt-iiiiilillitoiis. The Prince Kegenl is not expected lo come till the evening, and his box is to be fitted up in a grand style.

POLITICAL SUMMARY. 1 IT is i-tnposslblebul to suppose, that the effulgent glory which "has beamed forth ititiie south, shonldexlend its influence to the north, and materially "tTed the pending negotiations. We. vuth-pleasure, foresee the beneift that will arise to <Kir friends, from the new posture of affairs i« lire Peninsula and if the repose of nations i yet to he protracted, by the unruly passions of (me man, they will renew the war with increased vigour, they willconcert their plans with improved confidence, and they will meet the enemy with augmented coureige.- Their hopes will not be diminished, by the circumstance, that the same warlike people, who have so lately distinguished their valour, olf the short's of Ihe Ebro, are hastening to the assistance of their allies, on the banks of the Oder. To the number of 6000, with a powerful train of artillery, have been embark ed on our coasts, to share the dangers of the field, oil a theatre of action, from which the performances of British heroism have been long excluded. We think it necessary to correct a misunderstanding, to which the public may be liable, from the artfnt expres sions in which, what is called the army of observation, of Bavaria, is adverted to in the French papers. It would he concluded. frolll the representation, that it was composed of the contingent of that powerful state of the Rhinish confederation; but, the truth is, that the Bavarians are yet no party to the war that this army of observation is composed of Frenchmen, and Augereati, who commands them, addresses them as such, in his procla (nation of the tstot this month. PCNlri"ULA.-Aii official account is publish- ed from the war department, which removes all doubt, as to the re-embarkation of Sir J. Murray.—The reason, assigned by Ministers, for the retreat of the Anglo-Sicilian army, rs that French troops had advanced from the vicinily of Barcelona, and (hit Sticliet was on his march from Valencia, to co-operate for lite destruction oftliat ariiiy. Certain, it is, that from Ihcrapidily of the flight, twenty one pieces of heavy artillery fell into the hand's of t he foe. Upon Sir John Murray's expedition, we shall offer nothing like critical commentary, until we hear his own statement of it but though it was not successful, it appears to have forced the enemy upon a difficult and laborious ser vice, without any loss of consequence, or without any issue discreditable to the British arms. The superiority of the euemy in force, with the advantage of the strength of Tarra gona, are circumstances that appear tojuslify the expedient which General Murray adopted —at all events, there should be no condem- nation of that officer on a French statement. The deiiiolitioit of the Col de Baiaguer is made a ground of censuring the measures of Sir J. Murray, from the importance which both Suchet and Capt. Adam have attached to that post—but lis actual destruction is not stated It is not easy to calculate upon Hie exact dis- posable force which the French may have in Catalonia and Valencia, bulwe should esti- mate it in a general way, perhaps, at from 30 to 35,000 men with which Suchel could take the field. In this we cuilclude the clivI sion under General Clauzel, which the French papers state to have arrived at Saragossa "I the Ist. itist. and, that which moved down from Barcelona to the succour of Tarragona. Suchel's army, by collecting all the troops which could be Spared from garrison duly in the province of Valencia, may probably be made to amollnllo 20,000 men, and the other corps alluded to nearly 15,000. Against this force there is Sir John Murray's army, which was before able to heat Suchet, with the. dif- ferent bodies of Spanish troops which could unite with it, and the part of the Allied arm., which could he spared for operations m Cata- lonia or Valencia, as it may he necessary—and there can be no question, but in concentrated strength for battle, the Allies would greatly outnumber their adversaries.

————— COUNT WORONZOW8 ACCOUNT OFHIS ATTEMPT ON LII PSIC. [Nolwithstanding the date of the enterprise de- scribed in the followin articles, the particu- lars are stilt interesting. The expedition against Leipsic afforded a striking example of ,the activity of the Russian troops, and the ability of the Officer who conducted it.] Aiiiiiie(liately alter the last letter which I had the honour of writing to your Royal Highness, to inform you of the affair of Melherstadt, I pro- ceeded to Dessau, 10 have an interview with Ge- neral Tchernicheff, and we concerted an expedi- tion with all the forces we could unite at Leip- ;ic; after which General Tchernichetfwas to ad- vance on Hanover, while Major General Count Orourkc, with all the cavalry of my detachment, was to march upon Dresden. The news we had from Leipsic informed us that there were only at that place theSdcorps.ofcavittry,commanded by the Duke of Padua, with about 2,000 infantry.— 1 returned immediately before Magdeburg to make the necessar; arrangements. I left for the blockade the Prussians and the 14th Regiment of Chasseurs, with a regiment of Cossacks, the whole under the command of Colonel Rzasjorski, an officer of great distinction, on whom I could rely. Another regiment. of Cossacks surround- ed Magdeburg on the left bank, while all the boats and rafts I had at Paley advanced up the Elbe as far as within two leagues of Magdeburg, where we made a feint 01 preparing a bridge in 'Inkr to impose on the garrison. At the sam.' time we caused Wittenberg to be more closely invested by a squadron of hussars posted at Cos- rig, and I sent 150 Cossacks to Worlitz and Kempen, in order to cut off all communication between that place and Leipsic, and to keep the garrison ignorant of what was going fo. war(].- With the remainder of the infantry, that is to say. the 13th regiment of chasseurs and five bat- talions of grenadiers, together with a Prus- sian battalion of Luzow, which volunteered to accompany me, in aH2500 men, I departed on the evening of the 5th from before Magdeburg, and ravelling {partly in carriages) 14 German miles in36 hours, I arrived ou the morning of the 7th before Leipsic. General Tchernicheff met me at Delitch, and passing by Tancha, Oil the road from Torgauhe, approached Leipsic on that whilst I march- ed with the cavalry of C-lunt Orourke in advance by the Dessau road. At a mile from the city we j fell in with the enemy's cavalry. Om's attacked hem, and in less than 20 minutes a Colone\, fourteen Officers, and from four to five hundred horsemen were taken prisoners. The remainder fell back in confusion on the infantry, which was in the suburbs our infantry arrived alone, and I formed it in order 10 attack the suburbs, when the Duke of Padoue sent us a flag of truce, his Chief of the Staff, bearing the official letter of the Duke of Bassano notifying the armistice, and signed the 23d May (4th June) and begging me to cease hostilities. I thus beheld a splendid prey escape me, but I considered it contrary to my duty, although the news reached me indi- rectly, to shed blood or to risk setting (ire to a when [ kuew our sovereigns had agreed to a truce. It was now necessary that L should depart, but as I had not received official intelli- gence of the armistice, I requireiof the Duke of Padoue a General as a hostage, who should be personally responsible of the fact. He immedi. ately sent me General Barun de la Motte and I returned to Dessau, taking wilh me this hostage and the prisoners we had made. Thus has an armistice prevented the complete success of an expedition commenced under the most favourable auspices; for the garrison of Magdeburgh, de- ceived by the appearance of the Cossacks, and hy the preparatives for a bridge in its neigh- bourhood, was all this time under arms expect- ing surprise. At Leipzic, 011 the other baud, as we had caused the picquets to retreat 011 the 6th two leagues on every road that leads to that city, they were there in the most perfect securi- ty, and the forces which the enemy had being found to correspond with the accounts which we had of them, the occupation of Leipsic presented no difficulty. Arrived at Dessau, t have received from the head-quarters theconditions of the Ar- mislice, in virtue of which 1 must evacuate not only Saxony, but all the country of Dessau and Zebst, and proceed into Prussia I kn.>w not. what may be the disposition of the troops ot my neighbours Generals Bulow and Vvalmoden, .but I shall await the orderes of your Royal Highues's between Parey, Mokern. and Brandenburg. I We had only four men killed in the engage- ment before Leipzic, and though the enemy shewed a considerable number of cavalry, the Cossacks were almost the only cavalry etigaged on our side. I "am, &c. Dessau, June 9, 1313. Extract from the Berlin Gazette. The French have published at Leipsic, that the Duke of Padua having gone out wifh his in fantry to meet, the Russians, the latter were not able to take possession ol' the town as they in- tended. That the Duke of Padua, however, was indebted for his own safety, and that of the town, to the Armistice only, is evident from this cir- cumstance, that Count Woronzow, tho' he saw by the Duke of B.assano's official letter, that the Armisti,ce had really been concluded, exacted, as a proof of its being that event alone which saved the French, the delivery of a' General, to remain with him as a hostage until the arrival of the intelligence direct from the head-quarters. The Duke of Padua immediately sent General" Baron1 de la Motte, who remained in the hands of the Russians until the arrival of the Russian Courier, ahout 12 or 15 hours after. Hostages are not given by the party who is most powerful. It would not have been delicate nor slricllyhonourahle on the- (Jart of Count ronzow to enter Leipsic sword in hand, when he was certain that an armistice had been concluded. But in fact, according to the la ws of war, he had a right, to do so,andperhapshewasin part re- strained by the consideration (hat the exercise of this righCwould uselessly subject a great city and many innocent. persons to iii;i(!Ii s,ifferiii It will readily be believed that he dkl not pro- ceed with 3000 infantry from Magdeburgh to Leipzic in 36 hours, passing between two enemy's fortresses, and after all fail to attack 800 wretch- ed troop whom the Duke of Padua opposed to him, and who were so well composed, that about twenty deserted at once from a party sent out as Tirailleurs, and came over to our side. As for. the French cavalry it is needless to speak of them. of (o their, own confession, cost (hem about 1000 in killed and prisoners and the Russians iiad not 6 men wounded. This proves that tht more Napoleon increases this sort of cavalry, the more we ought to rejoice. The French are as unlucky on horse- back as they are at sea, and if Napoleon has me- rited Ihe title of grand-.shipbuilder lor the Eng- lish fleer, he has fully an equal right, to that of grand treasurer of the Cossacks, who are well snppiiedwiththcpursesandhorses of tiie ene- my's officers, giving those of the privates to the peasants for four or live crowns a-piece, which is much about their value."

NEW CHURCH, STOCKPORT. On Monday se'nuight, the cercllIony of lay- ing the first stone of the Parish Church of Stockport took place.—A ceremony which appeared lo excite a greater degree of interest than any that had occurred for years in the town. The noble palron, Lord Viscount Warren Bulkeiey, not being able to attend, deputed one of the worthy Members ol the county, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. (being a Trustee in the Act for rthudding the Church) as his Proxy, and Ihe stone was laid by him. The Procession moved from the Warren Buikeley's Arms Inn, through the principal streets to the foundation of the intended chuwrh, which is the scile of the former venerable structure. Il consisted of the Beadles of lite town, 800 children of the schools, of the Es. tahlished Church, and about 5000 children of the other schools in town —next followed the Free Mason's of the different Lodges in the neighbourhood in the costumes and insignia of their order—the baud of the Forfar Mili- lia-lhc Co Mayor and Alder- men, will* Wilbraham Egeilou, Esq. the Member, the Hector, followed by the ilergy and Magistrates-—next came Major F Hrcster. and oflicers of the Forfar Militia-—the Archi- tect," Lewis Wyatt, Esq. the Committee and Trustees—Mr. Buxlon the Contractor, and Mr. Duncombe the Clerk of the works—the whole closed by a numerous train of Gentle- 1 en of the town and neighbooi hood. The Scholars were placed round the church-yard and new burying ground, whilst the Free Masons, with the rest of the procession, formed a circle round the principal stone, winch was already suspended by the teagle. Mr. Eger- ton advanced !lito the cenlre, and n\ade a suit- able Address, then received the Silver Trowel from a Free Mason, and the Plate, with this Inscription. Lapis Hie sacer Jesu Christo Eleeto imo Lapidi Angulari, IIlIjus resurgentis Ecclesiae Fundamen Positus V. Julii MDCCCXIIl. And also another, plate inscribed by the Free. masons, wilh the numbers of the Lodges at- tending aud the year of Masonry, which ■were inclosed in a leaden case and deposited by Mr. Egerton under the stone, which he then laid a lIiidst the acclamations of the ma- sons, and thousands surrounding; alld viewing; the ceremony from the tops of the houses, windows, and different eminences, as well as from the grollnd The church service was then performed in an impressive manner from an elevated porch of the chancel, and the 100th Psalm sung by the childjen and the very numerous congrega- tion.— sfter which the rector,of the parish, the Rev. C Prescot, B. D. delivered an ap- propriate discourse from the 1st chapter of Hag-ai, "erse S, Build the House, and 1 will take pleasure in it, and 1 will he glorified, sailh the Lord." The procession returned by a different route to the Warreii Buikeley's Arms The baud continued to play, in superior style, a variety 01 Masonic Airs and Marches. At four o'clock upwards of 100 genllemen sal down to a most sumptuous entertainment provided afthat Inn. Mr. Egerton presided, and delivered a dumber of most excellent toasts and sentiments upon the occasion.— Chester (our ant. --I.-

ON THE FlOltiN CULTURE. fn my last I promised to account for the very different statements given Oil the subject of fiorin hay by my scientific friends, the Hon. G. KncH, with Sir Humphrey Davy, 011 the one side, and oIl,-Ii I)i-actic;,l Iat-iiiets in as have ciiiii., vated this agrostis, and applied its hay to use in the common way, on the olher, The forowl" hav jog, hy lahorious and skilful chemical. analysis, ascertained it to possess far more nutritive mai- ler, and far more saccharuai, than any other hay -while the latter assert their horses neither thrive, nor work upon it thai their store cattle la!1 a way upn it, (hat it does not improve or in- crease themilk, and in general, thai their cattle do not like it. These lalter resulls are tlatterin and grateful fo a description of persons,mortally averse from innovation, and fully conifdent in the snperiorexcelleuce of their established practices Gentlemen of fortune, andof more liberal minds, superior to narrow prejudice, whose good sense, if left to its own dictates, w iii(i iea(i them to encourage new measures; (at least, so far as to give (hem a fair trial,) join in the samecoinplainf, with the farmers, and haveexperifnced the same defects in lforin provender. But. these gentlemen are not their own maste s they are governed hy their bailiffs, a description of persons still more vain and confident than the practical rai-fnei, these govern the measures, the master sees ef- fects, while the bailiff takes upon himself to assign causes. Every one of the position* stated by the practical farmers has already, in different publications of mine, received direct contradic- tion from the most respectable authority. Those who cannot resist the evidence that has been produced, sustain their former opinions by new arguments to be mistaken themselves is a thing impossible, the fault is somewhere else nature must bear the brunt she, it is said, has given to Ireland a climate more favourable to florin than that of EIIlaud is, and also a better variety of this agrostis fience the richness of our hay and luxuriance of our crops. Before these gentlemen settle the blame upon nature, had they .not better acquit themselves of having any share in it- l,et them then ask themselves, have they obeyed the directions Ihey have received for the cultivation of a new vegetable ? or have thes su perseded, and altered them, out of the redun- dance of their own wisdom ? I shall enable them to (Itlesfioiis t gave, and the violation of which lias produced most of the failures-complained of, are chiefly two. 1st,. Never mow a florin crop before Octobei and 2dly, give this grass exclusive possession.of your ground, by carefully weeding out rivals, es- pecially other grasses. That these rules are indispensibly necessary, and founded upon the natural history and periods of the grass we are cultivating, I stfall uowsfiew and that, tile violation of them will produce the effects complained of. The hay we have seen hitherto used, is compos- ed chiefly of the seminal stalks of grass these have each their respective periods at which ihey separately attain perfection; and the ,).,I,a(ely perfection latest of them are ready before July is ended; let them stand longer, and they hourly ahate ill value, they bleach and waste, their substance vanishes, and [hey become little better than a caput morluuni; cattle would not find nutrition in such vapid, unsubstantial provender; when fed upon it. they could not work, and store cattle would lose their flesh.' The component parts of fiorin hay are very dilferellt; it is composed nor of the c.ulmi, but of another production of this agrostis, called stolunes, long strings, which issue -17 from the plant at a later period than these culmi, and continue their vegetation until winter. Every one knows the runners of strawberries, ttheir stolones,) these exactly resemble the runners or stolones of florin, bofh in their manner of growth, and in their late period. Were the runners of strawberries applicable to any use, we would not think of cutting them until a very late season. Examine thc sfoloness of tiorin for t looi, time after rhey have issued, and even while they are aining considers bte length, they are soft, and succulent their juices', not yet mellowed, evaporate; their swerd collapses with its own weight, like- other grass cut before it he ripe, and like it, when dried into hay, would make wretched nutritive provender. If florin srolones he then out before their proper period, and of course unripe, the mass of hay when dried will be soft, and unsubstantial, like the hay of a second crop, weak, vapid, and unsolid, fit for few uses, and if consnmed as common hay, would soon produce all the ill effects so often complain ed of and detailed above. Nor is tlus pure theo- ry; I had ten years experience of the truth of these positions before I knew fiorin. My Port- rush meadow, [ lilve often stated to consist of a mixture of the common grasses, of which florin (favoured by the harsh exposure) was the predo- minant species. For ten years I mowed in July, as mv neighbours without the peninsula did, but found far greater difficulty in saving my hay it was much disposed to heat. and required far longer exposure to the air than 1 had ever ob served before with other hay. When stored in my loft, my hay always fusted, my horses fell away upon it, and I never once brought them from Portrush in good condition At length I discovered fiorin grass, its habits, its, periods, and also that my meadow was stocked chiefly by this grass I now mowed as /late as my stay in the place would allow me my hay soon appear- ed to be hetteralld more nutritive than any other; my horses no longer fell away the hay that re- mained in my loft through the winter proved fai better than any I had at ClonTecle, where I liac not yet got into florin stock. The reason foi this change of quality in my hay was obvious in the first ten years my hay was cut in July long before the stolones were ready or fit fo, hay; while afterwards, they had time to cooso lidate, their juices to concoct, their saccharun to form, in short to attain their state of 1 ipeness and perfection. The second error in the manage ment of florin crops is neglect of weeding, tha is, omitting to exterminate the other grasses, which nature perpètuallyobtrlldes upon us so that when we omit to weed, we have always a great mixture of grasses, everv one of which at- tains its ripeness long before florin; of course when we mow late, waiting for the fiorin, all these grasses are wasted, and withered, dead and vapid, and of course adulterate the hay of which they form a portion that increase every year such hay cannot be nutritive, and mustnecessarily produce the effect complained of above. Adopt half measures, and cut at an intermediate time, then neither the fiorin nor any other of the com- ponent grasses, is mowed in its perfection, of course the whole mass must be weak, vapid and unnuiritive provender. Let then those who complain their fiorin hay is unnuiritive provender, before they lay tLe blame on nature, ask themselves have they obeyed the directions they have received ? have they abstain- edfromniowtog till October? and have they weeded their florin meadows repeatedly, and carefully. The answers 10 rhesc questions will probably save them the trouble ot looking farther for iti,- iuil)ecility of their crops. The insur- mountable difficulty with many, is the high pro- bability of losing their hay, in the severe weather, that may he expected in the late season, 1 com- pel them to encounter in making it up. 1 shall dedicaleanofher letter to this subject, and shaH shew bow vain their fears are and, f are of the incredulity of ihe hnglish, and the tercttance they place upon Irish testimony, I "nail afford them ample means of obtaining full satisfaction on this important subject, through evidence, from their own country, aiiti of their own choos- ing W. RICHARD-()NI D. D. -=-